Instructions:
This chapter refers to the Part A ethics evaluation.
Each YES answered in the the Part A Ethics self assessment needs to be clarified in this chapter. You must
- describe how the proposal meets the national legal and ethical requirements of the country or countries where the tasks raising ethical issues are to be carried out, and
- explain in detail how you intend to address the issues in the ethical issues table. Where needed, you must provide the documents that you need under national law. These may be an ethics committee opinion or a legal certificate.
For the questions answered NO, do a quick review of those that are potential maybes in the eyes of an external reader and clarify them in this section as described above.
If there are no ethical issues, state that here as well.
The link below gives more information on the questions and describes the information needed to answer each. (http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/grants_manual/hi/ethics/h2020_hi_ethics-self-assess_en.pdf)
- “Information to be provided” refers to the text to be provided in this chapter.
- “Documents to be provided” refers to the documentation needed as proof of ethical compliance (if relevant to the question).
Example:
Written as a response to personal data processing:
This project does not collect any personal data. However, the day to day operations of COMPANY do, and this project may come in contact with previously collected data.
COMPANY may collect and store information about the user. The type of personal information collected include name, username, password, email address, telephone number, address, location data, payment information (from Google and Apple), as well as any other user generated content that may be personally identifiable such as photos and videos.
We store profile data as long as it is necessary for the provision of our services. Users can request the discontinuation of this by contacting us.
Any data collected and/or stored by us is used to provide and improve our Services, conduct statistical analysis, provide information to research partners, and analyze use of the Service. All data released for research use is anonymized.
Any personal data collected may only be transferred outside the European Union/the European Economic Area by observing applicable privacy regulations and ensuring privacy rights are protected. To comply with regulations, laws or any authority requests, we may disclose information to authorities or other officials, without prior user consent.
We will use commercially reasonable efforts to safeguard the confidentiality of all personal information.