PRIVACY NOTICE & COOKIE POLICY

In this Privacy Notice and for the purposes of applicable data protection legislation (including but not limited the UK General Data Protection Regulation and the EU General Data Protection Regulation), the company responsible for your personal data is AVEVA Solutions Limited (“AVEVA”) whose address is High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0BH.

Please read this notice carefully to understand our practices with respect to personal data.

HOW WE COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL DATA

The personal data that we collect and process in connection with the website at aveva.agorize.com may include:

Personal data that you give us, including:

Registration. We collect the mandatory information required to create your user account and to register for the services we provide on our website, e.g. your name, email address, password, country of registration, university
Profile. You have choices about the information in your profile, such as, whether to provide your date of birth, title, photograph, country, education, professional skills, and employment preferences. You don’t have to provide additional information in your profile; but profile information helps you to get more from our services, like being identified by teams to participate in the Challenge. If applicable, your profile will also show membership in a team(s).
Messages, postings and uploads. We may collect personal data from you when you provide, post or upload it to our website, such as when you register for a challenge, when you upload deliverables (e.g., documents, presentations, audio/video files) submitted as part of your participation in a challenge, when you chat or message with other members of the community, post announcements, or use public message boards.
Technical information. We keep a record of any correspondence between you and us, such as information that you send when you report a problem with our website or service.
Any other information relating to you which you may provide to us.

HOW LONG WE RETAIN YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We do not keep your personal data for any longer than is necessary for the purposes for which we collect it. Your personal data will be deleted within a reasonable period following conclusion of the Challenge. We manage all data in accordance with the terms of this notice and our Privacy Policy at https://www.aveva.com/en/legal/privacy-policy

HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We use your personal date to provide, support and develop our innovation platform service. We use your personal data to:

allow you to take part in the Challenge;
enable you to personalize your user profile/account;
send you service-related information (e.g., confirmation of your registration in a challenge) by email and/or any other communication means;
enable you to communicate and interact with other community members, such as team members, mentors, jury members and/or the organizers of a challenge (e.g., team member messages or invitations to join a team);
publish an announcement that you are a finalist or winner of a challenge;
give you access to our support services to enable you to communicate with us;
keep our website secure and safe;
notify you about changes to our services;
administer our website, including for troubleshooting, access, data analysis, testing, research, analytic and survey purposes;
improve our website to ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner; and
comply with our legal obligations, including court orders and other legal or regulatory requirements.

HOW WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL DATA

Profile. When you use our services, your profile is fully visible to all members of our community, such as challenge participants, mentors, jury members. Certain profile information (e.g., name, photo, community, etc.) can also be visible to others on or off our website (e.g., visitors to our website or users of third-party search engines).

Wall posts, messages and deliverables. When you post on a message board/wall, it can be viewed by all members of the community. You can send messages to team members, individual participants, challenge administrators or mentors. Deliverables pertaining to the challenge, can be viewed by other members of your team (if applicable), challenge administrators, jury members and team mentors.

We also work with third parties who are recipients of your personal data, such as:

Agorize SAS which is the company hosting and maintaining the platform
our sub-contractors, who are technical (e.g., cloud computing platforms, data and content management and transmission systems, search engine providers, etc.) or analytics providers; and
social media platforms who may advertise our services on their websites.

We only share your personal data with third parties in the following cases:

where it is necessary to perform our services;
to assist us in the improvement and optimization of our website by using analytics and search engines;
it is explicitly requested by you (e.g., when registering through social media authentication);
it is based on your consent and/or our legitimate interest (i.e. providing you with meaningful advertising);
if we are required to do so by law or in a good faith belief that disclosure is reasonably necessary to respond to claims asserted against us, to comply with legal proceedings, in the framework of an investigation, or protect the rights, property or personal safety of AVEVA or its members;
if we sell or buy any business or assets, we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer; and
if all or part of our assets are acquired by a third party, your personal data may be included as transferred assets.

If you decide to share your personal data with us by using social media authentication, the latter’s privacy policies will apply to you. We do not control the collection or processing of your information by such platforms.

THE LEGAL BASIS FOR DATA PROCESSING

We collect, use and share the data that we have in the ways described above:

as necessary to provide the services on our website and fulfill the Terms and Conditions;
consistent with your consent, which you may revoke at any time through your profile page;
as necessary to comply with our legal obligations;
as necessary for our legitimate interests, including our interests in providing an innovative, personalized, and effective service to our users and partners, unless those interests are overridden by your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms that require protection of personal data.

TRANSFERRING YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We store your personal data in the European Economic Area. If you use our website, your personal data may be shared among AVEVA affiliates (both inside and outside the European Economic Area). Our global policy requires all affiliated entities to ensure a level of data protection at least as protective as those mandated by the European Economic Area.

We may also transfer personal data to third parties, including those based outside the European Economic Area, for example (but not limited to) sub-contractors and third parties involved in providing services. When we transfer your personal data, we will do this in accordance with applicable data protection laws and will take appropriate safeguards to ensure its integrity and protection

HOW WE KEEP YOUR PERSONAL DATA SECURE

We will take appropriate technical and organizational measures against unauthorized or unlawful processing of your personal data and against accidental loss or destruction of, or damage to, your personal data in accordance with our internal security procedures covering its storage, access and destruction.

YOUR RIGHTS REGARDING PERSONAL DATA

In addition to your rights under applicable data protection legislation and where we are permitted or required by applicable law and regulation, we will provide you, upon request, with a copy of your personal data and we will correct any errors identified by you. You also have the right to receive and/or have us transfer to another data controller a subset of your personal data. You have the right to object to and restrict our processing of your personal data as well as the right to lodge a complaint with supervisory authorities regarding the processing of your personal data. All such requests, or any questions or comments regarding this policy or our handling of your personal data, should be addressed to dataprotection@aveva.com .

LINKS

Our website contains links to other websites, including to partner companies. Those websites have their own privacy practices, for which we do not accept responsibility or liability. Please review those policies before submitting any personal data.

UPDATES

This Privacy Notice was updated in August 2024We reserve the right to amend this Privacy Notice from time to time to reflect changing legal requirements or our processing practices. Any such changes will be posted on this website and will be effective upon posting.

COOKIE POLICY

A cookie is a file that records information relating to your navigation on our website (date and time the pages were loaded; browser used and language; pages viewed, frequency and duration of visits to the site, number of visits, sources of the visit, location) and can facilitate your visits to the site.

During the first visit on the website, a consent window pops up to ask for your cookies preferences regarding the following cookie categories:

Audience monitoring (i.e. Google Analytics,..)
Social media (i.e. Facebook, Linkedin,...)
Marketing (i.e. Sumo,...)

The 3 categories are disabled by default. You may either accept all, refuse all or only accept selected categories of cookies.

Until you make a choice, the consent window will be displayed on any visited page and no cookies will be installed, except technical cookies required to operate the platform.

Once a choice is made, the cookies related to the selected categories will be installed on the next visited page or upon page refresh.

At any time, you can delete cookies, refuse installation of new cookies or be notified before a new cookie is installed by configuring your browser following the instructions below.

Please note that if you uninstall a cookie or refuse the installation of cookies, you may not be able to use some of our services on our website.

Types of cookies

We use the following types of cookies:

Technical session cookies for site management: when you access the site, a session cookie and a cookie “token” with unique encrypted session id code is passed to your computer. The session cookie then controls your access to the site for that session, and is deleted once you close your browser or log off from the site. The token cookie controls your access to the website as an authenticated user, and is kept until you logout or for a maximum of 7 days. These cookies also allow us to identify your device and preferences when you return to our website, such as customized features, language and regional preferences. These cookies are an essential part of the site delivery system, and you will not be able to fully use our site without these cookies enabled. The information gathered by these cookies is anonymous, and is used only to improve your experience on our website.
Technical persistent cookies for site management: if you register on the site and select the "Remember me" option, a persistent cookie is passed to your computer. This cookie is not deleted when you leave the site or close your browser, but is saved on your computer. This cookie contains an encrypted user id code that identifies your computer upon future visits and automatically logs you into the site. This cookie is functional, and is designed to remember your preferences, to make your experience on our site better. It does not contain any personal information that could be used to identify you.
Third-party cookies for audience monitoring: We may use Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Hotjar or other tools to monitor traffic on our site. When you visit our site, these programs set certain cookies that record statistical information about your visits to the site. We measure the number of visits, the number of pages viewed as well as visitors' activity on the site and their frequency of return. This helps us improve our website and its functionality, for example, by ensuring that users can navigate it intuitively. These cookies do not store any personal information that could be used to identify you.
Third-party cookies for social media: If the platform allows you to register using social media Single Sign On connectivity, we will use the information stored in these cookies to authenticate you.
Third-party cookies for marketing: If marketing tools are configured on the platform, these cookies will be used to send you communications. (deactivated by default)
What cookies are installed? The table below sets out the first and third party cookies that are set and read on your device. To confirm the lawful bases on which we rely to use your personal information, please refer to the Privacy Notice. Some third party cookies are set by third parties that provide the website platform and who act on our behalf and on our instructions (e.g. Agorize). Other third parties are companies that use the personal information for their own business purposes and for the purposes of applicable data protection legislation, are independent data “controllers” in their own right. All such third party cookies are list below:

Cookies installed by Agorize:

Cookie	Description	Opting out	Duration
_agorize_session	Contains information about the navigation session and allows the user to access the site	N/A	Expires at the end of the session.
cookies_policy_accepted	Saves a user's choice regarding cookies	N/A	13 months
jwt_token	Contains a key specific to the user after successful login. This is a mandatory cookie to navigate as a logged in user.	N/A	7 days
jwt_payload	Contains user information specific to the user after successful login. This is a mandatory cookie to navigate as a logged in user.	N/A	7 days
remember_user_token	Keeps the user logged in if the remember me option is selected upon login	N/A	14 days
hide_profile_incomplete	Helps users filling their information on the website	N/A	13 months

Third-party cookies for audience monitoring:

Cookie	Description	Opting out	Duration
Google analytics:
_gid	Used to distinguish users.	Google Analytics	24 hours
_gat	Used to throttle request rate.	Google Analytics	1 minute
_ga	Used to distinguish users.	Google Analytics	13 months
Hotjar
_hjIncludedInSample	Session cookie to let Hotjar know whether a user is included in the sample which is used to generate funnels.	Hotjar	365 days

How to delete, be notified when cookies are installed or configure your browser?

Click here to change your cookie preferences

Clearing cookies already installed on your computer.

You can clear the cookies already installed on your computer by clearing your browser’s cache. For instructions on how to remove cookies on the Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera, and Internet Explorer browsers, click here.

Configuring your browser to refuse cookies, or to be notified when cookies are installed.

All web browsers enable you to set your cookies preferences before you navigate the internet. For instructions on how to configure your web browser to refuse cookies or to notify you when cookies are installed, click here.

If you have questions about our Cookies Policy, please email us at dataprotection@aveva.com .