Privacy Policy

Who we are

Synapses Academies is a Teachers’ Academy project funded by the European Union. The Synapses Platform is the Synapses central node for educational material and training activities. Our website address is https://portal.synapses-academies.eu/ and is managed by the Synapses consortium.

Personal information we process 

The amount and type of information we process depends on your activities and use of the Website. Certain information is collected simply from your use of the portal, whereas other information is submitted by you voluntarily in your communications with us or to receive requested services.

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can automatically recognise and approve any follow-up comments instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users who register on our website, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

How long we retain your information

Any personal information you provide us through the Portal or by directly contacting us is securely stored by Synapses Academies only for as long as necessary for us to comply with our contractual obligations to Synapses Academies’s funding authority, the European Commission, unless otherwise required for the defense of legal claims arising from the Synapses project contract or as otherwise required by compulsory law.

Your rights

Under the applicable law, as the holder of personal data, you have the right to:

  1. request information regarding the processing of your personal data;
  2. request access to your personal data that has been preserved and that concerns you, as well as a copy of the same data;
  3. request updating or rectification of incorrect, inaccurate or incomplete personal data;
  4. request at any time the permanent removal of your personal data, as well as withdraw the consent previously given for the processing of such data;
  5. request the limitation of the processing of your personal data in specific cases;
  6. receive your personal data in automatic reading format and, if technically possible, transfer them to another entity.

The holder of the personal data has the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.

To exercise your rights, please contact us.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

To be able to provide a more customised service that meets your expectations, this site uses cookies to collect and store information. You must access the cookie settings at the bottom of the website’s home page to set your cookies.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

We may use an analytics system hosted on our own servers. The information we keep is anonymized and used only to assess users’ behaviour while using this site.

Where is your data sent

An automated spam detection service may check visitors’ comments.