Alter Ego is a EUNIC (European Union National Institutes for Culture) -project to celebrate the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue.

It is one of the seven flagship projects chosen by the European Commission and consists of a European wide competition running between March 2008 and the Summer in at least 22 member states. Young people (14–18 years old) are encouraged to explore different and varied identities in their local communities, by creating a double portrait (video, photo, text, music…): a self portrait alongside a portrait of a person from a different background and tradition.

User Terms

As a visitor, registrar or participant of the Alter Ego project, you agree with these terms and conditions by visiting the website, using the website, or by registering as a participant.

By registering you agree that you are providing true, accurate, current and complete information, and that you have the legal competence to complete such an agreement. This providing of information is indispensable to register as a participant and thus to enter into an agreement with the responsible for the processing of the data, by way of accepting the rules of the competition Alter Ego.

Minors should have the permission of one of their parents or legal guardian before registering. In any case, you should be 14 or older to register.

Alter Ego does not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 14 or knowingly allow such persons to register. If you are under 14, please do not attempt to register for Alter Ego or send any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, or email address. No one under age 14 may provide any personal information to or on Alter Ego. In the event that we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 14 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information immediately. If you believe that we might have any information from or about a child under 14, please contact us at mail@alterego-europe.eu.

We recommend that minors over the age of 14 ask their parents for permission before sending any information about themselves to anyone over the Internet.

After having provided the required personal information, you keep the right to access to and to correct the personal information in question. The responsible for the processing of the data undertakes to reply within 45 days in relation to a request concerning the right to access and within 30 days relating to a request concerning the right of correction.

Liability

All participants are liable for the consequences of using this website.

Use of Information Obtained by Alter Ego

Any personal information or uploaded material that you voluntarily disclose online (on discussion boards, in messages and chat areas, within your playback or profile pages, etc.) becomes publicly available and can be collected and used by others.

If you submit personally identifiable information to us through the Alter Ego site, we use your personal information to operate, maintain, and provide to you the general and personalized features and functionality of the Alter Ego site, and to process any flagging activity or correspondence you send to us.

Your account name (not your email address) is displayed to other Users when you upload material or send messages through the Alter Ego site and other Users can contact you through messages and comments. Any uploaded material that you submit to the Alter Ego site may be redistributed through the internet and other media channels, and may be viewed by the general public. If you have enabled Active Sharing, other users may see that you, as identified by your account name (not your email address), are watching the same uploaded material.

We do not use your email address or other personally identifiable information to send commercial or marketing messages without your consent or except as part of a specific program or feature for which you will have the ability to opt-in or opt-out. We may, however, use your email address without further consent for non-marketing or administrative purposes (such as notifying you of major Alter Ego site changes or for customer service purposes).

Alter Ego, located at the Danish Cultural Institute, Koningsstraat 35, 1000 Brussels (Belgium) (project responsible: Lone Leth Larsen), is responsible for the processing of the data. Alter Ego respects the Belgian and European law concerning the protection of private data. The processing of the personal data has been reported to the Privacy Commission.

The responsible for the processing of the data undertakes to inform its employees of the legal regulations, in force in relation to the protection of personal data.

Use of Uploaded Material

Any uploaded material that you submit to the Alter Ego site may be redistributed through the internet and other media channels, and may be viewed by the general public. If you have enabled Active Sharing, other users may see that you, as identified by your account name (not your email address), are watching the same uploaded material.

Make sure that every person, represented in uploaded material, has given the explicit consent to do so. Make also sure that you have obtained the permission of the copyright-claimant of every “work”, possibly figuring in uploaded material.

Security

Alter Ego takes appropriate precautions to protect our users' information. Because email is not recognized as secure communication, we request that you don't send private information to us by email. If you have any questions about the security of Alter Ego website, please contact us at mail@alterego-europe.eu.

Contacting the Website

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please contact us at mail@alterego-europe.eu. You may also contact us by mail at Koningsstraat 35, 1000 Brussels (Belgium).