Terms and Conditions
INTRODUCTION
This website is owned by SCRAT and maintained by the ADVisE project consortium. The use of this website is subject to the terms and conditions set out below. By using this website, you agree to be legally bound by these terms and conditions. Please read the terms and conditions carefully, if you do not accept them, then you should not use this website.
COPYRIGHT
All information included on this website, is owned by ADVisE consortium, unless otherwise stated. Reproduction in any form of any part of the content of this website is prohibited without the prior written consent of the consortium, unless for private use. In the case of specific services offered through the website that have their own terms and conditions, those will prevail over the website’s terms and conditions.
EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY
Information provided on this website is believed to be reliable when posted. However, ADVisE consortium cannot guarantee that information will be accurate, complete and current at all times. The consortium will not be liable to any party for any loss or damage sustained by any user as a result of his/her reliance on information contained in this website and/or use of this website and/or use of any other linked website. Access to and use of this website is at the users’ own risk.
LINKS TO THIRD PARTY SITES
This website may contain links to other linked websites which are not under the control of ADVisE consortium. The consortium is not responsible for the content of linked websites and does not endorse any of these. The linked websites are provided as a convenience to you, which you can visit at your own risk.
AMENDMENT OF TERMS & CONDITIONS
The content of this website, including the Terms and Conditions, may be revised by ADVisE consortium at any given time without any prior notification. By using this website, you agree to be bound by any such revisions. It is your responsibility to periodically visit the Terms and Conditions page to read the current content.
SECURITY
Any attempt to violate the security of the website is prohibited, including without limitation: compromisation of authentication measures, launching denial-of-service attacks, utilizing this website for other that its intended purposes, attempting to probe, scan or test for vulnerabilities. Violation of security measures may result in civil or criminal liability. Any identified malicious activity will be reported to the appropriate law enforcement authorities. SCRAT may monitor network traffic to identify malicious attempts that try to violate the security of this website. Anyone using this site expressly consents to such monitoring.
BREACH OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS
SCRAT and ADVisE consortium may and will take all necessary actions to protect their rights. If you breach these Terms and Conditions, we reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to revoke your access to the website.
GOVERNING LAW
These Terms and Conditions shall be governed by Cyprus Law.
Privacy Policy
ADVisE consortium (referred to as ‘we’, ‘us’, ‘our’, or ‘consortium’) is committed to protecting your personal information in an open and transparent manner. Personal data refers to any information related to you which identifies or may identify you and which includes, for example, your name, email address, and job position.
This privacy statement:
a) Provides an overview of how we collect and process your personal data in compliance with the provisions of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), applicable as of 25 May 2018.
b) Informs you as to the rights you can exercise in relation to the processing of your personal data under the GDPR.
c) Is directed to natural persons who are registered users on the ADVisE platform (referred to as ‘the platform’).
For the purposes of this statement, when we refer to “processing” of your personal data, we mean the handling of your personal data by us, including collecting, protecting and storing your personal data.
WHO WE ARE
ADVisE consortium is acting as the data controller in relation to the processing activities described in this privacy statement. If you have any questions about our privacy statement or wish to obtain more details about the processing of your personal data by us, please contact our Data Protection Officer in writing at:
Panayiotis Andreou
info@inspirecenter.org
WHETHER YOU HAVE AN OBLIGATION TO PROVIDE US WITH YOUR PERSONAL DATA
To be able to establish a business relationship with you and provide you with our services, you must provide your personal data to us which are essential for the provision of these services, including the performance of our contractual obligations. As a rule, we would not be able to enter or continue our business relationship with you if you do not provide us with the required data.
REASONS FOR PROCESSING YOUR DATA
We shall process your personal information when we have a lawful reason to do so, specifically:
a) In order to fulfill or enter into a contract with you
We will process your personal data in order to create you an account and provide you with our services.
b) When we have a legitimate interest
We will process your personal data when we have a legitimate interest, provided that your interests and fundamental rights are not overridden by our interests. Such legitimate interests cover the following cases:
- Manage your account and records
- Protect your accounts
- Defend, investigate or prosecute legal claims
- Receive professional advice, e.g. legal advice
c) When you have given us your consent
d) When we need to comply with a legal obligation
e) To protect your vital interests
f) In the context of a task carried out in the public interest
DATA WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU
Personal data refers to any information related to you which identifies or may identify you. In the case of data where the identify has been removed, these are considered anonymous data.
The following table lists the different types of personal data we will be collecting and processing:
| Type of personal data | Description |
| Identity data | First name, last name, email, age, gender, date of birth, nationality |
| Authentication data | Username, password |
| Employment data | Organization name, business role related data, e.g. position, employment duration, main responsibilities, pain points, wishes, perceived expertise, frequent requests, business tasks, frequent actions, frequent questions, perceptions on data visualization aspects, visual literacy |
| Personal characteristics | Working memory span, speed of processing, control of processing, field depended/independent data, digit span memory, business role questionnaire, data analysis tasks questionnaire, data visualization experience questionnaire, eysenck personality questionnaire, emotion regulation questionnaire, executive skills questionnaire, decision making questionnaire, problem solving style questionnaire |
| Educational background | Educational status e.g. bachelor’s degree, Master's Degree, Doctoral Degree |
| Activity data | IP address, login time, logout time |
HOW WE COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL DATA
Below is a list of ways in which we collect your personal data:
a) Data you directly provide:
- When you apply for an account on the platform
- When you use ADVisE platform
b) Data we collect when you use the platform
- When you connect and interact with the platform
PURPOSES FOR WHICH WE WILL USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA
This section provides information on the purposes for which we may process specific categories of personal data and the legal bases of the processing. The table below presents the relevant information:
|
Purpose |
Type of data |
Lawfulness of processing |
|
To register you as a user on the platform |
Identity data |
Performance of a contract with you Consent by you |
|
To authenticate you and grant you access |
Authentication data |
Legitimate interest |
|
To enable you to manage your account and view your profile |
Identity data Educational background Employment data Personal characteristics |
Performance of a contract with you |
|
To find the best visualization fit for you |
Employment data Educational background Personal characteristics |
Performance of a contract with you |
|
To process your requests regarding the processing of your personal data |
Identity data |
Performance of a contract with you Legitimate interest Legal obligation |
|
To administer and protect the platform and data |
Activity data |
Legitimate interest Legal obligation |
|
Notifications |
Identity data |
Legitimate interest |
TO WHAT EXTENT THERE IS AUTOMATED DECISION-MAKING AND WHETHER PROFILING TAKES PLACE
In order to perform our contract and provide recommendations regarding the best visualization fit for you, we need to process your data and cluster them accordingly. The processing algorithm that is responsible for this, takes as input anonymized information about you and classifies you accordingly under the appropriate cluster. You will be presented to the appropriate visualization fit that corresponds to the cluster you have been categorised.
WHO RECEIVES YOUR PERSONAL DATA
We may share your personal data with the following organizations:
- External legal consultants
- Auditors and accountants
- Law enforcement authorities
- Supervisory and other regulatory authorities
It must be noted that we may share your personal data in order to comply with a legal obligation. When we share your personal data, we request from third parties to protect your privacy rights.
TRANSFER OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA TO A THIRD COUNTRY
We do not share any of your personal data with recipients located in third countries e.g. countries outside the European Economic Area (EEA).
MARKETING
We do not use your personal data for marketing purposes.
HOW LONG WE KEEP YOUR PERSONAL DATA (RETENTION)
We will keep your personal data depending on the timeframe of the business relationship we have with you and depending on our legal obligations, including any legal investigations that might arise. If there are no legal obligations or investigations, when our business relationship will end, we will anonymize your data and retain them for (anonymous) statistical purposes.
YOUR RIGHTS
You can exercise your rights, as per GDPR, concerning the processing of your personal data at any time through the project’s website, once you login into your account. Your rights are as follows:
- Right to be informed. You have the right to be informed in a clear and transparent way as to the processing of your personal data. This is provided by this privacy statement.
- Right of access. You may request a copy of the personal data we hold about you and how we are lawfully processing it.
- Right to rectification. You have the right to request the correction of incomplete, inaccurate or out of date personal data we hold about you.
- Right to erasure. You can exercise this right to request erasure of your personal data that we hold about you when they are no longer necessary to be processed, when you wish to withdraw your consent for processing or when your personal data have been unlawfully processed. We may continue maintaining your personal data if there are overriding legitimate grounds for the processing.
- bRight to data portability. You may request a copy of your data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. You also have the right to have your personal data transmitted directly from one controller to another, where technically feasible.
- Right to object. You can request us to stop processing your personal data where: a) processing is based on legitimate interest, b) processing is performed for direct marketing purposes or for scientific/historical research purposes, c) processing involves automate decision making and profiling. We may continue processing your personal data if there are legitimate grounds for the processing which override the exercise of this right.
- Right to restrict processing. You can request us to stop processing your personal data where one of the following reasons apply: a) the accuracy of the personal data is contested, b) the processing is unlawful, c) we no longer need the personal data for the purposes of the processing, but you require them for the exercise of legal claims.
RIGHT TO COMPLAIN
If you are not satisfied with how we process your personal data, you have the right to complain by contacting our Data Protection Officer using the contact details specified in section “Who we are” of this privacy statement.
You also have the right to complain to the Office of the Commissioner for Personal Data Protection. You can visit their website at https://www.dataprotection.gov.cy
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT
We may amend and update this privacy statement from time to time. In such a case, the updated privacy statement will be available on this page. We encourage you to visit this page periodically to stay informed in relation to the processing of your personal data and your fundamental rights.
COOKIES
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