Website Privacy Policy
SOILL-Startup Joint Controllers, constituted by Trust-IT Services srl, EUROPEAN NETWORK OF LIVING LABS IVZW (ENoLL) established in PLEINLAAN 9 1050 BRUSSEL, Belgium, EUROPEAN REGIONS RESEARCH AND INNOVATION NETWORK (ERRIN) established in RUE DE LUXEMBOURG 3, BRUXELLES 1000, Belgium and LGI SUSTAINABLE INNOVATION established in 6 CITE DE L'AMEUBLEMENT, PARIS, France and represented by Trust-IT Services srl, with registered offices in via Francesco Redi, 10, 56124 Pisa (IT) – VAT no. and Fiscal Code IT01870130505, are committed to protecting the online privacy of the users of this website (“Website”).
As such, this Privacy Policy has been written in order to allow you to SOILL-Startup Joint Controllers’s policy regarding your privacy, as well as how your personal information will be handled when using the Website. This Privacy Policy will also provide you with information so that you are able to consent to the processing of your personal data in an explicit and informed manner, where appropriate.
In general, any information and data which you provide to SOILL-Startup Joint Controllers over the Website, or which is otherwise gathered via the Website by SOILL-Startup Joint Controllers in the context of the use of Website’s services (“Services”) as better defined in Section 3 below, will be processed by SOILL-Startup Joint Controllers in a lawful, fair and transparent manner. To this end, and as further described below, SOILL-Startup Joint Controllers take into consideration internationally recognised principles governing the processing of personal data, such as purpose limitation, storage limitation, data minimisation, data quality and confidentiality.
1. Data controller
SOILL-Startup Joint Controllers, as identified at the top of this Privacy Policy, are the data controllers regarding all personal data processing carried out through the Website. You can contact SOILL-Startup Joint Controllers with any questions related to this Privacy Policy or the SOILL-Startup Joint Controllers’s personal data processing practices by sending a written communication to info@soill2030.eu, or via the contact forms available on the Website.
2. Personal Data processed
When you use the Website, SOILL-Startup Joint Controllers will collect and process information regarding you (as an individual) which allows you to be identified either by itself, or together with other information which has been collected. The SOILL-Startup Joint Controllers may also be able to collect and process information regarding other persons in this same manner, if you choose to provide it to SOILL-Startup Joint Controllers, also via the Website.
Data Subjects should refrain from providing the personal data of other data subjects and if they decide to provide such information, they are fully responsible for any claims or damages that may arise as a result of the provision of such information and they fully indemnify SOILL-Startup Joint Controllers against any liability.
This information may be classified as “Personal Data” and can be collected by SOILL-Startup Joint Controllers when you choose to provide it (e.g., when you subscribe to the newsletter or request other Services provided by SOILL-Startup Joint Controllers over the Website) via the Website.
Personal Data which can be processed by SOILL-Startup Joint Controllers through the Website are as follows:
a. Name, contact details and other Personal Data
In various areas of the Website – including, in particular, if you decide to create an account on the Website – you will be asked to submit information about yourself, such as your name, e-mail address (in order to identify the registered users), professional title, organisation name/type, primary (and secondary) domain of work/expertise, city/country of residence, gender (in order to collect statistical information on users to be provided to the EC for monitoring project performances) . Mandatory fields will be marked as such in the online registration forms – it is not possible to process your registration if any of the mandatory fields are left incomplete.
In addition, whenever you communicate with SOILL-Startup Joint Controllers by submitting a general enquiry or a support ticket via the Website, as well as whenever you participate in surveys which may be available on the Website, SOILL-Startup Joint Controllers may collect additional information which you choose to provide.
Regarding any applications received in order to use the Match-making and Self-Assessment tools, SOILL-Startup Joint Controllers may assess the professional social media accounts (e.g. LinkedIn, Twitter) or professional websites of candidates, where publicly available or disclosed by the candidate, as necessary to gain insight as to a candidate’s suitability for the position/function to which the candidate applied.
When signing up for an event via the Website (such as a workshop organised or promoted by the Website), you will also be asked to provide details such as your name, your Twitter handle, the dates on which you will be attending and other information of relevance for the management of your attendance.
b. Special categories of Personal Data
When signing up for an event via the Website (such as a workshop organised or promoted by the Website), you will also be asked whether you have any special dietary/access requirements which might need accommodation. These Personal Data may potentially qualify as “health data” or “data revealing your religious/philosophical beliefs”, which are special categories of personal data under Art. 9 GDPR, and will be processed only with your explicit consent.
Certain areas of the Website, for example Forum and Collaborative Space, may include free text fields, where you can write messages to SOILL-Startup Joint Controllers or otherwise allow you to post various types of content on the Website, which may contain Personal Data. Where these fields are completely free, you may use them to disclose (inadvertently or not) more sensitive categories of Personal Data, such as data revealing your racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership. The content you upload in these fields may also (inadvertently or not) include other types of sensitive information relating to you, such as your genetic data, biometric data or data concerning your health, sex life or sexual orientation.
SOILL-Startup Joint Controllers ask that you do not disclose any sensitive Personal Data on the Website, unless you consider this to be strictly necessary. As it is totally optional to provide this information, if you nonetheless choose to do so, please mind that SOILL-Startup Joint Controllers require your explicit consent to process this sort of Personal Data (which can be provided, e.g., by declaring that you “explicitly consent to the processing of my special categories of personal data for the purpose of assessing my profile”).
c. Other persons’ Personal Data
As mentioned in the previous section, certain areas of the Website include free text fields where you can write messages to SOILL-Startup Joint Controllers, or otherwise allow you to post various types of content on the Website. These messages and content may (inadvertently or not) include Personal Data related to other persons.
In any situation where you decide to share Personal Data related to other persons, you will be considered as an independent data controller regarding that Personal Data and must assume all inherent legal obligations and responsibilities. This means, among other things, that you must fully indemnify SOILL-Startup Joint Controllers against any complaints, claims or demands for compensation for damages which may arise from the processing of this Personal Data, brought by the third parties whose information you provide through the Website.
As SOILL-Startup Joint Controllers do not collect this information directly from these third parties (but rather collects them, indirectly, from you), you must make sure that you have these third parties’ consent before providing any information regarding them to SOILL-Startup Joint Controllers; if not, then you must make sure there is some other appropriate grounds on which you can rely to lawfully give SOILL-Startup Joint Controllers this information.
d. Browsing data
The Website’s operation, as is standard with any websites on the Internet, involves the use of computer systems and software procedures, which collect information about the Website’s users as part of their routine operation. While SOILL-Startup Joint Controllers do not collect this information in order to link it to specific users, it is still possible to identify those users either directly via that information, or by using other information collected – as such, this information must also be considered Personal Data.
This information includes several parameters related to your operating system and IT environment, including your IP address, location (country), the domain names of your device, the type of device, the URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) addresses of resources you request on the Website, the time of requests made, the method used to submit requests to the server, the dimensions of the file obtained in response to a request, the numerical code indicating the status of the response sent by the server (successful, error, etc.), and so on.
These data are used to compile statistical information on the use of the Website, to ensure its correct operation, as well as restore backup from possible failures of the Website and identify any faults and/or abuse of the Website. Save for this last purpose, these data are not kept for more than 60 business days.
e. Cookies
- Definitions, characteristics, and application of standards
Cookies are small text files that may be sent to and registered on your computer by the websites you visit, to then be re-sent to those same sites when you visit them again. It is thanks to these cookies that those websites can “remember” your actions and preferences (e.g., login data, language, font size, other display settings, etc.), so that you do not need to configure them again when you next visit the website, or when you change pages within a website.
Cookies are used for electronic authentication, monitoring of sessions and storage of information regarding your activities when accessing a website. They may also contain a unique ID code which allows tracking of your browsing activities within a website, for statistical or advertising purposes. Some operations within a website may not be able to be performed without the use of cookies which, in certain cases, are technically necessary for operation of the website.
When browsing a website, you may also receive cookies from websites or web servers other than the website being visited (i.e., “ third-party cookies”).
There are various types of cookies, depending on their characteristics and functions, which may be stored on your computer for different periods of time: “session cookies”, which are automatically deleted when you close your browser, and “persistent cookies”, which will remain on your device until their pre-set expiration period passes.
According to the law which may be applicable to you, your consent may not always be necessary for cookies to be used on a website. In particular, “ technical cookies” – i.e. cookies which are only used to send messages through an electronic communications network, or which are needed to provide services you request – typically do not require this consent. This includes browsing or session cookies (used to allow users to login) and function cookies (used to remember choices made by a user when accessing the website, such as language or products selected for purchase).
- Types of cookies used by the Website
The Website uses the following types of cookies:
- Browsing or session cookies, which are strictly necessary for the Website’s operation, and/or to allow you to use the Website’s content and Services.
- Analytics cookies , which allow The SOILL-Startup Joint Controllers to understand how users make use of the Website, and to track traffic to and from the Website.
SOILL-Startup Joint Controllers also use third-party cookies – i.e.cookies from websites / web servers other than the Website, owned by thirdparties. These third parties will either act as independent datacontrollers from SOILL-Startup Joint Controllers regarding their own cookies (using the datathey collect for their own purposes and under terms defined by them) or as data processors for SOILL-Startup Joint Controllers (processing personal data on SOILL-Startup Joint Controllers’s behalf).
For further information on how these third parties may use your information, please refer to their privacy policies:
Instagram
LinkedIn
Twitter
Youtube
The list of installed cookies is available in the Cookie Policy on the Website
- Cookie settings
Cookies are manually managed the first time you visit the website via a dedicated form. In any time, registered users can block or delete cookies used on the Website via this form, available under “My Account” section, or via your browser options. Your cookie preferences will be reset if different browsers are used to access the Website.. For more information on how to set the preferences for cookies via your browser, please refer to the following instructions:
You may also provide set your preferences on third-party cookies by using online platforms such as AdChoice.
CAUTION If you block or delete technical and/or function cookies used by the Website, the Website may become impossible to browse, certain services or functions of the Website may become unavailable or other malfunctions may occur. In this case, you may have to modify or manually enter some information or preferences every time you visit the Website.
3. Purposes of processing
SOILL-Startup Joint Controllers intend to use your Personal Data, collected through the Website, for the following purposes:
- To allow you to create and maintain a registered user profile on the Website, to allow you to participate in different areas over the Website and exchange information/documents with other participants, to verify your identity and assist you, in case you lose or forget your login / password details for any of the Website’s registration services, to send you informative newsletters and other communications (linked to the collaborative areas which you participate in), to respond to your enquiries and requests for support, and to provide any other Services which you may request (“ Service Provision”);
- To process your sign-up/registration forms for events and webinars hosted or supported by the Website, process your payment details for associated fees, track event attendance and publish attendee lists online (“Events/Webinars”);
- To submit your profile in order to obtain information that classifies your activities and receive a self-assessment report “Match Making and Self Assessment Tools”).
- To access an area dedicated to discussion and document sharing (“Forum and Collaborative Space”).
- For compliance with laws which impose upon SOILL-Startup Joint Controllers the collection and/or further processing of certain kinds of Personal Data (“ Compliance”);
- For development and administration of the Website, in particular by use of anonymised data analytics regarding how users make use of the Website, to generate statistics and improve our offerings (“Analytics”) ) – Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR;
- To prevent and detect any misuse of the Website, or any fraudulent activities carried out through the Website, including by carrying out internal audits (“Misuse/Fraud”) ) – Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR.
4. Grounds for processing and mandatory / discretionary nature of processing
SOILL-Startup Joint Controllers’s legal bases to process your Personal Data, according to the purposes identified in Section 3 , are as follows:
1. Service Provision : processing for these purposes is necessary to provide the Services and, therefore, is necessary for the performance of a contract with you – Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR. It is not mandatory for you to give to SOILL-Startup Joint Controllers your Personal Data for these purposes; however, if you do not, SOILL-Startup Joint Controllers will not be able to provide any Services to you.
2. Events/Webinars:processing for these purposes is generally necessary to allow the SOILL-Startup Joint Controllers Team to respond to your request to sign up for an event/webinar and, therefore, is necessary for the performance of a contract with you – Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR.. It is not mandatory for you to give to SOILL-Startup Joint Controllers your Personal Data for these purposes; however, if you do not, SOILL-Startup Joint Controllers will not be able to process your registration for an event/webinar.
3. Match Making and Self Assessment Tools: processing for this purpose is needed in order for SOILL-Startup Joint Controllers to be able to consider your rofile and, therefore, is necessary to take steps at your request– Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR. It is not mandatory for you to give to SOILL-Startup Joint Controllers your Personal Data for these purposes; however, if you do not, SOILL-Startup Joint Controllers will not be able to consider your applications.
4. Compliance: processing for this purpose is necessary for SOILL-Startup Joint Controllers to comply with its legal obligations – Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR. When you provide any Personal Data to SOILL-Startup Joint Controllers, SOILL-Startup Joint Controllers must process it in accordance with the laws applicable to it, which may include retaining and reporting your Personal Data to official authorities for compliance with tax, customs or other legal obligations.
5. Analytics:Information collected for this purpose is used to allow SOILL-Startup Joint Controllers to understand how users interact with the Website and to improve the Website accordingly, with the aim to providing a better user experience – Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. Data are collected in anonymous way and no Personal data is transferred to the service provider Google Analytics
6. Misuse/Fraud: Information collected for this purpose is used exclusively to prevent and detect fraudulent activities or misuse of the Website (for potentially criminal purposes) – Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR.
5. Recipients of Personal Data – Data Processors
Your Personal Data may be shared with the following list of entities (“ Data Processors”); the following entities are engaged in order to provide or support the Website and Services (e.g., hosting providers, e-mail platform providers, technical maintenance providers Website administrators and Website user administrators):
- CLIMATE-KIC HOLDING BV (CKIC) established in PLANTAGE MIDDENLAAN 45, AMSTERDAM 1018 DC, Netherlands
- AARHUS UNIVERSITET (AU) established in NORDRE RINGGADE 1,AARHUS C 8000, Denmark
- EUROPEAN FOOD INFORMATION COUNCIL (EUFIC) established in RUE BELLIARD 2A, BRUXELLES 1040, Belgium
- CENTRO INTERNAZIONALE DI ALTISTUDI AGRONOMICI MEDITERRANEI (CIHEAM Bari) established in VIA CEGLIE 9, VALENZANO 70010, Italy
- OKOLOGIAI MEZOGAZDASAGI KUTATOINTEZET KOZHASZNU NONPROFIT KFT (OMKI) established in MELCZER UTCA 47, BUDAPEST 1174, Hungary
- "ASOCIACION DE INDUSTRIAS DE CONOCIMIENTO Y TECNOLOGIA - GAIA -
- EUSKALHERRIKO EZAGUTZA ETA TEKNOLOGIA INDUSTRIEN ELKARTEA (GAIA) established in PORTUETXE BIDEA, N14, EDIFICIO IBAETA, PLANTA 1ª, SAN SEBASTIAN 20018, Spain"
- EIGEN VERMOGEN VAN HET INSTITUUT VOOR LANDBOUW- EN VISSERIJONDERZOEK (EVILVO) established in BURG. VAN GANSBERGHELAAN 92 BUS 1, MERELBEKE 9820, Belgium
- EIT FOOD (EIT Food) established in UBICENTER A PHILIPSSITE 5 BOX 34, HEVERLEE 3001, Belgium
- EUROPEAN LANDOWNERS ORGANIZATION (ELO) established in RUE DE TREVES 67, BRUXELLES 1040, Belgium
- INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF ORGANIC AGRICULTURE MOVEMENTS EUROPEAN UNION REGIONAL GROUP (IFOAM) established in SUNNERSBERG HOG 1, LIDKOPING 531 98, Sweden
- EUROPEAN ENVIRONMENTAL BUREAU (EEB) established in RUE DES DEUX EGLISES 14-16, BRUXELLES 1000, Belgium
- EUROPEAN FOREST INSTITUTE (EFI) established in YLIOPISTOKATU 6 B, JOENSUU 80100, Finland
- WATER EUROPE (WE) established in BOULEVARD A. REYERS 80, BRUXELLES 1030, Belgium
- ASSOCIATION OF CITIES AND REGIONS FOR SUSTAINABLE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT (ACR+) established in AVENUE DES ARTS 3-4-5, BRUXELLES 1210, Belgium
- FIBL EUROPE - FORSCHUNGSINSTITUTFUR BIOLOGISCHEN LANDBAU IN EUROPA (FIBL EUROPE) established in RUE DE LA PRESSE 4, BRUSSELS 1000, Belgium
- BIOSENSE INSTITUTE - RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES IN BIOSYSTEMS (BIOSENSE) established in DR ZORANA DINDICA STREET 1, NOVI SAD 21000, Serbia
- KRAKOWSKI PARK TECHNOLOGICZNY SP ZOO (KTP) established in UL. PODOLE 60, KRAKOW 30 394, Poland
- ARISTOTELIO PANEPISTIMIO THESSALONIKIS (AUTH) established in KEDEA BUILDING, TRITIS SEPTEMVRIOU, ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY CAMPUS, THESSALONIKI 546 36, Greece
- GEMEENTE EINDHOVEN (EINDH) established in STADHUISPLEIN 10, EINDHOVEN 5600 RB, Netherlands
- STICHTING DELTARES (DELTARES) established in BOUSSINESQWEG 1, DELFT 2629 HV, Netherlands
- CONSIGLIO PER LA RICERCA IN AGRICOLTURA E L'ANALISI DELL'ECONOMIA AGRARIA (CREA) established in via della navicella 2-4, ROMA 00184, Italy
- FUNDACION INSTITUTO INTERNACIONAL DE INVESTIGACION EN INTELIGENCIA ARTIFICIAL Y CIENCIAS DE LA COMPUTACION (AIR), PIC 904614338, established in PAZA DEL AYUNTAMIENTO 1, CARBAJOSA DE LA SAGRADA 37188, Spain
- Google Ireland Limited; Gordon House Barrow Street, Dublin 4 DUBLIN, D04 E5W5 Ireland, managing the Google Analytics service for European based website.
- Zoom Video Communications, Inc., 55 Almaden Blvd, Suite 600, San Jose, CA 95113, managing webinar service, with Personal Data Residency in Europe.
- Brevo, 106 boulevard Haussmann, 75008 Paris, France, managing the newsletter service
6. Other Recipients of Personal Data
Your Personal Data may be shared with the following list of persons / entities (“Recipients”):
- Persons, companies or professional firms providing SOILL-Startup Joint Controllers with advice and consultancy regarding accounting, administrative, legal, tax, financial and debt collection matters related to the provision of the Services and which act typically as data processors on behalf of SOILL-Startup Joint Controllers;
- Persons authorised by SOILL-Startup Joint Controllers to process Personal Data needed to carry out activities strictly related to the provision of the Services, who have undertaken an obligation of confidentiality or are subject to an appropriate legal obligation of confidentiality (e.g., members of the team operating the Website, and other functions with access to Personal Data processed via the Website);
- Public entities, bodies or authorities to whom your Personal Data may be disclosed, in accordance with the applicable law or binding orders of those entities, bodies or authorities.
More information on these transfers is available upon written request to the Website Managing Team at the following address: info@soill2030.eu.
7. Retention of Personal Data
Personal Data processed for Service Provision,Events/Webinars, Match Making and Self Assessment Tools and Forum and collaborative Space will be kept by SOILL-Startup Joint Controllers for the period deemed strictly necessary to fulfil such purposes – in any case, as these Personal Data are processed for the provision of the Services, SOILL-Startup Joint Controllers may continue to store this Personal Data for a longer period, as may be necessary to protect SOILL-Startup Joint Controllers’s interests related to potential liability related to the provision of the Services
Personal Data processed for Compliance will be kept by SOILL-Startup Joint Controllers for the period required by the specific legal obligation or by the applicable law.
Personal Data processed for preventing Misuse/Fraud will be kept by SOILL-Startup Joint Controllers for as long as deemed strictly necessary to fulfil the purposes for which it was collected.
More information on applicable retention periods is available upon written request to the Website Managing Team at the following address: info@soill2030.eu.
8. Data subjects’ rights
As a data subject, you are entitled to exercise the following rights before SOILL-Startup Joint Controllers, at any time:
1. Access your Personal Data being processed by SOILL-Startup Joint Controllers (and/or a copy of that Personal Data), as well as information on the processing of your Personal Data;
2. Correct or update your Personal Data processed by SOILL-Startup Joint Controllers, where it may be inaccurate or incomplete;
3. Request erasure of your Personal Data being prcessed by SOILL-Startup Joint Controllers, where you feel that the processing is unnecessary or otherwise unlawful;
4. Request the restriction of the processing of your Personal Data, where you feel that the Personal Data processed is inaccurate, unnecessary or unlawfully processed, or where you have objected to the processing;
5. Exercise your right to portability: the right to obtain a copy of your Personal Data provided to SOILL-Startup Joint Controllers, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, as well as the transmission of that Personal Data to another data controller;
6. Object to the processing of your Personal Data, based on relevant grounds related to your particular situation, which you believe must prevent SOILL-Startup Joint Controllers from processing your Personal Data; or
Aside from the above means, you can always exercise your rights described above by sending a written request to the Website Managing Team at the following address: info@soill2030.eu.
In any case, please note that, as a data subject, you are entitled to file a complaint with the competent supervisory authorities for the protection of Personal Data, if you believe that the processing of your Personal Data carried out through the Website is unlawful.
9. Amendments
This Privacy Policy entered into force on 27/03/2024
SOILL-Startup Joint Controllers reserve the right to partly or fully amend this Privacy Policy, or simply to update its content, e.g., as a result of changes in applicable law. The Website Managing Team will inform you of such changes as soon as they are introduced, and they will be binding as soon as they are published on the Website. The Website Managing Team therefore invites you to regularly visit this Privacy Policy in order to acquaint yourself with the latest, updated version of the Privacy Policy, so that you may remain constantly informed on how SOILL-Startup Joint Controllers collect and uses Personal Data.