DATA PROTECTION DECLARATION

DATA PROTECTION DECLARATION

Introduction

Data protection is a high priority for the GUIDE project. Thus, as documented in this data protection declaration, the member organisations of the GUIDE project, represented by the GUIDE coordinator EURESCOM, are committed to full compliance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the German Federal Data Protection Act (Bundesdatenschutzgesetz – BDSG) as well as any other relevant legislation.

The use of this website and its Internet pages, as well as any other Internet pages linked to this website which are controlled by GUIDE project, is possible without any indication of personal data. However, if a data subject would like to use special services via our website, processing of personal data could become necessary. If the processing of personal data is required and there is no statutory basis for such processing, we will by default endeavour to obtain consent from the data subject.

The processing of personal data, such as name, address, e-mail address, or telephone number of a data subject shall always be in line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and in accordance with German and other country-specific data protection regulations applicable to the GUIDE project. Through this data protection declaration, we would like to inform anyone concerned and the general public of the nature, scope, and purpose of the personal data we collect, use and process. Furthermore, data subjects are informed, by means of this data protection declaration, of the rights to which they are entitled.

As the joint controllers, the GUIDE project have implemented numerous technical and organizational measures to ensure comprehensive protection of personal data processed through this website. However, Internet-based data transmissions may generally have security gaps. Thus, absolute protection cannot be guaranteed. For this reason, every data subject is free to transfer personal data to us via alternative means, e.g. by telephone or letter.

1. Definitions

In this Data Protection Declaration, the following terms are based on the Regulation (EU) 2018/1725:

• A) Personal Data

Personal data means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (“data subject”). An identifiable natural person is someone who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier, or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person.

• B) Data Subject

Data subject is any identified or identifiable natural person, whose personal data is processed by the controller responsible for the processing.

• C) Processing

Processing is any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data or on sets of personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organisation, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction.

• D) Restriction Of Processing

Restriction of processing is the marking of stored personal data with the aim of limiting their processing in the future.

• E) Profiling

Profiling means any form of automated processing of personal data consisting of the use of personal data to evaluate certain personal aspects relating to a natural person, in particular, to analyse or predict aspects concerning that natural person’s performance at work, economic situation, health, personal preferences, interests, reliability, behaviour, location or movements.

• F) Pseudonymisation

Pseudonymisation is the processing of personal data in such a manner that the personal data can no longer be attributed to a specific data subject without the use of additional information, provided that such additional information is kept separately and is subject to technical and organisational measures to ensure that the personal data are not attributed to an identified or identifiable natural person.

• G) Controller Or Controller Responsible For The Processing

Controller or controller responsible for the processing is the natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data; where the purposes and means of such processing are determined by Union or Member State law, the controller or the specific criteria for its nomination may be provided for by Union or Member State law.

• H) Processor

Processor is a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which processes personal data on behalf of the controller.

• I) Recipient

Recipient is any natural or legal person, public authority, agency or another body, to which personal data are disclosed, whether a third party or not. However, public authorities which may receive personal data in the context of a particular inquiry in accordance with Union or Member State law shall not be regarded as recipients; the processing of these data by the public authorities shall be in compliance with the applicable data protection rules according to the purposes of the processing.

• J) Third Party

Third party is a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or body other than the data subject, controller, processor and persons who, under the direct authority of the controller or processor, are authorised to process personal data.

• K) Consent

Consent of the data subject is any freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous indication of the data subject’s wishes by which he or she, by a statement or by clear affirmative action, signifies agreement to the processing of personal data relating to him or her.

2. General and technical data collected and processed by the GUIDE when visiting our website and why

The GUIDE website collects a series of general data and information when a data subject or automated system calls up the website.

These general data and information are stored in the server log files.

Data collected may be (a) the browser types and versions used, (b) the operating system used by the accessing system, (c) the website from which an accessing system reaches our website (so-called referrers), (d) the sub-websites, (e) the date and time of access to the Internet site, (6) an Internet protocol address (IP address), (f) the Internet service provider of the accessing system, (g) device identifier, and (h) any other similar data and information that may be used in the event of attacks on our information technology systems.

When using these general data and information, the GUIDE does not draw any conclusions about the data subject. Rather, this information is needed to (a) deliver the content of our website correctly, (b) optimize the content of our website, (c) ensure the long-term viability of our information technology systems and website technology, and (d) provide law enforcement authorities with the information necessary for criminal prosecution in case of a cyber-attack.

Therefore, GUIDE analyses anonymously collected data and information statistically, with the aim of increasing the data protection and data security of its website, and to ensure an optimal level of protection for the personal data that it processes.

The anonymous data of the server log files are stored separately from all personal data provided by a data subject.

Some information may be collected through cookies, as explained in the section on cookies.

3. Personal data collected and processed by the GUIDE when using our website or engaging with us and why

• A) When you useour website, the GUIDE processes:
  • The General and Technical information regarding your visit;
  • Any other personal data you provide the GUIDE with on a voluntarily basis. However, we ask you not to provide us with any personal data from third parties without obtaining their valid consent.

• B) Communication or contact with the GUIDE

The website of GUIDE contains information that enables direct contact or communications with the GUIDE.

When data subjects communicate with the GUIDE via e-mail, telephone, letter, social media or any other means, the GUIDE may process the following personal data:

• Identity information, such as first name and last name;
• Contact details, such as e-mail address, postal address, country and (mobile) telephone number;
• Content of the communication, such as question, idea or complaint;
• Technical information of the communication, such as with whom you communicate at our end, and date and time of the communication;
• Any other personal data you provide us with.

If a data subject contacts the GUIDE by e-mail or via a contact form, the personal data transmitted by the data subject are automatically stored. Such personal data transmitted on a voluntary basis by a data subject to the GUIDE are stored for the purpose of processing or contacting the data subject, responding to his/her inquiry, question or idea or managing his/her complaint. There is no transfer of this personal data to third parties.

The GUIDE website may also list open vacancies and open procurement procedures. You can visit these sections without providing personal information. Any contact and communication with the GUIDE and any personal information provided to the GUIDE in these contexts will be processed by the GUIDE for the purpose of responding to your request.

• C) Registration on our website and participation in our events

Users have the possibility to register on our website for and to participate in our events. The input mask used for this purpose determines what personal data are transmitted to the GUIDE.

In this context, the GUIDE may process the following personal data:

• Identity information, such as first name and last name, gender, title, organisation, job responsibilities;
• Contact details, such as e-mail address, postal address, country and (mobile) telephone number;
• Business card details, if you provide us with your business card before, during or after the event;
• Interests in certain topics;
• Any other personal data you provide us with.

The personal data entered by the data subjects are collected and stored exclusively for internal use by the GUIDE, and for his own purposes.

By registering on the website of the controller, the IP address—assigned by the Internet service provider (ISP) and used by the data subject—date, and time of the registration are also stored. The storage of this data takes place against the background that this is the only way to prevent the misuse of our services, and, if necessary, to make it possible to investigate committed offenses.

The registration of the data subject, with the voluntary indication of personal data, is intended to enable the GUIDE to offer the data subject contents or services that may only be offered to registered users due to the nature of the matter in question. Registered persons are free to change the personal data specified during the registration at any time, or to have them completely deleted from the data stock of the GUIDE.

Photos can also be taken during our events. In principle, only photos will be taken of the crowd. However, if you pose for our photographer, GUIDE consortium will derive your permission from this. Your photo can then be distributed via our website or other channels for the promotion of the Joint Undertaking and the event in question. If you do not wish to do so, please contact our Data Protection Officer via email.

• D) Subscription to our Newsletters and Newsletters-Tracking

On the website of the GUIDE, users are given the opportunity to subscribe to our newsletter. The input mask used for this purpose determines what personal data are transmitted to the GUIDE, as well as when the newsletter is ordered from the GUIDE.

In this context, the GUIDE may process the following personal data:

• Identity information, such as first name and last name, gender, title, organisation, and job responsibilities;
• Contact details, such as e-mail address, postal address, country and (mobile) telephone number;
• Interests in certain topics;
• Frequency for receiving newsletters.

The newsletter may only be received by the data subject if the data subject has a valid e-mail address. A confirmation e-mail will be sent to the e-mail address registered by a data subject for the first time for newsletter sending, for legal reasons, in the double opt-in procedure. This confirmation e-mail is used to prove whether the owner of the e-mail address as the data subject is authorized to receive the newsletter.

During the registration for the newsletter, we also store the IP address of the computer system assigned by the Internet service provider (ISP) and used by the data subject at the time of the registration, as well as the date and time of the registration. The collection of this data is necessary in order to understand the (possible) misuse of the e-mail address of a data subject at a later date, and it therefore serves the aim of the legal protection of the controller.

The personal data collected as part of a registration for the newsletter will only be used to send our newsletter. In addition, subscribers to the newsletter may be informed by e-mail, as long as this is necessary for the operation of the newsletter service or a registration in question, as this could be the case in the event of modifications to the newsletter offer, or in the event of a change in technical circumstances. There will be no transfer of personal data collected by the newsletter service to third parties. The subscription to our newsletter may be terminated by the data subject at any time. The consent to the storage of personal data, which the data subject has given for sending the newsletter, may be revoked at any time. For the purpose of revocation of consent, a corresponding link is found in each newsletter. It is also possible to unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time directly on the website of the controller or to communicate this to the controller in a different way.

The Newsletters of the GUIDE project contain so-called tracking pixels. A tracking pixel is a miniature graphic embedded in such e-mails, which are sent in HTML format to enable log file recording and analysis. This allows a statistical analysis of the success or failure of online marketing campaigns. Based on the embedded tracking pixel, the GUIDE may see if and when an e-mail was opened by a data subject, and which links in the e-mail were called up by data subjects.

Such personal data collected in the tracking pixels contained in the newsletters are stored and analysed by the GUIDE in order to optimize the sending of the newsletter, as well as to adapt the content of future newsletters even better to the interests of the data subject. These personal data will not be passed on to third parties. Data subjects are at any time entitled to revoke the respective separate declaration of consent issued by means of the double-opt-in procedure. After a revocation, these personal data will be deleted by the GUIDE  The GUIDE automatically regards a withdrawal from the receipt of the newsletter as a revocation.

4. Legal basis for the processing of personal data

The legal basis for collecting and processing personal data will depend on the personal data concerned and the specific context in which the GUIDE collects it.

The GUIDE will by default collect and process personal data only where it has obtained the consent of the data subjects or where it needs such data to perform a contract to which the data subjects are party. The GUIDE may also collect and process personal data where the processing is in the legitimate interest of the GUIDE webiste (e.g. compliance to a legal obligation to share personal data with competent law enforcement agents or representatives, judicial authorities, governmental agencies or bodies) or on the basis of its tasks carried out in the public interest (e.g. the performance of dissemination activities).

5. Data location

The GUIDE processes personal data within the European Economic Area (EEA).

6. Subcontractors

The GUIDE may share data subjects’ personal data with its third parties service providers. These third parties are only allowed to process data subjects’ personal data on GUIDE’s behalf, upon GUIDE instructions and they must guarantee the data protection and confidentiality required by Regulation (EU) 2018/1725.

The GUIDE website may use the services of third-party service providers, as data processors, for the design of the website, the management of the newsletters and the registration to events, the storage of personal data and the management of IT infrastructure, files and backups.

7. Data Security

The GUIDE project will take appropriate technical and organizational measures to keep the personal data of data subjects safe from unauthorized access or theft as well as accidental loss tampering or destruction. Access by our personnel or third parties’ personnel will only be on a need-to-know basis and be subject to strict confidentiality obligations. Also, access may be required by the rules and regulations to the European Commission. You understand, however, that safety and security are best efforts obligations which can never be guaranteed.

8. Data Retention

The GUIDE website processes and stores the personal data of the data subjects only for the period necessary to achieve the purposes outlined in this Data Protection Declaration, or as far as this is permitted by the applicable data protection laws.

If the data is no longer needed for the purposes described in this Data Protection Declaration or if the maximum legal retention period expires, the personal data are routinely blocked or erased. However, the GUIDE consortium cannot delete personal data if there is a legal or regulatory obligation or a court or administrative order preventing it from doing so.

9. Rights Of The Data Subjects

Data subjects have rights related to the processing of their personal data and can contact the GUIDE coordinator at any time via email to exercise them.

Those rights include:

• The Right of Information and Access to all their personal data processed by the GUIDE website. Data subjects can request a copy of their personal data, which the GUIDE website will provide in a commonly used electronic form. The GUIDE website may require the data subjects to provide his/her identity before providing the requested information.
• The Right to Rectification. Data subjects can require that their personal data are amended or corrected if they are incomplete or inaccurate.
• The Right to Erasure (Right to be forgotten). Data subjects can request the deletion of their personal data if the data are no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed, as outlined in this Data Protection Declaration, or if the Data Subjects have withdrawn their consent. The data will be deleted unless the GUIDE website is required to retain such data in order to comply with a legal obligation or to establish, exercise or defend legal claims.
• The Right to Restriction. Data subjects can request that the GUIDE website limits the processing of their personal data where the data subjects contest the accuracy of the personal data, or where the processing is unlawful, or where the GUIDE website does no longer need to process the data for a particular purpose but is not able delete the data due to a legal or other obligation or because the data subjects do not want the GUIDE website to delete their data.
• The Right to Data Portability. If the data are processed based on consent or a contract with the GUIDE website and the processing is carried out by automated means, data subjects can request to receive in a structured, commonly-used and machine-readable format all personal data they have provided to GUIDE or, where technically possible, that their personal data are transmitted to another data controller.
• The Right to Object. Where the legal justification of the data processing is the GUIDE’s legitimate interest, data subjects have the right to object to the processing of their personal data on grounds relating to their particular situation. The GUIDE consortium will be obliged to respond to these requests unless it has compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override the data subjects’ interests, rights and freedoms, or if it needs to continue to process the data for the establishment, exercise or defence of a legal claim.
• The Right to Withdraw the Consent previously given to process their personal data.

GUIDE reserves the right to restrict some of the above data subjects’ rights in duly justified cases (e.g. internal audits, processing of complaints, investigations carried out by the Data Protection Officer or security investigations).

If data subjects consider that their rights are infringed or that the GUIDE project has not complied with the applicable data protection laws, they have the right to lodge a complaint with the European Data Protection Supervisor.

10. Contacting the GUIDE Office

The GUIDE office is responsible for the processing of your personal data as explained in this Data Protection Declaration.

The GUIDE office is located in Eurescom GmbH – Wieblinger Weg 19/4 – 69123 Heidelberg – Germany.

If you have any questions or enquiries regarding this Data Protection Declaration, you can contact the GUIDE office.

11. Updates to this data protection declaration & legal notice

The GUIDE office reserves the right to modify or update this Data Protection Declaration from time to time in response to legal, technical or business developments. If the changes affect the personal data collected, the GUIDE office will take appropriate measures to inform data subjects, which will be consistent with the significance of the changes made (e.g. by email or by posting on the website).

You can see when this Data Protection Declaration & Legal Notice was last updated by checking the “last updated date” displayed at the end of it.

12. Automated Individual Decision-Making, Including Profiling

The GUIDE office does not use automated decision-making or profiling.

13. Cookies

The Internet pages of the GUIDE website use cookies. Cookies are text files that are stored in a computer system via an Internet browser.

Many Internet sites and servers use cookies. Many cookies contain a so-called cookie ID. A cookie ID is a unique identifier of the cookie. It consists of a character string through which Internet pages and servers can be assigned to the specific Internet browser in which the cookie was stored. This allows visited Internet sites and servers to differentiate the individual browser of the data subject from other Internet browsers which contain other cookies. A specific Internet browser can be recognized and identified using the unique cookie ID.

Through the use of cookies, the GUIDE website can provide the users of this website with more user-friendly services that would not be possible without the cookie setting.

By means of a cookie, the information and offers on our website can be optimized with the user in mind. Cookies allow us, as previously mentioned, to recognize our website users. The purpose of this recognition is to make it easier for users to utilize our website. The website user who uses cookies, e.g., does not have to enter access data each time the website is accessed, because this is taken over by the website, and the cookie is thus stored on the user’s computer system.

The data subject may, at any time, prevent the setting of cookies through our website by means of a corresponding setting of the Internet browser used, and may thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. Furthermore, already set cookies may be deleted at any time via an Internet browser or other software programs. This is possible in all popular Internet browsers. If the data subject deactivates the setting of cookies in the Internet browser used, not all functions of our website may be entirely usable.

14. Application And Use Of the Matomo Analytics for WordPress 

Matomo is an open-source analytics platform working as a WordPress plugin allowing all analytics data to be stored locally on the web server we host ourselves at Eurescom GmbH hosting GUIDE’s project.

InnoCraft, the company founded by the creators of Matomo, provides digital analytics products and services that help individuals and businesses keep full control over their data. “InnoCraft Ltd”, a New Zealand company (NZBN 6106769) headquartered at: 7 Waterloo Quay PO625, 6140 Wellington, New Zealand. Because InnoCraft is located outside of the EU, the InnoCraft team has named a representative in the EU.

What Matomo Analytics is collecting and receiving

How is Matomo Analytics GDPR compliant?

• Data anonymization
• GDPR Manager
• Users can opt out of all tracks
• First-party cookies by default
• People can view the data collected
• Capabilities to delete visitor data when requested
• The data is not used for any other purposes (compared to Google Analytics)
• IP anonymization
• Visitor logs and profiles can be disabled

Data is stored in the EU (Matomo Cloud) or in any country of your choice (Matomo On-Premise)
Matomo has also been approved by the French Data Protection Authority (CNIL) as one of the select few web analytics tools that can be used to collect data without tracking consent. For those complying with CNIL, find out how to configure Matomo without tracking consent.

15. Links to third-party websites

The GUIDE website provides links to third-party sites. The GUIDE does not control those websites and is not responsible for their processing of personal data.

Since each social media channel has its own policy on the way they process personal data when you access their websites, we encourage the users to review their individual privacy policies. For example, if you choose to watch one of our videos on YouTube, you will be asked for explicit consent to accept YouTube cookies; if you look at our Twitter activity on Twitter, you will be asked for explicit consent to accept Twitter cookies; the same applies to LinkedIn.

• A) Application And Use Of LinkedIn

The GUIDE website has integrated components of the LinkedIn Corporation on this website. LinkedIn is a web-based social network that enables users with existing business contacts to connect and to make new business contacts. Over 400 million registered people in more than 200 countries use LinkedIn. Thus, LinkedIn is currently the largest platform for business contacts and one of the most visited websites in the world.

The operating project of LinkedIn is LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court Mountain View, CA 94043, UNITED STATES. For privacy matters outside of the UNITED STATES LinkedIn Ireland, Privacy Policy Issues, Wilton Plaza, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland, is responsible.

With each call-up to one of the individual pages of this Internet site, which is operated by the GUIDE website and on which a LinkedIn component (LinkedIn plug-in) was integrated, the Internet browser on the information technology system of the data subject is automatically prompted to the download of a display of the corresponding LinkedIn component of LinkedIn. Further information about the LinkedIn plug-in may be accessed at https://developer.linkedin.com/plugins. During the course of this technical procedure, LinkedIn gains knowledge of what specific sub-page of our website was visited by the data subject.

If the data subject is logged in at the same time on LinkedIn, LinkedIn detects with every call-up to our website by the data subject—and for the entire duration of their stay on our Internet site—which specific sub-page of our Internet page was visited by the data subject. This information is collected through the LinkedIn component and associated with the respective LinkedIn account of the data subject. If the data subject clicks on one of the LinkedIn buttons integrated on our website, then LinkedIn assigns this information to the personal LinkedIn user account of the data subject and stores the personal data.

LinkedIn receives information via the LinkedIn component that the data subject has visited our website, provided that the data subject is logged in at LinkedIn at the time of the call-up to our website. This occurs regardless of whether the person clicks on the LinkedIn button or not. If such a transmission of information to LinkedIn is not desirable for the data subject, then he or she may prevent this by logging off from their LinkedIn account before a call-up to our website is made.

LinkedIn provides under https://www.linkedin.com/psettings/guest-controls the possibility to unsubscribe from e-mail messages, SMS messages and targeted ads, as well as the ability to manage ad settings. LinkedIn also uses affiliates such as Eire, Google Analytics, BlueKai, DoubleClick, Nielsen, Comscore, Eloqua, and Lotame. The setting of such cookies may be denied under https://www.linkedin.com/legal/cookie-policy. The applicable privacy policy for LinkedIn is available under https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy. The LinkedIn Cookie Policy is available under https://www.linkedin.com/legal/cookie-policy.

• B) Application And Use Of Twitter

On this website, the GUIDE website has integrated components of Twitter. Twitter is a multilingual, publicly-accessible microblogging service on which users may publish and spread so-called ‘tweets,’ e.g. short messages, which are limited to 140 characters. These short messages are available for everyone, including those who are not logged on to Twitter. The tweets are also displayed to so-called followers of the respective user. Followers are other Twitter users who follow a user’s tweets. Furthermore, Twitter allows you to address a wide audience via hashtags, links or retweets.

The operating project Association of Twitter is Twitter, Inc., 1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, UNITED STATES.

With each call-up to one of the individual pages of this Internet site, which is operated by the GUIDE website and on which a Twitter component (Twitter button) was integrated, the Internet browser on the information technology system of the data subject is automatically prompted to download a display of the corresponding Twitter component of Twitter. Further information about the Twitter buttons is available under https://about.twitter.com/de/resources/buttons. During the course of this technical procedure, Twitter gains knowledge of what specific sub-page of our website was visited by the data subject. The purpose of the integration of the Twitter component is a retransmission of the contents of this website to allow our users to introduce this web page to the digital world and increase our visitor numbers.

If the data subject is logged in at the same time on Twitter, Twitter detects with every call-up to our website by the data subject and for the entire duration of their stay on our Internet site which specific sub-page of our Internet page was visited by the data subject. This information is collected through the Twitter component and associated with the respective Twitter account of the data subject. If the data subject clicks on one of the Twitter buttons integrated on our website, then Twitter assigns this information to the personal Twitter user account of the data subject and stores the personal data.

Twitter receives information via the Twitter component that the data subject has visited our website, provided that the data subject is logged in on Twitter at the time of the call-up to our website. This occurs regardless of whether the person clicks on the Twitter component or not. If such a transmission of information to Twitter is not desirable for the data subject, then he or she may prevent this by logging off from their Twitter account before a call-up to our website is made.

The applicable data protection provisions of Twitter may be accessed under https://twitter.com/privacy?lang=en

• C) Application And Use Of YouTube

On this website, the GUIDE website has integrated components of YouTube. YouTube is an Internet video portal that enables video publishers to set video clips and other users free of charge, which also provides free viewing, review and commenting on them. YouTube allows you to publish all kinds of videos, so you can access both full movies and TV broadcasts, as well as music videos, trailers, and videos made by users via the Internet portal.

The operating project Association of YouTube is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, UNITED STATES. The YouTube, LLC is a subsidiary of Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351, UNITED STATES.

With each call-up to one of the individual pages of this Internet site, which is operated by the GUIDE website and on which a YouTube component (YouTube video) was integrated, the Internet browser on the information technology system of the data subject is automatically prompted to download a display of the corresponding YouTube component. Further information about YouTube may be obtained under https://www.youtube.com/yt/about/en/. During the course of this technical procedure, YouTube and Google gain knowledge of what specific sub-page of our website was visited by the data subject.

If the data subject is logged in on YouTube, YouTube recognizes with each call-up to a sub-page that contains a YouTube video, which specific sub-page of our Internet site was visited by the data subject. This information is collected by YouTube and Google and assigned to the respective YouTube account of the data subject.

YouTube and Google will receive information through the YouTube component that the data subject has visited our website, if the data subject at the time of the call to our website is logged in on YouTube; this occurs regardless of whether the person clicks on a YouTube video or not. If such a transmission of this information to YouTube and Google is not desirable for the data subject, the delivery may be prevented if the data subject logs off from their own YouTube account before a call-up to our website is made.

YouTube’s data protection provisions, available at https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/, provide information about the collection, processing and use of personal data by YouTube and Google.

• D) Application And Use Of ReCAPTCHA

This site is using the free Google service reCAPTCHA for contact forms to protect users from spam and abuse. The Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply to the use of reCAPTCHA.

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16. Disclaimer

The GUIDE consortium maintains this website to enhance public access to information about its initiatives and European Union policies in general. Our goal is to keep this information timely and accurate. If errors are brought to our attention, we will try to correct them. However, the GUIDE project accepts no responsibility or liability whatsoever with regard to the information on this site.

This information is:

• – of a general nature only and is not intended to address the specific circumstances of any particular individual or entity;
• – not necessarily comprehensive, complete, accurate or up-to-date;
• – sometimes linked to external sites over which the GUIDE website has no control and for which the GUIDE consortium assumes no responsibility;
• – not professional or legal advice (if you need specific advice, you should always consult a suitably qualified professional).

Please note that it cannot be guaranteed that a document available online exactly reproduces an officially adopted text. Only the Official Journal of the European Union (the printed edition or, since 1 July 2013, the electronic edition on the EUR-Lex website) is authentic and produces legal effects.

It is our goal to minimise disruption caused by technical errors. However some data or information on our site may have been created or structured in files or formats that are not error-free, and we cannot guarantee that our service will not be interrupted or otherwise affected by such problems. The GUIDE consortium accepts no responsibility with regard to such problems incurred as a result of using this site or any linked external sites.

This disclaimer is not intended to limit the liability of the GUIDE project in contravention of any requirements laid down in applicable national law nor to exclude its liability for matters which may not be excluded under that law.

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17. Copyright notice

Reproduction is authorised, provided the source is acknowledged, save where otherwise stated.

Where prior permission must be obtained for the reproduction or use of textual and multimedia information (sound, images, software, etc.), such permission shall cancel the above-mentioned general permission and shall clearly indicate any restrictions on use.