About us
This Privacy Policy describes how and when Nature-3B, a project funded by the EU’s Horizon Research and Innovation Programme, collects, uses, and shares your information when you use the nature-3b.eu website.
The website is provided by the Nature-3B Consortium, coordinated by the University College Dublin. When using the website you consent to the collection, storage, processing and utilization of your information as described in this Privacy Policy.
What data do we process and for what purpose?
We will process the following information about you:
Your full name and contact information including your country of residence.
We work with other organisations and individuals to further our objectives as well as contacting those that we feel may be in a position of influence. In these circumstances, we will process the following information:
Your full name and contact information.
We will also process information about your organisations gathered from yourself, your website, or social media platforms such as LinkedIn or other publicly accessible websites.
The lawful basis for processing your data
The lawful basis for processing your personal data is found in the GDPR (Article 6). We are required to identify which of the allowable legal basis we use to process your data. We do not process any special category data as described in Article 9 of the GDPR.
General communications between organisations and individuals
If we have identified you, and / or your organisation as being potential partners or collaborators we will process your information under Article 6.1.f – Legitimate Interest. Legitimate interest means that we process your personal data in a way that is lawful and legitimate to advance the objectives of our organisation. We have assessed that our legitimate interests do not outweigh or infringe your own rights and freedoms.
Data Storage and Security
We follow strict security procedures to ensure that your personal information is not damaged, destroyed, or disclosed to a third party without your permission and to prevent unauthorised access. We store both physical and electronic records. We have put in place technical and organisational measures to ensure our physical security as well as technical measures for data backup, authorisation and authentication onto systems. We use secure firewalls and other measures to restrict electronic access, including anti-virus and anti-malware measures. If the data must be transferred to a third party, we require them to have in place similar measures to protect your personal data. We have a process in place to mitigate the impact of any data breach that should occur.
Automated decision making
We do not use automated decision making to process personal data nor does it undertake profiling which produces any legal effect on you as a data subject.
Third party websites
Our website may contain links to other websites. This privacy policy only applies to this website, so if you follow a link to another website, you should read that organisation’s own privacy policy.
Your rights as a data subject
The regulations provide rights to you as the Data Subject. We are committed to upholding those rights and those applicable to the personal information we collect and process are listed below. In addition to these rights, you have the right to escalate any concern to the Supervisory Authority, which in the UK is the Information Commissioners Office https://ico.org.uk. A full and detailed explanation of all rights can be found at https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/
- The Right to be Informed – you should be clear about what, why and in what way your personal information will be processed at the time it is processed. This privacy policy sets out that information
- Right of Access – you have the right to know what personal information is held, by whom and why.
- The Right to Rectification – If the information we have collected and processed is inaccurate or incomplete, you have the right to have it rectified.
- Right to Erasure – You have the right to have your personal data erased and to prevent processing in some specific situations.
Right to Restrict Processing – If you contest the accuracy of the personal data we hold, we will restrict the processing of your data until accuracy is verified.
Right to Data Portability – You have the right to move, duplicate or transfer your data easily from one IT environment to another in a safe and secure way. - Right to Object – You have the right to object to profiling and direct marketing
- You also have rights in relation to automated decision making.
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the UK’s supervisory body, The Information Commissioners Office at:
Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
Telephone: 0303 123 1113
Website: http://www.ico.org.uk
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