Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy


Welcome to our MULTISOURCE project website and thank you for your interest in our project. We are serious about protecting your personal data and we would like to ask you to read the following information about the protection of your data at our website carefully. This privacy notice refers to website visitors, our research partners, and other stakeholders and provides detailed information on how we process personal data.

MULTISOURCE collects the following personal data:

  • First and last name
  • Email addresses
  • Phone numbers
  • Professional affiliation and/or job title
  • Via your subscription to our newsletter (we are going to need your full name and email address)
  • By contacting us via email (we are going to need your email address in order to get back to you)
  • Via registration to in-person/remote meetings (we are going to need your name, email address, phone number in this case for the attendance list of the event and for contacting you for information and in case of emergency)
  • Via the informed consent we will ask you to sign in case you wish to participate in one of our Pilot Use Cases
  • Special categories of personal data: When hosting an event, we might ask you to provide us with your dietary restrictions in order to be able to provide you with some options that work best for you.
  • For communicating with you regarding a question you may have sent us
  • For forwarding you our newsletter in case you have subscribed to it
  • For providing you more details on an event you have registered to attend
  • Lawful basis for processing your personal data
  • Informed consent: when you provide us with your personal data directly via subscribing to our newsletter or when you fill in a registration form.
  • Legal obligation: when we have to process personal data in order to meet a legal obligation we may have
  • Legitimate interests: when it is necessary for us to communicate to the public the project’s outcomes and for enhancing our research quality.

Since MULTISOURCE is a consortium consisted of 20 partners, your data will be securely stored in the responsible partner’s premises where the appropriate technical and organizational measures have been taken in order to ensure the protection of data. All partners act according to the Data Management Plan that has been laid out in the beginning of the project; meaning that we have secure servers that are password protected for the storage of your data and access is granted only to people who are directly involved in MULTISOURCE. Additionally, security and anti-virus software is installed and frequently updated in our servers. Please note that the transmission of data cannot be 100% secure; however, we do our best in order to protect your data to the highest extent.

Yes; we may occasionally share your personal data with trusted third parties that help us operate efficiently; for example, cloud-based software, HR and accounting services within the consortium, law enforcement or governmental agencies, the European Commissi

As MULTISOURCE is a Horizon 2020 funded project, we are obliged to store data for up to 10 years after the end of the project (unless, an extension is requested by auditors). When this happens, the collected data are being treated in compliance with Regulation No. 45/2001. After this time period, and given the fact that no other legitimate reasons for further storage arise, we will delete your personal data.

MULTISOURCE project keeps its privacy policy under regular review and places any updates on this website page. This privacy notice was created on 9th April 2021.

If you are still looking for more information or you have any concerns as to how your data is processed, please do not hesitate to contact us per email: info@multisource.eu.

We will respond to your queries within 30 days from when we receive them.

WATER EUROPE is the partner in charge of the maintenance of the website. Its identification information is as follows:

  • Registered office: Water Europe AISBL. Boulevard A. Reyers 80
  • Post code: 1030
  • Town/City: Brussels
  • VAT: BE 0893.349.907
  • E-mail: info@watereurope.eu
  • Website hosting provider: Easyhost BV