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Privacy Notice

Last updated December 5, 2022

The OMEGA-X project maintains this website to enhance public access to information about its results and activities. Our goal is to keep this information updated. The Consortium has the right to interrupt service for internal reasons, e.g. maintenance, and is not obligated to make services available online without interruption.

The OMEGA-X Project is committed to respecting the privacy of each user and complying with applicable laws on data protection and privacy. Processing of users’ personal data is governed by these terms, by the relevant provisions of EU legislation on data protection, including the General Data Protection Regulation (2016/679) and the relevant local legislation, including decisions, guidelines and regulations.

Although you can browse through most of this website without giving any information about yourself, in some cases, personal information is required (e.g., a subscription to the project’s mailing list, and contact form).

Collection and use of personal information

By accessing the Website, certain information about the User, such as Internet protocol (IP) addresses, navigation through the Website, the software used and the time spent, with other similar information, are stored either on the project server. These do not specifically identify the User. The information is used internally only for website traffic analysis and is not published for general access.

OMEGA-X only collects, via its website, personal information through the online subscription to the project’s mailing list and the project’s contact form.

These personal data will be collected on the basis of your direct consent and kept as long as the project work is ongoing.

We do not collect personal data or information for dissemination or selling to third parties for marketing purposes. We do not collect sensitive personal information.

In accordance with the GDPR and the French law n°78-17 of 6 January 1978, everyone who registered to the project’s mailing list or sent a message via this website has a right to access, query, rectification and opposition by writing to the data protection Officer (Saara Valtasaari: saara@oascities.org)

Protection of personal information

We use a range of physical, technical and organizational measures to ensure that we keep your personal data secure. These measures include Technological security measures, including firewalls and encryption mechanisms (TLS). Personal data will be secured by password-protecting of individual documents. The passwords will be kept secure and only be shared with project partners who shall work with the data (i.e., send project newsletters, and reply to messages received via the contact form.

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.