Privacy Policy
As of May 25th, 2018, the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) imposes data privacy and data protection requirements to agents and institutions that control or process personal data within countries located in the European Economic Area (“EEA”). Such requirements apply to entities located in and outside the EU that control or process the personal data of anyone who is in the EU, regardless of EU citizenship.
The 44th International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2025) is an international conference focused on the distributed systems field. The sole responsibility for this website lies with INESC TEC, which is the leader of communication and dissemination activities.
INESC TEC – Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science, located at Campus da FEUP, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200 – 465 Porto, Portugal, holds responsibility for the management of the SRDS website, newsletters and LinkedIn. For that reason, in what concerns the processing of personal data handled within the SRDS website, INESC TEC is considered the Data Controller.
The SRDS organising team is committed to ensuring that all project activities are conducted in an ethically responsible manner. The following “Privacy Policy” explains how INESC TEC collects, uses, discloses, and protects the information, ensuring compliance with the national and European data protection legislation in force.
SRDS 2025 is a forum for researchers and practitioners interested in distributed systems design, development and evaluation, emphasising reliability, availability, safety, dependability, security, verification, and real-time aspects.
Data Processing
The Data Controller collects information that users deliberately provide on the SRDS website, namely when they fill out forms or otherwise communicate with us.
Additional information about the user may be automatically collected by the SRDS website through cookies, according to the user’s preferences.
Purpose of Personal Data Processing
The Data Controller collects users’ personal data solely to the extent required to fulfil specific purposes.
Disclosure and Sharing of Personal Data
The Data Controller will not share users’ personal information with or sell it to third-party marketers.
Third-party Management
The SRDS website was developed by INESC TEC.
The SRDS website may contain links to third-party websites over which the Data Controller has no control. The Data Controller disclaims any responsibility for privacy practices and contents of external websites, regardless of a link to such websites being displayed on the SRDS website. Before proceeding to such platforms, users are advised to refer to each third-party’s privacy policy.
Access to and Control of Personal Information
Users’ personal data shall be processed and stored by the Data Controller for a maximum of 2 years, corresponding to the timeline for the conference organization. Following the provisions of the EU General Data Protection Regulation, individuals may exert, during that period, their right to access, rectify, restrict, delete, or object to, their personal data, except when the SRDS conference is required to process such information to comply with a legal obligation; when the data is necessary for the execution of a contract to which the user is a party; or when it is to be used for a purpose for which the user has given unambiguous consent.
To access, change or require the removal of personal data, users may send an e-mail to srds2025@inesctec.pt.
INESC TEC’s Data Protection Officer can also be reached at dpo@inesctec.pt.
Cookies Policy
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small file that holds a certain amount of data, which are downloaded to your computer, in order to improve your experience. Cookies are often used to remember information about preferences and pages a person has visited. This cookie data can then be retrieved and can allow us to customize our web pages and services accordingly. It is important to clarify that cookies do not collect any personal data stored on your hard drive or computer.
How does SRDS use cookies?
The SRDS conference uses cookies to improve your browsing experience on the website, namely:
Strictly necessary cookies are cookies used exclusively to carry out the transmission of a communication on an electronic communication network, or, insofar as this is strictly necessary, to the provider of an information society service that has been explicitly requested by the contracting party or user to provide said service.
Functionality cookies allow websites to remember the user’s site preferences and choices they make on the site including display resolution and language.
Analytics cookies are used directly by the website manager to collect aggregate information on users’ activities performed on the website (for instance, page views, origin by country) and are collected anonymously and only for statistical purposes.
On the other hand, one might distinguish first party cookies which are cookies set by the website you’re visiting (only that website can read them) from cookies placed by external service providers, to analyse how people are using their websites (third party cookies).
The cookies we use do not store personally identifiable information nor can they harm your computer. We want our website to be informative, and as user-friendly as possible, and cookies help us achieving that goal.
When using the SRDS’s website, a banner will show up for you to accept or refuse the use of cookies and other technologies as set out in this policy.
We appreciate some users may like more individual control over their visit to our website and can adjust their settings accordingly. You can read all about this in the section below “How to control and delete cookies”.
Social media third party cookies
To improve our website content, we may embed video or photo content from other social media websites such as LinkedIn. As a result, when you visit a page with content embedded, you may be presented with cookies from these websites. The SRDS conference has no control or liability over these cookies set, so you should check the relevant third party’s cookie policy for more information.
We also provide a “share page” widget on some of our web pages, where content can be shared easily on LinkedIn. These sites may set a cookie when you are logged into their service. The SRDS conference project has no control or liability over these cookies set, so you should check the relevant third party’s cookie policy for more information.
How to control and delete cookies
The SRDS conference will not use cookies to collect personally identifiable information about users. However, and if you choose to disable, reject or block our cookies, be aware that your choice will affect the navigation on this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies may also deactivate certain elements and features of this site. Therefore, we recommend users to keep cookies enabled.
You can prevent the storage of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser.
Do not track preferences
In addition to these settings and at any event you may enable the Do Not Track function in your browser. Do not Track is a function that always visitors not to be tracked by websites. Do Not Track options are available in a number of browsers including:
- Firefox
- Internet Explorer
- Edge
- Chrome
- Opera
You may find useful visiting the following link if you look for general information on how to enable Do Not Track functions in browsers at https://www.allaboutcookies.org/.
More information
If you are still looking for more information, you can contact us through our email: srds2025@inesctec.pt.