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Welcome to the 2ISECAP project website (www.2isecap.eu). We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring that your personal data is handled in a safe and responsible manner. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and protect your personal data, and your rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

WHO WE ARE 

The 2ISECAP project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 10103375

The website www.2isecap.eu is managed by EC Network on behalf of the project. The hosting provider is www.simpledigtal.dk.

Types of Data Collected

We may collect and process the following personal data:

  • Contact Information: Name, email address, organization, and job title.
  • Website Usage Data: Information about your visits to and use of this website, such as IP address, geographical location, browser type, referral source, length of visit, and pages viewed.
  • Communication Data: Information provided through communications with us, including email correspondence and contact forms.
  • Event Registration Data: Information collected during event registration, such as name, email address, organization, dietary preferences, and any other relevant information required for event organization.

Purpose of Data Collection

We collect and use your personal data for the following purposes:

  • To manage and administer the 2ISECAP project.
  • To send you newsletters and updates about the project, if you have subscribed to receive them.
  • To respond to your inquiries and provide support.
  • To analyze website usage to improve our content and user experience.
  • To organize and manage events, including sending invitations, providing updates, and processing registration data

Legal Basis for Processing

We process your personal data based on the following legal grounds:

  • Consent: We will process your data for sending newsletters, updates, and event information only if you have given explicit consent.
  • Legitimate Interests: We may process your data to improve our website and project operations, as this is in our legitimate interests and does not override your data protection rights.
  • Contractual Necessity: We process your data to fulfill our obligations when you register for an event.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data displayed in the comment form, and also the visitor’s IP address and the browser’s user agent string to help detect spam.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) can be delivered to the Gravatar service to see if you’re using it. Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approving your comment, your profile picture will be visible to the public along with your comment.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our website, you can choose to store your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience, so you won’t have to fill in your information again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for a year.

If you visit our login page, we will create a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is deleted when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will set up a number of cookies and save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen selection cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will last for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will disappear.

EMBEDDED CONTENT FROM OTHER SITES

Articles on this site may contain embedded content (such as videos, images, articles, etc.). Nested content from other sites behaves in exactly the same way as if the visitor has visited the other site.

These sites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with this embedded content, including tracking your interaction with embedded content if you have an account and one logged into that site.

WHO WE SHARE YOUR DATA WITH

Personal data will be accessible to the contractual staff working in the organization of the EU H2020 2ISECAP project.

We may share your personal data with the following third parties:

  • Mailchimp: We use Mailchimp to manage our email marketing campaigns. Your email address and name will be shared with Mailchimp to deliver newsletters and updates. Mailchimp is a third-party service provider that acts as a data processor on our behalf. This means that while we control your personal data, Mailchimp processes it under our instructions to facilitate our email marketing activities.

Mailchimp implements strict security measures to protect your personal data, including the use of SSL encryption for data transmission and secure storage systems. They also comply with GDPR and other relevant data protection laws.

Additionally, Mailchimp may collect certain data about email recipients, such as whether emails were opened and which links were clicked, to help us improve our email communications and measure the effectiveness of our campaigns.

For more information on how Mailchimp handles your personal data, you can view their privacy policy at Mailchimp’s Privacy Policy.

  • Event Partners and Service Providers: Personal data may be shared with partners and service providers involved in event organization, such as venues, caterers, and event management platforms. All partners and providers are bound by GDPR and are required to handle your data responsibly.
  • Project Partners: Personal data may be shared with the contracted project partners for the purpose of managing and executing the project. All partners are bound by GDPR and are required to handle your data responsibly.

HOW LONG WE STORE YOUR DATA

We will retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy or until you request its deletion. Specifically:

  • If you leave a comment, comments and its metadata will be preserved indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comment automatically instead of having them in a moderation queue.
  • Contact information for newsletters and updates will be retained until you unsubscribe.
  • Website usage data will be retained for analysis purposes 
  • Event registration data will be retained for the duration of the event planning and follow-up period,

WHAT RIGHTS DO YOU HAVE OVER YOUR DATA

If you have an account on this site or have posted comments, you can ask for an exported file with the personal data we have about you, including all data you have provided to us. You can also ask that we delete any personal data we have about you. This does not include any data that we are obliged to store for administrative, legal or security reasons.

Where we send your data

Visitors’ comments may be verified by an automatic spam recognition service

Data Protection Measures

We have implemented necessary and strict security measures to prevent unauthorized access to your personal information. We ensure that only the necessary personnel have access to your data, that access to your data is protected, and that our security measures are regularly monitored. As part of our measures, we use SSL certificates for the secure transmission of your data and your communication with us.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or legal requirements. We will notify you of any significant changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on our website. Please check this page periodically for updates.

GDPR – General Data Protection Regulation (of the European Union)

EC Network AS, as a contractor of the EU institutions, is compliant with (EU) No 2018/1725 and, as a private company, is compliant with Regulation (EU) No 2016/679 (GDPR).

Contact Information

Please write to 2isecap@ecnetwork.dk for any questions or comments about the service with respect to the use of personal information. Please consider the following website for more information on data protection: European Data Protection Supervisor, the EU’s independent data protection authority.