1. OBERON’s commitment

OBERON Network Coordinator, respects your preferences regarding the collection and use of your Personal Data. It is committed to ensuring the privacy and protection of the data belonging to its customers, users, employees, suppliers and partners.

OBERON drafted this Privacy Policy in order to show it respects the data protection legislation and the rights of all data subjects.

OBERON advises reading this document, which has been written in a clear and simple manner to facilitate its comprehension, and to help you decide if you wish to provide your personal data freely and voluntarily to OBERON.

2. Data controller

The entity responsible for collecting and processing your personal data is OBERON Network Coordinator.

3. What are personal data

Personal data is any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.

An identifiable person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, for example by reference to a name, an identification number, a location data, an electronic identifier or other elements allowing the identification of said natural person.

4. How and when personal data is collected

OBERON collects personal data upon your verbal, written consent, or when you visit our website.

This data is processed due to the existing commercial relationship, publications and other communications sent.

The collected data is processed according to legal requirements concerning personal data protection, and will not be used for other purposes other than those disclosed to the data subject.

5. Categories of personal data processed

The personal data collected is:
1. Identification data: Name and/or Taxpayer Identification No.
2. Contact information: Email, Telephone and Address
3. Other data required for the provision of products or services

6. Personal data rationale, purpose and processing duration

At OBERON, we use your personal data to:

1. Identify the customer
2. Make contacts within a commercial relationship
3. Answer enquiries in contact forms
4. Invoicing and collection
5. Perform satisfaction surveys
6. Answer claims or suggestions
7. Comply with legal obligations
8. Send a newsletter
9. Keep subscribers updated about OBERON’s products and services
10. Disclose events in which OBERON may participate and/or organise

OBERON will only retain your data during the period of time required for the purposes for which they were collected, except when legally required to retain the data for a minimum period of time.

7. Rights of the data subject

In accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation, we ensure all data subjects the right to access, update, rectify, restrict the processing or delete any personal data, by means of a request sent to OBERON Network Coordinator, via email, to umin@oberon-itn.eu, or by post, to the address OBERON Network Coordinator, School of Sciences, 4710-057 Gualtar, Braga, Portugal.

8. Safety

OBERON applies several security measures in order to protect the personal data it collects. We implement technical and organisational measures to avoid disclosure, loss, misuse, changes, unauthorised processing or access.

9. With whom may we share your personal data

OBERON may subcontract service providers when needed. In this case, OBERON shall take all necessary measures to ensure the security, integrity and confidentiality of the shared personal data, as well as to ensure that they are only used for the purposes for which they were collected.

10. Changes to the policy

OBERON reserves the right to, at any given moment, adjust or change this Policy. Therefore, we advise you to read this policy regularly.

11. What are cookies?

“Cookies” are small software labels that can be stored on your computer through the browser, retaining only information related to your preferences, not including your personal data.

Why the website uses cookies

During a visit to this Web page, files named “Cookies” may be placed on the user’s computer. These Cookies allow you to tailor the web page to the tastes and preferences of the user and present promotions and offers of products that may be of interest to you as a user.

Types of cookies

Preferences Cookies
These cookies allow websites to memorize information that changes the website’s behavior and appearance, such as your preferred language or region. For example, by memorizing your region, a website can provide you with local weather or transit information. These cookies can also help you change the size of text, font, and other customizable parts of web pages. Losing information stored in a cookie of preference may make the Website experience less functional, but should not impede its operation.

Security Cookies
Security cookies are used to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of logon credentials and protect data from unauthorized people. For example, you can block many types of attacks, such as attempts to steal content from forms that you fill out in Web pages.

Process Cookies
Process cookies help the Website function and provide services that the site visitor expects, such as browsing web pages or accessing secure areas of the Website. Without these cookies, the Website can not function properly.

Advertising Cookies
These cookies are intended to make advertising more engaging to users and more valuable to publishers and advertisers. Some common cookie applications are to select advertising based on what’s relevant to the user, to improve reporting on campaign performance, and to avoid showing ads that the user has already seen.

Session State Cookies
Websites often collect information about how users interact with a particular web page. This can include the pages that users visit most frequently and whether users receive error messages from particular pages. So-called “session-state cookies” help improve business services in order to improve our users’ browsing experience. Blocking or deleting these cookies does not make the website unusable.

Analysis Cookies
These cookies help website and app owners understand their visitors’ involvement with their web pages. They may use a set of cookies to collect information and report usage statistics for websites without personally identifying individual visitors.

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How to manage cookies

In most Internet browsers (Browsers) these cookies can be easily removed or refused. You can change your permissions by selecting the desired settings in the browser. You will also enter more details about these procedures in the help section of the respective browser.

More information about cookies

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