THE GLOBAL TAX EXPENDITURES TRANSPARENCY INDEX (GTETI) PRIVACY POLICY

This Privacy Policy discloses what information we gather through our website and how we use it. Our privacy policy is in accordance with current European data law, known as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), taking effect on May 25, 2018.

1. Collecting Personal Information

Personal data is the information you provide us when you register for an event or subscribe to a newsletter or e-mail notification services. If you register for an event, you will be asked for information that helps to identify you, such as your name and email address. We only collect the necessary data for the purpose at hand, and we only store the data you provide directly to us. Under no circumstances will your personal information be passed on to third parties. If you contact us via the contact email address, we will keep track of these emails.

The GTETI services are for a general audience, are not targeted to children, and do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 years of age.

2. Collecting Non-personally Identifiable Information

The GTETI employs trackers which may collect the following non-personally identifiable information (cookies) about you. This information is used to analyse our website’s use and improve user experience.

  • Time of visit, pages visited, and time spent on each page of the webpages
  • Referring site details (such as the URL a user came through to arrive at this site)
  • Type of web browser
  • Type of operating system
  • Flash version, JavaScript support, screen resolution, and screen color processing ability
  • Network location and IP address

3. Security

The GTETI uses commercially reasonable administrative, technical, personnel, and physical measures designed to safeguard information in its possession against loss, theft and unauthorized use, disclosure, or modification. However, no one can guarantee the complete safety of your information.

4. “Linked Sites” or Hyperlinks

Some pages of our website may contain external links to other websites, allowing certain content of our site to be linked to similar thematic content hosted on other websites (Hyperlinks). We do not accept any responsibility for the privacy practices of these linked websites or any external company that may collect this data. We encourage you to consult and read the privacy policy of each of these sites to understand how the data collected is used and protected.

5. User Access and Control

If you would like to access, review, correct, update, suppress, delete, or otherwise limit our use of your personal information you have previously provided directly to us, you may contact us here. Please specify clearly what information you would like to access, change, update, suppress, or delete, including the time and location from which our website was accessed. At any time, you can unsubscribe from our emails, by following the “unsubscribe” instructions near the bottom of the email.

For more information, please contact us here.

Last Updated: 15 September, 2023