Privacy & Cookie Policy

Privacy Policy and Data Notice on Processing of Personal Data

5GZORRO Consortium, together with our partner(s), respect the privacy of every individual who visits our website and/or uses any of our digital platforms.

This Privacy Policy applies to personal data that:

• is provided to us when you use 5gzorro.eu;
• we collect from you when you visit any of 5GZORRO digital platforms and we obtain from any communications with you.

The following sections of this Privacy Policy describe the types of personal data we collect, how and for what purposes we use that personal data and the choices and rights available to you regarding our use of your personal data. We also describe the measures we take to protect the security of the personal data we hold and how to contact us about our privacy practices, and to exercise your rights.

1. Data Controller

5GZORRO is a project with grant agreement no. 871533, that has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program. 5GZORRO Consortium is composed by 13 partners in 7 Eu countries.

The data controller is Fundació Privada i2CAT, Internet i Innovació Digital a Catalunya” (hereinafter, i2CAT Foundation), with VAT-Number ESG63262570, located in C/ Gran Capità, 2-4 Edifici Nexus I, 2ª planta 08034 Barcelona, Tel. (+34) 93 553 25 10 and Email: [email protected].

i2CAT Foundation is a non-profit research and innovation centre which promotes mission-oriented R+D+i activities on advanced Internet architectures, applications, and services. The centre stands up for a new open innovation framework, fostering the collaboration between companies, public administration, the academic environment, and end-users.

The data controller makes use of data processors to achieve the purposes specified in point 2.

2. Personal data we collect

2.1 Personal data you provide on a voluntary basis

We will collect, store, and process information about you if you voluntarily provide us with such information in connection with the following purposes:

• filling in a form in our website;
• filling in a physical registration card;
• opting in to receive marketing information with us;
• contacting us by face to face (e.g. in an event, even virtual);
• sending us a letter, e-mail, or social media message;
• subscribing to receive a service from us (e.g. a newsletter, blog, or by following us on social media);
• participating in a survey, competition, or prize draw;
• sharing content with us (e.g. for display on a 5GZORRO blog).

The types of information we may obtain include:

• first name, last name and e-mail;
• comments and opinions about our activities, news, initiatives, and information.

2.2 ‘Special category’ personal data

We do not collect data which is, by its nature, particularly sensitive (e.g. data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, sex life, sexual orientation, religion or other beliefs, data concerning health) unless it is volunteered by you.

2.3 Personal data we collect automatically

When you visit 5GZORRO website or digital platforms related, we may also collect certain data through the use of “cookies” and other automated means. Cookies are small pieces of data that are stored by your browser on your computer’s hard drive. Such data may comprise the following data:

• date and time;
• originating IP address;
• domain name;
• type of browser and operating system used (if provided by the browser);
• URL of the referring page (if provided by the browser);
• object requested;
• completion status of the request;
• geographic location; or
• language preferences.

To learn more about cookies, how they are used and how to exercise your choice with respect to their collection of information on this site, please visit Privacy and Cookies policy section in our website.

Please note that the 5GZORRO website (www.5gzorro.eu) uses YouTube API Services, in relation to the videos we showcase. By using the 5GZORRO website, you agree to be bound by the YouTube Terms of Service applicable to the YouTube API Services. A copy of those YouTube Terms of Service is available at https://www.youtube.com/t/terms

3. Sharing personal data

We do not sell, otherwise disclose, data we collect and hold about you. We share your data with COMUNICARE DIGITALE – ASSOCIAZIONE DI PROMOZIONE SOCIALE (APS), partner of 5GZORRO project, with VAT-Number 019 9264 0464, located in Via Guidiccioni, 188 – 55100 Lucca (LU) Italy and Email: [email protected]

4. Your rights

We will only send you consortium communications if you “opted in” to receiving such communications. You have the right to “opt out” of receiving 5GZORRO communications, whether by email [[email protected]], or otherwise, at any time. You can do this by (i) clicking the unsubscribe link displayed in any of the e-mails you receive, (ii) writing to us using the form available in the Contact us section in www.5gzorro.eu.

If you are a “data subject” (https://eugdprcompliant.com/what-is-data-subject/) under applicable data protection law in the EU, you will have the following rights in relation to personal data that we hold about you:

• Right to Access – to request confirmation of whether we process personal data relating to you, and if so, to request a copy of that personal data.
• Right to Rectification – to request that we rectify or update any personal data that is inaccurate, incomplete, or outdated.
• Right to Erasure – to request that we erase your personal data in certain circumstances, such as where we collected personal data based on your consent, and you withdraw your consent.
• Right to Restriction of Processing – to request that we restrict the use of your personal data in certain circumstances, such as while we consider another request that you have submitted; for example a request that we update your personal data.
• Right to Withdraw Consent – where you have given us consent to process your personal data, to withdraw your consent; and
• Right to Data Portability – to request that we provide a copy of your personal data to you in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format in certain circumstances.

To exercise your rights as set out above or to make a complaint or submit an inquiry about our privacy practices, please send us an email to [email protected], including a copy of a valid proof of identity. I2CAT may request additional information necessary to confirm User’s identity. I2CAT may reject requests that are unreasonably repetitive, excessive, or manifestly unfounded.

To help protect your privacy and maintain security, we may take steps to verify your identity before we can action your request.

5. Data transfers

We may transfer to, and store the data we collect about you in, countries other than the country in which the data was originally collected, including the United States or other destinations outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”). Those countries may not have the same data protection laws as the country in which you provided the data. When we transfer your data to other countries, we will protect the data as described in this Privacy Policy and comply with applicable legal requirements providing adequate protection for the transfer of data to countries outside the EEA.

We have put in place appropriate safeguards in respect of the transfer, for example we have entered EU standard contractual clauses with the recipient or server or digital party to binding corporate and privacy rules.

6. How we protect your personal data

We maintain technical and physical safeguards designed to protect the personal data you provide against accidental, unlawful, or unauthorized destruction, loss, alteration, access, disclosure, or use. Service providers and contractors who might have access to your data in order to provide services on our behalf will be contractually obliged to keep such data in confidence, provide adequate data security measures, and may not use that data for any other purpose.

For your own protection, we encourage you, not to include sensitive personal data or similar personal data in any communication, message, or e-mails you send us.

7. How long we keep personal data for

5GZORRO only retains your personal data for the Eu project period of activities and research confirmed by Horizon 2020.

8. Updates to our Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy may be updated periodically and without prior notice to you to reflect changes in our processing of your personal data and privacy practices. We will post a prominent notice on each of 5GZORRO’s websites to notify you of any significant changes to our Privacy Policy and indicate at the top of the Privacy Policy when it was most recently updated.

9. How to contact us

If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, the use of cookies, if you would like us to update personal data we have about you, or your preferences, or to exercise “your rights”, please email to us at [email protected]

LAST UPDATED: 25 JULY 2020

About cookie policy

This chapter explains what cookies are and how we use them. Please, read this policy to understand what cookies are, how we use them, the types of cookies we use i.e, the information we collect using cookies and how that information is used and how to control the cookie preferences. For further information on how we use, store and keep your personal data secure, see our Privacy Policy. You can at any time change or withdraw your consent from the Cookie Declaration on our website. Learn more about who we are, how you can contact us and how we process personal data in our Privacy Policy. Your consent applies to the following domains: www.5gzorro.eu

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How do we use cookies ?

As most of the online services, our website uses cookies first-party and third-party cookies for a number of purposes. The first-party cookies are mostly necessary for the website to function the right way, and they do not collect any of your personally identifiable data.

The third-party cookies used on our websites are used mainly for understanding how the website performs, how you interact with our website, keeping our services secure, providing advertisements that are relevant to you, and all in all providing you with a better and improved user experience and help speed up your future interactions with our website.

How can I control the cookie preferences ?

Should you decide to change your preferences later through your browsing session, you can click on the “Privacy & Cookie Policy” tab on your screen. This will display the consent notice again enabling you to change your preferences or withdraw your consent entirely.

In addition to this, different browsers provide different methods to block and delete cookies used by websites. You can change the settings of your browser to block/delete the cookies. To find out more out more on how to manage and delete cookies, visit wikipedia.org, www.allaboutcookies.org.