This Privacy Policy governs the use of your personal data for the purposes of the IfGPT Project (Infrastructure for Fine-tuning Pre-trained Large Language Models), funded under Grant Agreement No. ПВУ – 55 from 12.12.2024 /BG-RRP-2.017-0030-C01/ as part of Procedure BG-RRP-2.017: Funding of research projects in the field of green and digital technologies of the Recovery and Resilience Facility, implementing Investment C2I2 Increasing the Innovation Capacity of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS) in the fields of Green and Digital Technologies as part of the Recovery and Resilience Plan.
Who is responsible for the processing of your personal data?
For the purposes of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the data controller of this website is the Institute for Bulgarian Language at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, the beneficiary of the IfGPT Project. The contact information of the Institute for Bulgarian Language is as follows.
Address: Institute for Bulgarian Language, 52 Shipchenski Prohod Blvrd., Building 17, Sofia 1113, Bulgaria
Email: ibl@ibl.bas.bg
The Institute for Bulgarian Language reserves the right to modify, change or amend this Privacy Policy at its own discretion. Such modifications, changes or amendments, as well as the date they are made, shall be communicated via the website. In case of questions or comments with regard to the modifications, changes or amendments, you can inform us by sending an e-mail to: ibl@ibl.bas.bg.
What categories of personal data do we process?
This Privacy Policy applies to our practices on our website, accessible at https://ifGPT.dcl.bas.bg, and it applies regardless of whether you use a computer, mobile phone, tablet or other device.
This Privacy Policy sets out what Personal Data we collect and process about you in connection with the services and functions of the project. We are not responsible for the content or the privacy notices for any websites to which we may provide external links.
Unless stated otherwise in the relevant sections of the website, personal data generated from the use of our website https://ifGPT.dcl.bas.bg is processed as follows:
- Contact via contact form
Should you choose to communicate with us via the contact form, we invite you to provide your name, your email address, affiliation and message. The website does not store your personal data. The legal basis for processing Personal Data for the purposes set out in this item is art. 6(1)(a) of GDPR.
- Newsletter subscription
Should we provide such functionality and should you choose to subscribe to our newsletter, we invite you to provide your name, and your email address which are managed by a third party web application according to their terms and conditions. The website does not store your personal data. The legal basis for processing personal data for the purposes set out in this item is art. 6(1)(b) of GDPR. You can withdraw your consent from any communication from the IfGPT Project by using the ‘Unsubscribe’ link in any communication.
- Social media
Our webpage may use social media plug-ins from other organisations. For more information on how these organisations use personal data, please read their privacy policies. The legal basis for processing personal data for the purposes set out in this item is art. 6(1)(a) of GDPR.
- Special category data
We will not collect from you any special category data (‘sensitive data’), according to the GDPR definition in art. 9(1) (for example, biometric data, racial/ethnic origins, sex life/sexual orientation, health information, information about your political/philosophical beliefs, etc.) through your use of this website.
- Site visitation tracking
We may use web analytics tools in order to measure, collect, analyse and report visitors data for purposes of understanding and optimising the website. We enable all anonymisation features so no personal data is collected.
What are our quality assurances?
1. The Institute for Bulgarian Language does its utmost to process only those personal data which are necessary to achieve the purposes listed above.
2. Your personal data is processed only for as long as necessary for the purposes listed above or up until such time where you withdraw your consent for processing them.
3. The Institute for Bulgarian Language will take the appropriate technical and organisational measures to keep your personal data safe from unauthorised access or theft as well as accidental loss, tampering or destruction. Access by personnel of the Institute for Bulgarian Language or its third party processors will only be on a need-to-know basis and subject to strict confidentiality obligations. Safety and security are best efforts obligations which can never be guaranteed unconditionally.
What are your rights?
1. You have the right to request access to all personal data processed by the Institute for Bulgarian Language pertaining to you.
2. You have the right to ask that any personal data pertaining to you that are inaccurate, are corrected.
3. You have the right to withdraw your earlier given consent for processing your personal data.
4. You have the right to request that personal data pertaining to you will be deleted if they are no longer required in light of the purposes which are outlined above or if you withdraw your consent for processing them.
If the request proves valid, it will be processed as soon as reasonably possible and at the latest thirty (30) days after receiving it.
If you have any complaints regarding the processing of your personal data by the Institute for Bulgarian Language, you are free to file a complaint with the competent data protection authority, i.e. the data protection authority of the country where you reside.
Cookie Policy
1. What are cookies?
“Cookies” are small text files that are stored on your computer through the Internet browser, only retaining information related to your preferences and therefore not including your personal data.
2. What are cookies for?
Cookies help determine the usefulness, interest and number of uses of a website, allowing for faster and more efficient browsing, eliminating the need to repeatedly enter the same information.
3. What type of cookies do we use?
Permanent cookies: These are cookies that are stored in the browser in your access equipment (PC, mobile and tablet) and are used whenever you visit our website more than once. They are generally used to direct the browsing to the user’s interests, allowing us to provide a more personalised service.
Session cookies: These are temporary cookies that remain in your browser’s cookie file until you leave the website. The information obtained by these cookies serves to analyse patterns of web traffic, allowing us to identify problems and provide a better browsing experience.
4. How can you manage cookies?
All browsers allow users to accept, reject or delete cookies, in particular by selecting the appropriate settings in their browser. You can set cookies in the “options” or “preferences” menu of your browser.
Users can disable the use of cookies on this web page at any time by modifying browser settings.
Certain functions and services may stop working or behave unexpectedly, such as services requiring identifying the user on certain pages.
5. Cookie policy update
The Institute for Bulgarian Language may change this Cookie Policy in accordance with legal or regulatory requirements or adapt this policy to new instructions provided by the law. Any significant changes to this Cookie Policy will be published on this page.
6. More information on cookies
More information about cookies can be found at https://www.allaboutcookies.org.