Privacy Policy

We are dedicated to safeguarding and preserving your privacy when you visit our site or are communicating electronically with us. This Privacy Policy explains what happens to any personal data that you provide to us, or that we collect from you when you are on this site.

Personal information that you provide to us will be used only for the service you have requested. Center for Sustainable Media does not sell, rent or lease personal data.

In operating our website we may collect and process the following data
about you:

• Details of your visits to our website and the resources that you access, including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data;
• Information that you provide by filling in forms on our website, such as when you send an inquiry regarding possible funding or when you sign up to our newsletter;
• Information provided to us when you communicate with us for any reason.

We may on occasion gather information regarding your computer whilst you are on our website. This enables us to improve our services. Such information will not identify you personally. It is statistical data about our visitors and their use of our site. This statistical data does not identify any personal details whatsoever.

The Center for Sustainable Media uses Google Analytics on its website(s) as a monitoring tool that allows us to see volumes of website visitors, their source, and to analyse how the content of the website is viewed and navigated. This in turn allows optimisation of the content and pages on our websites and the marketing programs that drive traffic to the website. Google Analytics does not store any personal information about website visitors but does use persistent cookies to identify repeat visitors. You may universally opt-out of all Google Analytics tracking used by all websites by visiting the following link.

The information that we collect and store relating to you is primarily used to enable us to provide our services to you. In addition, we may use the information for the following purposes:

• To provide you with information requested from us, relating to our services.
• To meet our contractual commitments to you.

Most of our processing of personal data is necessary for our legitimate interest or is necessary to perform a contract with you. Our legitimate interest is that we can only operate our business and provide our services, if we process certain personal data.

Furthermore, when you apply for our newsletter, you provide us your consent to process your data in order for us to be able to send you our newsletter. You may withdraw your consent at any time; this does not affect the lawfulness of the processing prior to such withdrawal.

Some of the personal data you submit to us may be stored on secure servers outside Europe. Please be assured that we take data security extremely seriously and only use servers and data storage facilities that are secure and that are located in countries where there are high levels of legal protection for personal data, or where adequate safeguards such as adherence to the EU-US Privacy Shield Framework are in place.

Your personal data will not be disclosed to any outside parties other than by explicit consent with you or when required by law.

There are links to third party websites on our website and we use third party social media services on our website. These websites should have their own privacy policies which you should check. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for their policies whatsoever as we have no control over them.

Any changes to our Privacy Policy will be placed here and will supersede this version of our Policy. We will take reasonable steps to draw your attention to any changes in our Policy. However, to be on the safe side, we suggest that you read this document each time you use the website to ensure that it still meets with your approval.

Under the General Data Protection Regulation – Regulation (EU) 2016/679, you have the right to:

• Access your personal data by making a subject access request
• Rectification, erasure or restriction of your information where this is justified

Your personal details submitted to us is stored for a period as long as needed based on the purpose it was provided for.

To exercise your rights or to ask questions about this Privacy Policy, you can contact the Center for Sustainable Media using the following details:

Email: hello@funds4media.org