Privacy Policy

Website Privacy Policy

This privacy policy explains how EPRI Europe DAC (“EPRI Europe”) processes the personal data we collect from you when you visit this website. This is in line with our obligations under the General Data Protection Regulation (No. 2016/679) (“GDPR”) and other laws that apply to us. 

How do we collect data and what data will we collect?

Data collected may include: (1) data you by consent directly provide to us in a contact form (e.g., your full name, your work email address, your employer’s name); or (2) data collected automatically by IT systems when you use this website (e.g., technical data such as IP address, device identifiers, browser information or cookie data). Personal data is any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (“Personal Data”). Data collected will often not but may include some Personal Data.  

How will we use your data?

Where you have voluntarily opted in and consented to subscribe to the EU-DREAM email newsletter, EPRI Europe will use your data (which may include Personal Data) to communicate with you. Other data will be used by the website operator to ensure the proper functioning of the website.  

Why can we use your data? 

EPRI Europe processes your Personal Data using a lawful basis, most often consent. Other lawful bases may also be sometimes used (e.g., where processing is required by government authorities or law, to respond to any messages or requests you may send to us or where EPRI Europe has a legitimate interest in operating, maintaining and improving this website). 

How do we retain your data?

EPRI Europe aims to securely store, and subsequently delete, your Personal Data. EPRI Europe keeps Personal Data only for as long as its retention is deemed necessary for the purposes for which it is processed (as described in this policy) unless we are required to retain your Personal Data for a longer period (e.g., because of legal proceedings or investigations).

What are your data protection rights concerning your Personal Data?

EPRI Europe wants to make you fully aware of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following (subject to limitations in applicable data protection law):

  • The right to access: You have the right to request copies of your Personal Data from EPRI Europe. We may charge you a small fee for this service.
  • The right to rectification: You have the right to request that EPRI Europe correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that EPRI Europe complete the information you believe is incomplete.
  • The right to erasure: You have the right to request that EPRI Europe erase your Personal Data, under certain conditions.
  • The right to restrict processing: You have the right to request that EPRI Europe restrict the processing of your Personal Data, under certain conditions.
  • The right to object to processing: You have the right to object to EPRI Europe’s processing of your Personal Data, under certain conditions.
  • The right to data portability: You have the right to request that EPRI Europe transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at our email: info@eu-dream.eu

Navigation data processed with Matomo  

Our website is using Matomo, an open-source software tool owned by InnoCraft that helps website owners to measure how users interact with website content. Matomo gives us the ability to track visitor interactions by using first-party cookies that can record information about the time and the page a user has seen, for example the URL of the page, and “remember” what a user has done on previous pages and the “cache memory” of the pages or websites the user has seen or interacted with. Matomo tracks and traces the website visitors’ IP addresses to identify the visitors based on the geographical location they provided. Matomo does not collect any personal information about the website users as it reports website trends.

What about the email newsletter?

If you wish, you may request on this website that you be added to the mailing list for the EU-DREAM email newsletter. If you do so, we will use your email address from time to time to send you relevant updates and information concerning EU-DREAM by way of an email newsletter. For example, this may include project deliverables, papers and reports, or project event’s and updates information. You have the right at any time to stop EPRI Europe from contacting you with this EU-DREAM email newsletter. If you no longer wish to be receive this email newsletter, please click the unsubscribe button at the bottom of any email newsletter you receive and follow the instructions. Alternatively, you may email info@eu-dream.eu at any time to unsubscribe. 

What about third party links?

This website may occasionally include third party links. That does not mean we have any control over the linked website or its privacy policy or that we endorse or approve that website’s policy towards user privacy. You should review the linked website’s privacy policy before sending them any Personal Data.

What about cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and saved by your browser. Cookies may help make this website more user-friendly, efficient, and secure. This website primarily uses “session cookies”, which are automatically deleted after your visit. Other cookies may remain in your device’s memory until you delete them. These cookies make it possible to recognize your browser when you next visit the site.  You can configure your browser to inform you about the use of cookies so that you can decide on a case-by-case basis whether to accept or reject a cookie. Alternatively, your browser can be configured to automatically accept cookies under certain conditions or to always reject them, or to automatically delete cookies when closing your browser. Disabling cookies may limit the functionality of this website. Cookies which are necessary to allow electronic communications or to provide certain functions you wish to use are stored pursuant to GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the storage of cookies to ensure an optimized service provided free of technical errors. 

Google service reCaptcha

We use the Google service reCaptcha to determine whether a person or a computer makes a specific entry in our contact or newsletter form. Google uses the following information to determine if you are a human being or a computer: IP address of the terminal device you are using, the website you are visiting and on which the captcha is integrated, the date and duration of the visit, the identification data of the browser and operating system type used, Google account if you are logged in to Google, mouse movements on the reCaptcha areas and tasks for which you must identify images. The legal basis for the described data processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f General Data Protection Regulation. There is a legitimate interest on our part in this data processing to ensure the security of our website and to protect us from automated input (attacks).

Who we are and how to contact us

We value your opinion and feedback. If you have any questions about this privacy notice, the data we hold on you, or if you would like to exercise one of your data protection rights, please contact us.

  • Entity: EPRI Europe DAC
  • Managing Director: Eamonn Lannoye
  • Email us at: elannoye@epri.com

You are free to complain about EPRI Europe’s compliance with data protection law the Irish Data Protection Commission. However, we ask that in the first instance you please contact us to give us the opportunity to address your concerns.

This website offers an information service for those who want to follow the development of actions in the Horizon Europe Project EU-DREAM (which receives funding from the European Union’s research and innovation programme under agreement number 101160614.). All information provided reflects: (i) the status of the project at the time of writing and may be subject to change; and (ii) only the author’s view such that the European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA) is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information contained at this website. Users may use this website for their personal use. Users cannot modify, use, copy, distribute, transfer, reproduce, publish, licence, sell or use the information, software, products or services obtained or available through the site for commercial purposes.

What about changes?

How we process Personal Data may evolve. If it does, we will update this policy from time to time to reflect changing practices. As a result, please review this privacy policy from time to time.