Cookie Policy

Last Updated: September 11, 2024

1. Introduction

This Cookie Policy explains how the ECDMA Global Awards website (“Website”) uses cookies and similar technologies (“Cookies”) to enhance your browsing experience and provide us with information about how the Website is used.

2. What are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device by websites you visit. They are widely used to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the website owners.

3. How We Use Cookies:

We use Cookies for the following purposes:

• Strictly Necessary Cookies: These Cookies are essential for the Website to function properly. They enable you to navigate the site and use its features, such as accessing secure areas. These Cookies do not gather information about you for marketing purposes.

• Performance Cookies: These Cookies collect information about how visitors use the Website, such as the pages visited most often and if error messages are received. We use this information to improve the performance and usability of the Website. These Cookies do not collect personally identifiable information.

• Functionality Cookies: These Cookies allow the Website to remember choices you make (such as your language preference) and provide enhanced, more personalized features.

• Marketing Cookies: These Cookies are used to track your browsing activity across websites and to deliver targeted advertising that may be of interest to you. We may use third-party services for marketing purposes, and these third parties may also place their own Cookies on your device.

4. Cookies We Use:

5. Managing Your Cookie Preferences:

• Browser Settings: You can manage your Cookie preferences through your web browser settings. Most browsers allow you to block or delete Cookies, control third-party Cookies, and receive notifications when a Cookie is set.

• Cookie Consent Tool: When you visit our website for the first time, we will show you a pop-up with an explanation about cookies. You can use this tool to accept or decline different types of cookies.

• Do Not Track: We honor Do Not Track (DNT) signals. You can enable the DNT setting in your web browser to request that websites do not track your browsing activity. However, please note that even if you enable DNT, some websites (including ours) may still collect information about your browsing activity for purposes that are not related to personalized advertising.

Please note that disabling or blocking certain Cookies may affect the functionality of the Website.

6. Legal Basis for Processing:

The legal basis for processing your personal information using Cookies depends on the type of Cookie and the specific purpose.

• Strictly Necessary Cookies: Processed based on our legitimate interests in operating the Website and providing you with essential functionality.

• Performance Cookies: Processed based on our legitimate interests in understanding how the Website is used and improving its performance.

• Functionality Cookies: Processed based on your consent, which you can manage through the cookie consent tool or your browser settings.

• Marketing Cookies: Processed based on your consent.

7. Data Retention:

We retain cookie data for the following periods:

• Strictly Necessary Cookies: Retained for the duration of your browsing session.

• Performance Cookies: Retained for up to 12 months.

• Functionality Cookies: Retained for up to 12 months.

• Marketing Cookies: Retained for up to 6 months.

You can delete Cookies from your browser at any time.

8. Third-Party Cookies:

We may use third-party services on our Website, such as analytics providers or social media platforms. These third parties may set their own Cookies on your device. We do not control the use of third-party Cookies and recommend that you review the privacy policies of these third parties:

• Google Analytics: https://policies.google.com/privacy

• Stripe: https://stripe.com/gb/privacy

• Matomo: https://matomo.org/privacy-policy/

• Google Fonts: https://policies.google.com/privacy

• Google reCAPTCHA: https://policies.google.com/privacy

• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy/

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/en/privacy

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy

• WhatsApp: https://www.whatsapp.com/legal/

9. International Data Transfers:

As a UK-based organization, we may transfer your personal information, including cookie data, to countries outside the UK and the European Economic Area (EEA). These countries may have different data protection laws than the UK. We will take appropriate measures to ensure that your personal information is protected in accordance with this Cookie Policy and applicable data protection laws when transferred internationally.

10. Your Rights:

You have the following rights regarding your personal information:

• Access: You have the right to request access to the personal information we hold about you.

• Rectification: You have the right to request correction of any inaccurate or incomplete personal information we hold about you.

• Erasure: You have the right to request deletion of your personal information in certain circumstances, such as when it is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or when you withdraw your consent.

• Objection: You have the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances, such as when we process it for direct marketing purposes.

To exercise these rights, please contact us using the contact details below.

11. Changes to this Cookie Policy:

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time. We encourage you to review this Policy periodically for any changes.

12. Contact Us:

If you have any questions or concerns about this Cookie Policy or our data practices, please contact us at:

Community Management LTD
71-75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2H 9JQ, UNITED KINGDOM
Email: [email protected]

By using our website, you consent to the use of Cookies as described in this Cookie Policy.