Data Protection Notice – Women4Cyber Foundation

 

Thank you for showing interest in the Women4Cyber Foundation (“W4C”). Data protection is of a particularly high priority for the management of Women4Cyber.

This notice relates to the processing of your personal data by W4C through the general Women4Cyber website (the “Website”) in accordance with the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (“GDPR”).

 

1. Name and Address of the controller

Data Controller, for the purposes of the GDPR and other data protection laws applicable in Member States of the European Union and other provisions related to data protection is:

Women4Cyber Foundation
Avenue des Arts, 46
1000 Brussels
Belgium
Email: hello@wome4cyber.eu
Website: www.women4cyber.eu

2. Purpose and data processed: 

The purpose of the processing activity is to: 

• enable the subscriptions to Women4Cyber’s newsletters.
• process necessary technical information relating to the Website’s visitors through log files, in order to support the Website’s security, on the basis of standard information security practices;
• enable the Website’s technical functioning by collecting and processing cookies (see below the relevant section to learn about the cookies).

The following personal data are being processed:

• Subscription to the W4C newsletter: e-mail address (lawfulness of processing based on article 6 (1) (a)). The personal data for the newsletter distribution will be processed with the usage of Mailchimp. The operating company of Mailchimp is Rocket Science Group LLC 675 Ponce de Leon Ave NE Suite 5000, Atlanta, GA 30308 USA. Mailchimp’s privacy policy can be viewed at https://mailchimp.com/legal/
• Information about your activity on our Website, including technical information for security purposes, such as log files, and cookies (lawfulness of processing based on article 6 (1) (a and f)).

3. Cookies

Women4Cyber Foundation Website uses cookies. Cookies are short text files stored  on a user’s device (such as a computer, tablet, or phone) by a website. These can be used for the technical functioning of a website or for other purposes, such as providing a user with more personalised experience.

Through the use of cookies, the Women4Cyber Foundation can provide the users of this Website with more user-friendly services that would not be possible without the cookie setting.

By means of a cookie, the information and offers on our Website can be optimised with the user in mind. Cookies allow us, as previously mentioned, to recognise our Website users. The purpose of this recognition is to make it easier for users to utilise our Website. The Website user that uses cookies, does not have to enter access data each time the Website is accessed, because this is taken over by the website, and the cookie is thus stored on the user’s computer system.

You may, at any time, prevent the setting of cookies through our Website by means of a corresponding setting of the Internet browser used, and may thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. Furthermore, already set cookies may be deleted at any time via an Internet browser or other software programs. This is possible in all popular Internet browsers. If you deactivate the setting of cookies in the Internet browser used, not all functions of our Website may be entirely usable.

 

4. Data protection provisions about the application and use of Google Analytics 

On this Website, the Data controller has integrated the component of Google Analytics (with the anonymiser function). Google Analytics is a web analytics service. Web analytics is the collection, gathering, and analysis of data about the behaviour of visitors to websites. A web analysis service collects, inter alia, data about the website from which a person has come (the so-called referrer), which sub-pages were visited, or how often and for what duration a sub-page was viewed. Web analytics are mainly used for the optimisation of a website and in order to carry out a cost-benefit analysis of Internet advertising.

The operator of the Google Analytics component is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351, United States.

The purpose of the Google Analytics component is to analyse the traffic on our website. Google uses the collected data and information, inter alia, to evaluate the use of our website and to provide online reports, which show the activities on our websites, and to provide other services concerning the use of our Internet site for us.

Google Analytics places a cookie on your information technology system. The definition of cookies is explained above.

You may, as stated above, prevent the setting of cookies through our Website at any time by means of a corresponding adjustment of the web browser used and thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. Such an adjustment to the Internet browser used would also prevent Google Analytics from setting a cookie on the information technology system of the data subject.

In addition, cookies already in use by Google Analytics may be deleted at any time via a web browser or other software programs.

In addition, you have the possibility of objecting to a collection of data that are generated by Google Analytics, which is related to the use of this Website, as well as the processing of this data by Google and the chance to preclude any such. For this purpose, you must download a browser add-on under the link https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout and install it. This browser add-on tells Google Analytics through a JavaScript, that any data and information about the visits of Internet pages may not be transmitted to Google Analytics. The installation of the browser add-ons is considered an objection by Google. If your information technology system is later deleted, formatted, or newly installed, then you must reinstall the browser add-ons to disable Google Analytics. If your browser add-on was uninstalled by you or any other person who is attributable to their sphere of competence, or is disabled, it is possible to execute the reinstallation or reactivation of the browser add-ons.

Further information and the applicable data protection provisions of Google may be retrieved under https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/ and under http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html. Google Analytics is further explained under the following Link https://www.google.com/analytics/.

 

5. Social Media

W4C is active on four social media platforms. Our presence in the Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Instagram communities strengthens our online presence and visibility.

By clicking on the Twitter, LinkedIn or YouTube buttons on W4C website, you will be redirected to the selected site, which has its own cookie and privacy policies over which W4C has no control.

The W4C Website does not set cookies when displaying links to our social media channels when you browse our Website. Each Social Media channel has its own policy on the way it processes your personal data when you access its website. For example, if you choose to watch one of our videos on YouTube, you will be asked for explicit consent to accept YouTube cookies; if you look at our LinkedIn activity on LinkedIn, you will be asked for explicit consent to accept LinkedIn cookies; the same applies for Twitter.

5a. Data protection provisions about the application and use of Twitter

On the Website, W4C has integrated components of Twitter. Twitter is a multilingual, publicly-accessible microblogging service on which users may publish and spread so-called ‘tweets,’. These short messages are available for everyone, including those who are not logged on to Twitter. The tweets are also displayed to so-called followers of the respective user. Followers are other Twitter users who follow a user’s tweets. Furthermore, Twitter allows you to address a wide audience via hashtags, links or retweets.

The operating company of Twitter is Twitter, Inc., 1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, UNITED STATES.

With each call-up to one of the individual pages of this Internet site, which is operated by the Data Controller and on which a Twitter component (Twitter button) was integrated, the Internet browser on your information technology system is automatically prompted to download a display of the corresponding Twitter component of Twitter. Further information about the Twitter buttons is available under https://about.twitter.com/de/resources/buttons.

 The applicable data protection provisions of Twitter may be accessed under https://twitter.com/privacy?lang=en.

5b. Data protection provisions about the application and use of LinkedIn

On the Website, W4C has integrated components of LinkedIn. LinkedIn is a web-based professional network. It can be used to find jobs or internships, connect and strengthen professional relationships, write posts, follow company profiles and join groups.

 The operating company of LinkedIn is LinkedIn, 605 W Maude Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94085, USA.

 With each call-up to one of the individual pages of this Internet site, which is operated by the Data Controller and on which a LinkedIn component (LinkedIn button) was integrated, the Internet browser on your information technology system is automatically prompted to download a display of the corresponding LinkedIn component of LinkedIn.

5c. Data protection provisions about the application and use of YouTube

On the Website, W4C has integrated components of YouTube.

The operating company of YouTube is YouTube, 901 Cherry Ave, San Bruno, CA 94066 USA.

With each call-up to one of the individual pages of this Internet site, which is operated by the Data Controller and on which a YouTube component (YouTube button) was integrated, the Internet browser on your information technology system is automatically prompted to download a display of the corresponding YouTube component of YouTube.

5d. Data protection provisions about the application and use of Instagram

On the Website, W4C has integrated components of Instagram.

Instagram is a third-party social networking photo and image sharing tool and its privacy policy can be found at https://help.instagram.com/155833707900388 and https://www.instagram.com/about/legal/privacy/.

The operating company of Instagram is Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin, 2, Ireland.

With each call-up to one of the individual pages of this website, which is operated by the Data Controller and on which an Instagram component was integrated, the browser on the information technology system of the data subject is automatically prompted to the download of a display of the corresponding Instagram component.

6. Existence of automated decision-making

 The Women4Cyber Foundation does not use automatic decision-making or profiling.

 

7. How long will the data be processed 

The period for which personal data will be processed and stored depends on the purpose(s) of the processing. The data processed on the basis of the consent granted will be processed, stored until the consent is withdrawn or an objection is raised.

 

8. Data subject’s rights and verification 

You have the right of access to your personal data and to relevant information concerning how W4C uses it. You have the right to rectify your personal data. Under certain conditions, you have the right to ask that we delete your personal data or restrict its use. You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, on grounds relating to your particular situation, at any time. W4C will consider your request, take a decision and communicate it to you.

If you have any queries concerning the processing of your personal data, you may address them to Women4Cyber at hello@women4cyber.eu.

 At any moment, you are able to contact the Women4Cyber Foundation to have more information about this policy and our Website. To do this, please contact hello@women4cyber.eu 

 You have the right of recourse at any time to the European Data Protection Supervisor at https://edps.europa.eu