A. Terms of Use
The IAMI project website https://iami-project.eu/ is owned by the IAMIConsortium and managed by the
Center for Security Studies (KEMEA), as a Consortium member.
IAMI is a research project that has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon – Research
and Innovation Framework Programme, HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions- Grant
Agreement No 101168272. IAMI project started on 1 February 2025 and has a duration of 36 months.
The IAMI consortium consists of 20 partners from Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs), government
organizations, and research institutions.
This website can provide all (hereafter referred to as ‘users’/‘visitors’) with information, participation,
content delivery or content collection services regarding the IAMI project, under the terms of use
included in this document.
The website is the sole responsibility of the partners of the IAMI Consortium and cannot be considered
to reflect the views of the European Commission. The use / visit of this website and / or its services is
provided under the unconditional acceptance of the terms of use described herein. Navigating through
this website, staying on this website, creating links to it (URL) or to its files / services, archiving /
bookmarking it, constitute acceptance of its terms of use.
The use of the website must be conducted solely under legitimate purposes and in a manner that does
not restrict or impede its use by third parties. The user / visitor of this website is obligated to use it in
accordance with the law and the present terms of use. The user / visitor of the website shall not commit
any acts or omissions that may cause damage or malfunction and may adversely affect or endanger the
provision of services provided through the website to citizens.
The content of the website, including (indicatively and not exhaustively) texts, graphics, images, videos,
sounds, services, etc. (hereafter referred to as ‘Content’) is legally protected under Intellectual Property
Rights Law and we reserve all rights of use and ownership of the Content, all copies created based on
it, as well as all intellectual property rights and all other property rights pertaining to it.
We use all endeavours to ensure that the information and content that appears on the website is as
accurate, true and up to date as possible. It also provides the content (e.g., information, names,
photographs, pictures, images, data, etc.) and the services made available through the website ‘AS IS’.
Under no circumstances, can we be held liable for any legal claims, civil or criminal or damages of any
kind (direct loss, special damage or indirect loss) to the user / visitor of this website.
The website may contain links to third party websites for the sole purpose of providing information to
the user / visitor. The referral to links belonging to third-party websites does not constitute an
endorsement of their views and actions or the acceptance of the content they express, publish or post.
Third-parties -owners of the websites/responsible under the law- are solely responsible for the content
of their websites or for any damage that may result from their use when the user / visitor of the Website
gains access to them.
We make all efforts to ensure the proper function of our network but we do not guarantee that our server
operations will be uninterrupted or error-free, free from viruses, malicious software or other similar
elements.
The terms and conditions of use of this Website, as well as any amendment thereof, are governed by
and supplemented by national and European law and the applicable international treaties. Any
provision of these terms which is found to be against the above legal framework or is rendered invalid
ceases to be valid and enforceable and shall be withdrawn from the present terms, without in any way
undermining the validity of the remaining terms.
The terms and conditions of use of this Website constitute the overall agreement between the
Consortium and the users / visitors of its webpages and services and bind solely them. No modification
of the terms of use is taken into account and is part of this agreement, unless it is expressed in writing
and is incorporated in the present Terms of Use. Unless otherwise stated on this Website, the above
terms of use are immediately applicable in their entirety. We unilaterally reserve the right to modify, add,
alter the content or services of the Website and its terms of use, whenever it deems necessary, without
prior notice, through this Website, always within the legal framework in force.
You may access the Website https://iami-project.eu/ without having to disclose any data about your
person. Nevertheless, the installed browser on your device sends automatically information to the
server of the IAMI website, including information about your browser type and version, as well as the
date and time of access, so as to establish a connection and permit your access to the website.
B. Cookies Policy
We use cookies and analytics services to maintain and monitor the performance of the IAMI website
and to optimize our services, as well as to receive aggregate data that we can use in our
dissemination reports for the European Commission. The present Cookies Policy is in accordance
with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation) and the Directive 2002/58/EC
(ePrivacy Directive).
Cookies are data files that are transferred from a web server to the Website visitor’s computer, in
order to keep statistics and to provide the best experience to the user/visitor -strictly necessary and
functional cookies. Cookies are an industry standard used by most websites to facilitate the user’s
repeated access to a website and its use through the personalisation of the service provided as they
can store the personal choices of the user. Cookies are not harmful to the user’s computer system
or its files, and apart from the user himself, only the website from which a particular cookie has been
transferred to his or her computer can read, modify it or delete it. Cookies can be installed by the
provider of the website visited by the user (first party cookies) or by others through the provider of the
website (third party cookies).
According to EU and national legislation, the storage of information or acquisition of access to stored
information in the user terminal equipment is only permitted if the user has given their consent upon
clear and extensive information. An exception to the obligation to obtain consent shall be the case
of storage and access to information intended solely to ‘carrying out or facilitating the transmission
of a communication over an electronic communications network or as strictly necessary for the
provision of an information society service expressly requested by the subscriber or user’.
Essentially, the user’s consent is not required for cookies that are technically necessary to make the
connection to the website or to provide the Internet service.
If the user / visitor does not wish their information to be collected through cookies, they can choose
to either automatically reject future cookies or to decide on the rejection or acceptance of every
particular cookie of the Website to their computer through the respective pop-up in the Website. It
should be noted, however, that discarding cookies may result in making it more difficult or
impossible to use certain parts of the Website, and / or that there is a change in its intended
appearance and operation, as a permanent connection will be required.
The user/visitor of this Website may set up their web browser in such a way that it either warns them
for the use of ‘cookies’ regarding certain services or it prohibits the acceptance of ‘cookies’ in any
case. In case that the user/visitor of these services and pages does not wish to use ‘cookies’ for their
recognition, they may have limited access to some of the services, uses or functions provided by this
Website.
We shall contain such data in hardcopy and electronic files and / or databases in full compliance
with data protection legislation, including security and confidentiality requirements based on the
principles of good practice, proportionality and transparency regarding processing.
The IAMI website may use, if you consent, Google Analytics. Google Analytics is a free web analytics
service offered by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA
(Google). Its purpose is to monitor, keep record of website traffic and report website usage statistics.
You can read in detail how Google processes your data when you use sites or apps, which employ
Google Analytics tools here.
The IAMI website may use Google Analytics exclusively with the extension “_anonymizeIp()”, which
ensures an anonymization of the IP address by shortening it. The IP address sent from your browser
is not merged with other data by Google.
The following cookies are used in the IAMI website:
Cookie Name Duration Description
_ga 2 years Used to distinguish users.
_gid 24 hours Used to distinguish users.
_gat 1 minute Reduction of the number of
requests.
pll_language 1 year Used to store the language
preferences of the users.
Please, note that you will be asked to consent on the use and storage of these cookies.
C. Data Protection Policy
The present data protection policy clarifies in a layered manner the processing of personal information
of visitors of the IAMI project website. The data processing on the IAMI website is pursuant to Regulation
(EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation), Greek Law 4624/2019 on the protection of
personal data and any other applicable law.
1. Data Controller
The Data Controller is the Center for Security Studies (KEMEA) with offices in Athens, at P.
Kanellopoulou str., 4, 10177 Greece. The Data Controller can be contacted by writing to the address
above or by sending an e-mail message to kemea@kemea.gr, or by calling at Telephone: +30
2107710805 or sending a Fax at Fax number: +30 211 100 4499.
2. Data Protection Officer (DPO)
KEMEA’s Data Protection Officer may be reached at dpo@kemea-research.grin case you have any
question about the processing of your data when using the IAMI website or you wish to exercise any of
your rights as a data subject.
3. Types of personal data to be processed:
• When visiting the IAMI website
The IT systems and applications designated for the operation of this Website detect, during the course
of their ordinary operation, certain data – the transmission of which is implicit in the use of Internet
communication protocols – not associated with directly identifiable users.
The data collected may include cookies, IP addresses of computers used by users connecting to the
site, the URI – Uniform Resource Identifier – addresses of the resources requested, the time of the
request, the method used to send the request to the server, the size of the file obtained in response, the
numerical code indicating the status of the response from the server (completed successfully, error,
etc.) and other parameters relating to the operating system and the user’s IT environment.
By following this link, you will be informed of our Cookie Policy.
• When filing a question/request via email or subscribing to our newsletter
Other personal data collected are those provided by the user/visitor when corresponding with the email addresses indicated on our website or when subscribing to our newsletter (providing e.g., name,
surname, e-mail address, institution/body etc.).
The sending of personal, non-mandatory data also by email on an optional, explicit and voluntary basis
to the addresses indicated on this website means that the address of the sender is then acquired, this
being necessary in order to respond to the request, together with any other personal data included in
the message.
4. Purposes of processing
The personal data of the user/ visitor are processed for the following purposes:
• communication for responding to any requests/questions submitted by the user/visitor,
• dissemination of the IAMI project and its results, invitation to other relevant activities
• compliance with legal or administrative obligations.
5. Legal basis
The data processing takes place according to article 6(1)(a) GDPR, your informed consent. You may
withdraw your consent at any time with future effect, by sending an informal email to dpo@kemearesearch.gr. We may also process personal data based on art. 6(1)(c), when the processing is
necessary for our compliance with a legal obligation or based on contract according to art 6(1)(b) GDPR.
6. Data recipients
Data recipients are the IAMI partners and the European Commission and services.
The Consortium shall only disclose, assign, exchange, grant or otherwise dispose user / visitor’s
personal information to third parties, natural or legal persons, within the scope of national laws
provisions.
7. Data transfer
No transfer to non- EU countries/ international organizations is foreseen.
8. Rights of the data subject
You have the following rights:
• pursuant to Article 7(3) GDPR, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time
and without any consequences for you. This means that in future we may no longer
continue to process the data as based on this consent;
• pursuant to Article 15 GDPR, you have the right to obtain information about whether
your personal data are processed by us and where that is the case, access to those
personal data. In particular, you may obtain information about the purpose of
processing, the category of the personal data, the categories of recipients, to whom
your data has been or is disclosed to, the storage period planned, the existence of a right
to request from the controller rectification, erasure, restriction of processing or
objection, the existence of a right to lodge a complaint and the source of your data if it
has not been collected by us. Pursuant to Article 12, we must provide any
communication relating to the processing to the data subject in a concise, transparent,
intelligible and easily accessible form, using clear and plain language.
• pursuant to Article 16 GDPR, you have the right to request the rectification of inaccurate
personal data without undue delay or the completion of your personal data stored with
us;
• pursuant to Article 17 GDPR, to request the erasure of your personal data stored with us
unless processing is necessary to exercise the right to freedom of expression and
information, for compliance with a legal obligation, for reasons of public interest, or to
establish, exercise or defend legal claims;
• pursuant to Article 18 GDPR, you have the right to request the restriction of the
processing of your personal data;
• pursuant to Article 20 GDPR, you have the right to receive your personal data, in a
structured, commonly used and machine-readable format or to obtain the
transmission to another data controller (right to data portability);
• pursuant to Article 77 GDPR, to lodge a complaint with a national supervisory authority.
You can contact the supervisory authority of your habitual residence or workplace or
our company headquarters. In the latter case, you can file a complaint with the Hellenic
Data Protection Authority (https://www.dpa.gr/en )
If you wish to exercise any of your rights, you may contact us via e-mail at dpo@kemea-research.gr.
9. Data retention
Your personal data is retained only for as long as it is necessary to fulfil the purposes described above,
and they will not be retained more than 5 years after the end of the project (by 31 January 2033), unless
a longer retention period is required by legal obligations or regulations.
10. Data Breaches
We will report any unlawful data breach of your personal data within 72 hours after having become
aware of the breach to the Supervisory Authority.
11. Data security
Your personal data are processed by electronic means in compliance with the provisions of art. 32 of
GDPR 2016/679, national law and in compliance with the principles of data’s confidentiality, integrity,
and availability. Your personal data are transferred in an encoded manner using the widely used and
secure TLS (Transport Layer Security) encryption standard. You will recognize a secure TLS connection
by the additional “s” after “http” (i.e., https://..) in the address bar of your browser or from the lock icon.
Moreover, we use suitable technical and organizational measures, which are being continuously
enhanced, to protect your data against accidental or intentional manipulation, partial or complete loss,
destruction or against unauthorized access by third parties.
12. Amendments to this Terms of Use – Cookies Policy – Data Protection Policy
The present Terms of Use – Cookies Policy – Data Protection Policy is effective as of June 2025.
We keep our Terms of Use – Cookies Policy – Data Protection Policy under regular review to make sure
it is up to date and precise. Thus, it may become necessary to change it due to the potential addition of
new features to the IAMI website or due to further legal requirements. You can have access to the latest
Terms of Use – Cookies Policy – Data Protection Policy on the IAMI website at the “permanent link of
Terms of Use – Cookies Policy – Data Protection Policy ”.