Privacy policy

By using this website (https://www.marvel-project.eu/), you may disclose various pieces of information including those that are considered as personal data. This Privacy Policy provides a simple overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit this website as well as relevant information about your data protection rights.

This Privacy Policy is important to you to understand how your personal data is collected, used, or otherwise processed when you use this website. Please be aware that this Privacy Policy applies to your personal data processing on this website, and not to data processing that may occur on other websites or in other circumstances.  

About us and our role regarding your personal data processing

This website is devoted to project MARVEL (Grant agreement ID: 957337). The project MARVEL is realizing by consortium of several partner organizations. However, we manage this website, and we determine the purposes and means of processing personal data on this website. Therefore, we are legally considered to be a data controller over your personal data. Being a data controller provides us with the opportunity to process your personal data, but also obligates us to protect it in the way regulated by the EU Data Protection Law, particularly the General Data Protection Regulation (‘GDPR’) and this Privacy Policy.

We are Zelus. We are based at the following address: Tatoiou 92, 14452 Metamorfosi, Athens, Greece. For any personal data related queries you can reach us at marvel-info{at}marvel-project.eu

Personal data we process and the purposes of processing

When you use our website, we may process electronic identification data such as an IP address of the device you use to access this website, the browser, type of device, and operating system you use, your time zone, date and time of access and similar. This information is necessary to be processed in order to properly display our website, to ensure the stability and security of the connection and the system. Under no circumstances we do not use this data for the purpose of drawing conclusions about you.

Our website provides access to our account at social media (Twitter, LinkedIn).  We manage our social-media accounts by ourselves. However, if you would like to use our social media accounts, we suggest you familiarize yourself with the privacy information of social media platforms.

Our use of cookies

We also use Cookies on this website.  The use of cookies may help us to improve the website navigation, analyze on-site behavior or enable advertising activities. You can find out more about the use of cookies in our Cookie Policy.

Sharing your data with third parties

We may share your data with third parties. Our project partners and the European Commission staff relevant to the realization of the project MARVEL may receive your data if it would be necessary.  Also, we may share your data with entities who might help us to regularly provide and further develop our website (e.g., entities that provide analytics, maintenance, development services). For the sake of executing tasks previously agreed upon, the third parties are given the right to process only necessary information. The purpose of data processing, how it will be carried out and the selection of data that will be processed remain our exclusive rights.

In addition, we may share your data with public agencies such as law enforcement agencies, where we have the legal obligation to do so. In case where it would be necessary, we will inform you about sharing your data with third parties.

Transferring your data to third parties

We are tending not to transfer your data outside European Economic Area (EEA). However, we may need to transfer your personal data outside EEA for reasons stated in this Privacy Policy (e.g., analytics, maintenance, development). When this is required, we will make every effort to make sure that your data is protected as suggested by the GDPR and other laws for data protection that apply.

Your personal data may be transferred to:

  • A recipient in a country that, according to the European Commission, does not have an adequate level of data protection. When this is the case, we will conclude Data Protection Agreements that will include Standard Contractual Clauses issued by the European Commission. These Agreements would obligate the data recipient to provide an adequate level of protection and implement appropriate safeguards, as defined by the applicable European Data Protection laws.

A recipient based in a country that the European Commission considers having an adequate level of data protection. Countries with adequate data protection levels are listed here.

How we protect your personal data

We do not collect or retain your personal data longer than is necessary for the purposes explained above.

We use technical and organizational measures in accordance with good practice to ensure appropriate security of your personal data against accidental or unlawful loss, alteration, theft, unauthorized disclosure or access, unauthorized use and against all other unlawful forms of processing. The information provided to us by you will be stored in the main information system and access to information will be allowed on a need-to-know basis.

We will process your personal data according to the GDPR principles while serving the specific processing purposes.

Your data protection rights

You as a data subject may exercise the following rights under the GDPR:

  • The right of access. You have the right to request for access to any of the information relating to you.
  • The right to have personal data rectified. You have the right to request correction of your personal data that you find inaccurate.
  • The right to data portability. You have the right to be provided with a copy of the information we have about you in a structured, machine-readable and commonly used format.
  • The right to restrict processing. You have the right, under limited circumstances, to request that we limit our use and processing of your personal data.
  • The right to withdraw consent. You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time where we rely on your consent to process your personal information.
  • The right to be forgotten. You have the right to request that we erase your personal data that we hold.
  • The right to object to processing. You have the right, under limited circumstances, to object to our processing of your personal data.
  • The right to lodge a complaint. You have the right to lodge a complaint with your local or Greek Data Protection Authority if you feel that your rights are in violation.

The relevant data protection authority in EU Member States might be determined either by your place of habitual residence, or the place where the alleged infringement emerged. As we are established in Greece, you may choose to contact the Greek Data Protection Authority

If you have any questions regarding the processing of your personal data explained in this Privacy Policy or wish to exercise any of your rights as listed above in this section, please send us an email at  marvel-info{at}marvel-project.eu.

Endnotes

We keep our Privacy Policy under regular review to make sure it is up to date and accurate. However, this Privacy Policy may be modified from time to time.

Essential modifications are those that affect your rights, obligations and state with regards to the protection and processing of your personal data. The essential modifications may include but are not limited to deployment of new technologies that would be used on the website and processing your data for new purposes. If we make essential modifications to this Privacy Policy, we will give you the opportunity to review the changes before they become effective.

Minor modifications are those that do not impact your rights, obligations and state with regards to the protection of your personal data. These types of modifications may include, but are not limited to, structure, organizational and grammatical changes to this Privacy Policy in order to make our policy easier to read and understand.

This Privacy Policy was updated on April 20, 2021

Key Facts

  • Project Coordinator: Dr. Sotiris Ioannidis
  • Institution: Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH)
  • E-mail: marvel-info{at}marvel-project.eu 
  • Start: 01.01.2021
  • Duration: 36 months
  • Participating Organisations: 17
  • Number of countries: 12

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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation program under grant agreement No 957337. The website reflects only the view of the author(s) and the Commission is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.