The UNIF service connect via eduGAIN provides an access portal to our data storage service for international researchers, also allowing the creation of Mastodon accounts on the UNIF instance (universites.social), and an international access to our online classrooms and lab work MarioNUM.

Contact: cloud@unif.fr

Personal data retrieved from your Home Organisation:

  • your unique user identifier (SAML persistent identifier)*
  • your display name if provided by your organization*
  • your email address only used to send you activity notifications

Personal data you have provided or may be generated as a result of your use of our service:

  • logfiles on the service activity *
  • your profile in the application

* = the personal data is necessary for providing the Service that the End User has requested. Other personal data is processed because you have consented to it.

Your personal data is used

  • to authorise your access to and use of the compute resources we provide;
  • to properly account your use to relevant infrastructure funding bodies;
  • to ensure the integrity and availability of our service

Your personal data is used

  • to authorise your access to and use of the compute resources we provide;
  • to properly account your use to relevant infrastructure funding bodies;
  • to ensure the integrity and availability of our service

We may share your personal data with third parties (or otherwise allow them access to it) in the following cases:
(a) to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process, subpoena or governmental request
(b) to enforce this Privacy Notice, including investigation of potential violations thereof;

Inform the user that his/her personal data may be displayed to other users of the service or to the public.

Your personal data may be accessible by others users and by the public (e.g. for a wiki, a text in the bottom of the page may state « This page was last edited by [first name] [last name] … ».)

In the case where a third party is located in a country whose data protection laws are not as comprehensive as those of the countries within the European Union we will take appropriate steps to ensure that transfers of your personal data are still protected in line with European standards.

You have a right to contact us for more information about the safeguards we have put in place to ensure the adequate protection of your personal data when this is transferred as mentioned above.

How to access, rectify and delete the personal data and object its processing?

Contact cloud@unif.fr.

To rectify the data released by your Home Organisation, contact your Home Organisation’s IT helpdesk.

Withdrawal of consent

Contact cloud@unif.fr.

Data portability

Most of our services provides in-app tools for full portability (buckets synchronization, Mastodon portability, file download in MarioNUM).

Data retention

Personal data is deleted on request of the user or if the user hasn’t used the Services for 18 months

  • Jurisdiction and supervisory authority: FR France.

Conformity to the GÉANT Data Protection Code of Conduct

Your personal data, for the part where it is stored in the UNIF service connect via eduGAIN, will be protected according to the GÉANT Data Protection Code of Conduct v2 for Service Providers [Code of Conduct], a common standard for the research and higher education sector to protect your privacy. This Code of Conduct may also be referenced as: https://refeds.org/category/code-of-conduct/v2 or http://www.geant.net/uri/dataprotection-code-of-conduct/v1 (previous version).