Using this site

By using and/or visiting Team CommUNITY’s website you signify your agreement to the terms and conditions which follow.

Team CommUNITY may modify or revise these terms and conditions and any related policies at any time, and you agree to be bound by such modifications or revisions.

Using information on Team CommUNITY (www.digitalrights.community)

Team CommUNITY (a program housed at ARTICLE 19) aims to ensure that the content and information provided here is accurate at the time of posting, however we we cannot guarantee the absolute accuracy information contained in its pages all the time, and any person using information contained in them does so entirely at their own risk.

Copyright

The copyright in the contents of this website are owned by ARTICLE 19 or its licensors.  Although the data and information available through digitalrights.community is owned by ARTICLE 19, we operate a Creative Commons License 3.0 and specifically the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial ShareAlike 2.5 license.  Under this license you are free to copy, distribute and display this work and to make derivative works, provided you: 1) give credit to CommUNITY and ARTICLE 19; 2) do not use this work for commercial purposes; 3) distribute any works derived from this publication under a license identical to this one.  Please contact info@article19.org if you wish to use any of the materials on this website or require further information.

Protecting your privacy

ARTICLE 19 is committed to protecting your privacy. We only collect data from you when you register to receive updates from us. We will use user data we collect from you only in accordance with the following guidelines:

  • to provide updates to you

  • to provide and improve our service to you, to notify you of any changes to our terms and conditions of us

  • collection of personal data is subject to our Data Protection Policy.

Two of ARTICLE 19’s core values are Accountability and Integrity. We regard the lawful and correct treatment of personal information as crucial to upholding our values and to maintaining confidence between us and those with whom we carry out our work. We ensure that we treat personal information lawfully and correctly.

The ARTICLE 19 Data Security Policy outlines our undertakings with regard to compliance with data protection law and is designed to support:

  • Compliance with data protection law and good practice

  • Protection of privacy rights of supporters, beneficiaries, partners and staff

  • Openness about how we handle confidential and personal data

  • Management of risk

  • Standards of good practice in accordance with our publicly stated principles.

Links to third party websites

Within this website we include links to third party advice that may be of use to our users. When using the site, you may gain access to other websites through use of links or hypertext. In using this site you agree that ARTICLE 19 is not responsible for the advice given by the third party organisations or for the content or operation of such third party websites.

ARTICLE 19, to the extent permissible by law, excludes all liability which may arise from your use or reliance on the information or contents contained in the linked site.

About Cookies 

A cookie is a file containing an identifier a string of letters and numbers that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.

Cookies may be either ‘persistent’ cookies or ‘session’ cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed. Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

Cookies can be used by web servers to identify and track users as they navigate different pages on a website and identify users returning to a website.

How Team CommUNITY uses cookies

CommUNITY uses cookies on its website to understand more about users and to improve their experience across the website. The purposes for which they are used are set out below:

  • to improve the website’s usability

  • to analyse the use of the website

  • to administer the website

  • to improve the security of the website

We use Google Analytics Universal to analyse the use of our website. Our analytics service provider generates statistical and other information about website use by means of cookies.

The information generated relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website. Our analytics service provider’s privacy policy is available at here.

Managing your cookie settings

Most browsers allow you to changing your settings and preferences for cookies. Use the links below to take a look at individual browser settings:

If you are using a browser we have not included above please refer to their website and support services.

COLLECTING OTHER INFORMATION

Email sign-up to our newsletter: When you provide us with your email address to receive newsletter updates at that email address, we use this internally and never share it with others. We will confirm your consent to receive the newsletters regularly, at least every 12 months. We send our newsletter using Mailman, which stores subscribers email addresses.

Donation information: For donor outreach and reporting purposes, we store your donation history, which may include your name, email address, postal address, and other contact information provided to us by the payment processor in our donor database, which is hosted and operated by Donorbox. We use Stripe to process donations. We do not receive or store your credit card or bank account information. If you would like to be removed from our donor database, please contact us at team(at)digitalrights(dot)community.

Other personal information: We don't collect your information without your permission. We don't use your information without your permission.

SHARING INFORMATION

We never sell or rent your information.

We do not share your information with anyone outside the organization, and to ensure this we avoid the use of third-party services. We will only disclose personal information that we possess (whether about staff, contacts or anyone else) where compelled by law.

OTHER APPLICABLE POLICIES

If you want to obtain a copy of any personal information about you that we have in our systems, please write to team(at)digitalrights(dot)community.

If you want us to delete personal information about you that we have stored in our systems, please write to team(at)digitalrights(dot)community.