Thank you for your interest in our website. Protecting our visitors’ data and using it only for the established purposes is our highest priority. Thus, the following policy is designed to inform you about the processing of your personal data and your rights regarding this processing according to the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and other data protection laws.

What is personal data?

Personal data is any type of information that identifies or makes identifiable a unique person, that is, the “data subject”. Examples of personal data include name, address, telephone number and biometric data, among others.

Who is responsible for processing my personal data?

The entity responsible for processing the personal data that may be collected on the website “https://bridges4health.pt/” is i3S - Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde da Universidade do Porto, located at Rua Alfredo Allen 208, 4200-135 Porto, Portugal.

What personal data are collected/processed during my use of our website, why and who will have access to it?

This website will provide links to other websites where the collection of personal data (for example: name, email, affiliation) may take place, for instance, through contact or registration forms (when completed and submitted by the user), in order to manage registrations in events, to respond to requests about activities, and to facilitate networking with partners.

In these cases, the project managers of the Bridges4Health consortium – i3S, Centro Académico Clínico de Braga (2CA-Braga), UCIBIO and CBQF from Universidade Católica Portuguesa will have access to the data collected in those forms.

In addition, this website collects general data of visitors for analysis through Google Analytics: namely IP address, Geographic location, Pages Visited, User activity on the page (time per page, downloads made, clicks), and how users arrived at the page. General traffic analysis data is stored by Google Analytics and is therefore subject to its privacy policies.

How long do you keep my data?

Your data will only be kept for the minimum period necessary for the purposes that led to their collection or subsequent processing, after which they will be deleted.

How securely is my data stored?

Any personal data collected on this website will be processed by i3S with the guarantees of security and confidentiality, as required by the Laws that regulate the Protection of Personal Data.

What rights do I have in relation to my data?

As the holder of personal data, you may have the right to: receive information about the data processing and a copy of the processed data; request the rectification of inaccurate or incomplete data; request the erasure of your personal data (unless the Institution is required by law to keep the data in question); restrict the processing of your personal data; object to the processing of your personal data; withdraw a given consent at any time to stop a data processing (from then onwards) that is based on your consent.

Who can I contact if I have questions?

If you have any questions regarding the processing of your personal data or if you want to exercise your rights as a data subject, you can contact the i3S Data Protection Officer using the following email address: dpo@i3s.up.pt

Who can I complain to?

As the data subject, you have the right to file a complaint about our use of your information to Comissão Nacional de Proteção de Dados, our competent national supervisory authority, at https://www.cnpd.pt.

How often is this Privacy Policy updated?

This privacy policy will be reviewed and updated whenever deemed necessary. The date of this document will be updated each time it is altered.