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Privacy Policy
The portal sodanet.gr is part of the national research network Sodanet_GR which was established in 2012 and consists of the following 7 institutions:
The network is dynamic and constantly growing. In the future it may include new members (institutions).
The bodies operating the sodanet.gr portal attribute particular importance to the protection of the privacy and personal data of visitors/users. We remind you that personal data are understood by the relevant legislation, in particular the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679/EU, as only those information relating to an identified or - on the basis of certain characteristics - identifiable natural person who is called the Data Subject. Information relating to legal persons and groups of persons or information of a statistical nature from which it is not possible to attribute an identified or identifiable natural person does not fall within this category and is excluded from the scope of the relevant legislation. This Privacy Policy is intended to inform you about the information collected during your visit to the sodanet.gr portal. This policy may be modified, at any time and without notice, by communicating any such modification through the web portal. By navigating the sodanet.gr portal, visitors/users acknowledge that they have read, understood and unconditionally accepted the Data Protection Policy.
Data Controller
The administrator of the portal and the controller of the personal data processed through is the National Centre for Social Research (EKKE) at 9 Kratinou Street and Athinas Street, Kotzias Square, 105 52 Athens, tel. (0030) 2107491656.
Personal data
The user may visit the online platform without revealing his/her identity and without providing any personal data. However, access to certain services requires the user to register in order to obtain a password and/or to collect personal data for specific purposes, as listed below, in order to identify the person of the account and provide a personalized service based on your needs and preferences as users.
Therefore, the personal data that Sodanet collects and processes are only those that are necessary for the specific and clearly defined purpose and the specific legal basis in each case.
In this context, the processing that takes place concerns the personal data that you provide to Sodanet when you use this website and its services or in the context of a related interaction, for example by filling in an application or registering, as in the following cases:
In such cases you will be requested to provide the following information:
A) mandatory
- Identity data (User Code, Full Name)
- Contact data (Email address)
- Biographical personal data (scientific discipline, affiliation)
B) optional
- Contact data (postal address, telephone number).
- Biographical personal data (affiliated institution)
- Demographic data (country of residence)
In those cases where processing is based on the data subject's consent, t, SoDaNet follows the procedures specified by law for obtaining it.
The mandatory data is necessary to be provided in order to enable the provision of the service in accordance with the terms of this website.
When you visit the sodanet.gr website, information such as the IP address (Internet Protocol address) of your personal computer may be automatically collected.
Basic principles
Data are collected for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes and not further processed in a manner that is incompatible with the original purposes; further processing for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes or to improve the platform services or statistical purposes
The data processed are adequate, relevant and restricted to what is necessary for the purposes for which they were originally collected.
Measures are taken to ensure that personal data are accurate, deleted or rectified by the user only and without delay. Data shall be kept in a form that allows identification of individuals only for the time necessary for the operation of each user's account.
Sodanet does not store data erased by users (immediate erasure even from backups) .
Rights
At the same time, the rights of information, access, modification, rectification, erasure, restriction or portability, opposition and objection to automated decisions are always granted to users as provided by the GDPR regulation.
To exercise their rights, each user will be able to contact www.sodanet.gr at the following e-mail address [email protected]
Unless otherwise provided by law, www.sodanet.gr will not for any other reason communicate, disclose, transfer, disseminate or otherwise make available any information provided by the user without the express consent of the user and in any case by providing the appropriate information provided for in each case.
COOKIES POLICY
On the SoDaNet portal we use cookies in order to provide you with the best possible experience on the website. We consider the protection of your personal data particularly important and we want you to be fully informed on the specific issue of using cookies when you visit our website.
Cookies are small files with information that a website (specifically the web server) stores on a user's computer, so that each time the user logs on to the website, the latter retrieves this information and offers the user relevant services, see in detail: http://www.dpa.gr/portal/page?_pageid=33,146950&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL .
In particular, we use the following categories:
a) Absolutely necessary cookies. Without the use of such cookies, the correct functioning of a website is not guaranteed (e.g. text registration), even during browsing between pages on the general website.
b) Functionality cookies: They allow a website/application to store information already submitted ( the user name, language selection or the region where the user is located) and improve the user's ability to enjoy personalized browsing. These cookies collect anonymised information and do not allow tracking of browsing on websites. Our website uses a functionality cookie in relation to the selected language.
c) Performance cookies. Cookies do not store information that allows the user to be identified. The information stored is used solely to improve and implement the performance of the website and therefore the experience provided to the user.
d) Analysis cookies / Google Analytics. Google Analytics uses 'cookies', which are files stored in computer memory, providing information about how visitors use a website. These cookies cannot be used to identify any visitor.
You can, however, prevent Google from collecting and processing data (including IP address) resulting from your use of the website by installing the browser add-on available at the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.
In general, the use of cookies in general can be regulated through the appropriate options in your browser, but in this case you may not be able to fully use the functions of our website.
The following table describes in detail the cookies present on the Website (http://www.sodanet.gr/). The link to the privacy policy of the party that generates and manages these cookies appears with each "third party cookie":
| COOKIES | TYPE | PURPOSE | PRIVACY POLICY |
| sodanet_session | Session Application Cookie | Cookie necessary from browsing and storing user selections | |
| XSRF-TOKEN | Session Application Cookie | Cookie necessary for cross site request forgery protection | |
| _UserReference | Third party - UserWay accessibility tool Cookie | Cookie necessary for storing UserWay accesibility selections by user |
The following table describes in detail the cookies present on the Website (https://datacatalogue.sodanet.gr/). The link to the privacy policy of the party that generates and manages these cookies appears with each "third party cookie":
| COOKIES | TYPE | PURPOSE | PRIVACY POLICY |
| JSESSIONID | Session Application Cookie | Cookie necessary from browsing and storing user selections | This page www.sodanet.gr |
| _ga /_ga_* | Third party - google analytics cookies | Cookies for tracking user analytics | |
| saml_idp | User sso application cookie | Cookie necessary for storing SAML session state | This page www.sodanet.gr |
| SAML session state | Cookies Acceptance Cookie | Cookie for storing user selection for "I accept cookies in this site" | This page www.sodanet.gr |
| _shibsession_* | Shibboleth session Cookie | Cookie for the Shibboleth Service Provider | This page www.sodanet.gr |
| _UserReference | Third party - UserWay accessibility tool Cookie | Cookie necessary for storing UserWay accesibility selections by user |
The following table describes in detail the cookies present on the Website (https://elearning.sodanet.gr/). The link to the privacy policy of the party that generates and manages these cookies appears with each "third party cookie":
| COOKIES | TYPE | PURPOSE | PRIVACY POLICY |
| MoodleSession | Session Application Cookie | Cookie necessary from browsing and storing user selections | |
| MOODLEID1_ | User SSO Application Cookie | Cookie necessary for storing SAML session state | |
| MDL_SSP_SessID | User SSO Application Cookie | Cookie necessary for storing SAML session state | |
| MDL_SSP_AuthToken | User SSO Application Cookie | Cookie necessary for storing SAML session state | |
| _UserReference | Third party - UserWay accessibility tool Cookie | Cookie necessary for storing UserWay accesibility selections by user |
The following table describes in detail the cookies present on the Website (https://statsandmaps.sodanet.gr/). The link to the privacy policy of the party that generates and manages these cookies appears with each "third party cookie":
| COOKIES | TYPE | PURPOSE | PRIVACY POLICY |
| JSESSIONID | Session Application Cookie | Cookie necessary from browsing and storing user selections | |
| language | Cookie necessary for storing UserWay accesibility selections by user | Cookie necessary for storing user language selection | |
| username | Session Application Cookie | Cookie necessary for storing SAML session state | |
| _UserReference | Third party - UserWay accessibility tool Cookie | Cookie necessary for storing UserWay accesibility selections by user |
The following table describes in detail the cookies present on the Website (https://surveys.sodanet.gr/). The link to the privacy policy of the party that generates and manages these cookies appears with each "third party cookie":
| COOKIES | TYPE | PURPOSE | PRIVACY POLICY |
| PHPSESSID | Session Application Cookie | Cookie necessary from browsing and storing user selections | |
| YII_CSRF_TOKEN | Session Application Cookie | Cookie necessary for cross site request forgery protection |
Cookies in various browsers:
Chrome
- Select the menu in the top right corner of the browser toolbar
- Select Settings
- Select the Show advanced settings link6
- In the Privacy section select Content settings
- In the Cookie section change the following settings based on the action required to manage cookies:
- Allow websites to store and read cookie data
- Only retain local data until you close your browser
- Prevent websites from setting data
- Block third-party cookies and website data
- Manage exceptions for certain Internet sites
- All cookies and website data
For more information visit the relevant Google page
Mozilla Firefox
- Click on the menu in the top right corner of the browser toolbar
- Select Options
- Select the Privacy section
- In the Tracking section, select the appropriate button if you want to contact sites you do not want to be tracked
- In the History section, select from the Use Custom Settings drop-down menu to change the following settings, depending on the action you wish to perform regarding cookies:
- Accept cookies from websites (select the appropriate button).
- Accept third-party cookies (select one of the following options from the drop-down menu: always, from the most visited websites, or never).
- Save them for a specified period of time (select from the drop-down menu one of the following options: until they expire, when Firefox is closed, or every time).
- Again, in the History section, select Show cookies if you want to remove cookies that are present on your computer.
For more information, visit the relevant Mozilla page
Internet Explorer
- Click on the Tools button
- Select Internet Options
- Select Privacy
- In the scrolling menu, select one of the following options. Change the following settings depending on what you want to do to handle cookies:
- Block all cookies
- Select all cookies
- Block all cookies
- Medium
- High to High to Low
- Accept all cookies
- Select specific websites from which to accept cookies: click "Sites" and in the "Address of Website" box, type in a website address, then click "Block" or "Allow"
For more information, visit the relevant Microsoft page
Safari
- Open Safari
- Click on Safari
- Select Preferences and then click Privacy
- In the "Block Cookies" section, choose how Safari will handle cookies.
- Click Details to see which sites have stored their cookies
For more information, visit the relevant Apple page
Opera
- Open Opera
- Select "Settings" in the main menu in the top left corner of the screen
- Select "Privacy & Security"
- In the "Cookies" section, select one of the following options:
- Allow local storage
- Allow local data to be kept only until I close my browser
- To prevent third-party sites from storing data
- Block third-party cookies and website data
- By selecting the "All cookies and site data" button you can remove the cookies present on your computer.
For more information, visit the relevant Opera page
Retention time
The data obtained through the installation of cookies are kept as long as necessary for the purposes of processing in accordance with the provisions of the GDPR and Law 3471/06 (Article 5(1)).
Field of application
This personal data protection policy applies only to the Website www.sodanet.gr. This policy does not apply to information collected through any other website or to practices of companies / entities that we do not control. Please note that the sodanet network contains links to other websites whose operation is governed by their own terms of use and privacy.
