Privacy policy

This statement relates to our privacy practices in connection with visualpaths.eu 

We are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of other websites.

GENERAL STATEMENT

Innoventum Oy, as operator of the visualpaths.eu website under the Erasmus+ funded VISUAL PATHS project, respects your rights to privacy, and will not collect any personal information about you on this website without your clear permission. Any personal information which you volunteer will be treated with the highest standards of security and confidentiality, strictly in accordance with the The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

COLLECTION AND USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

Visualpaths.eu does not collect any personal data about you, apart from information you volunteer (for example by emailing us or registering your interest in the project). Any information which you provide in this way is not made available to any third parties and is used by visualpaths.eu and the VISUAL PATHS project only in line with the purpose for which you provided it.

COLLECTION AND USE OF TECHNICAL INFORMATION

Technical details in connection with visits to this website are logged for our statistical purposes. No information is collected that could be used by us to identify website visitors. The technical details logged are confined to the following items:

  • the IP address of the visitors web server
  • the top level domain name used (for example .ie, .com, .org, .net)
  • the previous website address from which the visitors reached us, including any search items used
  • clickstream data which shows the traffic of visitors around this website (for example pages accessed and documents downloaded)
  • any searches executed while on our website
  • the type of web browser used by the website visitor

Visualpaths.eu makes no attempt to identify individual visitors, or to associate the technical details listed above with any individual without their consent. It is the policy of tthe operator never to disclose such technical information in respect of individual website visitors to any third party unless obliged to disclose such information by a rule of law. The technical information will be used only by VISUAL PATHS project and only for statistical and other administrative purposes. You should note that technical details, which we cannot associate with any identifiable individual, do not constitute “personal data” for the purposes of the GDPR.

COLLECTION AND USE OF USER INFORMATION

Accessing some of features on this website require you to create an account and be logged in with it; the Online learning platform stores information about the user progress on the courses, the discussion forum relates messages to identified users and so on. When you register an account, the following information is stored to it:

  • First name
  • Last name
  • Email address
  • Country
  • Preferred default language selection
  • User picture (optional)
  • This information is saved in a secure database and is not given or sold forward to third parties.
  • If you have created a user account and wish to remove your information, please contact us.

COOKIES

We use a number of different cookies on our site. If you do not know what cookies are, or how to control or delete them, then we recommend you visit http://www.aboutcookies.org for detailed guidance.

The list below describes the cookies we use on this site and what we use them for. Currently we operate an ‘implied consent’ policy which means that we assume you are happy with this usage. If you are not happy, then you should either not use this site, or you should delete the cookies having visited the site, or you should browse the site using your browser’s anonymous usage setting (called “Incognito” in Chrome, “InPrivate” for Internet Explorer, “Private Browsing” in Firefox and Safari etc.)

FIRST PARTY COOKIES

These are cookies that are set by this website directly.

Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics to collect information about visitor behaviour on our website. Google Analytics stores information about what pages you visit, how long you are on the site, how you got here and what you click on. This Analytics data is collected via a JavaScript tag in the pages of our site and is not tied to personally identifiable information. We therefore do not collect or store your personal information (e.g. your name or address) so this information cannot be used to identify who you are.

You can find out more about Google’s position on privacy as regards its analytics service at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

More information on session cookies and what they are used for at http://www.allaboutcookies.org/cookies/session-cookies-used-for.html

THIRD PARTY COOKIES

These are cookies set on your machine by external websites whose services are used on this site. Cookies of this type are the sharing buttons across the site allow visitors to share content onto social networks. Cookies are currently set by Facebook. In order to implement these buttons, and connect them to the relevant social networks and external sites, there are scripts from domains outside of our website. You should be aware that these sites are likely to be collecting information about what you are doing all around the internet, including on this website.

You should check the respective policies of each of these sites to see how exactly they use your information and to find out how to opt out, or delete, such information.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

Further information can be obtained by e-mailing webmaster@visualpaths.eu