General Provisions
These Provisions of the Privacy Policy (hereinafter referred to as Provisions) define the procedure for processing and protecting information on individuals (hereinafter referred to as Users) who use and receive the newsletter, use the feedback form on the website, as well as the donation form, e-mail addresses located under the domain name https://ti-russia.org/ (hereinafter referred to as the Website).
We have developed a Privacy Policy that describes how we process personal data: any actions (operations) or sets of actions (operations), performed with or without means of automation, including collecting, recording, systematization, storage, revising (updating, modifying), extraction, usage, transferring (distributing, providing, accessing), depersonalization, locking, deletion, destruction of personal data.
Relations associated with processing of personal data and information on users of the Website are regulated by these Provisions.
This Privacy Policy regulates all types of processing of personal data and all kinds of personal information (i.e. information that can be used to establish the identity, and any other types of related information) about individuals who are users of the Website.
This Policy concerns personal data processing gathered via any means, both active and passive, with or without using the Internet, from any individuals in any part of the world.
2. Collecting personal data
The objective of personal data processing is fulfilment of obligations of the Operator before the Users related to the Website and its services.
Personal data is processed only provided that the data subject consents to having their data processed.
Personal data means any information referring directly or indirectly to a particular or identified individual (the data subject) and which can be used to identify a particular individual or to contact them.
We may request your first and last name, patronymic and e-mail address to include you in our mailing list with your consent, and also to provide you with an answer if you contacted us through the feedback form on our Website.
3. Storage and usage of personal data
Personal data of Users is stored exclusively in electronic format and processed using automation systems except cases when non-automated processing of personal data is necessary due to legal requirements.
HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA
The personal data that we collect allow us to send to your e-mail information about the news concerning anti-corruption activities, releases of new anti-corruption investigations and various events (mailing list). Also, your personal data may be used to provide you with an answer to your query sent via the feedback form or the e-mail address, both available on the Website. If you do not wish to be included in our mailing lists, you can inform us about your wish not to receive out newsletter by using the specified means of feedback.
COLLECTING AND USAGE OF DATA THAT IS NOT PERSONAL
We also collect data that is not personal, i.e. data that can not be directly associated with a particular individual. We can collect, use, transfer and disclose data that is not personal for any purposes. Below are examples of data that is not personal which we collect, and how we may use it.
We can collect such personal data as the source of transition to the Website, the features of users’ behavior at the Website, the number of pages viewed. Such data is anonymized and not personal. Such data is collected for better understanding of information interesting to users and for content improvement.
4. Transfer of personal data
Personal data of Users shall not be transferred to any third parties. Users who had provided their personal data to us before this Regulation’s entry into force automatically consent to use of their personal data. At the same time, they can at any time withdraw their consent to use of their personal data by using the feedback form.
Operator shall block the personal data of a User from the date of a request from the User, their legal representative for protection of the rights of subjects of personal data for the period of the examination in case inaccurate personal data or misconduct have been identified.
5. Destruction of personal data
A User’s personal data shall be destroyed if the data subject withdraws their personal data processing consent.
IDENTIFICATION FILES (COOKIES) AND OTHER TECHNOLOGIES
The Website, interactive services and applications, e-mail messages and any other communication may use identification files (cookies) and other technologies, i.e. pixel tags and web beacons. Therefore when you’re using the Website or other services, your device may display a pop-up window with the notification on the use of cookies.
These technologies allow us to better understand the behaviour of the users; they show us which sections of our Website were visited by the users, and they help measure the efficiency of ads and online searches. We regard data gathered through cookies and other technologies as not personal.
You can control cookies by following the instructions from your browser or device. Usually you can change the cookie settings in the sections called Settings or System Preferences.
As most websites do, we collect some information automatically and store it in statistics files. Such information includes the IP address, the type and the language of the browser, information on the Internet service provider, information about the operating system, a date and time stamp and the clickstream data. We use this information to understand and analyze tendencies, to administer the Website, to study the behavior of users on the Website and to gather demographic information about our key audience in general. This information may be used for marketing purposes.
In some of our e-mail messages, we use interactive links to the information published on the Website. When users follow such links, their requests are backlogged separately before they can access the requested page on the Website. We track such “transitional” data to help us identify the level of interest towards certain topics and measure the efficiency of our communication with users. If you prefer not to have your requests tracked in this way, you should not follow text or graphic links in the e-mail messages.
Pixel shortcuts allow us to send e-mail messages in a format readable to consumers, and they let us know whether such messages were read. We can use such information to limit the amount of messages sent to consumers, or to stop sending them.
6. Data protection
We take precautionary measures to ensure the protection of your personal data in order to protect the User’s personal data from unauthorized or random access, destruction, modification, locking, copying, distributing, as well as other kinds of misconduct by third parties.
INTACTNESS AND PRESERVATION OF PERSONAL DATA
We will store your personal data and information as long as it’s necessary to fulfill the goals described in this Privacy Policy.
We do not collect any data about underage persons. If we discover that we received personal data of an underage person, we will take measures to delete such information as soon as possible.
We highly recommend parents and other persons who care for underage persons (legal representatives — parents, adoptive parents or trustees) to control how underage persons use websites.
The Operator shall not be liable for actions of third persons who, by using the internet of the services of the Website, gained access to information on the User, or for the consequences of using the data and information that, due to the nature of the Website, are available to any Internet user.
QUESTIONS REGARDING PRIVACY
If you should have any questions regarding the Organization’s Privacy Policy or data processing, you may contact us using the contact details on [email protected]
7. User queries
Users can send the Operator requests, including requests that concern the usage of their personal data and requests to withdraw their personal data processing consent to the address specified in the General Provisions section of this document, or in the form of an electronic document and sent through the feedback form.
The Operator shall review the User’s query and reply to it within 30 days from the receipt of the query.
OTHER PROVISIONS
A visitor of the Organization’s Website who provides their personal data and information thereby consents to the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy.
The Organization reserves the right to make any changes in the Policy at any time at its own discretion to further improve the system of protection of the personal data provided by the Users from unauthorized access without the User’s consent. When we make significant changes in the Privacy Policy, we publish a relevant notification on our website, along with the updated version of the Privacy Policy.
The present Policy does not cover the activities and Internet resources of third parties.
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