LEGAL STATEMENT

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 object to any of these Terms and Conditions.

CIRCALGAE “CIRCular valorisation of industrial ALGAE waste streams into high-value products to foster future sustainable blue biorefineries in Europe”, is a project coordinated by KTH represented by Georgios Papathanasiou, Managing Director. The project received a 8.2 million EUR financing from the European Commission through the “HORIZON-CL6-2021-CIRCBIO-01” innovation action call.

Grant Agreement: N°101060607

Person responsible for content: Georgios Papathanasiou, CIRCALGAE Managing Director

Website Host: OVH

Sources of images and graphics: A4F, ALGINOR, CEVA, AQUIMER, Adobe Stock

Webmaster: Communication Leader

AQUIMER is the assigned Communication Leader of the Project, based on the 101060607 Grant Agreement, responsible for coordinating the communication activities related to the Project expected results, including the creation and management of the Website and any other Material included in it.

General conditions

Use of the www.circalgae.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.circalgae.eu website are therefore invited to consult them regularly.

This site is normally accessible to users at all times. However, CIRCALGAE may decide to interrupt the site for technical maintenance purposes. In such a case, CIRCALGAE will endeavor to inform users in advance of the dates and times of the operation.

Disclaimer:

1. Services provided

The purpose of the www.circalgae.eu website is to provide information about all the project activities.

The contents of the CIRCALGAE website pages have been created with the utmost care. However, we cannot guarantee the content 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 their affiliates. You acknowledge, understand and agree that the Communication Leader will not be held 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 CIRCALGAE website is given for information purposes only and is subject to change. Furthermore, the information on the www.circalgae.eu website is not exhaustive. It is given subject to modification that may have been made since it was published online.

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

CIRCALGAE is the owner of the intellectual property rights or holds the rights of use to all the elements accessible on the site, in particular the texts, images, graphics, logos, icons, sounds, software. The Communication Leader authorizes 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 when prior written authorization of the Communication Leader has been granted.

Any unauthorized 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 up-to-date browser.

4. Limitations of liability

CIRCALGAE cannot be held responsible for direct and indirect damage caused to the user’s equipment when accessing the www.circalgae.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.

CIRCALGAE 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.circalgae.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:

• Contacting 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, the parts of our site you visit, the date and duration of your visit and your anonymized IP address. We process this usage data in Matomo 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.circalgae.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 Matomo analytics platform. The data and information collected by Matomo 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.circalgae.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