This privacy policy is composed to comply with GDPR-standards. We have put necessary procedures in place to protect your data. We only gather and store data via the contact form. In case a comment is placed or an account is created, we follow the standard wordpress guidelines.

Who are we?

The Nile Institute Foundation. https://nile-institute.be.

What data we store and why it?

We only store data provided via the contact form. This includes the input fields ‘name’, ‘e-mailaddress’ and ‘message’. In case the checkbox ‘I want to receive updates on the Nile Institute project’ is indicated as ‘yes’, we will send out updates on our project to the respective parties.

Comments

When visitors leave responses on the site, we collect the data shown in the response form, the visitor’s IP address and the browser user agent to fight spam.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) can be sent to the Gravatar service if you use it. The privacy policy page can be found here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. Once your comment is approved, your profile picture will be publicly visible in the context of your comment.

Media

When uploading images to the website, you should avoid uploading images containing GPS location data (EXIF data). Visitors to the website can download the images from your website and view this location data.

Contact form

We store data provided via the contact form. This includes the input fields ‘name’, ‘e-mailaddress’ and ‘message’. In case the checkbox ‘I want to receive updates on the Nile Institute project’ is indicated as ‘yes’, we will send out updates on our project to the respective parties.

Cookies

When you leave a comment on our site, you can indicate whether we can store your name, email address and website in a cookie. We do this for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in this information again for a new comment. These cookies are valid for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this website, we store a temporary cookie to determine whether your browser accepts cookies. This cookie does not contain any personal data and is deleted when you close your browser.

Once you log in, we will store some cookies related to your login information and screen display options. Login cookies are valid for 2 days and screen display cookies for 1 year. If you select “Remember me”, your login will be saved for 2 weeks. Once you log out of your account, the login cookies will be deleted.

When you change or publish a message, an additional cookie is stored by your browser. This cookie does not contain any personal data and only contains the post ID of the article you have edited. This cookie expires after one day.

Embedded content

Messages on this website may contain embedded content. For example videos, images, messages, etc. Embedded content from other websites behaves exactly the same as if the visitor has visited this other website.

These websites may collect information about you, use cookies, embed third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with such embedded content, including your interaction with embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

We use the plug-in ‘WP Statistics’ which tracks traffic on our website. This only includes traffic data and does not include / is not used to identify individuals.

Do we share your data?

No. Only the board members of the Nile Institute Foundation have insight into your personal data.

How long do we store your data?

Following the standar privacy policy; When you leave a reaction, that reaction and the metadata of that reaction will be saved forever. This way we can automatically recognize and approve follow-up responses instead of having to moderate them. The same applies for reactions in the contact form.

For users who register on our website (if applicable), we also store personal information in their user profile. All users can view, change or delete their personal information at any time (only the user name cannot be changed). Site administrators may also view and change this information.

Your data rights

If you have an account on this website or have posted comments, you may request an export file of your personal information that we have on you, including any information you have given us. You may also request that we remove any personal information we have about you. This does not contain any data that we are required to keep for administrative, legal or security purposes.

Where do we send your data?

Visitor comments can be checked via an automated spam detection service.

How we protect your data

Your data is protected with the most attention of our privacy policy. It is stored offline in an excel-sheet. We will not share your information. All parties with access to the data are made aware of the risks and confidentiality of your data.

Procedures in case of a data breach

All affected parties will be informed within 48 hours of the data breach on a possible risk, including details on the kind and timing of the data breach. A recent offline back-up will be restored.