Privacy Policy - BeeLife European Beekeeping Coordination – www.bee-life.eu
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which comes into force on May 25th, 2018, aims to protect the fundamental right to privacy and the protection of personal data of European Union (EU) citizens. In accordance with GDPR, BeeLife European Beekeeping Coordination is committed to helping protect and ensure the privacy of its users.
Type of collected information
We receive, collect and store any information you enter on our website or provide us in any other way. In addition, we collect the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet; login; e-mail address; computer and connection information and donation history. We may use software tools to measure and collect session information, including page response times, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information, and methods used to browse away from the page. We also collect personally identifiable information when introduced in subscribe or contact forms (including name, email, communications); donation details (including name and amount through third party PayPal), comments, feedback, and personal profile.
Means of information collection
When you conduct a transaction or input any information on our website, as part of the process, we collect personal information you give us such as your name, address and email address. Your personal information will be used for the specific reasons stated above only and include only information and direct communications purposes only (e.g. newsletter subscription to which the user can unsubscribe at any moment).
Purpose of information collection
We collect such Non-personal and Personal Information for the following purposes:
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To provide and operate the Services;
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To provide our Users with ongoing customer assistance and technical support;
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To be able to contact our Visitors and Users with general or personalised service-related notices and promotional messages;
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To create aggregated statistical data and other aggregated and/or inferred Non-personal Information, which we or our partners may use to provide and improve our respective services;
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To comply with any applicable laws and regulations.
Data storage and usage
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Our website is hosted on the Wix.com platform. Wix.com provides us with the online platform that allows us to publish information regarding our main activities surrounding bees, beekeeping, environment protection, and any other related issues. Your data may be stored through Wix.com’s data storage, databases and the general Wix.com applications. They store your data on secure servers behind a firewall through which is protected.
Although inexistent at the moment, any unforeseen opening of online payment services will abide by the payment gateways offered by Wix.com. All direct payment gateways offered by Wix.com and used by our company adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of credit card information by our store and its service providers.
Cookies
Cookies are small pieces of data stored on a site visitor's browser, usually used to keep track of their movements and actions on a site.
In accordance with GDPR, users are hereby informed that BeeLife’s site uses the following cookies:
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-Cookie (Lifespan, Purpose)-
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svSession (Permanent, Creates activities and BI)
hs (Session, Security)
incap_ses_${Proxy-ID}_${Site-ID} (Session, Security)
incap_visid_${Proxy-ID}_${Site-ID} (Session, Security)
nlbi_{ID} (Persistent cookie, Security)
XSRF-TOKEN (Persistent cookie;Security)
smSession (Two weeks, Identify logged in site members)
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Contact with site visitors
We may contact you to notify you regarding your account, to troubleshoot problems with your account, to resolve a dispute, to poll your opinions through surveys or questionnaires, to send updates about our company, or as otherwise necessary to contact you to enforce our User Agreement, applicable national laws, and any agreement we may have with you. For these purposes we may contact you via email, telephone, text messages, and postal mail.
Consent withdrawal / Questions or Information Modifications
If you don’t want us to process your data anymore, or if you would like to access, correct, amend or delete any personal information we have about you, you are invited to contact us at comms@bee-life.eu or send us mail to: Place Croix du Sud 1, L07.4.01, 1348, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
Privacy Policy Updates
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We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it.
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