Terms of Use The CTC project website https://ctc-project.eu/ is owned by the CTC Consortium and managed by the Center for Security Studies (KEMEA), as a Consortium member.
Cut the Cord (CTC) is a research project that has received funding from the Internal Security Fund Police programme under grant agreement no. 101036276. The project started on November 2021 and ends in June 2023. The CTC consortium consists of 10 partners from academia and industry, as well as public bodies. The present website is part of the dissemination and communication activities undertaken by the CTC consortium within the aim to successfully communicate its research output on a rather innovative topic to a wider public and facilitate the creation of synergies with interested stakeholders.
This Website can provide all (hereafter referred to as ‘users’/‘visitors’) with information, participation, content delivery or content collection services regarding the project CTC, under the terms of use included in this document.
Website is the sole responsibility of the Parties of the Consortium and cannot be considered to reflect the views of the European Commission. The use / visit of this website and / or its services is provided under the unconditional acceptance of the terms of use described herein. Navigating through this website, staying on this website, creating links to it (URL) or to its files / services, archiving / bookmarking it, constitute acceptance of its terms of use.
The use of the Website must be conducted solely under legitimate purposes and in a manner that does not restrict or impede its use by third parties. The user / visitor of this Website is obligated to use it in accordance with the law and the present terms of use. The user / visitor of the Website shall not commit any acts or omissions that may cause damage or malfunction and may adversely affect or endanger the provision of services provided through the Website to citizens.
The content of the Website, including (indicatively and not exhaustively) texts, graphics, images, videos, sounds, services, etc. (hereafter referred to as ‘Content’) is legally protected under Intellectual Property Rights Law and we reserve all rights of use and ownership of the Content, all copies created based on it, as well as all intellectual property rights and all other property rights pertaining to it.
We use all endeavours to ensure that the information and content that appears on the Website is as accurate, true and up to date as possible. It also provides the content (e.g. information, names, photographs, pictures, images, data, etc.) and the services made available through the Website ‘AS IS’. Under no circumstances, can we be held liable for any legal claims, civil or criminal or damages of any kind (direct loss, special damage or indirect loss) to the user / visitor of this website.
The Website may contain links to third party websites for the sole purpose of providing information to the user / visitor. The referral to links belonging to third-party websites does not constitute an endorsement of their views and actions or the acceptance of the content they express, publish or post. Third-parties -owners of the websites/responsible under the law- are solely responsible for the content of their websites or for any damage that may result from their We make all efforts to ensure the proper function of our network but we do not guarantee that our server operations will be uninterrupted or error-free, free from viruses, malicious software or other similar elements.
The terms and conditions of use of this website, as well as any amendment thereof, are governed by and supplemented by national and European law and the applicable international treaties. Any provision of these terms which is found to be against the above legal framework or is rendered invalid ceases to be valid and enforceable and shall be withdrawn from the present terms, without in any way undermining the validity of the remaining terms.
The terms and conditions of use of this Website constitute the overall agreement between the Consortium and the users / visitors of its webpages and services and bind solely them. No modification of the terms of use is taken into account and is part of this agreement, unless it is expressed in writing and is incorporated in the present Terms of Use. Unless otherwise stated on this Website, the above terms of use are immediately applicable in their entirety. We unilaterally reserve the right to modify, add, alter the content or services of the Website and its terms of use, whenever it deems necessary, without prior notice, through this website, always within the legal framework in force.
You may access the website https://ctc-project.eu/ without having to disclose any data about your person. Nevertheless, the installed browser on your device sends automatically information to the server of the CTC website, including information about your browser type and version, as well as the date and time of access, so as to establish a connection and permit your access to the website.
Cookies Policy We use cookies and analytics services to maintain and monitor the performance of the CTC website and to optimize our services, as well as to receive aggregate data that we can use in our dissemination reports for the European Commission.
Cookies are data files that are transferred from a web server to the Website visitor’s computer, in order to keep statistics and to provide the best experience to the visitor -strictly necessary and functional cookies. Cookies are an industry standard used by most websites to facilitate the user’s repeated access to a website and its use through the personalisation of the service provided as they can store the personal choices of the user. Cookies are not harmful to the user’s computer system or its files, and apart from the user himself, only the website from which a particular cookie has been transferred to his or her computer can read, modify it or delete it.
If the user / visitor does not wish his or her information to be collected through cookies, he or she can use the “reject” option on banner. It should be noted, however, that discarding cookies may result in making it more difficult or impossible to use certain parts of the Website, and / or that there is a change in its intended appearance and operation, as a permanent connection will be required. At all events, the user/ visitor can manage the collection of any cookies through the website’s settings.
We may also use reCAPTCHA, a free service provided by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (Google). This tool, which may have different forms, helps protect websites from spam, malicious behavior and abuse, by checking whether the data entered on the website (for instance, via a contact form) is being entered by a human or by a bot, i.e. an automated program. This determination occurs based on the monitoring and analysis of the behavior of the website visitor. The collected data, which include user and browser information, such as cookies placed by Google, the number of clicks you have made on that screen and installed browser plug-ins, are forwarded to Google and stored in servers in USA. Data processing for the version of reCAPTCHA used by our website (reCAPTCHA v2 – “I am not a robot” sign and ticking box) is based on your consent under Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR.
We shall contain such data in hardcopy and electronic files and / or databases in full compliance with data protection legislation, including security and confidentiality requirements based on the principles of good practice, proportionality and transparency regarding processing.
The CTC website may use Google Analytics. Google Analytics is a free web analytics service offered by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (Google). Its purpose is to monitor, keep record of website traffic and report website usage statistics. You can read in detail how Google processes your data when you use sites or apps, which employ Google Analytics tools here.
The CTC website may use Google Analytics exclusively with the extension “_anonymizeIp()”, which ensures an anonymization of the IP address by shortening it. The IP address sent from your browser is not merged with other data by Google.
Please, note that you will be asked to consent on the use and storage of these cookies .
