Version from 01.10.2024

The NGO «Academy for Heroes» is the owner of the website located at https://www.academy4heroes.com/, as well as pages on social networks at the following links: https://www.instagram.com/academy_for_heroes/, https://www.facebook.com/academy4heroes/, https://www.youtube.com/@AcademyforHeroes, https://www.linkedin.com/company/academyforheroes/. Respecting your privacy, it has created this Privacy Policy and undertakes to process your personal data in accordance with the current legislation of Ukraine and international privacy standards. This Privacy Policy explains how we process your personal data (purpose, processing procedures, composition of personal data, etc.) and what rights you have in connection with our processing of your personal data – based on the Law of Ukraine ‘On Personal Data Protection’ dated 01.06.2010 No. 2297-VI and Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation).

 

Consent to the processing of your personal data

By agreeing to the use of cookies during your first visit to this website, in accordance with the provisions of this Policy, you give us full and unconditional permission to use cookies during each of your subsequent visits until you withdraw (cancel) such consent.

By ticking the box that you consent to the processing of your personal data, you give us your voluntary, full, and unconditional consent to the processing of your personal data in the manner, terms, and conditions set out in this Privacy Policy.

You may withdraw your consent to the processing of your personal data at any time by sending a notification to our email address: press.academy4heroes@gmail.com.

If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not visit or use this website and social media of the NGO «Academy for Heroes». By visiting the website, you automatically consent to the processing of your personal data. 

 

What personal data do we process

 

We process the following types of personal data:

  • Information about your computer, including your IP address, geographic location, browser type and version, and operating system;
  • Information about your visits to and use of this website and the Organisation’s social media pages, including referral sources, duration of visits, pages viewed, and site navigation paths;
  • Information about your first name, surname, patronymic, age, gender, city of residence, your email address, telephone number, and other data that you entered when registering on our website;
  • Information that you have entered when filling out a feedback form on our website or provided to us in the Organisation’s social network – for example, your first name, surname, patronymic, phone number, and email address;
  • Information that you have provided when subscribing to our mailing lists and/or newsletters (your name, surname, patronymic, and email address);
  • Information you have entered when using the services of our website;
  • Information generated by the use of our website, including information about the time, frequency, and conditions of its use;
  • Information contained in any communications you have sent to us by email or through our website (feedback form) or social media, including the content of the message and the metadata;
  • Any other personal information that you have sent or provided to us, including, but not limited to, your postal address, the name of the company you work for, your position title, information about your military service, military rank, and other information, the processing of which is not restricted or prohibited by law.

 

How we collect your personal data We receive your personal data in the following ways:

  • Directly from you by filling out forms on the website, subscribing to newsletters, providing information about your personal data when participating in our events or projects (online and offline), or providing information about your personal data on the Organisation’s social media pages. With this, we can access the following personal data that users usually leave on their own: email; phone; name, surname, patronymic; address; date of birth; gender; bank card number; links to social media profiles.
  • Automatically through the use of cookies and other tracking technologies. In this way, the NGO «Academy for Heroes» can access such personal data as location, IP address, Internet provider, date/time stamp, country/state, cookies, browser and device information, and website behaviour: form autocomplete, shopping carts, web page browsing time, URL, HTTP referrer, User Agent, etc.
  • from partners or third parties with whom you interact. We may receive information that other companies share with us or sell to us. For example, you may have consented to another company sharing your personal information with us when you signed up for a telecommunications service or a merchant’s rewards program. We may also collect information from publicly available sources, such as online publications, blog posts, videos, or social media pages. We may also receive information from other companies, such as consumer data resellers, who collect or aggregate data that they receive from publicly available databases (in accordance with local legal requirements) or with your consent to the use of your data by such companies and subsequently by us.

 

Purpose of personal data processing

Personal information and personal data transmitted to us through our website or through our social media will be used for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We may use your personal information (personal data) for the following purposes:

  • carrying out the statutory activities of the Organisation;
  • providing training sessions, lectures, seminars, training courses, other services, and implementation and organisation of other projects with your participation;
  • administering our website and activities (including, but not limited to: quality control, staff training and analytics, system administration and technology management, including for optimising our websites, maintaining records and auditing interactions with users of our website, including maintaining logs and records that form part of transaction information);
  • maintaining and checking security systems;
  • personalising our website for you;
  • enabling you to use the services available on our website;
  • performing analytics on website users, social media followers, and participants in projects, programmes, seminars, etc. implemented by the Organisation;
  • fulfilment of the terms of contracts concluded with you, pre-contractual agreements, and negotiations;
  • sending you notices, invoices, and payment reminders, and receiving payments from you; sending you products or samples at your request;
  • sending you non-marketing commercial communications;
  • sending you emails and letters;
  • sending you email newsletters if you have ordered them or agreed to receive them (at any time you may notify us that you no longer wish to receive email newsletters from us by writing to press.academy4heroes@gmail.com);
  • sending you marketing communications about our business activities or the business activities of carefully selected third parties that we believe may be of interest to you, through publications or, where you have specifically consented to this, by email or similar technologies (you may notify us at any time that you no longer wish to receive marketing communications by emailing press.academy4heroes@gmail.com);
  • analysing non-personalised data, summarising it, and creating graphs and reports by certain categories;
  • providing other parties with statistical information about our users (however, these other parties will not be able to identify any individual user from this data, except as provided in this Privacy Policy);
  • handling inquiries and complaints made by or about you and relating to our website;
  • ensuring the security of our website and preventing fraud;
  • verifying compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of our website and our social media; and
  • for other legitimate purposes.

 

For how long we process your personal data

Personal data that we process for a particular purpose or purposes will not be stored by us for longer than is necessary to achieve that purpose or those purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. Your personal data will be stored for as long as the purpose of its processing is present and until you send us a request to delete your personal data or revoke your consent to its processing. If you do not send such a request, your personal data will be deleted within the following period: after 36 months of inactivity via all communication channels. We define inactivity by several internal criteria. Notwithstanding the other provisions of this clause, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing your personal information:

  • where we are required to do so by law;
  • if we believe that these documents may be relevant to any current or future legal, arbitration, or administrative dispute;
  • in order to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights and interests (including providing information to other parties to prevent fraud).

 

To whom your personal data may be disclosed

You give us the right to disclose your personal information (personal data) to any of our employees, managers, insurers, professional advisers (including lawyers, notaries, etc.), consultants and companies in the field of information technology and security, as well as other companies that provide services to us, agents, suppliers, contractors, or subcontractors, teachers, lecturers, partners, co-organisers, and co-executors of projects, as well as any third persons with your consent – to the extent and for the purposes set out in this Policy. We provide such persons with only the personal information that they need to perform the tasks we assign to them. We require them to protect your information in the same manner as we do and not to share or use it for any other purpose.

You have the right to withdraw (cancel) your consent to the transfer of your personal data to third parties at any time by writing to the following email address: press.academy4heroes@gmail.com.

In addition, we may transfer your personal data upon request in the performance of operational and investigative or counterintelligence activities, the fight against terrorism; in the exercise by public authorities and local governments of their powers provided for by law; in cases of processing personal data for historical, statistical, or scientific purposes.

The information (data) we collect may be stored, processed, and transferred between any countries in which we operate, own, or use data storage servers, or in which our employees, officers, policyholders, professional advisers (including lawyers, notaries, etc.), agents, suppliers, contractors, or subcontractors are located in order to enable us to use this information in accordance with this Policy. The information we collect may be transferred to the following countries that do not have data protection laws similar to those in the European Economic Area: USA, Japan, China, and India.

By agreeing to this Privacy Policy, you consent to the transfer of your personal data in accordance with the provisions of this section, and you also agree that we will not notify you of each transfer of your personal data to third parties unless you have requested us to do so in writing.

By agreeing to this Privacy Policy, you consent to the modification, deletion, or destruction of your personal data or the restriction of access to it without notifying you, unless you have submitted a written request for such notification to us.

 

What rights do you have in connection with our processing of your personal data?

You have the right to:

  • know about the sources of collection, location of your personal data, the purpose of its processing, the location of our Organisation or give a corresponding order to receive this information from authorised persons, except in cases established by law;
  • receive information about the conditions for granting access to personal data, including information about third parties to whom your personal data is transferred;
  • to access your personal data;
  • protect your personal data from unlawful processing and accidental loss, destruction, damage due to intentional concealment, failure to provide or untimely provision, as well as to protect against the provision of information that is inaccurate or discredits the honour, dignity, and business reputation of an individual;
  • withdraw consent to the processing of personal data at any time without prejudice to the legality of processing based on consent prior to its withdrawal;
  • refuse marketing messages sent to you by the NGO «Academy for Heroes» at any time;
  • exercise the right to ‘be forgotten’ – the right to erase your personal data;
  • have your incorrect or inaccurate personal data corrected; restrict the processing of personal data in cases provided for in Article 18 of the General Data Protection Regulation;
  • lodge a complaint regarding the inadequate protection or processing of your personal data with the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights and apply to the court;
  • other rights provided by law, which you can find at the following link: https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/2297-17#n110

By using our website or social media, you confirm that you are aware of your rights regarding the protection of personal data.

 

Data protection

We take appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure the protection of your personal data against accidental loss or destruction, unlawful processing, including unlawful destruction or access to personal data. Our security measures include data encryption, access control, and regular system monitoring, as well as regular training of our employees, partners, and contractors on personal data protection.

 

Links

The NGO «Academy for Heroes» website contains links, plug-ins, and applications to various third-party websites. Clicking on these links or enabling such connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. The NGO «Academy for Heroes» has no control over, and assumes no responsibility for, the content, privacy policies, or the reliability of such third-party connections. When you leave a website, the NGO «Academy for Heroes» encourages you to review the privacy notice and privacy policy of each website you choose to visit.

 

Cookies and other tracking technologies

The NGO «Academy for Heroes» uses cookies and other technologies to improve your user experience on our website. These technologies help us analyse traffic, personalise content, and understand how you interact with our website. You can control your cookie preferences through your browser settings to reject all or some cookies or to notify you when a website sets or accesses cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, some parts of the NGO «Academy for Heroes» website may become inaccessible or not function properly.

 

Changes to the Privacy Policy

The NGO «Academy for Heroes» reserves the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy from time to time at its sole discretion. Previous versions of the Privacy Policy can be viewed on the website of the NGO «Academy for Heroes». The NGO «Academy for Heroes» recommends that you regularly review this page to be aware of the current version of the Privacy Policy.

Contact information

It is important that your personal data processed by the NGO «Academy for Heroes» are accurate and up-to-date. Please notify the NGO «Academy for Heroes» if your personal data changes by sending an email to the email address below.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, website practices, or your interactions with the NGO «Academy for Heroes», please contact us.

 

Personal data owner and controller:

NGO «Academy for Heroes»

м. Lviv, 3, E. Petrushevych Square

website: www.academy4heroes.com

e-mail: press@academy4heroes.com

mariakondyrevych@academy4heroes.com

social media: https://www.instagram.com/academy_for_heroes/, https://www.facebook.com/academy4heroes/, https://www.youtube.com/@AcademyforHeroes, https://www.linkedin.com/company/academyforheroes/

phone number: +380996443810