Privacy Policy

Thank you for visiting the website of the Danish Battery Society, an online service managed by the Danish Battery Society, located in Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark. We respect and protect the privacy of our users. This privacy policy tells you how we collect and use information.

The term “Personal Information” in this privacy policy means any information from which your identity is apparent or can be reasonably ascertained.

We do not collect Personal Information about you when you visit this online service.

You can use this service without telling us who you are or revealing other Personal Information. If you send us a contact or feedback form you do not need to identify yourself or use your real name.

Scope

The purpose of this online service is to provide you with trusted information from the Danish activities related to batteries in all forms. We strive to live up to the European General Data Protections Regulation (GDPR).

Who we are

We are the Danish Battery Society also abbreviated throughout this text as “DBS” run by our Board with publicly known members. Our website address is: http://batteriselskab.dk, which is also the source of http://batterysociety.com and http://batterysociety.org.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

We don’t allow comments on our site.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Descriptions

We have noted CV-like descriptions of people who have contributed to DBS in one way or another (presentation, PhD thesis, article, speaker, etc.), which we provide publicly to give background information to our users and participants at our meetings. If you have contributed to DBS and wish to remove a previously approved description, please contact us with the direct link and we will make sure to delete it at once.

Presentations

All presentations that we link to either in our Google Drive directory or here on this website has been provided with full consent from the authors. If you are an author who wish to remove a previously approved presentation, please contact us with the direct link and we will make sure to delete it at once.

Contact and membership forms

When you submit a contact form, an email is sent out to our board where your request is handled and archived with other professional emails. We keep contact form submissions for a period of two years or until your request is handled, but never use the information submitted through them for marketing purposes.

If you enroll in one of the groups of DBS Groups, your name and affiliation will be listed below the member section of the particular group on batteriselskab.dk.

Cookies

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Website analytics

To improve your experience on our site, we may use ‘cookies’. Cookies are an industry standard and most major web sites use them. A cookie is a small text file that our site may place on your computer as a tool to remember your preferences. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website.

Our website may contain links to other websites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. When you go to other websites from here, we advise you to be aware and read their privacy policy.

Our website uses Google Analytics, a service which transmits website traffic data to Google servers in the United States. Google Analytics does not identify individual users or associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. We use reports provided by Google Analytics to help us understand website traffic and webpage usage.

By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner described in Google’s Privacy Policy– external site and for the purposes set out above. You can opt out of Google Analytics if you disable or refuse the cookie, disable JavaScript, or use the opt-out service provided by Google– external site.

DBS also uses interfaces with social media sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and others. If you choose to “like” or “share” information from this website through these services, you should review the privacy policy of that service. If you are a member of a social media site, the interfaces may allow the social media site to connect your visits to this site with other Personal Information

Who we share your data with

We do not hold any of your personal data that is not publicly available or approved by you. The data that we have is not shared with any third parties.

How long we retain your data

For users that register on our website or on our emaillists (if any), we store the personal information they provide in their user profile until they request to have it deleted. All users can see, edit, or delete their own personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Contact us

Contact us about your privacy concerns.

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