1. Privacy Policy

This is the MANCO Project website Privacy Policy.

The MANCO Project website is established under French law in accordance with the Trust in Digital Economy act (no. 2004-575 voted on 21st June 2004).

This Privacy Policy sets out the MANCO Project’s general policies on data privacy and protection and is intended to inform visitors about the processing of personal data that takes place via the MANCO Project website.

This Privacy Policy may be modified, for example, in connection with new features on the website or to comply with new legal, contractual or administrative obligations. This version of the Privacy Policy was last modified on 9th November 2020.

1.1. Publisher and hosting company of the website:

The website accessible from the URL www.manco-project.eu is edited by Erasmus MC (Coordinating institution of the MANCO Project)
Dr Molewaterplein 40
3015 GD Rotterdam
The Netherlands

The website hosting, technical maintenance, and software updates are provided by OVH.

1.2. Realisation of the website:

Nous Voilà ! – www.nousvoila.fr
26, rue du Chalet, 75010 Paris, France
Villeneuve, 44840 Les Sorinières, France

1.3. Director of Publication and Editorial Manager:

Director of publication:

Frank GROSVELD, MANCO Coordinator, Professor and Principal Investigator in the Department of Cell Biology at Erasmus MC, Dr. Molewaterplein 40, 3015 GD Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Editorial manager:

Maud LE GRAET, MANCO Project Manager at FINOVATIS, 62 rue de Bonnel, 69003 Lyon, France.

2. Website access

By accessing or using the website www.manco-project.eu, visitors acknowledge that they have read and accepted these terms of use. Erasmus MC reserves the right to modify them at any time.

3. Content

Information – Erasmus MC implements all the means at its disposal to ensure reliable information and a reliable update of its site. However, errors or omissions may occur. Any error, obsolete information, inaccessible page can be reported to the webmaster (contact@manco-project.eu)
Erasmus MC is in no way responsible for the use made of the information available on its site, and for any direct or indirect damage that may result. Consequently, Erasmus MC declines all responsibility:
• for any imprecision, inaccuracy or omission relating to information available on the site;
• for any damage resulting from fraudulent intrusion by a third party, which has led to a modification of the information or elements made available on the site;
• and more generally for any damage, direct or indirect, whatever the causes, origins, nature or consequences, even if Erasmus MC would have been advised of it, caused by the access of anyone to the site or the impossibility to access it, the use of the site, including any deterioration or any virus which could infect the visitor’s computer equipment or any other property, and/or the credit given to any information coming directly or indirectly from the site.
Nature of the information – The site contains information relating to the medical field, which is intended exclusively for the information of the visitors, and which could not be used in any case as a substitute for the opinion of health specialists.
Hypertext links – The www.manco-project.eu website may provide links to other websites or other resources available on the Internet. Erasmus MC has no means of control over these sites in connection with its website, and cannot be held responsible for any damage, of any nature whatsoever, resulting from the content of these sites or external sources, and in particular the information, products or services they offer, or any use that may be made of these elements. The risks associated with such use are fully incumbent on the visitor, who must comply with their conditions of use.
Erasmus MC authorizes the establishment of hypertext links to pages of the site www.manco-project.eu, provided that the selection of these links causes the opening of a page or a tab of the browser.
Availability – The visitor acknowledges that it is technically impossible to provide the site free of defects and that defects may lead to the temporary unavailability of the site or that the operation of the site may be affected by events and/or elements beyond the control of Erasmus MC. Erasmus MC may, at any time, modify or interrupt, temporarily or permanently, all or part of the site to perform maintenance operations and/or make improvements and/or modifications to the site. Erasmus MC is not responsible for any modification, suspension or interruption of the site.

4. Intellectual property

All the contents of the www.manco-project.eu website, including but not limited to graphics, images, photos, texts, videos, animations, sounds, logos, gifs and icons, as well as their formatting, are the exclusive property of Erasmus MC, subject to the rights of third parties. It comes under French and international legislation on copyright and intellectual property.
Any reproduction, distribution, modification, adaptation, retransmission or publication, even partial, of these various elements is strictly forbidden without the express written consent of Erasmus MC (contact@manco-project.eu). Failure to comply with this prohibition constitutes an infringement that may result in civil and criminal liability of the counterfeiter.
However, the reproduction of all or part of this site on an electronic medium is authorised for private use subject to indicating the source and mentioning “Rights reserved”.

5. Personal data

We process personal data for the technical and functional management of the MANCO Project website and to make the website easy to use. By using your data, we can check how our website is used and we can improve its content and layout. This data also allows us to adequately secure our website.

For this, we can process data such as your IP address, the pages you visit, the browser you are using, the sites you visited earlier, and the time and duration of your visit. We do this, for example, by using cookies.

We process these data based on the legitimate interest of the MANCO Project in providing a well-functioning and secure website.

We also process your personal data to carry out our obligations arising from the MANCO Grant Agreement n°10100365 (for example to measure the number of visitors, the type of audiences, the reach of specific project communication activities, etc…)

Visitors are under no obligation to disclose their personal data in order to use the MANCO Project website.