General Conditions
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Privacy Policy
Last updated: April 25, 2025
This Privacy Policy describes Our policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of Your information when You use the Service and tells You about Your privacy rights and how the law protects You.
We use Your Personal data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, You agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Collecting and Using Your Personal Data
Types of Data Collected
Personal Data
While using Our Service, We may ask You to provide Us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify You. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:
Email address
First name and last name
Phone/mobile number
Website Usage Data
Usage Data
Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Service. Usage Data may include information such as Your Device's Internet Protocol address (e.g., IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
When You access the Service by or through a mobile device, We may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device You use, Your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of Your mobile device, Your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser You use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data. We may also collect information that Your browser sends whenever You visit our Service or when You access the Service by or through a mobile device.
Tracking Technologies and Cookies
We use Cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on Our Service and store certain information. Tracking technologies used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze Our Service. The technologies We use may include:
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Cookies or Browser Cookies. A cookie is a small file placed on Your Device. You can instruct Your browser to refuse all Cookies or to indicate when a Cookie is being sent. However, if You do not accept Cookies, You may not be able to use some parts of our Service. Unless you have adjusted Your browser setting so that it will refuse Cookies, our Service may use Cookies.
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Web Beacons. Certain sections of our Service and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Food Behaviour Lab, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of a certain section and verifying system and server integrity).
Cookies can be "Persistent" or "Session" Cookies. Persistent Cookies remain on Your personal computer or mobile device when You go offline, while Session Cookies are deleted as soon as You close Your web browser.
We use both Session and Persistent Cookies for the purposes set out below:
Necessary / Essential Cookies
Type: Session Cookies
Administered by: Us
Purpose: These Cookies are essential to provide You with services available through the Website and to enable You to use some of its features. They help to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts. Without these Cookies, the services that You have asked for cannot be provided, and We only use these Cookies to provide You with those services.
Cookies Policy / Notice Acceptance Cookies
Type: Persistent Cookies
Administered by: Us
Purpose: These Cookies identify if users have accepted the use of cookies on the Website.
Functionality Cookies
Type: Persistent Cookies
Administered by: Us
Purpose: These Cookies allow us to remember choices You make when You use the Website, such as remembering your login details or language preference. The purpose of these Cookies is to provide You with a more personal experience and to avoid You having to re-enter your preferences every time You use the Website.
Use of Your Personal Data
The Food Behaviour Lab may use Personal Data for the following purposes:
To provide and maintain our Service, including to monitor the usage of our Service.
To contact You: To contact you by email, telephone calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication about updates or informative communications related to functionalities and security updates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation.
To manage Your requests: To attend and manage Your requests to Us, chiefly requests for contact or for further information.
For other purposes: We may use Your information for other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends and evaluating and improving our Service, and your experience.
Data Subject Rights
Right of Access
Upon request, you can obtain confirmation that your personal data is being processed by Food Behaviour Lab
In addition, You can access Your Personal Data and obtain the following information:
a) Reasons why Your Personal Data is processed; b) Categories of Personal Data processing; c) Entities to which Your Personal Data may be transferred, including entities located in countries outside the European Union and international organizations, in which case You must be informed of the safeguards applicable to the transfer of Your Data; (d) The
retention period for storing Your Data or, where this is not possible, the criteria for determining how long they will be stored; information on the respective source (e) The existence of automated individual decisions, including profiling and, in this case, information on the reasoning behind such processes, as well as their significance and foreseeable consequences.
Retention of Your Personal and Usage Data
The Food Behaviour Lab will retain Your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use Your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.
The Food Behaviour Lab will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of Our Service, or We are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.
Transfer of Your Personal Data
Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the Food Behaviour Lab's operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that this information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of Your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from Your jurisdiction.
Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by Your submission of such information represents Your agreement to that transfer.
The Food Behaviour Lab will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that Your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of Your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of Your data and other personal information.
Elimination of Your Personal Data
You have the right to request the Food Behaviour Lab to update, amend or eliminate your Personal Data at any time, and to receive confirmation that the update, amendment or elimination requested was implemented.
Please note, however, that the right to eliminate Personal Data does not apply where processing of this information is needed for any of the following purposes: (I) exercising freedom of expression and information; (II) complying with a legal obligation that requires such processing and that is applicable to Food Behaviour Lab; (III) reasons of public interest in the field of public health; (IV) archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research or statistical purposes, whenever erasure would seriously impair the performance of such processing; or (V) establishing, exercising or defending legal claims.
Disclosure of Your Personal Data
Law enforcement
Under certain circumstances, The Food Behaviour Lab may be required to disclose your Personal Data if required to do this by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court or a government agency).
Other legal requirements
Food Behaviour Lab may disclose Your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:
Comply with a legal obligation
Protect and defend the Lab's rights or property
Prevent or investigate possible violations related to the Service
Protect the personal safety of Users of the Service or the public
Protect against legal liability
Security of Your Personal Data
The security of Your Personal Data is important to Us. We adopt appropriate data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures to protect against unauthorized access, unintentional loss, alteration, disclosure, or destruction of Your Personal Data, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While We strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect Your Personal Data, We cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Children's Privacy
Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If You are a parent or guardian and You are aware that Your child has provided Us with Personal Data, please contact Us. If We become aware that We have collected Personal Data from anyone under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, We take steps to remove that information from Our servers.
Third Party Websites
Our Service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by Us. If You click on a third-party link, You will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise You to review the Privacy Policy of every site You visit.
We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third-party sites or services.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update Our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify You of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.
We will let You know via email and/or a prominent notice on Our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the "Last updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy.
You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, You can contact us at email CUBE: catolica-lisbon-research@ucp.pt