Privacy policy – The Child Friendly Governance Project
This privacy policy clarifies the type, scope, and purpose of the processing of personal data (hereinafter referred to as "data") that the Child Friendly Governance Project collects from you when you visit our website (“you”) or use the services offered through it.
Purpose of processing:
The Child Friendly Governance Project processes data solely for the following purposes:
Provision of the website and its functionalities
Answering contact requests and communicating with users
Safety measures
Measuring the reach of the website
No person-related analysis is carried out on the basis of this data stored in the server log files. To the extent that the above information contains personal data (in particular IP address), the legal basis for the data collection is Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR. Our legitimate interest here is to ensure the proper functioning of our website as well as the optimisation of the website. If you would like further information on the balance of interests under Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR, please contact us through the contact details provided at the end of this policy.
Cookies:
This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit the page of our website provider: the cookies Squarespace uses. The cookies we use include the following:
These functional and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you.
These analytics and performance cookies are used on this website, as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.
You can configure your browser not to collect cookie data. However, please note that this may prevent you from using some of the functionalities of our website.
Analytics:
This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:
Information about your browser, network, and device
Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website
Your IP address
This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:
Clicks
Internal links
Pages visited
Scrolling
Searches
Timestamps
We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.
Fonts:
This website uses font files from Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, servers where the font files are stored may receive personal information about you, including:
Information about your browser, network, or device
Your IP address
Newsletter and contact form:
If you submit information to us via the Newsletter subscription form or the contact form, we collect the data requested in the form to track and respond to your request. We share this information with Squarespace, our website hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us. We also share this information with Google Drive, a web storage service provided by Google Inc, (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; "Google"). The information you have submitted will be transmitted to a Google server in the United States and stored there.
Sharing of data with third parties:
Your personal data will never be shared with third parties without your express prior consent, except for the following cases:
Where required to investigate the unlawful use of our services, for the detection and prevention of fraud or for the purposes of prosecution, personal data will be disclosed to the relevant law enforcement authorities and, where applicable, to any third-party claimants. However, such a course of action will only take place if there is concrete evidence of unlawful conduct or misuse. In such cases, your data may also be shared if doing so is required for the fulfilment of terms and conditions of use or other agreements.
If requested, we are also legally obligated to disclose such data to certain public authorities, such as law enforcement bodies, authorities that penalise offences with financial penalties, and financial authorities. In these cases, data is disclosed on the basis of our legitimate interest in combating misuse, aiding the prosecution of criminal offences, and aiding the establishment, assertion and enforcement of claims, in line with point (f) of Article 6(1) of the GDPR. If you require further information about the balancing of interests that must be carried out in accordance with point (f) of Article 6(1) of the GDPR, please contact us using the details provided below.
We rely on third-party companies and external service providers (referred to as “processors”) in order to provide our services. In such cases, personal data will be shared with these processors in order to allow them to continue providing their services. The processors have been carefully selected by us and are permitted to use the data only for the purposes specified in this privacy policy. Furthermore, they are obligated to handle your data exclusively in accordance with the applicable data protection laws. More specifically, we use the services of the following processors:
Service providers for the storage of the newsletter and contact form subscriptions
Service providers for the hosting and management of our website
Data is disclosed to processors on the basis of Article 28(1) of the GDPR or, alternatively, on the basis of our legitimate interests in the economic and technical advantages associated with the use of specialised processors and on the basis of circumstances in which your rights and interests in the protection of your personal data are not overridden (see point (f) of Article 6(1) of the GDPR).
Your rights:
For all the purposes defined above, and subject to applicable data protection laws, you have the following rights:
the right to ask us to provide you with copies of personal data that we hold about you at any time, which include the right to ask us: whether we process your personal data, for what purposes; the categories of data; the recipients to whom the data are shared
the right to ask us to update and correct any out-of-date or incorrect personal data that we hold about you
where your consent has been given, the right to withdraw such consent, at any given time, without affecting the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal
the right to erasure within the limits afforded by data protection legislation
the right to oppose to the processing of your personal data, within the limits afforded by data protection legislation
the right to data portability within the limits afforded by data protection legislation
the right to restriction of processing, insofar the conditions under the data protection legislation have been met; and
the right to opt out of any direct marketing communications that we may send you
You may exercise these rights by contacting us through the contact details provided at the end of this policy. Please note that we may request you to provide sufficient proof to verify your identity.
Storage of personal data:
We always delete or anonymise your personal data as soon as it is no longer required for the purposes for which we have collected or used it in accordance with the above points. If data has to be stored for legal purposes, it will be blocked. The data is then no longer available for further processing. If you would like further information about the periods of deletion and storage, please contact the contact person using the contact details provided below.
International transfers:
In connection with the above mentioned purposes, we may need to transfer your personal data to our data processors, in a country located outside the European Economic Area that does not benefit from a so-called "adequacy" decision of the European Commission. When we transfer personal data that we collect from you to countries that are outside of the European Economic Area and which do not offer an adequate level of protection, we ensure the use of appropriate data transfer tools such as the entering into of the standard contractual clauses issued by the European Commission or the establishment of binding corporate rules.
Change of purpose:
The processing of your personal data for purposes other than those described above will only take place to the extent permitted by applicable law or if you have given your consent to the processing of the data for the changed purposes. In the event of further processing for purposes other than those for which the data was originally collected, we will inform you of the changed purposes before any further processing takes place and will make all relevant information on this subject available to you.
Contact:
The Child Friendly Governance Project
Chemin Eugène-Rigot 2E, 1202 Geneva, Switzerland
Telephone: +41 76 578 24 08