Surveillance policy


Cameras locations:

  • 3.5m building:

    • Dome floor

    • Ground floor main entrance

    • Ground floor workshop entrance

    • Outside pointing to the Technical Central building

    • Outside pointing to the 2.2m building

  • 2.2m building:

    • Dome floor

    • Ground floor main entrance

    • Ground floor back entrance

    • Outside pointing to the 3.5m building

    • Outside pointing to the 1.23m building

    • Outside pointing to the sky

  • 1.23m building:

    • Dome floor

    • Ground floor main entrance

    • Lift corridor and back entrance

    • Basement entrance

    • Outside pointing to the 2.2m building

  • Technical Central Building:

    • Outside pointing to both 3.5m building entrances and to the Liquid Nitrogen tank

  • Laboratory building:

    • Main entrance

  • Hotel

    • Outside pointing to the 3.5m building and the GAW facility

  • Hotel parking:

    • Outside pointing to the snow meter (no recording)

  • Maintenance area:

    • Outside pointing to the main road observatory access

    • Outside pointing to the garages

    • Outside pointing to the north part of the warehouse

    • Outside pointing to the south part of the warehouse

Image storage

All the recorded images are stored for a maximum period of 9 days. The recorded images can only be accessed with express request by Calar Alto Director.

Information

There exist posters with informative pictograms and duly completed in those locations where surveillance cameras are working.

Labor control

There are no surveillance cameras in places intended for staff rest.

In respect to the real time images, the outside cameras that do not allow recognition of people as their location is far away can be freely accessed through the web. Internal cameras showing closer images that allow personal recognition have no external access. They only can be accessed within Calar Alto network for allowing the observer staff to control what is happening at the different camera locations.

The records can only be viewed with a previous express request from Calar Alto Director.

When any record is going to be used, always under Director’s request, with labor control purpose as stated on the article 20.3 of the Estatuto de los Trabajadores, the involved worked will be informed concerning this actuation and its purpose.

Image access right

In order to comply with the right of interested parties for accessing the images, a recent photograph, the National Identity Document and the detail of the date, time and total length of the recording to be accessed will be requested. Under no circumstances will the third party be given direct access to the images of the cameras if other people can be recognized in said images. If visualization of the images requested by other people cannot be made, the interested party will be provided with a document in which the existence of images of the interested party is confirmed or denied.

Surveillance guides provided by the Agencia Española de Protección de Datos

 

In any case it is recommended, for more information, reading the guide that the Agencia Española de Protección de Datos publishes in its web: www.aepd.es.