Date of Last Revision: 26 July 2022
Short version
This document explains to you how we at the Centre for Development Finance Studies handle your Personal Data on this Website.
Personal Data means any information concerning your personal or material circumstances that may be used to identify you or other persons. This typically includes information such as your name, email address, telephone number or date of birth, but can also include information such as your IP address, the type of your browser, or websites that you have visited before you have visited our Website.
We process your Personal Data to tailor our Website to your interests and improve your User experience. With your consent we use cookies for targeting and performance purposes.
If you would like to receive more information on the processing of your Personal Data, please read the extended version of our Privacy Policy below.
Extended version
This privacy policy (the “Privacy Policy”) describes how the Centre for Development Finance Studies (“the CDFS” or “we” or “us”) processes Personal Data gathered via our website, www.theCDFS.org (“Website”). We refer to our Website visitors as users (“Users”).
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA?
Centre for Development Finance Studies Insamlingsstiftelse, c/o Berghs SOC, Bobergsgatan 48, 115 42 Stockholm, Sweden, info@thecdfs.org.
2. FOR WHICH PURPOSES DOES THE CDFS PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA?
“Personal Data” means any information concerning your personal or material circumstances that may be used to identify you or other persons.
On this Website we process Personal Data for the following purposes:
(A) PERSONAL DATA WE PROCESS WHEN YOU SURF ON OUR WEBSITE
Personal Data That We Process
We process the following Personal Data for this purpose: The type of your browser, websites that you have visited before you have visited our Website, links you click, IP address and other information that are processed by cookies. Please see Section 4 below for more information about our use of cookies.
Purpose for Processing of Personal Data
We use cookies or similar technologies to track how you use our Website, to improve our Website and your User experience, and tailor our Website to your interests.
Storage Period
We store your Personal Data only as long as necessary to deal with your contact request, and otherwise only process it in order to fulfill any legal duty to retain copies or to make or defend against legal claims.
(B) PERSONAL DATA WE PROCESS WHEN YOU CONTACT US
Personal Data That We Process
We process the following Personal Data for this purpose: Name, email address, organisation, phone number, country, information about your request and any other information that you provide to us.
Purpose for Processing of Personal Data
We process your Personal Data to respond to your contact inquiries and to provide you with services you have requested and/or customer support.
Storage Period
We store your Personal Data only as long as necessary to deal with your contact request, and otherwise only process it in order to fulfill any legal duty to retain copies or to make or defend against legal claims.
(C) LEGAL JUSTIFICATION
If you are located in the EU/EEA and use our Website, the following applies: Processing as described above is justified as follows:
- When you surf on our Website: Your consent.
You can always visit our Website without disclosing your Personal Data. This requires that you have deactivated the use of cookies.
- When you contact us: Performance of the contract with you (fulfilling your contact request).
For processing of your personal data in connection with the use of LinkedIn, please also see the privacy statement of LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy.
3. HOW DOES THE CDFS DISCLOSE INFORMATION?
The CDFS will only disclose your Personal Data as described in this Privacy Policy. We may disclose your Personal Data to affiliates of the CDFS as necessary to contact you, provide you with requested services or for administrative purposes. We do not sell your Personal Data to third parties.
We may disclose Personal Data to third party service providers, including but not limited to advisors, advertisers, analytics providers, and investors, for the purpose of conducting our business and providing tailored content to you. We have carefully selected these service providers and entered into data processing agreements, if required by applicable law.
The legal justification for the transfer is legitimate interests (performing our services, using experts to provide our services).
The CDFS will only disclose your Personal Data to other data controllers that process the Personal Data for their own purposes if necessary and permitted by applicable law. The CDFS may disclose your Personal Data to third parties when obligated or permitted to do so by law and in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding suspected, or actual unlawful activities, including but not limited to fraud and situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, or to authorities or law enforcement agencies to comply with legal obligations or to support external audits.
Some of the recipients of your Personal Data listed above may be located in countries outside the EU/EEA that do not offer the same level of protection with regard to Personal Data as required in the EU/EEA and where there is no adequacy decision by the European Commission. In that case the CDFS will ensure an adequate level of data protection by appropriate safeguards, e.g. EU Model Clauses, Privacy Shield or BCR certification.
4. HOW DOES THE CDFS USE COOKIES?
The CDFS places small data files called cookies on your device to ensure that the Website functions properly, to track how you use our Website, to improve our Website and your user experience, and to tailor our Website to your interests. Cookies are small text files that are saved on your computer or mobile device when you visit the Website.
The CDFS uses the following categories of cookies on this Website:
- Strictly Necessary Cookies: These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the Website and use its features. These cookies will be dropped and used even if you do not consent to the use of cookies.
The CDFS uses first party cookies, which are set by the CDFS and share the same domain. If you delete the cookies, you may still browse the Website; however, in this case you may not be able to use the full functionalities of the Website. You may also configure the settings of your browser to activate, disable or delete cookies. Detailed instructions are provided by your browser. If you disable or deleted cookies, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit the Website and some services and functionalities may not work.
Additional Information Regarding Google Analytics
This Website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (hereinafter referred to as “Google”). Google Analytics uses cookies to help a website to analyze how users use the Website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of our Website (including your IP address) will be transmitted and stored by Google on servers in the USA.
As the IP anonymization is activated on this Website, your IP address will be truncated by Google within the member states of the European Union or in other states party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional circumstances a full IP address will be saved to a Google server in the USA and truncated there. The IP anonymization is active on this Website. Google will use this information on our behalf for the purpose of evaluating your use of this Website, compiling reports on website activity, and providing us with other services relating to the use of this Website and the internet.
You can also block the cookie’s collection of data regarding your use of this Website (including your IP address) as well as the processing of this data by Google, by downloading and installing the browser add-on found under the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.
You can find more information under the following link: http://www.google.com/intl/en/privacypolicy.html.
5. WHICH SECURITY MEASURES HAS THE CDFS IMPLEMENTED?
We use appropriate technical and organisational security measures to protect your Personal Data from unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure of, or access.
6. WHAT HAPPENS IF A CHILD USES THE WEBSITE?
If you are located in the EU/EEA and use our Website, the following applies: We do not knowingly collect or store Personal Data from anyone under the age of 16 unless or except as permitted by law. ANY PERSON WHO VISITS ANY OF THE WEBSITE REPRESENTS TO US THAT HE OR SHE IS 16 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER. If we are made aware that we have received Personal Data from someone under 16, the CDFS will use reasonable efforts to remove that Personal Data from our records.
7. HOW MAY THIS PRIVACY POLICY BE CHANGED?
The CDFS may, in its sole discretion, change this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any and all changes to the CDFS’ Privacy Policy will be reflected here and the date of new versions are posted will be stated at the top of this Privacy Policy. Any material changes to this Privacy Policy will be communicated on this Website.
Where language on the Website contradicts that found in this Privacy Policy, this Privacy Policy shall prevail.
8. For EU Users: WHAT ARE YOUR STATUTORY RIGHTS?
If you are located in the EU/EEA and use our Website, the following applies: You have a number of rights regarding the processing of your Personal Data by the CDFS, if the statutory requirements are fulfilled. You may
i. Request access to the Personal Data that we process about you,
ii. Request rectification of your Personal Data,
iii. Request erasure of your Personal Data,
iv. Request restriction of Processing of your Personal Data,
v. Object to the Processing of your Personal Data,
vi. Request to receive your Personal Data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format (right to data portability), or
vii. Withdraw any future consent with future effect.
You also have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling.
For more information on your rights and its requirements, please see the information provided by the EU Commission at https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/reform/rights-citizens.
Please direct all your requests to exercise your rights above to: info@thecdfs.org.
Further, you may submit a complaint to the responsible data protection supervisory authority if you believe that we cannot sufficiently help you.
9. HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US?
If you have any questions regarding our Privacy Policy, please contact us at:
Centre for Development Finance Studies Insamlingsstiftelse
c/o Berghs SOC, Bobergsgatan 48,
115 42 Stockholm, Sweden
info@thecdfs.org