Privacy Policy
1. AboutLocalHappinez
2. Scope of This Policy:
This Privacy Policy exclusively governs your use of our Portal. It does not encompass any websites linked from our Portal, whether provided by us or shared by other users. We disclaim control over the collection, storage, or utilization of your data by external websites and recommend reviewing their privacy policies before disclosing any data to them.
3. What Data Do We Collect?
Some data will be collected automatically by our Portal while other data will only be collected if you voluntarily submit it and consent to us using it for the purposes set out in section 5, for example, when signing up for an Account. Depending upon your use of Our Portal, We may collect some or all of the following data:
1. Name
2. Date of birth 3. Address
Financialinformationsuchascredit/debitcardnumbersispassedto
external payment systems (such as PayPal) and is not stored in the
system
Chat conversations between Fellows and Hosts will be retained for
reference and resolution purposes
4. How Do We Use Your Data?
1. All personal data is stored securely in accordance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). For more details on security see section 6, below.
2. We use your data to provide the best possible service to you. This includes:
- Providing and managing your Account
- Providing and managing your access to our Portal
- Personalizing and tailoring your experience on our Portal
- Supplying our services to you
- Personalizing and tailoring our services for you
- Responding to communications from you
- Supplying you with email notifications regarding other members
contacting you, status of your account, etc.; newsletters; and general messages from the Happenings you are related to as Fellow or Host.
- Analyzing your use of our Portal and gathering feedback to enable us to continually improve our Portal and your user experience
3. With your permission and/or where permitted by law, we may also use your data for marketing purposes which may include contacting you by email AND/OR telephone AND/OR post with information, news, and offers on our services. We will not, however, send you any unsolicited marketing or spam
and will take all reasonable steps to ensure that we fully protect your rights and comply with Our obligations under the GDPR and the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003, as amended in 2004, 2011, and 2015.
4. Under GDPR, we will ensure that your personal data is processed lawfully, fairly, and transparently, without adversely affecting your rights. We will only process your personal data if at least one of the following bases applies:
- You have given consent to the processing of your personal data for one or more specific purposes
- Processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject
- Processing is necessary to protect the vital interests of you or of another natural person
- Processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller
- Processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by us or by a third party, except where such interests are overridden by the fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject which require protection of personal data.
5. How and Where Do We Store Your Data?
1. We only keep your data for as long as we need to in order to use it as described above in section 4, and/or for as long as we have your permission to keep it. In any event, we will conduct an annual review to ascertain whether we need to keep your data. Your data will be deleted if we no longer need it.
2. [Your data will only be stored within the European Economic Area (“the EEA”) (The EEA consists of all EU member states, plus Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein).] OR [Some or all of your data may be stored or transferred outside of the European Economic Area (“the EEA”) (The EEA consists of all EU member states, plus Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein). You are deemed to accept and agree to this by using Our Portal and submitting information to
Us. If we do store or transfer data outside the EEA, we will take all reasonable steps to ensure that your data is treated as safely and securely as it would be within the EEA and under the GDPR. Such steps may include, but not be limited to, the use of legally binding contractual terms between us and any third parties we engage and the use of the EU-approved Model Contractual Arrangements. If we intend at any time to transfer any of your data outside the EEA, we will always obtain your consent beforehand and we have put in place the following safeguards to protect your data:]
3. Data security is of great importance to us, and to protect your data we have put in place suitable physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure data collected through our Portal.
6. Steps We take to secure and protect your data include:
Anonymized User Data: User data is anonymized when databases are downloaded to be used in local environments. In addition, user data sent to external services like Recaptcha and Google Analytics is anonymized so that no personal data (like IP addresses) is shared.
7. Do We Share Your Data?
In certain circumstances, we may be legally required to share certain data held by us, which may include your personal information, for example, where we are involved in legal proceedings, where we are complying with the requirements of legislation, a court order, or a governmental authority. We do not require any further consent from you in order to share your data in such circumstances and will comply as required with any legally binding request that is made of Us.
8. What Happens If Our Business Changes Hands?
1. In the rare event that any of your data is to be transferred in such a manner, you will be contacted in advance and informed of the changes. When contacted you will be given the choice to have your data deleted or withheld from the new owner or controller.
9. How Can You Control Your Data?
1. When you submit information via our Portal, you may be given options to restrict our use of your data. We aim to give you strong controls on our use of
your data (including the ability to opt-out of receiving emails from us which you may do by unsubscribing using the links provided in our mass contact emails) and at the point of providing your details AND/OR by managing your Account.
10. Your Right to Withhold Information and Your Right to Withdraw Information After You Have Given it
1. You may access certain areas of our Portal without providing any data at all. However, to use all features and functions available on our Portal you may be required to submit or allow for the collection of certain data.
2. You may restrict your internet browser’s use of Cookies.
3. You may withdraw your consent for us to use your personal data as set out in section in 4 at any time by contacting us using the details set out in section 14, and we will delete your data from our Platform. However, you acknowledge this may limit our ability to provide the best possible services to you.
11. How Can You Access Your Data?
1. You have the legal right to ask for a copy of any of your personal data held by us (where such data is held). Please Contact Us for more details or using the contact details below in section 14.
12. Summary of Your Rights under GDPR
1. Under the GDPR, you have:
- The right to request access to, deletion of or correction of, your personal
data held by us
- The right to complain to a supervisory authority
- Be informed of what data processing is taking place
- The right to restrict processing
- The right to data portability
- Object to processing of your personal data
- Rights with respect to automated decision-making and profiling (see
section 13 below).
2. To enforce any of the foregoing rights or if you have any other questions about our Portal or this Privacy Policy, please contact us using the details set out in section 14 below.
13.Automated Decision-Making and Profiling
1. In the event that we use personal data for the purposes of automated decision-making and those decisions have a legal (or similarly significant effect) on you, you have the right to challenge such decisions under GDPR, requesting human intervention, expressing their own point of view, and obtaining an explanation of the decision from us.
2. The right described in section 13.1 does not apply in the following circumstances:
- The decision is necessary for the entry into, or performance of, a contract between you and us;
- The decision is authorized by law; or
- You have given your explicit consent.
3. Where we use your personal data for profiling purposes, the following shall apply:
- Clear information explaining the profiling will be provided, including its significance and the likely consequences;
- Appropriate mathematical or statistical procedures will be used;
- Technical and organizational measures necessary to minimize the risk of errors and to enable such errors to be easily corrected shall be implemented; and
- All personal data processed for profiling purposes shall be secured to prevent discriminatory effects arising out of profiling.
4. We currently make the following automated decisions:
- Allow Filtering by any user fields present in the existing user profiles like:
preferred themes, languages, location, skills, etc.
14. Contacting Us
If you have any questions about our Portal or this Privacy Policy, please contact us. Please ensure that your query is clear, particularly if it is a request for information about the data we hold about you.
15. Changes to Our Privacy Policy
We may change this Privacy Policy as we may deem necessary from time to time, or as may be required by law. Any changes will be immediately posted on our Portal and you will be deemed to have accepted the terms of the Privacy Policy on your first use of our Portal following the alterations. We recommend that you check this page regularly to keep up-to-date.