Ensuring the correct protection of your personal data is one of the ways we respect your right to privacy. It is therefore the aim of this Policy to be transparent with all individuals who send us their personal data in any way in order to contact us, look for opportunities, indicate some support, receive our news or make contact for any other reason.

In this Policy, we will inform data subjects about how their personal data is processed on this website, clarifying what data is collected, its purpose, the legal basis that supports us and the end of the processing.

Please read this Policy carefully, as by providing your personal data on this website you accept the terms and conditions set out here. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us first so that we can clarify them for you before continuing.

Our contact for this purpose is: contatobic-Rio@goethe.de

[1] Scope of this Policy

Our Privacy Policy tells you how we will treat the data collected on our website, especially in the fields below:

a) In the Contact tab – “Contact Us”;
b) In the Contact tab – “Submit your Report”;
c) In the Contact tab – “Refer a Supporter”.

We would also like to point out that our website was created using the WordPress platform, which has some special features regarding the storage of data collected. We therefore recommend that you visit the WordPress website(https://br.wordpress.com/) and their Privacy Policy(https://automattic.com/privacy/), which may clarify how they use any data that exists on sites created using this platform.

Despite the use of this tool to create this site, we would like to point out that we have chosen not to enable any plugins with WordPress. The only tool we have used is Caldera Forms, which allowed us to create the forms used in the “Contact” tab.

[2] Regarding Cookies

Our website does not use Cookies and therefore we do not store personal data through this tool.

However, there is a tool called Simple Analytics, which is linked to this site and is designed to obtain information about the visits we receive. This is software that provides us with information about visitors in a generic way, without exposing them individually, since it does not track visitors and does not store any personally identifiable information. See this documentation to find out what Simple Analytics collects (and, more importantly, what it doesn’t collect).

[3] Personal data collected and its purpose

This site does not contain links that store personal data. Our intention is simply to provide information.

However, on our website we offer the possibility for anyone to contact us, either to find out more, to send us a report or to indicate some support. To this end, we offer three different links to request information, where interested parties can send us some personal data, which we will process as follows:

a) On our website, under Contact:

a.1) “Contact Us” link:

Our website offers anyone the opportunity to submit an inquiry via this link, where we collect and store the following personal data:

a.1.1) Full name
a.1.2) E-mail
a.1.3) Subject
a.1.4) Location (non-mandatory field)
a.1.5) Message

This data is collected for the following purposes:

[i] Full name and e-mail address: these are collected for the purposes of identifying the person requesting the information and possible return contact with them. This data is stored in our database for a period of six months and is not shared with any third party for commercial or economic purposes, nor is it used for any other purpose;

[ii] Subject and Message: these are not fields that require the mention of any personal data. However, if any personal data is entered there, it will not be used by us for any specific purpose, other than to fully understand the subject or message that the sender intends to address. This data is stored in our database for a period of six months and is not shared with any third party for commercial or economic purposes;

[iii] Location: this is not a compulsory field, but if the owner wishes to provide it, it will only be used in order to facilitate the identification of a more appropriate response to the question that the owner may have in the Message field. As we are a site that aims to promote the dissemination of German and French initiatives, the location will be used to bring the service to the holder closer to one of these possibilities. This data is stored in our database for a period of six months and is not shared with any third party for commercial or economic purposes.

a.2) “Submit your report” link:

Our website gives anyone the opportunity to submit a report on a program they have experienced or have information about, in which we collect and store the following personal data:

a.2.1) Full name
a.2.2) E-mail
a.2.3) Program/Incentive
a.2.4) Link (non-mandatory field)
a.2.5) Text
a.2.6) File (non-mandatory field)

This data is collected for the following purposes:

(i) Full name and e-mail address: these are collected for the purposes of identifying the person who is submitting the report and possibly contacting them back. This data is stored in our database for a period of six months and is not shared with any third party for commercial or economic purposes, nor is it used for any other purpose;

(ii) Program/Incentive: this data is collected only for the purpose of identifying the specific situation mentioned by the sender, making it easier to link it to any other situations that may be identified by other people. This data is stored in our database for a period of six months and is not shared with any third party for commercial or economic purposes;

(iii) Link and File: these are not mandatory fields, but if the data subject chooses to provide them, they will only be used for the purpose of facilitating the identification of the situation described in the report submitted. This data is stored in our database for a period of six months and is not shared with any third party for commercial or economic purposes;

(iv) Text: this is not a field that requires the mention of any personal data. However, if any personal data is entered there, it will not be used by us for any specific purpose, other than to fully understand the message the sender intends to address. This data is stored in our database for a period of six months and is not shared with any third party for commercial or economic purposes.

a.3) “Nominate a supporter” link:

Our website makes it possible for anyone to indicate some Support for the initiatives we make available on our site, in which we collect and store the following personal data:

a.3.1) Full name
a.3.2) E-mail
a.3.3) Link
a.3.4) Text
a.3.5) File (field not required)

This data is collected for the following purposes:

i) Full name and e-mail address: these are collected for the purposes of identifying the person who is referring a Support and possibly contacting them back. This data is stored in our database for a period of six months and is not shared with any third party for commercial or economic purposes, nor is it used for any other purpose;

ii) Link: this is a mandatory field whose purpose is to indicate to the platform the Support that will be indicated. This field does not contain any user’s personal data. In any case, this data is stored in our database for a period of six months and is not shared with any third party for commercial or economic purposes;

(iii) File: this is not a mandatory field, but if the data subject chooses to provide it, it will only be used for the purpose of facilitating the identification of the Support indicated. This data is stored in our database for a period of six months and is not shared with any third party for commercial or economic purposes;

(iv) Text: this is not a field that requires the mention of any personal data. However, if any personal data is entered there, it will not be used by us for any specific purpose, other than to fully understand the message the sender intends to address. This data is stored in our database for a period of six months and is not shared with any third party for commercial or economic purposes.

[4] Important information

Our website is for information purposes only. As a result, we have no intention of storing any personal data other than that listed above. Therefore, we will not send you any newsletters or other marketing e-mails. If we do make contact with you, this will be done after you have contacted us through one of the channels described above.

The personal data you submit to us via one of the links above may also be stored by us in order to comply with a legal obligation or in other cases provided for by law.

If you request the deletion of data held on you, we may delete or anonymize your personal data. However, data may be kept if it is strictly necessary to comply with a legal obligation, court order, regular exercise of rights in judicial, administrative or arbitration proceedings, in the event of a determination by the National Data Protection Authority (ANPD) or other control body or in legally authorized cases.

In cases where processing is based on consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. This will not affect the validity of the processing prior to this withdrawal. If you choose not to provide the information mentioned above, the only consequence is that this will affect your ability to interact fully with us.

Personal data will be deleted after the end of its processing, within the scope and technical limits of the activities, although the database may be kept provided that techniques are applied that prevent the identification of the data subject by reasonable means and available at the time they were applied.

When you interact with us through our social networks, your personal data will also be visible to all other visitors, according to your privacy settings in each of these environments. In this case, we are not responsible for the processing of such personal data or the privacy policy of the social networks.

Your personal data from your interaction on social networks may be sent to us. The data received from social networks when used will comply with this Privacy Policy.

[5] Care of personal data processed

Recognizing the importance of the right to privacy of all data subjects, we inform you that we have adopted the best Information Security practices in the processing of any personal data, prioritizing their security and protection.

Once the purpose of each processing has ended – and there is no longer any legal obligation to keep that personal data – we reserve the right to delete your personal data from any of our databases.

[6] Exercising the rights of personal data subjects under the LGPD

In accordance with article 18 of the General Data Protection Act, the holders of personal data may exercise their legally provided rights by sending any requests to the e-mail address below:

• Christian Strube
  christian.strube@goethe.de

[7] Sharing of personal data carried out

As mentioned above, we do not share personal data with any third parties for economic or commercial purposes. However, when you send a contact through our website, that contact will be directed to our internal e-mail and also to our internal server, which stores the data in specific hosting services.

Therefore, this data will necessarily be shared with the platform’s hosting service provider (data center), service providers for the maintenance of the platform, email hosting service providers and, sometimes, with other service providers that our activity may require (legal services, tax services, etc.).

If you do not agree to consent to such sharing, you will not be able to use the contact area of our website for technical reasons or for the performance of the contract.

Rest assured that, when selecting service providers to share your personal data for technical reasons, we have adopted organizational, contractual and legal measures to ensure that your data is processed exclusively for the purposes mentioned in this Policy and that adequate levels of protection have been implemented to safeguard your personal data.

[8] Special Notice: data subjects under the age of 12

Our website does not intentionally collect personal data directly from individuals under the age of 12. Therefore, if you are under the age of 12, please do not send us your personal data in any contact link. If you need to, ask your parent or guardian to do so on your behalf, so that we can serve you in the best possible way.

[9] Final clarifications

This Privacy Policy may be amended at any time with immediate effect. Therefore, we ask that you review it frequently for clarification and updated information.

Rio de Janeiro/RJ, January 16, 2021.