INFORMATION CLAUSE: CONTACT FORMS AND SECTIONS
closeIn compliance with the provisions of current legislation on personal data protection, the Data Controller is stated to be BISCAY MARINE ENERGY PLATFORM, S.A. (BiMEP), Tax Number: A95671244, address: Alameda de Urquijo, 36, 1ª Planta, 48011, Bilbao (Bizkaia), telephone: +34 946 879 835, e-mail: bimep@bimep.com, DPO contact: dpd@eve.eus
The legal basis for the processing of the data is the user's consent and the purpose of the processing is to attend to queries or suggestions.
The data shall be stored for as long as the relationship persists and provided their erasure is not requested and in all cases in compliance with applicable legal duration of liability.
Data shall not be assigned to third parties, unless a legal obligation exists so to do, nor are any international transfers of these data envisaged.
You can exercise your rights to access, rectification, erasure, portability and restriction or objection by writing to BiMEP, at the address stated above, enclosing a copy of a valid identifying document. Please use the reference “Ejercicio derechos protección de datos” (Exercise of data protection rights)”. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Supervisory Authority (Agencia Española de Protección de Datos: www.agpd.es or Agencia Vasca de Protección de Datos http://www.avpd.euskadi.eus/s04-5213/es/).
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closeThis Legal Disclaimer regulates use of the website https://bimep.com/ (hereafter, “the Site”) owned by BISCAY MARINE ENERGY PLATFORM, S.A. (hereafter “BIMEP”), Tax Number: A95671244, address: Alameda de Urquijo, 36, 1ª Planta, 48011, Bilbao (Bizkaia), tel: +34 946 879 835, e-mail: bimep@bimep.com.
Use of the Site requires explicit acceptance by the user of all clauses of this Legal Disclaimer, and any specific caveats or clauses established for the procurement of certain services, products or usage of certain areas of the Site.
If the user does not agree to the terms of this Legal Disclaimer, he/she must refrain from accessing and/or using the services and/or contents made available on the Site, and must leave the Site.
USE OF THE SITE
The user undertakes not to use the Site to carry out activities that are contrary to law, morality and public order and, in general, to make good use thereof in accordance with the conditions set out in this Legal Disclaimer. Likewise, it undertakes not to perform activities of a commercial or advertising nature by submitting messages using a false identity.
BiMEP’s liabilities with regard to the Site extend solely to its function as the provider of a service of information on its own services. It shall not be held liable for any contents that might be submitted or posted by users in breach of these general conditions, the user being solely responsible for the veracity and legality thereof.
BiMEP may interrupt the Site service being used by the user and may immediately terminate its relationship with the user if it detects use of the site or any of the services offered therein that might be deemed to contravene the terms of this Legal Disclaimer.
INTELLECTUAL AND INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY
The entirety of this Site, namely the text, images, brands, graphics, logos, buttons, software files, combinations of colours, and the structure, selection, lay-out and presentation of the contents thereof, are protected by laws on Intellectual and Industrial Property. Any reproduction, distribution, public communication or transformation is prohibited, unless it be for personal and private use.
BiMEP does not guarantee that the contents are accurate or free of error, nor that the user’s free use of same does not infringe the rights of third-parties. Proper or improper use pf this site and its contents are at the user's own responsibility.
Likewise, the total or partial reproduction, rebroadcasting, copy, transfer or republication of the information contained on the Site, whatever its purpose and the medium used, shall be prohibited unless prior authorisation has been received from BiMEP.
LINKS
The Site may include links to third-party sites. Sites belonging to third parties have not been reviewed or inspected by BiMEP. In no case may BiMEP be held liable for the contents of such websites nor for any measures adopted with regard to users’ privacy or the processing of their personal data.
BiMEP recommends that you read the terms of use and privacy policy of these sites carefully.
If you would like to add a link to any of BiMEP’s webpages you must notify us and obtain our explicit consent to create the link. BIMEP reserves the right to oppose activation of links to its website.
MINORS
BiMEP reminds any adult users with children in their care that they are exclusively responsible for deciding what services and/or contents are suitable or unsuitable for said children’s age-group.
You are reminded that computer programs are freely available allowing you to filter and restrict access to certain contents and services, thus enabling parents and guardians, for example, to decide what Internet content and services children can and cannot access.
LIABILITIES
BiMEP shall not be held directly nor severally liable for:
Service quality, access speed, correct functioning, availability or continuity of the Site.
Any damage caused to the user's computer by use of the Site.
Incidents in which a third party, violating the security measures established, accesses messages or uses them to transmit a computer virus.
Faults and defects of any kind in the contents transmitted, disseminated, stored or otherwise made available.
The legality, reliability and usefulness of contents transmitted by users making use of the site or of the services provided thereon, nor their veracity or accuracy. BiMEP does not monitor use made by users of the Site, nor does it guarantee that they do so in accordance with the terms of this Legal Disclaimer.
BiMEP makes no claims and offers no guarantees of any kind, explicit or implicit, as to the functioning of its website or the information, contents, figures, tables, graphics, software, materials or products (“the data”) made available thereon insofar as the applicable legislation permits. Likewise, BiMEP shall be exonerated from making any guarantees, either explicit or implicit, including inter alia any implicit guarantees of suitability for a given purpose. BiMEP shall not be held liable for the Data, for the precision or veracity thereof, nor for any damage or harm of any kind that might result from use of the Data and the Site, including, inter alia, direct and indirect damage.
Likewise, BiMEP shall not be held liable for any direct or indirect damage or harm that might arise from any interruption to the service by the Site or from any continuation thereof. Similarly, BiMEP shall not be held liable for any possible errors or deficiencies in security that might be caused by the User’s utilisation of a an outdated or insecure version of a browser, or by the activation of devices for saving passwords or User identification codes registered in the browser or for any damage, errors or inaccuracies that might arise from malfunctioning of same.
BiMEP offers no guarantees of any kind, either explicitly or implicitly, with regard to the information transmitted, distributed, published or stored on the Site, nor for the use that Users, their employees or third parties might make thereof.
The User shall be liable for all damage and prejudicial consequences of any kind suffered by BiMEP as a direct or indirect consequence of the User’s failure to comply with the Usage Conditions of the Site.
In publications and any other form of dissemination of results (conferences, seminars, courses, reports, communications, etc.) that make use of the data made available on the Site, the collaboration of BiMEP must be acknowledged.
Any content taken from the Site must include a reference to BiMEP and/or Mutriku.
The data shall be used only for the purpose for which they were obtained and may not be reproduced, transferred or distributed, in part or in their entirety in any form without prior written authorisation from BiMEP.
Inter alia and without limitation, users shall be responsible for:
Any contents entered by them, especially data and information entered and submitted to BiMEP via or on the Site.
The performance of any type of action that is unlawful, infringes rights, or is harmful and/or damaging.
The submission of false or incorrect data.
JURISDICTION
This Legal Disclaimer is written in Spanish and shall be subject to Spanish law. For any dispute arising from use of the services offered or the contents of the Site, the Parties, in acceptance of the terms of this Legal Disclaimer, submit to the jurisdiction of the competent Courts and Tribunals of Bilbao (Bizkaia), Spain.
DATA PRIVACY AND PROTECTION POLICY.
closeIn accordance with current legislation on personal data protection, BiMEP hereby notifies users of the website https://bimep.com// (hereafter, “the Site”) of the data privacy and protection policy that will apply to the processing of personal data voluntarily provided by the user upon accessing its website.
In providing BiMEP with its personal data via the electronic forms contained in the Website and contact section and, where applicable, by marking the corresponding checkbox, users expressly give their consent to BiMEP to process said data under the terms of this Data Privacy and Protection Policy clause and for the aims herein expressed.
BiMEP informs users of the Site that their personal data may only be obtained for processing when they are appropriate, relevant and not excessive to the ambit and the explicit and legitimate stated purposes for which they have been obtained. They shall be erased when they have ceased to be necessary or relevant for this purpose or when the subject of the data so requests, exercising his/her right to erasure.
BiMEP declares its commitment to comply with the data protection legislation current at any time.
The personal data provided shall be processed by BiMEP and used as explained below
What personal data do we collect via the Site?
We can collect or receive your data via your visit to the Site or from your interaction with us when you complete and submit the Contact Form or from your interaction with us on our accounts/pages on the social media identified on the Site.
In some cases, personal data are provided directly by users when they subscribe to our newsletter or prediction report, contact us via the channels provided, complete surveys, sign up to our accounts/pages on social media or interact with us on these accounts/pages by submitting comments or opinions or by sharing contents published on the page.
The table below gives more detailed information on the processing of your personal data. It includes the following categories:
Principal purpose: The purpose for which we need to gather your data, i.e. why we process your information.
Legal basis: The reason that entitles us to process your data
Storage periods: The specific storage period or the criteria used to determine that period
Recipients: With what other parties, if any, we legitimately share your data.
Data subject's rights: Your rights as a data subject with regard to the processing of your personal data.
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Controller | BISCAY MARINE ENERGY PLATFORM (BiMEP) Tax No.: A95671244, address: Alameda de Urquijo, 36, 1ª Planta, 48011, Bilbao (Vizcaya) Telephone No.: +34 946 879 835 e-mai: bimep@bimep.com DPO contact: dpd@eve.eus. |
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Legal basis and storage | The legal basis for processing of the data is the user's consent, provided by entering the data, by marking the checkbox and submitting the form or information, by subscribing to receive notifications or by browsing in different areas of the Site. |
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Legal basis and storage | You may exercise your rights to access, rectification, erasure, portability and restriction or objection by writing to the address shown above. |
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Data subjects have the right to lodge a complaint with the Supervisory Authority (Agencia Española de Protección de Datos - Spanish Data Protection Agency: www.agpd.es or Agencia Vasca de Protección de Datos – Basque Data Protection Agency http://www.avpd.euskadi.eus/s04-5213/es/). |
The user shall be solely responsible for the veracity of any data it provides to BiMEP.
BiMEP adopts the technical and organisational measures necessary to ensure the security of the personal data contained therein and to prevent unauthorised alteration, loss, processing or access, taking into account the state of the art, the nature of the data and the risks to which they are exposed.
The Site has an SSL (Secure Socket Layer) Certificate to guarantee the security of data transmission between your browser and our Site.
Following the User’s registration or subscription by means of the corresponding Registration Form, access to the Site assumes that the User has previously read and accepted unreservedly these General Conditions of Registration, Access and Use (hereafter, "the Conditions").
The data required in each Registration Form shall be furnished freely by the User and must therefore be accurate.
By means of his or her registration and subsequent access and use of the Site the User shall be understood to give his or her consent, expressly, fully and unreservedly, to the contents of each of these Conditions as published on the Site at the time of access. Should the user not be in agreement with the contents of these Conditions, he/she must refrain from accessing the Site. The Site reserves the right to alter these Conditions, informing Users of said alterations by means of the corresponding notices on the Site, in order that the Users may be aware of its contents from the first moment.
As a User, you declare that you are of legal age and/or have sufficient legal and operational capacity to be bound by the present Conditions. The user expressly, fully, unreservedly and without exception accepts that he/she accesses and uses the Site, its Contents and Services at his/her sole and exclusive responsibility.
The secure server establishes a connection in such a way that the information is transmitted in encrypted form, thus ensuring that it is only intelligible to the user's device and that of the Site. Using the SSL protocol ensures:
That users submit their data to the Site's server centre and not to any other.
That all data is transmitted between the user and the Site in encrypted form, and cannot be read or manipulated by third parties.
To verify that you are on a secure site, please check that the URL of the site begins with https:/
You can also identify that the Site is secure by checking that a “padlock” icon is displayed on your browser’s address bar.
Finally, you can ensure the presence of the SSL certificate by checking the Site's properties in your browser (check the specific characteristics of your browser for details).
Any change made to the Privacy Policy and information handling practises shall be suitably notified; BiMEP may add to, amend or eliminate this Privacy Policy whenever it deems necessary.
In no case may BiMEP alter its policies or practices in such a way as to reduce the effectiveness of any protection of previously stored client data, without prior consent from the clients affected.
WHAT IS IT?
INSTALLATION
TRIALS
HUMAN RESOURCES
About the BiMEP site
BiMEP is an infrastructure for testing prototypes of ocean energy collectors and auxiliary equipment on the open sea. It is located off the coast at Armintza.
Operating since June 2015, BiMEP provides technology developers a site with suitable wave and wind resources for testing the technical and economic viability of different concept designs, offering security before advancing to the full-scale commercial phase.
Technical Characteristics
The Cantabrian Sea offers exceptional conditions for testing the effectiveness of new mechanisms and technologies for harnessing wind and wave energy
Four 13.2 kV/5MW subsea cables fitted with optic fibre.
Onshore substation fitted with 25 MVA 13.2/132 kV transformers.
Resource measurement using an oceanographic buoy and floating Lidar system.
Dry mate subsea connectors.
Possibility of feeding in low voltage power (690 V).
Area restricted to the shipping with perimeter beacons.
Topographical characteristics
Depths at the test site range from 50 to 90 metres. The sea bed is mostly sandy with rocky areas.
Resource measurement
Historical data from the metocean buoy installed in the area since 2008 are available for downloading using the Download tool.
Data log.
Wave data for free surface analysys.
BiMEP metocean analysis for offshore designs.
What do we offer?
As a test infrastructure, BiMEP has been designed to allow testing and demonstration of:
Wave energy devices.
Prototypes of deep water fixed foundations for offshore wind turbines.
Auxiliary equipment and sub-systems .
Prototypes of floating platforms for offshore wind turbines.
Offshore wind turbines.
Services
The services on offer during the different test process phases are:
Site at sea to be occupied by the device and its mooring system.
Fibre optic connection between land and device.
Updated information on sea conditions.
Boat-taxi service for accessing the device.
Marketing of the power generated.
Support in seeking local suppliers and financing.
Electrical Infrastructure for connecting the device to the grid.
Onland office.
24 hour surveillance and marine emergency management service.
Assistance by tug in the event of emergency.
Support in designing marine operations.
Trial requirements
BiMEP has all the necessary licenses for testing devices marine energy collector devices.
In order to help ensure suitable levels of safety for personnel, the environment and shipping, certain minimum technical requirements must be met. These are listed in the BiMEP Installation Guide.
Who are we?
The team at BiMEP comprises the following people:
Where are we?
The BiMEP offices are located in the coastal town of Armintza (Lemoiz)