Privacy & Cookies

 
Greenpeace believes you have a fundamental right to privacy on the web, and we work to protect your security online. This policy applies to https://storytelling.greenpeace.org;; different specific web properties may use the same or have site-specific privacy and cookies policies. If additional consents are needed from you for uses of your data, beyond those covered in this policy, we will contact you to seek your approval.

INTRODUCTORY NOTES

1. This website privacy statement is designed to be published on the Greenpeace International Storytelling website.
2. This website privacy statement is designed to give general information, seeking to meet the requirements of the GDPR, to individuals whose personal data Greenpeace International collects in their capacity as visitor to a Greenpeace International Storytelling website.
3. This document is not designed to be addressed to Greenpeace International’s employees or other staff members or other individuals who deal with Greenpeace International (i.e. other than as casual website visitors) in their personal capacity.

Greenpeace and data privacy

This website is owned and operated by Greenpeace International (See Contact Us Section Below).

This privacy statement sets out the basis on which Greenpeace International will process any personal information that we may collect about you as a visitor to the Greenpeace International Storytelling website. We therefore ask you to read this privacy statement carefully.

The information that we collect about you

We may collect and process the following information about you:

• Information that you give us: This is information about you that you give to us by: (i) making use of the Greenpeace International Storytelling website and the options offered here, (ii) contacting us for information or help, by (iv) submitting your story and related information to us, (v) participating in Greenpeace campaigns, or (vi) responding to any survey or other request for information by us. It may include, for example, your name, address, email address or telephone number.
• Information that our website and other systems collect about you:
  • If you visit our website third parties (Analytics) will collect some information about you and your visit, such as your browser type and version and the pages on our site that you visit. Analytics will not collect the internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your device to the internet. You can ask Google to provide an extraction of your data related to the Greenpeace International Storytelling website. This information can be used for statistical purposes and will help us to improve our website.
  • Our website may also download “cookies” to your device – this is described in our cookie statement (below)
  • If you exchange emails, telephone conversations or other electronic communications (including comments on this website) with our employees and other staff members, our information technology systems will record details of those conversations, sometimes including their content.
• Information that third parties collect about you on our website by performing actions: This is information about you that you give to third parties (such as Facebook, Google and Twitter) by making use of the social network sharing buttons and widgets available on our website.
• Information that third parties collect about you on our website by browsing it: This is information about you recorded / tracked by third parties just by making use of the website itself, such as navigating from one page to another (this event will be tracked) or by viewing an embedded Facebook video (if you are logged in Facebook).

The use of your information we collect

When we collect information from you, we may use this information in service of the following Greenpeace purposes: to promote Greenpeace campaigns for a greener and healthier world, to raise public awareness of Greenpeace campaign issues, and to influence decision makers to act in support of Greenpeace campaign positions. This may be done by including your information in Greenpeace publications (online, on any Greenpeace websites, Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, and Instagram accounts, etc., and in print), by sharing your actions and stories with external parties like media outlets and allies, and by displaying this information at special events, actions, and protests.

• For example, your name may appear together with your comments on the Greenpeace International Storytelling website if you make a submission. To inspire others to take action, we may post your submission or a summary of your submission with your name on the Greenpeace International website. We may also use your information to send you updates and alerts by email, mail, instant messaging, push notifications or telephone.

We will only process your personal information as necessary for the purposes described above. In doing so, we will consider the balance between your privacy and our interest in processing and refrain from processing if your privacy interest overrides our legitimate interest.

[In exceptional circumstances we may also be required by law to disclose or otherwise process your personal information. To the extent possible, we will tell you, when we ask you to provide information about yourself, if provision of the requested information is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation or, on the other hand, if it is purely voluntary and there will be no implications if you decline to provide the information. If you are uncertain as to Greenpeace’s need for information that we request from you, please contact the Greenpeace representative asking for the information, or Contact us (see below), with your query.]

Disclosure and international transfer of your information

Consent provided to Greenpeace International to process your personal information in connection with the Greenpeace International Storytelling website will be shared with Greenpeace organizations around the world. We may, for example, share your information with Greenpeace national/regional organisation (‘NROs’) which is based in the country where you took action, because of their particular relevance to you, or share your information with Greenpeace NROs in other parts of the world in order for the content provided to this Greenpeace International Storytelling website to have truly global impact.

Outside of Greenpeace organizations, we may also disclose personal information about you where we have obtained your consent or where we have a legitimate interest in view of the purposes set out above, as well as to:

• to service providers who host our website or other information technology systems or otherwise hold or process your information on our behalf, under strict conditions of confidentiality and security;
• to judicial authorities or other public authorities, in case our legal or moral responsibility compels us to do so (e.g. if you express intent about performing a terrorist activity);
• or litigation counterparties, in any country or territory, although only if we are legally required to do so and have no satisfactory basis or prospect to challenge disclosure.

These disclosures may involve transferring your personal information overseas. If you are dealing with us within the European Economic Area, you should be aware that this may include transfers to countries outside the European Economic Area, which do not have similarly strict data privacy laws. In those cases, where we transfer personal data to the independent Greenpeace NROs or our service providers, we will ensure that our arrangements with them are governed by data transfer agreements or mechanisms, designed to ensure that your personal information is protected (including, where appropriate, under an agreement on terms approved for this purpose by the European Commission).

Please Contact us (see below) if you would like to know whether any such agreements are in place or, if so, to see a copy.

Retention and deletion of your information

Greenpeace International will retain information that it collects from and about you, as needed, and will delete the information that we hold about you when we no longer need it.

Your rights

You may have a right of access to the personal information that we hold about you, and to some related information, under data protection law.

• You can also require any inaccurate personal information to be corrected or deleted.
• You can object to our use of your personal information for direct marketing purposes at any time and you may have the right to object to our processing of some or all of your personal information (and require them to be deleted) in some other circumstances.
• In some circumstances, you may also have a “data portability” right to require us to transfer your personal data to you or to a new service provider (e.g. if you wish your data to be transferred from GPI to another Greenpeace organisation).

If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please Contact us as set out below. We are obliged to request proof of identity before access to your personal information is given.

You can also lodge a complaint about our processing of your personal information with the body regulating data protection in your country (details are available here).

Security measures

We have implemented appropriate technical and organisational measures to secure personal data against loss or against any form of unlawful processing. Our donation pages are secured using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), a security protocol that provides communications privacy over the Internet in a way that is designed to prevent eavesdropping, tampering, or message forgery.

Only employees who require to access information about supporters and website visitors to perform their work are granted access to your personal data.

Contact us

We welcome questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy statement and our processing of personal information.

Please emailus at [email protected]

or contact us via:
Greenpeace International
Ottho Heldringstraat 5
1066 AZ Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Tel: +31 20 7182000
Fax: +31 20 7182002

Changes to this policy

Any changes we make to this privacy statement in the future will be posted to the Greenpeace International Storytelling website and also available if you Contact Us as set out above.

Please check back frequently to see any changes.

Last updated: 17 July, 2019

Greenpeace International Storytelling Website – Cookies Policy

We want to ensure that you enjoy browsing our website. In order to enhance your experience and collect information about your use of our site, we place “cookies” onto your computer.

Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your device when you visit a website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognises that cookie:

Cookies are useful because they:

• allow a website to recognise a user’s device and to target the content displayed to the user’s interests
• help us to improve our website
• offer you a better service more tailored to your requirements
• enable us to recognise your device when you return to our website
• store information about your favourite activities on the website, thereby allowing us to tailor our website to your individual interests. This may, for example, include advertising according to your personal interests and accelerate the rate at which we can deal with your queries

By using our website you agree that, unless you have set your computer’s browser to reject them, we can place the types of cookies set out below on your device and use that data in accordance with this policy.

You can find more information about cookies at: www.allaboutcookies.org and www.youronlinechoices.eu for a video about cookies visit www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBR-xtJVq7E .

Types of Cookies

There are two broad types of cookies – ‘first party cookies’ and ‘third party cookies’:

• First party cookies are cookies that are served directly by the website operator to your computer, and are often used to recognise your computer when it revisits that site and to remember your preferences as you browse the site. Basically, these are our cookies.
• Third party cookies are served by a service provider on behalf of the website operator, and can be used by the service provider to recognise your computer when you visit other websites. Third party cookies are most commonly used for website analytics or advertising purposes.

Use of Cookies

This table explains the cookies that may be placed on your machine while using this website and why.

Greenpeace International does not govern the publication of third-party cookies. Please visit the relevant third parties’ website if you want to understand more about these cookies, such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube or Soundcloud.

If you do not want to use cookies, you can set your browser so that the storage of cookies is not accepted.

If you only want to accept our own cookies but not the cookies of our service providers and partners, select the “block third-party cookies” (or similar setting in your browser).

• Chrome
• Firefox
• Internet Explorer
• Microsoft Edge
• Opera
• Safari

Blocking all cookies will, however, have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites.

As mentioned before, Google Analytics cookies used in this website are _utma, _utmb, _utmc, _utmz, _ga and _gid – and they all collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, browser ClientID (to identify returning users, for example), where visitors come to the site from and the pages they visited. Here’s the privacy overview of Google Analytics, the Google Analytics Cookie Usage on Websites and here how to easily opt-out of Google Analytics cookies.

As of May 2018, Google Analytics introduced the Data Retention controls, giving organizations the ability to set the amount of time before user-level and event-level data stored by Google Analytics is automatically deleted from Analytics’ servers.

Such retention period applies to user-level and event-level data associated with cookies, user-identifiers (e.g., User-ID) and advertising identifiers (not applicable in Greenpeace websites anyway). For Greenpeace International, the Data Retention control for Google Analytics is set to 26 months. Once again, Analytics will not collect the internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your device to the internet.

Besides, it is important to mention that Google stores websites traffic information which have Google Analytics tracking code.Check Google’s privacy policy and how to opt-out of Google Analytics cookies.

You can install the “Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on” to prevent information about your visits to our website being sent to Google Analytics.

Use of Hotjar

We use Hotjar in order to better understand our users’ needs and to optimize this service and experience. Hotjar is a technology service that helps us better understand our users experience (e.g. how much time they spend on which pages, which links they choose to click, what users do and don’t like, etc.) and this enables us to build and maintain our service with user feedback. Hotjar uses cookies and other technologies to collect data on our users’ behavior and their devices (in particular device’s IP address (captured and stored only in anonymized form), device screen size, device type (unique device identifiers), browser information, geographic location (country only), preferred language used to display our website). Hotjar stores this information in a pseudonymized user profile. Neither Hotjar nor we will ever use this information to identify individual users or to match it with further data on an individual user. For further details, please see Hotjar’s privacy policy by clicking on this link.

You can opt-out to the creation of a user profile, Hotjar’s storing of data about your usage of our site and Hotjar’s use of tracking cookies on other websites by following this opt-out link.

Use of Social Networks Sharing Buttons and Widgets

Beside the customized HTML buttons we installed to allow you to share Greenpeace content on Facebook and Twitter, we may embed widgets from Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Soundcloud and other social media on our website to provide an enhanced experience.

These social networking widgets come from web servers which may track your behaviour on our website and may combine this with other information about you originating from other websites. You can install a browser add-ons like “Privacy Badger“ for Chrome or “Disconnect” for Chrome and Firefox to control some (the first) or disable them (the second).

Contact us

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