Privacy Policy
A new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is going to enter into force on May 25th 2018. Our Privacy Policy has been updated to further improve users control on their own data and and make it clearer how we use and we manage the information
KEPT-PV is a online Exchange Platform for scientists, academics, students, professionals, stakeholders, any interested visitors. People access to our platform to share knowledge in Photovoltaics RTD and to find business opportunities to interact each with others
The Privacy Policy below applies to both registered users and web Visitor
1.- General information
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CHEETAH Knowledge exchange Platform (KEP) has been an integral part of CHEETAH project was powered and developed by ENEA since 2014 thanks to the support of all CHEETAH Partners. During the following years it was continuosly updated by including contribution from EERA-PV partners and external organizations.
At the end of CHEETAH Project on 31st December 2017, we moved our first steps to transfer the platform to EERA-PV, and on May 15th the platform it was finally moved to EERA-PV becaming EERA Knowledge Exchange platform for PV Techology (KEPT-PV).
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The new name for the previous platform characterizes our will to serve better and more efficiently PV RTD community in Knowledge Exchange under EERA-PV umbrella . Our mission has the fundamental philosophy to connect the European PV RTD Community among its members and with the world’s scientists and professionals to allow them to be more productive and successful by sharing their knowledge.
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Our registered users (“Members”) share scientific and professional lnformation and data to foster the exchange of knowledge and professional insights with both members and unregistered web users. It serves as a dynamic innovative database which means we always seeking to improve the informative content and the services can be offered to users and viewer
2.- Our Privacy policy
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Since our first steps and more recently according to General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) we are putting on the ground any effort and rule to protect rights and freedoms of natural persons (GDPR art.1.1 & 1.2) and in particular their right to the protection of personal data on line with integrity, transparency, and security. On other hand we will continue to promote and maximize knowledge Exchange transfer accordingly with the owner to the free movement of information doesn't subject to the protection.
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Both our "registered members" and "web users" share information and data concerning their skill, academic publications, offered webinars, news, events announcements, career positions, improve their professional and scientific skills, or learn each from the ones according to the rules are drawn by this Privacy Policy
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KEPT-PV reserves the right to modify our Privacy Policy at any time to reflect our data base needs and requirement, changes in technologies, or relevant laws and regulatory requirements. Registered members" will be notified asap about this by email and typically we reserve them 1 months to accept the new version or to promptly stop using our Service and/or close their account
3. Data Controllers and contacts
4.-Information we collect and how we do it?
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We collect and provide information is directly and voluntary provided us by way of "registered user" and "not registered web users" about their personal and their own organziation professional and scientific involvement - This information has been compiled with due diligence thanks to the support of all CHEETAH Partners and EERA-PV and external organizations. However, we neither guarantee nor accept liability for the information being up-to-date, complete or accurate, but we welcome proposed ammedments.
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Registered users are required to provide information on line by accessing to registration procedure , and it can be used to identify and/or contact a natural person. This includes name, postal address, telephone number, and email address. Also, for some features, we invite "registered users" to provide information relating themselves including, for example, gender, job position,organziation, Department/labortatory, skill by keywords, are used to elaborate statistics and knowledge Exchange needs. We also ask about the preferences about the content of which registered users would be informed (webinar, workshop, Courses&Schools.Techical Documents, Job profiles, News or Discussion& fora) this to limit unwanted email. We also ask for short bio of any interested registered user would be included in our experise catalogue.
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Who supply information is responsibile for honoring any preventive legal and administrative procedure should be necessary to get authorization for the publication in agreement to existing national and international laws and internally to his/her organziation/unit, faculty, department etc and we are not responsible nor liable for any damage could be caused by these violations.
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KEPT-PV operates as a relational database management system (RDBMS), KEPT-PV contains several links to external third-party websites mainly related to availability of already existing information. These links do not imply responsibility for their content, either the approval of their contents and we don't have any influence on the current or future contents of these sites. For this reasons we don't accept liability for the accessibility or contents of such websites and no liability for damages that may arise as a result of the use of such content.
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According to GDPR, authors and registered users can decide in any moment to access, update, restrict, object to the processing or delete their data contacting KEPT-PV webmaster
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You have a legal right to inspect any stored data concerning your person, your organziation and your laboratory and also the right to demand the correction or deletion of such data, and to withdraw your consent for the further use of such data
5.-how we us collected information?
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Use of the information contained on the website, including excerpts, is permitted for pedagogical, scientific or private purposes, provided the source is quoted (unless otherwise expressly stated on the respective webpage).
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We process all Information, including private one, in order to provide the information service in a way that is tailored to registered and web users ineeds always to maximize knowledge Exchange.
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We use data to communicate with registered users and web users to inform about upcoming courses&schools, webinars, news, conferences/workshops, job positions, availability of techical documents and so on
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We process personal data in order to avoid its accidental or unlawful destruction, we preserve its loss, alteration, or unauthorized disclosure. We don’t use in any way computer ICT techniques for the direct acquisition of any personal identification data except those are voluntarily and directly provided by registered users and web users for the aim of KEAP-PV. Information is authomatically collected by Google Analytics limited to our perfomance evaluation of our we site
6.- Information sharing with third parties
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KEPT-PV does not share the Personal Information collected - or that Registered users and WEb users provide to us with third parties unless, except if we have obtained consent from interested parts, except when law could require it.
6.2
Use for commercial purposes is absolutely denied unless of very good motivation and the explicit authorization has been granted by CHEETAH and EERA-PV Consortium members and/or interested owner via Project coordinators or any other authorized representative.
7- Security
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KEAP-PV has implemented technical and organizational security measures to reasonably safeguard any stored personal and firm specific data against inadvertent or deliberate manipulation, loss or destruction and against access by unauthorized persons.
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Our security measures are continuously improved in line with technological progress and in agreement with any reasonable best practicde to do it
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Once the user data is submitted, it resides on a server that is secured both physically and electronically
8.- Cookies
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The operating system utilized by this web site doesn't use cookies to transmit information having personal content except information directly provided by interested people and institutions.
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Cookies are used on our website only as session cookies that place technical session-control data in your browser’s memory. These data contain no references of a personal nature and are automatically erased depending on the browser setting.
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Google Analytics may install cookies unless specifically denied by you. If you would not allow their cookies follow the guide by clicking this link. Our use of Google Analytics generate statistics which permit to constantly improve our Services and the features of our Knowledge Exchange Platform.
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