Data Protection

Privacy Policy


Protecting your personal data is very important to us. Your data is exclusively processed on the basis of legal regulations. In this privacy policy we want to inform you about the most important aspects of data processing within our website. 

Name and address of the responsible organisation for data processing
Organisation responsible in terms of the General Data Protection Regulation, other protection laws in force in other member states of the European Union and other regulations with data protection character is: 

Zavod Vana Pot
Linhartova C51
1000 Ljubljana
Slowenia
T: +386 5 99 55022
Email: info@varna-pot.si
Website: https://near-campaign.eu


Contact with us
In the case you contact us via e-mail, your indicated data (first name, last name, e-mail address etc.), will be stored with us until the purpose for which you entrust your data to us has been fulfilled. 
You approve the agreement that we are entitled to store, process and use your data, provided that this is necessary for answering your request. A transfer of data to third parties does not take place.

Cookies
Many Internet sites and servers use cookies. Many cookies contain a so-called cookie ID. A cookie ID is a unique identifier of the cookie. It consists of a character string through which Internet pages and servers can be assigned to the specific Internet browser in which the cookie was stored. This allows visited Internet sites and servers to differentiate the individual browser of the data subject from other Internet browsers that contain other cookies. A specific Internet browser can be recognized and identified using the unique cookie ID. 
Through the use of cookies, NEAR can provide the users of this website with more user-friendly services that would not be possible without the cookie setting. 
By means of a cookie, the information and offers on our website can be optimized with the user in mind. Cookies allow us, as previously mentioned, to recognize our website users. The purpose of this recognition is to make it easier for users to utilize our website. The website user that uses cookies, e.g. does not have to enter access data each time the website is accessed, because this is taken over by the website, and the cookie is thus stored on the user's computer system. 
The data subject may, at any time, prevent the setting of cookies through our website by means of a corresponding setting of the Internet browser used, and may thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. Furthermore, already set cookies may be deleted at any time via an Internet browser or other software programs. This is possible in all popular Internet browsers. If the data subject deactivates the setting of cookies in the Internet browser used, not all functions of our website may be entirely usable. 

Collection of general data and information

This website uses the open-source web analysis service Matomo. Matomo uses technologies that make it possible to recognize the user across multiple pages with the aim of analyzing the user patterns (e.g. cookies or device fingerprinting). The information recorded by Matomo about the use of this website will be stored on our server. Prior to archiving, the IP address will first be anonymized. 
Through Matomo, we are able to collect and analyze data on the use of our website-by-website visitors. This enables us to find out, for instance, when which page views occurred and from which region they came. In addition, we collect various log files (e.g. IP address, referrer, browser, and operating system used) and can measure whether our website visitors perform certain actions (e.g. clicks, purchases, etc.). 
The use of this analysis tool is based on Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the analysis of user patterns, in order to optimize the operator’s web offerings and advertising. If appropriate consent has been obtained, the processing is carried out exclusively on the basis of Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25 (1) TTDSG, insofar the consent includes the storage of cookies or the access to information in the user’s end device (e.g., device fingerprinting) within the meaning of the TTDSG. This consent can be revoked at any time. 

IP anonymization 
For analysis with Matomo we use IP anonymization. Your IP address is shortened before the analysis, so that it is no longer clearly assignable to you.     


Social Media Plug-Ins
The NEAR website uses so-called social media plug-ins (interfaces to social networks) on the website. When visiting the website, the system automatically establishes a connection with the respective social network due to the integration of the social media plug-ins and transfers data (IP address, visit to the website, etc.).
The data transfer takes place without intervention and beyond the responsibility of the NEAR consortium. The NEAR consortium indicates that you can prevent this data from being transferred by logging out of the respective social networks before visiting the website. Only within the "logged in" state, the social network can assign specific data to your activity profile through automatic data transfer.

The automatically transmitted data is used exclusively by social network operators and not by NEAR. For more information, including the content of data collection through the social networks, please refer directly to the website of the respective social network. There you can also adjust your privacy settings.

The following social networks are included in our website:

•    YouTube
YouTube´s operating company is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. YouTube, LLC is a subsidiary of Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351, USA.
The privacy policy of YouTube, available at policies.google.com/privacy, gives explanation about the collection, processing, and use of personally identifiable information by YouTube and Google. More information about YouTube can be accessed at www.youtube.com/intl/en/yt/about/.