The Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy (or “The PIPD”, “us”, “we”, “our”) collects and processes personally-identifiable information (PII) provided by you and may obtain information identifying you for the purpose of communicating with you. This Privacy Policy explains what that information is and how we use it. The PIPD is committed to processing data in accordance with its responsibilities of lawfulness and transparency, including the compliance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) guidelines and articles for its EU followers.
1. COPYRIGHT NOTICE
The copyright of content on the PIPD website is held by the PIPD. All printing and publication rights are reserved. The content may be redistributed with attribution for non-profit purposes under a Creative Commons license. www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0
2. DATA PROTECTION NOTICE
The PIPD understands that having your PII stored in a secure manner is a right.
The PIPD stores PII using reasonable physical, technical and administrative safeguards to secure data against foreseeable risks, such as unauthorised use, access, disclosure, destruction or modification.
Access to PII shall be limited to internal PIPD use.
The PIPD will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to any third party. The PIPD takes all reasonable measures to protect your information against any unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Please note that no service is completely secure. While we strive to protect your data, we cannot guarantee that unauthorized access, hacking, data loss, or a data breach will never occur.
We only process PII that you choose to transmit to us and for which you explicitly consent to The PIPD’s processing.
3. COLLECTION OF INFORMATION
PII such as full name, mailing address, email address, phone number, credit card number, birthday, gender, academic title and institutional affiliations, and/or interest area information may be collected from you when you:
- Sign-up to the PIPD/ Rabet emails, newsletters and other resources;
- make monetary donations to the PIPD;
- request changes to monthly donations on the Site;
- Contacting us with questions or comments
- Make action signatures (even when marked anonymous) on petitions or pledges for/against certain government or corporate action;
- Provide information for personalized target letters;
- Register for the PIPD (and Rabet by the PIPD) events, meetings, webinars, livestreams, training and leadership development institutes;
- Apply for a job
- Participate in surveys and questionnaires;
- By using the payment provider on our website, media-hosting service (e.g. YouTube), or any other third party service that interacts with the site, then the PIPD may receive information about you from that service, site or app.
The PIPD considers that in respect to the following categories, it is within the legitimate interest of the PIPD or those in the following categories to store and process their data in order to work together in promoting and defending human rights and democracy in the MENA region:
- United Nations, European Union, Intergovernmental organizations experts;
- Government representatives and elected officials;
- Media representatives.
4. USE AND PROCESSING OF INFORMATION
We process your PII only in order to best meet your expectations and may use it to:
- maintain proper operations and other relevant records;
- process donations or gifts made to the PIPD;
- process payments
- process registrations for, schedule, and administer, events, meetings, webinars, livestreams or trainings
- administer/process petitions, letters and pledges in favor/against certain government or corporate action;
- review job applicant information, conduct interviews, and/or hire personnel;
- generate and send personalized target letters on your behalf;
- respond to questions or comments;
- process and catalogue responses to surveys or questionnaires;
- send you PIPD newsletters, emails, posters and other resources, updates or information;
- improve the content and general administration of the Site;
- perform internal Site operations (e.g., fraud prevention);
- troubleshoot software issues and operational problems;
- conduct Site data analysis and testing; and/or
- monitor Site usage
5. EMAIL SUBSCRIBTION FROM THE PIPD
If you have subscribed to our email list and do not wish to receive some of them, or all of them anymore, you can update your email preferences or unsubscribe by clicking on the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of emails at anytime. By doing so, you will receive an automatic confirmation that your subscription has been cancelled and your data will be automatically deleted from the file provided for this purpose.
If you have questions about deleting or correcting your personal data, please contact us directly.
6. Cookies and how we use them
A cookie is a small text file passed to your computer, mobile phone or other device, through your web browser, so the website remembers who you are when you return.
Our site uses plugins and cookies that may automatically record information. Their use aims to make the use of the site more pleasant by improving its ergonomics from the data collected.
This data can also be used in particular for statistical measurement purposes, analysis of internet user behaviours and anonymised geolocation in order to personalise our offer and message to our users.
When you browse our site, the computer you use will interact with a server that provides all the requested resources by automatically saving each operation to a specific file in which the computer used is identified by its IP address. This is how the browser that you use gives us some standard data, including the browser used and its features, the operating system of the computer, tablet or smartphone used. Cookies may also be used by some parts of the site where we utilise third-party services – such as YouTube, Facebook, Google+ and Twitter – from which you have logged into our website. These cookies are managed by these external sites, and no personal data is shared between the PIPD and its partners.
This data and in particular the IP address of the computer, tablet or smartphone used do not allow us to identify you by name.
The PIPD uses Google Analytics to track how its website is used. Google Analytics uses cookies to help gather statistics on how people use websites. For example, which country the user is from, and which pages are visited while on the website. We use this information to look at how our website is being used so we can assess how well it is working and make decisions about how to improve it.
If you do not wish to have cookies stored on your computer, you can easily change your web browser to refuse them, or to alert you when you get a new cookie. You need to refer to your internet browser’s instructions by clicking on the ‘Help’ menu. Refusing cookies, however, can restrict your use of websites.
7. BREACH
In the event of a breach of security leading to the accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure of, or access to, personal data, the PIPD shall promptly assess the risk to people’s rights and freedoms.
8. YOUR RIGHTS
In order to better protect the privacy of our user, we comply with the following rights for individuals:
- The right to be informed
- The right of access
- The right to rectification
- The right to erasure
- The right to restrict processing
- The right to data portability
- The right to object
- Rights in relation to automated decision making and profiling.
Contacting us about privacy concerns
Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions about this Privacy Content. Contact us at:info@thepipd.com