Privacy Policy
The TWIN2EXPAND website (“twin2expand.eu“) is committed to protecting the privacy of its users and customers. This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) is designed to assist you in understanding how we collect, use, and protect the personal information you provide to us via the Website. Please note that this Policy applies only to the Website and not to other websites or services that may be linked to the Website.
In accordance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 2016/679, we will only collect, use, and store your personal information in compliance with the following principles:
- Lawfulness, fairness, and transparency: We will only collect, use, and store your personal information if it is necessary for the performance of a contract or to comply with a legal obligation, or if you have given your explicit consent.
- Purpose limitation: We will only collect, use, and store your personal information for specific and legitimate purposes, and not use it for any other purpose.
- Data minimization: We will only collect, use, and store the personal information that is strictly necessary for the purposes for which it is collected.
- Accuracy: We will take appropriate measures to ensure that your personal information is accurate and up-to-date.
- Storage limitation: We will only store your personal information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes for which it was collected.
- Integrity and confidentiality: We will take appropriate measures to protect your personal information against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction.
We will ask for your explicit consent to process your personal information when required by law. You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time, but please note that this will not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
You have the right to access, correct, delete, or transfer your personal information, as well as the right to object to the processing of your personal information, or request its limitation.
You have the right to file a complaint with the supervisory authority if you consider that your rights have been violated.
Who is the data controller?
The data controller processing your personal data through this website is the University of Cyprus as the coordinator of the Project.
Note that this privacy notice refers solely to the processing of personal data in the course of operating our website. For any further information regarding this privacy notice, please contact us at info@twin2expand.eu.
What personal data do we collect and for what purposes?
We may collect personal information about you such as your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address when you contact us by filling out our contact form and provide us with any such information. We may use this information solely for the purposes of responding to your inquiry.
We may collect personal information about you such as your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address when you contact us by filling out our contact form and provide us with any such information. We may use this information solely for the purposes of responding to your inquiry.
Where and for how long do we store your personal data?
Your personal data is stored on our servers and on the servers of the cloud-based database management services we engage, located within the EU.
Information provided to us by you when contacting us with an inquiry, will be retained for 1 year since our last communication with you, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.
With whom do we share this personal data?
We may share your information with other organisations providing data processing activities to our organisation such as IT support and our cloud services. Additionally, if required, we may share your information to governmental/regulatory/law enforcement agencies or other third parties provided that such obligation is based on national or EU law.
What are your rights regarding your personal data?
Access: this enables you to request access and receive information regarding the personal data we hold about you.
Request for rectification: this enables you to request to have the data we hold about you to be completed or corrected.
Request for erasure: this enables you to request the deletion of the personal data we hold about you.
Restriction of processing: this enables you to make a request, in certain situations, that your personal data are only used for specific purposes.
Object to processing of personal data: this enables you to object to the processing of your personal data
Data portability: this enables you to request to obtain a copy of the personal data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and/or the transmission of your personal data to another controller.
Request for rectification: this enables you to request to have the data we hold about you to be completed or corrected.
Request for erasure: this enables you to request the deletion of the personal data we hold about you.
Restriction of processing: this enables you to make a request, in certain situations, that your personal data are only used for specific purposes.
Object to processing of personal data: this enables you to object to the processing of your personal data
Data portability: this enables you to request to obtain a copy of the personal data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and/or the transmission of your personal data to another controller.
In order to exercise any of your above rights, please contact us at info@twin2expand.eu. We will endeavour to respond to any request as soon as possible and no longer than 30 days from the receipt of the request. In case where we will not be able to respond to your request within the aforementioned time period or in case your request is rejected, we will inform you accordingly explaining the reasons for any delay or for rejecting your request. All rights can be exercised free of charge.
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Cyprus Commissioner for Personal Data Protection if at any case, you are of the opinion, that our company infringes your privacy. Please find more information at the official website of the Commissioner at www.dataprotection.gov.cy.
How do we protect your personal data?
As part of our effort to prevent any unauthorised access or disclosure of your personal data, we have implemented physical, technical and administrative safeguards. We also update and test our security technology on an ongoing basis and we restrict access to your personal data to those employees who need to know that information to provide our services to you. In addition, we train our employees about the importance of confidentiality and maintaining the privacy and security of your information. We commit to taking appropriate disciplinary measures to enforce our employees’ privacy responsibilities.
Will this privacy notice change?
This privacy policy may be updated from time to time, so please review it periodically for changes.
