Video surveillance regulations

Bethesda Hospital is responsible for the operation of the video surveillance system and the processing of personal video data (personal data).

If you have any questions or would like to exercise your rights as a data subject under data protection law, please contact us at datenschutz@bethesda-spital.notexisting@nodomain.comch or write to Bethesda Hospital, Management, Gellertstrasse 144, CH-4052 Basel.

monitored areas

The video surveillance system records the following areas:

Gellertstrasse 120

• Heart Park

Night reception

• Night reception waiting room
• Night reception entrance/exit

Multi-storey car park

• Cash desks car park ground floor
• Lifts Car park ground floor
• Entrance and exit to underground car park
• Car park 1st basement and 2nd basement

Wing A

• Passage
• Goods entrance Tract A
• Exit car park
• Stairwell

Wing D

• Lift forecourt
• Forecourt Cloakroom
• Cloakroom Front and rear corridor
• X-ray exit Park

Wing E

• Side/emergency entrance to the maternity clinic
• Main entrance to the maternity clinic

Wing G

• Main entrance inside
• Main entrance hospital

Tract N

• Main entrance tract N

General entrance

• Central warehouse
• Entrance retirement centre
• Staircase A, B and C
• Vestibule
• Bicycle cellar

The quality of the video surveillance is such that the faces of the people (in particular patients, visitors, suppliers, employees and other healthcare professionals) who are in the focus of the video cameras are recognisable. Video intercom systems are not used for surveillance and are not recorded.

Setting up the video cameras

The cameras of the video surveillance system are set up in such a way that the recording of areas other than those necessary for the purpose of surveillance is excluded.

Operating times

The cameras of the video surveillance system are in operation 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. monitoring or recording only takes place if and as long as the video surveillance system detects movements in the monitored area.

Type of surveillance

The video surveillance system is used for the following types of surveillance:

• Active surveillance (real-time surveillance, i.e. direct viewing of recordings on the screen with storage) without sound recording
• Passive surveillance (recording of footage and subsequent analysis) without sound recording.

Bethesda Hospital processes personal data as part of the operation of the video surveillance system responsibly, in accordance with applicable legal provisions and only for the following purposes:

• Protection of persons (in particular patients, visitors, suppliers, employees and other healthcare professionals) and property from criminal offences
• Prosecution of criminal offences
• Prevention of criminal offences
• Enforcement of legal claims.

Bethesda Hospital draws the attention of affected persons to video surveillance with information boards or pictograms.

Bethesda Hospital grants data subjects the right to information and inspection upon request in accordance with applicable law.

Bethesda Hospital stores the video surveillance recordings for seven (7) days. At the end of this period, it shall delete the recordings unless an event relevant for the purposes of these regulations is discovered within this period.

Bethesda Hospital protects the video recordings against loss, manipulation, theft and unauthorised access. The recordings are stored on the premises of Bethesda Hospital. Data transmission is encrypted. In addition, Bethesda Hospital implements access controls, access controls and procedures to regularly review, assess and evaluate the effectiveness of these technical and organisational security measures.

Real-time monitoring and the subsequent viewing of video recordings take place on the premises of Bethesda Hospital, only by authorised persons within the Bethesda Hospital organisation and in accordance with the need-to-know principle. In addition, subsequent viewing is only carried out in the event of an incident by the technical service in accordance with the dual control principle.

Bethesda Hospital discloses records to law enforcement agencies, courts, attorneys and opposing parties:

• at the direction of the appropriate law enforcement agency or court; or
• if, in the judgement of Bethesda Hospital, this is necessary to enforce its legal rights.

The regulations are published on the Bethesda Hospital website at
www.bethesda-spital.ch/datenschutz.

Bethesda Hospital may amend or supplement these regulations at any time. The version provided at www.bethesda-spital.ch/ueber-uns/datenschutz shall apply.