Preamble
The Europhotonics Erasmus Mundus master program undertakes to ensure that the processing of personal data carried out on https://application.europhotonics.org complies with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the French Data Protection Act.
This data protection policy applies to the processing of data carried out via the website https://application.europhotonics.org.
It informs you about the purposes of the processing carried out, the legal basis for the processing, the recipients of the data as well as their retention period, the security measures, the possible existence of data transfers outside the European Union or automated decision making, the use and management of cookies, your computer rights and freedoms and the way to exercise them.
Who is the data controller of this website?
The person responsible for the data processing carried out by the website https://application.europhotonics.org is the Europhotonics Erasmus Mundus master program.
To learn more, see the legal notice.
Does this site collect personal data?
According to article 4.1 of the RGPD, personal data is any information that allows you to be identified either directly or indirectly. This site collects personal data via its various contact forms. The personal data are freely communicated to the Europhotonics consortium by the persons concerned by consenting to the processing and by taking note of the information displayed under the various contact forms. The data collected is adequate, useful, necessary and limited to the strict minimum.
The European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA), in the context of managing the Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters, collects and processes the personal data of some of the candidates. In particular, certain data of the scholarship holders and non-scholarship holders is shared with the Agency and treated according to their privacy statement.
What are the purposes of data collection?
The processing of personal data collected through the various contact forms on the website has the following purposes: evaluation and selection of applicants to the Europhotonics EMJM programme.
What is the legal basis for the processing done by this site?
The processing of your personal data by the Europhotonics Erasmus Mundus program is based :
Or on your consent for all cases where you entrust your personal data yourself. Your consent can be withdrawn at any time.
Or on legitimate interests pursued by Europhotonics Erasmus Mundus program .
Or on the respect of a legal obligation in particular as regards the exercise of your rights under the RGPD and the Data-processing law and Freedoms.
Who are the recipients of the data processed by this site?
Your personal data is primarily intended for the evaluation of applicants to the Europhotonics Erasmus Mundus program . They are processed by the staff of the various departments concerned by your requests.
They are processed solely for the purposes indicated above. Your personal data is hosted exclusively in France by a subcontractor of our Service Provider (within the meaning of Article 4.8 of the RGPD) in a strictly controlled manner. They are never communicated to third parties for commercial purposes.
How is the personal data processed by this site secured?
Europhotonics Erasmus Mundus program is committed to protecting personal data processed within the framework of this site, in accordance with the state of the art.
How long will personal data processed by this site be kept?
The data will be kept on the site for the duration of the Europhotonics EMJM programme with 5 additional years.
Does this site use cookies?
When you visit this site, one (1) session cookie is placed on your computer, tablet or ordiphone.
This cookie allows the proper functioning of the site and greatly improves your user experience.
This cookie is only used to assign a specific session to the user. A major advantage of the session ID is that if you open multiple windows of the same web page, they are assigned to a single session.
This makes it possible to launch several requests at the same time without losing important personal information.
The session cookie is therefore used to store information about the current session.
Other information, such as login data or previously completed online forms, is also retained during the session.
However, if you end your browsing session, the session ID and all other stored data will be deleted. This means that when you open the same web page in a new browser window, you will be considered a new visitor.
For more information on cookies, you can visit our cookie use policy or go to the site of the CNIL.
Can I object to these cookies?
Yes, and in several ways. If you do not want this website to place cookies on your computer, you can block them:
by using a browser that, by default, refuses cookies;
by configuring your browser appropriately or by installing an additional component on your browser, specifically designed for cookie management;
This website respects your choice.