Privacy Policy & Cookies Statement

 

This privacy policy explains how Altruwe Foundation uses and protects any information that you provide to Podcasthon (“we”, “us”) when you use this website. We are dedicated to ensuring your privacy is protected. Should we request certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement. We may update this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page periodically to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from 24th March 2023.

 

1. INTRODUCTION & GENERAL TERMS

Altruwe Foundation is committed to protecting your personal information when you are using our website and services. This Privacy Policy relates to our use of any personal information you provide to us via phone, text, email, letters, or other correspondence. To offer the full range of Altruwe Foundation services, we sometimes need to collect information about you. This Privacy Policy explains:

   – What information Altruwe Foundation may collect about you;

   – How Altruwe Foundation will use the information we collect about you;

   – When Altruwe Foundation may use your details to contact you;

   – Whether Altruwe Foundation will disclose your details to anyone else;

   – Your choices regarding the personal information you provide to us; and

   – Your rights as a data subject.

 

2. WHO ARE WE?

Altruwe Foundation organizes the event Podcasthon. Altruwe Foundation is a non-profit organization and can be contacted at 2, allée de la Haye du Temple 59800 Lille, France.

 

3. WHAT INFORMATION WILL ALTRUWE FOUNDATION COLLECT ABOUT ME?

When you participate in, access, or sign up for any of Altruwe Foundation’s services, activities, or online content, such as newsletters and signups, we may receive personal information about you. This can include information such as your name, email address, postal address, telephone or mobile number, depending on the activity. We may explicitly collect the following information:

   – Your name, company name, and job title

   – Contact information including email address

   – Demographic information such as postcode, preferences, and interests

   – Other information relevant to customer surveys and/or offers

   – Your IP address

 

4. HOW WILL ALTRUWE FOUNDATION USE THE INFORMATION IT COLLECTS ABOUT ME?

Altruwe Foundation will use your personal information for several purposes, including:

   – To provide our services, activities, or online content and to respond to your requests and inquiries;

   – Your postcode will be used solely to ensure any local marketing is appropriately targeted. It will not be used to identify you;

   – For “service administration purposes”, meaning that Altruwe Foundation may contact you for reasons related to the products, services, activities, or online content you have signed up for;

   – To contact you about a submission you have made;

   – To provide you with information about our services, activities, or online content;

   – To offer you the most user-friendly navigation experience. Altruwe Foundation may also use and disclose information in aggregate (so that no individuals are identified) for marketing and strategic development purposes.

Where we require this information, it is collected to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and specifically for the following reasons:

   – Marketing purposes. We may periodically send promotional emails about new products, special offers, or other information we think you may find interesting using the email address you have provided;

   – From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market research purposes. We may contact you by email, phone, or mail where you have provided such permissions;

   – We may use the information to customize the website according to your interests.

 

5. HOW WE USE COOKIES

A cookie is a small file that asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added, and the cookie helps analyze web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes, and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences. Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us. We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyze data about web page traffic and improve our website to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system. You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

 

6. LINKS TO OTHER SERVICES OR WEBSITES

Our website contains links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over those other websites. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information you provide whilst visiting such sites, and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and review the privacy statement applicable to the website in question. Additionally, we may embed content or services hosted by third-party websites, which may in turn store their own cookies or collect their own information. Services regularly used on this website include, but are not limited to:

   – YouTube

   – Facebook

   – Instagram

 

7. WHEN WILL ALTRUWE FOUNDATION CONTACT ME?

Altruwe Foundation may contact you:

   – In relation to any product, service, activity, or online content you have signed up for to ensure that Altruwe Foundation can deliver the services to you;

   – In relation to any contribution you have submitted to Altruwe Foundation, e.g., on social media or via text or voicemail message;

   – And for marketing purposes, where you have agreed to this. Local pages will provide detailed information about how Altruwe Foundation will contact you in relation to specific services, activities, or online content.

 

8. WILL I BE CONTACTED FOR MARKETING PURPOSES?

Altruwe Foundation will only use your information for marketing purposes or to promote new services, activities, or online content where you have agreed to this or if you have purchased from us and haven’t specifically opted out.

 

9. WILL ALTRUWE FOUNDATION SHARE MY PERSONAL INFORMATION WITH ANYONE ELSE?

We will keep your information confidential except where disclosure is required or permitted by law (for example to government bodies and law enforcement agencies) or as described in section 7 above. Generally, we will only use your information within Altruwe Foundation. However, sometimes Altruwe Foundation uses third parties to process your information on our behalf. Altruwe Foundation requires these third parties to comply strictly with its instructions and requires that they do not use your personal information for their own business purposes unless you have explicitly consented to the use of your personal information in this way.

 

10. CONTROLLING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:

   – Whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the website, look for the box that you can click to indicate that you do not want the information to be used by anybody for direct marketing purposes;

   – If you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by writing to or emailing us at contact@podcasthon.org;

   – We will not sell, distribute, or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so;

   – We may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties which we think you may find interesting if you tell us that you wish this to happen.

If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible at the above address. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.

 

11. WHAT IF I AM A USER AGED 16 OR UNDER?

If you are aged 16 or under, please get your parent/guardian’s permission before providing any personal information to Altruwe Foundation. Parent/Guardian consent should be forwarded to Altruwe Foundation by emailing contact@podcasthon.org. Users without this consent are not allowed to provide us with personal information.

 

12. HOW LONG WILL ALTRUWE FOUNDATION KEEP MY PERSONAL INFORMATION?

We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as necessary for the relevant activity, or as set out in any relevant contract you hold with Altruwe Foundation. If you cancel your registration or request to be removed from the Altruwe Foundation website as a member/customer, your account is deleted, and a red flag goes on the database. Altruwe Foundation cannot use the personal information.

 

13. WHAT IS THE LEGAL BASIS FOR THE PROCESSING OF MY PERSONAL DATA?

Altruwe Foundation may process your personal data:

   – In accordance with your express consent given under the section below titled “Consent”;

   – Where such processing is necessary to perform any agreement between us or comply with any legal obligation;

   – Where such processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by us or third parties. These legitimate interests include those identified under the section above entitled “How is my personal data used?” as well as:

     – Our internal administrative purposes;

     – Providing you with our products and services, including the Online Services;

     – Personalising content we send you; and

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 Where you may have a reasonable expectation that we will process your personal data for a particular purpose (such as if and when you enter into a competition).

 

15. WHAT ARE MY RIGHTS AS A DATA SUBJECT?

In line with the new requirements of the GDPR, you have the following rights concerning the personal data we hold about you:

   – The right to request a copy of your personal data held by us;

   – The right to correct any inaccurate or incomplete personal data held by us;

   – The right to request that we erase your personal data;

   – The right to request that we restrict the processing of your data (as set out in the GDPR);

   – The right to have your personal data transferred to another organisation;

   – The right to object to certain types of processing of your personal data by us; and

   – The right to complain (please see the final section of this Privacy policy).

 

16. CONSENT

By accepting the terms of this Privacy Notice, you give Altruwe Foundation your express, freely given consent to process any of your personal data which Altruwe Foundation collects in accordance with this Privacy Policy for the purposes identified in this Privacy Policy. You may withdraw your consent given under this section at any time by contacting contact@podcasthon.org. The withdrawal of your consent shall not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before withdrawal. Without prejudice to the general consent given by you by your acceptance of this Privacy Policy or our other lawful grounds for processing your personal data, we may ask you for consent on a case-by-case basis to collect or use your personal data for specific purposes, such as when we want to inform you by email about special offers or competitions or if you decide to link your account with us to a social networking service.

 

17. CHANGES TO ALTRUWE FOUNDATION’S PRIVACY POLICY

This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time, so you may wish to check it each time you submit personal information to Altruwe Foundation. The date of the most recent revisions will appear on this page. If you do not agree to these changes, please do not continue to use Altruwe Foundation websites to submit personal information to Altruwe Foundation. If material changes are made to the Privacy Policy, we will notify you by placing a prominent notice on the website.

 

18. CONTACTING ALTRUWE FOUNDATION ABOUT THIS PRIVACY POLICY

If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, please contact contact@podcasthon.org.