Switch edu-ID Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

This privacy policy covers the use of personal data by Switch edu-ID participants in connection with Switch edu-ID. While each of these organizations is obliged to take appropriate measures to ensure the protection of your data, Switch is not responsible for the privacy practices of the Switch edu-ID participants in general or outside Switch edu-ID.

How your personal information is used within Switch edu-ID

Your Home Organization stores personal data about you. Some of it, the so-called Authorization Attributes, is used within Switch edu-ID to control your access to protected resources of Switch edu-ID participants. The use of these Authorization Attributes is subject to certain rules and regulations:

  • Switch edu-ID bases on legal regulations already in force like the applicable data protection law. Participants in Switch edu-ID can only act within these boundaries.
  • Moreover, all Home Organizations and Resource Owners have agreed to a common set of guidelines - the Switch edu-ID Federation Policy is part of the Switch edu-ID Service Description - which describes the rules of good conduct and lists the legal regulations already in force.
  • Each Switch edu-ID participant ensures that appropriate technical and organizational measures are taken against unauthorized or unlawful processing of your data. They also take precautions against its accidental loss or destruction.
  • Home Organizations release attributes only to Switch edu-ID participants; and only those attributes requested by a particular Resource Owner.
  • Resource Owners may only request attributes that are relevant to their application.
  • Home Organizations are responsible to keep your personal data accurate.
  • The transfer of personal data from the Home Organization to the resource is encrypted.
  • In its function as the provider of central Switch edu-ID Services, Switch neither receives, decrypts nor stores any of your personal data. In the role as owner of an AAI-protected resource, Switch underlies the same rules as any other resource owner.
  • Switch edu-ID does not store any personal data as cookies in your browser.

Your Rights

  • According to the data protection acts you have the 'right of information' for your personal data. For details get in contact with your Home Organization.