Private policy

Your Privacy is important to us

Private policy

“ArchEurasia GmbH” (Registration: HRB 32847. Legal address: Kaiser Friedrich Ring 41; 65185 Wiesbaden, Germany) is the operator of the “Eurasian Prize“ International Competition. “ArchEurasia GmbH“ operates website eurasian-prize.com. Your privacy is important to us. It is Eurasian Prize’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect from you across our website. This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, share, protect and process your information.

We have a few fundamental principles:

  • We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it.
  • We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
  • We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of one of our services.
  • In our profile pages and portfolio creation products, we aim to make it as simple as possible for you to control what’s visible to the public, seen by search engines, kept private, and permanently deleted.

This privacy policy explains how we process the personal data obtained from our users. By using our website, and reading this policy:

  • you declare your consent for us processing your personal data for contacting purposes;
  • you declare your consent for us processing your personal data for internal administrative reasons;
  • and you are deemed notified of such processing.

If you accept these terms on behalf of a third party (such as an agency client), you confirm that the third party you represent has read and understood the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy and that you’re authorized to accept them on their behalf.

We may update our privacy policy to reflect current acceptable practices. We will take reasonable steps to let users know about changes via our website. If you are a registered user on our site, we will notify you using the contact details saved in your account. Your continued use of this site after any changes to this policy will be regarded as acceptance of our practices around privacy and personal information.

If you accept these terms on behalf of a third party (such as an agency client), you confirm that the third party you represent has read and understood the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy and that you’re authorized to accept them on their behalf.

Personal data we collect and how do we use it

We collect information by fair and lawful means, with your knowledge and consent. We also let you know why we’re collecting it and how it will be used. You are free to refuse our request for this information, with the understanding that we may be unable to provide you with some of your desired services without it. Examples of personal data that we may collect from you are the following: Name, Email, Social media profiles, Profession, Date of birth, Company, Phone/mobile number, Mailing address, Work address, Record of communication, IP address

When you visit our website, our servers may automatically log the standard data provided by your web browser. This data is considered “non-identifying information”, as it does not personally identify you on its own. It may include your computer’s Internet Protocol (IP) address, your browser type and version, visited pages, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on each page, search terms, cookies, and other details. This data is kept for statistical purposes.

We use “cookies” to collect information about you and your activity across our site. A cookie is a small piece of data that our website stores on your browser, and accesses each time you visit, so we can understand how visitors use our site. This helps us serve you content based on preferences you have specified.

Main purposes of processing

We may use a combination of identifying and non-identifying information to understand who our visitors are, detect errors, how they use our services, and how we may improve their experience of our website in future. It is used for organizational, administrative, and internal reasons, and we do not disclose the specifics of this information publicly, but may share aggregated and anonymised versions of this information, for example, in website and customer usage trend reports.

We use your personal data for the construction of your profile, which allows you to submit, collect, aggregate, or share (both privately or publicly) information. As you use our services, we will use, collect, store, record and structure this data to improve and personalize the experience and/or features of our website. However, we cannot exclude other ways of data processing, if necessary for the above mentioned purposes. This data can be shared publicly, under your control and after you consent, and we give you control over it. We will also offer as part of our site services to connect you with third parties, and we will only do so and provide the personal data required for this communication with your consent.

We may use your personal details to contact you with updates about our website and services, along with promotional content that we believe may be of interest to you. If you wish to opt out of receiving promotional content, you can follow the “unsubscribe” instructions provided alongside any promotional correspondence from us and at your settings page.

We may also collect and/or transfer your personal data from the European Economic Area (the “EEA”) outside the EEA. If we do so, we reasonably ensure that your rights and freedoms as a data subject are protected.

Security of your personal data

Eurasian Prize uses a variety of security measures to keep your personal data protected from unauthorised access and disclosure. Eurasian Prize processes your personal data based on the following principles:

  • Fairness and lawfulness: we process your personal data only after obtaining your consent for the processing, and for a determined specific purpose;
  • Transparency: we process your personal data in a transparent manner, and only with your knowledge;
  • Purpose limitation: your personal data is processed within the purposes outlined above;
  • Data minimization: we only process your personal data to the extent that it is actually needed to achieve the processing purposes;
  • Accuracy: we ensure that your personal data is accurate and kept up to date;
  • Storage limitation: your personal data will be processed for the limited period of 5 years, if no other contractual obligations with you allow a longer time period;
  • Integrity and confidentiality: we secure your personal data with suitable organizational and technical measures.

Access to your personal data

Only a limited number of Eurasian Prize employees and contractors have access to your data, having signed confidentiality clauses to protect it.

We use our best efforts not to disclose any confidential information to third parties. We maintains a secure site, but you should know that computer use may be monitored by third parties such as network administrators, employers, internet providers, and operation system & internet browser vendors, and, thus, we cannot guarantee the security of information you post online. Please remember that this website may be hosted outside your home country, and your email communications to us may be directed to a server that is hosted outside your home country.

We use third-party services for: Analytics tracking, User authentication, Comments, Forms processing, Advertising and promotion, Content marketing, Email marketing, Payment processing. These services may access our data solely for the purpose of performing specific tasks on our behalf. We do not share any personally identifying information with them without your explicit consent. We do not give them permission to disclose or use any of our data for any other purpose.

We will refuse government and law enforcement requests for data if we believe a request is too broad or unrelated to its stated purpose. However, we may cooperate if we believe the requested information is necessary and appropriate to comply with legal process, to protect our own rights and property, to protect the safety of the public and any person, to prevent a crime, or to prevent what we reasonably believe to be illegal, legally actionable, or unethical activity.

Storage of your data

The personal information we collect is stored and processed in European Economic Area, or where we or our partners, affiliates maintain facilities. We only transfer data within jurisdictions subject to data protection laws that reflect our commitment to protecting the privacy of our users.

We only retain personal information for as long as necessary to provide a service, or to improve our services in future. While we retain this data, we will protect it within commercially acceptable means to prevent loss and theft, as well as unauthorised access, disclosure, copying, use or modification.

If you request your personal information be deleted, or where your personal information becomes no longer relevant to our operations, we will erase it from our system within a reasonable timeframe.

This privacy policy only covers Eurasian Prize’s own collecting and handling of data. We only work with partners, affiliates and third-party providers whose privacy policies align with ours, however we cannot accept responsibility or liability for their respective privacy practices.

Our website may link to external sites that are not operated by us. Please be aware that we have no control over the content and policies of those sites, and cannot accept responsibility or liability for their respective privacy practices.

Your privacy rights

As our user, you have the right to be informed about how your data is collected and used. You are entitled to know what data we collect about you, and how it is processed. You are entitled to correct and update any personal information about you, and to request this information be deleted. You may amend or remove your account information at any time, using the tools provided in your account control panel.

You are entitled to restrict or object to our use of your data, while retaining the right to use your personal information for your own purposes. You have the right to opt out of data about you being used in decisions based solely on automated processing.

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