Privacy Policy

On behalf of the VOGAS project JLM Innovation GmbH welcomes your interest.

Protecting your privacy is important to us. We strive to minimize the amount of personal data collected during your visit to our website. Personal data you provide to us is treated confidentially and solely in compliance with legal provisions.

The following provides information on the kind of data that may be collected and how such data may be used. As a general rule, your personal data is not passed on to third parties outside the definitions of this policy.

Who we are

The VOGAS project is a consortium of 13 partners in Europe, Israel and South America funded by within Horizon 2020 programme of the European Union.

The coordinator of the project is Prof. Hossam Heick from the Technion in Israel.

This website is maintained by JLM Innovation GmbH with contributions from all partners.

For more information about the consortium see
https://www.vogas.eu/consortium

Our website address is: https://www.vogas.eu.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

You remain anomymous when visiting our website. With the exception of IP address, no personal data is collected. IP addresses are anonymized when logged. In the event of attacks or misuses of our website we may analyze the IP addresses. Log data is deleted on a regular basis.

Additional personal data (e.g. names, addresses, e-mail addresses, affiliation, telephone numbers) may be collected only when you have provided such data to us voluntarily. For example if you contact us via the contact form. Such data will be only used for the purpose for which you provided that data to us.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact forms

If you contact us via the contact form, personal data (e.g. names, addresses, e-mail addresses, affiliation, telephone numbers) may be collected only when you have provided such data to us voluntarily. Such data will be only used for the purpose for which you provided that data to us.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Who we share your data with

Personal data you provide to us is treated confidentially and solely in compliance with legal provisions.

As a general rule, your personal data is not passed on to third parties outside the definitions of this policy.

If you contact us via the contact form, we may forward your request to the partner within the consortium who is most suitable to answer your request.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.