Conditions of Use and Privacy Policy

See the Conditions of Use and the Privacy  and Cookie Policy of the web www.drive2thefuture.eu

These conditions of use and the privacy policy can be revised and/or modified at any time, including a new wording on the website. These changes will be applicable from that moment on.

CONDITIONS OF USE

  1. DEFINITIONS

In these conditions of use, the following terms shall have the following meanings:

Owner of the Web site: The owners of the web site are the following entities:

  • ETHNIKO KENTRO EREVNAS KAI TECHNOLOGIKIS ANAPTYXIS (CERTH),
  • STATENS VAG- OCH TRANSPORTFORSKNINGSINSTITUT, TRANSPORTOKONOMISK INSTITUTT,
  • NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS – NTUA,
  • UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA,
  • VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL,
  • UNIVERSIDAD DE LA IGLESIA DE DEUSTO ENTIDAD RELIGIOSA,
  • INSTITUT FRANCAIS DES SCIENCES ET TECHNOLOGIES DES TRANSPORTS, DE L’AMENAGEMENT ET DES RESEAUX,
  • SWARCO MIZAR SRL,
  • EURNEX e. V.,
  • DEEP BLUE SRL,
  • FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.,
  • TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN,
  • STIFTUNG FZI FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM INFORMATIK,
  • IRU PROJECTS ASBL,
  • HUMANIST,
  • FOUNDATION WEGEMT – A EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITIES IN MARINE TECHNOLOGY AND RELATED SCIENCES,
  • AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GMBH,
  • UNION INTERNATIONALE DES TRANSPORTS PUBLICS,
  • FONDATION PARTENARIAL MOV’EOTEC,
  • PIAGGIO & C S.P.A.,
  • FEDERATION INTERNATIONALE DE L’AUTOMOBILE,
  • The Institute of Advanced Motorists Ltd,
  • POLSKI ZWIAZEK MOTOROWY,
  • WIENER LINIEN GMBH &CO KG,
  • TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT BERLIN,
  • TUCO YACHT VÆRFT APS,
  • INFILI TECHNOLOGIES PRIVATE COMPANY,
  • STELAR SECURITY TECHNOLOGY LAW RESEARCH UG,
  • AUTOMOBIL CLUB ASSISTENCIA SA,
  • VIAS INSTITUTE

 

 

Conditions of use: The terms and conditions that regulate the legal relation between the owners of the Web site and the user as regards the access and use of the web site by the user.

 

Products: The goods and services offered through the web site to be assessed and/or purchased by users.

Users: The natural person or legal entity that has access to and uses the web site.

 

  1. SERVICE PROVIDED

2.1 The Service

The service provided by the web site is offering users the free access and use of the web site, in the websites of which they can get information on the Project DRIVE 2 THE FUTURE, which is framed within the H2020 PROJECT 815001 of the European Union.

2.2 Third-party Advertising and Links

Advertising third parties: The transactions between the user and advertising third parties found in or through the web site are made only and exclusively between the user and the third parties. The user acknowledges and accepts that the Owners of the web site will not be liable for any damages whatsoever arising out of the transactions or the presence of this kind of advertising parties in the web site.

Links: The inclusion of links does not imply in any case the existence of a relationship of any type between the Owners of the Web site and the owner of the respective website. Any bond, link, forwarding or association (“links”) with other websites (www), made available through the web site do not imply any type of guarantee by the Owners of the Web site for the user.

2.3 Contracting Parties and Disputes

Except as otherwise agreed, the Owners of the Web site are neither a party nor are they involved in or liable for the transactions, agreements, contracts or disputes between the users and the respective product seller. In case of disputes the user will hold the Owners of the Web site, its agents and employees harmless from any dispute, demand or liability, of any type, related to or arising out of such transactions, agreements, contracts or disputes.

 

  1. RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF USERS (registered or not)

3.1 User’s Responsibility

The user acknowledges and voluntarily accepts that the use of the web site is made, in any case, under his/her sole and exclusive responsibility.

The user shall be liable for the damages of any nature that the Owners of the Web site may sustain as a consequence of the infringement of any of the obligations that the user has taken over by virtue of these conditions of use or by law as regards the use of this web site.

3.2 Compliance with Laws

The user undertakes to access and use the web site in accordance with the law, the General Conditions of Use and generally accepted moral standards and good practice. The user likewise undertakes not to use the web site for unlawful or illegal purposes, purposes that harm the rights of third parties, or to use it in ways that damage or disable the Website or the rights of third parties.

3.3 Non-Interference with the Web site

The user declares, guarantees and undertakes expressly not to send, transfer, distribute or publish through the web site, materials that (i) restrict or entirely prevent other users from utilising and enjoying the web site; (ii) are illegal, threatening, abusive, harmful, slanderous, defamatory, hateful, racist, obscene, vulgar, offensive, pornographic, disrespectful towards religions or indecent; (iii) constitute or might constitute facts that could give rise to civil or criminal suits; (iv) injure, violate, plagiarise or infringe the rights of third parties, including intellectual and industrial property rights; (v) contain viruses or other harmful components capable of interrupting, destroying or limiting the functionality of any computer programs or equipment; (vi) the user is not entitled to transfer; and (vii) are unsolicited or subliminal advertising materials; or (viii) contain false or deceitful statements and instructions.

The user declares, guarantees and undertakes expressly (i) not to interfere with the website or the servers connected to the website and to obey the requirements, systems and procedures thereof; (ii) not to obtain unauthorised access to other systems through the website; (iii) not to exert an influence on the website such as to negatively affect the transactions of other users; (iv) not to threaten or coerce other users; (v) not to store or gather personal or professional data of other users; (vi) not to act in a false and unauthorised manner in the name and on behalf of other persons or entities; (vi) not to engage in practices that constitute unfair competition

The user declares, guarantees and undertakes expressly not to show, sell, transmit, use, store, extract or exploit the personal or commercial names, addresses, telephone and fax numbers, e-mail addresses, lists, prices, fees or any other information related to the web site or the users.

3.4 Information on the Processing of Personal Data

See Privacy Policy.

  1. CHANGE OF THE CONDITIONS OF USE AND THE WEB SITE

The Owners of the Web site may change and amend the total or partial content of the conditions of use that are available and accessible at the bottom of each page of the web site at any time.   Browsing in the web site implies (i) accepting the conditions of use of the web site and that (ii) the acceptance is permanent, constant and ratified, and that, at any given time, this acceptance shall be understood as referred to the conditions of use that are applicable at any time.

 

  1. PROPERTY RIGHTS

The user acknowledges and accepts that the web site and any software used in relation with it, contains priority and confidential information and that it is protected by intellectual and industrial property rights. Without the express consent of the Owners of the Web site, the user may not alter, rent, provide, sell, copy, reproduce, transfer, distribute or create works deriving from or based upon the web site or upon its content. The user may not connect this web site to another website, nor resell or redistribute any part of the web site, nor provide third parties with access to the web site.

No licence: The Owners of the Web site are not providing any license or authorisation to use of any kind for their intellectual or industrial property rights, or for any other rights related to the web site or its content.

 

  1. INDEMNIFICATION

The user shall defend, hold harmless, and indemnify the Owners of the Web site, its subsidiaries, directors, owners, employees, agents, collaborators, shareholders, commercial partners and suppliers from and against any and all liability and damages of any kind arising out of (i) the use of the web site by the user, (ii) the infringement by the user of the conditions of use, (iii) any dispute or claim between the user and a third party, (iv) the infringement of third party rights by the user.

 

  1. GENERAL

7.1 Communications

All communications to be made between the Owners of the Web site and the user shall be made by e-mail (i) when addressed to the Owners of the Web site to the e-mail address fundacio.racc@gmail.com and, (ii) when addressed to the user, to the e-mail address provide by the user.

The reply of the Owners of the Web site will depend on the volume of e-mails and messages received, and on the complexity of the questions posed, although it will always stick to the legally established deadlines, without guaranteeing the correct working of the e-mail and of the messages when being received or sent.

The data provided by the user in this e-mail or message will be processed according to the applicable regulations as regards the protection of personal data.

7.2 Applicable Law and Jurisdiction

The Web site and the conditions of use will be regulated and construed according to Spanish Law.

The Owners of the Web site and the user will do any reasonable efforts to solve in a friendly manner, any dispute that may arise out of or in relation with these conditions of use and/or the web site. To this end, any claims may be made by email to fundacio.racc@gmail.com

Should it not be possible for the parties to solve a dispute, the issue will be submitted to the competence of the respective Judges or Courts, according to the applicable regulations.

7.3 Transfer or Assignment

The rights and obligations of the user with regard to the web site cannot be transferred or assigned, neither totally nor partially, by the user to third parties without the previous consent by the Owners of the Web site.

The user authorises the RACC, from this moment on, to transfer its rights and obligations of the web site to third parties, exclusively for the purposes stated in the Privacy Policy section, and always subject to what is established in the respective regulations in terms of data protection.

7.4 Preservation of the Legal Relation

Should any clause of the Web site or of these Conditions of Use be declared, totally or partially, null or invalid, the nullity or invalidity shall only affect the respective provision. The remaining clauses of the web site or the conditions of use shall continue in force and the respective provision or part affected shall be considered as non-existing, except if it affects the provisions or conditions of use as a whole, because it is an essential part.

7.5 Total Agreement

The conditions of use are the total agreement between the parties in relation with the object of their legal relation.

 

 

PRIVACY POLICY

Your privacy is very important to RACC.

We have drawn up this privacy policy in order to provide you with information on the personal data compiled by the Owners of the Web site through our interactions with you, how we use the data and with which purpose.

Please consider that whenever we refer to “personal data”, we refer to any and all information about a natural person (not a company) which has been identified or the identity of which can be established.

Controller: The data controllers are the Owners or the Web site which are the entities listed in the section “Owners of the Web site”.

 

Purpose of the data processing: The purpose of the processing of personal data is managing your registration into the website and sending you newsletters and information dealing with the project DRIVE 2 THE FUTURE which is framed with the H2020 PROJECT 815001 of the European Union.

 

Legitimation of the processing: The processing of your personal data is carried out based on the request that has been made.

 

Recipients: The data will not be disclosed to third parties except if required by law.

 

Please be informed, that in order to be able to send you information on the project DRIVE 2 THE FUTURE, your e-mail address will be forwarded to  The Rocket Science Group LLC d/b/a Mailchimp, privacy@mailchimp.com, with registered office at  675 Ponce de Leon Ave NE, Suite 5000, Atlanta, GA 30308 USA, an entity that has been certified within the framework of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield (EU Decision 2016/1250 of the Commission, of 12 July 2016), that will access your data as Processor of the data. Information available at: https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000TO6hAAG&status=Active

Preservation of the Data: The personal data provided will be kept for as long as they are necessary for the purpose they were collected. The cancellation of the data will be made by blocking. We will keep your data blocked during the terms established by the applicable regulations, and we shall proceed to their physical erasure once these terms have finished.

 

Rights: You may exercise the following rights: objection, access, rectification, erasure, limitation, portability, revocation of consent and contestation of any decision based on the automatic processing of data, by means of a written request to the following e-mail address fundacio.racc@gmail.com. You will have to identify yourself by means of an official document.

COOKIE POLICY

The Owners of the Web site inform the users that the acceptance of these Conditions of Use and Privacy Policy implies the express authorisation by the User for the use of cookies. Cookies are used with the aim of making browsing easier and offering services in an agile and customised way, as well as for your security.

What are cookies?

A cookie is a file that is downloaded into your computer when accessing certain websites. Cookies allow a website to, amongst others, store and recover information about the browsing habits of a user or his/her device, and, depending on the information they contain and the way in which you use your device, they can be used to recognise the user. If you do not wish cookies to be installed in your hard drive, you must change the settings in your Internet browser in order to avoid the reception or to get a message on the screen when receiving them. All cookies can be deleted from the browser at any time. (See How can I manage my cookies?)

 

What types of cookies are used by this website?

Own cookies: are those that are sent to the user’s device from another device or domain that is managed by the entity that is providing the service requested by the user.

Third-party cookies: are those that are sent to the user’s device from another device or domain that is not managed by the entity, but by another entity that processes the data gathered by means of the cookies.

Session cookies: are cookies designed to gather and store data while the user is accessing a website.

Persistent cookies: are those which keep data stored in the user’s device and can be accessed and processed during a specific period of time by the entity responsible for the cookie. The time period might go from a few minutes to several years.

Technical cookies: are those that allow the user to browse around the website and to use different options or services available on the site, such as controlling the data traffic and communication, identifying the session, accessing sections with restricted access, using security elements while browsing, etc.

Customisation cookies: are those that allow the user to access the service with some general features, which are predefined according to a series of criteria in the user’s device like, for example, the language, the type of browser used to access the service, the regional configuration from which the user accesses the service, etc.

Analysis cookies: are those that, well processed by us or by third-parties allow to make a follow-up and an analysis of the behaviour of users. The information gathered with this type of cookies is used to measure the activity of the website and to draw-up browser profiles of users, with the aim of introducing improvements based on the analysis of data on the use that the users make of the service.

Advertising cookies: are those that are processed either by us or by third parties to manage the offer of advertising space on the website in the most efficient way, adapting the content of the advert to the content of the requested service or to the use that you make of our website. Thus we can analyse your Internet browsing habits and show you advertising related to your browsing profile.

Likewise, it is possible that after opening a website or an e-mail with an advert or promotion of our products or services, a cookie is installed in your browser, which will later be used to show you advertising related to the search you made and to control our adverts.

What do we use cookies for?

We use cookies to:

  1. i) show our website, make it work correctly, create your user account, start your session. These technical cookies are necessary for our website to work correctly, to remember your preferences and to help you use our website in an efficient and effective way, such as remembering your user name. The web site can be accessed without the activation of the cookie options, but it might hinder the correct working of security mechanism for certain services that need higher security.
  2. ii) understand how our users use the website, detect what is working and what is not, optimise and improve the website, and make sure that our users continue to consider our website as interesting and relevant.

iii) show advertising of the Owners of the Web site on other websites (retargeting). These cookies are stored by trustful third-parties. The use of cookies by those companies is subject to their own privacy conditions. (See “Third party cookies”)

How can I manage my cookies?

You may accept or reject the use of cookies by changing the settings of your browser. However, the fact of rejecting cookies may hinder the correct function of the security mechanisms for certain services that need higher security, as well as some of the services provided through our website. Below you will find instructions to activate and delete cookies:

Third Party Cookies

The Owners of the Web site cooperate with online advertising and marketing companies that need to insert cookies in order to provide their services related with the analysis of the use of the website and the presentation of customised banners. Their respective privacy policies can be checked at the following link: Google Privacy Policy. Our suppliers are committed to responsible business and best standards and practices as regards data management; and they are members of the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI), and/or the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), which is why they follow the principles and codes of conduct of the branch, in addition to offering the opt-out option, i.e. the option of not taking part in the behaviour-based advertising. The list of NAI members that store cookies is available at www.networkadvertising.org and www.youronlinechoices.com, and the user can authorise or deny the permit to those members to use information programmes based on behaviour.

Updating of the Cookie Policy

The Cookie Policy may be amended according to the legal demands. Therefore, we recommend users to check the content every once in a while.

If you wish more information on the use of Cookies, feel free to contact us at the following e-mail address fundacio.racc@gmail.com