Privacy Policy

Vegland is committed to protecting your privacy online. The Vegland staff are members too, and we treat your privacy as we do our own. When you use our website or communicate with us, we collect and store personal information from you so we can better serve you and the Vegland mission.

We wrote this Privacy Policy to let you know how we treat that information — like your name, contact information, and issues that are important to you – and to show you all the ways we work hard to keep it safe and private. We encourage you to take the time to read it.

WHAT DO WE DO WITH YOUR INFORMATION?

If you sign, share, or donate, we use your personal information to:

Send you information about our work via channel you’ve consented to: email.

Verify your email and send you an email to thank you for signing or donating.

We may use the personal information of all visitors of the site to:

Answer your queries.
Administer & improve the site and optimize our technology.
Analyze how you use the site using tools like Google Analytics and other tools to help us test the performance of content and site functionality, understand traffic patterns, and know if there are problems with the site.

Vegland does not rent or sell your personal information and we will only share it with the parties described below, as required by law.

Vegland employees and event hosts : From time to time, Vegland employees or event hosts may have access to your contact information, including your name, email address to reach out to you about a specific campaign or event. They may contact you directly via email.
Service providers : We work with a wide range of service providers, notably our database administrators, cloud computing services, help desk services. These providers work under strict confidentiality agreements. We do not authorize them to use or disclose your personal information except in connection with providing their services.

HOW DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION SAFE?

Vegland is a global organization with members and staff around the world, so your information may be transferred and stored across borders.

We use standard industry practices, such as firewalls and encryption, to safeguard your personally identifiable information against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, misuse, or destruction. All donations, including the transmission of payment details and other personal information, are handled over secure, encrypted connections. We take reasonable steps to ensure that cross-border data transfers comply with existing data protection laws, such as working with third party processors certified in the EU-US Privacy Shield and Swiss-US Privacy Shield frameworks or with those that use standard contractual clauses that bind parties to protect the privacy and security of data.

We hold on to your personal information for as long as is necessary for the purpose(s) for which it was collected, unless otherwise required by law. If you request that we stop sending you updates and other communications or delete your information, we will honor your request and keep the minimum amount of information possible to prevent fraud and to help ensure that you are not contacted again.

HOW CAN YOU UPDATE AND CORRECT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?

You can review and update your personal information via contact us if you have other data access requests. For users in the European Union and European Economic Area and Switzerland, you also have the right to:

Restrict or Erase: You can ask us to limit our use of your information or ask us to delete your personal information from our records if there is no compelling reason for us to hold on to it.
Object: You can object, on legitimate grounds, to the processing of your personal information, including direct marketing and profiling.
Access or Take your data: You can ask us to confirm whether we are processing your personal information. You can also make a reasonable request for a copy of that information or to have it transferred to another data controller (to the extent possible).
Complain: You can complain to the your country’s data protection authority.

Please note that where we rely on your consent to use your personal information, all users worldwide have the right to withdraw that consent at any time. This includes the option to unsubscribe from our email list at any time or to contact us to request to be excluded from our online campaign promotion lists or text messaging.

WHAT IS THE LAWFUL BASIS FOR PROCESSING YOUR INFORMATION?

When we process your personal information for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, we may rely on one or more of the following legal bases:

Consent : We will ask for your consent to use your information to send you details about our campaigns, fundraisers, and action opportunities, for targeted advertising and profiling, and if you ever share sensitive personal information with us.
Contractual relationships : When you donate to us, apply for employment, or otherwise enter into a contract with us, we’ll need to process your personal information.
Legal obligations : When strictly necessary, we’ll process your personal information due to a binding legal obligation on us.
Legitimate interests : So long as our use is fair, balanced, and doesn’t unduly impact your rights, we will collect and process your personal information when we have a legitimate interest that serves the Vegland mission, our services, or our activities.

Processing your Sensitive Personal Data: We do not seek to collect or otherwise process your sensitive personal information (i.e. about race or ethnicity, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, etc.)

MORE ON PROTECTION OF VEGLAND AND OTHERS

We believe you should have a reasonable expectation of privacy in information you disclose online that is not clearly intended for public dissemination. Where possible, we may attempt to defend this principle even though most jurisdictions currently take the opposition position.

We may attempt not to disclose material in response to overzealous or inappropriate requests. When we have a good faith belief that the law compels us to do so or when we think justice would be served, we may cooperate with law enforcement authorities or court orders requesting or directing us to disclose personal information of any user of this site. Should this happen we will attempt to provide you with notice before we disclose your personal information, unless there is a compelling reason to do otherwise as described above in Do We Share Your Information?

HOW CAN I UNSUBSCRIBE?

If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from our email list, you may do so via unsubscribe link in any of our emails, which is also included in every campaign email that you receive from us.

HOW CAN I GET MORE INFORMATION?

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, your personal information, or data protection on this site, you can contact our Data Protection Officer. For your protection, we may only share and update the personal information associated with the specific email address that you use to send us your request, and we may need to verify your identity before doing so. We will comply with such requests in a reasonably timely manner. Please do not send sensitive personal information, passwords, banking details, or credit/debit card details via email.

Our Data Protection Officer can be reached when you Contact Us, or when you write to:

Vegland “Data Protection Officer”

tel: +48574276768,

email: contact@vegland.org