PRIVACY NOTICE FOR NATURAL PERSONS WHO ARE WEBSITE VISITORS
SAPIENS (Sustainability and Procurement in International, European, and National System), a European project funded by European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 956696, “SAPIENS” project respects your privacy and the protection of the security and confidentiality of your personal data is of outmost importance to us. This privacy notice is compliant with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 2016/679 and it provides you with the following information:
Who is the data controller?
The data controller processing your personal data through this website is SAPIENS (Sustainability and Procurement in International, European, and National System) a European project funded by European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 956696
Note that this privacy notice refers solely to the processing of personal data in the course of operating our website. For any further information regarding this privacy notice, please contact us at info@sapiensnetwork.eu.
What personal data do we collect and for what purposes?
We may collect personal information about you such as your name and e-mail address when you contact us directly by filling out our contact form and provide us with any such information. We may use this information solely for the purposes of responding to your inquiry.
Cookies
We also collect certain non-personally identifiable information about your use of our website through a tool called “Google Analytics”. Google Analytics collects information such as how often users visit this site, what pages they visit when they do so, and what other sites they used prior to coming to this site. We use the information we get from Google Analytics only to improve this site. Your information will not be used for marketing purposes. Google Analytics collects only the IP address assigned to you on the date you visit this site, rather than your name or other identifying information. We do not combine the information collected through the use of Google Analytics with personally identifiable information. Although Google Analytics plants a permanent cookie on your web browser to identify you as a unique user the next time you visit this site, the cookie cannot be used by anyone but Google. Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to this site is restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Use and the Google Privacy Policy. You can prevent Google Analytics from recognizing you on return visits to this site by disabling cookies on your browser by using the following links:
Internet Explorer: http://windows.microsoft.com/nl-NL/windows7/Block-enable-or-allow-cookies
Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en-GB
Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences
Safari: http://support.apple.com/kb/PH5042
Plugins
We use the following plugins, which help us making the website more interactive and responsive to your needs:
- Add From Server
- Akismet Anti-Spam
- Bluehost
- Creative Mail by Constant Contact
- Feed Them Social – for Twitter feed, Youtube, and more
- GDPR Cookie Consent
- Google Analytics for WordPress by MonsterInsights
- IgniteUp
- Jetpack by WordPress.com
- OptinMonster
- Safe SVG
- Select WP User Avatar
Where and for how long do we store your personal data?
Your personal data is stored on our servers and on the servers of the cloud-based database management services we engage, located within the EU.
Information provided to us by you when contacting us with an inquiry, will be retained for 18 months since our last communication with you, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.
With whom do we share this personal data?
We may share your information with other organisations providing data processing activities to our organisation such as IT support and our cloud services. Additionally, if required, we may share your information to governmental/regulatory/law enforcement agencies or other third parties provided that such obligation is based on national or EU law.
What are your rights regarding your personal data?
Access: this enables you to request access and receive information regarding the personal data we hold about you.
Request for rectification: this enables you to request to have the data we hold about you to be completed or corrected.
Request for erasure: this enables you to request the deletion of the personal data we hold about you.
Restriction of processing: this enables you to make a request, in certain situations, that your personal data are only used for specific purposes.
Object to processing of personal data: this enables you to object to the processing of your personal data.
Data portability: this enables you to request to obtain a copy of the personal data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and/or the transmission of your personal data to another controller.
In order to exercise any of your above rights, please contact us at info@sapiensnetwork.eu. We will endeavor to respond to any request as soon as possible and no longer than 30 days from the receipt of the request. In case where we will not be able to respond to your request within the aforementioned time period or in case your request is rejected, we will inform you accordingly explaining the reasons for any delay or for rejecting your request. All rights can be exercised free of charge.
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the European Data Protection Supervisor if at any case, you believe, that SAPIENS infringed your privacy. Please find more information at the official website of the European Data Protection Supervisor: at https://edps.europa.eu/data-protection/our-role-supervisor/complaints_en
How do we protect your personal data?
As part of our effort to prevent any unauthorised access or disclosure of your personal data, we have implemented physical, technical and administrative safeguards. We also update and test our security technology on an ongoing basis and we restrict access to your personal data to those collaborators who need to know that information to provide our services to you.
What is our data breach procedure?
In an unlikely event of a data breach, after the initial review of the scope of the data breach, the controller shall without undue delay and, where feasible, not later than 72 hours after having become aware of it, notify the personal data breach to the supervisory authority. Furthermore, the controller shall notify the harmed or possibly harmed subjects within a reasonable time period, but not longer than 15 days.
Can minors use this website?
A minor who wishes to communicate with us may do so through their parents or legal guardians. If you are a parent or guardian of an individual under the age of 18 and you become aware that a minor has provided personal data to us without your consent, please contact us at info@sapiensnetwork.eu to exercise your rights as described in this privacy notice.
Will this privacy notice change?
We reserve our right to amend this privacy notice from time to time and any changes will become effective when we post the revised privacy notice on our website, without further notice. By using our website following these changes means that you have accept the revised Privacy Policy.
