Who We Are
This Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) is posted for the website of the Foundation for Democracy Assistance. It is located on the domain www.fpdi.org.ua, which is used and owned by the Foundation for Democracy Assistance.
Our website address is: https://fpdi.org.ua/
The website belongs to the Foundation for Democracy Assistance.
The Privacy Policy describes our policy regarding the collection, processing, use, and disclosure of certain personal information (“personal data”) related to the use of this Site by any person. Use of this Site signifies your understanding and agreement with the terms of this Privacy Policy.
For the avoidance of doubt, this Privacy Policy applies to personal information collected exclusively through this Site.
What Personal Data We Collect and Why We Collect It
Personal Information
When completing an electronic form posted on our website, as well as through links leading from our website to third-party resources, when completing electronic forms that reference this Privacy Policy, sending us an inquiry by email, or providing us with information in any other way using this Site, we receive your name, postal address, phone number, email address, and other information. In addition, from time to time we may collect your other personal information through other forms on this Site, through email correspondence, and through other online tools. The required personal information will be minimal, strictly necessary to achieve the results envisioned by the projects implemented by the Foundation for Democracy Assistance independently or with other partners. Under certain circumstances, we may request additional information or send you additional information in cases where you have indicated that you would like to receive it. If additional personal information is requested, this fact will be noted and fulfillment of this condition is voluntary.
Collection of information of a personal nature, such as political views or affiliation with political or civic organizations, is carried out on the Site exclusively to the extent necessary for the most effective achievement of the goals of our projects. If you provide information of a personal nature, such provision of information will be considered as explicit and voluntary consent to the use of this information by the Foundation for Democracy Assistance.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data displayed in the comment form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help detect spam.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to determine if you are using it. The Gravatar service Privacy Policy is available here: HTTPS://AUTOMATTIC.COM/PRIVACY/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture will be visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Technical Information
When visiting this Site, we may collect technical information that by itself cannot identify you by name. This information may include, for example, your IP (Internet Protocol) address, which pages you visit on this Site, other pages you visit on the Internet, and which browser you used to view this Site. This technical information is used to evaluate and improve the effectiveness of the Site, to help diagnose problems with our server, to administer the site, to track where site traffic comes from, and to identify our users. We may also collect other technical information through this Site, such as: site usage activity and preferences, otherwise known as demographic or profile data. At this time, we do not combine the data described in this section with your personal information, but we reserve the right to do so.
Media Files
If you upload images to the site, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors to the site can download and extract any location data from images on the site.
Use of Cookies
We may use cookies to store and sometimes track information about you. Cookies are small data files sent from a web server to a browser or appropriate software and stored on a computer’s hard drive. Cookies track where you go on the Site and what you view. Thus, cookies allow us to link your use of the Site with your personal information. Many other sites use cookies for similar purposes.
Most browsers can be configured to notify you when a cookie has been sent to you and provide the option to decline it. Additionally, your Flash Player can be configured to reject or delete flash cookies. Declining cookies generally does not interfere with the use of the Site. However, declining cookies in some cases may interfere with or negatively affect the display or functionality of the Site, or certain areas or features thereof.
If you leave a comment on our site, you may enable the saving of your name, email address, and website in cookies. This is for your convenience, so that you do not have to re-enter your data when you leave the next comment. These cookies will be stored for 1 year.
If you have an account on the site and you log in, we will set a temporary cookie to determine whether your browser supports cookies. This cookie does not contain any personal information and is removed when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set several cookies to store information about your login and screen settings. Login cookies are stored for 2 days, and screen settings cookies are stored for 1 year. If you select “Remember Me,” your login will be stored for 2 weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be deleted.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie does not contain personal data and simply indicates the identifier of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded Content from Other Websites
Articles on this site may contain embedded content (for example: videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other sites behaves in the same way as if the user visited another site.
These sites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed third-party tracking applications, and monitor your interaction with this embedded content. In particular, they may track interaction with embedded content if you have an account and are logged into that site.
Use of Personal Information
Your personal information will be used for the specific purposes for which it was provided, except in cases where you have indicated that you would like to receive additional information from the Foundation for Democracy Assistance. When requesting materials or requesting to be contacted, you may be given the opportunity to receive additional information of interest from us. The Foundation for Democracy Assistance reserves the right to use the contact email address and/or contact phone number of persons who have left their data on the site for email, SMS mailings, and transactional messages to further inform you about our events, products, and/or services that we believe may be of interest to you. You can always unsubscribe from messages from the Foundation for Democracy Assistance by sending an email to fpdi.ukraine@gmail.com.
Do We Share Your Personal Information?
We may provide your personal information to service providers who process information on our behalf in accordance with a data processing agreement, but we do not share, sell, or distribute personal data to other persons. We may also provide your personal information to our partners if this is provided for by the terms of implementation of our joint projects. Responsibility for further dissemination of this information rests solely with those partners who received this information.
Occasionally, we may provide personal data in response to a court order or other lawful requirement. We also reserve the right to report to law enforcement any activity that we reasonably believe to be unlawful, and to disclose any information about you to the extent we deem necessary or appropriate to satisfy any legal norm or other lawful requirement, for the proper operation of the Site, to protect our rights, the rights or safety of our users, or in cases where you are involved (or reasonably suspected of being involved) in any unlawful or dangerous activity, even without a subpoena, warrant, or court order, we may disclose certain personal information when we believe such disclosure is necessary to protect the rights, property, and safety of others and ourselves.
Consent to Data Processing
By providing any personal information on the Site, you fully understand and expressly agree to the transfer of such information to the extent permitted in this Privacy Policy.
Security
Generally accepted standards of technical and operational security have been implemented to protect personal information from loss, misuse, alteration, and destruction. However, as you know, no data transmission over the Internet can be completely secure. Although we will always make reasonable efforts to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee that any information you provide to us can be protected from unauthorized use by third parties or intrusion.
Please be careful when sending personal information to us by email. Email is generally not considered a secure means of transmitting information.
Data Access and Updates
We cannot ensure the accuracy and currency of your personal information without your assistance. If your personal data becomes outdated, please contact us so that we can correct the information.
Third Parties
We have no control over what information is tracked or collected by third parties, and we bear no responsibility or liability for any tracking and data collection or other activities of third parties.
Jurisdiction
By accessing the Site, you agree that the laws of Ukraine will apply to all matters relating to the use of the Site. Notwithstanding this, if necessary, we reserve the right to bring claims/lawsuits in any court or courts of any country of residence of one of the parties.
Who Can You Contact If You Have Questions or Problems?
You can report any suspicions of security breaches, ask questions, or complain about privacy violations by writing to us: FPDI.UKRAINE@GMAIL.COM
Will This Privacy Policy Change?
If any changes are made to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you and post these changes here. Changes and additions to the Privacy Policy take effect after they are posted. Please visit this page periodically to learn what changes have been made to our Privacy Policy.