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<ul>
  <li><a href="#legal-dpn">Data protection notice</a> - information about how
    your personal data might be used when you visit this website.</li>
  <li><a href="#legal-cookies">Cookies information</a> - information about
    cookies and our website, including how to <a href="#clear-cookies">opt-out</a>.</li>
</ul>

<h2 id="legal-dpn">Data Protection Notice</h2>
<p>One of your rights under EU law is that you must be informed when your
  personal data - also known as  personal information - is processed
  (collected, used, stored) by any organisation. You also have the right
  to know the details and purpose of that processing.</p>
<p>Some of the services offered on our website require the processing of your
  personal data. In such cases, links are available on those pages directing
  you to the specific information about the processing contained in the
  relevant data protection notices.</p>
<p>Here we give you a general overview of some of the ways this website
  processes your personal data including the use of
  <a href="#legal-cookies">cookies</a> and
  <a href="#Social-media">social media</a>.</p>

<h4>Your personal data and our website</h4>
<ul>
  <li>We collects your personal information only to the extent necessary
    to fulfil a precise purpose related to our tasks;
  </li>
  <li>We will use your personal data for direct marketing purposes;</li>
  <li>We do not reuse the information for another purpose that is different
    to the one stated;</li>
  <li>We put in place measures to guarantee that your data are kept up-to-date
    and processed securely;</li>
  <li>Under certain conditions outlined in law, we may disclose your
    information to third parties, (such as the European Anti-Fraud Office,
    the Court of Auditors, or law enforcement authorities) if it is necessary
    and proportionate for lawful, specific purposes;</li>
  <li>You have the right to access your personal information, to have it
    corrected and the right to recourse; at any time if you believe your data
    protection rights have been breached;</li>
  <li>We do not keep your personal information for longer than necessary for
    the purposes for which we collected it;</li>
  <li>However, we may keep your information for a longer period for
    historical, statistical or scientific purposes with the appropriate
    safeguards in place.</li>
</ul>

<h4>Cookies</h4>
<p><a href="#legal-cookies">Cookies</a> are short text files stored on a
  user’s device (such as a computer, tablet or phone) by a website.</p>
<p>Cookies are used for the technical functioning of a website or for gathering
  statistics.</p>
<p>Cookies are also typically used to provide a more personalised experience
  for a user for example, when an online service remembers your user profile
  without you having to login.</p>
<p>When you visit our website, we may collect some data on your browsing
  experience such as your IP address, the website page you visited, when you
  visited and the website page you were redirected from.</p>
<p>This information is used to gather aggregated and anonymous statistics with
  a view to improving our services and to enhance your user experience.</p>
<p>When you visit the this website, we will keep the browser history of your
  visit for a maximum of 13 months. This information will then be deleted.</p>
<p>Should you wish to opt your data out of our anonymised, aggregated
  statistics, you can do so <a href="#clear-cookies">here</a>.</p>
<p>Read our <a href="#legal-cookies">cookies</a> information for more
  information about the types of cookies this website uses.</p>

<h4>Social Media</h4>
<p>We use social media to present our work through widely used
  and contemporary channels.</p>
<p>Our use of social media is highlighted on this website.</p>
<p>For instance, you can watch videos, which we upload to our YouTube
  page and follow links from our website to Google, Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.</p>
<p>Cookies are not set by our display of social media buttons to connect
  to those services when our website pages are loaded on your computer
  (or other devices) or from components from those services embedded
  in our web pages.</p>
<p>Each social media channel has their own policy on the way they process
  your personal data when you access their sites. For example, if you choose
  to watch one of our videos on YouTube, you will be asked for explicit consent to accept
  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/static?template=privacy_guidelines">YouTube</a>
  cookies; if you look at our Twitter activity on Twitter, you will be asked for explicit consent
  to accept <a href="https://twitter.com/privacy?lang=en">Twitter</a> cookies;
  the same applies for Google, Facebook and LinkedIn.</p>
<p>If you have any concerns or questions about their use of your personal data,
  you should read their privacy policies carefully before using them.</p>

<h4>Complaint handling</h4>

<h5>Which kinds of personal data does the website process?</h5>
<p>We process the personal data submitted by website visitors. This will include
  names, contact details as well as the content of the allegations (insofar
  as the latter qualify as personal data).</p>

<h5>Who may receive my personal data?</h5>
<p>The case file containing your personal data is accessible
  to relevant members of our staff. All access to case files is logged.</p>

<h5>What are my rights?</h5>
<p>You are entitled to access the personal data we holds about you and
  to have them rectified where necessary. In certain cases, you also have
  the right to have your data blocked or erased or to object to their
  processing. For more information, please see Articles 13 to 19 of
  the Regulation.</p>
<p>To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using our contact form.
  We will reply within three months. Please note that in some cases restrictions
  under Article 20 of the Regulation may apply.</p>

<h5>How long do you keep my data?</h5>
<p>We keep log files - including your personal data - for up to two years.</p>

<h5>Who can I contact?</h5>
<p>You can contact us as follows:</p>
<ul>
  <li>e-mail: <a href="mailto:{{mail}}">{{mail}}</a>;</li>
  <li>You can find complete contact information on website contact page.</li>
</ul>
<br><br>
<h2 id="legal-cookies">Cookies</h2>
<p>We use <a href="#cookies">cookies</a> on our website for its
  technical functioning and for gathering statistics. A cookie is a small piece
  of data that a website stores on the visitor’s computer or mobile device.</p>
<p>The table on this page lists the cookies that this website uses and
  describes their purpose.</p>
<p>You will also find some more detail here about cookies relating to our social
  media channels and Google Analytics, the service we use for our statistics.</p>

<h4>Social media cookies</h4>
<p>We use social media platforms. Our presence in the
  Twitter, Facebook, Google, YouTube and LinkedIn communities
  strengthens our online presence and visibility.</p>
<ul>
  <li>The website does not set cookies with the display of links to our
    social media channels when you are browsing our website;</li>
  <li>You can watch videos, which we upload (embed) to our YouTube page.
    You can also follow links from our website to social media platforms;</li>
  <li>In order to watch an video on our website, a message will alert you
    that you need to accept YouTube cookies to do so.
    <a href="https://www.youtube.com/static?template=privacy_guidelines">YouTube</a>
    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;</li>
</ul>
<h4>Google Analytics</h4>
<p>Weuses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google,
  Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed
  on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site.
  The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website
  (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google
  on servers in the United States. </p>
<p>In case of activation of the IP anonymization, Google will truncate/anonymize
  the last octet of the IP address for Member States of the European Union as
  well as for other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area.
  Only in exceptional cases, the full IP address is sent to and shortened
  by Google servers in the USA.
</p>
<p>On behalf of the website provider Google will use this information for the
  purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website
  activity for website operators and providing other services relating to
  website activity and internet usage to the website provider. Google will
  not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.
</p>
<p>You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on
  your browser. However, we points out that if you do this, you may not be
  able to use the full functionality of this website.
</p>


<h4 id="clear-cookies">Opting out</h4>
<p>By default, the browsing experience of website visitors is tracked by
  Google Analytics in order to produce anonymised statistics.</p>
<p>Furthermore you can prevent Google’s collection and use of data
  (cookies and IP address) by downloading and installing the browser
  plug-in available under https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.
  Please note that on this website, Google Analytics code is supplemented
  by “gat._anonymizeIp();” to ensure an anonymized collection of IP
  addresses (so called IP-masking).
</p>
<p><button id="gdpr-clear-cookie" data-done="Clear cookie: done!">Clear website cookie.</button></p>

<h4>Do not track preferences</h4>
<p><em>Do not track</em> is a function that allows visitors to opt out from
  being tracked by websites for any purpose including the use of analytics
  services, advertising networks and social platforms. Do not track options
  are available in a number of browsers including:</p>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-do-i-turn-do-not-track-feature" title="Firefox">Firefox</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/114836?hl=en&amp;ref_topic=3421433" title="Chrome">Chrome</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://help.apple.com/safari/mac/9.0/#/sfri40732" title="Safari">Safari</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://help.opera.com/Windows/12.10/en/notrack.html" title="Opera">Opera</a></li>
</ul>

<p>If you enable <em>do not track</em> in your web browser, Google Analytics
  will respect your choice. You will not be tracked. This is in addition to
  you opting-out of the aggregation and analysis of data for our website statistics;</p>
<p>If you have disabled all cookies from your browser, we will still collect
  some general data about your browsing (e.g. a record of a visitor to our website)
  but they will be less accurate and your visit will not be tracked.</p>