By accepting to register for the WeObserve Citizen Observatories for Earth Observation (CO4EO) webinar you declare that:

I consent to the processing of:

• my name
• my email
• my expertise
• and optionally my organisation / project

so that WeObserve sends me informatory emails regarding the organisation of the webinar being entitled 'Citizen Science in a remote sensing context: From examples to best practices'

I consent to the maintenance of my personal data until May 2021:

• my name
• my email
• my expertise
• and optionally my organisation / project

Privacy Notice for participation in the WeObserve CO4EO webinar

The EU project WeObserve (“we”, “us”) is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Privacy Notice sets out the basis on which your personal data will be processed by us in connection with your participation in the WeObserve CO4EO webinar.

Please read the following document carefully, to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it. When you register to our webinar, these Privacy Notice provisions will apply to our processing of your personal data.

What is WeObserve

WeObserve is a research project funded by the European Union’s Horizon2020 Programme under Grant Agreement No.776740. It started in December 2017 and it will finish in December 2020. WeObserve aims to improve the coordination between existing Citizen Observatories and related regional, European and International activities. The WeObserve mission is to create a sustainable ecosystem of COs that can systematically address the three key challenges (awareness, acceptability, sustainability) and help to move citizen science into the mainstream.

The project coordinator is International Institute for Applied Systems Anaysis (IIASA), Austria and the partners are: IHE Delft Institute for Water Education (IHE Delft), Netherlands, University of Dundee (UNIVDUN), United Kingdom, Ecological and Forestry Applications Research Centre (CREAF), Spain, Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS), Greece, European Citizen Science Association– ECSA E.V., Germany, Autorita di Bacino dei Fiumi Isonzo, Tagliamento, Livenza, Piave, Brenta-Bacchiglione(AAWA), Italy.

More information about the project may also be found in https://www.weobserve.eu/

Purpose of Personal Data Processing

The WeObserve project will initiate and manage the CO4EO webinar as described in the Detailed Terms of Reference (available here).

The WeObserve Consortium will use information held about you to send you emails about the webinar organisation. We will also send you emails about project news, outcomes, developments, planned activities, meetings and demonstrations.

Categories of data that will be stored

If you consent to the processing of your personal data for the above-mentioned purposes, the categories of personal data that will be collected and stored in the WeObserve project are:

• your name (mandatory)
• your email address (mandatory)
• your expertise (mandatory)
• the organization or project that supports your participation in the webinar (optional)

The Consortium will process the personal data of subjects according to the present statement and for the purposes declared herein.

Security of Processing

The security and protection of your personal data is very important for the Consortium. The Consortium has undertaken all appropriate organisational and technical measures to secure that the data that are collected in the framework of the present declaration is processed according to the legislation for the protection and storage of your personal data until May 2021 for the purposes described above. We take appropriate measures to ensure that all personal data is kept secure including security measures to prevent personal data from being accidentally lost, or used or accessed in an unauthorised way. Those processing your information will do so only in an authorised manner and are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

Exercise of your rights

It is noted that according to the General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016), you may exercise the following rights that derive from the Regulation:

• Right of access and right to rectification for inaccurate personal data
• Right to erasure of personal data if they are not necessary for service provision
• Right to restrict processing of your data
• Right to object to the processing of your data
• Right to withdraw your consent to processing of your data
• Right to data portability, namely right to receive your data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable form so that they can be transferred to another data processor.
• Additionally, you have the right to submit a written complaint to the responsible supervisory body for personal data protection in each country.

How to complain

We hope that we can resolve any query or concern you raise about our use of your information.

The General Data Protection Regulation also gives you right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the European Union (or European Economic Area) state where you work, normally live or where any alleged infringement of data protection laws occurred.

Contact us

For any questions or to exercise the rights that derive from the legislation in force about personal data protection, please contact us via email at: privacypolicy@weobserve.eu

You may withdraw your consent any time (without retroactive effect) by sending an email to privacypolicy@weobserve.eu