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We strongly recommend you to acquaint with their private policies in order to avoid misunderstandings with supervening innocent infringement or misconduct. </p> </div> <div class="privacy-text-block"> <h2>Managing your personal information</h2> <p class="normal-text"> Publisher highly respects the rights for protection of personal information and by no manner of means our Privacy Policy restricts your entitlements. Alongside with our control and security, you are free to manage your personal information at your discretion. </p> <ul class="section-list"> <li> <span class="normal-text">You may change your personal information in the registered account or send the request to our support team.</span> </li> <li> <span class="normal-text">You may deactivate your account, which may be restored if you change your previous decision.</span> </li> <li> <span class="normal-text">You may revoke your consent about storage and sharing your personal data with Publisher at any time.</span> </li> <li> <span class="normal-text">You may stop getting any our newsletters by unsubscribing from this service through the link available in each such letter.</span> </li> </ul> <span class="normal-text">We guarantee that Publisher is not using and will not use your personal data for trades with the third parties without your consent for this or in cases when it is required by the law.</span> </div> <div class="privacy-text-block"> <h2>GÉANT Data Protection Code of Conduct (CoCo)</h2> <p class="normal-text"> <b>Name of the service</b> <br> Scientific.NET </p> <p class="normal-text"> <b>Description of the service</b> <br> Provide access to publishing platform and published online materials. </p> <p class="normal-text"> <b>Data controller and a contact person</b> <br> Trans Tech Publications project. Contact via <a href="mailto:info@scientific.net">info@scientific.net</a>. Server operated by GConnect CH. </p> <p class="normal-text"> <b>Jurisdiction</b> <br> CH, Switzerland </p> <p class="normal-text"> <b>Address</b> <br> Seestrasse 24c, CH-8806 Baech, Switzerland </p> <p class="normal-text"> <b>Personal data processed</b> <br> The following attributes are fetched from SAML enabled Identity Providers: </p> <ul class="section-list"> <li> <span class="normal-text">urn:oid:1.3.6.1.4.1.5923.1.1.1.9 (eduPersonScopedAffiliation, mandatory attribute)</span> </li> <li> <span class="normal-text">urn:oid:1.3.6.1.4.1.5923.1.1.1.7 (eduPersonEntitlement, mandatory attribute)</span> </li> </ul> <p class="normal-text"> <b>Purpose of the processing of personal data</b> <br> Personal data is used to uniquely identify users, for access control (authorization), customization and for contacting users in case of some service related problems or changes. </p> <p class="normal-text"> <b>Third parties to whom personal data is disclosed</b> <br> Personal data is not disclosed to anyone outside of the scientific.net supporting services operations team. </p> <p class="normal-text"> <b>How to access, rectify and delete the personal data</b> <br> Personal information is visible in your profile. 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