Privacy Policy

Introduction

Welcome to We The Free (WTF). We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring that your personal information is handled in a safe and responsible manner. This privacy policy explains how we collect, use, and share your personal data when you use our website and services. We The Free is the data controller for the purposes of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

What Data Do We Collect?

Our organization collects the following data:

• Personal identification information: Name, email address, contact information, etc.

How Do We Collect Data?

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

• Register online with our website 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.

• Voluntarily sign up for our email list.

We may also receive your data indirectly from the following sources:

• When you interact with our social media posts, groups, or message boards.

Legal Basis for Processing Data

We process your personal data based on the following legal grounds:

• Consent: When you have given clear consent for us to process your personal data for a specific purpose.

• Contractual necessity: When processing is necessary for a contract you have with us, or because you have asked us to take specific steps before entering into a contract.

• Legal obligation: When processing is necessary for us to comply with the law.

• Legitimate interests: When processing is necessary for our legitimate interests or the legitimate interests of a third party, provided your rights and interests do not override those interests.

How Will We Use Your Data?

Our organization collects your data so that we can:

• Inform you about events that you may be interested in attending.

• Send you important information about our website, features, and technologies.

• Manage your login/session details when accessing our website.

If you agree, our organization will share your data with our partner companies so that they may offer you their products and services, including our web development partner under a signed data-sharing agreement.

How Do We Store Your Data?

Our organization securely stores your data on our servers or private and secure servers we contract through other data hosting companies. We will store your personal data for 24 months after your account becomes inactive. Anonymized session data will be stored indefinitely to help us understand our effectiveness.

Marketing

Our organization would like to send you information about products and services of ours that we think you might like, as well as those of our partner companies. If you have agreed to receive marketing, you may always opt out at a later date. You have the right at any time to stop our organization from contacting you for marketing purposes or sharing your data with our partners.

If you no longer wish to be contacted for marketing purposes, please email hello@activism.wtf or select “unsubscribe” at the bottom of any email from We The Free.

What Are Your Data Protection Rights?

Our organization would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:

• The right to be informed – You have the right to be informed about the collection and use of your personal data.

• The right to access – You have the right to request our organization for 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 organization correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request our organization to complete the information you believe is incomplete.

• The right to erasure – You have the right to request that our organization erase your personal data, under certain conditions.

• The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that our organization restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

• The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our organization’s processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

• The right to data portability – You have the right to request that our organization transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

• Rights related to automated decision-making, including profiling – You have the right to not be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you.

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: hello@activism.wtf.

International Data Transfers

If we transfer your personal data outside the European Economic Area (EEA), we will ensure that it is protected in a manner that is consistent with how your personal data will be protected by us in the EEA. This can be done in a number of different ways, for instance:

• The country that we send the data to might be approved by the European Commission.

• The recipient might have signed up to a contract based on “model contractual clauses” approved by the European Commission, obliging them to protect your personal data.

• In other circumstances, the law may permit us to otherwise transfer your personal data outside the EEA.

Cookies

How Do We Use Cookies?

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

Our organization 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.

• Collecting referrer and referee data to power our “activist dashboard”.

What Types of Cookies Do We Use?

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

• Functionality – Our organization 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 the location you are in. A mix of first-party and third-party cookies are used.

• Advertising – We may use marketing pixels for monitoring the performance of our online campaigns or for retargeting of marketing campaigns.

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

Our website contains 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

Our organization keeps its privacy policy under regular review and places any updates on this web page. This privacy policy was last updated on 16/07/24.

How to Contact Us

If you have any questions about our organization’s privacy policy, the data we hold about you, or you would like to exercise one of your data protection rights, please do not hesitate to contact us at: hello@activism.wtf.

How to File a Complaint

Should you wish to report a complaint or if you feel that our organization has not addressed your concern in a satisfactory manner, you may contact our HR department at hr@activism.wtf.