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Privacy Policy

Introduction

We as AGORA European Green Deal are pleased that you are visiting our website. Data protection and data security are a top priority for our users. The protection of your personal data is particularly important to us. This privacy policy statement explains what information we collect during your visit to our website and how it is used.
References to ‘we’, ‘us’ and ‘our’ are to
AGORA European Green Deal

Non-profit organization
Gufeltalweg 12

A-6020 Innsbruck
Telephone number: 0043-676 4849024
Mail: info@agora-egd.eu
ZVR Nr.: 1459941341

AGORA European Green Deal is the registered data controller to which the policy refers, please feel free to contact us with any questions related to it. This policy was last updated on 16th December 2021 and is reviewed regularly.

General information
When you use this website, various personal data is collected. Personal data is data with which you can be personally identified.

We would like to point out that data transmission over the Internet (e.g. email communication) can have security gaps. It is not possible to fully protect data against third-party access.
Your data is collected when you communicate it to us. This may be data that you enter in a contact form, for example.
Other data is automatically collected by our IT systems when you visit our website. This is mainly technical data (e.g. Internet browser, operating system or time of page view). This data is collected automatically as soon as you enter our website.
Data processing on this website is carried out by AGORA European Green Deal. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at the following address: info@agora-egd.eu

What types of information do we collect and how?
The type and amount of information we receive and store depends on how you use our websites. You can access most of the pages on our websites without telling us who you are and without revealing any personal information.

Part of the data is collected in order to ensure error-free provision of the website. Other data can be used to analyse your user behaviour. Our web servers use cookies and collect anonymous logs during user visits to our websites which provide valuable information for improving them in the future.
In some circumstances your information may be shared with us by third parties, but only where you have specifically consented. Examples include registering for a education course with our external provider, or if you register your interest in contacting AGORA European Green Deal or one of its events through Linkedin, 

We collect personal information in the following ways:
When you sign up to online actions or express an interest in joining us as an international member

When you make a donation to us
When you participate in activities or events
When you apply for a job or volunteering opportunity with us
If you choose to provide it, we can collect the following types of personal information from you:
Name and last name
Birth Date
Address
Email address
Phone number
Bank details
Language

How do we use information collected?
We use your personal information collected via our websites for the following purposes:

To undertake email actions
To update you on our activities

To ask you to donate or get involved
To action your expression of supporting AGORA European Green Deal

To administer your membership of AGORA European Green Deal
To process donations that we receive from you
To administer and progress your applications for employment or volunteering opportunities with us
To share your data with trusted third parties (further details below)
To improve our websites
To fulfil any legal obligations
Legal basis of processing
Data protection law requires us to have a legal justification to process your personal information. We use the following depending on the type of data and the type of processing:

Consent
We require your consent to send you our communications for example to send you emails to update you on our work and our campaigns and to request donations. We will only process your information in this way if you consent. If you apply for a job with us and provide us with sensitive personal information (including details of your gender) we will only process that information with your consent.

Legitimate interest
If you donate to us or express an interest in supporting us or working with us we will process the personal data you provided to process that donation or action your membership request.

Legal obligation
We will process your personal information to fulfil any legal obligations placed upon us, such as the prevention of fraud or money-laundering. We will also process your personal information if lawfully required to do so by a legal authority or a court of law.

Security
We take appropriate security measures to ensure that we keep your information secure, accurate and up to date. We also take care to ensure that we have secure systems for processing payments through our payment services provider. However the transmission of information over the Internet is never completely secure, so while we do our best to protect personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of information transmitted to our websites.

Third Party Websites
On our website we sometimes have links to third party websites or applications. This policy does not apply to such pages or applications hosted or operated by other organisations. These other sites may have their own privacy policies which apply to them.

Sharing of your personal information
Your data will only be processed by us and by our partner organisation European Commons (Privacy Policy European Commons) and will not be sold, lent or passed on to third parties.
If we use the help of external service providers to process your personal data, this is done within the framework of so-called commissioned processing, in which we as the client are authorised to issue instructions to our contractors.

Hosting and processing arrangements
Our websites are hosted by third party service providers and therefore any personal details you submit through them may be processed by that third party service provider.
We also use other third parties to process your personal details including in the following areas:

to action all online expressions of interest in working with us or supporting us and manage all related communications
facilitate events
to process payments
to process all information associated with applications for employment or volunteering opportunities and related recruitment processes.
All third party services providers process your personal information only on AGORA European Green Deal’s behalf and are bound by contractual terms that are compliant with data protection law.

Payment processing and fraud
Where submitted, your bank details may be disclosed to banks or relevant financial institutions to arrange payments. In the case of a suspected fraudulent transaction, your details may be further disclosed for the sole purpose of performing further checks (for example, disclosure to a credit checking agency).

Other sharing
We may also share your personal information with your permission, or if we are legally required to disclose your information in circumstances where this cannot be reasonably resisted.

Use of cookies
Our website uses cookies. Cookies are small text files that are stored on the user’s terminal device when visiting a website. Cookies contain information that enables the recognition of a terminal device and possibly certain functions of a website. In most cases, we only use so-called “session cookies”. These are automatically deleted when you end your internet session and close the browser. Other cookies remain stored on your terminal device for a longer period of time. We use cookies to make our website more user-friendly. The processing is necessary to protect the overriding legitimate interests of the controller (Art. 6 para. 1 GDPR). Cookies are automatically deleted at the end of a session or at the end of the specified storage period. Since cookies are stored on your terminal device, you as a user also have full control over the use of cookies. By changing the settings in your internet browser, you can deactivate or restrict the transfer of cookies. Cookies that have already been stored can be deleted at any time. This can also be done automatically. If cookies are deactivated for our website, individual functions of our website cannot be used or can only be used to a limited extent.

Retention Period For Data
We only hold your personal information on our systems for as long as is necessary for the purposes outlined above. We remove personal data from our systems once it is no longer required, in line with our guidelines on how long important information must remain accessible for future use or reference, as well as when and how data can be destroyed when it is no longer needed.

The length of time each category of data will be retained will vary depending on how long we need to process it for, the reason it was collected and in line with any statutory requirements. After this time the data will either be deleted or we may retain a secure anonymised record for research and analytical purposes.

Access to and your rights over your personal information
The personal data we hold about you is yours. You have the following rights over your information:

To be informed how your data is being processed
To access your data
To rectify any data that is inaccurate
To instruct us to delete your data
To restrict our processing of your data (which includes contacting you via email) at any time. All our email communications to you will contain an unsubscribe link.
To object to your data being stored.
To move your data
Information provided by you in connection with your application will only be used by AGORA European Green Deal in relation to recruitment and selection processes and will not be disclosed to a third party without your consent, except as required by law and except to our service provider (see our general statement for more details).

Your rights
With regard to your data stored by us, you are generally entitled to the rights of information, correction, deletion, restriction, data portability, revocation and objection. If you believe that the processing of your data violates data protection law or that your data protection rights have been violated in any other way, you can contact us by Email: info@agora-egd.eu. In addition, according to the GDPR, you have the option of filing a complaint with the data protection supervisory authority. In Austria, this is the data protection authority (www.dsb.gv.at).

What if I have additional questions?
If you have any further questions about our data protection regulation or any other questions, suggestions or criticism, you are welcome to contact us directly via Email: info@agora-egd.eu. Written enquiries can also be sent at any time to
AGORA European Green Deal

Gufeltalweg 12
A-6020 Innsbruck