Last updated: 23 October 2026
This Privacy Policy explains how the website observista.eu (the “website”) collects and uses personal data. The website is the official website of OBSERVISTA, COST Action CA24134, Observatory of Innovative Strategies for Repurposing Terrain Vague, funded by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology). We process personal data in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR).
Who is responsible for your data
The data controller is the OBSERVISTA COST Action (CA24134), represented by its Action Chair. You can reach us at any time through our contact page.
What data we collect and why
- Contact form: your name, email address and message, so that we can reply to your enquiry. Legal basis: your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR), given through the consent checkbox.
- Newsletter: your email address, so that we can send you news about the Action. Legal basis: your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR). You can unsubscribe at any time using the link in each newsletter or by contacting us.
- Technical data: when you visit the website, the server automatically records technical information such as your IP address, browser type, the pages visited and the date and time of access. This is necessary to deliver the website securely and to produce anonymous usage statistics. Legal basis: our legitimate interest in operating a secure website (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).
Members of the Action
The names, institutions, countries and working group memberships of Action participants shown on the website are taken from the public information published by COST on the official CA24134 page, as part of the transparency requirements of COST Actions.
Cookies and third party services
The website does not use advertising or tracking cookies and does not use Google Analytics. It uses the following third party services:
- Google reCAPTCHA (Google Ireland Ltd.) on our forms, to protect the website against spam and abuse. reCAPTCHA may collect hardware and software information and send it to Google. See the Google Privacy Policy.
- Font Awesome (Fonticons, Inc.), which delivers icons used on the website and may receive your IP address when the icons are loaded.
Logged in administrators of the website receive technical cookies that are strictly necessary for the website to work.
Where your data is stored and for how long
The website is hosted on a server located in Portugal, within the European Union, managed by Boutik (Um Sopro de Alegria, Lda), which acts as data processor. Contact form messages are kept only for as long as needed to handle your enquiry and for a maximum of 24 months. Newsletter subscriptions are kept until you unsubscribe. Server logs are deleted automatically after a short period.
We do not sell your data and we only share it with the processors listed above, where necessary to provide the website.
Your rights
Under the GDPR you have the right to access, rectify and erase your personal data, to restrict or object to its processing, to data portability, and to withdraw your consent at any time without affecting the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal. To exercise these rights, please use our contact page.
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority, in particular in the EU Member State of your habitual residence. In Portugal this is the Comissão Nacional de Proteção de Dados (CNPD).
Changes to this policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The date at the top of this page shows when it was last revised.