General
Our Terms and Conditions, Privacy and GDPR Policies were posted on 12 March 2021 and last updated on 09 August 2021. They govern the privacy terms of our project portal, website(s), database, Welcome Application, and the other tools we provide you (the “Websites”, the “Service”, the applications etc.).
Our Website and Welcome Application may contain links to other websites that owned or operated by parties other than ORIENT8 and partners (our consortium). Such links are provided for your reference only. Our consortium does not monitor or control outside our websites and applications and is not responsible for their content and policies.
Our consortium’s inclusion of links to an outside website and applications does not imply any endorsement of the material on our Website/Application or, unless expressly disclosed otherwise, any sponsorship, affiliation or association with its owner, operator or sponsor, nor does our consortium inclusion of the links imply that our consortium is authorized to use any trade name, trademark, logo, legal or official seal, or copyrighted symbol that may be reflected in the linked content.
While using our Website/Application, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. Personally, identifiable information may include, but is not limited to: Email address, Name, Address, Province, Postal code, City, Cookies and Usage Data.
We may use your Personal Data to contact you with newsletters, promotional materials and other information that may be of interest to you and our project. You may opt out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from us by following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in any email we send.
We may also collect information how our project portal, websites, database and applications are accessed and used. This Usage Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our project that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
The security of your data is very important to us but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use acceptable means to protect your Personal Data with industry standart, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
What are cookies
As is common practice with almost all professional websites, our consortium website and application use cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer and mobile devices, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or ‘break’ certain elements of the website’s and application's functionality.
How we use cookies
We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately, in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to any website and application. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case, they are used to provide a service that you use.
Disabling cookies
You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of the website and application.
The cookies we may set
Our consortium website/application (will) offer(s) newsletter or email subscription services and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications which might only be valid to subscribed/unsubscribed users. When you submit data through a form, cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.
Third party cookies
In some special cases, we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.
We may use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. The following social media or search engine companies including; Google, Bing, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, may track you to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies. Hopefully that has clarified things for you and as was previously mentioned if there is something that you aren’t sure whether you need or not it’s usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our site.
Updates for the GDPR
We have just released updates for all of our website and/or plugins to improve compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) of the European Union.
What is the GDPR?
As most of you already know, the EU GDPR will be enforced on May 25th, 2018. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (EU) 2016/679 is a regulation in EU law on data protection and privacy for all individuals within the European Union. It addresses the export of personal data outside the EU. The GDPR aims primarily to give control back to citizens and residents over their personal data and to simplify the regulatory environment for international business by unifying the regulation within the EU. For more information about the GDPR, please see this Infographic from the European Commission and GDPR Portal.
Our latest updates improve compliance with the GDPR but is NO GUARANTEE that your browsers, built-in extensions and other components of your network fully complies to all rules. There might be other plugins/extensions you are using which are affected by the GDPR.
Disclaimer
At any time, you can unsubscribe from our email communications. If you want to remove yourself from our database or you don’t feel comfortable with our privacy policy and our general terms and conditions, or want to change your data then without any hesitation, please contact us directly by clicking here.
“The content of project products [website, publications, events, meetings etc.] represents the views of the author/contributor only and is his/her sole responsibility. The European Commission does not accept any responsibility for use that may be made of the information it contains.