Privacy Policy

The Clay Soil Shrinkage Risk Assessment website, developed under the PIISA Project, is committed to conducting all activities responsibly and ethically. This page provides information on how we collect, use, disclose, and protect your personal data, ensuring compliance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

What is the scope of our Privacy Policy?

The Clay Soil Shrinkage Risk Assessment website is part of the PIISA project consortium, which comprises 12 member partners responsible for the treatment of users’ personal data. We inform our users that this data will be treated in accordance with the provisions in the regulations in force on the protection of personal data (2016 European GDPR regulation). Therefore, this privacy statement applies to the entire lifespan of information within the Clay Soil Shrinkage Risk Assessment website, from the obtainment of information to the final deletion of information. As explained further, additional guidelines or procedures are established for specific areas or processes—such as research, interviews, or surveys—within the PIISA project that provide a detailed explanation of the measures taken to achieve the desired level of data protection. The PIISA consortium considers it very important to treat the input and contributions from stakeholders as confidential during its activities and in public reporting. No personal information will be shared within the PIISA community of stakeholders, nor with third parties, unless the concerned stakeholders agree. Below we explain how personal data will be treated.

For what purposes may we process your personal data?

The Clay Soil Shrinkage Risk Assessment website collects personal data to the extent required to fulfill specific purposes. The collected data may be shared with the European Commission and with the project’s consortium for compliance with reporting, monitoring, and auditing requirements, but personal information will not be shared nor sold to third-party marketers. Personal data may be collected and further processed under the Clay Soil Shrinkage Risk Assessment website for the following purposes:

• To notify users about website changes, updates, and project news
• To communicate about upcoming events
• To manage project webinars, workshops, and training activities
• To deliver and monitor demand-driven and tailored capacity support towards project stakeholders
• To establish new partnerships, engage stakeholders, and collect feedback from project stakeholders
• To deliver and monitor emailing

Which personal data do we collect?

The Clay Soil Shrinkage Risk Assessment website collects personal data that you provide via web forms, including your name and email address. Additionally, we collect:

• Log file information, including personal identification information (name, email address, etc.) in the context of communication and dissemination purposes
• IP address
• Browser information
• The external webpage from which you visited our site
• Pages you visited on our website
• Time at which the pages were visited
• How long the pages were visited
• Device details
• Cookies

Use of Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics to collect information about how visitors use our website. This tool helps us understand website traffic and usage patterns. Google Analytics collects data such as your IP address, browser type, and pages visited. This information is used to analyze and improve our website's performance and user experience. For more details on how Google Analytics collects and processes data, please refer to Google's Privacy Policy.

Customized Reports

Our website offers a feature that allows users to generate customized reports by entering an address and house surface area. To protect your privacy, we only save the postal code from these inputs in our database. This data is used solely for research and to analyze which postal codes are being searched and to identify any errors, with the aim of improving our coverage area, as not all cities are currently covered.

Data Sources

The data in our system is public-use data obtained from official government APIs in France, including Données foncières, API Addresses, and API Géorisques.

Data Hosting

Our website is hosted on an AWS server located in Europe, ensuring that your data is stored within the European Economic Area (EEA).

How is your personal data protected?

The Clay Soil Shrinkage Risk Assessment website takes reasonable measures to ensure that user data and the personal data that users make available are protected against:

• Loss: data are no longer available
• Leaks: data falling into the wrong hands
• Errors: data are not correct; for example, obsolete or incomplete
• Inaccessibility: data are not accessible when required
• Wrongful access: viewed by persons who are not authorized to do so
• Processing that is not in line with legislation, guidelines, and standards

What are your rights?

You can ask us at any time via email at contact@piisa-project.eu:

• Which data we have about you
• The purpose of specific processing
• Who processes your personal data

You have the right:

• To have a copy of your personal data that we process for a particular purpose
• To submit a request that your data be deleted
• To ask us to no longer process your personal data (if you have a valid and legal reason for this)

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at contact@piisa-project.eu.

Effective Date: 01/02/2025

Last Updated: 01/02/2025

Note: This Privacy Policy is based on the template provided by the PIISA project and has been adapted to include specific information about the Clay Soil Shrinkage Risk Assessment website.