Privacy Policy

Interpretation and Definitions

Interpretation

The words of which the initial letter is capitalized have meanings defined under the following conditions. The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or in plural.

Definitions

For the purposes of this privacy policy:

• GDPR
  General Data Protection Regulation Act.
• Account means a unique account created for you to access our service or parts of our service.
• Association (referred to as either "the Association", "We", "Us" or "Our" in this Agreement) refers to Zero Emissions World (ZEW), Rua do Proletariado Nº7, 2794-076 Carnaxide, Portugal.
• Cookies are small files that are placed on Your computer, mobile device or any other device by a website, containing the details of Your browsing history on that website among its many uses.
• Country refers to: Portugal.
• Device means any device that can access the Service such as for example, a computer, a cell phone or a digital tablet.
• Personal Data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.
• Service refers to the Website.
• Service Provider means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Association. It refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by the Association to facilitate the Service, to provide the Service on behalf of the Association, to perform services related to the Service or to assist the Association in analyzing how the Service is used.
• Third-party Social Media Service refers to any website or any social network website through which a User can log in or create an account to use the Service.
• Usage Data refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).
• Website refers to ZEW, accessible from zeroemissionsworld.org, zew.world or other domains that will forward to zeroemissionsworld.org
• You means the individual accessing or using the Service, or the Association, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Service, as applicable.

Topics

1. What data do we collect?
2. What is Usage Data?
3. How do we collect your data?
4. Information from Third-Party Social Media Services.
5. How will we use your data?
6. How long will we store your data?
7. What are your data protection rights?
8. What are cookies?
9. How do we use cookies?
10. What types of cookies do we use?
11. How to manage your cookies.
12. Privacy policies of other websites.
13. Changes to our privacy policy.
14. Law enforcement.
15. How to contact us.
16. How to contact the appropriate authorities.

What data do we collect?

While using Our Website, We may ask You to provide Us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify You. Personally, identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

• Email address
• First name and last name
• Phone number
• Gender
• Birthdate
• Address, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code, City, Country
• Usage Data

We use Security Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption technology to encrypt sensitive personal information before it travels over the Internet. SSL is an industry standard and is used by millions of websites in the protection of their online transactions with their customers. Credit card numbers are never stored on our database or servers.

We may also collect some social media information if you sign up with Google, Facebook, Twitter, or other third-party account.

Please keep your passwords in a safe place. We recommend that you change your passwords frequently and do not share your accounts with anyone. We will never ask for your password besides the login and sign-up processes. Any party claiming to be a representative, subsidiary, or affiliate of ZEW that asks for a password does not represent us in any condition or capacity.

We do everything in our power to protect your personal information. However, Internet traffic and electronic storage cannot be guaranteed to be 100% safe and secure. Therefore, we cannot ensure or guarantee the absolute security of any information sent, transmitted, or stored.

Also, we may also collect information you provide when you contact us by email or other means to get support, ask questions, send feedback, etc.

What is usage data?

Usage data is collected automatically when using the service.

Usage data may include information such as your device's Internet Protocol address (e.g., IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers, and other diagnostic data.

When you access the service by or through a mobile device, we may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device you use, your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of your mobile device, your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser you use, unique device identifiers, and other diagnostic data.

We may also collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our service or when you access the service by or through a mobile device.

How do we collect your data?

You directly provide our association with most of the data we collect. We collect data and process data when you:

• Register online, donate to our association, or place an order for any of our products or services.
• Voluntarily complete a customer survey or provide feedback on any of our message boards or via email.
• Use or view our website via your browser's cookies.
• Our association may also receive your data indirectly from the following sources:
• LinkedIn
• Facebook
• Instagram
• ZEW Blog

Information from Third-Party Social Media Services

The association allows you to create an account and log in to use the service through the following third-party social media services:

• Google
• Facebook
• Twitter
• Instagram

If you decide to register and/or login through or otherwise grant us access to a third-party social media service, we may collect personal data that is already associated with your third-party social media service's account, such as your name, your email address, your activities, or your contact list associated with that account.

You may also have the option of sharing additional information with the Association through Your Third-Party Social Media Service's account. If You choose to provide such information and Personal Data, during registration or otherwise, You are giving the Association permission to use, share, and store it in a manner consistent with this Privacy Policy.

However, We never post anything to your Facebook, Twitter, or other third-party accounts without your permission.

How will we use your data?

The Association may use Personal Data for the following purposes:

• To provide and maintain our Service, including to monitor the usage of our Service.
• To manage Your Account: to manage Your registration as a user of the Service. The Personal Data You provide can give You access to different functionalities of the Service that are available to You as a registered user.
• For the performance of a contract: the development, compliance and undertaking of the sponsorship contract for the development of projects, items, or services You have agreed with Us through the Service.
• To contact You: To contact You by email, telephone calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as a mobile application's push notifications regarding updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, products or contracted services, including the security updates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation.
• To provide You with news, project updates, sponsorship reports and general information about sustainability and climate change unless You have opted not to receive such information.
• To manage Your requests: To attend and manage Your requests to Us.
• For other purposes: We may use Your information for other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and to evaluate and improve our Service, services, marketing and your experience. You can opt-out from receiving these communications by changing your email preferences in your “Settings” section. In this section you will be able to precisely select which kind of emails you want to receive.

We may share Your personal information in the following situations:

• With Service Providers: We may share Your personal information with Service Providers to monitor and analyse the use of our Service, to contact You.
• With Affiliates: We may share Your information with Our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honour this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include any other subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other companies that We control or that are under common control with Us.
• With business partners: We may share Your information with Our business partners in which case we will require those affiliates to honour this Privacy Policy.
• With other users: when You share personal information or otherwise interact in the public areas with other users, such information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside. If You interact with other users or register through a Third-Party Social Media Service, Your contacts on the Third-Party Social Media Service may see Your name, profile, pictures and description of Your activity. Similarly, other users will be able to view descriptions of Your activity, communicate with You and view Your profile.
• With Your consent: We may disclose Your personal information for any other purpose with Your consent.

How long will we store your data?

The Association will retain Your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use Your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

The Association will also 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 Service, or We are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

ZEW is based in Portugal. No matter where you are located, the processing of your personal data shall be done within the European Union. In the case of transfer of your personal data outside the European Union, such transfer shall be effected in compliance with the GDPR.

What are your data protection rights?

Our Association 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 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 Our Association correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request Our Association to complete the information you believe is incomplete.
• The right to erasure - You have the right to request that Our Association erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
• The right to restrict processing - You have the right to request that Our Association restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
• The right to data portability - You have the right to request that Our Association 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 us at our email: info@zeroemissionsworld.org.

Cookies

Cookies are text files placed on your computer to collect standard Internet log information and visitor behaviour information. When you visit our websites, we may collect information from you automatically through cookies or similar technology.

For further information, visit allaboutcookies.org.

How do we use cookies

Our Association uses cookies in a range of ways to improve your experience on our website, including:

• Keeping you signed in
• Understanding how you use our website

What types of cookies do we use?

There are a number of different types of cookies, however, our website uses:

• Functionality - Our Association uses these cookies so that we recognize you on our website and remember your previously selected preferences. These could include what language you prefer and location you are in. A mix of first-party and third-party cookies are used.
• Advertising - Our Association uses these cookies to collect information about your visit to our website, the content you viewed, the links you followed and information about your browser, device, and your IP address. Our Association sometimes shares some limited aspects of this data with third parties for advertising purposes. We may also share online data collected through cookies with our advertising partners. This means that when you visit another website, you may be shown advertising based on your browsing patterns on our website.

How to manage cookies

You can set your browser not to accept cookies, and the above website tells you how to remove cookies from your browser. However, in a few cases, some of our website features may not function as a result.

Privacy policies of other websites

The Our Association website may contain 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.

Changes to our privacy policy

Changes to our privacy policy We may update Our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify You of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

We will let You know via email and/or a prominent notice on Our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the 'Last updated' date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

This privacy policy was last updated on 14 January 2021.

Law enforcement

Under certain circumstances, the Association may be required to disclose Your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).

How to contact us

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

Email us at: info@zeroemissionsworld.org

How to contact the appropriate authority

Should you wish to report a complaint or if you feel that Our Association has not addressed your concern in a satisfactory manner, you may contact Us through the email provided above.

Email: info@zeroemissionsworld.org