Information and Consent

Risks and Benefits of participation: there are no foreseeable risks involved in participating in this study. Questionnaires compilation will take approximatively 20 minutes, and all individual test scores will be kept anonymous. Testing data will be analyzed in a group format. The primary benefit of participating to this research is to contribute to develop new sustainable berry varieties, providing consumers with healthy and tasty fruits.

Voluntary Participation and Right to Withdraw: you are free to participate or not to the proposed activity.  Your participation in this research is completely voluntary. You can withdraw from the study at any time without penalty, having all your expressed scores immediately deleted.

Information on data protection, privacy and data retention: the results of this study will be analyzed in terms of groups. All the information obtained will be strictly confidential, used for scientific research purpose, but will never be associated to your name or any element allowing your identification, in agreement with UE general data protection regulation.
Please contact: stefano.predieri@ibe.cnr.it for any additional question or communication related to the project. 
If you agree to participate, please press the button on the bottom of this page to proceed to questionnaire:

Data Privacy Information according to Art. 13, 14 and 21 GDPR:

“BREEDINGVALUE” Survey

Personal data is any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. An identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, particularly by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data or an online identifier.

The following information must be provided to you in accordance with Art. 13 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) when the personal data is collected:

Name and Address of the controller

Controller for the purposes of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), other data protection laws applicable in Member states of the European Union and other provisions related to data protection is:

Dr.Stefano Predieri

CNR-Italian National Council of Research

Institute for BioEconomy

Via Gobetti, 101

Bologna, Italy

Tel.: +39-51-639-8083

Website: https://www.ibe.cnr.it/ E-Mail: stefano.predieri@ibe.cnr.it

Name and Address of the Data Protection Officer

Dr. Raffaele Conte

CNR - Italian National Council of Research

P.zza Aldo Moro, Roma

E-Mail: dpo@cnr.it

Purpose and legal basis

Collecting information through a survey.

The legal basis for the processing of your personal data is your consent in accordance with Article 6 (1) a) GDPR. By sending the completed questionnaire, you consent to the collection, processing and use of the data under the stated conditions.

The data is required for the following purpose:

•             Survey to determine preferences for taste and other characteristics of berries.

The aim of the survey is to contribute to the development of new, sustainable berry varieties in order to offer consumers healthy and tasty fruits.

The data will be processed in accordance with the provisions of the General Data protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR), the German Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG-neu) and other relevant data protection regulations. The processing and use of the individual data are necessary for the survey:

Our contractual documents, forms, consent forms and other information provided to you (e.g. on the website) will provide you with further details and additions to the purposes of the processing.

Participation in the survey is voluntary and can be cancelled at any time. In case of a cancellation, the data will not be included in the survey.

Data collection is anonymous.

Names, e-mail addresses, date/time and IP addresses are not collected or stored. An identification of the participants is not intended.

However, due to the answers given by the participants (especially in the free text fields or in combinations of different answers), it cannot be ruled out with absolute certainty that a conclusion can be drawn about a specific person.

Transfer of data to a third country or an international organization

We confirm, that the transfers are in accordance with chapter V of the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 and that such transfers comply with the laws of the country in which the data was collected. No data processing takes place outside the EU or the EEA.

Storage period

We process and store your data as long as it is necessary for the fulfilment of contractual and legal obligations of the BreedingValue project partners and the above-mentioned purposes. If the data is no longer required for the fulfilment of these purposes and our obligations, it will be deleted on a regular basis.

After evaluation of the data, a summary final report will be prepared. The publication of the data in the form of scientific publication is not excluded. All of these publications will be based only on aggregated and anonymous data.

Your rights

You have the following rights vis-à-vis the controller with regard to the personal data concerning you:

- Right to information, Art. 15 GDPR

- Right to rectification, Art. 16 GDPR

- Right to erasure, Art. 17 GDPR

- Right to restriction of processing, Art. 18 GDPR

- Right to object to collection, processing and/or use, Art. 21 GDPR

- Right to data portability, Art. 20 GDPR

- As the processing of personal data is based on your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR), you may revoke it at any time for the relevant purpose. The lawfulness of the processing based on your consent given remains unaffected until we receive your revocation.

You can assert the aforementioned rights at dpo@cnr.it

Automated decision-making / profiling

Your data will not be used for automated decision-making or profiling.