Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy European Reference Centre for Endangered Animal Breeds (EURC-EAB)

Last updated: January 17, 2023

The European Reference Centre for Endangered Animal Breeds is responsible for the processing of personal data as shown in this privacy policy. This policy describes how we use and disclose your information when you use our service and tells you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you. The European Reference Centre for Endangered Animal Breeds will from now be referred to as EURC-EAB.

Collecting and Using Your Personal Data
The EURC-EAB may process your personal data to improve our service

Personal Data
While using Our Service, the EURC-EAB may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. The EURC-EAB process the following personal data:

  • Email addres

  • First name and last name

  • Usage Data

  • Other personal data that you actively provide, e.g. in correspondence through e-mail, mail or by telephone.

Usage Data
Usage data is collected automatically when using our service. This data may include information such as your device's Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

Information from third-party Social Media services
The EURC-EAB allows you to follow our Social Media channels and share our content through the following third-party Social Media Services:

  • Twitter

  • LinkedIn

  • YouTube

If you connect to one of our third-party Social Media channels, EURC-EAB may collect personal data that is already associated with your social media account, such as your name, your email address, your activities or your contact list associated with that account.

Tracking Technologies and Cookies
We use Cookies to track the activity on our website and store certain information. Tracking technologies are used to track information and to improve and analyze our service. The technologies EURC-EAB use may include:

  • Cookies or Browser Cookies. A cookie is a small file placed on your device. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some parts of our service. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our service may use cookies.

Cookies can be "persistent" or "session" cookies. Persistent cookies remain on your personal computer or mobile device when you go offline, while session cookies are deleted as soon as you close your web browser. We use both session and persistent cookies for the purposes set out below:

Essential Cookies
Type: Session Cookies
Administered by: EURC-EAB
Purpose: these cookies are essential to provide you with services available through the website and to enable you to use some of its features. They help to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts. Without these cookies, the services that you have asked for cannot be provided, and we only use these cookies to provide you with those services.

Functionality Cookies
Type: Persistent Cookies
Administered by: EURC-EAB
Purpose: these cookies allow us to remember choices you make when you use the website, such as remembering your login details or language preference. The purpose of these cookies are to provide you with a more personal experience and to avoid you having to re-enter your preferences every time you use the website.

Use of Your Personal Data
The EURC-EAB may use Personal Data for the following purposes:

  • To provide and maintain our service, including to monitor the usage of our website.

  • To contact you: to contact you by e-mail, telephone-calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as a mobile application's push notifications regarding updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, and services of the EURC-EAB, including the security updates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation.

  • To provide you with news, and general information about our services, activities and events, unless you have opted not to receive such information.

  • For other purposes: we may use your information for other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, and to evaluate and improve our services.

We may share your personal information in the following situations:

  • With service providers: we may share your personal information with service providers to monitor and analyze the use of our service, and to contact you.

  • With affiliates: we may share your information with our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include the organizations that are part of the consortium of EURC-EAB.

  • With other users: if you interact with other users through a third-party Social Media service, your contacts on this channel may see your name, profile, pictures and description of your activities. Similarly, other users will be able to view descriptions of your activities, communicate with you and view your profile.

  • With your consent: we may disclose your personal information for any other purpose with your consent.

Retention of Your Personal Data
The EURC-EAB will retain your personal data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy policy. We will retain and use your personal data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

The EURC-EAB will also retain usage data for internal analysis purposes. Usage data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our service, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

Transfer of Your Personal Data
Your information, including personal data, is processed at one of the EURC-EAB’s consortium’s partners operating offices. It means that this information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction.

Your consent to this privacy policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer. The EURC-EAB will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.

Delete Your Personal Data
You have the right to delete or request that we assist in deleting the personal data that EURC-EAB has collected about you. You may contact us to request access to, correct, or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. Please note, however, that we may need to retain certain information when we have a legal obligation or lawful basis to do so.

Disclosure of Your Personal Data

Law enforcement
Under certain circumstances, the EURC-EAB may be required to disclose your personal data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).

Other legal requirements
The EURC-EAB may disclose your personal data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

  • Comply with a legal obligation

  • Protect and defend the rights or property of the EURC-EAB

  • Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with our service

  • Protect the personal safety of users of our services or the public

  • Protect against legal liability

Links to Other Websites
Our website may contain links to other websites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the privacy policy of every site you visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update our privacy policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new privacy policy on this page. Changes to this privacy policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Contact Us
If you have any questions about this privacy policy, you can contact us by email at: info@eurc-eab.eu