How we work with your data
Last updated: February 29, 2024
Hello, it’s OVD-Info! Here is some information about the privacy policy that we adhere to when we use your personal data.
What we know about you
For us to send you transactional emails, newsletter and reports, we need to know:
- contact information: your email address, which you submitted when you subscribed to our newsletter or left their email address when donating to OVD-Info;
- payment information: date and time of payment, amount, currency, last four digits of the card;
- information about cookies on your computer that are read when you visit our website. Almost every webpage on the Internet uses this anonymized information to collect statistics;
Our advertising, payment partners may collect additional data.
How and why we use this data
By providing your personal data, you have automatically consented to its use in accordance with the terms of this privacy policy. We have the right to receive, process, store and distribute this data. In this context, distribution means that we enter your data into the database of the distribution service. We need all this to:
- send you our transactional emails, newsletters and reports;
- to provide information about donations and payment methods;
- understand whether you like our newsletters or not. Based on anonymized data, we will be able to find out how often you open our emails and how many people have unsubscribed from the our letters.
More on storage and distribution
Sometimes we share personal data with our partners while maintaining the necessary security measures. For example, we share data with financial services companies for payment processing, email marketing services, analytics systems, and partners.
We do not store your bank card or other payment instrument details on our servers. All debits are processed by the secure payment service Stripe and are transmitted only in encrypted form.
We use Mailjet and Maestra to send out our emails.
Mailjet and Maestra have their own legal entity, so when we interact with their service (enter your data to send you an email), we thereby «distribute» your data to them, according to legal terminology.
Since you have provided us with your data — email address and cookies — we have the right to use them in any way permitted by law. We have this right indefinitely — unless, of course, you withdraw your consent. You can do this by emailing: donate@ovdinfo.org
We protect your data from being accessed, destroyed, altered, blocked, copied, or distributed by anyone. We also protect it from other illegal actions according to the law.
Your rights
You have the right to:
- check with us about what kind of data we have collected–including automatically–and how it is used (see above);
- correct your information if it has changed;
- prohibit us from processing and storing your data at any time;
- prohibit us from using your data, but allow us to store it;
- prohibit us from using your data for a specific purpose, such as marketing (but we will not do that anyway);
- prohibit actions that a computer performs with your data without human intervention (but in the case of our newsletter, this means that you would not be able to receive it: emails are sent out automatically).
If you would like to use any of these opportunities, please email us at donate@ovdinfo.org
Our rights
We may change the terms of this privacy policy. This is a transparent procedure and we will notify you in advance if we want or plan to do this, as well as indicate the date the policy was last updated.
If something is unclear
If you have any questions about our policy and the data we collect for the newsletter, you can email donate@ovdinfo.org. We will make sure to answer you.