Privacy Policy

 

Who we are

AMWAJ is maintained by Revolve Mediterraneo. Revolve Mediterraneo is a non-profit association registered at Calle Álaba 100, 08018, Barcelona, Spain.

AMWAJ (“us”, “we”, or “our”) operates the https://amwaj-alliance.com website (the “Website”).

This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal data when you use our Website and the choices you have associated with that data.

Our Data Protection Officer (“DPO”) can be reached by postal mail at DPO REVOLVE, Rue Arlon 63-67, 1040 Brussels, Belgium, or by email at dpo@revolve.media.

What data we collect

This Privacy Policy relates to our use of any personal data and usage data we collect from you via the Website, the AMWAJ social media pages and accounts (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Linkedin), the third-party services we use, and direct correspondences with us.

We are committed to safeguarding your personal information. Whenever you provide such information, we are legally obliged to use your information in line with the EU Regulation 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, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (hereafter the “GDPR”). Please note that, no website can be completely secure. If you have any concerns that one of your accounts could have been compromised, e.g. someone could have discovered your password, please get in touch immediately.

All information that we use and/or gather will be used in accordance with the GDPR. To find out more about the EU Data Protection Rules click here.

Some of our services may enable you to sign-in via a third-party service, such as Facebook. If you choose to sign-in via a third-party app, you will be presented with a dialog box which will ask your permission to allow us to access your personal information (e.g. your full name, date of birth, email address and any other information you have made publicly accessible to the third-party service, such as Facebook). Please note that any information that is not required by the particular service you have opted to use will not be retained by us.

Personal data

On our Website, we provide forms through which you can contact us, subscribe to our newsletter, register to an event, register as a member, and we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you (“Personal data”).

Through interactions with us on social media, message boards, web and mobile notifications, telephone, and other, we may receive personal information about you. This can consist of personal information you have provided to us such as, for example, your name, email address, postal address, telephone or mobile number, gender or date of birth, personal interests (e.g. what newsletters you have read).

Personal data we collect may include, but is not limited to:

  • Your email address
  • Your first name
  • Your last name
  • Your country
  • Your city
  • Your company

Usage data

Our Website uses a self-hosted version of Matomo which collects usage data to give us an understanding of our visitors. Furthermore, our web server keeps logs of every visit. Matomo and the web server collect data which includes, but is not limited to:

  • The date and time of your visit to our Website
  • The duration of your visit to our Website
  • The pages you visit during your visit to our Website
  • The forms you fill in on our Website
  • Your device and browser information
  • An anonymized version of you IP address
  • The date and time of when you opened our newsletters

Note on uploading images to our Website 

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Note on embedded content from other websites 

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Note on links to other websites 

Our Website contains links to other websites. Our privacy policy applies only to our website, so if you click on a link to another website, you should read their privacy policy.

Note on children’s privacy  

Our Website does not address anyone under the age of 18 (“Children”).

We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your Children has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

How we collect your data

Personal data 

We collect and store your personal information only when this is voluntarily shared by you through one of the forms on our Website.

Forms we have that collect personal data include, but are not limited to:

  • Contact form
  • Registration form
  • Newsletter subscription form

We may also collect and store your personal information when you voluntarily share this with us through means of correspondence which include, but is not limited to:

  • Phone call
  • SMS
  • Email
  • Letters

Usage data 

Usage data is collected at the hand of:

  • Analytics: Our Website uses a self-hosted version of Matomo. Matomo is a visitor analytics collection software that keeps track of what pages are visited, by which type of device, from which region of the world, and more. We took care to host this software ourselves, meaning that all gathered data is stored in our own database and is not shared with third parties.
  • Server logs: When you visit our Website, our servers may automatically log the standard data provided by your web browser. It may include your IP address, your browser type and version, the pages you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on each page, and other details.

How we use your data

Personal data

We use the personal information you have voluntarily shared with us to:

  • Respond to any message you have sent through one of our contact forms
  • Subscribe you to our newsletter and mailing lists
  • Attain a better understanding of our audience

If you are the parent or guardian of a child under (16), we may process limited personal data about you so that you can give consent for the child to access some AMWAJ services. We may use your contact details to communicate with you about the child’s account or use of services.

Usage data 

We use your usage data to:

  • give us a better understanding of how you use our Website so that we may improve the services we offer.
  • to block disruptive use and to establish the number of visits to our websites at the hand of IP addresses and device identifiers.

By combining your usage data with that of other visitors to our Website, we can get a better understanding of how our Website is used by our audience. This in turn helps us analyze the effectiveness of our Website, and sheds light on where we can make improvements to enhance the experience of our visitors and increase the value of our Website to them.

Legal bases for processing your data 

We will process your personal information lawfully, fairly and in a transparent manner. We collect and process information about you only where we have legal bases for doing so.

These legal bases depend on the services you use and how you use them, meaning we collect and use your information only where:

  • it is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party or to take steps at your request before entering such a contract (for example, when we provide a service you request from us);
  • it satisfies a legitimate interest (which is not overridden by your data protection interests), such as for research and development, to market and promote our services, and to protect our legal rights and interests;
  • you give us consent to do so for a specific purpose (for example, you might consent to us sending you our newsletter); or
  • we need to process your data to comply with a legal obligation.

Where you consent to our use of information about you for a specific purpose, you have the right to change your mind at any time (but this will not affect any processing that has already taken place).

How we store your data 

Personal data 

The personal information you have freely shared with us is stored on:

Usage data 

The usage data that visitor analytics services capture from your visit is stored on:

Retention of your personal data 

We do not keep personal information for longer than is necessary. While we retain this information, we will protect it within commercially acceptable means to prevent loss and theft, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use or modification. That said, we advise that no method of electronic transmission or storage is 100% secure and cannot guarantee absolute data security. If necessary, we may retain your personal information for our compliance with a legal obligation or to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person.

Retention of your usage data 

We will retain usage data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our Website, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

International transfers of personal information 

The personal information we collect is stored and processed in Belgium, or where we or our partners, affiliates and third-party providers maintain facilities. By providing us with your personal information, you consent to the disclosure to these overseas third parties.

We will ensure that any transfer of personal information from countries in the European Economic Area (EEA) to countries outside the EEA will be protected by appropriate safeguards, for example by using standard data protection clauses approved by the European Commission, or the use of binding corporate rules or other legally accepted means.

Where we transfer personal information from a non-EEA country to another country, you acknowledge that third parties in other jurisdictions may not be subject to similar data protection laws to the ones in our jurisdiction. There are risks if any such third party engages in any act or practice that would contravene the data privacy laws in our jurisdiction and this might mean that you will not be able to seek redress under our jurisdiction’s privacy laws.

Your data protection rights 

We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:

  • The right to access – You have the right to request us for copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.
  • The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request us to complete the information you believe is incomplete.
  • The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
  • The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
  • The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
  • The right to data portability – You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact our Data Protection Officer (“DPO”) by postal mail at DPO REVOLVE, Rue d’Arlon 63-67, 1040 Brussels, Belgium, or by email at dpo@revolve.media.

Tracking technologies and cookies 

We use Cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Website and store certain information. Tracking technologies used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our Website. The technologies we use may include:

  • Cookies or Browser Cookies. A cookie is a small file placed on your device. You can instruct your browser to refuse all Cookies or to indicate when a Cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept Cookies, you may not be able to use some parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse Cookies, our Website may use Cookies.
    For further information, visit allaboutcookies.org.
  • Web Beacons. Certain sections of our Website and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit us, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of a certain section and verifying system and server integrity). Normally these beacons do not contain personally identifiable information and are only used to track the effectiveness of particular marketing campaigns. In case a web beacon is used to collect personal information, they will be considered as a ‘third party cookie’ for which your consent will be asked in advance.

Why do we use cookies?

We use cookies in a range of ways to improve your experience on our website, including:

  • In order to know when a visitor is a returning visitor

What cookies do we use? 

Functionality cookies  

We use these cookies so that we recognize you on our website and remember your previously selected preferences. These include amongst other your choice of accepting or rejecting cookies.

Visitor analytics cookies 

We use these cookies to identify your session and to make our analytics software (Matomo) aware whether you are a first-time or returning visitor.

How to manage cookies 

You can set your browser not to accept cookies. Most web browsers are set to accept cookies but, if you do not want to receive cookies, you can change your browser settings to notify you when cookies are sent, or you can reject the cookies altogether. To do so you may, for example, consult:

You can also revoke your consent of having third party cookies through our cookie consent configurator.

It is important to note that if you change your settings and block certain cookies, you will not be able to take full advantage of some features of AMWAJ services, and we might not be able to provide some features you have previously chosen to receive.

Note on cookies in embedded content  

Please note that during your visits to the Website you may notice some embedded content that is not itself related to us. This may include YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest and LinkedIn content. When you visit a page containing such content via an embedded link, you may be served with third party cookies that may track your use of our Website. We do not control the provision of such cookies and you should check the relevant third-party’s privacy and cookies policies for more information.

Changes to our privacy policy

Our Company keeps its privacy policy under regular review and places any updates on this web page. This privacy policy was last updated on 12 April 2022.

How to contact us

If you have any questions about our privacy policy, the data we hold on you, or you would like to exercise one of your data protection rights, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Our Data Protection Officer (“DPO”) can be reached by postal mail at DPO REVOLVE, Rue d’Arlon 63-67, 1040 Brussels, Belgium, or by email at dpo@revolve.media.