Privacy Policy

25 May 2018

GRASPnetwork takes protection of your Personal Data seriously. This Privacy Policy applies to all Personal Data we collect about you, including information collected on this website and any other websites (including mobile access) and information you provide us, or when you request information related to GRASPnetwork, all of which are referred to collectively as the "Services." This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and share your Personal Data and what rights you can exercise related to the data we process as part of the Services. By using the Services, you accept the practices described in this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy was last updated on the date listed at the top of the page and applies from that date.

We may occasionally amend this Privacy Policy and any changes will automatically be effective when published on this website. It is your responsibility to periodically review this Privacy Policy to ensure you understand these terms. You may retain a copy of this Privacy Policy for your records and any questions or concerns should be addressed as outlined below.

What type of information do we collect?

We receive, collect and store any information you enter on our website or provide us in any other way. In addition, we collect the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet; login; e-mail address; password; computer and connection information. We may use software tools to measure and collect session information, including page response times, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information, and methods used to browse away from the page. We also collect personally identifiable information (including name, email, password, communications); comments, feedback, recommendations, and personal profile.

How do we collect information?

When you conduct a transaction on our website, as part of the process, we collect personal information you give us such as your name, address and email address. Your personal information will be used for the specific reasons stated above only.

Why do we collect such personal information?

We collect such Non-personal and Personal Information for the following purposes:

To provide and operate the Services;
To be able to contact our Visitors and Users with service-related notices and promotional messages (e.g. for GRASPnet artistic initiatives and events);
To create aggregated statistical data and other aggregated and/or inferred Non-personal Information, which we may use to provide and improve our respective services (e. g. for improved general communication of GRASPnet initiatives and events to our Users according to their stated interests);
To comply with any applicable laws and regulations.

How do we store, use, share and disclose our site visitors’ personal information?

The GRASPnetwork organization is hosted on the Wix.com platform. Wix.com provides us with the online platform that allows us to promote the GRASPnetwork. Your data may be stored through Wix.com’s data storage, databases and the general Wix.com applications. They store your data on secure servers behind a firewall.

How do we communicate with our site visitors?

We may contact you to send updates about our non-profit organization, including its artistic initiatives, or as otherwise necessary to contact you to enforce applicable national laws, and any agreement we may have with you. For these purposes we may contact you via email, telephone, text messages, and postal mail.

How do we use cookies and other tracking tools?

The GRASPnetwork platform provider (Wix), together with its marketing, analytics and technology partners, uses certain monitoring and tracking technologies such as cookies. These technologies are used in order to maintain, provide and improve our Services on an ongoing basis, and in order to provide our Visitors with a better experience. For example, thanks to these technologies, we are able to maintain and keep track of our Visitor’s and authenticated sessions, to better secure our Services, to identify technical issues, and to monitor and improve the overall performance of our Services.

In order for some of these technologies to work properly, a small data file (“cookie”) must be downloaded and stored on your device. By default, we use several persistent cookies for purposes of session and user authentication, security, keeping the User’s preferences (e.g., regarding default language and settings), connection stability (e.g., for uploading media, etc.), monitoring performance of our services, and generally providing and improving our Services.

If you want to delete or block any cookies, please refer to the help and support area on your internet browser for instructions on how to locate the file or directory that stores cookies. Information on deleting or controlling cookies is also available at www.aboutcookie.org (note that this website is independent from us, and we therefore cannot ensure its accuracy, completeness or availability). Please note that deleting our cookies or disabling future cookies or tracking technologies may prevent you from accessing certain areas or features of our Services, or may otherwise adversely affect your user experience.

How long do we keep your information?

Notwithstanding any Data Subject Rights outlined below, we retain your Personal Data only as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, or as permitted or required by applicable law. At the end of the applicable retention period, we will either securely delete or deidentify your Personal Data, or, if deletion or deidentification is not possible (for example, because your Personal Data has been stored in back-up archives), we will securely store your Personal Data separate from any further processing until deletion is possible.

Data Subject Rights

You have the following data protection rights, as may be amended from time to time by applicable law:

If you wish to access, correct, update or request deletion of the Personal Data we retain about you, you can do so at any time by contacting us.
If you are a resident of the European Union, you can object to processing of your Personal Data, request that we restrict processing of your Personal Data, or request portability of your Personal Data, as outlined by the EU General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679. You may make any request under this section by contacting us.
If we have collected and process your Personal Data based on your consent, you may withdraw your consent at any time. Withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing we conducted prior to your withdrawal, nor will it affect processing of your Personal Data conducted in reliance upon lawful processing grounds other than consent (such as processing based on Legitimate Interests).
You have the right to complain to a data protection authority about our collection and use of your Personal Data. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority.

We respond to all requests we receive from individuals wishing to exercise their data protection rights in accordance with applicable data protection laws.

We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it. You may retain a copy of this Privacy Policy for your records and any questions or concerns should be addressed as outlined below.

Questions and our contact information

If you would like to: access, correct, amend or delete any personal information we have about you, you are invited to contact us at info@graspnetwork.net or send us mail to: GRASPnetwork, Mittelgasse 7, c/o G. Koch, 1060 Wien, Austria.