Privacy

At ILI, we have made some updates to our Privacy Policy to make it easier for you to understand what information we collect, why we collect it, and how we use it. These updates comply with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which went into effect in the European Union May 25, 2018.

What is personal information (or data)?

‘Personal information’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person.

What personal information do we collect?

We may collect and store personal information:

1. When you visit our website.

You can visit our website without telling us who you are or revealing personal information about yourself, including your e-mail address. Our web server may collect anonymous information related to your visit to our website, such as IP address and domain used to access our website, browser type, the website you came from to access our website, the page you entered and exited at, any website page within our website that is viewed by that IP address and the country where you are located. We use this information to monitor our website’s performance (such as number of visits, average time spent, page views, etc.) and for our operational purposes, such as working to continually upgrade our website.

2  When you directly give us personal information.

We may collect and store information about you when you interact with us through the Site or other ILI related sites. For example, this could be when you…

• use any of the contact forms provided on our website;
• support our work through a donation;
• register for an event;
• register for one of our (email) services;
• register to one of our e-courses;
• give us feedback;
• make a complaint;
• apply for a position or to volunteer through our website;
• correspond with a representative of ILI.

3 When you indirectly give us information.

When you interact with us on social media platforms such as Facebook (Messenger), WhatsApp, Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn, we may also obtain some personal information about you. The information we receive will depend on the privacy preferences you have set on each platform and the privacy policies of each platform. To change your settings on these platforms, please refer to their privacy statement. Also, we may obtain information about your visit to our site, for example the pages you visit and how you navigate the site, by using cookies. Please check the Cookies section in this Privacy Statement for more information.

If you are 16 or under, you must get your parent’s/guardian’s permission before you provide any personal information to us.

What information might we collect? When you engage with us by phone, mail, in person or online, we may collect information about you (referred to in this Privacy Statement as 'personal information'). This may include your name, address, email address, telephone number, date of birth, job title and details of your education and career, why you are interested in ILI, and other information relating to you personally which you may choose to provide to us.

Data protection law recognizes that certain types of personal information are more sensitive. This is known as 'sensitive' or 'special category' personal information and covers information revealing racial or ethnic origin, religious or philosophical beliefs and political opinions, trade union membership, genetic or biometric data, information concerning health or data concerning a person's sex life or sexual orientation.

With your explicit consent, we may also collect sensitive personal information if you choose to tell us about your experiences relating to our services.

How and why do we use your information? We will use your personal information for the following purposes:

• Donation processing: We will process personal information you provide in order to administer any one-time or on-going donations.
• Responding to a request: If you contact us with a question, we may use your personal information to provide you with a response.
• Fundraising or direct marketing: We will only send you marketing information by email, if you have given us specific consent. If you withdraw your consent and then subsequently opt in to receive marketing information again, then your most recent preference may supersede.
• Monitoring and Evaluating: We may use your information in order to improve current and future delivery of our services. In order to do so, we may use services of service providers.
• Processing an application to work with us: We may process your information if you send or fill in an application form or send us your CV or details in respect of an opportunity to work with us in order to evaluate your suitability and respond to you.
• Transactional purposes: We will need to use your personal information in order to carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us for goods or services.
• Providing and developing our website: We may use your personal information to help provide you with access to our website, personalize your experience, and improve and develop it further.
• Administration: We may use your personal information to record and deal with a complaint, record a request not to receive further marking information, record what our volunteers have done for us, and for other essential internal record keeping purposes.
• Protecting your vital interests: We may process your personal information where we reasonably think that there is a risk of serious harm or abuse to you or someone else.
• Market research and surveys: We may invite you to participate in surveys or market research to help us improve our website, fundraising, services and strategic development. Participation is always voluntary and no individuals will be identified as a result of this research, unless you consent to us publishing your feedback.
• Legal, regulatory and tax compliance: Where required we are subject to a legal obligation, we may process your personal information to fulfill that obligation.

Who do we share your information with? We will only use your information for the purposes for which it was obtained. We will not, under any circumstances, sell or share your personal information with any third party for their own purposes, and you will not receive marketing from any other companies, charities or other organizations as a result of giving your details to us.

 We will only share your data for the following purposes: Third party suppliers: We may need to share your information with data hosting providers or service providers who help us to deliver our services, projects, or fundraising activities and appeals. These providers will only act under our instruction and are subject to pre-contract scrutiny and contractual obligations containing strict data protection clauses.

Right now, we have agreements with 1 service provider:

• StudioDR (situated in Poland).
• Functional cookies
• Performance Cookies

Where legally required: We will comply with requests where disclosure is required by law. For example, we may disclose your personal information to the government for tax investigation purposes, or to law enforcement agencies for the prevention and detection of crime. We may also share your information with the emergency services if we reasonably think there is a risk of serious harm or abuse to you or someone else.

We always aim to ensure that personal information is only used by those third parties for lawful purposes in accordance with this Privacy Statement.

Third party Sites and Information The Site may contain links to other Web sites that are run by third parties such as other organizations, Sponsors, Content Providers and Advertisers.  Once you’ve clicked on a link or button activator for an outside Site, you will leave the Site and be taken to sites that we do not control, and our privacy policy no longer applies on those sites. You must read the privacy policy of the third-party website concerning how personal information will be used.  We also provide content created by third-parties on certain of our Sites.  We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Content Providers or Third-Party websites.

How do we protect your information? We use technical and corporate organizational safeguards to ensure that your personal information is secure. We limit access to information on a need-to-know basis and take appropriate measures to ensure that our people are aware that such information is only used in accordance with this Privacy Statement.

We undertake regular reviews of who has access to information that we hold to ensure that your information is only accessible by appropriately trained staff, volunteers and contractors.

 Our online forms are always encrypted and our network is protected and routinely monitored.

If you use your credit or debit card to donate to us, buy something or make a booking online, we pass your card details securely to our payment processing partners. We do this in accordance with industry standards and do not store the details on our website.

 However, please be aware that there are always inherent risks in sending information by public networks or using public computers and we cannot 100% guarantee the security of data (including personal information) disclosed or transmitted over public networks.

How long will we keep your personal information? We will keep your personal information in respect of financial transactions for as long as the law requires us to for tax or accounting purposes (which may be up to six years after a particular transaction).

 If you request that we stop processing your personal information for the purpose of marketing we may in some instances need to add your details to a suppression file to enable us to comply with your request not to be contacted.

INFORMATION PROCESSING

International Leadership Institute and its affiliates operate internationally.  Our computer systems are based in Carrollton Georgia, USA. Your personal data, if collected, will be processed by International Leadership Institute in Carrollton, Georgia. Any information entered into our online course platform may be processed by our partner StudioDR in Poland.

COOKIES

This site uses cookies to offer you a better browsing experience. See full details here. Below are two types of data we collect.

What You “Do” on the site. This can include:

• Things you search for
• Pages within our site you visit and the length of time you visit them
• Videos you watch
• Pop Ups you click on
• Your location
• Device information
• IP address and cookie data

Information you give us during a sign up process. This can include your:

• Name
• Email address
• Birthday
• Gender
• Phone number
• Country

You may request to be removed from any future contact from ILI by unsubscribing your email. ILI will take prompt steps to the best of our ability to adhere to your requests.

TERMS GOVERN USE; CHANGES TO TERMS

The terms of this privacy policy will govern the use of any information collected while it is in place. International Leadership Institute reserves the right to change this privacy policy at any time, so please re-visit this page. Changes to this privacy policy are effective at the time they are posted to this site.

HOW TO CONTACT US

If you have any questions or comments about this privacy policy or questions or requests about the personal information you provide on the site, please contact the site administrator by email or by phone at 770.832.1244.

DEFINITONS

"ILI" shall refer to the organization International Leadership Institute.