The ToNoWaste-app is part of the European project ToNoWaste and consists of a survey on social attitudes, beliefs and behaviour on Food Waste Prevention and Reduction.
Its aim is to contribute to understanding how good measures to prevent food waste can be identified and how it differs throughout Europe.
You are invited to participate in these surveys.
This text provides GDPR information about the survey, including how the collected information will be used and how your rights, as a participant, will be protected. The information will be collected using the online ToNoWaste-App. Participation is only open to those aged 18 years or above at the time of participation. Thank you for considering this invitation.
Your participation in ToNoWaste pilot actions
By giving your consent, you declare that you have provided personal data voluntarily. The personal data you provide will only be used for the purpose for which you provided it. You have the right to inspect, delete, correct or limit the processing of personal data, as well as the right to object and the right to data portability. More about this at https://www.wur.nl/en/about-wur/our-values/integrity.htm
During the action, you will be asked a number of questions about your attitudes and life habits, as well as more factual questions.
Responses will be securely stored on a server within the European Union. Once the survey has finished, the anonymized responses without e-mail addresses will be transferred to the University of
Wageningen (Netherlands). Further processing will take place to ensure consistency across the information gathered. Any data collected by this survey will be completely anonymised and stored safely in accordance with guidelines of the Dutch General Data Protection Regulation (AVG). This way it is ensured that your data can never be traced back to you. Your answers will exclusively be used for scientific research.
In case you have any questions regarding the research, please contact Cas Huisman via cas.huisman@wur.nl. Any ethical concerns about the study may also be directed to the WUR Research Ethics Committee at rec@wur.nl.
What happens with the collected information?
- We will treat all the information about you with strict confidentiality and in accordance with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and national data protection laws.
- Local partners will be able to access your e-mail address, but not the survey answers.
- During the survey, and after it has finished, only staff of akaryon will be able to access your survey answers.
- Your e-mail address name and contact information will be deleted when the survey findings are published and no later than Oktober 2026, unless you agree to participate in further studies (in this case, other arrangements will be in place). At this time, the copies held by akaryon will be deleted. The rest of the survey answers collected will be securely stored for an indefinite period at the University Wageningen. This anonymized information will be made available for use in scientific studies by researchers, students and others interested in Europeans’ social attitudes and survey methods.
- The results of the survey will be made available on request to researchers who make an application to the University Wageningen. They would be required to sign an agreement to use the data only for research purposes and not to attempt to identify any individual.
- We will make efforts to ensure that no participant is identifiable in the results of the survey or in any publications based on the study.
- If you complete the survey on-line we will capture data on how long it took you to answer each question as well as other information such as the type of device you used to complete the survey.
- The service “Firebase Cloud Messaging” uses Firebase installation IDs to determine which devices to deliver messages to. The information what device you use is needed for proper display of messages in the app and it is not analysed any further. After the call, data is removed from live and backup systems within 180 days.
There is a possibility, although very unlikely, that some could be combined in a way that would identify you. Access to your survey answers will only be given to researchers after approved applications and confidentiality agreements are in place.
Your rights
In principle, you have the rights to information, correction, deletion, restriction, data portability, revocation and objection. As long as we can identify you, you have the right to object to the processing of your personal information/personal details (e.g. your name and address; ‘your personal data’), to request we correct and erase/delete any information about you, and to ask us what information we hold about you. You also have the right to ask us to stop processing your personal data during the time taken to verify its accuracy. However, as soon as details such as your name and address are deleted, then it will no longer be possible to delete other information you have given. This is because once these details are removed, significant effort would be required to identify you through the remaining information we hold and it might not be possible at all. If you ask us to delete your survey answers before the end of the study, they will be deleted from the app within 30 days. Thirty days after deletion, the backup version of your deleted data will also be removed from the servers. You have the right to lodge a complaint to your national supervisory authority. In Austria this is the data protection authority.
Austrian data protection authority
Barichgasse 40-42, 1030 Vienna
What gives us the right to collect your personal data?
Your personal data – for example, your e-mail address – will be collected for the purpose of implementing a research project on food waste prevention and reduction. The lawful basis used in the ToNoWaste project are that it is undertaken as a task in the public interest and necessary for research and archiving purposes, in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation and national laws.
Liability
All information is provided to the best of our knowledge and belief. If we have made a mistake, we regret this, but cannot accept any liability in this case.
The information available is continually updated.
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Company data
in accordance with information obligations (ECG, GewO, UbG, MedienG, KSchG)
akaryon GmbH
Grazer Straße 77, A-8665 Langenwang , Austria
tel +43 (0)3854 25099
fax +43 (0)3854 25098
akaryon GmbH
Laurenzgasse 12, A-1050 Vienna , Austria
tel +43 (0)1 5039870
website www. akaryon.com
email info@akaryon.com
Online dispute resolution:
Consumers have the opportunity to submit complaints to the EU’s online dispute resolution platform: https://www.ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr/
Declaration on the obligation to provide information – data protection declaration
The person responsible for processing your personal data on our website is the managing director of akaryon GmbH. You can find our data here above.
The protection of your personal data is particularly important to us. We therefore process your data exclusively on the basis of the legal provisions (DSG, DSGVO, TKG 2003). In this data protection information we inform you about the most important aspects of data processing on our app.
Contact us
If you contact us using the form on the website or by email, the data you provide will be stored by us for six months in order to process your request and in case of follow-up questions. We will not pass on this data without your consent.
Transfer of data to third parties
If we pass on data to external service providers others than mentioned above, technical and organizational measures will be taken to ensure that the transfer takes place in accordance with the legal data protection regulations.
The managing directors are responsible for data protection . You can reach us using the following contact details:
akaryon GmbH
Grazer Straße 77
8665 Langenwang
03854.25099
info@akaryon.com
Date of publication: September 2023
© 2022 toNoWaste. Funded by the European Union under contract 101059849. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Research Executive Agency (REA). Neither the European Union nor REA can be held responsible for them.