Terms, conditions, and data privacy plan
Introduction
The Legume Hub (“the Hub”) provides free public access to knowledge used in the production and use of legumes in agriculture and food. In particular, it supports agronomic practices by sharing knowledge. The Hub is a free public service available to everyone. The management of the Hub is guided and supervised by a community of its users: the European Legume Hub Association (also referred to as ‘Community’) of which all registered users and contributors are members.
For the purpose of these terms, conditions and data privacy plan, the following definitions apply:
The Hub: The Legume Hub at www.legumehub.eu is an interactive website that provides access to a wide range of legume-related knowledge resources and provides a peer-reviewed self-publishing for Members of the European Legume Hub Community.
User: someone who accesses or uses the Hub.
Registered User: an individual who provides personal information to receive enhanced services.
Member: All Registered Users are members of the European Legume Hub Association.
Community: the members of the European Legume Hub Association comprising all registered Users (Members).
Contributor: any Member who deposits content for distribution through the Hub.
Author: a Contributor who is the original source of the deposited content and/or who owns the copyright on the content.
Administrator: the organisation that manages the Hub. Donau Soja GmbH currently fills this role.
The Hub seeks to maximise recognition for its Authors, their projects, and their organisations. Content (articles, videos and images) published originally on the Hub remains the property of its Author(s). All Hub-published articles, i.e., text-based content originally published on the Hub, are presented to Users with a clear guidance on citation recognising the authors and their funders where relevant. Authors are also profiled on the Hub to foster transparency, networking and further knowledge exchange. Content uploaded onto the Hub that is already published elsewhere remains the property of its copyright holder, usually the author(s). In addition to using the Hub for publication and dissemination, all Registered Users (Members) may contribute to the development of the Hub, the further exchange of knowledge, and a wide range of Community activities.
The concept for the Legume Hub was first set out in the project proposal that led to the Legumes Translated project. Legumes Translated was funded by the European Union through Horizon 2020, Project Grant Number 817634. The concept for the Hub and the Community (Association) was developed jointly by the members of the Legumes Translated consortium led in particular by Donal Murphy-Bokern (Germany), Christine Watson (SRUC, UK), Leo Rittler and Georg Spreitzer (Donau Soja, Austria), Helga Willer and Lauren Dietmann (FiBL, Switzerland), Jens Dauber (Thuenen Institut, Germany), and Johannes Schuler (ZALF, Germany). These members of the Legumes Translated Executive Committee are the original owners of the intellectual property and copyright in the Hub concept.
Disclaimer: The information provided on the Hub has been thoroughly researched and is believed to be accurate and correct. However, neither the Contributors, Authors, the Hub Administrator (Donau Soja GmbH), nor the European Commission can be held legally responsible for any errors. There are no warranties, expressed or implied, made with respect to the information provided. Information relating to the use of plant protection products (pesticides) must be checked against the product label or other sources of product registration information.
Data protection policy
This policy sets out the Hub’s data collection and use practices. The data concerned comprise personal data (name, email address, phone number, postal address) as well as further data deposited by users of the Legume Hub (content, articles, videos, pictures and associated metadata). The following data and/or information related to Members (registered Users) and Authors are processed to provide the Hub’s services:
Registered user account: All registered Users are Members of the Legume Hub Association. During the registration process, Users are asked for their first and last name, their email address, and some other basic contact information such as an institutional affiliation and country of residence, and a password. After a potential member has clicked on the emailed confirmation link, the member account is confirmed. Membership at this stage is provisional and converts to full membership after one month. The Registered User has the option of allowing these registration data to be made available to other members on the Hub. As the Legume Hub is a community for knowledge exchange, we reserve the right to process and exchange data provided by Members to support exchange and networking within the Legume Hub Community.
Registered Users who wish to contribute content or publish as Authors are requested to provide a personal profile with the option of having this published on the Hub visible to all Users.
Deposit agreement, intellectual property, and copyright: Contributors retain ownership and copyright for their articles, images, videos or supplementary materials submitted to the Legume Hub. Contributors and Authors also retain the right to remove content from the Legume Hub that they deposited. For each contribution, Contributors must confirm that they have sufficient rights to deposit particular content to the Legume Hub before doing so. In depositing content (text, images, videos, tables, graphs and associated metadata, and uploaded articles already published elsewhere) the Member grants the Legume Hub the right to make it available online, with open access for all. The Contributor/Author confirms that he or she understands that the European Legume Hub Association or its representatives do not assume any responsibility for any breach of copyright in distributing this content through the Hub on behalf of the Contributor.
For work published originally by an Author as an article in Legume Hub, the Author declares that he/she has the right to publish this content making it freely available on the Legume Hub.
For work being deposited by a Contributor that is not authored by the Contributor, the Contributor declares that he/she has the proper permission from the copyright owner, usually indicated on the work, to make this work available in the public domain through the Legume Hub.
Communication via the Legume Hub: Communications which are initiated via the Legume Hub (e.g., comments on articles) list the Member’s name and/or contact details. When Members communicate with the Administrator of the Legume Hub, they may provide name, contact details and other personal data as part of the communication in addition to the content of the message itself. The Administrator of the Legume Hub may process a Member’s personal information in order to reply or to initiate further communication.
Recommendations and statistics: Contact and bibliographical data, information pertaining to a Member’s work, usage frequency, type of devices used to access the Legume Hub, including browser, operating system and mobile device, consulted research items, interaction with particular pages or parts of pages, and number of clicks on a page or feature are collected for the purpose of managing the Hub’s services. Further, based on the personal data a member provides, statistical evaluations, mathematic operations, and predictions may help to infer other information about a member and support Hub services.
Guided by the board and Members of the Association, the Administrator reserves the right to modify this policy at any time to reflect changes in Hub processes, technology or system capabilities, and changes in relevant laws and regulatory requirements. All changes to the content of this policy will be notified to the Members by email. If a User objects to any new version, he/she should close his/her account. If the User continues to use the Hub after having been provided with such notice he/she will be deemed to have acknowledged the policy. Personal data are collected based on legitimate interests pursuant to Art. 6(1)(a) to (f) GDPR.
Data protection
Personal data are processed on the basis of the legal regulations (General Data Protection Regulation, GDPR). This data protection declaration sets out the most important aspects of data processing.
Collection of personal data when visiting the website
For unregistered users, only the personal data that your browser transmits to our server (so-called “server log files”) is collected. The following information that is technically necessary for the display of the website to ensure the stability, functionality and security of our website is collected:
- used IP address;
- date and time of access;
- Time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT);
- access status / HTTP status code;
- the amount of data transferred in bytes;
- website used to access the site (source/reference);
- browser used;
- the operating system used and its interface; and
- language and version of the browser software.
The legal basis is legitimate interest in ensuring a smooth connection setup and a comfortable use of the website as well as the facilitation of system security and stability and further administrative purposes in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. f GDPR.
The data are not be passed on or used in any other way.
Contact form
Data provided via the contact form on the website or by e-mail are stored for up to six months for the purpose of processing the enquiry. Such data are not passed on without consent.
Cookies
The Hub website uses cookies. These are small text files that are stored on the User’s device using the browser. They’re not doing any damage. Cookies are used to make our website user-friendly. Some cookies remain stored on the user’s device until they are deleted. This website uses the following types of cookies: Transient cookies (see a) and persistent cookies (see b).
a) Session (Transient) cookies: These cookies are erased on closure of the browser, and do not collect information from the user computer. They typically store information in the form of a session identification that does not personally identify the user.
b) Persistent (Permanent or Stored) cookies: These cookies are stored on the user’s hard drive until they expire (i.e., they are based on a set expiration date) or until the user deletes them. These cookies are used to collect identifying information about the user, such as Web surfing behaviour or user preferences for a specific site.
A User can configure the browser settings according to the User’s wishes, e.g., to refuse third party cookies or all cookies. Users can choose to be notified when cookies are set and can decide individually whether to allow them or not. Each browser differs in the way it manages the cookie settings. This is described in the help menu of each browser, which explains how cookie settings can be changed.
These are found for the respective browsers under the following links:
Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences
Chrome: http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&hlrm=en&answer=95647
Safari: https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/manage-cookies-and-website-data-sfri11471/mac
Opera: https://help.opera.com/en/latest/web-preferences/#cookies
Please note that the functionality of the Hub website may be limited if cookies are not accepted.
Deletion of data
Unless a request conflicts with a legal obligation to store data (e.g., data retention), Users have a right to have their data deleted. Data stored for managing the Hub will be deleted if it is no longer required for its intended use and there are no legal retention periods. If deletion is not possible because the data is required for legal purposes, data processing will be restricted. In this case, the data will be blocked and not processed for other purposes.
Users’ rights
Users have the fundamental rights to information, correction, deletion, restriction, data portability, revocation and objection with regard to data stored for the purposes of providing the Hub. Users who wish to correct, block, delete or obtain information about the personal data stored about them should contact the Hub Administrator (Donau Soja GmbH).
Donau Soja GmbH
Wiesingerstraße 6/14
1010 Vienna
office@donausoja.org