About the Bragança Polytechnic University

The Bragança Polytechnic University (hereinafter referred to as UPB) is a public higher education institution whose mission is to create, transmit and disseminate technical-scientific knowledge and knowledge of a professional nature, through the articulation of study, teaching, orientated research and experimental development. UPB, as an organisation that deals with personal data on a daily basis, considers itself committed to the matters regulated and the obligations imposed by the new European legislation on data protection, namely Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council (on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data), hereinafter referred to as the GDPR. To this end, this Personal Data Protection Policy is approved in order to reinforce its commitment and respect for the rules of privacy and personal data protection. Given the above, this Personal Data Protection Policy is directly applicable to all operations carried out within the scope of the activities pursued by all the organisations that make up the UPB.