Last updated: February 29, 2024
Who we are
We are the Mobile Worlds project, with Kim Carlotta von Schönfeld and Wendy Tan as the responsible and main researchers. Our website address is: https://mobileworlds.online.
This page
Below, we describe first the project’s information and privacy policy, and next the privacy policy for this website in particular.
Project Information and Privacy Policy
Purpose of the project
The main purpose of the Mobile Worlds project is to understand how we people think about ourselves and our cultural backgrounds, and how that thinking influences how we move through cities and towns, and how (far) we travel for fun, for tourism, to visit family and friends or for work.
Which institution is responsible for the research project?
The Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (Høgskulen på Vestandet, HVL) in Bergen, Norway, is responsible for the project (data controller).
Within this institution, the main people responsible for the research project are Kim Carlotta von Schönfeld (Post-Doctoral Researcher) and Wendy Tan (Associate Professor). Student assistants based at HVL may also be involved, with appropriate training before entering into contact with participants.
Who are we asking to participate and why?
We are conducting the research project chiefly in Bergen (Norway) and Greater Porto (Portugal), but are also conducting a more broadly international survey to complement the more local information we gather. We aim to speak to people of different ages and different backgrounds, to gain broad as well as in-depth understanding of the project’s topic.
For the anonymous survey, we may contact you via your institutional email or through personal contact if we are acquainted; and we will disseminate the survey via social media. For interviews, workshops, a festival and more, we may contact you through your (child’s) school, your work or another source that can legitimately provide your contact information. We do not share this contact information any further. For interviews and workshops especially, we are contacting respondents via schools, social event organizations, NGOs and the local public authority, with a total of approximately 100 participants over 2 countries (Norway and Portugal).
What does participation involve for you?
For participation in workshops, interviews and/or a festival, participants will receive a letter of invitation including the specific steps for the activities, including the amount of time each will require. For the international survey, information will be shared in the introduction and conclusion of the survey itself.
The objective of all the ways you might participate are aimed at understanding connections between our (cultural) ways of thinking, backgrounds, and travel choices. This may include your philosophical beliefs and ethnicity, if you are willing to share such information. The questions might include locations of places you have been or are familiar with. We may collect real-time location data via a geo-data collection app operated by the researchers during walks, if we do those, but we will ask again when we begin the walk, and you can refuse this if it makes you uncomfortable. Alternatively, the researcher or data collector will mark where we walk on a physical map. The data collected will be about the places that you take us to and point out or mention during our walk. If we take photos or videos in which you could be identified, we will also ask if you agree before proceeding.
If you are participating with a child, please note that the child should only participate if and as long as they want to (just like yourself as an adult), and in the presence of a parent or guardian. Any photos or videos including any child will also be taken only if both the child/children and their parent or legal guardian agree. Should there be anyuse of social media data addressed to us, we will check with you before using this and anonymize it.
You can object
You can object to being included in this research project at any time, and you do not have to give a reason. All your personal data will then be deleted. There will be no negative consequences for you if you choose to object.
Your personal privacy – how we will store and use your personal data
We will only use your personal data for the research purposes specified here and we will process your personal data in accordance with data protection legislation (the GDPR). The Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (Høgskulen på Vestlandet, HVL) in Bergen, Norway, is the institution responsible for the project. At this institution, the Project is under responsibility of Kim Carlotta von Schönfeld and Wendy Tan. We will replace your name and contact details with a code. The list of names, contact details and respective codes will be stored separately from the rest of the collected data. Access to all project data will be saved on an institutional research server in an encrypted way, so that only authorised members of the research team are able to access it. All data will be used in an anonymized way unless we explicitly discuss otherwise with you, such as for the purposes of a short film to be made about the topic of the project.
What will happen to your personal data at the end of the research project?
The planned end date of the project is 25 December 2025, but the data may continue to be used beyond this point, as related processing and publication might take time beyond this date. Nevertheless, any data that is traceable to your person will be deleted maximum one year later, on 25 December 2026, except for the material used in the documentary film about the project, if you agree to appear in it.
Your rights
As long as you can be identified in the collected data, you have the right to:
- object
- access the personal data registered about you
- have personal data about you corrected/rectified,
- have personal data about you deleted, and
- file a complaint with the Norwegian Data Protection Authority regarding the processing of your personal data.
What gives us the right to process your personal data?
We will process your personal data on the legal basis that processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest and for scientific research purposes.
Based on an agreement with HVL,The Data Protection Services of Sikt – Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research has assessed that the processing of personal data in this project meets requirements in data protection legislation.
Where can you find out more?
If you have questions about the project, or want to exercise your rights, contact: Høgskulen på Vestlandet via Kim Carlotta von Schönfeld (mobileworlds@hvl.no), and we may forward your question to our data protection officer and/or the Sikt contact point.
Website Privacy Policy
What data do we collect? (website)
Via this website, we do not collect your data except through the comments form, forum, or if you create a profile (see below). We adhere by the European Union’s GDPR regulation, see: https://gdpr.eu/privacy-notice/. Any survey or other website that we might link to from this website will have its own privacy policy, irrespective of this website. Below, we outline several ways that some data may temporarily be collected, and what the processes are for you to remove or delete that data.
Comments (website)
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media (website)
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies (website)
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites (website)
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Who we share your data with (website)
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
How long we retain your data (website)
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue. The information you choose to share via a comment might also feed into the research project that this is the website of; see: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101062953 .
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data (website)
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes. In other words, we adhere by the European Union’s GDPR, according to which you have the right to access, rectification, erasure, to restrict processing, to object to processing, and to data portability. For further details, see: https://gdpr.eu/privacy-notice/
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at our email: mobileworlds@hvl.no
Where your data is sent (website)
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.