You are currently visiting the Project SEAL website, Co-financed by the Connecting Europe Facility of the European Union.

This website Project SEAL (the "Site") is operated, on behalf of the SEAL consortium ("us", "we", or "our") by Atos Spain SAU, with registered office in Albarracin 25, 28037 Madrid, Spain.

This privacy policy informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of personal information/data we receive from users of the Site. The opinions provisions employed herein do not necessarily reflect the official views of the European Commission, and the European Commission is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.

We use your personal information only for providing and improving the Site. By using the site, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.

This privacy notice was last updated on 19/09/2019 and may be amended from time to time. We invite you to consult this page regularly.

What is personal data?
Personal data may be any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. An identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, by reference to an identifier such as a name, identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to that natural person.

The following types of personal information may be collected, stored, and used when using our website:

  • information about your computer including your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, and operating system;
  • information about your visits to and use of this website including the referral source, length of visit, page views, and website navigation paths;
  • information, such as your email address, that you enter when you register with our website;
  • information that you enter when you create a short profile on our website—for example, your name and professional details;
  • information, such as your name and email address, that you enter in order to set up subscriptions to our emails and/or newsletters;

Data collection
Your personal data on this website can be collected either directly or indirectly.

It can be collected directly when, for instance, you voluntarily submit it for subscribing to our newsletter, when registering for our services, or when completing the contact form. When accessing to these pages, you will be provided information about the collection of your personal data and will be able to give – or not – your consent.

Your personal data can be collected indirectly when using cookies and other technologies. Atos intends to collect information such as the number of visitors, as well as user’s last visit date and consulted page. Please refer to the “cookies and other tracking technologies” part below.

Scope and purpose of the collection, processing and utilization of personal data

Part of our services through this site does not require any form of registration, allowing you to visit our site without telling us who you are. However, some services may require you to provide us with some personal data. 

In these situations, if you choose to withhold any personal data requested by us, it may not be possible for you to gain access to certain parts of the site or access certain services.

All use of your collected personal data is confined to the purposes stated below and is only undertaken to the extent necessary for these purposes.

When you visit SEAL
Like many site operators, we collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Site ("Log Data"), even if you are not a registered user.

We collect some data to help us find out things like how many people visit our site, how they navigate around our site, the pages that are most visited. 

We use Google Analytics to track user interaction with our website. See below for a detailed explanation.

When you register a user account for SEAL
If you register in our site, we will ask you to provide us with certain personal identifiable information that will be used to manage your account and manage the review process and feedback provision about the status of submitted content that may become part of the website database. This database is archived in the secure local services that are maintained by Atos Spain SAU.

Personal identifiable information may include your name, your professional email and the organization you belong when you register at the time of registration.

Access and transfer to personal data
The following organizations have access to your personal data in our website:

  • Internal Atos web team for maintenance and statistical purposes.
  • SEAL
    Consortium partners for the project purposes.
  • Third party analytics, marketing and newsletter tools, namely Mailchimp and Google analytics.

Your data is not disclosed or transferred to other third parties. Personal data will not be transferred to government bodies or public authorities except in order to comply with mandatory national legislation or if the transfer of such data should be necessary in order to take legal action in cases of fraudulent access to our network infrastructure. 
Personal data will not be transferred for any other purpose unless you agreed to do so.

Your data is not transferred beyond the borders of the European Union.

Consent to use data in other contexts
The use of certain functionalities on the Site may require prior registration and involves a more substantial processing of personal data, such as longer-term storage of e-mail addresses, user names and passwords. We use such data only insofar as it has been sent to us by you in person and you have given us your express prior consent for this specific use.

You may cancel your registration for this type of service at any time, by sending us an e-mail via info@project-seal.eu.
As a general rule, the content of users is not subject to any form of monitoring by any member of the Project SEAL consortium. Nevertheless, we reserve the right to delete posted contributions and to prohibit users from further use of the service at our own discretion, especially in cases where posted content contravenes the law or is deemed in-compatible with the objectives of Project SEAL.

Links to other web sites operated by other providers
Our Web pages may contain links to other providers’ web pages. We would like to point out that this statement of data protection conditions applies exclusively to the web pages managed by us. We have no way of influencing the practices of other providers with respect to data protection, nor do we carry out any checks to ensure that they conform to the relevant legislation.

Data Portability
Users have the right to require the project to give them back a copy of the personal data they previously provided for this web or send this data to another organization. These data will be provided in an Excel file to the email indicated by the user. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us: info@project-seal.eu.