SD Connect Service Description - Services for Research

Public Detailed service description

Sensitive Data (SD) Connect is a service for collecting and storing sensitive research data during the active phase of a research project. The service allows you to store sensitive research data in the CSC’s cloud storage solution Allas. Data is stored at CSC’s facilities in Finland. SD Connect provides automated encryption, decryption and key management via web browser (for files up to 100 GB) or command line tools. The encryption is done with a strong public-key encryption algorithm and CSC project specific encryption keys. Data in SD Connect can be analysed in the secure virtual computing environment, SD Desktop. SD Connect can serve as a workspace for collaborative research projects, facilitating data collection and sharing. SD Connect, as is, is not suited nor accredited for the secondary use of health and social data, but a restricted version of the SD Desktop service is provided for this purpose.

Users have the option to add their own encryption key pair for encrypting data stored in SD Connect.

Certifications

None.

User content including personal data in the Service

This service is designed process special categories of personal data.

User must evaluate whether this Service is suitable for their purpose. Please pay attention to special categories of personal data.

When CSC processes personal data in CSC’s services on behalf of the controller, we always require a personal data processing agreement. The user creates the description of processing activities in MyCSC customer portal. Data Processing Agreement.

Technical and organisational security measures for protection of personal data.

The Service do not assert ownership or any intellectual property rights to users or customers organisations’ content in the services.

Client’s responsibilities

User must follow all the Terms of Use that apply using the Service.

Client is responsible for:

verifying data integrity upon data uploads and dowlaods from SD Connect and data management
requesting a suitable amount of SD Connect storage space (quota) and capacity requests (e.g. apply for billing units and extend project duration)
taking cares of backups if needed
responsable for the Command Line tools installation and updates
information security, management of CSC project members and their access to the data stored in SD Connect
ensuring that the content they have stored in SD Connect Service complies with all applicable laws and regulations (e.g. pseudonymitication) and that the provided information is accurate, good quality, comprehensive, and up-to-date.

Service producer’s responsibilities

The service producer ensures that the service is available to customers as described in the service description.

The service producer is responsible for producing and developing the Service.

Service producer

CSC – IT Center for Science Ltd.

Service provider