General Data Protection Regulation
Introduction
Langzy.org is committed to protecting the privacy and personal data of our users. This GDPR compliance document outlines how we collect, use, store, and protect personal data in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Data Controller
Langzy.org
[Contact Information]
[Data Protection Officer (if applicable)]
Data Collection
Types of Data Collected
We may collect the following types of personal data:
- Identity Data: Name, username or similar identifier.
- Contact Data: Email address, phone number, and postal address.
- Technical Data: IP address, browser type, and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices used to access our website.
- Usage Data: Information about how you use our website and services.
- Marketing and Communications Data: Your preferences in receiving marketing from us and your communication preferences.
Method of Collection
Personal data is collected through:
- Direct interactions: Filling out forms or corresponding with us by post, phone, email, or otherwise.
- Automated technologies: As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns.
Purpose of Data Collection
Langzy.org collects personal data for the following purposes:
- To provide and manage our services.
- To manage our relationship with you, including notifying you about changes to our services.
- To administer and protect our business and this website.
- To deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you and measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you.
- To use data analytics to improve our website, products/services, marketing, customer relationships, and experiences.
Legal Basis for Processing Data
We process your personal data based on the following legal grounds:
- Consent: You have given clear consent for us to process your personal data for specific purposes.
- Contract: Processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into such a contract.
- Legal Obligation: Processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject.
- Legitimate Interests: Processing is necessary for our legitimate interests or those of a third party, except where such interests are overridden by your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms.
Data Sharing
Langzy.org does not sell your personal data. We may share your personal data with:
- Service Providers: Companies that provide services on our behalf, such as IT and system administration services.
- Professional Advisers: Lawyers, bankers, auditors, and insurers who provide consultancy, banking, legal, insurance, and accounting services.
- Regulators and Other Authorities: Authorities who require reporting of processing activities in certain circumstances.
International Transfers
If we transfer personal data out of the European Economic Area (EEA), we ensure a similar degree of protection by ensuring at least one of the following safeguards is implemented:
- We will only transfer personal data to countries that have been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data by the European Commission.
- Where we use certain service providers, we may use specific contracts approved by the European Commission which give personal data the same protection it has in Europe.
- Where we use providers based in the United States, we may transfer data to them if they are part of the Privacy Shield, which requires them to provide similar protection to personal data shared between the Europe and the US.
Data Security
We have implemented appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, accessed in an unauthorized way, altered, or disclosed. We limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
Data Retention
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
Your Legal Rights
Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data, including:
- Request access to your personal data.
- Request correction of your personal data.
- Request erasure of your personal data.
- Object to processing of your personal data.
- Request restriction of processing your personal data.
- Request the transfer of your personal data.
- Right to withdraw consent.
