Privacy policy

Personal data administration

The party that administer the personal data provided for the purpose of negotiation experiment in the eNego electronic negotiation system is the University of Economics in Katowice (UEK), ul. 1 Maja 50, 40 – 287 Katowice, called further: „administrator”. The full information regarding General Data Protection Regulation can be found at the administrator, its website or at the administrator's Public Information Bulletin (BIP). All questions regarding data processing should be directed to the Data Protection Officer at: iod@ue.katowice.pl.

Data processing and sharing

Personal data provided by eNego users are stored, processed and used according to the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation). Personal data in eNego are used for the identification of the negotiation experiments' participants, as all of the users are the students of the teaching programs conducted at the UEK and/or the collaborating universities and research institutions. The experiments are thus the equivalents of the in-class assignments, in which personal data are used to identify the students and for grading process. Therefore the personal data are shared to the teachers accompanied by a report on the user's negotiation completion.
If the eNego user is neither a student of UEK nor any of the collaborating institutions, her/his personal data are not shared to any third party.
The datasets collected by eNego are used in research conducted UEK and/or the collaborating institutions. The personal data of eNego's users is removed before using the dataset for research purposes. The personal data of each eNego's user is unconditionally removed three years after registering in eNego system, but not sooner than on December 31 of the year in which the period of three years has elapsed.

Rights to data access and modifications

Each eNego user has the rights to:

The eNego users shall have the right to bringing administrative proceedings to the supervisory authority if she or he recognizes that data processing in eNego system violates Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation).

Obligation to provide personal data in eNego

Providing the personal data (first name, second name, email address) in eNego is obligatory and required by the way in which the negotiation experiments are designed and set up. Data such as first name and second name are required to identify eNego user as a student of a specific course organized by UEK and/or any collaborating institution.

Cookies files

The eNego system uses session cookies files to control the negotiation process of any user logged into the system. These files do not operate with any sensitive data such as first name, second name nor email and are required to confirm the user's id number at each stage of the negotiation process in eNego.