Privacy Policy
This privacy policy applies to all personal data collected as part of the dissemination and communication activities within the Climate Smart Research project.
The entity responsible for processing this data is: The Climate Smart Research project, under Grant Agreement No.: 101216573, that has received funding from the Horizon Research and Innovation Programme
The Climate Smart Research project is committed to the protection of your personal data and respects your privacy on its website on the www.climatesmartresearch.eu domain. This privacy policy on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data is based on principles of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
You, as a user without registration credentials, can browse through most of this website’s functionalities without giving any personal data. In certain cases though, your personal data may be required if you decide to subscribe to the official project newsletter, or if you fill the contact form in order to get in contact with the project representatives.
For any request about how this website works with data, or concerning the processing of your personal data, we invite you to contact the operational controller responsible, at following email address: climatesmartresearch[at]biosense.rs
Type of personal data we collect
To have a fully functional website and to enable project objectives to be reached, we store certain users data for the following purposes:
- Contacting Climate Smart Research team through website’s contact form
- Registration of project events as an organizer
- Sign up for project’s newsletter through form at the website
- Application for project events as a guest
To successfully perform some of above mentioned activities, all or some of the following personal data may be collected:
- Name
- Surname
- Name of the organization/employer
- Country
- Language you speak
Analytics
Website analytic tools are the corporate services that measures the effectiveness and efficiency of the Climate Smart Research website, by providing information to the website administrators, and to project Consortium about how end-users use the project website, how often, for how long, which webpages and functionalities are most frequently visited, etc.
Information collected about the user engagement, and provided to the website administrators and project Consortium, are anonymous, meaning that information about the users like: time of visit, duration of visit, pages visited, etc., are not connected with user names, surnames, email addresses or any other personal data.
IP address and device ID
When you access a Climate Smart Research website, as an essential technical requirement the servers can store your Internet Protocol address (IP address) or the device ID of the device used to access the website.
Without this information, you will not be able to establish a technical connection between your devices and the server infrastructure maintained by the website administrators and therefore will not be able to access the Climate Smart Research website.
The Climate Smart Research project only keeps this information for the time necessary to fulfill the request, namely for the duration of the browsing session. In addition, IP addresses and device IDs might be saved for one year or longer in the log files, for security or other purposes.
Cookies and third parties
A cookie is a small text file that a website stores on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. First party cookies are cookies set by the website you’re visiting. Only that website can read them. In addition, a website might potentially use external services, which also set their own cookies, known as third-party cookies. Persistent cookies are cookies saved on your computer and that are not deleted automatically when you quit your browser, unlike a session cookie, which is deleted when you quit your browser.
The purpose of cookies is to enable the site to remember your preferences (such as country, language, etc.) for a certain period of time and in that way makes website usage for user more easy and convenient. That way, you don’t have to re-enter data when browsing around the site during the same visit. Cookies can also be used to establish anonymized statistics about the browsing experience on the website.
Climate Smart Research website might use “first-party cookies”. These are cookies set and controlled by the Climate Smart Research project representatives, not by any external organisation.
Safeguarding information
To ensure that website data remain safe, everything is hosted at BioSense Institute (BIOS) owned Data Center. As most others, BioSense Data Center has backup power supply in case of electricity power cuts supported by UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) and power aggregates, fire protection system and protected physical access to the server space, accessible only by authorized BioSense Institute employees.
Virtual access to the database and servers is possible only via SSH client (Secure Shell) network communication protocol that enables two computers to communicate. Access is possible only from specific web addresses while authentication is done by SSH keys.
Communication between web browser and servers for the website domain is done exclusively by HTTPS protocols (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure), with Let’s Encrypt TLS (Transport Layer Security) Certificate. TLS is an authentication and security protocol widely implemented in browsers and Web servers, while Let’s Encript is a free, open certificate authority provided by ISRG (Internet Security Research Group).
The Climate Smart Research project will keep the personal data of the users for the period necessary for the accomplishment of the purposes for which they were collected.
Other data recipients
The personal data of the user may be communicated to a suitable service provider contracted by the Climate Smart Research project, which will treat the data exclusively for the purposes established by the Climate Smart Research project and in compliance with the instructions issued by the Climate Smart Research project, strictly complying with the legal rules on data protection information security and other applicable standards, pursuant to a written agreement between the parties.
Except contractual agreements, Climate Smart Research project will only share the collected information with third parties when legally required to do so.
Climate Smart Research 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.
Your rights as a data subject
If any of your personal data is given and collected by the website, you have the right to obtain access to the personal data held by the Climate Smart Research about you and to request its rectification or erasure, or restriction of processing or, where applicable, the right to object to processing or the right to data portability. Where the processing is based on your consent or explicit consent, you also have the right to withdraw your consent at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
For any request concerning the processing of your personal data, we invite you to contact the operational controller responsible, at following email address: climatesmartresearch[at]biosense.rs
Additional information
The terms and conditions of this privacy and cookie statement can be adjusted without prior notice. Changes are effective as soon as they are published on the website.
This Privacy Policy refers only to Climate Smart Research project website. If you choose to leave this website by clicking on certain links which will led you to visit some other websites, you should read their privacy policies as some other rules may apply.
Whilst the Climate Smart Research project is responsible for the overall production and update of this website, it is not responsible for the accuracy of all content or views expressed within particular articles or other uploaded materials.