Crowd: Right to rectification

Introduction

Under Article 16 of the GDPR, you have the right to have inaccurate personal data rectified. The GDPR requires that you take reasonable steps to rectify the individual's personal data where requested.  An example of such a request may be an individual requesting their display name be updated to reflect a name change.  Whether or not modifying personal data stored within the product is within the scope of reasonable steps required to honor the individual's request will vary on a case-by-case basis, and is determination you should always make with the assistance of legal counsel.  Once you have determined you have an obligation to rectify personal data, we have provided the following instructions on how to do so within certain Atlassian products.  

Personal data stored within the product can be divided into one of two areas: 1) account-level personal data; and 2) free-form text.  Account-level personal data are data fields that exist within the product for the sole purpose of identifying an individual throughout the product.  Examples of account-level personal data include the user's display name, profile picture or avatar and email address.  These data elements are generally visible from the user's profile and are used throughout the product to point back to the user's profile when the user is @mentioned or tagged on in certain spaces or content.  Changing account-level personal data elements will automatically populate that change throughout the product where the relevant account-level data elements appear. 

If you have included personal data in free-form text, either typed into content spaces or as a custom field label, you will need to use the product's global search feature to surface this personal data and recitfy it on a case-by-case basis.    

Description

In some Crowd configurations, users may be able to update account-level personal data themselves, such as:

  • first name
  • last name
  • display name
  • email

They can do this using the Crowd Self-Service Console

Workaround

If user personal data is sourced from an external user directory (like LDAP or Azure AD), administrators may have configured Crowd to prevent users from updating their personal data. In these cases, the configuration will need to be changed in the external user directory.

Limitations

In general, users cannot remove their personal data or change their usernames themselves. They will need to ask an administrator to do this for them, either directly in Crowd or in an external user directory.

Please read Deleting or Deactivating a User and Editing a User's Details and Password for steps on how to do this. 

Additional notes

There may be limitations based on your product version.

Note, the above-related GDPR workaround has been optimized for the latest version of this product. If you are running on a legacy version of the product, the efficacy of the workaround may be limited. Please consider upgrading to the latest product version to optimize the workarounds available under this article.

Third-party add-ons may store personal data in their own database tables or on the filesystem.

The above article in support of your GDPR compliance efforts applies only to personal data stored within the Atlassian server and data center products. To the extent you have installed third-party add-ons within your server or data center environment, you will need to contact that third-party add-on provider to understand what personal data from your server or data center environment they may access, transfer or otherwise process and how they will support your GDPR compliance efforts.

If you are a server or data center customer, Atlassian does not access, store, or otherwise process the personal data you choose to store within the products. For information about personal data Atlassian processes, see our Privacy Policy.

Last modified on Nov 13, 2018

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