Privacy Policy
WHEC web space is committed to maintaining your confidence and trust with respect to the privacy of the personal information we collect from you. Please read this privacy policy carefully to understand our practices about how we collect, use and share your personal information.
About our Privacy Policy
This privacy policy describes how the personal information that is collected when you visit the WHEC website, application or product that posts a link to this privacy policy ("Service") will be used by the WHEC that owns the service. This policy may be supplemented by additional privacy terms or notices set forth on certain areas of the Service.
Information We Collect
The Service collects information from you in two ways: directly from your input and automatically through the Service's technologies.
Information You Provide
The types of personal information that the Service could collects directly from you may include:
- Contact details, such as your name, email address, postal address and telephone number;
- Educational and professional background information;
- Usernames and passwords;
- Payment information, such as a credit or debit card number;
- Comments, feedback, posts and other content you submit to the Service; and
- Interests and communication preferences.
In order to access certain content and to make use of additional functionality and features, we ask you to register for an account by completing and submitting a registration form, which may request additional information.
If you choose to register and sign in by using a third party account (such as your Facebook account), the authentication of your login is handled by the third party and the Service will collect your name, email address and any other information about your third-party account that you agree to share with us at the time you give permission for your account on the Service to be linked to your third party account.
Information Collected Automatically
The Service also automatically collects, through our servers and the use of cookies (small text files sent to your computer), web beacons (also known as clear or single pixel .gifs) and other technologies, information that tells us how you use the Service, such as:
- Internet Protocol ("IP") address used to connect your computer to the Internet;
- Computer, device and connection information, such as browser type and version, operating system, mobile platform and unique device identifier ("UDID") and other technical identifiers;
- Uniform Resource Locator ("URL") click stream data, including date and time stamp, referring and exit URLs, search terms you used, and pages you visited or searched for on the Service; and
- For location-aware services, the physical location of your device in order to provide you with more relevant content for where you are in the world.
We may use and disclose information that does not reveal your identity or permit direct association with any specific individual, such as browser and device information, anonymous usage data and aggregated information, for any purpose, except where we are restricted by law. If we combine non-personal information with personal information, the combined information will be treated as personal information for as long as it remains combined.
You can control cookies through your browser's settings and other tools. However, if you block certain cookies, you may not be able to register, login to access certain parts of the service.
Use of Your Information
We may use your personal information to:
- Provide the service to you, such as allow access to or delivery of our products or services, process or fulfill an order or transaction, or administer surveys or promotional programs;
- Respond to your requests, inquiries, comments or concerns;
- Provide technical, product and other support and help keep the Service working, safe and secure;
- Offer you customized content and individualized personalization of the Service to make it more relevant to your interests and needs;
- Enhance, evaluate and improve the Service, its advertisements and promotional campaigns and our products and services and to develop new products and services;
- Identify and analyze usage trends, including for the purposes of research, audits, reporting and paying royalties and license fees to third-party content providers;
- Notify you about changes or updates to the Service and our products and services; and
- Provide you special offers, promotions, surveys and other information about the Service as well as products, events and services of ours, our affiliates and non-affiliated third parties such as societies and sponsors.
We may on occasion also match or combine the personal information that you provide with information that we obtain from other sources or that is already in our records, whether collected online or offline or by predecessor or affiliated group companies, for the purposes described above.
If the service offers a content database or learning service and you access the subscription service through an institution-sponsored subscription, your personal information and certain usage data gathered through the subscription service, such as the number of items you downloaded, any non-subscribed items you accessed, and test scores, may be shared with your institution for the purposes of usage analysis, subscription management, course management and testing and remediation. If your institution is a corporation or other business entity, additional usage data, such as the types of records you viewed and the number of searches you ran, also may be shared for the purposes of cost attribution and departmental budgeting.
Data Security
WHEC takes precautions to safeguard your personal information against loss, theft and misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction through the use of appropriate administrative, physical and technical security measures.
Changes to Our Privacy Policy
We may change this privacy policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated revision date.
Legal Disclaimer
We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order or legal process served on our website.
Links
WHEC websites contain links to other websites. WHEC is not responsible for the privacy practices of third parties who administer other websites.
Contact
If you have any questions, comments or requests regarding this privacy policy or our processing of your information, please contact: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
This privacy policy was last updated on 14 April 2015.
To enhance your experience with our site, our web page use "cookies." Cookies are text files we place in your computer's browser to store your preferences. Cookies, by themselves, do not tell us your e-mail address or other personally identifiable information unless you choose to provide this information to us by, for example, registering at one of our sites. However, once you choose to furnish the site with personally identifiable information, this information may be linked to the data stored in the cookie.
We use cookies to understand site usage and to improve the content and offerings on our sites. For example, we may use cookies to personalize your experience at our web page (e.g., to recognize you by name when you return to our site), save your password in password-protected areas, and enable you to use shopping carts on our sites.
The World Hydrogen Energy Conference (WHEC) utilizes an industry standard analytics package which gathers limited information on visitors to our website automatically, and stores this anonymous information in server log files. This information may include IP addresses, browser type, basic IP information, referring pages, operating system used and date/time stamps. We also enable Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting Remarketing with Google Analytics to collect data about web traffic via Google advertising cookies and anonymous identifiers, in addition to data collected through a standard Google Analytics implementation. This information does not identify individual users and is used only for site administration, as well as for analysis of website usage and trends.
If you do not wish to take advantage of these features, please configure your browser so it does not accept cookies.
How to disable targeted advertising cookies
If you are concerned about targeted advertising cookies users based in the European Union can visit www.youronlinechoices.eu and users based in the US can visit http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ to opt out of these third party cookies.
The above websites are not WPA sites and we are not responsible for their content.
How to enable and disable cookies using your browser
Google Chrome
· Click the wrench icon on the browser toolbar
· Select Settings
· Click ‘Show advanced settings’
· In the “Privacy” section, click the ‘Content settings’ button
· To enable cookies in the “Cookies” section, pick ‘Allow local data to be set’, this will enable both first-party and third-party cookies. To allow only first-party cookies pick ‘Block all third-party cookies without exception’
· To disable cookies, in the “Cookies” section, pick ‘Block sites from setting any data’
· Note there are various levels of cookie enablement and disablement in Chrome. For more information on other cookie settings offered in Chrome, refer to the following page
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0, 7.0, 8.0
· Click on ‘Tools’ at the top of your browser window and select ‘Internet Options’
· In the options window navigate to the ‘Privacy’ tab
· To enable cookies: Set the slider to ‘Medium’ or below
· To disable cookies: Move the slider to the top to block all cookies
· Note there are various levels of cookie enablement and disablement in Explorer. For more information on other cookie settings offered in Internet Explorer, refer to the following page
Mozilla Firefox
· Click on ‘Tools’ at the browser menu and select ‘Options’
· Select the Privacy panel
· To enable cookies: Check ‘Accept cookies for sites’
· To disable cookies: Uncheck ‘Accept cookies for sites’
· Note there are various levels of cookie enablement and disablement in Firefox. For more information, refer to the following page
Opera
· Click on ‘Setting’ at the browser menu and select ‘Settings’
· Select ‘Quick Preferences’
· To enable cookies: check “Enable Cookies”
· To disable cookies: uncheck “Enable Cookies”
· Note there are various levels of cookie enablement and disablement in Opera. For more information on other cookie settings offered in Opera, refer to the following page
Safari on OSX
· Click on ‘Safari’ at the menu bar and select the ‘Preferences’ option
· Click on ‘Security’
· To enable cookies: In the ‘Accept cookies’ section select ‘Only from site you navigate to’
· To disable cookies: In the ‘Accept cookies’ section select ‘Never’
· Note there are various levels of cookie enablement and disablement in Safari. For more information on other cookie settings offered in Safari, refer to the following page
Considering to be a Sponsor?
Sponsoring or exhibiting at WHEC 2016 is a prime opportunity to showcase your products and services to the key industry players and decision makers in FC&H2 sector.
There are numerous opportunities to raise your company's profile and build brand awareness. From conference lanyards to events, we offer many sponsorship opportunities that will enhance your corporate profile before, during and after this event.
Sponsorship benefits/advantages:
- Establishes and strengthens collaboration links between the organizers and the sponsors for future activities of reciprocal interest.
- Reduces registration fees, allowing broader participation.
- Publicity directed at very specific targets (professionals in hydrogen and fuel cells).
- The highlighted presence of their name and logo in all Conference-related information.
- The chance to make patent sponsor's implication in H2&FC technologies, particularly with the organizers.
- The benefits of sponsors accorded by the sponsorship conditions.
WHEC 2016 offers four levels of sponsorship to participate in the Conference, gain relevance and visibility, brand awareness and obtain special benefits. Please check the options in the sponsorship guide.
Cookies
What is a Cookie?
‘Cookies’ are small text files that websites may place on your computer, mobile device or tablet. They’re used to remember what you have done on a website in order to improve your browsing experience, to help remember log-ins, or to provide advertising while visiting a particular site.
What is a Web Beacon?
Web beacons are images embedded in a web page. We use web beacons to see which of our email messages are opened or forwarded so we can better understand what types of email messages our customers are interested in and how we can improve our communication with our customers.
Our Policy is Simple.
We ONLY use cookies to deliver a smooth experience to our website visitors and to understand how visitors use our websites. We do this because we want you to have a great experience browsing our sites, so we can provide you with relevant content and so that we can continually improve the service we provide you.This means that we DON’T identify you personally as a user of our website, and we DON’T use cookies to target you with advertising.You can decide whether to accept or reject cookies from us – it’s your choice.
Why do we use them?
We use different types of cookies for different functions.Some cookies allow you to stay logged in while you browse our site. If you didn’t have a cookie for this purpose, you would need to log in every time you loaded a different page from our site. We think this would be a very annoying experience.Cookies help us identify which of our articles, discussions, videos or documents are the most popular and what type of journey a visitor has through our sites. After all, we don’t want to spend a lot of time publishing things no one is interested in.We place a cookie when you visit a page on which we show an advert. This helps us to collect anonymous information about how frequently adverts are clicked and to understand how interesting and attractive our adverts are. We don’t pass this information to third parties.A list of all the cookies we use, along with our advert network and technology partners can be found in our cookie list at the bottom of this page.
Do I have a choice over the use of cookies?
Yes. There are a number of options available. You can set your browser either to reject all cookies, to only allow “trusted” sites to set them, or to accept only those cookies from those websites which you are using at that moment.Some of the functionality of our website will be lost if you delete all cookies.
All of the ‘popular’ browsers allow you to change your cookie settings. These settings are usually found in the ‘options’ or ‘preferences’ menu of your browser. To help you better understand these settings, the following links may be helpful to you, otherwise you should use the ‘Help’ option in your browser for more details..Chrome
Chrome
Internet Explorer 5
Internet Explorer 6
Internet Explorer 7 & 8
Internet Explorer 9
Internet Explorer 10
Firefox
Safari
We recommend visiting www.aboutcookies.org . for more information about cookies and how to manage them.
Google Analytics
We use performance type cookies such as Google Analytics to better understand how visitors use our site, for example, which pages are viewed, how long customers spend visiting a particular page and how often they return to visit our site. This information assists our marketing and sales teams to understand which of our pages are performing well and which pages require improvement.
The Spanish Hydrogen Association (AeH2) is honored to invite all international stakeholders on hydrogen and fuel cells technologies and subjects relating to hydrogen production, storage, transport and end uses to participate in WHEC 2016. For this purpose we issue this CALL FOR ABSTRACTS.
Abstracts due: November 30th, 2015 (extended deadline)
To ensure the success of the conference, WHEC 2016 will consist of guest plenary sessions, topical technical sessions of oral presentations, and technical sessions of posters. The topics to be covered by the conference communications include:
1. Hydrogen Production
2. Hydrogen Storage
3. Fuel Cells Components
4. Fuel Cell Stacks
5. Systems Modelling
6. Transportation and Aerospace Applications
7. Stationary Applications
8. Purification, Separation and Membranes
9. Safety, Hydrogen Properties and Environmental Impact
10. Hydrogen Infrastructure and Distribution
11. Commercialization
12. Codes and Standards
13. Countries Strategies, Associations and Assessments
Participants who would like to make an oral or poster presentation are requested to submit an abstract electronically due to November 30th, 2015 (extended deadline). The instructions, abstract format and the accompanying form to be completed, are available below. The submitted abstracts will undergo a reviewing process. Acceptance will be notified by the Program and Scientific Committee by January 31st, 2016 (extended date). Authors of accepted abstracts will have the chance to submit a full paper of their work that may be selected for publication in a special issue of the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy.
Authors are advised that abstracts will not be included in the final program unless registration documents and payment in full have been received for at least one of the authors.
Download here the Call for Abstracts
Instructions: How to submit the Abstract?
