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EXPRESS APPROVAL
Pursuant to and for the purposes of Articles 1341 and 1342 of the Italian civil code, the User declares to have read and expressly approves the following clauses of the Conditions of participation in the platform "Experimental Tribe": 3. Use of the Services and the Site; 4. Registration Service; 7. Use of the Services and the Site: notices and disclaimers; 13. Content and Applications: notices and disclaimers; 15. Indemnity; 16. Guarantee and assistance; 17. Disclaimer of Warranties; 18. Limitation of Liability; 19. Modifications and termination; 20. Duration of the relationship and withdrawal; 21. General. - letter (a) Assignment and letter (d) Disputes resolution, applicable law, jurisdiction and competent court.
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TERMS OF PARTICIPATION TO THE “EXPERIMENTAL TRIBE” PLATFORM
The following are the terms (hereinafter "Terms") that regulate the use of the Services and the Site. The User expresses his will to accept the Terms and undertakes to comply with them by doing any one of the following: (a) clicking on “Register” at the bottom of the page, and/or (b) using the Services, and/or (c) using the Site in any other way. The User undertakes not to use the Services and the Site if he has not accepted every part of the Terms and undertakes to read the Terms carefully before using the Services or the Site.
1. DEFINITIONS
Pursuant to and for the purposes of these Terms the following definitions apply. “User Area”: area of the Site that is accessible only by the User using the Access Codes. "Applications": artifacts consisting of software and Contents made by Researchers that allow Users to perform various types of interactive activities (games, polls, or other). Each of the Applications will also be referred to as "Application". "Upload": the act of transferring Contents from a computer or from a storage area in the availability of a User to the Site using Connection Interfaces. “Access Codes”: username and password assigned to the User upon registration to the Site and that are managed by Xtribe or, if the User makes use of Access Codes of Third Party, the third party that provides them. “Access Codes of Third Party”: username and password managed by a third party that provides features that allow to use such username and password through the Connection Interfaces allowing to the User who uses the Registration Service to be identified by Xtribe. "Contents": text, images, audio and/or video, data and/or information, including personal data, in any format (file or other sequence of bytes) that are transmitted, copied, sent, and/or otherwise processed by Users using the Platform and/or the Site or by Xtribe and/or otherwise made available to Users and/or Visitors. Each of the Contents will also be referred to as "Content". "Experiments": Applications integrated with the Platform through the Connection Interfaces and made available to Users through the Platform itself or through a virtual store of applications for mobile devices. Each of the Experiments will also be referred to as "Experiment". “Connection Interfaces”: interfaces (web, API, Applications, etc.) operating on certain configurations of certain devices, by means of which the User can use the Services. Each of the Connection Interfaces will be defined “Connection Interface”. "Platform": "Experimental Tribe" web platform for the realization of Experiments in social sciences, aimed at attracting the population to scientific research. "Profile": Contents that are personal data of the User (name, location, email, etc.). "Publish": the act of the User of making available to other Users and/or Visitors the Contents that he previously proceeded to Upload. "Researchers": Users who are researchers in social sciences or, if the person who registers does it in the name and on behalf of an entity, public or private bodies that carry out research in the same field, including Xtribe. "Purpose of the User": the goal of the User to use the Services. “Services”: the Platform Service, the Registration Service and the other services provided by Xtribe through the Site. Each of the Services will be defined “Service”. "Platform Service": Service that allows the Users to use the Platform to participate in the Experiments and the Researchers to make available the Experiments to other Users. "Publishing Service" Service that allows the User to Publish Contents through the Site. "Registration Service": Service that allows the Users to use their Access Codes to be identified by Xtribe and access to the Site and the Services. “Site”: the domain http://www.xtribe.eu and all its sub-domains, as well as every other resource accessible through the internet that makes available the Services. "Software": any set of instructions (programs and/or data) that can be interpreted by a computer to direct the operation of its processor made available to the User by Xtribe or by the Researchers. “Users”: the persons who use the Services and/or the Site having accepted these Terms. Each of the Users will be defined “User”. “Visitors”: those who browse the Site and, subsequently, access to its resources through the internet and eventually reproduce them on their computers. “Xtribe”: Fondazione ISI – Istituto per l'Interscambio Scientifico, Via Alassio n. 11/c, Torino, c.a.p. 10126, fiscal code 97529660017.
2. OBJECT
Xtribe shall make available to the User, that is willing to use them, the Services and the Site according to the following terms and conditions.
3. USE OF THE SERVICES AND THE SITE
In order to use the Services, the User, if he is a person, must be 18 years of age or over and, in any case, he must have the legal capacity to enter into a binding contract. The User registers by following the steps available on the Site and, after accepting these Terms, can use the Services, including the Platform Service, available through the Connection Interfaces. The User can use the Publishing Service by making available any Content that proceeds to Publish choosing among the available options using the available functions through the Connection Interfaces. Even if the Services are free for the User, all the costs of connection to the internet of the computer from which the User uses the Services shall be borne by the User. Any request to use a Service from the User shall be binding for Xtribe only if the User receives confirmation by e-mail that the request has been confirmed and the Service is available and therefore the information contained in the Site cannot be considered as an offer by Xtribe to supply any Service but as a request to provide their supply. Information about the contracts entered into by the User with Xtribe is available on the Site (technical steps, storage, access mode, detection and correction of errors, languages available, applicable conditions, etc.) and about the use of the Services. If in the course of the order procedure, or even later on, the User finds errors, he can write to Xtribe to the email address provided in the Site. The contracts concluded will be stored digitally and the User will have access to his Profile and contracts through the User Area and to the text of the Terms from the link available in the footer of the Site.
4. REGISTRATION SERVICE
The User applies for the Registration Service following the procedure available on the Site and agreeing to these Terms. When the User registers he chooses the Access Codes that he can use to access the User Area and use the Services through the Connection Interfaces. The Access Codes of the User are not transferable to third parties. The User must remember the username and keep secret the password, and therefore the User is responsible for all the activities carried out using his Access Codes. If the User registered, through the User Area, can modify the configuration options of his Profile and Services through the Connection Interfaces. The User agrees: (a) to provide registration details true, complete and updated; (b) to update his data provided to Xtribe in order to constantly ensure their accuracy, completeness and updating; (c) to immediately report to Xtribe any loss of confidentiality of the password or any use of his Access Codes by third parties or any breach of the security measures provided for the Services and the Site of which he is aware of; (d) to close the session each time the User stops using the Services or the User Area; (e) not to allow third parties to access to the Site and the Services, using his Access Codes. The User can (and undertakes to do so periodically) change the password using the tools available in the User Area. If the User uses the Access Codes of Third Party: (i) declares to have the exclusive availability of the Access Codes of Third Party; (ii) acknowledges that may lose the ability to access to the Registration Service if the third party interrupts or changes the functionality of the Access Codes of Third Party (in particular, if the User has not entered a valid email address in his Profile); (iii) acknowledges that Xtribe is not responsible for the service of the third party providing the Access Codes of Third Party; (iv) agrees to allow Xtribe to acquire Contents, such as his Profile, directly from the third party. The person who registered in the name and on behalf of a User that is a legal entity, warrants that he is authorized to accept these Terms on behalf of the entity that he represents and that the entity agrees to indemnify Xtribe, the Users, the Visitors or third parties for any breach of these Terms.
5 . PLATFORM SERVICE
The Platform Service operates as follows. The Researcher can use the Connection Interfaces to make available Experiments to the Users. By using the Platform Service the Researcher undertakes to: - not process personal data if not in compliance with applicable laws and in particular not collect, store or otherwise process personal data unless the persons concerned were previously informed and, where necessary, expressed their consent in accordance with the law; - authorize Users to use his Applications. By using the Platform Service the User chooses the Experiments offered by the Researchers to participate in such Experiments. Except if the Experiment is offered by the Xtribe itself, Xtribe is not responsible for the Experiments offered by the Researchers or for their eventual failure. Xtribe does not check the identity and reliability of the Researchers, the quality of the Experiments offered by the Researchers, and the truthfulness and exhaustiveness of Contents provided by the Researchers. The User undertakes to carry out appropriate checks on the identity and reliability of the Researchers who run the Experiments in which he participates and the truthfulness and the exhaustiveness of Contents provided by the Researchers. Researchers agree to Publish Contents that allow Users to verify their identity and that Users express comments and ratings on Experiments and on themselves.
6. USE OF THE SERVICES AND OF THE SITE: USER'S OBLIGATIONS
While using the Services, the User agrees: (a) not to hide or make unrecognizable the User's identity or, in any case, make impossible to attribute to him the Contents that he proceeds to Upload; (b) not to interrupt, damage or limit the Services, the servers or the network connected to the Services and to the Site or violate the security measures, procedures, policies or rules of the network connected to the Services, including the Netiquette rules; (c) not to intentionally or unintentionally violate the laws applicable in Italy, in the country where the User is located or other laws that are in any case applicable to the activities the User carries out, including the rules regarding the export of data or encryption; (d) not to employ or occupy the resources of the Services or the Site or prevent access to the Services and the Site and their use without Xtribe's permission; (e) not to send Spam e-mails; (f) not to simulate to be Xtribe or others; (h) not to forge headings or in any manner manipulate identifiers (including URIs) in order to disguise the origin of any Content transmitted through the Services.
7. USE OF THE SERVICES AND OF THE SITE: DISCLAIMERS
Xtribe operates the Site and the Services and supervises its operation from Italy and does not guarantee that the Site and the Services are suitable or accessible for use from every geographic area. Xtribe will use to the extent reasonably possible all its skills and cares to try to maintain the availability of the Site and the functionality of the Services, even if it does not guarantee that the Site and the Services are always available. In particular, Xtribe expressly excludes any responsibility for the case where malfunctioning of the Services or the Site depends on: - unauthorized or incorrect use of the Services or of the Site; - non-operation or partial operation of the User's device or equipment; - an event that depends on the responsibility of the internet service providers or the telephone companies; - malfunctioning of the internet or telephone network; - unauthorized access to the computer system of Xtribe by the User or by a third party or alteration of the transmission of the Contents; - event of force majeure or any other cause outside Xtribe's control or fault. The Site contains links to other websites, and the User may be redirected to them, and Contents uploaded by the Users. Such websites and Contents are not monitored or controlled by Xtribe and hence Xtribe is not responsible for them. Xtribe does its best to ensure that the Site and the Services are available with the largest possible number of Connection Interfaces, but expressly excludes that the Site and the Services will work with every possible Connection Interface and the User acknowledges and accepts this functionality limitation of the Site and of the Services. It is expressly excluded (without prejudice to) any other right. The permissions granted above are non-exclusive and revocable.
8. USE OF THE SERVICES AND OF THE SITE: COPYRIGHT
Subject to the following, the Site, the Contents, the Services, the Software and the Applications are the exclusive property of Xtribe, are protected by Italian and international laws, particularly copyright laws. Each Content that each User proceeds to Upload is owned by that User or its licensors. Xtribe authorizes the User to use the Site, the Services, the Contents, the Software and the Applications for the User's Purpose. For specific Software, Contents, or Applications may be indicated holders and/or licenses different from those mentioned above. In particular, the Applications of each Experiment are licensed by the Researcher who made that Experiment with the purpose of allowing Users to participate to that Experiment according to the license terms that accompany those Applications.
9. USE OF THE SERVICES AND OF THE SITE: TRADEMARKS
"Xtribe" is a trademark of Xtribe. Other trademarks in this Site are property of their respective owners.
10. USE OF THE SERVICES AND OF THE SITE: REPORTING RIGHTS VIOLATIONS
If the User knows that any Content violates his rights or third party rights, can write to Xtribe to let it know by indicating the Content, the address at which it is accessible, the one who assumes to be owner of the rights on the Content, the right violated and the evidence of the violation of such right. If Xtribe deems the report clearly based, it will remove or disable access to the Content within a reasonable period of time and, if the User transmits to Xtribe also an order of a competent authority, Xtribe will act immediately. Xtribe reserves the right, but not the obligation, to contact (reasonably and in good faith) the one who results to be owner of the rights on the Content in order to allow him to explain his reasons. The User acknowledges that if he reports that a Content violates his right or a right of a third parties without grounds, will be liable for any damages resulting undertaking to indemnify Xtribe.
11. CONTENTS AND APPLICATIONS: USER LICENSE
The User irrevocably authorizes Xtribe, other Users and/or Visitors to which Xtribe it may grant the faculty to use the Contents and Applications that the User shall Upload and/or Publish and every part and/or component, jointly and/or separately, without restriction of any kind, worldwide, for ever and in any case for the duration of the legal protection as provided by in every country of the world, for the purpose of providing the Services to the User. By way of example only, in the said authorization shall also be included the right to: (i) publish, broadcast, communicate to the public and make available to the public so that everyone can have access to them at the time and place chosen individually, in whole or in part, by any means and/or technology, and with any mode (including interactive), currently known and/or developed in the future, the Contents, the Software and the Applications through the Site; (ii) for the above purposes, reproduce and modify the Contents in any way or form to meet the technological constraints imposed by the mode of operation of the Site; (iii) authorize other Users and Visitors to reproduce the Contents in order to view them on their terminals using the Services and the Site; ( iv) license the Contents under the terms of any version of the Creative Commons Attribution - Share Alike license; (v) license the Applications according to the license terms that that accompany them. The above rights are granted in a non-exclusive way and therefore the User remains entitled to use the same Contents and Applications in any form or manner.
12. CONTENTS AND APPLICATIONS: DISCLAIMER
The User represents that he has fully and legitimately all rights relating to the Contents and the Applications (including but not limited to: copyrights, image rights and/or personality rights in general, property rights, privacy rights, etc.) that he proceeds to Upload and in particular to be fully entitled to authorize the use of the Contents and Applications according to the terms provided by the Terms. The User hereby expressly declares that wherever he is not fully entitled to the rights on the Content and Applications that proceeds to Upload, he was expressly authorized to dispose of the Contents and Applications from the third party owner of such rights, and is therefore fully entitled to release the permission to use the Contents and Applications according to the terms provided in these Terms. The User undertakes not to Upload any Content or Application if such Content or Application and/or its use: (a) is false, obscene, pornographic, defamatory, racist or information includes violent, abusive, harassing, or incites to commit crimes or is in any case illegal in Italy or in the place the User uses the Services or the Site or according to other applicable laws; (b) violates the rules relating to the processing of personal data and on the protection of business secrets and confidential information; (c) requires that the User has permissions, rights or legal requirements that he does not possess; (d) infringes any patent, trademark, copyright or other rights of third parties; (e) contains software viruses or any program or software designed to interrupt, destroy, damage or even limit the functionality of any software, hardware or network device or of the Services or the Site; (f) is in any way harmful to Xtribe, Users, Visitors or third parties.
13. CONTENTS AND APPLICATIONS: WARNINGS AND EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY
In no event will Xtribe be held liable for the Contents and the Applications that the User proceed to Upload, including, by way of non- exhaustive example, the case where errors or omissions occur in the Contents or in the Applications, or for the loss or damage to any Content or Application. The User acknowledges and agrees that Xtribe will carry out backup copies of the Contents and Applications that the User Uploads periodically and according to reasonableness but does not assume any responsibility for the risk of loss of the Contents or the Applications of the User. Xtribe performs no control over the Contents and Applications that the User Uploads and/or Publishes, although Xtribe reserves the right, if it becomes aware of the fact that Content or Application is unlawful or otherwise violates third party's rights, to remove it from the Site and delete it. In particular, Xtribe reserves the right to modify or delete any Content or Application that violates these Terms or that contain advertising of third parties.
14. AUTHORIZATION TO USE PERSONAL DATA
The User acknowledges that he has read the Privacy Policy of the Site that is considered to be part of these Terms. The User acknowledges and agrees that Xtribe: (i) stores data related to the User (registration data, Profile, log, etc.); (ii) uses the activity data of the User to provide the Services to the User and third parties and to improve the functioning of the Services and the Site; (iii) uses results, statistics and analyses carried out using the data in compliance with applicable laws; (iv) may disclose the personal data of the User to the Researchers that perform the Experiments in which the User participates; (v) may disclose the personal data of the User to the other Users and to third parties for the purposes indicated above or to comply with legal requirements or comply with orders from public authorities, including the judicial authorities, to reply to claims that any Content that the User has Uploaded violates the rights of third parties, or to protect the rights of Xtribe, Users and third parties in accordance with law and/or in accordance with these Terms. The User agrees to use the data of other Users according to the terms provided by the Privacy Policy and in compliance with applicable privacy laws. The User accepts that his Contents could be associated with the Contents of other Users or used otherwise, and that even at the end of the Services, the Contents continue to be disseminated through the Site in accordance with the privacy laws.
15. INDEMNITY
The User undertakes to hold harmless Xtribe, its representatives, directors, employees, its business partners, its subsidiaries and associated companies from any request of compensation, including reasonable legal charges and fees, that is formulated by any third party: (a) as a consequence of activities performed by the User using the Services or the Site or performed by any other person who accesses the Services or the Site using the User's Access Codes; (b) with respect to Contents that the User Uploads and/or Publishes.
16. WARRANTY AND ASSISTANCE
Being the Services free (gratis), there is no guarantee of successful operation of the Services and, in the event of malfunction of the Services, Xtribe will not be responsible to the User. The User acknowledges and agrees that no reassurance, notice or information, whether oral or written, given by Xtribe to the User shall create any warranty in favor of the User except warranties expressly made within these Terms. For all assistance requirements, the User may contact Xtribe to the contact data indicated in the Site.
17. WARRANTIES EXCLUSION
In providing the Services Xtribe assumes an obligation of means and not of result. Without prejudice to the explicit guarantees given pursuant to these Terms, Xtribe excludes any warranty, condition, undertaking or declaration of any kind, either express or implied, statutory or otherwise in relation to the Services or the Site, including without limitation any implied warranties or conditions of merchantability, satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement or arising from course of dealing, usage or trade practice. Some states/jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so the above exclusion may not apply to the User and the User may have other legal rights that vary from state to state or by jurisdictions. Without limitation to the foregoing, Xtribe does not warrant that the Services or the Site will meet User's requirements or that their operation will be error free or uninterrupted or that defects in the Services and in the Site will be corrected.
18. LIMIT OF LIABILITY
The User uses the Services and the Site at his own risk. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, in no event shall Xtribe or any of its third-party licensors, suppliers or collaborators be liable to the User or to those claiming through the User for any direct, indirect, consequential, incidental, special or punitive damage or loss of any kind including, but not limited to, loss of profits, loss of contracts, business interruptions, loss of or corruption of data however caused and whether arising under contract or tort, including negligence, even if Xtribe has been advised of the possibility of such damages. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in any case in which Xtribe be held liable for loss or damage the extent of which can be legitimately limited (including cases where the contract for the supply of the Services is terminated, canceled, revoked or otherwise dissolved or any limitation, exclusion, disclaimer or other provision contained in these Terms is held to be inapplicable and/or invalid for any reason by a court of competent jurisdiction), such liability whether in contract, tort or otherwise, will not exceed the amount of 1,00 Euro. Nothing in these Terms shall limit the responsibility of Xtribe for the case of death or personal damages that arise from the responsibility of Xtribe.
19. MODIFICATIONS AND TERMINATION
Xtribe, if occurs a valid reason, that is to comply with legal obligations or to orders from public authorities, including the judicial authorities, to improve the efficiency of services and/or to better protect the rights of Xtribe, Users or third parties, is expressly authorized at any time, in its sole and absolute discretion, to: (i) amend these Terms; (ii) modify the Site and/or the Services (including the right to interrupt or suspend, in whole or in part, the Site and/or the Services); (iii) suspend or cancel the User's Access Codes. In this case, Xtribe will notify the User at least five days in advance by publishing a notice on the Site, in the User Area, by sending an email to the mailbox specified in the Profile and/or in any other way. The User, within five days from the notification of the amendment, shall have the possibility of accepting the change or to terminate the Services by giving written notice to Xtribe. In any case, however, continuing to use the Site and/or the Services, the User will demonstrate his implicit acceptance of the changes made. In case of just cause (for example to deal with security issues, to fulfill the requirements of the law or to comply with orders from public authorities, including the judicial authorities, or to protect the rights of Xtribe, Users or third parties in accordance with the law and/or in accordance with these Terms) Xtribe may suspend or cancel the User's Access Codes and/or modify or disconnect, temporarily or permanently, the Site and/or Services (or any part thereof) even without giving prior notice. In addition, Xtribe may at any time, in its sole and absolute discretion and without notice to the User: (i) add new functionalities to the Services currently available, or delete functionalities; (ii) add or delete Contents. Xtribe may terminate the contract according to Section 1456 of the Italian Civil Code in case of breach by the User of the obligations provided by articles 4, 5, 6 or 12 of the Terms.
20. DURATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP AND WITHDRAWAL
The Registration Service and the other Services are active for an indefinite period of time since the request to use such Service is confirmed. The User may terminate the Registration Service and the other Services at any time. To exercise the right of withdrawal, the User must inform Xtribe (ISI Foundation - Institute for Scientific Interchange, Via Alassio n. 11 / c, Torino, cap 10126) of his decision to terminate the contract by an unequivocal statement (eg letter sent by mail, fax or email). It can also fill out and electronically submit the withdrawal form that may be available on the Site of Xtribe and if he use this option, Xtribe will transmit without delay an acknowledgment of receipt of the withdrawal on a durable medium (eg by email).The User acknowledges that the right of withdrawal above is wider, both for conditions and for exercise modalities, than that provided by Articles 49-59 ( Exercise of the right of withdrawal) of the Italian Legislative Decree 206/2005 (Consumer Code) of which acknowledges to have been informed. The User acknowledges that withdrawing from the Registration Service he can not use the other Services. With the withdrawal from the Registration Service Xtribe is allowed, but is not obliged, to delete all Contents that the User has proceeded to Upload and/or Publish. Xtribe may terminate the contract for the supply of the Services with a 30-day notice and where a just cause occurs, without notice. Xtribe may terminate the contract in accordance with Section 1456 of the Italian Civil Code in the event of a breach by the User of any of the obligations set out in Sections 4, 5, 6 or 8 of the Terms. 21. GENERAL (a) Assignment. User may not assign or otherwise transfer the contract of Services supply or any of User’s rights, duties and obligations hereunder without prior consent in writing of Xtribe. Xtribe is allowed to assign the contract of Services supply concluded with the User, with each faculty provided in the Terms, including authorization to use the Contents according to the Terms, to another entity that supplies services similar to the Services. The User may not assign or otherwise transfer the contract of Services supply or any of the rights, duties and obligations provided for the User by the Terms without the prior written consent of Xtribe. (b) Entire agreement. These Terms replace any previous agreement, both written and verbal, that previously intervened between Xtribe and the User having the same subject matter of these Terms. (c) Communications. Communications to Xtribe shall be made to Xtribe's address indicated in Section 1 or to the new address communicated subsequently. The User may also use Xtribe's e-mail addresses available in the Site. The communications to the User may be made: - via e-mail to the e-mail address indicated by the User on or after registration, or - by means of publication on the Site. Given the nature of the e-mail service, Xtribe does not guarantee delivery of every e- mail message. The communications published on the Site are considered received when the User, accessing the User Area after their publication, displays them on his device according to the procedure prepared by Xtribe that forces its display. (d) Disputes resolution, applicable law, jurisdiction and competent courts. In case of dispute the User may address to the ordinary courts. These Terms shall be interpreted, evaluated and enforced in all senses according to the Italian law. If the User is a consumer, he agrees to submit to the non exclusive jurisdiction of the Italian Courts. If the User is not a consumer, agrees to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Italian Courts and to the exclusive competence of the Courts of Turin. (e) Tolerance. The fact that Xtribe does not require the User to strictly follow the provisions of these Terms at all times and/or does not exercise one or more of the rights provided herein does not imply the forfeiture of such rights or renunciation to exercise them by Xtribe. (f) Integration. If one or more clauses of these Terms should be or should become contrary to imperative rules of law or of public order, they will not be considered and will not affect the validity of the other clauses of the Terms, without prejudice to the right of each party to ask for these Terms to be amended. (g) References. The Terms make reference to the provisions of Articles 45 and following (consumer rights in contracts) of the Legislative Decree 206/2005 (Consumer Code).
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PRIVACY POLICY
CONTROLLER
We (Fondazione ISI) are the controller, and Roberto Palermo is the responsible, for the processing of your data, and if you have a question you can write to us at the following address: Fondazione ISI – Istituto per l'Interscambio Scientifico, Via Alassio n. 11/c, Torino, c.a.p. 10126. You can also contact us by sending an email to isi@isi.it. We hereby inform you that we will process your data in accordance with applicable laws and regulations and in full respect of your rights and, in particular, your privacy.
DATA
We will process the following data: Registration data – when your register, we record and store your personal data (username, password and e-mail address) and, if you want, you can add other personal data (first name and last name). Profile Data – When you are connected with your username and password if you want, you can change your registration data (username, password, email, first name and last name) and also add other data (address, language, gender, photo, date birth and education). Experiments – When you participate in experiments run by ISI, we collect the data of your activities, including data on the time and date of your activities and your location. Log data – When you connect to our system, this will automatically record information that your computer sends us. This information may relate to the content uploaded, the operations performed by you, the IP address and MAC address from which you are connecting, date and time of your connection, your position, etc. Cookies – When you use our services, we may send one or more cookies (small text files containing a string of alphanumeric characters) to your computer. We use both session cookies and persistent cookies. A session cookie is deleted after the browser is closed. A persistent cookie remains on your computer after you close your web browser and may be used by us during subsequent visits to our site. We send persistent cookies only if the configurations of your browser allow this. In any case, the persistent cookies can be removed by using the options of your browser. Communications: when you send us an e-mail or another communication, we record and store such communication.
PURPOSES
Your personal data will be processed with the following purposes: - provide you with our services and make you take part in the experiments to perform and make perform to third parties scientific research; - inform you by email about our services and news available on our website; - protect and improve our services and develop new ones; - publish statistical analyzes and graphical representations of the results of the activities, but only in aggregate and anonymous form; - protect the technical functioning of our computer system. We will store and process your identifying data only as long as your account will be operating and so until when we will need to continue to associate univocally the series of your activities in the experiments. Your data may be stored and processed for further purposes of scientific research. Except for the cases in which the law authorizes the processing of data without the consent of the the data subject concerned (for example, to comply with legal obligations or to comply with orders from public authorities, including the judicial authorities) we will not use your personal data for other purposes than those for which you have authorized us.
NATURE AND EFFECTS OF DATA PROVIDING
The provision of some data (username, password, and email address) is mandatory and essential to enable us to provide you with our services and then allow you to participate in the activities of the experiments available on the site and provide customized information on the results of the activities. If you refuse to provide username, password and email address we will not provide you with our services. The provision of other data is optional but if you do not provide them your user experience of our services may be limited.
PROCESSING METHODS
Your data will be: - collected electronically, - stored by ISI in digital mode at the server in the availability of ISI, - protected from risk of destruction, modification, deletion and unauthorized access with efficient physical, logical and organizational security measures; - processed, also in paper format, to the extent, in the manner and within the time strictly necessary to give effect to the purposes outlined above.
COMMUNICATION TO THIRD PARTIES
When you will participate in an experiment run by a third party, that will be time by time specifically indicated to you and whose contact details are available on his description page, we will communicate your data to that third party with the purpose to enable him to run the experiment. Except for the the case you will be given different information, the processing of your data by the third party will be performed, mutatis mutandis, with the same modalities indicated above for the processing of your data on our part. The provision of the data to the third parties is mandatory and necessary to enable the third parties to let you participate in the experiments that you choose. If you refuse to provide your data the third party will not let you participate in the third experiment that you will have chosen. Your data may also be communicated and disseminated, but only in anonymous and aggregated form, through our website and/or in any other way as data supporting scientific papers. We may disclose your data to third parties who work with us and treat phases of the processes necessary for the proper performance of our activities solely with the purpose of providing you with our services. We will not disclose your data to third parties in any other way, except in cases where the law authorizes the disclosure of personal data to third parties without the consent of the data subject.
RIGHTS
We remind you also that the law protects your right to access, update, correct and object to the processing of your data. These rights include, but are not limited to, the right to obtain confirmation of whether or not data concerning you exist and to be informed of them in intelligible form, information about the source of the data, the purposes and methods of processing, the updating, correction or integration of your data, the erasure, transformation in an anonymous form or blocking of personal data processed unlawfully, and the right to object, in whole or in part, to their use.
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