1. WHO WE ARE

The National Research&Development Institute for Non-Ferrous and Rare Metals - IMNR (hereinafter referred to as "IMNR" or "us") is a national research - development institute, with headquarters in Romania, 102 B-d. Biruinței, Pantelimon, ILFOV county, 077145, having the order number in the Trade Register J40/12278/1994. We collect and process different categories of personal data from you as a user of the website https://www.imnr.ro/ (hereinafter referred to as the "website" or "internet page"), which, in accordance with the legislation of the European Union on the protection of personal data, gives us the status of data operator for such data. The protection of your personal data is very important to us. This information notice on the Processing of Personal Data describes our practices regarding the collection and use by us of your personal data as a result of the interaction with our website. These provisions do not cover the situation of advertising contests. Please read this Information Notice carefully to understand how we process your personal data.

2. WHAT DATA WE PROCESS ABOUT YOU

While you visit our website, www.imnr.ro, the server automatically records and processes the following data concerning you, as follows:

2.1 While you are browsing our website

The website automatically collects certain information and stores it in log files. This information includes your Internet Protocol (IP) address, general location of your computer or device (city level), browser type, operating system, time of access, page link accessed, page view history our website, device information, programs viewed, device id (notifications and identification), timestamp, request/action.
We use this information to be able to design our website and application in such a way that it better adapts to the needs of our users. We may also use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our servers and to administer our website, analyze trends, track visitor movements, and gather general demographic information to help us assists in identifying visitor preferences. The basis of the processing is our legitimate interest to monitor the activity on the site and ensure the security of the site. The data is kept for one year from the date of the visit. Our website also uses cookies, which you can read about in section 6 below. As a general rule, for the placement of cookies that are not strictly necessary for the functionality of the page, your consent is required, which we request upon entering the site. Your cookie options can be changed at any time, instructions for this are included in the Cookie Policy (Section 6).

2.2 When you fill in the contact form or the registration form for an event organized by IMNR (conference, course, webinar, etc.)

When you fill in the contact form or the registration form for an event organized by IMNR on our website, we will process the email address, which will enter our database regarding future information of possible interest to you. The legal basis for processing is your consent. We ensure that you have a simple option to unsubscribe at any time, either in the communication itself or by contacting us as indicated in Section 5. When you unsubscribe, the newsletter communication ceases. The email address will be shared with the provider of the email newsletter sending solution. The data is not transferred outside the European Union.

3. YOUR RIGHTS

As a data subject, you have specific legal rights related to the personal data we collect from you. IMNR will respect your rights and respond to your requests appropriately.

a) The Right to withdraw your consent:

If you have given your consent to the processing of your personal data, you can withdraw your consent at any time. In the case of cookies, this withdrawal can be done from the browser (see section 6.2), in addition to the contact method provided in section 5 below.

b) The Right of access:

You can request information about the personal data we hold about you, including information about the categories of data we hold or control, what it is used for, the source from which we collected it if we obtained it indirectly , and to whom this data is disclosed, if applicable. We will provide you with a copy of your personal data upon request. If you request multiple copies of your personal data, we may charge you a reasonable fee based on administrative costs.

c) The Right to rectification:

You have the right to obtain from us the rectification of your personal data. If you wish, for this purpose, you can contact us in the manner provided in Section 5 below.

d) The right to Restrict:

If you wish, you can obtain from us the restriction of the processing of your personal data, in the situations where:
• you dispute the correctness of your personal data, for the period we need to verify the correctness,
• the processing is illegal, but you object to the deletion of personal data, requesting in change the restriction of their use,
• we no longer need your personal data but you request it to establish, exercise or defend a right in court, or
• you object to the processing, for the time period in which we check whether our legitimate interests prevail over yours .

e) The Right to Portability:

You have the right to receive your personal data that you have provided to us and, where technically feasible, to request that we transfer your personal data (that you have provided to us) to another organization . These two rights are rights you have if, cumulatively:
• we process your personal data with automatic means,
• we rely, in the processing of your personal data, on your consent or our processing of your personal data is necessary for the conclusion or execution of a contract to which you are a party;
• your personal data is provided to us by you, and
• transmiterea datelor dumneavoastră personale nu are un efect negativ asupra drepturilor și libertăților altor persoane. You have the right to receive your personal data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. Your right to receive your personal data must not have a negative effect on the rights and freedoms of other people. This could happen if a transfer of your personal data to another organization also involves the transfer of personal data to other individuals (who do not consent to this transfer). The right to have your personal data transferred by us to another organization is a right you have if this transfer is technically feasible.

f) The Right to erasure:

You have the right to request that we delete the personal data we process about you. We must comply with this request if we process your personal data, and if the personal data is no longer necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, unless the data is necessary:
• for exercising the right to free expression and information;
• to comply with a legal obligation we have;
• for archiving purposes in the public, scientific or historical interest or for statistical purposes; or
• for establishing, exercising or defending a right in court.

g) The Right to object:

Where the processing is not based on your consent but on our legitimate interests or those of a third party, you can object at any time to the processing of your personal data for reasons related to your particular situation. In this case we will no longer process your personal data, unless (I) we can prove legitimate and compelling reasons which justify the processing and which prevail over your interests, rights and freedoms or (II) or if the purpose is to ascertain , exercising or defending a right in court. If you object to the processing, please specify whether you also want your personal data to be deleted, otherwise we will only restrict it. You can always object to the processing of your personal data for marketing purposes based on our legitimate interest, whatever your reason. If the marketing was based on your consent, you can withdraw your consent.
Please note::
• Time period: We will try to fulfill your request within one month, which period may be extended due to specific reasons related to the right invoked or the complexity of your request. In any case, if this period is extended, we will inform you about the extension period and the reasons that led to this extension.
• Access restriction: In certain situations, we may not be able to grant you access to all or part of your personal data due to legal restrictions. If we refuse your access request, we will tell you the reason for this refusal.
• Impossibility of identification: In certain cases, we may not be able to identify your personal data because of the identifiers you provide us in the application. In such cases, if we cannot identify you as a data subject, we cannot comply with your request under this section, unless you provide us with additional information that allows us to identify you. We will inform you and give you the opportunity to provide us with such additional details.
• Exercising your rights: To exercise your rights, please contact us in writing (including electronically) at the contact details provided in section 5 below.

4. HOW WE SHARE INFORMATION

We will not disclose your personal data except for the purposes and to the third parties described below. We will take appropriate measures to ensure that your personal data is processed, secured and transferred in accordance with legal requirements.

4.1 Disclosure of Data to Third Parties

We will share the necessary part of your personal data only to the extent necessary and only to the following categories of third parties: (a) Companies that provide us with services relevant to the website, such as traffic analysis, integrations with social media services, service providers of marketing (such as newsletters), website advertising providers, IT system providers and maintenance service providers. A list of them can be obtained upon request. Regarding the companies that place cookies through the website, find this information in section 6 below. (b) Other entities such as public authorities and institutions, accountants, auditors, lawyers and other external professional advisers, if their activity requires their knowledge or if the law requires us to disclose them.

5. CONTACT INFORMATION

Please address your questions on the subject of data protection and any request to exercise your rights to our secretariat:

6. COOKIE-URI

6.1 What are and why do we use cookies?

Cookies are text files placed on your computer or mobile device when you access our website. Own cookies (first party) are set on the domains you are visiting at the time. Third party cookies are set on domains other than those of the internet pages you visit, such as cookies set by the services used by the visited domain. The information collected by cookies does not retain names, data filled in forms or other personal data of this kind, but it contains a unique ID to distinguish one visitor from another, which makes this ID personal data. Cookies can be used for different purposes.
First, they may be necessary to ensure the proper functioning of the website. For example, without cookies, it may be difficult for the website to remember that you are logged in. These are called necessary cookies, and they are active automatically, not being conditioned by the visitor's consent. We have also included here the cookies that measure our audience on the site (but without including the demographic or audience segmentation component).
Analytics cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, such as which pages are most popular, which method of connecting pages is most effective, and whether users receive error messages from websites . These cookies allow us to offer users a high-quality user experience and help improve the way our website works, as well as demographic segmentation of the audience. Thirdly, when we integrate social network plug-ins into the site, they place social media cookies to enable playback of content (e.g. youtube), to enable you to log in using a third-party service (e.g. Facebook or Google), as well as to enable you to like or share a page or product on your preferred social media service.

6.2 Your cookie choices

You can delete cookies from your web browser settings as described below; however, this option results in the deletion of persistent cookies that may store your preferences and personalized settings from our page, which will lead to the need to redo the selection (and possibly re-authenticate into your accounts). Note also that your browser may allow you to specify which web pages are always or never allowed to use cookies. You can find further details on how to delete cookies or how to manage cookies on different browsers by visiting the link: https://nap.nationalacademies.org/content/enabling-cookies-in-your- browse
Comprehensive information related to how organizations use cookies is available at: www.allaboutcookies.org

7. CHANGES TO THE INFORMATION NOTE

We reserve the right to change, when we deem appropriate, our data protection practices and to update and amend this information notice at any time. For this reason, we encourage you to periodically check this information note. This notice is updated on the date it appears at the top of the document.