What Is This Privacy Policy For?

The policy sets out the different areas where user privacy is concerned and outlines the obligations & requirements of the users, the website and website owners. Furthermore, the way this website processes, stores and protects user data and information will also be detailed within this policy.

The Website

This website and its owners take a proactive approach to user privacy and ensure the necessary steps are taken to protect the privacy of its users throughout their visiting experience. This website complies to all Dutch national laws and requirements for user privacy.

Use Of Cookies

This website uses cookies to better the users experience while visiting the website. Where applicable this website uses a cookie control system allowing the user on their first visit to the website to allow or disallow the use of cookies on their computer / device. This complies with recent legislation requirements for website’s to obtain explicit consent from users before leaving behind or reading files such as cookies on a users computer / device.

Cookies are small files saved to the users computers hard drive that track, save and store information about the users interactions and usage of the website. This allows the website, through it’s server to provide the users with a tailored experience within this website.

Users are advised that if they wish to deny the use and saving of cookies from this website on to their computers hard drive they should take necessary steps within their web browsers security settings to block all cookies from this website and it’s external serving vendors.

This website uses tracking software to monitor it’s visitors to better understand how they use it. This software is provided by Google Analytics which uses cookies to track visitor usage. The software will save a cookie to your computers hard drive in order to track and monitor your engagement and usage of the website but will not store, save or collect personal information. You can read Google’s privacy policy here for further information [ http://www.google.com/privacy.html ].

Other cookies may be stored to your computers hard drive by external vendors when this website uses referral programs, sponsored links or adverts. Such cookies are used for conversion and referral tracking and typically expire after 30 days, though some may take longer. No personal information is stored, saved or collected.

Contact & Communication

Users contacting this website and/or it’s owners do so at their own discretion and provide any such personal details requested at their own risk. Your personal information is kept private and stored securely until a time it is no longer required or has no use, as detailed in the Data Protection Act 1998. Every effort has been made to ensure a safe and secure form to email submission process but advise users using such form to email processes that they do so at their own risk.

This website and it’s owners use any information submitted to provide you with further information about the products / services they offer or to assist you in answering any questions or queries you may have submitted. This includes using your details to subscribe you to any email newsletter program the website operates but only if this was made clear to you and your express permission was granted when submitting any form to email process. Or whereby you the consumer have previously purchased from or enquired about purchasing from the company a product or service that the email newsletter relates to. This is by no means an entire list of your user rights in regard to receiving email marketing material. Your details are not passed on to any third parties.

Email Newsletter

This website operates an email newsletter program, used to inform subscribers about products and services supplied by this website. Users can subscribe through an online automated process should they wish to do so but do so at their own discretion. Some subscriptions may be manually processed through prior written agreement with the user.

Subscriptions are taken in compliance with Dutch Spam Laws detailed in the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003. All personal details relating to subscriptions are held securely and in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998. No personal details are passed on to third parties nor shared with companies / people outside of the company that operates this website. Under the Data Protection Act 1998 you may request a copy of personal information held about you by this website’s email newsletter program. A small fee will be payable. If you would like a copy of the information held on you please write to the business address at the bottom of this policy.

Email marketing campaigns published by this website or it’s owners may contain tracking facilities within the actual email. Subscriber activity is tracked and stored in a database for future analysis and evaluation. Such tracked activity may include; the opening of emails, forwarding of emails, the clicking of links within the email content, times, dates and frequency of activity [this is by no far a comprehensive list].

This information is used to refine future email campaigns and supply the user with more relevant content based around their activity.

In compliance with Dutch Spam Laws and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 subscribers are given the opportunity to un-subscribe at any time through an automated system. This process is detailed at the footer of each email campaign. If an automated un-subscription system is unavailable clear instructions on how to un-subscribe will by detailed instead.

External Links

Although this website only looks to include quality, safe and relevant external links users should always adopt a policy of caution before clicking any external web links mentioned throughout this website.

The owners of this website cannot guarantee or verify the contents of any externally linked website despite their best efforts. Users should therefore note they click on external links at their own risk and this website and it’s owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.

Adverts And Sponsored Links

This website may contain sponsored links and adverts. These will typically be served through our advertising partners, to whom may have detailed privacy policies relating directly to the adverts they serve.

Clicking on any such adverts will send you to the advertisers website through a referral program which may use cookies and will tracks the number of referrals sent from this website. This may include the use of cookies which may in turn be saved on your computers hard drive. Users should therefore note they click on sponsored external links at their own risk and this website and it’s owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.

Social Media Platforms

Communication, engagement and actions taken through external social media platforms that this website and it’s owners participate on are custom to the terms and conditions as well as the privacy policies held with each social media platform respectively.

Users are advised to use social media platforms wisely and communicate / engage upon them with due care and caution in regard to their own privacy and personal details. This website nor it’s owners will ever ask for personal or sensitive information through social media platforms and encourage users wishing to discuss sensitive details to contact them through primary communication channels such as by telephone or email.

This website may use social sharing buttons which help share web content directly from web pages to the social media platform in question. Users are advised before using such social sharing buttons that they do so at their own discretion and note that the social media platform may track and save your request to share a web page respectively through your social media platform account.

Shortened Links In Social Media

This website and it’s owners through their social media platform accounts may share web links to relevant web pages. By default some social media platforms shorten lengthy url’s [web addresses].

Users are advised to take caution and good judgement before clicking any shortened url’s published on social media platforms by this website and it’s owners. Despite the best efforts to ensure only genuine url’s are published many social media platforms are prone to spam and hacking and therefore this website and it’s owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any shortened links.

GDPR Statement

The new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will become enforceable from the 25th of May 2018 and will replace the Data Protection Act (DPA) currently in use at the time of writing. TRIPS prepared for the GDPR by addressing the following points:

  • Awareness: all members of the team are aware that the law is changing to the GDPR.
  • Information it holds: TRIPS is documenting which personal data it holds, where it comes from and who has access to it. The personal data that is collected consists of name, email address and affiliation of the people registered on the website. These informations are stored on the TRIPS server using 256 bit SSL encryption protected by CloudFlare and SSL. Only three members of TRIPS can access this via encrypted password secure admin access.
  • Communicating privacy information: this privacy notices of TRIPS website have been changed according to the GDPR implementations. This includes an explanation of TRIPS lawful basis for processing the data, the data retention period and the how the data will be used. These concepts are expressed in an easy to understand language.
  • Individual’s rights: TRIPS’s procedures have been checked to ensure that they cover all the rights that individuals have. This has been reflected in this privacy notices of the TRIPS website.
  • Subject access requests: the way in which subject access requests are handled take into account the new GDPRs rules.
  • Lawful basis for processing personal data: the lawful basis of TRIPS for processing data are described in this privacy notices of the project and are available online to all the visitors of the website.
  • Consent: An explicit consent is required when registering on the TRIPS website and filling the Terms and Conditions of the services.
  • Children: TRIPS does not offer any online service specific to children and thus will not require a parental or guardian consent for any data processing activity. Furthermore, a system to verify individuals’ ages is not necessary as the website does not contain any material that is considered inadequate to certain age groups.
  • Data breaches: the project has procedures to detect, report and investigate personal data breaches. This is achieved by running hourly checks on the website and diagnostics via Cloudflare to ensure there are no data breaches.
  • Data Protection by Design and Data Protection Impact Assessments: TRIPS adopts a privacy by design approach as it takes privacy into consideration from the start. A Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) would not be necessary as the processing of the data collected does not result in any high risk to individuals.
  • Data Protection Officers: since TRIPS does not carry out a regular and systematic monitoring of data of individuals on a large scale, nor it deals with special categories of data, a Data Protection Officer is not required.
  • International: the project operates for now only in the Netherlands. As such, a lead data protection supervisory authority is not necessary. Should TRIPS expand its activity to other countries in the EU then this point will be re-considered.

For more information on our privacy policy and notices please use the following link …

https://www.tue.nl/en/storage/privacy/