Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

At OpenImpactLab, we respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This Privacy Policy will inform you about how we handle your personal data when you visit our website and platform, and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

2. Data We Collect

We may collect, use, store, and transfer different kinds of personal data about you, which we have grouped as follows:

• Identity Data includes first name, last name, username or similar identifier, and professional title.
• Contact Data includes email address and, optionally, telephone numbers.
• Profile Data includes your username and password, your interests, preferences, feedback, and survey responses.
• Technical Data includes internet protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access our platform.
• Usage Data includes information about how you use our website and platform.
• Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.

3. How We Collect Your Data

We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:

• Direct interactions. You may give us your Identity, Contact, and Profile Data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us.
• Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with our platform, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns.
• Third parties. We may receive personal data about you from various third parties such as analytics providers or social login providers.

4. How We Use Your Data

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

• Where we need to perform a contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you.
• Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
• Where we need to comply with a legal obligation.
• With your consent.

4.1 Purposes for Using Your Data

We have set out below a description of all the ways we plan to use your personal data:

• To register you as a new user (Identity, Contact Data)
• To manage our relationship with you (Identity, Contact, Profile, Marketing and Communications Data)
• To enable you to participate in platform features (Identity, Contact, Profile Data)
• To administer and protect our business and platform (Identity, Contact, Technical Data)
• To deliver relevant content and experiences to you (Identity, Contact, Profile, Usage, Marketing and Communications Data)
• To use data analytics to improve our platform (Technical, Usage Data)
• To make suggestions and recommendations to you (Identity, Contact, Technical, Usage, Profile Data)

5. Data Security

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered, or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties who have a business need to know.

We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.

6. Data Retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting, or reporting requirements.

To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data, and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal, regulatory, tax, accounting, or other requirements.

7. Your Legal Rights

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data, including the right to:

• 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 of your personal data
• Request the transfer of your personal data
• Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data

8. Cookies

Our platform uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our platform. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our platform and also allows us to improve it. For detailed information on the cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them, see our Cookie Policy.

9. Third-Party Links

This platform may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins, and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our platform, we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.

10. International Transfers

We may share your personal data within our organization and with trusted third-party service providers. This may involve transferring your data outside the country you reside in. Whenever we transfer your personal data internationally, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring at least one of the following safeguards is implemented:

• We will only transfer your personal data to countries that have been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data.
• Where we use certain service providers, we may use specific contracts approved for use in your jurisdiction, which give personal data the same protection it has in your country.

11. Changes to the Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last Updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

12. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, you can contact us:

By email: [email protected]