Terms and conditions

1. European Multi Actor Board interactive platform

The European Multi Actor Board interactive platform (the “EMB platform”) is the restricted area for members (the “Member” or “Members”). It is a social network owned and managed by EAAP.

It is a place aimed at meeting other Members in order to share ideas and materials, and to organize discussions, meetings and conferences. It allows to create and subscribe to groups, and to connect with other users through a private chat.

Once connected, the Member will be provided with a personal dashboard that allows to decide which information to share with other users and which to keep private. The shared or uploaded contents that are labelled as public content are accessible to each Member but Members can also decide to limit the sharing of their information to their connections or to keep them private thus forbidding the access to other Members.

The Members Area permits access to protected resources, such as newsletters, publications, videos recoded during virtual meetings.

Push notifications can be sent by EAAP at the Members’ email address. Members can manage the notifications they are willing to receive.

2. EMB platform use

These Terms and Conditions administer your use of the EMB platform. By using our EMB platform, you accept these Terms and Conditions in full (including the Privacy Policy and the Cookie Policy).

You are prohibited from violating, or attempting to violate, the security of our EMB platform. Violations of the security of the EMB platform include, without limitation, the following:

– Tampering, hacking, modifying or otherwise corrupting or breaching security without proper authorization;

– Transmitting or uploading material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs or other computer programming routines or engines with the intent or effect of damaging, destroying, disrupting or otherwise impairing a computer’s functionality or the operation of the EMB platform;

– Interfering with, intercepting or expropriating any system, data or information.

3. EMB platform content and liability

The views expressed on the EMB platform represent the views of the author(s) of the relevant message only, and do not represent the views of EAAP. To the extent permitted by law, EAAP shall have no liability whatsoever with respect to the content of the EMB platform or its use.

To the extent permitted by law, EAAP shall not be liable with respect to the use and content of third-party content or user generated content accessible in the EMB platform. Third-party content as well as user generated content are subject to the liability of their author(s)/owner(s) only. EAAP undertakes to delete links and any other kind of content (including but not limited to photos, research papers, message expression of hate speech or content whatsoever which is deemed to fall outside the scope of EAAP areas of interests) if it learns they actually lead to illegal information or activities.

The information available on the EMB platform is offered for informative purposes only and cannot be relied upon as professional advice of any kind whatsoever, including but not limited to the expert opinions published or referred to on the EMB platform.

You agree that use of any information obtained via our EMB platform is at your own risk, and EAAP shall not be liable for any decisions taken on the basis of this information.

Whilst EAAP does its utmost to ensure the content of the EMB platform is not in breach of any applicable law, such as copyrights law, and to overview the accuracy of the content, EAAP does not offer any guarantees about the content and information uploaded and/or shared by its Members towards the EMB platform.

To the extent permitted by law, EAAP shall not be liable for any damage resulting from your direct or indirect use of this EMB platform or its content or for any damage resulting from interruptions to the EMB platform’s online services owing to technical errors, viruses or any (other) factors beyond EAAP’s control.

To the extent that any content on the EMB platform shared or uploaded by a Member that was provided by a third party (such as an external expert) is unlawful, EAAP undertakes to react promptly to remove or render inaccessible such content upon being made aware (with adequate evidence) of the unlawful nature thereof.

Each Member, regardless of the qualification acquired (simple user, moderator, organizer ), is subject to these Terms and Conditions. The group’s moderators and the meeting organizers are entitled to invite other people to join the activities organized by them on the EMB platform’s group and through the EMB platform’s features. To the extent permitted by the law, EAAP shall not be liable with respect to the content shared or produced in these occasions.

If you have any questions regarding the content of the EMB platform or if you spot any errors, please get in touch with us at info@ppilow.eu

4. Intellectual property rights

Without prejudice to the rights of individuals or works quoted in articles, EAAP owns the intellectual property rights in the Members Area and content and materials on the Members Area (including without limitation all images, logos and text).

You may not use any EMB platform content in any manner whatsoever for defamatory purposes or for any other unlawful purpose.

5. Privacy Statement

EAAP may process some personal data concerning you in the context of your use of the EMB platform, as described in EAAP’s Privacy Policy. Click here to view EAAP’s Privacy Policy.

6. Cookie Policy

The EMB platform uses certain cookies, as described in the Cookie Policy. Click here to view EMB Platform’s Cookie Policy.

7. Changes

EAAP reserves the right to modify these Terms and Conditions at any time and without notice. Changes cannot be retroactive. Your continued use of the EMB platform after EAAP publishes changes to these terms means that you are consenting to the updated terms as of their effective date. If you object to any changes, you may unsubscribe from the EMB platform.

8. Severability

If any part of the Terms and Conditions should be found invalid or unenforceable, for any reason whatsoever, the remaining parts of the Terms and Conditions shall remain valid and enforceable as if the invalid or unenforceable provision had not been included therein.

9. Applicable law and competent courts 

These Terms and Conditions of the EMB platform are governed by and interpreted with Italian law, and the courts of Rome (Italy) shall have sole and exclusive jurisdiction over any disputes relating to the Terms and Conditions, the EMB platform or its use or content.

10. Contact

Applications for information about the EMB platform or its content should be made to info@ppilow.eu

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Privacy Policy

• PPILOW is a Consortium made of several institutions that are supported by the EU Horizon 2020 Framework Programme to conduct a 5-years’ research project under the coordination of the Institut National de Recherche en Agriculture, Alimentation et Environnement (INRAE), a French public research institute dedicated to agricultural science.
• The “European Federation for Animal Science” (EAAP) is an international non-governmental organization with its registered office in Rome (Italy), via G. Tomassetti 3/A1, 00161, which aims to improve the knowledge and the dissemination of research results of domestic animals farming. Based on the description of PPILOW activities included in Grant Agreement n. 772787, Annex 1, EAAP is responsible for the implementation of PPILOW communication and dissemination activities (including the creation and diffusion of e-newsletters).
• For the purposes of its communication and dissemination activities within the PPILOW project, EAAP may need to process certain personal data or personal information concerning individuals who are part of the PPILOW Consortium or are interested in receiving the e-newsletters, information, data and services that could be made available by the PPILOW Consortium.
• For the purpose of this Data Protection Notice and pursuant to Article 4 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation), “personal data” means “any information relating to a natural person identified or identifiable, 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”; “processing” means “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”.
• Your personal data will/may be processed by EAAP on behalf of the PPILOW Consortium for the following purposes:
  1. Communicating and disseminating project outputs/results;
  2. Informing about PPILOW events, trainings courses and workshops;
  3. Sending out PPILOW press releases and e-newsletters;
  4. Sending out project internal communications [1];
  5. Responding to any enquiries about the project;
  6. Implementing other communication and dissemination activities related to PPILOW objectives.
• PPILOW Consortium represented by the project coordinator Anne Collin and EAAP, represented by its Secretary General Andrea Rosati, lawfully and rightfully process personal data in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2016/679. Personal data are processed by EAAP on behalf of the PPILOW consortium in a manner that ensures appropriate security, including protection against unauthorised or unlawful processing and against accidental loss, destruction or damage, using appropriate technical or organisational measures, and kept in a form which permits identification of data subjects for no longer than it is necessary for the purposes for which the personal data are processed.
• The processing of personal data by the PPILOW Consortium and EAAP shall be without prejudice to all the rights conferred to you as data subject by Articles 15-21 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679, namely:
  1. Right to have access to your own personal data processed by the PPILOW Consortium and to receive the information on the persons or third parties who have directly or indirectly access to your personal data stored in the EAAP databases; this include the right to receive a response to the request for the information whether your personal data are being processed and receive the personal data within 30 calendar days after the request is made;[2]
  2. Right to obtain the rectification without undue delay of inaccurate or incomplete personal data;
  3. Right to obtain the restriction of processing of your personal data where they are: (a) inaccurate; (b) no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which they were processed, but you need them for the establishment, exercise or defence of your legal claims;
  4. Right to obtain the erasure without undue delay of your personal data where: (a) they are no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which they were processed; (b) they have been unlawfully processed; c) you have exercised your right of withdrawal of consent on which the processing is based and there is no other legal ground for the processing;
  5. Right to require the provision of your personal data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format; and where technically feasible, to transmit your data directly to another controller of your choice (right to data portability);
  6. Right to object at any time to processing of personal data where they are processed for direct marketing purposes, which includes profiling to the extent that it is related to such direct marketing;
  7. Right to protect your personal data from unlawful processing or accidental loss, destruction or damage caused by intentional or untimely concealment, and the right for protection from information which is unreliable or harms the person’s honour, dignity, and business reputation;
  8. Right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority to safeguard your rights of personal data protection;
  9. Right to withdraw your consent to processing your personal data at any time.

Accomplishment of all rights can be demanded by contacting the EAAP’s representative, Mr. Andrea Rosati, by email (dataprotection@ppilow.eu).

This Data Protection Notice serves as an integral part of the terms and conditions of all activities developed by the PPILOW consortium.

[1] Only applies to PPILOW partners. The partners of the PPILOW consortium will equally be allowed to use the contact details of PPILOW members to send out project internal communications.

[2] That period may be extended by two further months where necessary, taking into account the complexity and number of the requests. EAAP shall inform the data subject of any such extension within one month of receipt of the request, together with the reasons for the delay (Article 12(3) GDPR).

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