Privacy policy.
GENE takes the security of your personal information very seriously and is committed to ensuring that your personal information is protected at all times.
The purpose of this Privacy notice is to provide you with a clear explanation about how your personal information is collected and used by us during your interaction with us as well as your rights in relation to your personal information.
GENE may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from 4 June 2018.
What we collect
GENE only collects basic personal information about you (such as name, email address and basic contact details – as well as any other information that you choose to provide) and only in the following ways:
Information that you yourself provide in writing, via telephone, at our events or through other means;
or Information that we obtain from your interaction with our activities.
At the moment, GENE does not collect personal information via its website. We do however use cookies (see below).
We will not ask for, and do not intend to collect, any sensitive personal information about you.
What we do with the information we gather
GENE needs to know basic personal information about you in order to respond to requests you make to us, and to provide you with information relating to our activities (such as newsletters, information about grants and research, event invitations, surveys, etc.) which either you have consented to receive or which relate to GENE activities which we believe may be of interest to you. We will not use your personal information for any other purpose.
GENE collects information about your usage of our websites through cookies.
We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:
Monitoring of website use and statistics
To improve your user experience of the website
Security
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect.
How we use cookies
A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.
We use website traffic to identify the relevance of pages and content. We analyse this statistical information to help us to improve our site with the experience and validation of its use, with the purpose to adapt it to our users needs. We only use this informations for statistical analysis purposes and the data is collected and used anonymously.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.
You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies, or delete them if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.
Links to other websites
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
Controlling your personal information
The personal data we hold about individuals has been given to us directly by these individuals in person, via website, email, phone or exchange of business cards. We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for.
We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. We may use your personal information to send you information about third parties which we think you may find interesting if you tell us that you wish this to happen.
You have a number of legal rights surrounding your personal information, including:
the right to access and copy your personal information;
the right to obtain correction of any inaccurate or incomplete personal information;
the right to have your personal information deleted;
the right to restrict or object to GENE processing of your personal information;
the right to withdraw your consent to our processing at any time (i.e. including the right to opt-out of or unsubscribe from communications at any time, either by contacting us at the details provided in this Privacy notice or clicking the unsubscribe link in the emails that you receive from us).
Please contact us any time by writing to or emailing lidia.labbaci@gene.eu if you would like to exercise any of your legal rights. We will respond to any rights that you exercise within one month of receiving your request, unless the request is complex or involves a significant amount of data, in which case we will respond within three months.