Privacy policy

FILE attaches great importance to respecting the right to privacy of the visitors of its website.

What data do we collect?

FILE collects the following data:

  • Personal identification information: Name, email address, phone number, online identifiers (see our website and cookies details below) and so on.

How do we collect your data?

You directly provide FILE with most of the data we collect. We collect data and process data when you:

  • Apply for a job with FILE

  • Apply for funding from FILE (please note, we do not accept unsolicited funding requests)

  • Contact us via email

  • Use or view our website via your browser’s cookies

How do we store your data?

FILE securely stores your data on our secure cloud-based servers and uses passwords to restrict access to relevant employees.

What are your data protection rights?

FILE would like to make sure you are fully aware of all your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:

  • The right to access – You have the right to request FILE for copies of your personal data.

  • The right to rectification – You have the right to request that FILE correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request FILE to complete the information you believe is incomplete.

  • The right to erasure – You have the right to request that FILE erase your personal data, under certain conditions.

  • The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that FILE restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

  • The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to FILE processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

  • The right to data portability – You have the right to request that FILE transfer the data that we have collected to another organisation, or directly to you, under certain conditions. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us via email at info@filefoundation.org

Our website

This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including:

  • Information about your browser, network and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Web pages you view while on this website

  • Your IP address

Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyses the data in a de-personalized form.

Analytics

This website also collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

  • Clicks

  • Internal links

  • Pages visited

  • Scrolling

  • Searches

  • Timestamps

We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

Cookies

Our website uses cookies, which are small text files stored on your computer or device when you access a website. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit the cookies Squarespace uses. You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies.

How to contact us

If you have any questions about FILE’s privacy policy, the data we hold on you, or you would like to exercise one of your data protection rights, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Email us at info@filefoundation.org

Or write to us: Stichting Foundation for International Law for the Environment, Keizersgracht 555 1017 DR Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

How to complain

If you have any concerns about our use of your personal information, you can make a complaint to us using the contact details above. We hope that we can resolve any query or concern you may raise about our use of your information.

The General Data Protection Regulation also gives you right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the European Union (or European Economic Area) state where you work, normally live or where any alleged infringement of data protection laws occurred. The supervisory authority in the Netherlands is the Dutch Data Protection Authority who may be contacted at Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens, PO Box 93374, 2509 AJ Den Haag, or telephone: +31 70 888 85 00.