Privacy Policy

 

1. Using the online contact form on the vehiclecrimebarrier.eu website

This website offers you the possibility of sending a message to the VEHICLE CRIME BARRIER project team through an online contact form. While using the form your personal data will be collected and further processed for the purposes detailed hereafter.

2. What personal information do we collect, for what purpose and through which technical means?

Your personal data are collected and further processed only to the extent necessary to respond to a message sent through the online contact form: name, surname and e-mail address.

3. Who has access to your information and to whom is it disclosed?

The VEHICLE CRIME BARRIER project team and the persons in charge of maintaining the website vehiclecrimebarrier.eu have access to your data. Your message is stored on the server of the VEHICLE CRIME BARRIER project coordinator, the Center for the Study of Democracy, and may be forwarded by e-mail to the VEHICLE CRIME BARRIER project team member responsible for replying to the message.

No personal data collected in relation to this website is transmitted to or shared with other parties.

4. How do we protect and safeguard your information?

The collected personal data and all information related to the above-mentioned online contact form can be accessed by designated members of the VEHICLE CRIME BARRIER project team and by the persons responsible for the technical maintenance of the website.

5. How can you verify, modify or delete your information?

You have no direct access to the data stored on our server. If you wish to modify or delete your personal data, or want to know what personal data is stored on your behalf, please send a message to contact(at)vehiclecrimebarrier(dot)eu. You will receive a reply within 15 working days.

Special attention is drawn to the consequences of a request for deletion, in which case any trace to be able to contact you will be lost.

6. How long is your data kept?

All personal data received and stored will be deleted databases after 5 years.

Cookies

To make this site work properly, we sometimes place small data files called cookies on your device. Most big websites do this too.

What are cookies?

A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.

How do we use cookies?

A number of our pages use cookies to remember:

  • your display preferences, such as contrast colour settings or font size
  • if you have already replied to a survey pop-up that asks you if the content was helpful or not (so you won’t be asked again)
  • if you have agreed (or not) to our use of cookies on this site

Also, some videos embedded in our pages use a cookie to anonymously gather statistics on how you got there and what videos you visited.

Cookies are also stored by Google Analytics, the corporate service which measures the effectiveness and efficiency of the European Commission’s websites on EUROPA.

Enabling these cookies is not strictly necessary for the website to work but it will provide you with a better browsing experience. You can delete or block these cookies, but if you do that some features of this site may not work as intended.

The cookie-related information is not used to identify you personally and the pattern data is fully under our control. These cookies are not used for any purpose other than those described here.

How to control cookies

You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish – for details, see aboutcookies.org. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.