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Introduction:
We are aware that only precise information about our actions undertaken to protect personal data will help you trust us and freely use the functionalities offered by our services. This document will help you learn the principles that guide us, whether you’re a final beneficiary of our services (visiting our websites, using our e-courses or resources, or if you’re actively involved as an e-coach, volunteer, co-operator, or financial supporter.
Please know that we are committed to protecting and appropriately handling the private and personal information of users of our services. We are publishing this Privacy Policy to let you know how we handle personal information.
The administrator of your personal data is GDI. Our mission is to reach people with the Gospel, through media and contemporary means, including Internet.
For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, personal information is information about you, individually, such as name, address, telephone number, email address, and your personal preferences, interests (including religious views), and other information you may share with us, etc.
We may collect and store personal information when you:
If you are aged 16 or under, you must get your parent’s/guardian’s permission before you provide any personal information to us.
When you engage with us using online forms, we may collect information about you (referred to in this Privacy Policy as personal information). This information is essential for us to provide you with our services and for them to be of relevant quality. This may include your name, address, email address, telephone number, date of birth, why you are interested in a website or project, and other information relating to you personally which you may choose to provide to us via online forms or during registration.
Our online services allow for open conversations (written or verbal) with other users of the service or with e-coaches. The content of these conversations is beyond our direct control, and we don’t assume responsibility for their misuse. We recommend that no personal data is shared in those conversations. Breaking this rule will transfer the responsibility to that person sharing his/her data and will never become a basis to lay any claims against the Data Administrator.
Data protection law recognizes that certain types of personal information are more sensitive. This is known as sensitive or special category personal information and covers information revealing racial or ethnic origin, religious or philosophical beliefs and political opinions, trade union membership, genetic or biometric data, information concerning health or data concerning a person's sex life or sexual orientation.
With your explicit consent, we may also collect sensitive personal information if you choose to tell us about your experiences relating to our services.
We will use your personal information for the following purposes:
We will only use your information for the purposes for which it was obtained. We will not, under any circumstances, sell or share your personal information with any third party besides those specified below. If you receive marketing materials suggesting our consent or sharing of personal information, please contact us urgently.
We will only share your data for the following purposes: Third party suppliers: We may need to share your information with data hosting providers or service providers who help us to deliver our services. These providers will only act under our instruction and are subject to pre-contract scrutiny and contractual obligations containing strict data protection clauses.
Where legally required: We will comply with requests where disclosure is required by law. For example, we may disclose your personal information to law enforcement agencies for the prevention and detection of crime. We may also share your information with the emergency services if we reasonably think there is a risk of serious harm or abuse to you or someone else.
This site may contain links to other websites that are run by third parties such as other organizations, sponsors, content providers and advertisers. Once you’ve clicked on a link or button activator for an outside site, you will leave the site and be taken to sites that we do not control, and our privacy policy no longer applies on those sites.
You must read the privacy policy of the third-party website concerning how personal information will be used.
We use technical and corporate organizational safeguards to ensure that your personal information is secure. We limit access to information on a need-to-know basis and take appropriate measures to ensure that our people are aware that such information is only used in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
We undertake regular reviews of who has access to information that we hold to ensure that your information is only accessible by appropriately trained staff, volunteers, and contractors. Our online forms are always encrypted and our network is protected and monitored.
Confidentiality and security are very important to us. The content of conversations carried via our services will not be revealed to third parties without an explicit consent of their authors, excluding situations where conversations are clearly marked as public. Our e-coaches and volunteers were instructed about it and provided consent. We oblige you to keeping confidentiality as well. By using our services you agree not to publicize and not to share the content of conversations with an e-coach or other users, without their explicit consent.
However, please be aware that there are always inherent risks in sending information by public networks or using public computers, and we cannot 100% guarantee the security of data (including personal information) disclosed or transmitted over public networks.
Your personal information will be processed no longer than necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or until your explicit withdrawal of consent for their processing. If you are unable to quickly locate the request to stop processing your personal information in any of our services, you can always contact info@globaldi.org and ask for your data to be deleted from a particular service.
Your personal information will not be transferred, processed nor stored outside the European Economic Area (EEA) and they are subject to the European GDPR regulation. In special cases, having received your explicit consent, we may use services or a supplier located outside the EEA. You should be aware that, in general, legal protection for personal information in countries outside the EEA may not be equivalent to the level of protection provided in the EEA. However, we take steps to put in place suitable safeguards to protect your personal information when processed by the supplier such as entering into the European Commission approved standard contractual clauses or choosing suppliers boasting privacy protection certificates acknowledged by the EU and USA, such as Privacy-Shield.
Data protection legislation gives you the right to request access to personal information about you which is processed by us and to have any inaccuracies corrected. You also have the right to ask us to erase your personal information or ask us to restrict our processing of your personal information. Our services, such as online courses or e-mail subscriptions allow for exercising these rights through these means. If a particular service doesn’t have such an automatic functionality, please write a letter and send it along with a copy of an identification document which provide photo identification and confirm your address, such as a passport, driving license, or utility bill. Please also provide any additional information that is relevant to the nature of your contact with us, as this will help us to locate your records.
If you would like to make a complaint in relation to how we have handled your personal information, please follow our complaints procedure. If you are not happy with the response you receive, then you can raise your concern with the relevant statutory body.
Cookies are small text files which are downloaded to and stored on your device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by website owners to provide you with a good experience while you browse, and also to provide information which can help website owners to improve websites.
When you visit our website, we may place a “cookie” on your computer to track your visit. The cookie acts as an identification card and allows our website to identify you and to retain information that is relevant to interacting with our website. The cookie allows us to track your visit to the website so that we can better understand your use of our website and customize it to better meet your needs.
We have split the cookies used on our site into two categories, functional cookies and performance cookies. Each of these categories is explained below along with details of the specific cookies used. Within each category we may use additional or alternative cookies at any time. Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be performance cookies or advertising cookies.
Most internet browsers automatically accept cookies unless you change your browser settings. If you wish to restrict, block or delete the cookies which are set by any websites, you can generally do this through your browser settings. These settings are usually found in the 'options' or 'preferences' menu of your Internet browser.
Please note however that if you set your Internet browser preferences to block all cookies, you may not be able to access all or parts of our site. Unless you have adjusted your Internet browser settings to block cookies, our site will set cookies.
We reserve the right to introduce changes or additions to this Privacy Policy. All such changes will be published in the Privacy Policy. Changes will not refer to our basic principle that no personal information of our users will be shared with third parties.