3–7 Jun 2024
Pesthuis Leiden
Europe/Amsterdam timezone

Privacy Policy

Name of the ServiceIndico
Description of the Service

The LOFAR Indico service (hereinafter referred to as: “the service” or “Indico”) is an event management service allowing to manage complex conferences, workshops and meetings, from managing timetable, call of abstracts to registration and hosting of the material relating to the event. Event can be public or access restricted, and based on their rights, users can access event-specific pages, retrieve information and material about specific event, and optionally register to an event.

This privacy notice describes how we, the LOFAR (hereinafter referred to as "we" or "the Data Controller"), collect and process data by which you can be personally identified (“Personal Data”) when you use the service.

Specific events may also have their own privacy notice that will be provided when registering, and from the event page.

Data controllerASTRON HQ:         
Oude Hoogeveensedijk 4         
7991 PD Dwingeloo         
The Netherlands
Jurisdiction and supervisory authority

Jurisdiction: NL, Netherlands

LOFAR's lead supervisory authority is the Dutch Data Protection Authority. They can be contacted at https://autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl/en/contact-dutch-dpa/contact-us

Personal data processed

The service may process the following personal data:

Identification data:

  • Name
  • Identification number
  • E-mail address
  • Phone number
  • Address
  • Bank details
  • Affiliation
  • IP address

Behavioural data:

  • Usage data
  • Technical logs with timestamps

Data allowing conclusions on the personality:

  • Membership information on group, roles or communities
Purpose of the processing of personal data

The purpose of the collection, processing and use of the personal data mentioned above is:

  • To provide the service functions, i.e. an event management service allowing to manage events (abstract, session and registration management) such as conferences, workshops and meetings. Identify the users accessing the service, and grant them access based on their roles.
  • Process your booking, contact you regarding your participation in the event, organise and facilitate the event (including the creation of attendance lists and attendee badges) and to carry out post-event evaluation.
  • To monitor and maintain service stability, performance and security
Legal basisThe legal basis for processing personal data are: performance of a contract with the data subject and legitimate interests pursued by the controller or by a third party according to Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR.
Your rights

You can exercise the following rights at any time by contacting our data protection officer using the contact details provided in the Data Protection Officer section:

  • Information about your data stored with us and their processing
  • Correction of incorrect personal data
  • Deletion of your data stored by us
  • Restriction of data processing, if we are not yet allowed to delete your data due to legal obligations
  • Objection to the processing of your data by us
  • Data portability

You can complain at any time to the supervisory data protection authority (DPA) responsible for you. The responsible DPA depends on your country and state of residence, of your workplace or of the presumed violation. A list of the supervisory authorities with addresses can be found at https://edpb.europa.eu/about-edpb/board/members_en.

You can contact EGI Foundation's lead supervising authority using the contact details provided in the Jurisdiction and Supervisory Authority section.

Data retention and deletionThe records of your use and technical log files produced by the service components will be deleted or anonymised after, at most, 18 months.
Security

We take appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure data security and the protection against accidental or unlawful destruction, accidental loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure or access. 

A comprehensive overview of the technical and organisational measures taken by EGI Foundation can be found at EGI Documentation Database.

Data Protection Code of ConductEGI Foundation is conforming to REFEDS Code of Conduct and your personal data will be processed in accordance with the REFEDS Code of Conduct for Service Providers and the EGI-doc-2732-v3: Policy on the Processing of Personal Data.
 Based on AARC Policy development kit (licenced under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)