Privacy policy

This Privacy Policy applies to the ACCTING website and governs personal data collection and use by the website only. ACCTING is committed to being transparent and to ensuring your privacy is protected. By using our website, you consent to personal data practices described below. ACCTING Privacy Policy is effective from 01.06.2022. We reserve the right to update or change the policy at any time, therefore you may want to review it periodically. 

Type of personal data that we collect

While using our site, you can voluntarily share with us your name and/or email address through ACCTING contact page and subscription to our newsletter tool. 

Use of personal data that we collect

We may use this information to send you our newsletter, disseminate information about ACCTING activities and results or to share information from other projects or third parties which we think you may find interesting. 

Sharing of personal data that we collect 

We do not sell or lease our contact lists to third parties.
ACCTING keeps a copy of its contact list on the MailChimp server (https://mailchimp.com), which is an e-mail campaigns and newsletters distribution tool. All personal data included in this contact list is used and protected according to MailChimp Privacy Policy, Section 12 (https://bit.ly/2KMmznD). 

We may share contact personal data within the Consortium to send you email for specific dissemination purposes. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal data except to provide dissemination to ACCTING, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your data. 

ACCTING will disclose your personal data, without notice, only if required to do so by law. 

Storage and deletion of personal data that we collect 

Your rights 

You can request to be removed from our contact list and/or request for your personal data to be deleted at any time by opting to unsubscribe in emails and/or newsletters that you receive from us, or by directly contacting us at accting-eu@esf.org 

At any time, you can request information on the processing of your personal data, or request to update, correct, cancel or block your data. To exercise your rights, please contact us at accting-eu@esf.org 

Security 

To prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. 

Cookies 

Cookies are small text files which are saved on your computer, mobile phone or tablet. They allow the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size and other display preferences), so you do not have to manually adjust your preferences every time you visit a site.
You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish. For more information on how to manage cookies, please visit: https://www.aboutcookies.org/ 

Google Analytics 

We use tools like Google Analytics to better understand how visitors interact with our website. This provides us with important information for our website to work better. The information collected is not linked to your personal data. 

The following cookies are used by Google Analytics: 

Name  Typical content  Cookie expires after 
_ga  Used to distinguish users  2 years 
_gat  Used to throttle request rate  1 minute 
_gid  Used to distinguish users  24 hours 

If you do not wish your data to be sent to Google Analytics, you can install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. 

For more information on the cookies set by Google Analytics, please visit:
http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/concepts/gaConceptsCookies.html 

Contact us 

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at accting-eu@esf.org 

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