Privacy Policy

This privacy policy governs the use of your personal data by Watson project, that has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe Programme under Grant Agreement no. 101084265.

This privacy policy applies to all personal data collected as part of the dissemination and co-innovation activities within the Watson project.

The user must carefully read this privacy policy and decide freely if he/she intends to provide his/her personal data to the Watson project before communicating data. The user guarantees that he/she is of legal age and that the data communicated are true, accurate, complete and current, being responsible for any nonconformity. If the data communicated belongs to a third party, the user guarantees that he/she informed the third party about the conditions provided in this document and that he/she was authorized to provide his/her data to the Watson project for the indicated purposes.

Note: If you want information on how we process personal data via cookies on our Website, you are kindly referred to our Cookies Policy .

1. Purposes of the treatment and legal basis

The personal data collected through this website are intended to allow the following operations:

• Participation in workshops, seminars, conferences, webinars and other events organized by the Horizon Europe project Watson;
• Participation in surveys, questionnaires or similar enquiries, organized by the Horizon Europe project Watson;
• Watson’s research communications, such as newsletters, service news, technical articles, event information or other related activities

The processing of personal data is necessary to carry out the aforementioned operations.

2. Recipients

The personal data of the user may be communicated to a suitable service provider contracted by the Watson project, which will treat the data exclusively for the purposes established by Watson project and in compliance with the instructions issued by the Watson project, strictly complying with the legal rules on data protection information security and other applicable standards, pursuant to a written agreement between the parties.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. International data transfers

Watson project will process user data in its entirety within the territory of the European Economic Area (EEA) and therefore does not provide for any international transfer of data.

7. Shelf life

The Watson project will keep the personal data of the users for the period necessary for the accomplishment of the purposes for which they were collected.

The Watson project will maintain these data through the period that it is obliged to by the law.

The Watson project may also keep the data beyond these periods for statistical purposes, and for this purpose anonymise them.

8. User rights

The user has the right to request from the Watson project access to personal data concerning him/ her, as well as his rectification or deletion, and the limitation of the treatment with respect to the user, or the right to object to the treatment, as well as the right to portability of data, in accordance with the laws governing the processing of personal data.

To exercise the aforementioned rights, the user may contact the data controller through the addresses indicated in paragraph 1 of this policy. He/she can also file a complaint with its National Data Protection Authority. More information on this can be found at the website for the European authority: https://www.edpb.europa.eu/edpb_en

9. Further information

The organisations implementing the Watson project have all signed a Consortium Agreement in which they accept to ensure that their collection, processing and sharing of Personal Data and / or Special Category Data of Personal Data are in compliance with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 (the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)) and other applicant regulation on Personal Data.

Cookies Policy

For questions and/or comments about our Privacy Policy and this statement, please contact us by using the following contact details:

Dr Dimitrios Argyropoulos, School of Biosystems and Food Engineering
University College Dublin, Ireland

Website: https://watsonproject.eu/
Email: [email protected]
Phone number: +353 (0) 89 605 0322