MENNET privacy policy
MENNET Team is committed to protect your privacy and data. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect and use your personal data and which rights and options you have in this respect. Please also refer to our Cookie Policy which explains the use of cookies and other web tracking devices via our website.
WHICH PERSONAL DATA DO WE COLLECT?
We will collect and use the following personal data about you:
- Your name, surname, and contact information, including email address, birth date, gender, country, profile picture if you choose to upload it.
HOW WE WILL COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL DATA?
All of the information will be collected directly from the user, when filling in the registration fields in the website, mentoring network.
We may collect information from cookies on our website. For more information on our use of cookies, please see our cookies policy. In addition, we may collect, use and share anonymous data such as statistical information about the use of the Site.
FOR WHICH PURPOSES WILL WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA?
Under data protection law, we can only process your personal information if we have a proper reason for doing so, e.g.:
For our legitimate interests.
We do not sell or otherwise disclose personal data we collect about you, except as described in this Privacy Policy or as we disclosed to you at the time the personal data is collected. However, your name, surname and profile picture will be seen by your chosen mentor. In mentor case, all students will see your name and surname.
In addition if you register as a mentor, then your information – name, surname, email address and country will be seen by
We collect, use and are responsible for certain personal data about you. When we do so, we are subject to the General Data Protection Regulation, which applies to the processing of personal data in the context of the activities of an establishment of a controller or a processor in the Union. We are responsible as ‘controller’ of that personal information for the purposes of those laws. By submitting any Personally Identifiable Information to us, you consent and agree that we may collect, use and disclose such Personally Identifiable Information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
WITH WHOM WILL WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL DATA?
We might share personal information with:
- third parties we use to help us run our project, e.g. website hosts, third parties related to mentoring.
We only allow our service providers to handle your personal data if we are satisfied they take appropriate measures to protect your personal data. We also impose contractual obligations on service providers relating to ensure they can only use your personal data to provide services to us and to you for the project-based purposes. We may also share personal information with external auditors, e.g. in relation to accreditation and the audit of the project.
WHERE IS YOUR PERSONAL DATA HELD?
Personal data may be held at our offices and those of our third-party agencies, service providers, representatives and agents as described above. Also, all of the personal data and progress during the project will be held in safe data base.
FOR HOW LONG DO WE RETAIN YOUR PERSONAL DATA?
We will keep your personal data as long as we share information with you and as long as we are providing services to you. Thereafter, we will keep your personal data for as long as is necessary:
- to respond to any questions, complaints or claims made by you or on your behalf.
- to show that we treated you fairly.
- to keep records required by agency.
We will not retain your personal data for longer than necessary for the purposes set out in MENNET project.
KEEPING PERSONAL DATA ABOUT YOUR SECURE
We have appropriate security measures to prevent personal information from being accidentally lost, used or accessed unlawfully. We limit access to your personal information to those who have a genuine business need to access it. Those processing your information will do so only in an authorized manner and are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
We also have procedures in place to deal with any suspected data security breach. We will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected data security breach where we are legally required to do so.
UPDATES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
This Privacy Policy was last updated in November 2020. We reserve the right to update and change this Privacy Policy from time to time in order to reflect any changes to the way in which we process your personal data or changing legal requirements. In case of any such changes, we will post the changed Privacy Policy on our platform. The changes will take effect as soon as they are posted on the platform.
HOW TO GET IN TOUCH WITH MENNET?
We welcome your views about our platform and our Privacy Policy. If you would like to contact us with any queries or comments, please send an email to mennet@beti.lt.
MENNET COOKIES POLICY
HOW DO WE USE COOKIES?
We use cookies to automatically collect information about the platform users when they navigate on our Site. Cookies are small text files placed on your web browser by websites that you visit while browsing the Internet. Cookies are widely used to help make websites work efficiently as well as to analyses traffic on websites. Cookies also allow websites to tailor information to individuals based on browsing preferences. You can enable, disable or delete cookies through your Internet browser. In order to do this, follow the instructions provided by your browser. However, if you choose to disable cookies, some features of our Site may not work properly.
WHAT COOKIES DO WE USE?
Strictly necessary
Some cookies are strictly necessary in order to enable you to browse on our Site and use its features.
Strictly Necessary. These cookies are essential for websites on our services to perform their basic functions. These include those required to allow registered users to authenticate and perform account related functions.
| Name | Service | Purpose | Cookie duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| wordpress_[hash] | WordPress users | Stores the authentication details on login | session |
| wordpress_logged_in_[hash] | WordPress users | Indicates when you are logged in, and who you are. | session |
Visitor preferences
They remember:
- if you have agreed to (or refused) this site’s cookie policy
| Name | Service | Purpose | Cookie duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| moove_gdpr_popup | Cookie consent | Stores your cookie preferences (so you won’t be asked again) | 1 year |
Functional cookies
There are some cookies that we have to include in order for certain web pages to function. For this reason, they do not require your consent. In particular:
- technical cookies required by certain IT systems
| Name | Service | Purpose | Cookie duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| pll_language | Functionality | Website uses this cookie to remember the language selected by the user when he comes back. The cookie is also used to get the language when not available in another way | 1 year |
Analytics cookies
Analytics and Performance. We use Google Analytics cookies to collect information about the use of our Site, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. This helps us improve your browsing experience. Google Analytics analyses your interaction with our website and stores information about IP address, operating system, web browser, pages visited, demographics of the users, the device used, and where the visit originated. Google provides certain privacy options and choices in this regard, which are described here.
| Name | Service | Purpose | Cookie duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | Google analytics | Used to distinguish users. | 2 years |
| _gid | Google analytics | Used to distinguish users. | 24 hours |
| _gat_gtag_[ID of website] | Google analytics | This cookie is installed by Google Universal Analytics to throttle the request rate to limit the collection of data on high traffic sites. | 1 minute |