Privacy & Cookie Policy

1. Introduction

This policy contains information on how the personal and other information of Digital Web Alliance visitors is to be collected and processed. Additionally, this policy applies to all sub-domains unless a sub-domain publishes its own policy. Digital Web Alliance retains the right to change this policy at any time. We encourage you to review this page periodically for any updates.

2. Personal Information We Collect and Process

Here is a description of information that may be collected through this site:

• Personal information that you send to us, including information that you provide through the “Contact us”, “Let's talk” and other functionalities, as well as sending a message to any email displayed there
• Information that you provide when registering to participate in webinars or events including but not limited to Name, Surname, email address, location, your position
• Information about your computer and about your visits to and use of this website (including your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views and website navigation paths)

We do not gather any information in order to sell it.

3. Usage of Personal Information

We may use your personal information:

• To administer our website and business
• For inverse connection for employment purposes, according to your initial request. This communication requires your consent
• For inverse connection for business and marketing communications purposes, according to your initial request. This communication is subscription-based and requires your consent
• For marketing and statistic, site enhancement purposes
• To keep our website secure and prevent fraud

In course of your personal information usage, we may transfer this information to some of Digital Web Alliance' affiliates, subsidiaries, and/or other members, if we in our sole discretion consider this necessary. All our affiliates and subsidiaries are committed to using and processing your data in strict accordance with this Policy. The personal data that we collect may be stored, processed, and transferred between any countries and locations in which we operate in order to enable us to use the information in accordance with this Policy.

4. Legal Basis for Collecting Personal Data

Collecting based on consent

The collection of personal data based on consent from the data subject will be done by using “Consent Forms”, which will store documentation related to the consent given by the individual. Individual consent will always be stored and documented in our systems.

Collecting based on contracts

We use personal information for fulfilling our obligations related to contracts and agreements with customers, partners, and suppliers.

Collecting based on legitimate interest

We may use personal data if it is considered to be of legitimate interest and if the privacy interests of the data subjects do not override this interest. Normally, to establish the legal basis for data collection, an assessment has been made during which a mutual interest between Digital Web Alliance and the individual person has been identified.

5. Disclosing Personal Information to Third Parties

We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers, or subcontractors insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this Policy. We may also disclose your Personal Information to third parties when we believe, in good faith and in our sole discretion, that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to:

• Comply with legal or regulatory requirements or an enforceable governmental request
• Protect the rights, property, or safety of us, our users, or other third parties
• Prevent a crime or protect national security
• Detect, prevent or otherwise address fraud, security, or technical issues

We do not sell, rent or trade your Personal Information to third parties for use in their marketing purposes.

6. Retention and Security

We maintain strict security standards and procedures designed to prevent unauthorized access, loss, misuse, or alteration of your personal information. We will always make sure that the personal data you provide is stored on protected servers only. Your Personal information will not be kept for longer than is necessary to fulfill the purpose for which the personal data was collected. Notwithstanding the other provisions, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:

• To the extent that we are required to do so by law
• If we believe that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings
• In order to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights

When the personal data that we have collected is no longer required, we will delete it in a secure manner. We may process data for statistical purposes, but in such cases, data will be anonymized.

7. Your Rights to Your Personal Data

As a data subject, you have a number of rights. You can:

• Access and obtain a copy of your data on request
• Require Digital Web Alliance to change incorrect or incomplete data
• Require Digital Web Alliance to delete or stop processing your data, for example where the data is no longer necessary for the purposes of processing
• Object to the processing of your data where we are relying on our legitimate interests as the legal ground for processing
• Withdraw any consent to personal data processing at any time
• Request a restriction on further data processing, in case there is a dispute in relation to the accuracy or processing of your personal data
• Complain with a supervisory authority

8. How You Can Stop Collection of Your Personal Information

If you wish that we do not use the information you provided to us, please contact us with the “Personal Data Withdrawal” title and your name. You can reach us at: info@dwa.fyi

9. About Cookies and Their Usage

Our website uses “cookies”. A cookie is a file containing a modest amount ofdata specific to a particular client and website that is sent by a web server to a web browser and stored by the browser. Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

How we use cookies:

• Essential cookies: These cookies are necessary for the website to function properly
• Analytics cookies: These help us understand how visitors interact with our website
• Marketing cookies: We use targeting cookies to tailor marketing to you and your interests
• Remarketing: We may permit certain third-party companies to help us tailor advertising that we think may be of interest to users

As part of re-marketing we may use third party vendor re-marketing tracking cookies, including the Google Adwords tracking cookie. This means we will continue to show ads to you across the internet, specifically on the Google Content Network (GCN).