On May 25, 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force in all member states of the European Union, including the Netherlands. This GDPR is the successor to the Personal Data Protection Act in the Netherlands. The purpose of the GDPR is, on the one hand, to ensure ‘the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of their data’ and, on the other hand, to regulate ‘the free movement of personal data within the European Union’.
According to the GDPR, the KNHG, as an association, is authorized to collect, store, and process data from its members. Within the association, an officer has been appointed as association employee, namely Caroline van Vliet. She is the person to whom members (or, as referred to in the GDPR, ‘data subjects’) can turn to view, correct, or delete their data.
The KNHG collects specific personal data, voluntarily provided by its members, in order to perform its tasks as a professional association. The office has drawn up a so-called Register of Processing Activities, which explains what data is stored for what purposes, with whom this data is shared, and how long it will be retained.
Would you like more information about the General Data Protection Regulation? Please refer to the website of the Dutch Data Protection Authority.