Privacy Policy

Effective Date: 01 September 2025.

Lungs Europe is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and protect your personal data when you visit hub.solacelung.eu (“the Knowledge Hub”).

Personal data is defined as any information that identifies you either directly or indirectly, pursuant to Article 4(1) of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Lungs Europe acts as the sole data controller for the Knowledge Hub.

Contact:
– Lungs Europe
– Tel: +32 2 238 53 60
– Email: info@europeanlung.org
– Registered Address: Rue du Congrès 35, 1000 Brussels, Belgium

1. What Data We Collect and Why

a. Website Analytics: We collect technical data (IP, browser, etc.) to improve the site. Legal basis: Legitimate interest.

b. Contact Form or Email: We process your name, email, and message to respond to your queries. Legal basis: Legitimate interest.

If you contact the project coordinator EIBIR, in the contact tab, at office@eibir.org, please note that EIBIR will be controller of the data you shared with them as detailed below.c. Newsletter Subscription: We collect name, email, date/time of subscription for the purposes of distributing the newsletter. Legal basis: Consent. You may withdraw your consent at any time by contacting info@europeanlung.org. Managed via Mailchimp (EU-US Data Privacy Framework).

d. Interactive Tools (Eligibility & Pathway): These tools provide general information only and do not store personal data by default.

2. Cookies and Tracking

We use essential cookies to make the site function (navigation, security, remembering your choices). We also use analytics cookies (GA4) to learn how the site is used so we can improve it, but only if you consent. You can manage choices via the cookie banner or by using Google’s browser opt-out.3. How Long We Keep Your Data

Lungs Europe will store your data and securely delete it after the time frames outlined below:

– Analytics: 5 years
– Contact emails: 5 years
– Newsletter: Until unsubscribe or 18 months of inactivity
– Interactive tools: Not retained unless submitted

3. Your Rights

Under data protection law, you have rights over personal data pertaining to you including:

• Your right of access – You have the right to ask us for confirmation as to whether or not we process personal data concerning you and request access to that data. You may request copies of your personal information.
• Your right to rectification – You have the right to ask us to rectify personal information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.
• Your right to erasure – You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.
• Your right to restriction of processing – You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
• Your right to object to processing – You have the the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
• Your right to data portability – You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.

You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you.

Contact info@europeanlung.org to exercise your rights.

4. Data Sharing

Data is only shared with Mailchimp for the purpose of newsletter distribution and with Google analytics for website tracking. It is not shared with any third-parties.

5. External Links

We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of external websites.

6. Changes to This Policy

Changes will be posted here with an updated date. Please check periodically.

7. Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority

You may contact info@europeanlung.org if you have any concerns or complaints over data processing.

You may also contact the relevant supervisory authority:

If you are not satisfied with our response to your request to exercise one or several of your rights, you can lodge a complaint with your national data protection authority.

9. Cookies

Websites use cookies in order to provide you with a more personalized web experience and allow us to have a functional website. A cookie is a text-only string of information that is created and stored on your computer by your browser.

It contains information about your visit that your browser uses to personalize certain pages or elements. For statistical analysis purposes, a cookie may also be used to pass a randomly generated and anonymous unique number to our servers. Cookies cannot be used by themselves to identify you. A cookie will typically contain the name of the domain from which the cookie has come, as well as the lifetime and expiration of the cookie, and a value, usually a text value or a randomly generated unique number.

We use two types of cookies:

• Necessary cookies: they are essential for the website to function properly. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. These cookies do not store any personal information.

• Non-necessary cookies: that is, any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies.