Hakkari Website Privacy Policy

To facilitate readability of the following statement, the abbreviations ‘HSWM’ or ‘we’ are used to refer to the“Hakkari Integrated Solid Waste Management Project 

We want you to know exactly how we operate your personal data and why we need which personal information. Please make sure to read the following policy statement carefully, before consenting to our data processing terms and conditions. We will never sell your data and promise to keep it safe and secure.

This Privacy Notice applies to all Personal Data that this website may generally collect, process and store about you. By providing your Personal Data to this website you expressly acknowledge that you have read and understood this Privacy Notice.

We reserve the right to amend the Privacy notice from time to time where reasonable to ensure it continues to accurately reflect the way in which we process Personal Data. Any updates or changes to the Privacy Notice will be published and highlighted at the end of this document.

This website uses the web analytics service Google Analytics. Provider is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

The Google Analytics tool uses so-called cookies. These are text files, which are stored on your computer and provide us with data connected to your visit on our website (country of origin, number of clicks, etc.). This cookie-generated user engagement information is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there.

We have activated the function IP anonymization on this website. As a result, your IP address (given that you operate from a device registered in an EU-member state or a country participating in the Agreement on the European Economic Area) will be shortened by Google prior to being transferred to the United States. In some cases, Google might take the liberty to anonymize the IP-address after transmitting it to US-servers, due to technical limitations. On behalf of the operator of this website (Hands On!), Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide Hands On! with other evaluation-based service packages. Your IP- address is only used for the Google analytics tool and will not be merged with any other Google data.

You can prevent the storage of cookies by changing your browser settings accordingly. However, we would like to point out that as a result, you might not be able to experience all functions of this website.

This privacy policy will explain how our organization uses the personal data we collect from you when you use our website.

Data Privacy is built into everything we do. To this end:

1. We take responsibility for the Personal Data we hold and process.
2. Personal Data of individuals is always protected, secure and kept confidential;
3. Personal Data is collected only where necessary for legal, regulatory and business purposes and only used for the purposes it was collected for;
4. Personal Data is collected and processed fairly, lawfully, transparently and in accordance the relevant law;
5. Processing of Personal Data is documented and assessed at the outset to ensure there is the minimum privacy risk and impact to individuals;
6. Personal Data is only kept for as long as is necessary to achieve the original processing purpose or to satisfy our legal and regulatory obligations.

This policy sets out the basis on which any Personal Data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us.

• What data do we collect and how

We collect the following data:

• If you communicate with us through email or contact form, we will collect your name, email address, phone and any other personal data included in the relevant message field.
• If you subscribe to our newsletter we will collect your email address. You will be able to be deleted from the newsletter anytime.
• During your visit at our website certain technical and statistical data may be automatically collected through the cookies placed on our website. For more information, please see the relevant Cookies policy.

How will we use your data

‘HSWM’ collects your data:

• To provide the website to you;
• To help us improve the website and fix any technical problems;
• To communicate with you, to respond to your enquiries and to the requests submitted to the Help Desk;
• To detect potential breaches of the website Terms of Use;
• To enforce our legal rights and
• To comply with any legal requirements to which we are subject.

Legal basis for processing your personal data

The legal basis for processing your personal data is:

• Υour consent in relation to the personal data collected: i) from cookies, ii) during your subscription to the newsletter service, iii) during the submission of a request to the Help Desk, iv) during your communication through the contact form;
• Τhe legitimate interests of HSWM project.  

How long we keep your personal data

Information collected on the HSWM website is kept for a limited period of time until the purpose for which it was initially collected has been fulfilled, and provided you do not exercise your rights of rectification or erasure as descripted in the section ‘Right to access, rectification & erasure’ of this statement.

If you have any further questions or comments regarding the use of your personal data or you would like to exercise your rights, you can send us an email here :