Principles of transmission

(1) Responsibility for the permissibility of the disclosure of social data through their passing on to a third party, or through inspection or retrieval by a third party of data held ready for inspection or retrieval, is borne by the transmitting body. Where the transmission takes place on the request of the third party to whom the data are transmitted, that third party bears responsibility for the correctness of the particulars in its request.
(2) Where further personal data of the person concerned or of a third party are so connected with social data that may be transmitted that separation is not possible, or possible only with unreasonable effort, transmission of these data too is permissible only where interests of the person concerned or of a third party worthy of protection, in their being kept secret, do not predominate; alteration or use of these data is impermissible.
(3) Transmission of social data is also permissible through intermediary bodies within the framework of processing on behalf.
(4) For the unambiguous attribution of the person concerned in the rendering of administrative services under the Online Access Act, in transmissions for quality assurance under section 10 of the Identification Number Act, and for performing the functions under section 2 of the Identification Number Act, transmission of the identification number under the Identification Number Act together with the date of birth of the person concerned is permissible. This also applies where the legal provisions on the transmission of social data under this Code do not list the data under the first sentence, but their transmission is required for the purposes named in the first sentence.