Scope of consent

By uploading data, you agree that:

• You own or hold the necessary rights to the data.
• Your data will be stored, displayed publicly, and used for non‑commercial research and dissemination purposes, including academic publications and an online exhibition.
• No personal data is collected unless explicit consent is given.

Uploads must consist only of images, sounds, video recordings or creative works of the archaeological site. If your contents include identifiable persons, their identities will be concealed to protect their privacy.

GDPR and Compliance

We rely on freely given, specific, and informed consent as the legal basis under Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR. Identities (faces, features, voices, videos) of people in data will be anonymised unless an explicit, signed consent form is submitted, ensuring personal data is processed ethically and legally. Consent is revocable before the end of the project (31 December 2025); you can request removal of your data by contacting us at Lise.Foket@UGent.be. 
For questions, comments, or suggestions regarding the various rights and obligations related to privacy, or if you believe that your personal data is being processed incorrectly and/or unjustly by Ghent University, you can contact the Data Protection Officer of Ghent University.

Contact Data Protection Officer Ghent University
Hanne Elsen
Team Experten Bestuursondersteuning
Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 25, 9000 Gent
+329 264 95 17
privacy@ugent.be

About the project

This site is part of an academic research project TETRARCHs (more information below). It enables contributors to upload data and files (images, audio, video) of the archaeological site for use in scholarly work, online and printed publications, and online exhibitions around Tharros.

What is TETRARCHs about?   
TETRARCHs aims to make archaeological data (from excavations and post-excavation research) accessible to a wide range of people, so that the data can be used and reused for educational, creative and other life-enriching purposes. We work collaboratively across a range of communities to come up with ways to make data use and reuse easier for cultural heritage storytelling.
For heritage professionals, we are creating new resources for developing and measuring the effectiveness of archaeological data for storytelling. 
For memory institutions like museums and cultural centres, we are creating reference materials to support them in using these new resources for storytelling.
For creatives and local citizens, we are creating a platform through which you can search for and experiment with storytelling about the past.

Who is doing the research?

 I am Lise Foket from Ghent University. I am one of more than 20 researchers on TETRARCHs, a partnership between 8 organisations from 5 European countries (UK, Lithuania, Slovenia, Sweden and Belgium). We are based at University College London (UCL), the Archaeology Data Service, and University of York in the UK, Vilnius University in Lithuania, the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Slovenia, Lund University in Sweden, University of Antwerp and Ghent University in Belgium. We also collaborate with several other researchers, creative people and wider communities. 

Who is funding us?
The TETRARCHs project is financed by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) in the UK, the Research Council of Lithuania, the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport in Slovenia, the FORTE Swedish Research Council for Health, Working life and Welfare, and the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO) in Belgium. These organisations fall under the CHANSE ERA-NET Co-fund programme, which has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme, under Grant Agreement no 101004509.