1. General Information
Sovereign Tech Agency GmbH is conducting a survey to identify the community’s needs in connection with the pilot for the EU Sovereign Tech Fund. Participation in the survey is voluntary. Respondents may participate anonymously or provide specific personal data so they can be considered for a follow-up discussion to provide additional input on the listed projects. This information is used solely to enable Sovereign Tech Agency GmbH to gather a more comprehensive understanding on how the EU Sovereign Tech Fund can support open source communities. By sharing your personal data, you agree to be contacted by Sovereign Tech Agency GmbH. The Agency may ask follow-up questions about your survey responses.
Your personal data will be used exclusively for the purposes specified in this document and only for as long as necessary. The data will be deleted as soon as it has served its purpose, but no later than 30 October 2027 or until you withdraw your consent.
Insights from the survey will be summarized in a synthesis report and publications on external communication channels (such as social media accounts and blog), which may be shared with relevant partners or stakeholders or published publicly. Any findings will be reported anonymously, without including any personal information whatsoever.
2. Categories of Data collected
· Contact information for following up as external experts (name, email address, institutional affiliation, role in the institution)
· The respondent's stakeholder group (role in the open source ecosystem, years of involvement in the open source ecosystem, country, relationship to a listed open source project)
3. Provision of personal data
Any provision of personal data is and remains voluntary and based solely on consent in accordance with Article 6(1)(a) in conjunction with Article 7 GDPR. Regardless of whether consent is granted or withdrawn, data subjects retain the rights available under applicable data protection law, including the right to access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, and, where applicable, the right to object to processing. For further information regarding your rights, please see our privacy policy.
Consent may be withdrawn at any time with future effect. Any processing of personal data carried out prior to withdrawal based on consent remains lawful. To withdraw consent, this has to happen via the following email-address: eustf_privacy@sovereign.tech. The withdrawal does not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before the withdrawal.
You will not suffer any disadvantages when applying to the Sovereign Tech Agency's initiatives in the future if you choose to withdraw consent or to not provide your personal data.
4. Security Measures
The following security measures have been implemented by Sovereign Tech Agency GmbH prior to the survey:
a) Personal data collected will not be stored, copied, shared, or otherwise processed outside a specified group of authorized persons.
b) The information processed in connection with the survey shall at all times be anonymized or otherwise de-identified to the extent reasonably possible to fulfill the purpose to which the data has been collected.
5. Survey Tool
The survey is conducted using LimeSurvey, a survey software provided by LimeSurvey GmbH, Papenreye 63, 22453 Hamburg, Germany, which acts as a processor (“Auftragsverarbeiter”) on behalf of Sovereign Tech Agency GmbH within the meaning of Article 28 GDPR.
6. Declarations
By clicking “Yes” as a response to the question “Would you consent to us storing your personally identifiable information and potentially contacting you for a follow-up interview?”, you confirm that you have read and understood the terms above and wish to participate in the interviews conducted by Sovereign Tech Agency GmbH. For more information on how we process your personal data, please check our Privacy Policy.
You consent to the collection and processing of the personal data listed above for the stated purposes and to its storage until either those purposes are fulfilled or the latest storage date is reached.
You are aware that any transmission of personal data is provided voluntarily and takes place exclusively on the basis of your consent. You are aware that consent may be withdrawn at any time with effect for the future and that any processing of my personal data carried out prior to the withdrawal of consent remains lawful in this case.
You are aware that, regardless of your consent, you retain your rights under applicable data protection laws, including the right of access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, and, where applicable, the right to object to processing.
