At the European Digital Laws Project, we take your privacy and your trust in us very seriously. This privacy policy provides you with information about how we collect, use, and disclose your personal information.

1. About This Privacy Policy

This privacy policy applies when you visit or use our websites, including this website (www.digitallaws.eu) that refer or link to this privacy policy (the “Service“). This privacy policy may be supplemented by additional privacy statements, terms or notices provided to you, including our Terms of Use, accessible via our website.

The data controller of your personal information provided to, or collected by or for, the Service, is Panthera Tigris Limited (with registered office address at 7 Bell Yard, London, WC2A 2JR), doing business as the European Digital Laws Project (“we”, “us”, “our”), which also owns or administers the Service, as identified therein.

2. Information We Collect

We collect information about you in the following ways:

Data You Provide to Us

The types of personal information that we collect directly from you depends on how you interact with us and the Service, which may include:

• • • Contact details, such as your name, email address, postal address, social media handle, and phone number;
    • General information, such as job title, place of work, educational and professional background and qualifications; and/or
    • Comments, feedback and other information you provide to us, including search query data and questions or information you send to us.

For example, the above information may be processed when you decide to get in touch with us via our “Contact” page.

Data from Other Sources

We may also obtain contact details and other information about you from our affiliates and from other third parties, including:

• • • Social networks when you grant permission to the Service to access your data on one or more networks, to the extent this function is implemented on the Service, if at all;
    • Businesses with which we collaborate or engage in joint marketing activities; and/or
    • Publicly available sources and data suppliers from which we obtain data to validate or supplement the information we hold, for example on receipt of your business inquiry.

Data from Service Use, including Cookies

The Service may automatically collect information about how you and your device interact with the Service, including:

• • • Computer, device and connection information, such as IP address, browser type and version, operating system and other software installed on your device, mobile platform and unique device identifier and other technical identifiers, error reports and performance data; and/ or
    • Usage data, such as the features you used, the settings you selected, your URL click stream data, including date and time stamp and referring and exit pages, search terms you used, and pages you visited or searched for on the Service.

We collect this data through our servers and the use of cookies and other technologies. Cookies are small text files that can be read by a web server in the domain that put the cookie on your hard drive. We may use cookies and other technologies to store your preferences and settings and analyze site operations. You can control cookies through your browser’s settings.  However, if you block certain cookies, you may not be able to register, login, or access certain parts or make full use of the Service. We rely on your consent for our use of any non-essential cookies (to the extent any are set by the Service).

3. How We Use Your information

Depending on how you interact with us and the Service, we use your personal information to:

• • Provide and manage your access to and use of the Service;
  • Process and fulfil a request, order, download, or other transaction;
  • Provide technical, product and other support and to help keep the Service working, safe and secure;
  • Enhance and improve the Service and our other products, events, and services and to develop new products, services and benefits;
  • Respond to your requests, inquiries, comments and concerns;
  • Notify you about changes, updates and other announcements related to the Service and our other products and services;
  • Provide you with promotional messages and other information about products, events and services of ours, our affiliates and third parties such as sponsors;
  • Invite you to participate in user testing and surveys as well as drawings, sweepstakes, competitions and similar promotions;
  • Identify usage trends and develop data analysis, including for purposes of research, audit, reporting and other business operations, including determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and evaluating our business performance, or in other ways pursuant to a customer agreement; and/or
  • Comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.

4. Sharing of Your Information

 Our Group Companies and Service Providers

Dependent upon the Services provided, we share information with:

• • • Our affiliates, trading names and divisions within the European Digital Laws Project that provide technology, customer service and other shared services functions; and/or
    • Our service providers, suppliers, agents and representatives, including but not limited to, payment processors, customer support, email service providers, event venues and service providers, IT service providers, marketing service providers, research providers, mailing houses and shipping agents;

to process the information as necessary to provide the Service, complete a transaction or fulfil your request or otherwise on our behalf based on our instructions and in compliance with this privacy policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.

Your Choices

We may share your personal information with our affiliates and with sponsors, joint venture entities and other third parties, including entities for which we are acting as an agent, licensee, application host or publisher, that wish to send you information about their products and services that may be of interest to you, as determined by your choices, and to the extent available to you.

The Service may let you post and share personal information, comments, materials and other content. Any such contributions that you disclose publicly may be collected and used by others. Please be careful when disclosing personal information in these public areas. When you contact us, please do not share any sensitive information with us.

For Legal Reasons

We also will disclose your personal information if we have a good faith belief that such disclosure is necessary to:

• • • meet any applicable law, regulation, legal process or other legal obligation;
    • detect, investigate and help prevent security, fraud or technical issues;
    • protect our rights, property or safety, or of our users, employees or others; and
    • as part of a corporate transaction, such as a transfer of assets to or an acquisition by or merger with another company.

5. Grounds for Processing

When we collect or otherwise process any personal information within the scope of applicable data protection laws, we do so:

• • where necessary to provide the Service, fulfil a transaction or otherwise perform a contract with you or at your request prior to entering into a contract;
  • where necessary for our compliance with applicable law or other legal obligations;
  • where necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest;
  • where necessary to enable our customers to comply with their legal obligations;
  • where applicable, with your consent; and/or
  • where necessary to operate our business, protect the security of our systems, customers and users, detect or prevent fraud, or fulfil our other legitimate interests as described in sections 2-4 above, except where our interests are overridden by your privacy rights.

Where we rely on your consent to process personal information, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time, and where we rely on legitimate interests, you may have the right to object to our processing.

6. Data Retention

We retain your personal information for as long as necessary to provide the Service and fulfil the transactions you have requested, or for other essential purposes such as complying with our legal obligations, maintaining business and financial records, resolving disputes, maintaining security, detecting, and preventing fraud and abuse, and enforcing our agreements.

7. Locations of Processing

Your personal information may be stored and processed in your region or another country where we, our affiliates and our and their service providers maintain servers and facilities, including within the European Union and the United Kingdom. We take steps intended to ensure that the information continues to be protected wherever it is located in a manner consistent with the standards of protection required under applicable law. We rely on the European Commission’s adequacy decision for transfers of your personal data between the European Union and the United Kingdom.

8. Data Security

We implement technical and organizational measures to seek to ensure a level of security appropriate to the risk to the personal information we process. These measures are aimed at ensuring the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of personal information.

9. Children’s Privacy

We do not knowingly collect information from children under the age of 14 or target the Service to children under 14. If you think we may have accidentally processed the personal information of a child, please contact us.

10. Your Rights

You may have the right under applicable privacy and data protection laws to request:

• • access to your personal information;
  • rectification or erasure of your personal information;
  • restriction of our processing of your personal information, or to object to our processing; and
  • portability of your personal information.

If you wish to exercise these rights, please submit your request in writing via our contact page. We will respond to your request consistent with applicable laws. To protect your privacy and security, we may require you to verify your identity.

You may also lodge a complaint to a data protection authority in the applicable jurisdiction.

11. Changes

We will update this privacy policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated revision date. If we make any material changes, we will provide notice through the Service or by other means.

12. Contact

If you have any questions, comments, complaints or requests regarding this privacy policy or our processing of your information, please contact us via our contact page.

13. Supplementary Notices

Authors / Contributors
Where we contract with you to produce content for any of our services, such as to write books, legal analysis, reviews, guidance or legal opinion for dissemination to our users, we will process some personal information about you. Such information includes:

• • name, organization, and contact details;
  • professional experience, role, practice area, affiliations and subject expertise;
  • professional biography or profile produced or approved by you, including your image, likeness or voice, which may be published within our Services and made available to our users alongside any content produced by you for us;
  • financial information in order to facilitate payments for works produced;
  • editorial and reviewer commentary and feedback as part of peer review; and
  • administration information such as author work progress updates.

The above information is processed to facilitate the publication of the work and to administer, manage and fulfil our contract with you.

Please refer to the main section of this privacy policy for details on your rights, retention, locations of processing, and contact details for any privacy and data protection inquiries.

Personal information within the content of our Service

Some of the content that we provide within our Service, by its very nature, includes personal information.

It should be stressed that such personal information is a matter of official court or public record. This information has been supplied to us for publication by the public bodies concerned in the interests of upholding and protecting the rule of law.

We have no power over what is reported within such records themselves. It is for the court or public agency to decide what personal information is to remain within the records that they disclose, and the balance to be struck between the public interests in disclosure and the privacy rights of individuals.

Please refer to the main section of this privacy policy for details on your rights, retention, locations of processing, and contact details for any privacy and data protection inquiries.

Last Updated: 29 August 2022