Privacy Policy

This Privacy policy describes our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal data when you answer the online Questionnaire and Accept to be part of the Nanoculture Database. Our Privacy Policy is managed by the Nanoculture Project.

INFORMATION COLLECTION AND USE

We collect different types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our Service to you.

Types of Data Collected

Personal Data
We may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you (“Personal Data”).
Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:
Email address
First name
Last name

Cookies and Usage Data
We use the Other Information that we collect to communicate with you through our newsletters

Usage Data
We may also collect information how the Service is accessed and used (“Usage Data”). This Usage Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

Tracking & Cookies Data
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity and hold certain information.
Cookies are files with a small amount of data, which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Other tracking technologies are also used such as beacons, tags and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our Service.
You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service.

Use of Data
Nanoculture uses the collected data for various purposes:
To provide and maintain the Database
To notify you about changes
To allow you to participate in interactive features when you choose to do so
To provide analysis or valuable information
To detect, prevent and address technical issues
To provide member care and support
To monitor the usage of Database
The collected information will be maintained in our records unless and until you ask us to delete this information.

Transfer of Data
Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction.
If you are located outside Portugal and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Data, to Portugal and process it there.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.
Nanoculture will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely 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 and other personal information.

DISCLOSURE OF DATA

Legal Requirements
Nanoculture may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:
To comply with a legal obligation
To protect and defend the rights or property of the Nanoculture Project
To prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
To protect the personal safety of users of the Service or the public
To protect against legal liability
As an European citizen, under GDPR, you have certain individual rights. You have the right to access personal information we hold about you and to ask that your personal information to be corrected, updated, or deleted. If you would like to exercise this right, please contact us through the contact information bellow.

Security of Data
The security of your data is important to us but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Service Providers
We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service (“Service Providers”), to provide the Service on our behalf, to perform Service-related services or to assist us in analyzing how our Service is used.
We share your Personal Information with third parties to help us use your Personal Information, as described above. For example, we use WordPress to power our website. You can read more about how WordPress uses your Personal Information here: https://wordpress.org/news/2018/05/wordpress-4-9-6-privacy-and-maintenance-release/.
We also use Google Analytics to help us understand how our users interact with the website. You can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here: www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Finally, we may also share your Personal Information with MailChimp to help us manage and send you our e-newsletters. You can read more about how MailChimp uses your Personal Information here: https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/

YOUR RIGHTS

If you are a European resident, you have the right to access personal information we hold about you and to ask your personal information to be corrected, updated, or deleted. If you would like to exercise this right, please contact us through the contact information below.

DATA RETENTION
We maintain your Information for our records unless and until you ask us to delete this information.

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons.
You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

CONTACT US
For more information about our privacy practices, if you have any questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us:
By email: info.nanoculture@ciimar.up.ptBy visiting our website: http://nanoculture.ciimar.up.pt/By postal mail: INL | International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory. Avda. Mestre José Veiga s/n, 4715-330 Braga | Portugal