PRIVACY POLICY

1. General information

The use of our web pages and the services provided to the visitor on the site adriaticmonkseal.org, requires your agreement with the Privacy Policy of this site. Therefore, the visitor must carefully read the contents of this page before using the services of our website. If he does not agree, he must leave this website and NEVER make use any of its services or content. This privacy policy may change from time to time according the relevant legislation. We will not explicitly notify our customers or our site’s users about these changes. Instead, we recommend you to occasionally visit this page for any changes to this privacy policy. The continued use of the adriaticmonkseal.org website even after any changes to the Privacy Policy implies the unconditional acceptance of these terms by you.

2. Personal information collected by this site and why we collect it

This site collects and uses personal information for the following reasons:

2.1 Contact forms and e-mail links

If you choose to contact us using a contact form or an email link, none of the data you provide will be stored to our site or transferred or processed by any third party data processor as defined below in the section «Our third-party data processors». Instead, these data will be sent to us via an SMTP protocol (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol). Our SMTP servers are protected by a TLS security protocol (also known as SSL), meaning that email content is encrypted before being sent over the Internet. The content of the email is decrypted by our local computers and devices.

3. About Cookies

3.1. What is a cookie?

The term «cookie» refers to a small data file consisting solely of a set of text information that the site transmits to the web browser on your computer’s hard disk, either temporarily throughout your visit, or sometimes for longer periods, depending on the type of cookie. Cookies perform different operations (for example, you are distinguished from other site’s visitors or remember certain info for you like your preferences) and are used by most websites to improve your user experience. Each cookie is unique to your browser and contains some anonymous information. A cookie typically contains the name of the cookie field, the cookie’s lifetime, and a value (usually in the form of a randomly generated unique number).

3.2. Types of cookies

The basic types of cookies are described below:

• Session cookies

  These are temporary cookies that remain in the cookie file of your device’s browser only during your visit and are deleted when you close the browser.

• Persistent cookies

  These remain in the cookie file of your device’s browser even after the browser closes, sometimes for one year or more (the exact length of stay depends on the lifetime of each cookie). Permanent cookies are used when the site administrator may need to know who you are for more than one visit (e.g., to remember your username or your site configuration preferences).

• First-party cookies

  These are cookies installed on your browser and/or hard drive of your device from the site you are visiting. This includes assigning a unique ID to you, in order to monitor your site navigation. Site creators often use first-party cookies to handle visits and for identification purposes.

• Third-party cookies

  These are cookies used by third parties, such as social networks to track your visits to the various sites they advertise. The site administrator has no control over these third-party cookies.

3.3. Cookies on this site and how to manage them

On this site, we use cookies to improve your user experience. Site functionality will be significantly affected if you disable or disagree with the use of cookies. See the following information about the third-party cookies we use on this site, including how to disable them and the effect of disabling on the site’s functionality.

4. How we manage your personal data

At adriaticmonkseal.org we place the highest priority on the protection of your personal data and comply with the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

We have taken the technical measures to ensure the protection of personal data while transmitting, managing and storing, but the nature of the internet is such that nothing can guarantee absolute protection. For this reason, you can also contact us by alternative means (eg by telephone).

5. What are your rights to your personal data

You may request that you receive an export record of personal data we hold for you, including any data you have provided to us. You may also ask to delete the personal data we hold for you. This does not include data that we are required to keep for administrative, legal or security reasons.

To request your exported personal data file or delete your personal data, you can contact using the contact form found on the page „Contact„.

6. About this site’s web server

All web traffic (file transfer) between this site and your browser is encrypted and transferred via the HTTPS protocol using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL).

7. Data breaches

For any of your personal information stored in our database, all necessary action will be taken to be secure as possible. We will report any unlawful violation of our database or any third party data processing database to all relevant stakeholders as well as authorities within 72 hours of the violation, if it is obvious that the personal data stored in recognizable form, have been stolen.