Disclaimer

The opinions and views expressed in this website are those of the authors, i.e. the e-nvision consortium, and do not necessarily reflect the official European Commission’s view on the subject and under no circumstances should they be taken as EC official view.

However, the e-nvision consortium accepts no responsibility or liability whatsoever with regard to the material on this site. This material is:

• Information of a general nature and information related with the e-nvision project
• Not necessarily comprehensive, complete, accurate or up to date
• Sometimes linked to external sites over which the e-nvision consortium has no control and for which the e-nvision consortium assumes no responsibility
• Not professional or legal advice

It is our goal to minimise disruption caused by technical errors. However some data or information on our site may have been created or structured in files or formats that are not error-free and we cannot guarantee that our service will not be interrupted or otherwise affected by such problems. The e-nvision consortium accepts no responsibility with regard to such problems, or the consequences thereof, incurred as a result of using this site or any linked external sites.

Privacy Policy

Thank you for visiting the e-nvision Website. The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to inform users of the e-nvision Website about what information might be collected about them when they visit this site, how this information is used, if it is disclosed, and the ways in which we protect users' privacy.

1. Personal Data Protection Policy

The e-nvision project consortium is committed to user privacy and recognizes your need for appropriate protection and management of any personally identifiable information ("Personal Information") you share with us.

To better protect your privacy, we provide this notice explaining our on-line information practices and the choices you can make about the way your Personal Information is collected and used by the e-nvision project consortium.

Personal Information means any information that may be used to identify an individual, including, but not limited to, a first and last name, a home or other physical address and an email address or other contact information, whether at work or at home. You can browse freely through most of the e-nvision Website without giving any information about yourself. However, in some cases, personal information may be required in order to enable us to provide the documentation or information you request. In such cases, this Personal Information is treated according to the e-nvision Privacy Policy. Please note that we collect no personal information about you when you visit our Web site unless you choose to provide that information to us.

If you choose to provide us with your Personal Information on the Web, we may transfer that Information within the e-nvision project consortium’s partners, across borders, and from your country or jurisdiction to other countries or jurisdictions around the world.

The e-nvision project consortium strives to comply with all applicable laws around the globe that are designed to protect your privacy. Although legal requirements may vary from country to country, the consortium intends to adhere to the principles set forth in this Privacy Policy even if, in connection with the above, we transfer your Personal Information from your country to countries that may not require an "adequate" level of protection for your Personal Information. In other words, our goal is to provide protection for your Personal Information no matter where that Personal Information is collected, transferred, or retained.

2. Data Protection by Third-party Sites

Some e-nvision Web pages contain links to other sites whose information practices may be different to those of the e-nvision consortium. The e-nvision consortium is not responsible for the privacy practices within any of these other sites. You should be aware of this when you leave the e-nvision site and we encourage you to read the privacy statements on other Web sites you visit, as we have no control over information that is submitted to, or collected by, these third parties.

3. Tracking Technologies

Some of our Web pages utilize tracking technologies. Tracking technologies may record information such as Internet domain and host names; Internet protocol (IP) addresses; browser software and operating system types; clickstream patterns; and dates and times that our site is accessed. Our use of tracking technologies allows us to improve our Web site and your Web experience. We may also analyze information that does not contain Personal Information for trends and statistics.

To protect your privacy, we have adopted the following principles:

• Notice
• Choice
• Security

3.1 Notice

Where the e-nvision project consortium collects Personal Information on the web, we intend to post a purpose statement that explains why Personal Information will be collected and whether we plan to share such Personal Information outside of the consortium’s partners or those working on the consortium's behalf. The e-nvision project consortium does not intend to transfer Personal Information without your consent to third parties who are not bound to act on the consortium's behalf unless such transfer is legally required.

3.2 Choice

You may choose whether or not to provide Personal Information to the e-nvision project consortium. The notice we intend to provide where the consortium collects Personal Information on the Web should help you to make this choice. If you choose not to provide the Personal Information we request, you can still visit most of the e-nvision project's Web sites, but you may be unable to access certain options, documents and services.

3.3 Security

Wherever your Personal Information may be held within the e-nvision project consortium or on its behalf, we intend to take reasonable and appropriate steps to protect the Personal Information that you share with us from unauthorized access or disclosure.

4. The information we collect from visitors to e-nvision Website

4.1 Log files

Log files allow us to record visitors' use of the site. The e-nvision consortium puts together log file information from all our visitors, which we use to improve our understanding of user needs and patterns of behaviour, and to make improvements to the layout of the site and to the information in it, based on the way that visitors move around it. Log files do not contain any personal information about you. We automatically collect non-personal information such as:

• The type and version of the operating system of your computer (e.g. MS Windows 2000).
• The type and version of the browser (e.g. Internet Explorer 6) used to access the e-nvision Website.
• The Internet domain (for example, "xcompany.com" if you use a private Internet access account, or "yourschool.edu" if you connect from a university's domain).
• The IP address from which you access the e-nvision Website. (NB: an IP address is a number that is assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the Web - it may be always the same or different each time, depending on how your Web access is configured.)
• The date and time you access the e-nvision Website.
• The pages you visit.
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• If you linked to the e-nvision Website from another Web site, the address of that Web site.
• If you follow a link from the e-nvision Website to another Web site, the address of that Web site.
• Etc.

4.2 User registration

Any visitor to the e-nvision Website may voluntarily register their details if they wish to. In some cases, the e-nvision Website requires users to register in order to gain access to certain e-nvision pages or documents, for example to download the project’s public deliverables. The types of personally identifiable information that may be collected on registration include: first name, last name, company and e-mail.

5. e-nvision mailing actions

The e-nvision project consortium respects the principles of privacy in electronic communications.

All mailings, including those to registered subscribers, will contain an opt-out option. The exercise of this option will be as simple as is practicable, and will be immediately, globally, and permanently effective for that e-mail address. It is a 'positive' opt-out in that the address is stored in an opt-out list against which all newly acquired addresses are checked and any matches removed.

Where an electronic communication is sent to a recipient who has not had a previous relationship with e-nvision, it will make a specific request to obtain the permission of that recipient for further communications. If a negative reply is received the same principles will apply as if the recipient had unsubscribed.

5.1 Reasonableness of communication

e-nvision will always use its best endeavours to ensure that:

• Message content is inoffensive.
• Communication to any one recipient is not undertaken more frequently than is reasonable.
• Mailings will always contain selected content that may be of interest to all users.

5.2 Message format

By default all messages will be plain text or html format. All messages will:

• Identify the sender.
• Identify the source of the recipient's e-mail address including a special message if this is the first contact.
• Make clear the purpose and draw attention to the opt-out facility.
• Contain the message content.
• Have a simple effective unsubscribe/update your profile option or contain a mailing permission request in the case of a first contact.
• Contain references to this privacy notice and any other relevant administrative information.

5.3 Mailing delivery

In order to avoid unnecessary Internet traffic, and wastage of server resources, all mailing addresses will be checked for integrity and validity. All non-working addresses will be de-activated.

All sources will be checked against the central database and de-duplicated such that users do not receive multiple mailings if an identical address is obtained from more than one source.

The frequency of mailings is determined by the availability of data and speed is in some cases of the essence in getting information to subscribers in a timely fashion.

e-nvision cannot avoid sending bulk mail in response to its users' subscriptions. However, each e-mail is a customised collection of information for an individual subscriber and so is sent separately and never as a bulk addressed single e-mail.

6. How You Can Access Or Correct Information

You have the right to request a copy of your personal details at any time to check the accuracy of the information held, and/or to correct or update this information. You may also delete your personal information completely - this will mean that you will also terminate all access rights that may be linked to this information.

To protect your privacy and security, we will take reasonable steps to help verify your identity before granting access or making corrections.

If you wish to access or correct your personal information, please contact:

Iñaki Angulo
Tel: +34 94 607 33 00
Fax: +34 94 607 33 49
Email: angulo@labein.es

7. Your Consent

By using this Web site, you consent to the terms of the e-nvision Privacy Policy and to the e-nvision consortium's processing of Personal Information for the purposes given above as well as those explained where the consortium collects Personal Information on the Web.

8. Changes to this Privacy Policy

Should the e-nvision Privacy Policy change, we intend to take every reasonable step to ensure that these changes are brought to your attention by posting all changes prominently on our web site for a reasonable period of time.

If you have any comments or questions regarding the e-nvision Privacy Policy, please contact us at angulo@labein.es. While we cannot guarantee privacy perfection, we will address any issue to the best of our abilities as soon as possible.