Our privacy principles embody the applicable laws and regulations dealing with privacy and handling of personal information including the new EU General Data Protection Regulation. Please read the Privacy Policy carefully before you start using our website.
1. Scope of this Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy applies to all services, websites, events and apps offered by the WFSGI (“we”) except where otherwise noted. Those services, websites events and apps are collectively referred to as the “Services” in this policy. Unless otherwise stated herein, our services are provided by the WFSGI at global level including Europe. References to “data” in this Privacy Policy will refer to whatever data the WFSGI collects of any user of our Services (“you”), regardless whether it be e.g. responses obtained from any user, data collected in a form, or data inserted on a site hosted by the WFSGI. Reference to personal information or just information, means information about an individual user personally that the WFSGI collects or for which the WFSGI acts as custodian. The WFSGI, as identified at the top of this Privacy Policy, is the data controller regarding all personal data processing carried out through the Website. When you use our Website, we will collect and process information regarding you (as an individual) which allows you to be identified either by itself, or together with other information which has been collected. We may also be able to collect and process information regarding other persons in this same manner, if you choose to provide it to us with their explicit prior consent, which allows you to act accordingly. This information may be classified as “Personal Data” and can be collected by us both when you choose to provide it (e.g., when you subscribe to our newsletter in order to receive it, or other Services,) or simply by analyzing your behavior on our Website.
2. Types of Personal Information and Data we Collect
We collect Personal Data, in particular, but not limited to any Services we are providing, or any communication entertained between you and us. This can be:
3. Use of Cookies
We use cookies (which are small text files stored on your computer or mobile device when you are visiting our website) to ensure that you will have a maximum benefit of our web presentation, which may also include third parties’ cookies. The various types of cookies can be classified as session cookies, which are automatically erased and deleted, when you are closing your browser, persistent cookies, which remain on your device until they will expire, which can take minutes, days, months or years even, and third-party cookies, which are stored on behalf of third parties. Unless cookies are essential for our website and its features to operate properly, you can manage all other cookies by disabling them, if you wish, which may however deprive you from a proper use of certain features on our website.
4. For which purposes are we processing your Personal Data and Information
We intend to use your Personal Data, collected through our Website, for the following prime purposes:
5. Why are we processing your Personal Data and Information
The prime reasons and legal bases why we are processing your personal data and information in line with the purposes set out in Section 4 above are the following:
Data processing for these services is a prerequisite for us to provide our Services to you same as to perform proper marketing and correct profiling.
It is not mandatory that you provide your consent to any of the purposes above and you will not suffer from any negative consequences in this context if you choose not to provide your consent. Yet if you do so, we will not be able to perform our Services as you may expect from us to obtain same as to respond properly to any other inquiries, requests or communication with you or to prevent any misuse or other illegal activities in this context.
6. Recipients of the Personal Data Collected
We may share your Personal Data with the following persons/entities (“Recipients”):
We will use our best efforts to ensure that any third parties authorized by us to process personal data, who are involved in carrying out activities strictly related to the performance of our Services have undertaken an obligation of confidential treatment, unless they are not by law obligated to treat matters strictly confidential such as our legal and tax advisors.
7. Transfer of Personal Data
In the view of our worldwide global activities and presence, your Personal Data and information may be transferred to Recipients located in numerous different countries and geographic regions. We will use best efforts to implement the appropriate safeguards and measures to ensure the lawfulness and security of these Personal Data transfers by e.g. relying on adequacy decisions from the European Commission, standards data protection clauses adopted by the Commission and/or any other safeguards or conditions, which are considered to be adequate for the respective data transfer.
8. Treatment of Personal Data
We undertake to save, store and keep Personal Data processed for the purposes set out in Section 4 above, solely for the period deemed strictly necessary by us to properly perform the respective Services, but may continue to store these personal data for a longer period, as may be necessary to protect our interests to potential liability related to the provision of these services, or if we are required by law to keep such Personal Data stored for a certain defined period. Those data we process for marketing and profiling purposes will be kept by us from the moment you provided your consent for such usage until the moment you will withdraw such consent given. From that moment onward, we will no longer use such personal data, unless again deemed necessary by us out of liability considerations or if required by applicable mandatory laws.
9. Your Rights under the GDPR
If you are by applicable law entitled to exercise any rights under the EU General Data Protection Regulation, you then are authorized to exercise the following rights vis-à-vis the WFSGI at any time:
The foregoing actions and measures can be initiated and carried out by those means of communication you may select such as by facsimile transmission, on the phone, SMS, email, mail, social media, through the different means of communication from your user profile, where applicable by de-selecting the relevant options or by tick box and/or by changing the individual preferences of your user profile, if applicable, on the respective WFSGI website.
In addition to the above means, you are entitled to send a written request to us to the following address: info@wfsgi.org.
Further, if you are by applicable laws entitled to exercise rights under the GDPR, you may also file a complaint with the competent supervisory authorities for the protection of Personal Data, if you believe that the processing of your Personal Data carried out through us is unlawful.
10. Future Changes and/or Amendments
This Privacy Policy entered into force on June 1, 2018. We reserve the right to partly or fully amend this Privacy Policy, or simply to update its content, e.g., as a result of changes in applicable law. We will inform you of such changes as soon as they are introduced, and they will be binding as soon as they are published on our Website. We therefore invite you to regularly visit this Privacy Policy in order to acquaint yourself with the latest, updated version of our Privacy Policy, so that you may remain constantly informed on how we collect and use Personal Data.
© WFSGI Bern/Ostermundingen June 01, 2018