Terms of use / data protection

SustainLux Platform Terms of Use

INFORMATION NOTICE

 

INTRODUCTION:

The University of Luxembourg and the Conseil Supérieur pour un Développement Durable initiated the project and are the main sponsors for the development of the platform.

In accordance with Articles 12, 13 and 14 of the EU General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (hereafter the “GDPR”), this Information Notice explains how the University of Luxembourg and its partners collects, processes and protects Personal Data in relation with your registration and participation to the platform by writing articles on sustainability initiatives.

This Notice shall cover the processing made by all the partners.

 

1) WHAT PERSONAL DATA DO WE PROCESS?

In order to integrate your contribution on our website, you need to create a free user account on our platform.

By creating this account, you provide Personal Data, which means you shall be considered as a data subject.

The personal data processed include:

-Your first and last name

-Your email address

-Your desired username

-Your password

-Your affiliation (civil society, government, municipality, research, school or enterprise).

2) WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR PROCESSING THE DATA?

This platform is developed in a collaboration of partner organizations, who all play a role in shaping the content, structure and functions of the platform. The platform is a place where everybody can be informed about sustainability initiatives or write articles about it. All the partners are joint-controllers in the meaning of the GDPR.

For the moment, we count eight partner organisations:

  • The University of Luxembourg
  • RTC 4 Water
  • SCRIPT
  • SuperDrecksKëscht
  • Centre for Ecological Learning Luxembourg
  • IMS Luxembourg
  • Ministère de l’Environnement
  • iNDR
  • The Cercle de Coopération des ONGD

The number of partner organizations can grow for the development of the platform. The notice will be updated accordingly.

The coordination between partner organisations in the development of the contents and the structures and functions of the platform is ensured by the Steering Group, with representatives of all partner organisations, with the help of the project manager, who also liaises with the Group of Developers of the platform.

3) WHO HAS ACCESS TO YOUR PERSONAL DATA AND TO WHOM ARE THEY DISCLOSED?

Only the partner organisations will have access to your personal data in order to review your article(s).

Please note that the content of the platform, including the data provided by you, is hosted by Innovationbit / Koye-brand GmbH in Amalienstr. 77, 80799 München, Germany thus acting as processor on behalf of the partner organisations.

Your personal data will be processed within the European Union.

4) WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THE PROCESSING?

The purpose of the Processing of Personal Data is:

-To carry out your registration on our platform

-To allow you to write and publish articles

-To promote your work on the articles via your username

5) HOW LONG DO WE STORE YOUR DATA?

The Personal Data provided by you through your registration are kept for the duration of your account on our platform. If you decide to no longer be a contributor of the platform and want to delete your account, your personal information will be deleted as soon as possible.

6) WHAT IS THE LEGAL BASIS FOR PROCESSING YOUR DATA?

The legal basis is laid down in article 6.1.(a) of the GDPR: the data subject has given his consent to the processing of his or her personal data for one or more specific purposes. Indeed, we need your personal data to create a user account.

7) WHAT ARE YOUR RIGHTS WITH REGARD TO THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA?

According to the GDPR, you benefit notably from the following rights: right to be informed, right to access to your personal data, right to rectification, right to erasure, right to restrict the scope of the processing, right to object, right to data portability, right to lodge a complaint.

8) WHOM SHOULD YOU CONTACT IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS CONCERNING THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA?

In practice, you can exercise your rights by contacting:

Maximilian Klein

Tel: +4915756019559

Email: maximilian.klein@uni.lu

9) HOW CAN YOU LODGE A COMPLAINT?

If you consider that the processing of personal data relating to you infringes the GDPR, you will have the right – without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy – to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of your habitual residence, place of work or place of the alleged infringement. In Luxembourg, the competent authority is the Commission Nationale pour la Protection des Données (CNPD).

Contact of the CNPD:

Commission Nationale pour la Protection des Données

15, boulevard du Jazz

Service des réclamations

L-4370 Belvaux

Tel. : (+352) 26 10 60 -1

Fax : (+352) 26 10 60 -29

You can also use their contact form, at: https://cnpd.public.lu/fr/support/contact.html

10) APPLICABLE LAW - JURISDICTION

The present Notice shall be governed and construed in accordance with the Luxembourgish law.

Any dispute concerning the existence, interpretation or performance of this Notice which cannot be settle amicably, shall fall within the jurisdiction of the Courts of Luxembourg City, without prejudice to the rights of the Data Subjects to bring the matters before the court where he or she has her place of residence as well as its right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority.


Terms and conditions for accessing the SustainLux platform

Legal notice

Consultation of this site is subject to the terms and conditions set out below. By consulting the pages of this site, you agree to respect these terms and conditions.

SustainLux – University of Luxembourg – 2, avenue de l’Université L-4365 Esch-sur-Alzette (LUXEMBOURG) Tel.: +352 46 66 44 1 – sustainability@uni.lu

This site is hosted by Innovationbit / Koye-brand GmbH in Amalienstr. 77, 80799 München, Germany.

Policy regarding links

Links to external websites or other sources do not constitute a recommendation or guarantee on the part of the SustainLux regarding their content, which remains the exclusive responsibility of their authors.

SustainLux is happy to authorise any website (source site) to insert, for non-commercial purposes, a hyperlink to the site https://www.sustainlux.lu or to one of its inner pages (sites or target pages), provided that:

  • the source site does not disseminate information of a political, religious, pornographic or xenophobic nature or which might offend the sensibilities of others;
  • the target page of the site https://www.sustainlux.lu does not launch in a frame as part of the source site but in a new window.

Sustainlux reserves the right to refuse this permission.

SustainLux would appreciate being informed by e-mail (sustainability@uni.lu) of the creation of any link to the site https://www.sustainlux.lu.

Copyright

The site, together with the information and documents that it contains (texts, images, photographs, etc.), is protected by intellectual property laws and by copyright legislation in all countries. You undertake to respect these intellectual property regulations and the copyright usage restrictions provided with each document without prejudice to the rights and exceptions envisaged by any binding provisions of applicable law. All rights of reproduction, public communication, adaptation, distribution or rebroadcasting via the Internet, an intranet or any other means are strictly reserved in all countries. The documents available on this website are the exclusive property of the University of Luxembourg and/or of their authors or right holders. You undertake not to remove or alter the copyright notice indicating the author or the source of a document, nor to circumvent the digital rights management protection of the documents, such as restrictions on printing or downloading and visible or invisible watermarking. Any infringement may give rise to civil or criminal proceedings.

The photographs and personal documents available on the site may also be subject to the exclusive rights held by the persons photographed or by the owners of the aforementioned documents, all use being consequently subject to their prior authorisation.

Requests for authorisation should be sent to SustainLux at the address indicated hereafter, or to the authors or right holders concerned.

Content provided by the SustainLux is not necessarily comprehensive, exhaustive, accurate or up to date. If, despite our best efforts, errors were to be found, the SustainLux may not be held responsible. SustainLux would nevertheless appreciate being informed of any such errors.

Permitted use

Short quotations are permitted, provided that the name of the author of the quoted document and its source are cited.

Users are solely responsible for their use of material provided on the site.

Content provided by the SuatinLux Platform is not necessarily comprehensive, exhaustive, accurate or up to date. If, despite our best efforts, errors were to be found, the SustainLux Platform may not be held responsible. The SustainLux Platform would nevertheless appreciate being informed of any such errors.

Applicable law and attribution of jurisdiction Luxembourg law is applicable and the courts of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute regarding this site.

Contact

sustainability@uni.lu