Legal notice & Privacy Policy

SUNRISE — Sustainable Composites Manufacturing Framework for the Mass Customization of Integrated Solar Photovoltaic Products

This page sets out the legal notice, the privacy policy and the cookie policy applicable to the SUNRISE project website, available at sunrise-pv.eu (the “Website”). By using the Website, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this page.

1. Legal notice

1.1 Project identification

SUNRISE is a Horizon Europe Innovation Action carried out by a consortium of twelve partners from eight European countries, coordinated by AIMEN Technology Centre (Asociación de Investigación Metalúrgica del Noroeste, Spain).

Grant agreement No 101294348
Call: HORIZON-CL4-2025-01 —
Topic: HORIZON-CL4-INDUSTRY-2025-01-TWIN-TRANSITION-05 (Made in Europe Partnership)
Duration: 36 months, from 1 June 2026 to 31 May 2029
Granting authority: European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HADEA)

1.2 EU funding statement and disclaimer

Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HADEA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

1.3 Content, accuracy and liability

The content of the Website is provided for general information purposes only. It reflects the results, opinions and analyses of the SUNRISE consortium at the time of publication and does not constitute technical, commercial, legal or investment advice.

The consortium takes reasonable care to ensure that the information published is accurate and up to date, but gives no warranty, express or implied, as to its completeness, accuracy or fitness for any particular purpose. Project results are of a research and innovation nature and are subject to change as the work progresses.

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, neither the Becquerel Institute nor any other member of the SUNRISE consortium shall be liable for any direct or indirect damage arising from the use of, or the inability to use, the Website or its content, including any interruption of service, or from reliance on any information published on it.

1.4 Intellectual property

Unless stated otherwise, the content of the Website (texts, layout, graphics, images, videos, diagrams and downloadable documents) is the property of the members of the SUNRISE consortium or is used with the authorisation of the rights holders, and is protected by copyright and, where applicable, by other intellectual property rights.

In line with the open-science obligations of the Horizon Europe programme, public project material — in particular public deliverables, factsheets, presentations and scientific publications — is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0), unless a different licence is indicated on or in the document itself. You may therefore copy, redistribute and adapt that material, including for commercial purposes, provided that you give appropriate credit in the following form:
“SUNRISE project (Horizon Europe grant agreement No 101294348) — [document title], [author(s)/partner], [year]. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.”

This licence does not extend to:

the SUNRISE name, logo and visual identity;
the names, logos, trademarks and visual identities of the consortium partners;
the emblem of the European Union;
any third-party content identified as such (for example licensed photographs or stock images), which remains subject to the terms of its own licence.

Requests for any other use, in particular the use of logos or of material not covered by the CC BY 4.0 licence, should be addressed to contact@sunrise-pv.eu.

Background and results generated by the consortium are governed by the SUNRISE Grant Agreement and Consortium Agreement. Nothing on the Website may be interpreted as granting a licence to any patent, know-how or other proprietary right of a consortium partner.

1.5 Website publisher

The Website is published and operated, on behalf of the SUNRISE consortium, by:
ICARES Consulting SRL / Becquerel Institute
Vieux Chemin de L’Helpe 148, RIXENSART 1332, Belgium
E-mail: info@becquerelinstitute.eu
www.becquerelinstitute.eu

Becquerel Institute leads Work Package 8 — Results Leveraging — and is responsible for the dissemination and communication activities of the SUNRISE project, including the operation of this Website.

1.6 Hosting provider

The Website is hosted by:
OVH Cloud
2 rue Kellermann, 59100 Roubaix, France
www.ovhcloud.com

1.7 Links to third-party websites

The Website contains links to websites operated by third parties, including partner websites, the European Commission’s websites and social media platforms. These links are provided for convenience only. The consortium has no control over the content, availability or privacy practices of those websites and accepts no responsibility for them. Following an external link is done at your own risk and the privacy policy of the destination website applies.

1.8 Applicable law

This legal notice, the Website and its use are governed by Belgian law and, where applicable, by European Union law. Any dispute relating to the Website falls within the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Brussels, Belgium, without prejudice to any mandatory provision of consumer protection law that would designate another competent court.

2. Privacy Policy

The SUNRISE consortium is committed to protecting the personal data of visitors to the Website. This policy explains what personal data we collect, why we collect it, how we use it and what rights you have. It is drawn up in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (the General Data Protection Regulation, “GDPR”).

2.1 Data controller

For the personal data collected through the Website, the data controller is:
ICARES Consulting SRL — trading as Becquerel Institute
Vieux Chemin de L’Helpe 148, RIXENSART 1332, Belgium
E-mail: info@becquerelinstitute.eu
www.becquerelinstitute.eu

Each SUNRISE partner remains an independent controller for the personal data it processes in the course of its own project activities (for example the management of its own contacts, or research activities carried out under its own ethics and data-protection framework). This policy covers only the processing carried out through the Website.

2.2 Personal data we process, purposes and legal bases

Processing activity	Data processed	Purpose	Legal basis (GDPR)	Retention
Contact form	Name, e-mail address, organisation, content of your message	Answering your request and, where relevant, following it up with the appropriate partner	Art. 6(1)(f) — our legitimate interest in responding to enquiries addressed to us; where your message concerns participation in a project activity, Art. 6(1)(a) — your consent	24 months after the last exchange, unless a longer period is needed to document a project activity
Technical operation of the Website (server logs)	IP address, date and time of the request, pages requested, browser and operating system, referring page	Delivering the Website, ensuring its security and availability, detecting and preventing attacks and abuse	Art. 6(1)(f) — our legitimate interest in the secure operation of the Website	12 months, then deletion or aggregation
Audience measurement (analytics)	Pseudonymised identifier, truncated IP address, pages viewed, time spent, approximate location (country/region), device and browser type, referring source	Producing aggregate statistics on the use of the Website, in order to improve it and to report on the project’s communication and dissemination activities	Art. 6(1)(a) — your consent, given through the cookie banner [where a strictly necessary, cookie-less measurement solution is used, this processing relies on Art. 6(1)(f)]	13 months for cookies and identifiers; aggregate statistics may be kept for the duration of the project and its reporting obligations
Embedded third-party content (videos, social media feeds)	Data collected by the platform concerned when the content is loaded, which may include your IP address, device data and platform cookies	Displaying multimedia content and social media publications on the Website	Art. 6(1)(a) — your consent, given through the cookie banner before the content is loaded	See the privacy policy of the platform concerned
Event registration [if applicable]	Name, organisation, e-mail address, professional role, [dietary or accessibility requirements]	Organising and managing participation in SUNRISE events, webinars and workshops, and reporting participation figures to the European Commission	Art. 6(1)(b) or 6(1)(a), depending on the event; reporting obligations under Art. 6(1)(c)	24 months after the event; aggregate figures kept for the duration of the project reporting

We do not process special categories of personal data (Article 9 GDPR) through the Website, we do not use personal data for automated decision-making or profiling producing legal effects, and we do not sell personal data.

2.3 Recipients of your data

Your personal data may be accessed by:

the staff of the Becquerel Institute responsible for the project’s communication and for the operation of the Website, on a need-to-know basis;
the partner(s) of the consortium concerned by your request, where your message needs to be forwarded to them in order to be answered;
the European Commission, HADEA and their auditors, where personal data are part of documents that must be provided under the Grant Agreement, or in aggregate form for reporting purposes;
public authorities, where we are legally required to disclose data.

2.4 Transfers outside the European Economic Area

We aim to keep the processing of Website data within the European Economic Area. Where a processor or a third-party platform (in particular social media and video platforms) transfers data to a country outside the EEA, that transfer takes place on the basis of an adequacy decision of the European Commission or of appropriate safeguards within the meaning of Article 46 GDPR, such as the standard contractual clauses, together with any additional measures required.

2.5 Security

We implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect personal data against accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure or access, including encrypted transport (HTTPS), restricted and traceable access rights, regular updates of the Website’s software components and back-ups. No transmission over the internet can, however, be guaranteed to be completely secure.

2.6 Your rights

Under the GDPR, and subject to the conditions it sets, you have the right to:

access your personal data and obtain a copy of it;
request the rectification of inaccurate or incomplete data;
request the erasure of your data (“right to be forgotten”);
request the restriction of processing;
object to processing based on our legitimate interest, on grounds relating to your particular situation;
receive the data you provided in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have it transmitted to another controller (portability), where the processing is based on consent or on a contract and carried out by automated means;
withdraw your consent at any time, where processing is based on consent, without affecting the lawfulness of processing carried out before the withdrawal.

To exercise these rights, write to contact@sunrise-pv.eu. We may ask for additional information to verify your identity. We will reply within one month of receipt of your request; this period may be extended by two further months where the request is complex, in which case we will inform you.

If you feel that we are not respecting your rights or privacy, you may contact the Data Protection Authority in Belgium. If you are not in Belgium we invite you to contact the data protection authority of the country in which you are located.

2.7 Minors

The Website is aimed at a professional and scientific audience and is not intended for children. We do not knowingly collect personal data from persons under the age of 16. If you believe that such data has been provided to us, please contact us so that we can delete it.

2.8 Changes to this policy

We may update this policy to reflect changes in the Website, in the project’s activities or in the applicable legal framework. The date of the last update is shown at the top of this page. Substantial changes affecting processing based on your consent will be brought to your attention on the Website.

3. Cookie Policy

3.1 What cookies are

A cookie is a small text file placed on your device when you visit a website, which allows the website to recognise your device and store certain information. Similar technologies (local storage, pixels, scripts) may have comparable effects and are covered by this policy. Their use is governed by Article 5(3) of Directive 2002/58/EC (the ePrivacy Directive), as transposed into Belgian law by the Act of 13 June 2005 on electronic communications, and by the GDPR.

3.2 Cookies used on the Website

Category	Purpose	Consent	Examples / provider	Duration
Strictly necessary	Ensuring the technical operation and security of the Website, keeping your cookie preferences, load balancing	Not required	[Session cookie], [consent cookie]	[Session / 6–12 months]
Audience measurement	Producing aggregate statistics on visits and on the use of the pages	Required, unless a cookie-less and privacy-compliant measurement solution is used	[Google Analytics 4 / other]	[13] months maximum
Third-party embedded content	Displaying videos and social media feeds hosted by third parties	Required	[YouTube / Vimeo], [LinkedIn], [X]	Set by the third party

We do not use advertising or cross-site tracking cookies.

3.3 Managing your choices

When you first visit the Website, a banner allows you to accept or refuse the non-essential cookies, category by category. Refusing is as easy as accepting and no non-essential cookie is placed before you have given your consent. You may change or withdraw your choices at any time by clicking [Cookie settings] [link in the footer of every page]. Withdrawal takes effect for the future and does not affect the lawfulness of the processing carried out beforehand.

You can also configure your browser to block or delete cookies. Please note that blocking strictly necessary cookies may prevent parts of the Website from working properly. Instructions are available in the help pages of your browser.

3.4 Third-party cookies

Where you consent to the display of embedded content, the platform concerned may place its own cookies and process your data as an independent controller, under its own privacy policy, over which the consortium has no control. We invite you to consult the policies of [YouTube/Google] and [LinkedIn] before enabling that content.

4. Contact

For any question relating to this page, to the Website or to the processing of your personal data:
SUNRISE Project
Becquerel Institute (ICARES Consulting SRL)
contact@sunrise-pv.eu