Our Privacy Policy was last updated on May 18, 2022.

This Privacy Policy describes our procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of your information when you use the website, including how and why we use your information. It also tells you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
We use your personal data to provide and improve the website. By using it, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

What type of personal information do we collect?

Member account information

E-mail address, name and, when applicable, hashed password or other information used for authentication and access control.

Cookies

This website uses cookies to help us make the website function properly, make it more secure, provide better user experience, and understand how the website performs.
Please see our Cookies Policy for additional information on how we use cookies.

You can find more information about cookies and similar technologies at www.aboutcookies.org.

Analytics & site usage information

Non-personally identifiable visitor information like connectivity, technical and aggregated usage data, security & performance logs, user agent, IP addresses, approximate location and device data (such as type, OS, device ID, browser version, locale and language settings used).

Third party services

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.

For what purpose we collect that information?

Any of the information we collect from you may be used in one of the following ways:

  • To provide a member area with individual log in accounts.
  • To create aggregated non-personal statistical data to gain a better understanding on how individuals use and interact with our website and how we could improve their user experience.
  • To collect user information to support and enhance our data security measures.

Data sharing

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer your personally identifiable information to outside parties. We will not hand over personal information to other parties without a lawful basis.
As part of providing the Services, our contractors, representatives, trusted business partners, and third-party service providers may have access to your personal data. We use services like Google Analytics , reCaptcha, Google Tag Manager, Cloudflare, Smtp2go for analytics, security and performance.

Retention of your personal data

We will retain your personal data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, and to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations.

Data security

We and our Service Providers implement systems, applications and procedures to secure your personal data, to minimize the risks of theft, damage, loss of information, or unauthorized access or use of information. These measures provide sound industry-standard security, however, although we make efforts to protect your privacy and data, we cannot and do not guarantee the absolute protection and security of any personal data stored with us or with any third-parties.

Rights according to data protection regulations

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) gives individuals a number of rights:

Right to information about how your personal personal data is stored and processed
Right of access by the data subject
Right to correct personal data
Right to have your personal data erased

For assistance or questions about data protection, please contact the FORCeS project manager.