Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation (VCDNP)
Donau-City Strasse 6
Andromeda Tower, Floor 13/1
1220 Vienna, Austria
VCDNP is committed to protecting your personal data. All information that you provide is stored on a secure IT infrastructure. VCDNP processes data in compliance with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR – link: https://www.eugdpr.org/ ).
This privacy statement sets out our privacy policy and explains what happens with personal data that we collect from our users. Please read the following descriptions to understand our practices regarding personal data, and how they pertain to you as you use our various site features and services.
Responsible
The responsible party for data processing is the Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation (VCDNP), with its registered office at Donau-City Strasse 6, Andromeda Tower, Floor 13/1 1220 Vienna, Austria. You can reach us by telephone at +43 (1) 236-94-82, by e-mail at info@vcdnp.org or by regular mail at Donau-City Strasse 6, Andromeda Tower, Floor 13/1 1220 Vienna, Austria.
Data security
VCDNP collects a limited amount of information about our site visitors. The information collected serves to improve our site and make it more pertinent and useful. By knowing a little about you, VCDNP can deliver more relevant content and improved user experience.
IP addresses and Website Requests
We store IP addresses and Website Requests to be able to troubleshoot in case something goes wrong and to understand what the underlying causes might have been.
Subscription to VCDNP Events and Updates
When you register for our updates, we ask you to provide us with your email address so we can e-mail you information about our events, news and updates. During the registration, we also ask you to provide your name and company because it is helpful to us to track our audience profile to better tailor the news we share. We will keep this information as long as you are registered for the newsletter or change your details in the link submitted with every email.
Only VCDNP will send you these e-mails. To send out announcements, we use a mailing system run by Constant Contact -- a US-based company certified under the “EU-U.S. Privacy Shield.” Your email address and information you enter with the subscription will be transferred to, and saved on, Constant Contact server in USA.
To unregister, please click the unsubscribe link which you will find on each of our e-mail messages.
Storage period
The deletion of stored personal data takes place when you, as a user of our website and/or customer, revoke your consent to storage, when your data is no longer required to fulfil the purpose for which it was stored, and after the expiration of legal storage obligations or after the expiration of the duration of any legal disputes that may continue beyond that time, or if your storage is or becomes inadmissible for other legal reasons.
Disclosure of data / recipients or categories of recipients
We do not give, rent, lend, or sell individual information to anyone outside of VCDNP.
VCDNP will only disclose personal data as described above to comply with applicable laws or valid legal process or to protect the rights or property of VCDNP.
We may disclose aggregate information -- for example, 5,000 readers clicked on a certain news-article -- in order to describe our services to partners and other third parties and for other lawful purposes. For all disclosures, we ensure that aggregate information cannot be traced back to individual users.
Many of our articles link from our site to areas on other sites. If you follow these links from our site to another site, you should be aware that these other sites have their own privacy and data collection practices. VCDNP has no responsibility or liability for these independent policies. For more information regarding a site and its privacy policies, check each site.
Cookies
Our website uses so-called cookies. We use cookies to make our website user-friendly. These are small text files that are stored on your end device with the help of the browser. They do not cause any damage. If you call up the corresponding server of our website again, your browser sends the previously received cookie back to the server. The server can then evaluate the information obtained through this procedure in various ways. Cookies can be used, for example, to control advertising or to make it easier to navigate a website.
If you wish to prevent the use of cookies, you can do so by making local changes to your settings in the Internet browser used on your computer (e.g. Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, etc.). You can set up your browser so that it informs you about the setting of cookies and you only allow this in individual cases. If you disable cookies, the functionality of our website may be limited.
Your rights
You are generally entitled to the rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction, data portability, revocation and objection.
Changes to this notice
This Privacy Policy is effective from 10 November 2022 and will remain in effect until updated.
We reserve the right to update or change our Privacy Policy at any time and you should check this Privacy Policy periodically.
If you believe that the processing of your data violates data protection law or your data protection rights have otherwise been violated in any way, you can contact us at info@vcdnp.org or contact the data protection authority.
