INTRODUCTION
The following gives a simple overview of what happens to your personal information when you visit our website. Personal information is any data with which you could be personally identified. Detailed information on the subject of data protection can be found in our privacy policy below.
Notice concerning the party responsible for the website
EUROQUALITY
39 rue de Saint-Lazard
75009 PARIS
FRANCE
Contact details & partners: see Imprint
RETOUCH consortium, represented by the Coordinator: see Imprint
Data Protection Officer
Universitat Politecnica de Valencia (UPV) – Coordinator of METHASOL
GENERAL INFORMATION ON DATA PROTECTION
Data processing when visiting websites
When visiting a website, data is being collected automatically – also personal data. This is necessary from a technical standpoint to make your website visit possible in the first place and offer you the best results.
Every time you visit a website, retrieve an image from a server, load an external script or plugin or stream a video, or use any other transmission possibility, your device transmits data to the server, from which you retrieve information. When opening a website, your browser (e.g. Firefox, Internet Explorer, Edge, Opera, Safari) automatically sends certain information from your system. These information are, e.g.:
- Browser type and browser version
- Operating system used
- Referrer URL
- Host name of the accessing computer
- Time of the server request
- IP address of website or file retrieved
- Status of website access (data transmitted, error code)
- Amount of data transmitted
- Keyboard layout (language)
- Screen resolution
- Name of website or file retrieved
[To be adapted to the effective information collected]
The following data are being logged by every server. This is done for:
- Adherence and review of IT-Security (e.g. identification of hacker attacks) and IT-Operation
- Statistical Evaluation (on use of website)
- Website Improvement
- Providing a modified version of the website or files, for optimized display on your device
[To be adapted to the effective information collected]
Security Protocols do not work with pseudonymisation and anonymisation, as this would not allow any conclusions as to who potential attackers could be. Generally, the evaluation of data, is anonymised and no profiling takes place. More information can be found further below.
Affected Person
The “affected Person” is the person, whose personal information is gathered and processed. In the following, the affected person will also be called “Website Visitor” or “User”.
Information on rights of Affected Persons
Any affected person can assert their rights vis-à-vis the responsible party. This can be done via e-mail, mail, or a specific form, provided for that matter. Requests by phone are possible too. However, they will only be accepted via phone, but responded via postal mail or e-mail, or other means. Such requests concerning Affected Persons‘ rights, are free of charge. If the right to such requests is exerted excessively, fees can be raised. Answers to these requests will be sent within the mandatory period of one month. This period can be extended in exceptional cases (e.g. high number of requests or high complexity of requests). The extension of this response period must be justified however. In the following, the affected rights are listed.
- Right to information
- Right to correction
- Right to deletion
- Limitation of data processing
- Right to data portability
- Revocation of consent to the processing of data
- Right to object
- Right to file a complaint
The affected person must authenticate himself / herself vis-à-vis the responsible company to prove that he / she is entitled to exert his / her rights.
COOKIES
We use so-called “session cookies.” They will be automatically deleted after your visit. Other cookies we use remain in your device’s memory until their expiration date. For more information, see Cookie Policy.
ENCRYPTION OF THE WEBSITE
All websites are being transmitted unencryptioned.
FORMS
Newsletter
We do not send a newsletter in order to sell products or services.
You have the opportunity to subscribe to a free-of-charge newsletter on our website. With your subscription, the data from the subscription form will be forwarded electronically to us.
The legal basis for data processing with consent is Art. 6 (1) lit. a GDPR.
The processing of personal information from the newsletter form is solely for delivering the newsletter. Any other data that is being gathered during the subscription process serves for protection against abuse of the service and the used e-mail address.
The personal data will be deleted when it is no longer needed for the delivery of the newsletter. Thus, the data will only be stored for the time of the subscription. At the latest, 14 days after the cancellation of the subscription, the information will be deleted.
STATISTICAL TOOLS
See Google Analytics in the Legal Notice