Privacy Policy

Effective date: January 1, 2025

This Privacy Policy, was made in accordance to Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016, (henceforth GDPR) and applicable supplementary legislation. Its main purpose is to inform the users of the Web Site (that is “You”) on how your personal data is collected and processed by DESIDERATA.

Scope

The present Notice aims at illustrating what personal data we collect about you, the reason why we use your data and, as the case may be, share your data and the applicable retention periods. Additionally, the Notice also provides you with information regarding your rights, how to exercise them and whom you can contact in case of any query. By using the Service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy. Unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy, the terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms and Conditions, accessible from www.desiderata-project.eu

Who is responsible for the processing of your personal data?

Your personal data is processed by the DESIDERATA consortium partners who act as joint controllers. The partner in charge of the management of this Web Site is NEOVILI SAS (NEOVILI), with legal address at 3 Boulevard Sebastopol, 75001 PARIS, France. 

 
Service

Service is the www.desiderata-project.eu website operated by NEOVILI.

Personal Data

Personal Data means data about a living individual who can be identified from those data (or from those and other information either in our possession or likely to come into our possession).

Usage Data

Usage Data is data collected automatically either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).

Cookies

Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device (computer or mobile device).

Types of Data We Process
Personal Data

While using our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you (“Personal Data”).

Personally identifiable information may include:

  • Identity data such as: First name and last name, country of residence

  • Contact data such as: Email address, Phone number

  • Professional data such as: organization name, type and size, industry sector, position, function 

  • Data about your knowledge of SSbD

  • Other information you may voluntarily share with us when you decide to contact us. DESIDERATA will not ask you to provide any special category of data (such as race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical belief, political opinions, trade union membership, sexual orientation, genetic data, health data). Please do not disclose this information with us.

  • Cookies and Usage Data

Usage Data

We may also collect information how the Service is accessed and used (“Usage Data”). This Usage Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

 Cookies Data

 We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Service and we hold certain information and in particularly :

– Session Cookies. We use Session Cookies to operate our Service.

– Preference Cookies. We use Preference Cookies to remember your preferences and various settings.

– Security Cookies. We use Security Cookies for security purposes.

Other tracking technologies are also used such as beacons, tags and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyse our Service.

You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service.

Purposes of processing 

DESIDERATA uses the collected data for various purposes:

  • To provide and maintain the Service

  • To communicate with you

  • To manage our newsletter

  • To allow you to participate in interactive features of our Service when you choose to do so

  • To provide analysis or valuable information so that we can improve the Service

  • To monitor the usage of the Service

  • To detect, prevent and address technical issues

Transfer Of Data

 Your data may be shared among the consortium partners.

DESIDERATA will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and that no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country outside the European Union or the European Econ unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.

DESIDERATA may disclose your Personal Data only if such action is necessary to:

  • comply with a legal obligation

  • protect and defend the rights or property of DESIDERATA

  • prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service

  • protect the personal safety of users of the Service or the public

  • protect against legal liability

Security of Data

The security of your data is 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 commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. Once DESIDERATA has received the User’s data, it will take the appropriate security measures to avoid any unauthorized access, inappropriate use or disclosures, unauthorized modifications, illegal destruction, or accidental loss.

Data Retention

The personal data gathered on the forms and contact channels on the website will be retained under the following conditions:

DESIDERATA will retain the information supplied until the consultation has been resolved and, in any event, for up to a maximum of twelve months, unless another consultation is made or the user signs up for our services. After that, the data will become non-identifiable or will be deleted.

You data collected as part of the distribution of our newsletter will be kept until the end of the project or until you decide to unsubscribe from our newsletter by sending an email to: info@desiderata-project.eu

Your Rights and how to exercise them

The User can modify his communication preferences at any time, as well as exercise the following rights:

– Right to Access, allowing the User to consult his personal data.

– Right to Rectification, allowing the User to modify his personal data when they are inaccurate.

– Right to Erasure, allowing the User to request that his personal data associated with the service be erased.

– Right to Object, allowing the User to request that his personal data not be processed.

– Right to Restriction of Processing, allowing the User to request that his data be restricted from processing in the following cases:

– While the User contests the accuracy of his data.

– When the processing is unlawful, but the User opposes erasure of his data.

– When DESIDERATA does not need to process the User data, but the User needs those data for exercising or defending legal claims.

– When the User opposes the processing of your data pursuant to a legitimate interest by DESIDERATA, pending verification whether the legitimate grounds of the controller override yours.

– Right to Portability, allowing the User to receive the personal data he provided in electronic format, as well as to transmit those data to another entity.

– Right to Withdraw Consent, giving the User the right to withdraw the consent he granted for the processing of the personal data at any time and via any of the channels indicated below, without affecting the legality of any processing carried out prior to withdrawal.

The User can exercise these rights dy sending us an email to: info@desiderata-project.eu indicating the reference “Data Protection”. The following must appear in the request: Name, surnames, the petition specifying your request, and your email address.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

Please note that the Privacy Policy has been created with the help of Terms Feed Privacy Policy Generator.  We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.