STARSTEM Privacy Policy

Who we are

STARSTEM is a project funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.

STARSTEM brings together leaders in the nano-materials, regenerative medicine, and bio-imaging fields from across Europe. We are using fundamental advances in the physics of imaging to validate stem cell treatments for arthritis.

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 761214. The material presented and views expressed here are the responsibility of the author(s) only. The EU Commission takes no responsibility for any use made of the information set out.

Our website address is: http://starstem.eu/

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Contact forms

The contact form is available for you to get in touch with the project. We do not use the information submitted through this form for marketing purposes.

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

 

What data is collected when you are on the site

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

 

Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics cookies to track performance and collect aggregated statistics about the behaviour of our visitors to starstem.eu. Google Analytics enables us to track usage data, user behavior, and to aggregate patterns like time spent on news posts. When you use our site, Google Analytics tracking code uses your IP address in order to assess your geo-location. This IP is stripped before it is sent to our report and we can not view it. We use such analysis to gain insight about how to improve our site content and the user experience.

Further information about how Google uses data when you use it’s partner sites can be found at https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites and view the Analytics terms of service https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html

Necessary Cookies

The website cannot function properly without these cookies. You may disable these by changing your browser settings but this will affect how the website functions.

This site tracks your privacy preferences. The Privacy Consent cookie (“privacy_embeds”) enables us to store and manage user consent.

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. We use reCAPTCHA for preventing spam requests on our contact form.

Who we share your data with

Personal data shared via the contact form is not shared with any third-party provider. Messages received through the contact form will never be used for marketing purposes.

How long we retain your data

If you get in touch via the contact form, the message and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can follow-up to your message and reply to you via e-mail.

What rights you have over your data

You can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

 

Additional information

YouTube

Our website uses plugins from YouTube, which is operated by Google. The operator of the pages is YouTube LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA.

If you visit one of our pages featuring a YouTube plugin, a connection to the YouTube servers is established. Here the YouTube server is informed about which of our pages you have visited.

If you’re logged in to your YouTube account, YouTube allows you to associate your browsing behavior directly with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.

YouTube is used to help make our website appealing. This constitutes a justified interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO.

Further information about handling user data, can be found in the data protection declaration of YouTube under https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy.

 

Google Maps

Our website uses the Google Maps API to visually present geographical information and illustrate the location of our project partners. Google Maps is operated by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

When you use Google Maps, information about the use of this website, including your IP address, is transmitted to and stored on a server belonging to Google in the USA. The provider of this site has no influence on this data transfer.

The use of Google Maps is in the interest of making our website appealing and to facilitate the location of places specified by us on the website. This constitutes a justified interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR.

The terms of use for Google Maps can be found under Terms of Service for Google Maps.

You can deactivate the Google Maps service and thus prevent the transfer of your data to Google by deactivating JavaScript in your browser or deselecting the Google Maps third-party embed option below. However, this means that you will be unable to use the map view.

 

Twitter

Our website uses a Twitter plugin to share recent tweets from @STARSTEM2020 If you’re logged in to your Twitter account, Twitter will associate your browsing behaviour directly with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your Twitter account.

 

User Settings

You have the choice to accept this third-party content or not. No data is transferred before you have consented to it. The checkboxes below show you all embeds that you have consented to so far. You can opt-out at any time by un-checking them and clicking on the update button.