The Federal Statistical Office is committed to protecting your privacy and complies with the data protection provisions. We value the trust you place in us.

With this notice we also comply with our information obligations as laid down in Article 13 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We collect personal data every time our website is accessed.

We have made technical and organizational arrangements ensuring that the data protection provisions are adhered to by ourselves and by our external service providers. This page is operated by the central information technology provider of the federal administration, the Federal Information Technology Centre (Informationstechnikzentrum Bund, Bernkasteler Straße 8, 53175 Bonn, Germany).

As our web pages evolve, we may have to revise this privacy statement. We therefore recommend that you read the statement regularly.

Personal Data

Personal data is information about yourself, such as your name, address, postal address or user behaviour, if the latter is not anonymized. This does not include information which cannot be related to you.

Your data is collected in part when you provide it to us. This may include, for example, information you enter into a contact form.

Other data are collected automatically by our IT systems whenever you visit the website. Most of these are technical data such as your IP address (which is however anonymized immediately), internet browser, operating system or the time when the page is accessed. These data are collected automatically when you enter our website. This helps us to provide our data on the internet, which is one of the public tasks we have to carry out. The relevant legal basis is point (e) of Article 6(1) of the GDPR, in conjunction with Section 3 of the Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG) and Section 3 of the E-Government Act (EGovG).

Access to our website

Every time a user visits the website of the Federal Statistical Office and every time a file is accessed, information about that operation is stored in anonymised form and processed.

The following data are saved with each access:

• the IP address of your computer or of the proxy server, if you access our pages via a proxy
• the page from which the file was called
• the name of the file called,
• the date, time and duration of the call,
• the amount of data transferred,
• the type of browser you are using and
• the status of the call (for example file transferred, file not found).

These data are only evaluated statistically and for the purpose of optimising the website, after which they are deleted. We do not create user profiles.

Enquiries and orders via our customer and user service

In addition to the information supplied on our website, we offer various services you may use. If you are interested, you will in most cases have to supply further personal data. These will be used to provide the respective service and are subject to the above data processing principles.

We collect and store electronically the personal data you enter into the contact form. We require these data to respond to your enquiry in the performance of our public tasks as laid down in point (e) of Article 6(1) of the GDPR, in conjunction with Section 3 of the BDSG. The data contained in your enquiry will be anonymised and used for user analysis in order to optimise the range of information we offer.

In addition, we store your data for the purpose of managing customer relationships (for instance, to help us respond effectively to further enquiries) or for conducting customer surveys. The legal basis for processing your data for these purposes is the consent you have given in accordance with point (a) of Article 6(1) of the GDPR. You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future.

For information on data processing when using the website destatis.de, please refer to the Privacy Policy available there.

Enquiries by e-mail or phone

If you make enquiries by e-mail or phone, we will store your data in our customer management system for the purpose of responding to your enquiry. We do this to perform our public tasks in accordance with point (e) Article 6 (1) of the GDPR in conjunction with Section 3 of the BDSG.

Newsletter

We offer you the option to register as a recipient of our newsletter. To do so, you must provide your e-mail address. We use your e-mail address exclusively for the purpose of sending you the Federal Health Reporting newsletter. The distribution of the newsletter and the storage of your e-mail address are based on your consent in accordance with Art. 6(1) lit. (e) of the GDPR. You may revoke your consent at any time with future effect. If you unsubscribe from all newsletters, your e-mail address will be deleted. Your e-mail address will not be passed on to third parties. You are entitled to the rights listed below in relation to your e-mail address, provided the relevant legal requirements are met.

Passing on personal data to third parties

Log data that are generated when the website of Federal Health Monitoring (https://www.gbe-bund.de/gbe/) is accessed will be passed on to third parties only if the Federal Statistical Office is required to do so by law or court decision or where such transmission is needed for law enforcement and criminal prosecution purposes in the event of attacks on our internet infrastructure. In such cases, the data will be passed to the Federal Information Technology Centre (Informationstechnikzentrum Bund), the central service provider of the federal administration. We will not pass on data for other non-commercial or commercial purposes.

Protection of minors

Persons under the age of 18 should not transmit any personal data to us without the consent of their parents or legal guardians. We do not request any personal data from children or adolescents. We do not collect such data deliberately and do not pass them on.

Links to websites of other providers

Our website contains links to websites of other providers. We have no influence on the compliance with data protection provisions by these providers.

Your rights

Under the GDPR, and provided that the relevant conditions are met, you have the following rights vis-a-vis the Federal Statistical Office with regard to personal data that relate to you:

• rights of access (Article 15 GDPR)
• right to rectification (Article 16 GDPR)
• right to erasure (Article 17 GDPR)
• right to restriction of processing (Article 18 GDPR)
• right to object to processing of personal data (Article 21 GDPR)
• right to data portability (Article 20 GDPR).

If you believe there has been a breach of the data protection provisions, you also have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection authority (Die Bundesbeauftragte für den Datenschutz und die Informationsfreiheit, Graurheindorfer Str. 153, 53117 Bonn, Germany) about the Federal Statistical Office processing your personal data (Article 77 EU-GDPR).

Contact details of the party responsible

represented by the President of the Federal Statistical Office.

Contact details of our data protection commissioner

As we value the trust you place in us, we will be pleased to answer any questions regarding the processing of your personal data. If you have questions that have not been answered by this privacy statement, please do not hesitate to contact our data protection commissioner.

Data Protection Officer at the Federal Statistical Office, 65180 Wiesbaden

Phone: +49 611 75 4449
E-mail: datenschutz@destatis.de

Bonn, November 2025