Privacy and Terms

Who we are

The IMFIRE project is the responsibility of the IMFIRE Consortium, which is made up of representatives of various Portuguese institutions.

Will dedicate great attention and effort to disseminate and promote the knowledge developed in the project to the scientific community, to operational bodies, to decision makers and to the public.

You can find more information on the Consortium page.

Our website address is: https://adai.pt/imfire.

You can find our full address on our contact page.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact forms

Our Contact form are used to make it easier for users to contact the team behind the website.

If you should choose to provide us with personal information – as in an e-mail or by filling out a form and submitting it to us through the Site – we will use that information to respond to your message and to help us get the information you have requested. The IMFIRE project does not collect personal information for commercial marketing or distribution to any private organizations.

Information submitted through the contact forms on our site are sent to our institucional email info@adai.pt .

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

We may process data about your use of our website and services (“usage data“). The usage data may include your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views and website navigation paths, as well as information about the timing, frequency and pattern of your service use. The source of the usage data is via the Google analytics tracking system. This usage data may be processed for the purposes of analysing the use of the website and services. The legal basis for this processing is your consent.

Who we share your data with

We don’t share your data with third-parties in a way as to reveal any of your personal information like email, name, etc.

Any contact messages received through this website are also never used for marketing purposes or shared with any third parties.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can send us an email to the address info@adai.pt request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Cookie Management

Most browsers allow you to erase cookies from your computer hard drive, block all cookies (or only third-party cookies), or be warned before a cookie is stored on your device. Please note that if you choose to block all cookies, our website will not function as expected and you will not be able to use it or access many of the services we provide. If you have blocked all cookies and want to make full use of the features and services we offer, you need to enable cookies through your browser (see below as). Instead of blocking all cookies, you may choose to block only third party cookies, which will still allow our site to function properly.

Additional information

How to manage cookies on your PC

To enable cookies on our site, follow the steps below.

Google Chrome

Click on “Tools” at the top of your browser and select “Settings”.
Click on “Show advanced settings”.
Scroll down to the “Privacy” section and click “Content Settings.”
Select “Allow local data storage”.
To accept only primary cookies, check the “Block cookies and third party data” box

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0, 7.0, 8.0, 9.0, 10, 11

Click on “Tools” at the top of your browser and select “Internet Options”.
Then click on “Privacy”.
Make sure your privacy level is set to Medium or Lower, which will allow the use of cookies in your browser.
Setting it above the medium level will prevent cookies from being used.

Mozilla Firefox

Click on “Tools” at the top of the browser and select “Options”.
Then select the “Privacy” icon.
Click the “Cookies” button and select “Allow pages to set a cookie.”

Safari

Click the icon at the top of your browser and select “Preferences”.
Click on “Privacy”, select the option “Disable the use of third party cookies and advertising cookies.”
Click on “Save”.

Opera

Click on “Menu” at the top of your browser and select “Settings”.
Then select “Options” and “Advanced”.
Choose “Enable Cookies”

How to manage cookies on your Mac

To enable cookies on our site, follow the steps below.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 on OSX

Click on “Explorer” at the top of your browser and select “Settings”.
Scroll down to the “Cookies” section in “Received Files”.
Select “Don’t ask.”

Safari on OSX

Click on “Safari” at the top of your browser and select “Preferences”.
Click the “Privacy” button and then “Enable cookies”.
Select “only the pages you have visited”.

Mozilla and Netscape on OSX

Click on “Mozilla” or “Netscape” at the top of your browser and select “Settings”.
Scroll to “Cookies” under “Privacy & Security.”
Select “Allow cookies for original site only”.