Who owns the Data?

Generally we differentiate between two types of accounts:

• personal accounts
• project boxes

Personal Accounts

The situation for personal accounts is obvious: The data is owned by the person that owns the account.

When a person shares a file with you from their personal account, you will have access to this file temporarily, but you do not own it. If the person stops sharing their file with you or their account is deleted, access to the data is lost.

In this case we cannot recover your access to the file.

Project Boxes

In project boxes the institution or the registered project owns the data. If the person who created the project box stops working for the project or institution, their collegues can talk to the support and take over the project box.