PRIVACY POLICY

1. Scope and responsibility for data processing

This privacy policy applies to all personal data collected as part of the dissemination and co-innovation activities within the Horizon Europe BATMASS project.

The entity responsible for processing this data is:

The project BATMASS, that has received funding from the European Union Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement No. 101115058

The user must carefully read this privacy policy and decide freely if he/she intends to provide his/her personal data to the BATMASS project before communicating data. The user guarantees that he/she is of legal age and that the data communicated are true, accurate, complete and current, being responsible for any nonconformity. If the data communicated belongs to a third party, the user guarantees that he/she informed the third party about the conditions provided in this document and that he/she was authorized to provide his/her data to the BATMASS project for the indicated purposes.

You may contact BATMASS on any matter related to this privacy policy, through the following email address: info@batmass.corporaciontecnologica.com

2. Purposes of the treatment and legal basis

The personal data collected through this website are intended to allow the following operations:

Participation in workshops, seminars, conferences and webinars organized by the Horizon Europe project BATMASS;

Participation in surveys, questionnaires or similar enquiries, organized by the Horizon Europe project BATMASS;

BATMASS’s communications, such as newsletters, service news, technical articles, event information or other related activities

The processing of personal data is necessary to carry out the aforementioned operations.

3. Recipients

The personal data of the user may be communicated to a suitable service provider contracted by the BATMASS project, which will treat the data exclusively for the purposes established by BATMASS project and in compliance with the instructions issued by the BATMASS project, strictly complying with the legal rules on data protection information security and other applicable standards, pursuant to a written agreement between the parties.

4. Cookies

If you leave a message on our site, your name and email address will be saved in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

This portal uses web analytics service provided by Google Analytics 4. Cookies (small text files stored locally on your computer) are used to help analyse how people use this portal. The collected information, including your IP-address, will be stored on servers in Spain.

BATMASS and Google Analytics 4 will use this information to generate reports on portal usage. BATMASS and Google Analytics 4 will only share the collected information with third parties when legally required to do so. Your IP-address will not be combined with that of other websites or other data sources that are available to BATMASS and Google Analytics.

5. International data transfers

The BATMASS project will process user data in its entirety within the territory of the European Economic Area (EEA) and therefore does not provide for any international transfer of data.

6. Shelf life

The BATMASS project will keep the personal data of the users for the period necessary for the accomplishment of the purposes for which they were collected; The BATMASS project will maintain these data through the period that it is obliged to by the law. The BATMASS project may also keep the data beyond these periods for statistical purposes, and for this purpose anonymize them.

7. User rights

The user has the right to request from the BATMASS project access to personal data concerning him/ her, as well as his rectification or deletion, and the limitation of the treatment with respect to the user, or the right to object to the treatment, as well as the right to portability of data, in accordance with the laws governing the processing of personal data.

To exercise the aforementioned rights, the user may contact the data controller through the addresses indicated in section 1 of this policy. He/she can also file a complaint with its National Data Protection Authority. More information on this can be found at the website for the European authority https://edpb.europa.eu/.

8. Further information

The institutions in the consortium implementing the project BATMASS have all signed a Consortium Agreement in which they accept to ensure that their collection, processing and sharing of Personal Data and / or Special Category Data of Personal Data are in compliance with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 (the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)) and other applicant regulation on Personal Data.

BATMASS is furthermore part of the EU’s Open Research Data Pilot (ORDP).

LEGAL NOTICE

Identification data

In compliance with the duty of information contained in article 10 of Law 34/2002, of July 11, on Services of the Information Society and Electronic Commerce, the following data are described below: the web domain owner is (hereinafter CTA), with Tax Identification Number: G-91452953, and registered office in Seville (Spain), C/Albert Einstein, s/n. Edificio Insur, 4th floor, registered in the Registro de Fundaciones de Andalucía de la Consejería de Justicia y Administración Pública, under number SE/1001, according to Resolution of 31 March 2006, and contact email: negocio@corporaciontecnologica.com

Disclaimer

BATMASS assumes no responsibility for the content, accuracy, timeliness, reliability, or completeness of the information.

Liability claims against BATMASS due to damage of a material or immaterial nature arising from access, use or non-use of published information, or through misuse of the connection or technical faults are excluded.

All offers are non-binding. BATMASS expressly reserves the right to change parts of the pages or the entire offer without separate announcement, to supplement, delete or temporarily or permanently discontinue the publication.

Liability for links

References and links to third-party websites are outside BATMASS area of responsibility and BATMASS rejects any responsibility for such websites. The access and use of such websites is entirely at the user’s risk.

Copyright and all other rights to content, images, photos or other files on the website belong exclusively to BATMASS or the expressly named rights holders. For the reproduction of any elements, the copyright holder’s prior written consent must be obtained.

Based on European Directives and the provisions, everyone is entitled to privacy and protection from misuse of their personal data. BATMASS complies with these provisions. Personal data is kept strictly confidential and is not sold or passed on to any third party.

In close cooperation with the hosting providers, BATMASS strives to protect the databases against unauthorised access, loss, misuse or falsification.

When you access the BATMASS website, the following data is saved in log files: IP address, date, time, browser request and general information about operating system and/or browser. This user data forms the basis for statistical, anonymous evaluation in order to identify trends and improve services.

Cookies policy

This site uses cookies – small text files that are placed on your machine to help the site provide a better user experience. In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences, store information for things like shopping carts, and provide anonymised tracking data to third party applications like Google Analytics. As a rule, cookies will make your browsing experience better. However, you may prefer to disable cookies on this site and on others. The most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your browser. We suggest consulting the Help section of your browser or taking a look at the About Cookies website which offers guidance for all modern browsers.

This website uses Google Analytics 4, a web analysis service of Google Inc. (‘Google’). Google Analytics uses ‘cookies’, text files stored on your computer that enable analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by cookies about your use of this website is generally transmitted to Google’s server in the USA and stored there. If IP anonymisation on this website is activated, your IP address will be truncated in advance by Google within member states of the European Union or in other states party to the agreement on the European Economic Area.

Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to one of Google’s servers in the USA and truncated there. Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports about website activities for the website operators and to provide further services related to website and internet usage. Google will also transmit this information to third parties to the extent required by law or insofar as third parties process this data on Google’s behalf. Google will not merge the IP address transmitted from your browser in the context of Google Analytics with other Google data.

You can prevent the installation of cookies by adjusting your browser software; however, if you do so, you will no longer be able to use all functions of this website to their full extent. By using this website, you agree to the processing of data by Google in the previously described manner and for the aforementioned purpose.

Data Protection

Data and information entered by users will be treated confidentially. The registered users thereby declare that they agree to receive information from BATMASS according to their stated profile. Processing of personal data will always comply with the applicable data protection laws.

Please note that there will be a photographer at the events and some video footage may be taken. Images and footage will be used for internal publications, websites, and promotion of similar events in the future.

Security

The website uses generally accepted information security techniques, such as firewalls, access control procedures and cryptographic mechanisms, all in order to prevent unauthorized access to data. To achieve these purposes, the user/client expressly accepts that the provider obtains data for the purposes of the corresponding authentication of the access controls. Any hiring process or others that involves the introduction of sensitive personal data (health, ideology …) will always be transmitted through a secure communication protocol (https://…), so that no third party has access to the information transmitted electronically.