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Data Protection & Confidentiality Notice

SHARE (Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe) is an international scientific study coordinated by the SHARE-ERIC consortium and national partners. In the Czech Republic, the study is implemented by the Czech Academy of Sciences (SHARE-CZ), and fieldwork is conducted by the Prague-based research agency SCaC. All procedures strictly comply with EU and Czech data protection laws.

The aim of SHARE is to gain a deeper understanding of the lives, health, and social and economic circumstances of individuals aged 50 and above. The collected data supports research and evidence-based policymaking. The Czech SHARE project is funded by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports and the European Commission.

Participants are randomly selected. Participation is entirely voluntary.

Your answers are anonymized — your name or address will never be connected to your responses. This also applies to follow-up interviews or interviews with relatives of deceased participants. All data is linked only by an anonymous code, not personal identifiers.

No identifying information is ever shared with third parties.

Participation in the “Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe” (SHARE) is voluntary. The legal basis for the processing of personal data of SHARE respondents that participate in the study is Article 6 (1) lit. a of the GDPR or, where special categories of data are concerned, Article 9 (2) lit. a of the GDPR (i.e., the SHARE respondent’s consent). Details on how personal data of SHARE respondents are processed and used are described in the SHARE Data Protection Statement (“Statement concerning data protection and absolute confidentiality of your personal information” in national language) that is provided to each SHARE respondent prior to each interview.

In each country that is part of the study, SHARE is conducted under the responsibility of the European Research Infrastructure Consortium “SHARE-ERIC” in cooperation with its national Scientific Partner Institutions as joint controllers. SHARE-ERIC and the respective individual national Scientific Partner Institutions have concluded a “Joint Controller Arrangement” (i.e., an agreement on the fulfilment of obligations according to Article 26 GDPR in the case of joint responsibility). More detailed information on the responsibilities of the joint controllers can be found here: “Essence” of the Joint Controller Arrangement according to Article 26 (2) sentence 2 GDPR.

Who Is Responsible for Data Protection?

Assoc. Prof. Radim Boháček, Ph.D.
National Coordinator, SHARE-CZ
Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Politických vězňů 7, 111 21 Prague 1, Czech Republic

Prof. David Richter
Managing Director, SHARE-ERIC
SHARE Institute Berlin Chausseestrasse 111 10116 Berlín Německo https://share-eric.eu

Data protection officer For inquiries that relate to data privacy and data protection please contact the data protection officer of SHARE-ERIC: DSB-ShareEric@he-c.de

How Your Data Is Handled

Interviewers from SCaC record your responses in a secure system.
Data is saved with an anonymous code — not your name or address.
Personal contact information is stored separately and deleted after the project ends.
Responses are processed statistically, never individually.
Published results are presented only in group form (e.g. by age, gender).
These same standards apply in future waves of the study.

Your Rights

Participation is voluntary — you can withdraw your consent at any time without consequences. You have the right to:

access, correct, or delete your personal data
restrict or object to data processing
request a copy of your data (data portability)

For questions regarding data protection, please contact:

Ass. Jur. Heidi Schuster, SHARE-ERIC Data Protection Officer: +49 (0)89 2108 1554
Assoc. Prof. Radim Boháček, Ph.D., National Coordinator (see contact above)

For general inquiries about the study, contact Filip Oliva, SCaC.

Have a Concern?

You may contact your national data protection authority:

Czech Republic
Office for Personal Data Protection
Pplk. Sochora 27, 170 00 Prague 7
📞 +420 234 665 111
📧 posta@uoou.cz

Germany
Bavarian Data Protection Authority
Postfach 606, 91511 Ansbach
📞 +49 (0)981 53 1300
📧 poststelle@lda.bayern.de

A Note for Your Household

Some questions may involve members of your household. These are asked based on legitimate research interest. Please inform household members that their data may be processed and share this statement with them.

Thank You

We sincerely appreciate your participation and trust. Your contribution is essential to improving research and policy for Europe’s ageing population.