Privacy statement

1. Who is responsible?

NWOugh is an initiative of concerned academics. NWOugh is the controller of the personal data collected through this website. For all privacy questions and to exercise your rights: privacy@NWOugh.nl.

2. What data, why, and on what basis?

Signing the agenda

We process your name, institutional email address, position, institution, field, your choice whether to be listed by name, and the time of your consent. Purpose: to register your support, check that signatures are genuine, show the number of signatories and — only if you choose so — list your name, position and institution publicly. Your email address is never published. Legal basis: your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR).

Sharing your experience

We process your answers (such as grant type, year, career stage, outcome and time spent), any account you write and, if you provide it, your email address. Purpose: to build an evidence-based, aggregated picture of the funding system. We publish only totals and, only with your permission, anonymised quotes. Submissions are never published automatically. Legal basis: your consent.

Please do not include health data or other special categories of personal data, or the names of others. We remove such data upon receipt.

Contact form

We process your email address, optionally your name, and your message in order to answer you. Legal basis: your consent.

Spam protection and technical data

Our spam check runs in your own browser and uses no third-party services. To limit abuse, your IP address is kept only as an irreversible code for at most one hour. We use a functional cookie to remember your language choice. Legal basis: legitimate interest in a secure, working website.

3. Who has access?

Only the NWOugh editorial team. We do not sell or share your data with third parties, and certainly not with NWO. Our hosting provider processes the data on our behalf on servers within the European Union.

4. How long do we keep data?

• Unconfirmed signatures: deleted automatically after 7 days.
• Confirmed signatures: until the campaign ends, or until you withdraw your signature.
• Experiences: until the campaign ends and at most three years after submission. Email addresses for follow-up are deleted as soon as they are no longer needed.
• Contact messages: as long as needed to handle your question, at most one year.

5. Your rights

You have the right to access, correct, delete and port your data, and you can withdraw your consent at any time, for example to have your signature removed. Email privacy@NWOugh.nl; we respond within one month. If you are not satisfied with how we handle your data, you can lodge a complaint with the Dutch Data Protection Authority (Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens).

6. Changes

We may update this statement. The latest version is always on this page.