Privacy Policy page for the SocioCoast online platform.
Last updated: January 19, 2023
This is the privacy policy of the SocioCoast, and you will find all relevant information that applies to the use of your personal data.
Questions or concerns?
Reading this privacy policy will help you understand your privacy rights and choices. We encourage you to read our full Privacy Policy in order to understand in which ways we will use your personal data.
If you still have any questions or concerns, please contact us at sociocoast2021@gmail.com.
You may also contact the Data Protection Officer of the University of Cyprus at dpo@ucy.ac.cy.
Definitions
For the purposes of this privacy policy:
- Account means a unique account for you to access our services or parts of our service.
- Country refers to: Cyprus, Greece.
- Device means any device that can access the service such as a computer, a mobile phone, or a digital tablet.
- Personal Data is any information that relates to an identifiable individual.
- Service refers to the application or the website or both.
- Usage Data refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the service or from the service infrastructure itself.
- Website refers to the site, accessible from [url]
Summary of key points
This summary provides key points from the privacy policy, but you can find out more details about any of these topics below.
Who we are
We are the SocioCoast project and we are jointly responsible for how we collect, process and protect your data.
What we use your data for
We will use your data to manage your registration as a user, to respond to your queries and for the features you use depending on how you interact with the platform.
Why we use your data
The main reason is that we need to process your data to perform the contract that you accept when you register and when you use any of our functionalities.
We also use your data that you provide to us in order to deliver and maintain our services, to respond to your queries, for legal and research purposes, and to understand how you use our Platform so that we can improve the user experience and provide higher quality services.
Who we share your data with
We do not share information with any third parties, and we do not process any sensitive personal information.
Your rights
You reserve the right to access, modify or delete your personal data at any time.
Collecting and Using your Personal Data
Personal Data
We collect personal information that you provide to us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. We do not process any sensitive information. The personal information we collect via the Knowledge Platform includes the following:
- First name and last name
- Email address
- Username
- Profile picture (not required)
Usage Data
Usage data is collected automatically when you use the service and may include information such as your device’s internet protocol address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our service that you visit, the time and the date of your visit and the unique device identifiers.
Information collected while using the mobile application
When you access the service through a mobile device, in order to provide features of our application we may collect with your prior permission:
- Your current location.
- Pictures that you select to upload from your device’s camera and photo library.
- Push notifications activation.
We use this information to provide, improve and customize our service. This information may be uploaded to our servers. You can enable or disable access to this information at any time, through your device settings.
Use of your personal data
We process your information to provide, improve our facilities and to communicate with you for the following purposes:
- To provide and maintain our service, including to monitor the usage of our service.
- To manage your account: to manage your registration in order to facilitate account creation and authentication. The personal data you provide us can give you access to different functionalities of the services that are available to registered users.
- To contact you: to contact you by email related to functionalities and contracted services, including the security updates when necessary.
- To manage your request: to attend and manage your request to us.
We may share your personal information in the following situations:
- With other users: when you share your observations, they may be viewed by all users, and may be publicly distributed outside. By sharing your observations, you give your consent to this.
Retention of your personal data
Your personal data will be retained only for as long as is necessary for the purpose of this Privacy Policy and while you are a user of our services. We will retain and use your personal data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations and for reasons of public interest (for example public health, statistical research purposes). When the data is crucial for public health or environmental purposes the data will be stored in a separate system for future availability. User's data will be fully anonymized.
Sharing of your personal data
We do not share or transfer your information to third parties.
Security of your personal data
We aim to protect your personal information through a system of organization and technical security measures as the security of your personal data is important to us. We take all the necessary steps to ensure that your data is treated in a secure manner and in accordance with this privacy policy and no transfer of your personal data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data. In this case you will be notified in advance.
Privacy rights
We undertake to keep your personal data confidential and to ensure that you may exercise your rights. If you have given us your consent to process your data for any purpose, you also have the right to withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us by using the contact details provided.
When we are legally permitted to process your data due to your consent, you will also have the right to request the portability of your personal data. This means that you will have the right to receive the personal data that you made available to us in a structured format.
Account Information:
If you would at any time like to review or change the information in your account or terminate your account, you can:
- Log in to your account settings and update your user account.
- Contact us using the contact information provided.
Upon your request to terminate your account, we will deactivate or delete your account and information from our active databases.
Please note, however, that we may need to retain certain information when we have a legal obligation to do so, and user's data will be fully anonymized.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update this privacy policy from time to time. If we make material changes to this privacy policy, we will notify you either by posting a notice of such changes or directly by sending you a notification. We encourage you to review this privacy notice frequently to be informed of how we are protecting your information.
Contact Us
If you have questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, you can contact us: