Terms of Services

DIGI HELICON Digital Tool Terms and Conditions

  1. These DIGI HELICON Digital Tool Terms and Conditions (hereafter referred to as Terms) apply to the training activities and materials developed and submitted to the DIGI HELICON program related to the training courses for the users and the information of the profiles created on the platform. 
  2. By using this service, you agree that you have read, understand, and agree to these terms. 
  3. Definition of terms “User” is used within these provisions refers to young participants interested in engaging and participating in the DIGI HELICON tool activities. Users can enroll in an activity. “Instructor” refers to the person, acting as a trainer, that can generate a set of questions. 
  4. Entire agreement The Terms set out the entire agreement between the DIGI HELICON project partnership and yourself, relating to all the activities presented on the platform. No customer terms will apply. 
  5. Pre-requisites Attendees must be computer literate and have a basic understanding of the products to which the training activities relate. Users are solely responsible for ensuring that they have sufficient and compatible hardware, software, telecommunications equipment, and Internet service necessary for use of the Site and modules. 
  6. Right to training material The DIGI HELICON project partnership is responsible for the materials presented on this platform. As this is an Erasmus+ supported project, all materials are open and free to use. The materials can be shared and used for educational purposes, with the prerequisite of formal acknowledgment of sources, copyright, and a reference to the project. None of the Place-based activities may be reproduced, processed using electronic systems, copied, distributed, translated, used for public reproduction, and passed on to third parties in any manner, neither entirely nor in excerpt form for your or any third-party profits and/or other commercial use. For any material included in the Matrix, all terms and conditions for use of the material is in accordance with the respective sources of the content. 
  7. Enrolment Enrolments for training activities will be considered in the order they are received. As a rule, enrolments can be made via login. For all training activities offered enrolling is recommended. No limit to the number of participants apply. 
  8. Any and all contributions to new activities are subject to review by the Partnership. However, you in your personal or organizational capacity are obliged in this context to observe and comply with all applicable laws and other legal provisions and, in particular, not to include any content that violates the rights of third parties (including but not limited to copyrights, trademark rights, personal and industrial property rights of third parties) or which are unlawful, misleading, malicious, discriminatory, pornographic, sexist, threatening, insulting, libelous, obscene, defamatory, ethically offensive, glorifying violence, harassing, are unsuitable for minors, are racist, immoral, inciting to hatred of the people, hostile to foreigners or otherwise despicable or reprehensible, or contain viruses, worms, Trojans or other malicious code that may endanger or impair the functioning of our platforms. We are entitled at any time to temporarily or permanently delete or remove content that is illegal or violates our General Terms and Conditions without prior notice and without giving reasons. The same terms apply to comments posted on activities. The Partnership does not set a time frame for monitoring or removal of inappropriate content (as set in 7.1.) and may not be held liable for any distress, damage or else caused by such content, of which the partnership is not a direct owner. 
  9. Liability Our liability under or in connection with the Terms or relating to the training activities must not exceed the reasons for its establishment to which the liability relates. Without limiting the previous sentence, we exclude all liability for indirect, consequential, or incidental loss or damage, or for loss of profit, savings, business, revenue, and/or goodwill, arising under or in connection with the Terms or relating to the training. The Partnership of the project does not have any liability related to any violations of section 7, set out in these Terms. Our products may link to third-party websites, and we are not responsible for their data policies or procedures or their content. 
  10. Miscellaneous The Terms and Conditions for Participation are binding in all their remaining parts even if individual provisions are legally invalid. Any changes and amendments require written form. 
  11. Applicable law, place of jurisdiction Agreements in respect to training activities shall be governed and construed in accordance with the applicable national laws of the lead partner, the law of the United Kingdom. The DIGI HELICON project partnership is committed to ensuring the security and protection of personal information that is processed, and to provide a compliant and consistent approach to data protection. If you have any questions related to our GDPR compliance, please contact us using the website contact form here. 

The DIGI HELICON project partnership maintains this platform to enhance public access to information about the project’s progress and activities. The site contains information which is provided by the DIGI HELICON project partnership which may be subject to copyright and may be changed without notice. Our goal is to keep this information timely and accurate. If errors are brought to our attention, we will try to correct them. However, we make no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, about the completeness, accuracy, reliability, suitability, or availability with respect to the platform website or the information, products, services, or related graphics contained on the platform website for any purpose. Any reliance you place on such information is therefore strictly at your own risk. 

The European Commission (EC) is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information that this platform website contains. 

In no event will we be liable for any loss or damage including, without limitation, indirect or consequential loss or damage, or any loss or damage whatsoever arising from loss of data or profits arising out of, or in connection with, the use of this platform website or any external linked platform websites. The inclusion of any links does not necessarily imply a recommendation or endorse the views expressed within them. 

The use of published postal addresses, telephone, or e-mail addresses, or any other individual data for marketing purposes is prohibited; offenders sending unwanted spam messages will be punished and held liable. 

Every effort is made to keep the platform website up and running smoothly. However, the DIGI HELICON project partnership or any individual partner takes no responsibility for, and will not be liable for, the platform website being temporarily unavailable due to technical issues beyond our control. 

An overview of data protection 

General
This Privacy Policy is applicable to visitors of the platform website and the activities subscribers. This Privacy Policy describes how we process personal data concerning the visitors of the platform website. This Privacy Policy may be updated if required to reflect the changes in data processing practices or otherwise. 

Data collection on the platform website 

Who is responsible for the data collection on this platform website? 

DIGI HELICON project partnership is the controller of the data processing described in this privacy policy. 

How do we collect your data?
Some data are collected when you provide it to us (registration). Other data are collected automatically by our IT systems when you visit the platform website. These data are mainly technical data like the browser and operating system you are using or when you access the page. These data are collected automatically as soon as you use our platform website. 

What do we use your data for?
We process your personal data to provide you access to the activities. In any case, we use only aggregated, non-personally identifiable data. When visiting our platform website, statistical analyses may be made of your surfing behavior. This happens primarily using analytics. The analysis of your surfing behavior is anonymous, i.e. we will generally not be able to identify you from this data. 

Data protection
DIGI HELICON project partnership takes the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data as confidential and in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). 

DIGI HELICON project partnership does not store personal data longer than is legally permitted and necessary for the purposes of this Privacy Policy. Most personal data relating to the platform website will be deleted after a reasonable time. Thereafter, a part of the personal data may be stored only as long as such processing is required by law or is reasonably necessary for our legal obligations or legitimate interests such as legal proceedings, bookkeeping, and internal reporting. 

Your rights
Revocation of your consent to the processing of your data Right to file complaints with regulatory authorities Right to data portability Rights to access, rectification, erasure and restriction of processing Right to object Right to withdraw your registration We will not use your personal data for direct marketing purposes. 

Data security
We use administrative, organizational, technical, and physical safeguards to protect the personal data we collect and process. Measures include for example, where appropriate, firewalls and access right systems. Our security controls are designed to maintain an appropriate level of data confidentiality, integrity, availability, resilience and ability to restore the data. 

Should despite the security measures, a security breach occur that is likely to have negative effects on the privacy of platform website visitors, we will inform the relevant platform website visitors and other affected parties, as well as relevant authorities when required by applicable data protection laws, about the breach as soon as possible. 

Registration on the services
You can register on our platform website in order to access additional functions offered here. The input data will only be used for the purpose of using the respective site or service for which you have registered. The mandatory information requested during registration must be provided in full. Otherwise, we will reject your registration. 

Personal data recipients
We do not share personal data with third parties outside of the DIGI HELICON project partnership. 

Google Analytics
This platform website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service. Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies”. These are text files that are stored on your computer and that allow an analysis of the use of the platform website by you. The information generated by the cookies about your use of this platform website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. Google Analytics cookies are stored based on Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR. The platform website operator has a legitimate interest in analyzing user behavior to optimize both its platform website and its advertising. 

Objecting to the collection of data
You can prevent the collection of your data by disabling Google Analytics. An opt-out cookie will be set to prevent your data from being collected on future visits to this site. For more information about how Google Analytics handles user data, see Google’s privacy policy: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en