1. User information
Who is responsible for processing your personal data?
GIZ is responsible for processing the USER’s personal data and inform you that this data will be processed in accordance with the provisions of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of April 27 (GDPR) and Organic Law 3/2018 of December 5 (LOPDGDD).
What do we process your personal data for?
To maintain a commercial relationship with the user. The operations planned to carry out the processing are:
- Sending commercial advertising communications via e-mail, fax, SMS, MMS, social networks, or any other electronic or physical means, present or future, that allow commercial communications. These communications will be made by the RESPONSIBLE PARTY and related to its products and services, or those of its collaborators or suppliers with whom it has reached a promotion agreement. In this case, third parties will never have access to personal data.
- Conducting market research and statistical analysis.
- Processing orders, requests, responding to inquiries, or any type of request made by the USER through any of the contact methods provided on the RESPONSIBLE PARTY’s website.
- Sending the online newsletter about news, offers, and promotions related to our activity.
Why can we process your personal data?
Because processing is legitimized by Article 6 of the GDPR as follows:
- With the USER’s consent: sending commercial communications and the newsletter.
- For the legitimate interest of the RESPONSIBLE PARTY: conducting market research, statistical analysis, and processing orders, requests, etc., at the USER’s request.
How long will we keep your personal data?
They will be kept no longer than necessary to maintain the purpose of processing or as long as legal requirements dictate their custody, and when no longer necessary, they will be deleted with appropriate security measures to ensure data anonymization or complete destruction.
Who do we share your personal data with?
No communication of personal data to third parties is planned unless necessary for the development and execution of the purposes of processing, to our communication service providers, with whom the RESPONSIBLE PARTY has signed confidentiality and data processing agreements required by current privacy regulations.
What are your rights?
The USER’s rights are:
- Right to withdraw consent at any time.
- Right of access, rectification, portability, and deletion of your data, and limitation or opposition to its processing.
- Right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority (www.autoriteprotectiondonnees.be) if you believe processing does not comply with current regulations.
Contact details to exercise your rights:
GIZ-SPARK project
E-mail: info@project-spark.africa
2. Mandatory or voluntary nature of information provided by the user
By checking the appropriate boxes and entering data in the fields marked with an asterisk (*) in the contact form or in download forms, USERS expressly, freely, and unequivocally accept that their data is necessary for the provider to meet their request, with the inclusion of data in the remaining fields being voluntary. The USER guarantees that the personal data provided to the RESPONSIBLE PARTY is truthful and is responsible for communicating any modifications.
The RESPONSIBLE PARTY informs that all requested data through the website is mandatory, as it is necessary to provide an optimal service to the USER. If all the data is not provided, it cannot be guaranteed that the information and services provided will fully meet the USER’s needs.
3. Security measures
In compliance with current personal data protection regulations, the RESPONSIBLE PARTY is complying with all provisions of the GDPR and LOPDGDD for the processing of the personal data under its responsibility, and explicitly with the principles described in Article 5 of the GDPR, under which data is processed lawfully, fairly, and transparently in relation to the data subject, and is adequate, relevant, and limited to what is necessary for the purposes for which it is processed.
The RESPONSIBLE PARTY guarantees that it has implemented appropriate technical and organizational policies to apply the security measures established by the GDPR and the LOPDGDD to protect the rights and freedoms of USERS and has provided them with the necessary information to exercise them.
For more information on privacy guarantees, you can contact the RESPONSIBLE PARTY at: GIZ-SPARK project
E-mail: spark.communication@giz.de
4. Use of profile
The RESPONSIBLE PARTY will carry out the following actions:
- Access public profile information.
- Publish on the USER’s profile all information already published on the RESPONSIBLE PARTY’s social network.
- Send personal and individual messages through the social network’s channels.
- Status updates of the page that will be published on the USER’s profile.
The USER may always control their connections, delete content no longer of interest, and restrict with whom they share their connections; to do this, they must access their privacy settings.
5. Publications
Once the USER follows or joins the RESPONSIBLE PARTY’s social network, they may publish comments, links, images, photographs, or any other type of multimedia content supported by it. The USER must always be the owner of the published content, hold copyright and intellectual property rights, or have consent from the affected third parties.
Any publication in the social network, whether texts, graphics, photographs, videos, etc., that violates or could violate morality, ethics, good taste, or decorum, and/or infringes intellectual or industrial property rights, image rights, or the law, is expressly prohibited.
In such cases, the RESPONSIBLE PARTY reserves the right to immediately remove the content without prior notice and may request the permanent blocking of the USER.
The RESPONSIBLE PARTY will not be responsible for content freely published by a USER.
The USER must keep in mind that their publications will be known to other users, making them primarily responsible for their privacy.
Images that may be published on the social network will not be stored in any file by the RESPONSIBLE PARTY, but will remain on the social network.
6. Data of minors or individuals with special needs
Access and registration through the RESPONSIBLE PARTY’s social networks is prohibited to minors under 18 years of age. If the USER has special needs, the intervention of their legal guardian or representative, through a valid document proving representation, will be required.
The RESPONSIBLE PARTY is expressly exempt from any responsibility that may arise from the use of social networks by minors or individuals with special needs. The RESPONSIBLE PARTY’s social networks do not knowingly collect any personal information from minors; therefore, if the USER is a minor, they must not register, use the RESPONSIBLE PARTY’s social networks, or provide any personal information.
Privacy policy on social networks
Who is responsible for processing your personal data?
GIZ, hereinafter RESPONSIBLE PARTY, informs the USER that it has created a profile on the social networks Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Vimeo, and Google+, being responsible for processing the user’s personal data carried out on such social networks and informs them that such data will be processed in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of April 27 (GDPR) and Organic Law 3/2018 of December 5 (LOPDGDD), and provides the following information:
What do we process your personal data for?
Purpose of processing: to maintain a relationship between the USER and the RESPONSIBLE PARTY, which may include the following operations:
- Processing requests and queries submitted to the RESPONSIBLE PARTY.
- Informing about activities and events organized by the RESPONSIBLE PARTY.
- Informing about products or services offered by the RESPONSIBLE PARTY.
- Interacting through official profiles.
Why can we process your personal data?
Legal basis for processing: Article 6.1.a GDPR, the data subject has given consent for the processing of their personal data for one or more specific purposes. The USER has a profile on the same social network and has decided to join the RESPONSIBLE PARTY’s social network, thereby showing interest in the information published. Therefore, by requesting to follow our official profiles, you provide your consent to process the personal data made public on your profile.
The USER may access the privacy policies of the respective social network at any time, as well as configure their profile to ensure privacy.
The RESPONSIBLE PARTY has access to and processes public information of the USER, especially their contact name. Such data is only used within the social network and will only be incorporated into a RESPONSIBLE PARTY file when necessary to process the USER’s request.
How long will we keep your personal data?
Data retention criteria: data will be kept as long as the USER does not withdraw the consent given, as indicated in this privacy policy.
Who do we share your personal data with?
Data communication: information provided by the USER through the RESPONSIBLE PARTY’s social networks, including personal data, may be published depending on the services the USER uses, and thus may be available to other third-party users of the social networks. From each social network profile, the USER can configure what information to make public in each case, check granted permissions, remove or disable them, as with any third-party applications no longer in use.
No transfer of personal data to third parties outside the social network is planned, unless strictly necessary for the development and execution of the purposes of processing, to our service providers related to communications, with whom the RESPONSIBLE PARTY has signed confidentiality and data processing contracts required by current privacy regulations.
What are your rights?
The USER’s rights: these can only be satisfied with respect to information under the RESPONSIBLE PARTY’s control.
- Right to withdraw consent at any time.
- Right of access, rectification, portability, and deletion of your data, and limitation or opposition to its processing.
- Right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority (www.autoriteprotectiondonnees.be) if you believe that processing does not comply with current regulations.
GIZ-SPARK project
E-mail: spark.communication@giz.de