Privacy Policy
Our website address is: https://drg4foodtoolbox.eu.
Thank you for visiting our website, which has been developed as a part of the EU-funded project “DRG4FOOD” being carried out by a consortium of partners led by TWINDS. The DRG4F4Dtoolbox website is being managed and hosted by TWINDS, therefore, TWINDS is considered as a data controller with regard to processing any personal data on this website. More information about the Consortium of the DRG4FOOD Project can be found at https://drg4food.eu.
In this context, your privacy is very important for us. Thus, we are committed to protect your personal data in accordance with the European General Data Protection Regulation 679/2016 (GDPR) among other applicable texts. To this end, we provide this Privacy Notice that applies to the DRG4FOODtoolbox website and governs personal data collection and usage by the website only.
1. Type and purpose of personal data that we process
While using our website, you may share with us, on a voluntary basis, your e-mail address through the contact form of the DRG4FOOD website. We may use this data to contact you in response to your contact message – this data will not be used for any purpose other than those described in this Privacy Notice without informing and /or obtaining your consent first, when necessary.
If you are interested in signing up for the DRG4FOOD Project Newsletter to receive information about the DRG4FOOD project activities and its results please sign up via the project’s main website contact form at https://drg4food.eu/contact/.
2. Sharing of personal data that we process
The website of DRG4FOOD does not sell or lease any contact data to third parties. We share data with the service provider (hostnet) to enable the receiving and sending of contact emails. The Data Controller will further only ever disclose your personal data, without notice, if required to do so by law.
3. Cookies
This website use cookies. Cookies are small text files, which are saved on your computer, mobile phone or tablet. They allow the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as font size and other display preferences). You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish. If you do this, however, you may need to manually adjust your preferences every time you visit a website. For more information on how to manage cookies, please visit: http://www.aboutcookies.org/.
Cookies we use in the DRG4FOODtoolbox website:
Elementor – We use Elementor for website creation.
WordPress – We use WordPress for website development.
Matomo (our open-source web analytics application) – this allows us to see what pages you visited and how many times. We use this to improve and optimise the website! For more information on the cookies set by Matomo, please visit: https://matomo.org/subcategory/cookies.
4. Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
5. Who we share your data with
The website of DRG4FOOD does not sell or lease any contact data to third parties. We share data with the service provider (hostnet) to enable the receiving and sending of contact emails. The Data Controller will only ever disclose your personal data, without notice, if required to do so by law.
6. Storage and deletion of personal information that we collect
Any personal information you provide us through the DRG4FOODtoolbox website “contact” is only used for communication purposes only and is securely stored on the DRG4FOODtoolbox website email server, by TWINDS only for as long as is necessary for us to comply with our contractual obligations to the funding authority of DRG4FOOD and no later than the completion of the DRG4FOOD project.
DRG4FOODtoolbox website takes information security seriously and implements appropriate technical and organizational measures to help prevent unauthorized access, maintain data security, and correctly use the information we collect.
7. Children
We do not knowingly collect, use, or disclose information from children under the age of 16. If we learn that we have collected the personal information of a child under 16 we will take steps to delete the information as soon as possible. Please immediately contact us if you become aware that a child under 16 has provided us with personal information.
8. What rights you have over your data
Your data protection rights are granted by European and national Data Protection frameworks, including the GDPR, and you can exercise them at any time. In particular, you have the:
- Right to be informed: You have the right to be informed about the collection and use of your personal data, including the purpose for which we are processing this data, the period that we will retain it and with whom we will share it.
- Right of access: You have the right to ask from us to confirm whether we are processing personal data concerning you. Where that is the case, you can access your personal data that we are processing and relevant supplementary information.
- Right to rectification: You have the right to request from us modifications to your personal data in case you believe that it is not up to date, complete or accurate.
- Right to erasure (“right to be forgotten”): You have the right to ask us to erase your personal data that we are processing.
- Right to restrict processing: You have the right to request from us to restrict the processing of your personal data, with a view to limiting the way that we use this information.
- Right to data portability: You have the right to ask for your personal data to be provided back to you or transferred to a third party.
- Right to object: You have the right to object to us processing your personal data at any time for reasons related to your particular situation.
- Right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing (including profiling), which produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you.
To exercise your rights, please contact DRG4FOODtoolbox via the contact form https://drg4foodtoolbox.eu/contact/.
Having in regard that the data controller is TWINDS is an organization based in Belgium, the Autorité de protection des données, Rue de la Presse 35, 1000 Bruxelles (contact@apd-gba.be) is considered as lead data protection authority for all data processing activities taken at this website. Therefore, if you feel that your personal data rights have been breached and/or personal privacy has been jeopardized, you may lodge a complaint with this authority. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local supervisory data protection authority.
This Privacy Notice is effective from 20.10.2023. We reserve the right to update or change our Privacy Notice at any time. With that in mind, you should periodically check this Privacy Notice.
