The Visa Project, accessible from https://www.thevisaproject.com/, one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy document contains types of information that are collected and recorded by The Visa Project and how we use it.
If you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us using our contact form.
This Privacy Policy informs you of our views, practices and policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of personal data we receive from users of the Site.
Table of Contents
Types of Data Collected
1.Website Contact Forms
Whenever you submit a message a through one of the contact forms on our website, we ask you for personal information, such as your name, email address and other contact details. This is required so that we can respond to your message.
No data will be collected, if you do not use or submit an online form on The Visa Project.
2.Technical data (such as ‘IP address’)
When you visit The Visa Project, our systems would log a record of your visit in our server logs, and typically this record will include the technical ‘IP’ address that is associated with your device.
This is extremely common. IP addresses, do not allow us in any way to identify you as an individual, as your service provider allocates them dynamically and they change routinely.
3.Website Analytics
We use Google Analytics to better understand what people look at on our website.
When people visit our site, information about their visit (such as which pages they look at, how long they spend on the site and so on) is sent in an anonymous form to Google Analytics (which is controlled by Google) or Matomo (which is hosted on our own servers).
The data contains information about anyone who uses our website from your computer, and there is no way to identify individuals from the data.
We ensure that no personally identifiable information is ever contained within the data sent to our analytics providers, and we also perform a process which partially obscures your IP address information.
As analytics information is not personal data, we do not specifically ask for your prior consent.
4.Email Signup Forms
When you provide us your email address and name through one of the signup forms on The Visa Project, we save that information to be able to send you newsletters, campaigns, offers and posts etc.
No data will be collected, if you do not submit your details through the signup forms on The Visa Project.
5.Cookies & Web Beacons
What are cookies?
Cookies are simple text files with a small amount of data, which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Specific cookies known as HTTP cookies are used to identify specific users and improve your web browsing experience.
Data stored in a cookie is created by the server upon your connection. This data is labeled with an ID unique to you and your computer.
It is standard practice to use cookies to make your experience better when using a website.
Like any other website, The Visa Project uses ‘cookies’. These cookies are used to store information including visitors’ preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users’ experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors’ browser type and/or other information.
Google DoubleClick DART Cookie
Google is one of a third-party vendor on our site. It also uses cookies, known as DART cookies, to serve ads to our site visitors based upon their visit to www.website.com and other sites on the internet. However, visitors may choose to decline the use of DART cookies by visiting the Google ad and content network Privacy Policy at the following URL – https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads
Advertising Partners Privacy Policies
You may consult this list to find the Privacy Policy for each of the advertising partners of The Visa Project.
Third-party ad servers or ad networks uses technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on The Visa Project, which are sent directly to users’ browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit.
Note that The Visa Project has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.
How to Control Cookies?
As per this Privacy Policy, you have the right to accept or reject cookies. If you reject cookies, you will still be able to use the website although certain features and functionalities may not be available to you and/or certain areas may be restricted.
Along with what’s indicated within this Policy, you can also manage preferences for cookies directly from within your own browser and prevent – for example – third parties from installing cookies.
You can also choose to delete cookies installed in the past, including the cookies that may have saved the initial consent for the installation of cookies by this Site, using browser preferences.
You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. To know more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found at the browsers’ respective websites.
As far as cookies installed by third parties are concerned, users can manage their preferences and withdraw their consent by clicking the related opt-out link (if provided), by contacting the third party or by using the mechanism provided in the third party’s privacy policy.
Consent
By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms. By submitting personal data to us, you agree to us using your personal data as follows.
How We use Your Information
We use the information we collect in various ways, including to:
- communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, including for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the webste, and for marketing and promotional purposes
- send you newsletters at least weekly, although it could be less frequent
- interact with support and feedback platforms
- manage contacts and send messages, and allow registration and authentication
- communicate with external social networks and platforms
- make sure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer
- display content from external platforms
- provide you with information, products or services that you request from us which may be of interest to you
- carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us
- manage hosting and backend infrastructure and monitor infrastructure
- allow access to third party services’ accounts
- interact with live chat platforms
- perform remarketing, commercial affiliation and behavioral targeting (including display ads)
- manage user database
Personal information does not include
- publicly available information from government records
- aggregated consumer information
- information excluded from the CCPA’s and GDPR’s scope
Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.
The Visa Project does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.
In addition to the above, we may collect log data and use cookies.
Data minimisation:
We will only ask you for the minimum amount of information required to appropriately fulfil your request. We will only use mandatory/required fields where it is necessary to do so.
Retention
We will retain this data for as long as you maintain an active account, plus a maximum of 12 months.
Log Files
The Visa Project follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and a part of hosting services’ analytics. The information collected by log files include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.
Third Party Privacy Policies
The Visa Project’s Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt-out of certain options.
CCPA Privacy Rights (Do Not Sell My Personal Information)
Under the CCPA, among other rights, California consumers have the right to:
Request that a business that collects a consumer’s personal data disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal data that a business has collected about consumers.
Request that a business delete any personal data about the consumer that a business has collected.
Request that a business that sells a consumer’s personal data, not sell the consumer’s personal data.
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 using the contact form.
CalOPPA (California Online Privacy Protection Act)
We completely agree to users visiting The Visa Project anonymously.
Do not track signals
In accordance with the California Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA), we hereby disclose that we do not currently honor “do not track” signals issued by browsers or other third-party sources.
COPPA (Children Online Privacy Protection Act)
We comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), for the collection of personal information from children under the age of thirteen (13) years old.
The Visa Project is intended for individuals who are eighteen (18) years of age or older.
When you visit and use the Site, you warrant and represent that you are of legal age and meet all of the foregoing eligibility requirements.
GDPR Data Protection Rights
We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:
Right to access
You have the right to request copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.
Right to restrict processing
You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
Right to erasure
You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
Right to object to processing
You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
Right to rectification
You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete the information you believe is incomplete.
Right to data portability
You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, 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 using the contact form.
Security
The safety of your personal information is of utmost importance to us.
The Visa Project uses regular malware Scanning. Our website is scanned on a regular basis for security holes and known vulnerabilities in order to make your visit to our Site as safe as possible.
Any of your personal information is maintained behind secured networks and is only accessible by a very limited number of people who have special access rights to such systems and are required to keep the information confidential by law.
That being said, unfortunately, no method of transmission over the internet is completely secure. Although we strive to use all commercially acceptable means to keep your personal information safe, we cannot guarantee its absolute safety.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy is effective as of 1 July 2020 and will remain in effect unless there are any changes to it, which would reflect on this same page.
The Visa Project reserves the right to modify the Privacy Policy at any time. Please check this Privacy Policy periodically, since your continued use of the Site after we make any changes to the Privacy Policy on this page will mean that you acknowledge the modifications and that you consent to abide and be bound by the modified Privacy Policy.
We will modify our Privacy Policy at least once a year.