PRIVACY POLICY Safeway Consortium
We are the Safeway Consortium. We respect your privacy and private life, but sometimes we need your personal data. In this privacy policy we explain which data we use and how we save, protect and process this data. This privacy policy applies to our website www.safeway-project.eu (the "Website) and the services that we offer (the "Services"). We comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (the "Relevant Legislation").
Are you under the age of sixteen?
If you are younger than sixteen years old, you cannot use our Website and Services without the permission of your parents or legal guardian.
Personal data
To offer our Website and Services we process personal data. "Personal data" means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person as defined in the Relevant Legislation. Find here SAFEWAY policy on protection of personal data.
Your permission
We can store your data at various moments, for example when you visit our Website, create an account via our Website, use our Services or when you contact us. We are allowed to process your data because we ask your permission via this privacy policy. We will not process your data without your consent, unless we are legally obliged to do so.
What data do we collect and how do we use your data?
To use our Website and Services, we need the following data:
- Your name
- Your e-mail address
Newsletter
Safeway offers newsletters. That way, you are fully informed of news. We use an opt-in system, every time we send you a newsletter you have the possibility to unsubscribe from the newsletter.
We will only use your personal data for the purposes listed above or any other purpose that is connected thereto. This way, your data will never be used by us in an unexpected way.
Google Analytics
The Safeway website uses Google Analytics. We have taken safeguards to ensure that the right of visitors to the protection of their privacy does not prevail over our legitimate interest. That is why we have signed a Data Processing Amendment with Google Analytics and the Safeway consortium has chosen to mask the last octet of the IP address. In addition, we have 'data sharing' disabled and we do not use other Google services in combination with the Google Analytics cookies.
Security
We work hard to protect your personal data from unauthorized or unlawful access, alteration, disclosure, use or destruction. That way, unauthorized persons do not have access to your data. We take the following measures to protect your personal data:
Secure network connections with Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology or a technology that is similar to SSLThe access to the data is limited to the persons that need the data
How long do we store your data?
We shall store your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes listed above.
Transfer
We will only process your data within the European Union. We will only process your data outside of the European Union if the country has an effective protection level for your data.
We will never transfer your data to other countries or other parties then described above.
Links
You may find content on our Website that link to other websites. We do not control the content on these websites and are not responsible for the content or the privacy protection of these websites. We advise you to read the privacy policies of those websites.
Cookies
Cookies are little (text)files which are stored on your computer. Your web browser stores these cookies when you visit our Website. These cookies will be retrieved when you visit our website again. This allows our Website to recognise you as a previous visitor.
This website includes a Twitter button with a link to the Safeway project's Twitter account. This button works through pieces of code that come from Twitter itself. Twitter may store and process certain data so that personalized advertisements can be shown to you. Read the privacy statement of Twitter to know what they do with your (personal) data that they process via these cookies. Twitter is based in the United States.
When you visit our website for the first time, we show a pop-up with an explanation about cookies. As soon as you click on "Save preferences", you consent to us using the categories of cookies and plug-ins that you have selected in the popup and which are described in the Cookie Policy. You can disable the placing of cookies via your browser, but keep in mind that our website may no longer work optimally.
You can change your cookie settings in your browser, if you don't want cookies to be sent to your device. We will not save cookies if you visit our Website. Please note that some website features or services of our website may not function properly without cookies.
Modifications to this privacy policy
We may update our privacy policy from time to time. When we change this privacy policy in a significant way, we will post a notification on our Website along with the updated privacy policy. We also inform users that are registered with an email address in case of any significate moderation. If you are not registered as user we advise you to visit the Website and this policy regularly.
Your rights
The data we collect is personal. Therefore, you have the following rights:
- You may request access to the personal data we process about you;
- You may request us to correct, update, shield or delete your personal information in our records;
- You may request a copy of the personal data we have processed about you. We can - on your request - send this copy to another party, so you don't have to send the data yourself;
- You may file a complaint against processing your data;
- You may file a complaint, please contact your National Data Protection Authority if you are under the impression that we process your data unlawfully;
- You may always withdraw your consent to process your data. We cannot process your data from the moment you withdraw your consent.
Should you have further questions regarding this privacy policy, please contact us via the information below.
Contact information
Project coordinator: see below