The Association is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.

What information is collected?

The forum collects information from you when you register on the site and gathers data when you participate in the forum by reading, writing, and evaluating the content shared here.

When registering for the forum, you will be asked to enter your name and e-mail address. Your e-mail address will be verified by an email containing a unique link. If that link is visited, we know that you control the e-mail address. You may, however, visit the forum without registering.

When registered and posting, the forum records the IP address that the post originated from. The forum also may retain server logs which include the IP address of every request to the server.

What is your information used for?

Any of the information we collect from you may be used in one of the following ways:

  • To improve the forum — information and feedback we receive from you can be used to improve the forum.
  • To send periodic emails — The email address you provide may be used to send you information, notifications that you request about changes to topics or in response to your user name, respond to inquiries, and/or other requests or questions.
  • We may use the information we collect to protect against, investigate, and stop fraudulent, unauthorized, or illegal activity. We may also use it to address security risks, solve potential security issues such as bugs, enforce our agreements, and protect our users and Association.
  • We may use the information as needed or requested by regulators, government entities, and law enforcement to comply with applicable laws and regulations.

How do we protect your information?

We take reasonable steps to protect your Personal Information from misuse, loss, unauthorised access, modification or disclosure, including implementing appropriate security measures. The security measures in place will, from time to time, be reviewed in line with legal and technical developments. However, we give no guarantee that such misuse, loss, unauthorised access, modification or disclosure will not occur. You are responsible for all of your activity on the forum.

What is your data retention policy?

We retain the personal data we collect only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, to provide our Services, to resolve disputes, to enforce our agreements, and to comply with legal obligations. This period may vary depending on the nature of the data and the reasons for collecting it, having regard to the purposes described in this Privacy Policy and our own legal and regulatory requirements. In general, Personal Information relating to you shall be deleted after a period of five (5) years.

Does the forum use cookies?

Yes. Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer’s hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow). These cookies enable the site to recognize your browser and, if you have a registered account, associate it with your registered account.

The forum uses cookies to understand and save your preferences for future visits and compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future.

Do we disclose any information to outside parties?

We do not share your information with any third parties for any marketing purposes whatsoever. But we may share or disclose the data we collect in the following situations:

  • With the staff or members of our Association.
  • With regulators, government entities, and law enforcement to comply with our legal obligations.
  • With service providers and vendors who may assist us providing, delivering, and improving the Forum
  • In addition, if you give us your content to do so, we may share your information with other third parties.

What rights you have regarding your Personal Information

You have the following rights regarding your personal data:

  • Right to be informed: this is precisely why we have drafted this privacy policy as defined by articles 13 and 14 of the GDPR.

  • Right of access: you have the right to access all your personal data at any time as defined by article 15 of the GDPR.

  • Right to rectification: you have the right to rectify your inaccurate, incomplete or obsolete personal data at any time as defined by article 16 of the GDPR.

  • Right to restriction of processing: you have the right to restrict the processing of your personal data in certain cases defined in article 18 of the GDPR.

  • Right to erasure: (“right to be forgotten”): you have the right to request that your personal data be deleted and to prohibit any future collection as defined by article 17 of the GDPR.

  • Right to file a complaint to a competent supervisory authority: (in France, the CNIL), under GDPR article 77, if you consider that the processing of your personal data constitutes a breach of applicable regulations.

  • Right to define instructions related to the retention, deletion and communication of your personal data after your death (article 40-1 of French law “informatique et libertés”).

  • Right to withdraw your consent at any time: for purposes based on consent, Article 7 of the GDPR provides that you may withdraw your consent at any time. Such withdrawal will not affect the lawfulness of the processing carried out before the withdrawal.

  • Right to data portability: under specific conditions defined in article 20 of the GDPR, you have the right to receive the personal data you have provided us in a standard machine-readable format and to require their transfer to the recipient of your choice.

  • Right to object: You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data as defined by article 21 of the GDPR. Please note that we may continue to process your personal data despite this opposition for legitimate reasons or for the defense of legal claims.

Third party links

There may be links from the Forum to other websites and resources provided by third parties. This Privacy Policy applies only to the Forum. Accessing those third-party websites or sources requires you to leave the Forum. We do not control those third-party sites or any of the content contained therein and you agree that the Association is in no circumstances responsible or liable for any of those third-party sites, including, without limitation, their content, policies, failures, promotions, products, services or actions and/or any damages, losses, failures or problems caused by, related to or arising from those sites. We encourage you to review all policies, rules, terms and regulations, including the privacy policies, of each site that you visit.

Your Consent

By using the forum, you consent to this forum’s privacy policy.

Changes to the Privacy Policy

We may modify the Policy at any time, in particular in order to comply with any regulatory, jurisprudential, editorial or technical change. These modifications will apply on the date of entry into force of the modified version.

If we change this Privacy Policy, we will take steps to notify all users by a notice on the Forum and will post the amended Privacy Policy. Please regularly consult the latest version of this Privacy Policy.

This policy was last updated on December 9, 2024.

Contact information

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us at About - Morpho Governance Forum.