http://www.ai-for-sdgs.academy/ ('our website') is operated by a research team from International Research Center for AI Ethics and Governance, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
We are committed to respecting and protecting the privacy and security of your personal information ('personal data').
This privacy policy describes how we collect and use your personal data during your use of our website in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
We may update this policy at any time. Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our privacy policy. We may also notify you in other ways from time to time about the processing of your personal information.
It is important that you read this policy, together with any other privacy policy we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing information about you, so that you are aware of how and why we are using your personal data.
Where we refer in this policy to your ‘personal data’, we mean any recorded information that is about you and from which you can be identified. It does not include data where your identity has been removed (anonymous data).
Where we refer to the ‘processing’ of your personal data, we mean anything that we do with that information, including collection, use, storage, disclosure, retention or deletion.
The research team operating this website is the 'data controller' for the information that you provide to us when visiting our website.
Access to your personal data within the two organizations will be provided to those staff who need to view it as part of their work in connection with the operation of this website.
We will collect, store, and use the following categories of personal data when you use our site:
Data you give us when you submit a project includes:
By submitting this information, you consent to publish your project information on our website.
If at any point you would like to have this information removed, please email AI4SDGS-THINK-TANK@outlook.com.
If you visit our website, we will automatically collect certain technical information, for example, the type of device (and its unique device identifier) you use to access our site, the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your device to the Internet, your login information, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system, mobile network information and platform.
If you choose to log in with your Google account on the sign up page or the sign in page, you will be redirect to a Google consent screen, showing you all the information we need to get from your Google account and the link to this privacy page. If you allow Google to share your account information with us, we will only access your Google account email and openid and use them to sign you up or log you in our website. Your email address and openid will be stored in our secured database located in Hong Kong, China. We will only use your data when handling your login process and managing any content you upload. We will not share your Google user data to any third party outside of this website or organization.
We will collect the vast majority of data about you when you consent to email or telephone communications via our webforms, commence an application via our online application platforms or when you contact us or report a problem to us, or complete a survey that we use for research purposes.
We process your data for one or more of the following reasons:
We will only process your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another related reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If we need to use your data for an unrelated purpose, we will seek your consent to use it for that new purpose. Please note that there may be occasions where we may process your data without your knowledge or consent where this is required or permitted by law.
We only share your personal data with third parties if we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation.
We may store data collected by the website manually or electronically. The data is stored on secure servers in Hong Kong, China and/or in our premises within Beijing, China.
Our website contains links to and from various third party websites. Most of these links are uploaded by users linking to their project websites or project images. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.
We will only retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
Under certain circumstances, by law you have the right to:
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Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our privacy policy.
If you wish to raise any queries or concerns about this privacy policy please contact us by email at AI4SDGS-THINK-TANK@outlook.com.