INTRODUCTION
EUN Partnership aisbl (hereinafter called European Schoolnet) is developing this Website, hosted by the WordPress Platform, which is subject to the Terms of service set-out below.
This website is developed as part of the EmpowerED project. EmpowerED (“the Project”) is funded by the ERASMUS+ programme of the European Union and lasts for 36 months. European Schoolnet is a coordinator in the project which is co-coordinated in partnership with European EdTech Alliance, EDUvation, the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport of the Republic of Lithuania, the Flemish Knowledge Center for Digital Education, The Computer Technology Institute and Press “Diophantus”, FundingBox Accelerator & FundingBox Communities, iFous, Oulu University of Applied Sciences, and Wonderful Education.
European Schoolnet is based in Brussels, Belgium and, as such, Belgian laws apply to any use of the site.
European Schoolnet takes the protection of your privacy seriously. We exclusively collect, store and retain our users’ personal data to provide the best possible service and treat this data with the utmost care. In this statement, we explain which data we collect, why we do this, how we collect and store it and how users of the website may exercise their rights. All personal data processed via this website will be processed in accordance with the provisions of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27th April 2016 (General Data Protection Regulation – GDPR). The legal basis for the processing of such data is indicated in this privacy notice and is normally based on consent of the data subject except as indicated.
This website is public, with public information on the project. All resources are available without logging in. An option to comment articles is integrated in a number of webpages. All published comments are public and subject to approval by a EUN moderator; in order to publish a comment, a user has to provide a name (visible to all users) an email address (only visible to website administrators).
1. What Personal Data do we collect via the website and why?
EmpowerED website improvement:
We collect information about your activity on our website in order to improve our website. We use Google Analytics for this (see also ‘Google Analytics’ and ‘Cookies’ sections below).
Aggregated statistics will be also retrieved regularly on the data collected through the public site, including, but not limited to, the number of visitors, users during a specific period, the usage of the material (for example, number of posts, comments, downloads, etc.).
2. Who do we share your data with and how
Please note that the EmpowerED project is a collective effort in which organisations from multiple countries participate.
This network includes:
- The partners of the project
- European EdTech Alliance
- EDUvation
- Ministry of Education, Science and Sport of the Republic of Lithuania
- Flemish Knowledge Center for Digital Education
- The Computer Technology Institute and Press “Diophantus”
- FundingBox Accelerator & FundingBox Communities
- iFous
- Oulu University of Applied Sciences
- Wonderful Education
- Educational and evaluation experts contracted by one or more organisations part of the network, which support the initiative with pedagogical advice and for the evaluation of the activities.
Your personal data is shared between the subjects of the network listed above insofar as this is necessary:
- to respond to you and to provide the service you require
- to enable us to use the responses to the surveys and questionnaires to manage the activities and for evaluation and research purposes
- to process your participation in events
Personal information provided by the users and visitors or collected during usage of the EmpowerED platform will only be used to:
- Allow users and visitors to contribute to the EmpowerED portal through comments.
- Enable and improve the user experience via tracking usage frequency and search behaviours;
- Inform the user of learning resources and activities they might be interested in within this project and about any developments and updates related to it;
- Allow and facilitate monitoring and research activities within and across European Schoolnet projects and activities.
We do not sell your data to third parties. We use the tools by the service providers listed above to manage the activities. Apart from the EmpowerED network, no third parties will receive your data, unless this is disclosed to you in advance in a separate privacy policy.
3. How long do we store your data?
Your personal data will be stored by European Schoolnet in a form allowing identification for three years after the last use of the website.
Beyond the period indicated above, your data won’t be retained except in an anonymised form, or insofar as required:
- to show that we’ve performed the activities in accordance with applicable laws and the EU’s audit regulations
- for research purposes and publication
Google Analytics
Google Analytics is a web analytics tool that uses cookies to track visitor interactions, helping website owners understand how visitors engage with their website. Google Analytics customers can view a variety of reports about how visitors interact with their website so that they can improve it. Google Analytics collects information without identifying you directly. It reports website trends to its users such as ourselves without identifying individual visitors. Specifically, and depending on whether Google has access to this information, users can get information on the visitors’ age group, gender, interests, language preference, location, browser, device and operating system. You can opt out of Google Analytics without affecting how you visit our site – for more information on opting out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites you use, visit this Google page.
Cookies
To make this site work properly, we sometimes place small data files called cookies on your device. Most big websites do this too.
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.
How do we use cookies?
On our site, we only use a very limited number of cookies: User preferences: These cookies help to improve a user’s experience of a website by providing a more personalised service, without having to ask you every time again; more specifically, our Liferay Portal stores a limited number of user preferences, such as language.
More detailed information about the type of cookies we are using can be found in the following table:
| Name | Type | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| i/jot | Pairing service which facilitates real-time bidding for advertisers | |
| local_storage_support_test | This function allows the website to load faster by pre-loading certain procedures | |
| _gautma | Google Analytics | It helps identify unique visitors. |
| _gatutmz | Google Analytics | It is used to throttle the request rate. It is used to calculate traffic drivers e.g. search engine traffic, ad campaigns and navigation within the site. |
| _gidutmb | Google Analytics | It is used to establish and continue a user session with your site. |
| collect _utmc | Google Analytics | It is used to send data about the visitor’s device and behaviour. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels. It keeps track of the number of times a visitor has been to the site pertaining to the cookie, when their first visit was, and when their last visit occurred. |
| NID | Registers a unique ID that identifies a returning user’s device. The ID is used for targeted ads. | |
| wordpress_[hash] | WordPress | Users Cookie to store your authentication details. Its use is limited to the Administration Screen area. |
| wordpress_logged_in_[hash] | WordPress | Users Cookie which indicates when you’re logged in, and who you are, for most interface use. |
| wp-settings-{time}-[UID] | WordPress | User Cookie used to customize your view of admin interface, and possibly also the main site interface. |
| comment_author_{HASH} comment_author_email_{HASH} comment_author_url_{HASH} | WordPress | When visitors comment on your blog, they too get cookies stored on their computer. This is purely a convenience, so that the visitor won’t need to re-type all their information again when they want to leave another comment. Three cookies are set for commenters. The commenter cookies are set to expire a little under one year from the time they’re set. |
YouTube Videos
Some pages on the platform display embedded YouTube videos, for which we use Privacy-Enhanced Mode. In this case, YouTube won’t install cookies when you visit those pages on our site unless you decide to interact with the videos (play, share, etc).
YouTube has its own cookie and privacy policies over which we have no control. There is no installation of cookies from YouTube until you consent to YouTube cookies and then are redirected to the YouTube website.
How to control cookies?
You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish – for details, see aboutcookies.org. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.
4. Site security
The EmpowerED portal has implemented and continues to maintain appropriate state-of-the-art technical and management measures to keep your personal information secure and safe from loss, damage, corruption, or deletion.
5. Changes within this privacy policy
Any and all changes to this privacy policy will be posted here and will take effect upon their publication. If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy policy, at any time, please contact privacy[AT]eun.org.
6. Contacting European Schoolnet
For any questions related to the EmpowerED portal, you can contact us:
via email:
Data controller: privacy[AT]eun.org
via post:
Data controller/ internal auditor
EUN Partnership aisbl
Rue de Trèves 61
B-1040 Brussels
Belgium
via telephone:
+32 2 790 75 75
You can also contact us in order to exercise your right to access, rectify and, as the case may be, erase, any personal data relating to you, or restrict the processing of your personal data, in compliance with applicable laws. Please note that we may ask you to provide proof of identity (such as a copy of your ID card or passport) before we can comply with your request. Whenever we process your personal data based on your consent, you also have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
7. Making an Official Complaint
If you feel that we have infringed your data protection rights, you may make an official complaint to the Data Protection Authority where you are a resident or the Belgian Data Protection Authorities at the following address:
Belgian Data Protection Authority
Rue de la Presse 35
B-1000 Bruxelles