Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy, was made in accordance to Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016, (henceforth GDPR) and applicable supplementary legislation. Its main purpose is to inform you on how your personal data is collected and processed by BIAS Project.

1. Who is responsible for the processing of your personal data?

1.1 Your personal data is processed by BIAS Project (Data Controller).

1.2 BioGov.net Project reserves the right to modify or amend this Privacy Policy at any time. Such modifications and alterations shall be communicated through our website.

1.3 If you have any questions or comments you can contact us by email: info@biasproject.eu

2.What categories of personal data do we process?

2.1 When you fill out the contact form on our website, or contact us via e-mail, telephone or social networks, BIAS Project collects:

  • the basic identity information you provide, such as name, e-mail address, address, telephone number;
  • the content of your communication and the technical details of the communication itself;
  • preferences regarding the reception of e-mail communications, advertisements;

3. For what purpose do we process your personal data?

3.1 BIAS Project processes your personal data in order to provide you, in a personalized and efficient way, the information, products and/or services you request through our website, e-mail, telephone, fax, social networks or in fairs and events.

3.2 BIAS Project processes your personal data to provide the services you have requested to BIAS Project.

3.3 BIAS Project processes your personal data to perform statistical analysis so that we can improve our website, our products and services or develop new products and services.

3.4 BIAS Project processes your personal data to comply with legal obligations or to meet any reasonable request from competent agents or representatives of the law, judicial authorities, agencies or government bodies, including competent data protection authorities. Your personal data may be transferred at BIAS’s own initiative to the police or any judicial authorities as evidence or if there is justified suspicion of an illegal act or crime committed by you through your registration or use of the website, social networks or other communication with us.

3.5 BIAS Project may process your personal data to preserve the legitimate interests of BIAS, of its partners or third parties, if and when your registration or use of the Website, social networks or other communication channels can be considered (a) a violation of any applicable terms of use or intellectual property rights or any other rights of third parties, (b) a threat to the security or integrity of the Website, (c) a danger to the Website or any of the underlying Systems of BIAS or its subcontractors due to viruses, Trojan horses, spyware, malware or any other form of malicious code, or (d) in any way hateful, obscene, discriminatory, racist, slanderous, malicious or otherwise inappropriate or illegal.

3.6 BIAS Project will only send communications, promotions, offers, newsletters and other announcements by e-mail or other electronic communication channels if the communication has been requested by you.

4. Why is our processing of your personal data legitimate?

4.1 We process your personal data based upon your free and informed consent for the purpose of providing, in a personalized and efficient way, the information, products and/or services you requested through our website, e-mail, telephone, fax, social networks or at fairs and events;

4.2 We process your data for the fulfilment of legal obligations;

4.3 We process your data whenever it is necessary for the execution of a contract to which the data subject is a party, or for pre-contractual operations requested by the data subject;

4.4 We will process your personal data whenever said processing is necessary to fulfil BIAS Project legitimate interests, such as:

  • communicate your personal data to our partners in order to provide adequate information;
  • to enable us to defend ourselves in legal proceedings;
  • to implement continuous improvements to our website, social networking channels, products and services – to ensure you have the best possible experience;
  • to keep our website, social networks and products and services protected from misuse and illegal activities;

5. What security and confidentiality measures we have implemented to safeguard for your data?

5.1 BIAS Project only processes the data that is necessary to achieve the purposes listed in this policy.

5.2 Your personal data will only be processed for as long as it is necessary for the purposes listed above or until you withdraw your consent to the processing (when such option is applicable).
BIAS Project will anonymize your personal data when it is no longer necessary for the purposes described in the purpose of the treatment, unless there is a legal or regulatory obligation or a judicial or administrative order preventing BIAS Project from doing so.

5.3 BIAS Project applies all technical and organizational measures to ensure a level of security appropriate to the risk of each treatment.

5.4 BIAS Project will only transmit your personal data to third parties when necessary for the provision of services and such transmission will always be subject to strict contractual obligations of third parties and confidentiality.

6. What are your rights?

6.1 You have the right to request access to all your personal data processed by BIAS Project.

6.2 You have the right to request the rectification of inaccurate personal data free of charge.

6.3 You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time, without compromising the lawfulness of the processing carried out based on the consent previously given to process your personal data.

6.4 You have the right to request the erasure of your personal data, however, it must be borne in mind that a request for deletion will be evaluated by BIAS Project in compliance with legal or regulatory obligations or administrative or judicial orders that may contradict such deletion.

6.5 You have the right to request BIAS Project  to restrict the processing of your personal data if and when: (a) you claim the inaccuracy of such data, (b) the processing is illegitimate or (c) the data is no longer necessary for the purpose described above, but still needed for legal proceedings.

6.6 You have the right to oppose to the processing of personal data if you can prove that there are serious and justified reasons to such opposition.

6.7 BIAS Project reserves the right to charge an administrative fee for several subsequent access requests that are clearly submited to cause inconvenience or harm to BIAS.

7. How to exercise your rights?

7.1 To exercise one or more of the above rights, you can send us an e-mail to info@biasproject.eu.

7.2 The data protection authority in Portugal for the exercise of your rights in this matter, namely complaints, is the National Commission for Personal Data Protection (Comissão Nacional de Proteção de Dados Pessoais, in Portuguese). For more information, visit https://www.cnpd.pt.

Cookies Definitions

BIAS Project may use cookies to memorise the data you use when logging to BIAS website, gather statistics to optimise the functionality of the website and to carry out marketing campaings based on your interests.

They allow you to browse the website and use its applications as well as to access secure areas of the website. Without these cookies, the services you have requested cannot be provided.
These cookies are necessary to allow the main functionality of the website and they are activated automatically when you enter this website. They store user preferences for site usage so that you do not need to reconfigure the site each time you visit it.
These cookies direct advertising according to the interests of each user so as to direct advertising campaigns, taking into account the tastes of users, and they also limit the number of times you see the ad, helping to measure the effectiveness of advertising and the success of the website organisation.

Required cookies They allow you to browse the website and use its applications as well as to access secure areas of the website. Without these cookies, the services you have requested cannot be provided.

Functional Cookies These cookies are necessary to allow the main functionality of the website and they are activated automatically when you enter this website. They store user preferences for site usage so that you do not need to reconfigure the site each time you visit it.

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