Privacy information MPI participants

If you would like to take part in our research, you can sign-up as a participant. For this, we need some personal information from you. Through this website you can fill out the information in a short online form. If you would like to receive reimbursement for your participation, we will also ask for your BSN (Dutch citizen number: burgerservicenummer) and IBAN (bank account details).

Your personal information will be saved in our participant database. This is located on a secure server inside the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. Only a select group of employees can access the database. These are employees of the Radboud University Nijmegen and the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics who are working at the Max Planck Institute.

In order to be able to process your personal information, we need your consent. This is our legal basis for processing your personal information. You can give your consent by checking the box at the end of the form. With this, you state that you have read the information on this page and that you agree with the processing of your personal data. Before you give us your consent, we deem it important that you know where and how your personal information will be saved, what the information will be used for, and which rights you have. That is why we ask you to please read the following information.

We save your personal information for an indefinite amount of time. However, at any given point in time, you can deregister (via https://www.mpi.nl/ppreg). Hereafter, we will delete your personal information.

If you want to examine or change the personal information we hold about you, you can do this via https://www.mpi.nl/ppreg. If you want your personal information to be deleted, or the processing of your personal information to be reduced, you can contact us about this. We will deal with your request within a month. Apart from this, you also have to right to revoke your consent any time. You also have the right to make an objection against the processing of your personal information if this is based on a legitimate interest. For all the above-mentioned cases you can contact us via experimenten [at] mpi.nl (experimenten[at]mpi[dot]nl).

In order to participate in one of our studies, you must first provide informed consent. If we ask you to participate in one of our studies, you will always receive information about the study before you are asked to confirm whether you want to participate. Your participation in any of our studies will only be on voluntary basis and will only proceed once you have signed the consent form for that particular study. The data we will gather during research will always be stored separately from your personal information. Information about the storage of these data and who you can contact about your aforementioned rights will always be given to you before the particular study on a separate information form.

The reason for gathering these data will be described in the study information. The data will only be used for research objectives. The study information will advise you as to how long the data will be saved and, if applicable, with whom the data will be shared.

In order to pay you, we will also process your payment information. This information will be processed by our financial department and will not be linked to your research data. The legal basis for processing your data (BSN, IBAN, address) for accounting purposes are the mandatory requirements of the ‘Belastingdienst’. This information will be stored for 10 years.

The processer in legal terms is the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e.V., Hofgartenstraße 8, 80539 Munich, telephone: +49 (89) 2108 -0.

The data protection officer of the processor is Heidi Schuster, Hofgartenstraße 8, D-80539 Munich. For questions regarding personal data protection, you can contact her via datenschutz [at] mpg.de (datenschutz[at]mpg[dot]de) or by calling +49 89 2108 1554 (Heidi Schuster speaks English or German). You can also send an e-mail in Dutch/English to privacy [at] mpi.nl (privacy[at]mpi[dot]nl).

The scientific basis for personal data processing is your consent according to article 6, section 1 under a) or article 9, section 2 under a) GDPR. This is the case for the participant database as well as for your research data.

You have the right to revoke your consent as described above (participant database) or in the study information (research data). This can be done at any given point in time with immediate effect from when your data was first collected.

You have the right to receive information about the data that concerns you and are stored by us, the right to correct or delete these data, and the right to data portability, as long as the respective legal requirements are met. You also have the right to submit a complaint with our supervising authority. For the MPG, this can be done at the Bavarian State Office for Data Protection Supervision [Bayerisches Landesamt für Datenschutzaufsicht], Postfach 1349, 91504 Ansbach.

Certain individuals or authorities have to be able to look into your personal information and research data. This is necessary to check whether the study has been carried out appropriately and reliably. These individuals or authorities that get access to your personal information and research data include but are not limited to: authorised employees within Radboud University, the Max Planck Gesellschaft, and (inter)national supervisory authorities (for example the ‘Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens’, ‘Bayerische Landesamt für Datenschutzaufsicht’, and the ‘Landelijke Orgaan Wetenschappelijke Integriteit’). They will keep your personal information confidential. You will not be asked to give your consent for this inspection. If you do not want these individuals or authorities to be able to access your personal information and research data, you cannot participate in our research.