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These Website Terms and Conditions shall govern your use of this Website, including all of its pages. These Terms apply in full force and effect to your use of this Website, and by using it, you expressly accept all terms and conditions contained herein. You must not use this Website if you have an objection to any of these Terms and Conditions.
BLUEAQUAEDU – “BlueAquaEdu explores gamification as a pedagogic approach to engage & motivate teenagers (15-18) and students (18+) in aquaculture, post-harvesting value chain and valorisation of the processing by-products sectors education” is a project coordinated by AUA (The Agricultural University of Athens) represented by Professor Thomas BARTZANAS · Vice Rector of Research, Finance & Development, . The project received a 1.2 million EUR financing from the European Commission through the “Blue careers for a sustainable blue economy” call, to contribute to the development of the next generation of blue skills and to provide opportunities for attractive and sustainable maritime careers.

Grant Agreement: N°101124699
Person responsible for content: Eleni MILIOU, BLUEAQUAEDU Coordinator
Website Host: OVH
Source of images and graphics: AUA, MINDS PC, LAMAR SA, SEAENTIA, AQUIMER, Adobe Stock
Webmaster: Communication Leader

AQUIMER is the assigned Communication Leader of the Project, based on the 101124699 Grant Agreement, responsible for coordinating the communication activities related to the Project’s expected results, including the creation and management of the Website and any other Materials included in it.

General conditions

Use of the www.blueaquaedu.eu website implies full acceptance of the general conditions of use described below. These conditions of use may be modified or supplemented at any time, and users of the www.blueaquaedu.eu website are therefore invited to consult them regularly.
This site is normally accessible to users at all times. However, BLUEAQUAEDU may decide to interrupt the site for technical maintenance purposes. In such a case, BLUEAQUAEDU will endeavour to inform users in advance of the dates and times of the intervention.

Disclaimer:

1. Services provided
The purpose of the www.blueaquaedu.eu website is to provide information about all the project’s activities.
The contents of the BLUEAQUAEDU website pages have been created with the utmost care. However, we cannot guarantee the contents’ accuracy, completeness or topicality. According to statutory provisions, we are furthermore responsible for our own content on these web pages.
The Website may contain links to other Internet sites and services that are operated and maintained by third parties or its affiliates. You acknowledge, understand and agree that the Communication Leader will not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with the use of or reliance on any such content, products or services available on such other sites.
All information on the BLUEAQUAEDU website is given for information purposes only and is subject to change. Furthermore, the information on the www.blueaquaedu.eu website is not exhaustive. It is given subject to modifications having been made since it was put on line.
View and opinions expressed are those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

2. Copyright and intellectual property rights

BLUEAQUAEDU is the owner of the intellectual property rights or holds the rights of use on all the elements accessible on the site, in particular the texts, images, graphics, logos, icons, sounds, software. The Communication Leader authorises users to copy and print extracts or documents from this Website solely for personal, non-commercial use, on the understanding that any copy or extract of said documents or pages obtained, maintain all intellectual property rights or other property notices including all disclaimers contained therein.
Any reproduction, representation, modification, publication, adaptation of all or part of the elements of the site, whatever the means or process used, is forbidden, except with the prior written authorisation of the Communication leader
Any unauthorised use of the site or of any of the elements it contains will be considered as constituting an infringement and will be prosecuted in accordance with the provisions of articles L.335-2 et seq. of the Intellectual Property Code.

3. Contractual limitations on technical data

The website cannot be held responsible for any material damage related to the use of the site. Furthermore, the user of the site undertakes to access the site using recent, virus-free equipment and with a last-generation updated browser.

4. Limitations of liability

BLUEAQUAEDU cannot be held responsible for direct and indirect damage caused to the user’s equipment when accessing the www.blueaquaedu.eu website, and resulting either from the use of equipment that does not meet the specifications indicated in point 2, or from the appearance of a bug or an incompatibility.
BLUEAQUAEDU may not be held responsible for indirect damage (such as loss of market or loss of opportunity) resulting from the use of the site www.blueaquaedu.eu

5. Personal data management

In order for us to provide you the best possible experience on our websites, we need to collect and process certain information. That may include:
• Contact us via email — for example, when you ask for support, send us questions or comments, or report a problem, we will collect your name, email address, message, etc. We use this data solely in connection with answering the queries we receive.
• Usage data — when you visit our site, we will store: the website/keyword from which you visited us from, the parts of our site you visit, the date and duration of your visit and your anonymised IP address. We process this usage data in Independent Analytics for statistical purposes, to improve our site and to recognize and stop any misuse.
No personal information of the user of the site www.blueaquaedu.eu is published without the user’s knowledge, exchanged, transferred, ceded or sold on any medium to third parties.
We will process your personal data with Independent Analytics platform. The data and information collected by Independent Analytics is 100% owned and controlled by the European Commission. This guarantees compliance with strict privacy regulations and laws.
The legal basis of processing is the legitimate interest (absolute technical necessity to provide and to deliver the “website” service which you have explicitly requested by visiting the website according to Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR combined with § 25 TTDSG.
Data on your terminal device are kept for up to two years.
You have the right to be informed of Personal Data processed, a right to rectification/correction, erasure and restriction of processing. You also have the right to ask from us a structured, common and machine-readable format of Personal Data you provided to us.

6. Applicable law and jurisdiction

Any litigation related to the use of the www.blueaquaedu.eu website is subject to French law. The competent courts of Paris have exclusive jurisdiction.

7. The main laws involved

• Act to Regulate Data Protection and Privacy in Telecommunications and Telemedia (TTDSG)
• General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
• Intellectual Property Code

Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy applies to this Website www.blueaquaedu.eu regardless of whether you use a computer, mobile phone, tablet, TV or another device.

Personal data that this website collects provided by you and how we use it ?

Unless stated otherwise in detail in the relevant sections of the Website, Personal Data generated from the use of our Website is processed as follows:

• Contact via electronic mail (e-mail)
Should you choose to communicate with us via email, we invite you to provide your name, as well as your mailing address. Please note that your name and mailing address is the only data we collect required for the specified purpose. Without this information, we are unable to answer your message and address it to you personally. The legal basis for processing Personal Data for the purposes set out in this Section 2 is art. 6(1)(b) of GDPR as the processing is necessary for the response to requests from the interested party.

• Site visitation tracking
We will process your personal data with Independent Analytics platform. The data and information collected by Independent Analytics is 100% owned and controlled by the European Commission. This guarantees compliance with strict privacy regulations and laws.

How we store your personal data

In order for us to provide you the best possible experience on our websites, we need to collect and process certain information. That may include:
• Contact us via email — for example, when you ask for support, send us questions or comments, or report a problem, we will collect your name, email address, message, etc. We use this data solely in connection with answering the queries we receive.
• Usage data — when you visit our site, we will store: the website/keyword from which you visited us from, the parts of our site you visit, the date and duration of your visit and your anonymised IP address. We process this usage data in Independent Analytics for statistical purposes, to improve our site and to recognize and stop any misuse.

No personal information of the user of the site www.blueaquaedu.eu is published without the user’s knowledge, exchanged, transferred, ceded or sold on any medium to third parties.
The legal basis of processing is the legitimate interest (absolute technical necessity to provide and to deliver the “website” service which you have explicitly requested by visiting the website according to Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR combined with § 25 TTDSG.
Data on your terminal device are kept for up to two years.

What are cookies ?

The BLUEAQUAEDU website uses cookies to give you the best possible experience. A cookie is a small data file that is installed on your computer when you visit a website. It enables the site to analyse the user’s preferences, consumption habits and behaviour. When you visit the www.blueaquaedu.eu website, a cookie notification informs you that we use cookies on this site. You can choose to accept or refuse them.

Your rights as a data subject with respect to your personal data

Under the General Data Protection Regulation [Articles 15-21], you have a number of important rights free of charge. In summary, those include rights to:

• Right of access:
You have the right to be aware and verify the legitimate nature of the processing. So, you have the right to access your personal data and receive additional information about how we process it.

• Right to rectification:
You have the right to study, correct, update or modify your personal data by contacting Reincarnate at contact@poleaquimer.com
Right to erasure (right to be forgotten):
You have the right to request deletion of your personal data when we process it with your consent or in order to protect our legitimate interests. In all other cases (such as where there is a contract, obligation to process personal data legally required, or public interest), this right is subject to specific restrictions or shall not exist, as the case may be.

• Right to restriction of processing:
You have the right to request a restriction of the processing of your personal data in the following cases: (a) when the accuracy of the personal data is contested and until the accuracy is verified (b) when you oppose the deletion of your personal data and request the restriction of their use instead, c) when personal data are not needed for processing purposes, they are however required for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims, and (d) when you object to the processing and the decision on your objection to processing is pending.

• Right to object to processing:
You have the right to object at any time to the processing of your personal data where, as described above, the processing is based on the legitimate interests we pursue as data controllers, as well as for the purposes of direct marketing and consumer profiling, if applicable.

• Right to data portability:
You have the right to receive your personal data free of charge in a format that allows you to access, use, and edit them with commonly used editing methods. You also have the right to ask us, in case it is technically feasible, to transmit the data directly to another controller. Your right to do so exists for the data you have provided to us and is processed by automated means based on your consent or for the execution of a relevant contract.

• Right to withdraw your consent:
In cases where processing is based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw it without affecting the lawfulness of processing based on consent prior to its withdrawal.

If you would like to exercise any of those rights, please:
• contact us using our contact details below,
• let us have enough information to identify you,
• let us have proof of your identity and address, and
• let us know the information to which your request relates.

This privacy policy may change from time to time in line with legislation or industry developments. We will not explicitly inform our clients or website users of these changes. Instead, we recommend that you check this page occasionally for any policy changes.