Digital Firefly Privacy Policy

Digital Firefly is a project co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union comprised of the following partners:

  • Háskóli Íslands (Iceland)
  • Ciudad Industrial del Valle del Nalón (Spain)
  • Bantani Education (Belgium)
  • Stimmuli for Social Change (Greece)
  • Not a Bad Idea (Finland)

This privacy policy will explain how our project uses the personal data we collect from you when you use our website. This website and privacy policy is maintained by Bantani Education on behalf of the project partners.

Topics:

  • What data do we collect?
  • How do we collect your data?
  • How will we use your data?
  • How do we store your data?
  • Marketing
  • What are your data protection rights?
  • What are cookies?
  • How do we use cookies?
  • What types of cookies do we use?
  • How to manage your cookies
  • Privacy policies of other websites
  • Changes to our privacy policy
  • How to contact us
  • How to contact the appropriate authorities

What data do we collect?

Our Project collects the following data:

  • Personal identification information (Name, email address, phone number, etc.)
  • For the purpose of registration for online or in person events, we may also collect data such as: country, sector, organisation

How do we collect your data?

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

  • Register online 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 Company may also receive your data indirectly from the following sources:

  • Online events may be recording, by attending you agree to the Project collecting, storing, and sharing you name and/or image in recorded events and screen shots

How will we use your data?

Our Project collects your data so that we can:

  • Process your event registration or order and manage your account
  • Email you with special offers on other products, services, courses or events we think you might like

If you agree, Our Project will share your data with our partner organisations so that they may offer you their products and services.

  • Háskóli Íslands (Iceland)
  • Ciudad Industrial del Valle del Nalón (Spain)
  • Bantani Education (Belgium)
  • Stimmuli for Social Change (Greece)
  • Not a Bad Idea (Finland)

When Our Project processes your order or registration, it may send your data to, and also use the resulting information from, credit reference agencies to prevent fraudulent purchases.

How do we store your data?

Our Project securely stores your data on EU servers.

Our Project will keep your data until the projected end of the project. Once this time period has expired, we will delete your data by removing it from our cloud data storage.

Marketing

Our Project would like to send you information about events, courses, products and services of ours that we think you might like, as well as those of our partner organisations.

  • Háskóli Íslands (Iceland)
  • Ciudad Industrial del Valle del Nalón (Spain)
  • Bantani Education (Belgium)
  • Stimmuli for Social Change (Greece)
  • Not a Bad Idea (Finland)

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 Project from contacting you for marketing purposes or giving your data to other members of Our Project.

If you no longer wish to be contacted for marketing purposes, please contact DigitalFirefly@bantani.com

What are your data protection rights?

Our Project 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 access – You have the right to request Our Project 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 Project correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request Our Project to complete the information you believe is incomplete.

The right to erasure – You have the right to request that Our Project erase your personal data, under certain conditions.

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

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

The right to data portability – You have the right to request that Our Project 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: DigitalFirefly@bantani.com

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 Project 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 Project 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 Project 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 Company 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.
  • This website uses Google Analytics

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 Project 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 Project keeps its privacy policy under regular review and places any updates on this web page. This privacy policy was last updated on 19 July 2021, by Bantani Education.

How to contact us

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

Email us at: DigitalFirefly@bantani.com

How to contact the appropriate authority

Should you wish to report a complaint or if you feel that Our Project has not addressed your concern in a satisfactory manner, you may contact:

Email: dpo@bantani.com