As researchers, teacher-researchers and doctoral students, your work may involve the processing of personal data, some of which may even be sensitive (data on political opinions, health, religion, sexual orientation, etc.).

As participants in a research project, your data is processed in a technical and organisational environment that guarantees its confidentiality.

I identify whether my research work involves processing personal data

What is personal data?

What is personal data?
This is any information relating to a natural person who can be identified, directly or indirectly.

For example: a name, a photo, a fingerprint, a postal address, an e-mail address, a telephone number, a social security number, an internal personnel number, an IP address, a computer connection identifier, a voice recording, etc.

It makes no difference whether this information is confidential or public.

Please note: for this data to no longer be considered as personal, it must be rendered anonymous in such a way as to make it impossible to identify the person concerned: names masked, faces blurred, etc.

Please note: if it is possible to identify a person by cross-referencing several pieces of information (age, gender, town, degree, etc.) or by using various technical means, the data is still considered to be personal.

The research project: contextual data and research data

In addition to the personal data that you may process for your research (the video recording of an interview, biological or biometric data from participants in health research, a questionnaire administered face-to-face or remotely), your project may require you to process the PCDs of researchers, collaborators and administrative staff, whether or not they are part of the institution.