Policy - ERIC aisbl

1. WE DO NOT record and store in our web site IP addresses;

The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) protects European Union data subjects' fundamental right to privacy and the protection of personal data. It introduces robust requirements that will raise and harmonize standards for data protection, security, and compliance.

ERIC complies with this Regulation by informing all its personnel, researchers and meeting participants on how their details will be treated and, more in particular:

Researchers/Personnel/Applicants/Meeting Participants control their customer content.

ERIC delivers services to several sectors, including enterprises, educational institutions and European Institutions as well as governmental agencies in many countries. Our users include Universities, SME’s and Large Companies, governmental agencies, students and researchers who trust us with some of their information.

We are well aware that is vital to conscientiously treat privacy and data security. That’s why ERIC does not store information through its Web Site and, thus, this prevent unauthorized access to or disclosure of your content both in transit and at rest.

Maintaining researchers’ trust is an ongoing commitment. We strive to inform you of our privacy and data security policies, practices, and technologies we’ve put in place.

These commitments include:

We define personal information as information about a user that the user provides to us in connection with the creation or administration of a collaboration, a scientific research employment. For example, personal information includes names, usernames, phone numbers, email addresses, and bank details associated with a certain user activity.

As a user, you maintain ownership of your content. ERIC does not access or use your personal information for any purpose without your consent. We never use customer content or derive information from it for marketing or advertising.

As a user/researcher, you control your content.

This Document aims to reassure all users/researchers, using the reserved area of the projects websites, where ERIC is Coordinator or Responsible for the Management and Dissemination of the Project, that the collection of these information as well as the mails related to the project that we are sending will be stored in a secure sever only with your consent. We know that you care how account information is used, and we appreciate your trust that we will do so carefully and sensibly.

We are vigilant about our users' privacy. We do not disclose users’ content unless we're required to do so to comply with the law, or with a valid and binding order of a governmental or regulatory body. Governmental and regulatory bodies need to follow the applicable legal process to obtain valid and binding orders. We review all orders and object to overbroad or otherwise inappropriate ones.

ERIC data centres are built within the web domain provider in Italy and protected therefore.

When evaluating the security of a cloud solution, it is important for you to understand and distinguish between the security of the cloud, and your security in the cloud. Security of the cloud encompasses the security measures that the domain provider implements and operates. We are responsible for security of the cloud and not keeping cookies nor personal information. You are responsible for your security taking all the measures to prevent possible leeches, using a secure password and changing it frequently enough.

Your details are stored in a special register which is not accessible from the web nor from the internet. The information provided in any ERIC Managed Project’s website is stored exclusively in the domain provider’s server and does not include personal details apart name, Surname and an email address.