Privacy policy

1. Contact details

Aarhus University is the data controller responsible for the collection, use and disclosure of your information that we collect when you use our website www.eitwater.eu. You can find our contact information below:

Aarhus University, Faculty of Technical Science

Ny Munkegade 120, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark

CVR 31119103

eitwater@au.dk

By accessing or using the Service, you are consenting to the collection, use and disclosure of your information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you do not consent to the same, please do not access or use the Service.

We may modify this Privacy Policy at any time without any prior notice to you and will post the revised Privacy Policy on the Service. The revised Policy will be effective 180 days from when the revised Policy is posted in the Service and your continued access or use of the Service after such time will constitute your acceptance of the revised Privacy Policy. We therefore recommend that you periodically review this page.

2. Data protection officer

For any inquiries, please contact Aarhus University, Faculty of Technical Science’s Data protection officer (DPO)

Rasmus Thisted

Mail: rath@au.dk

Phone: +4520773453

3. The purposes of and legal basis for the processing of your personal data

The processing of your personal data is based on Article 6(1)(a) of the General Data Protection Regulation.

The personal data we collect, is collected and used for the purposes as listed hereunder:

• In the event you use the contact form on our website, we will use your personal data in order to reply to your query, via email or telephone.
• In the event you register for our newsletter, your email address will be used in order to send you our newsletters, which may include invites to events, seminars, etc. organised by us.
• We process your personal data for the purpose of supporting the website and enhancing your user experience, which includes ensuring the security, availability, performance, capacity and health of the website.
• We process your personal data to enforce or exercise any rights that are available to us based on the applicable law, such as use for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.

The legal basis for the processing of your personal data is based on consent. You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. This will, however, not affect the lawfulness of any processing done prior to the withdrawal of consent.

Your personal data will solely be used for the purposes as set out in this article.

How We Share Your Information:

We will not transfer your personal information to any third party without seeking your consent, except in limited circumstances as described below:

Marketing agencies

Analytics

We require such third parties to use the personal information we transfer to them only for the purpose for which it was transferred and not to retain it for longer than is required for fulfilling the said purpose.

We may also disclose your personal information for the following: (1) to comply with applicable law, regulation, court order or other legal process; (2) to enforce your agreements with us, including this Privacy Policy; or (3) to respond to claims that your use of the Service violates any third-party rights. If the Service or our company is merged or acquired with another company, your information will be one of the assets that is transferred to the new owner.

Retention Of Your Information:

We will retain your personal information with us for 90 days to 2 years after the user terminates the account or for as long as we need it to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected as detailed in this Privacy Policy. We may need to retain certain information for longer periods such as record-keeping / reporting in accordance with applicable law or for other legitimate reasons like enforcement of legal rights, fraud prevention, etc. Residual anonymous information and aggregate information, neither of which identifies you (directly or indirectly), may be stored indefinitely.

4. Your rights

Under the General Data Protection Regulation, you have a number of rights regarding our processing of your personal data.  

If you wish to exercise your rights, please contact us at eitwater@au.dk.

Right of access

You have the right to access the personal data we process about you, as well as certain additional information.

Right to rectification (correction)

You have the right to have inaccurate information about yourself corrected.

Right to erasure

In very specific cases, you have the right to have information about yourself erased before our standard general erasure schedule takes effect.

Right to restriction of processing

In certain cases, you have the right to have the processing of your personal data restricted. If you have the right to have processing restricted, we may only process the data - other than for storage - with your consent or for the purpose of establishing, exercising, or defending legal claims.

Right to object

In certain cases, you have the right to object to our otherwise lawful processing of your personal data.

5. Cookies

To learn more about how we use these and your choices in relation to these tracking technologies, please refer to our Cookie Policy.

6. Security

The security of your information is important to us and we will use reasonable security measures to prevent the loss, misuse or unauthorized alteration of your information under our control. However, given the inherent risks, we cannot guarantee absolute security and consequently, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us and you do so at your own risk.

7. Third party links and use of your information

Our Service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by us. This Privacy Policy does not address the privacy policy and other practices of any third parties, including any third party operating any website or service that may be accessible via a link on the Service. We strongly advise you to review the privacy policy of every site you visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

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