Privacy Policy

International Legion for the Defense of Ukraine

Effective Date: 17 July, 2024
Thank you for visiting the website of the International Legion for the Defense of Ukraine ("we", "our", "us"). This Privacy Policy outlines our practices regarding the collection, use, and protection of your information when you visit our website at https://ildu.legion.army ("Website").
BY USING THE WEBSITE, YOU PROMISE US THAT (I) YOU HAVE READ, UNDERSTAND AND AGREE TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY, AND (II) YOU ARE OVER 16 YEARS OF AGE (OR HAVE HAD YOUR PARENT OR GUARDIAN READ AND AGREE TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY FOR YOU). If you do not agree, or are unable to make this promise, you must not use the Website.

1. Personal Data Controller
International Legion for the Defense of Ukraine will be the controller of your personal data.

2. Information We Collect
We collect data you give us voluntarily (for example, by contacting us via email or other means). We also may collect data automatically (for example, сookies, your IP address, information about your interactions with the Website, technical information about your device).

3. Use of Cookies, Tags, and Web Beacons
A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user's computer for record-keeping purposes. Cookies can be either session cookies or persistent cookies. A session cookie expires when you close your browser and is used to make it easier for you to navigate our Website. A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for an extended period of time.
Cookies are used, in particular, to automatically recognize you the next time you visit our website. Cookie data will be stored on your device and most of the times only for a limited time period.
These tools help us understand how users interact with our Website and improve our services. This data is solely used for research and development. This information will only be used by our organization. Cookies help us track visitors to our site, allowing us to understand which portions of our site best serve you.

4. External Links
Our Website may contain links to external websites. We recommend that you review the privacy policies of these external websites, as we are not responsible for their content, privacy practices, or the handling of your information. The inclusion of any link does not imply our endorsement of the external site or its policies.

5. For What Purposes We Process Your Personal Data
We process your personal data:

To provide our services
This includes enabling you to use the Website in a seamless manner and preventing or addressing Website errors or technical issues.
To research and analyze your use of the Website
This helps us to better understand and maintain, improve, innovate, plan, design, and develop the Website.
To analyse how visitors use our Website and to measure effectiveness of some Website pages we use Google Analytics, a web analysis program of Google. In order to provide us with analytics, Google Analytics places cookies on your device. On Google Analytics we get, in particular, aggregated information on the data you enter on our Website and users’ interactions within the Website. Google allows you to influence the collection and processing of information generated by the Google, in particular, by installing a browser plug-in, available here. You can read more about how Google uses information here.
To enforce our Terms and Conditions and to prevent and combat fraud
We use personal data to enforce our agreements and contractual commitments, to detect, prevent, and combat fraud. As a result of such processing, we may share your information with others, including law enforcement agencies (in particular, if a dispute arises in connection with our Terms and Conditions).
To comply with legal obligations
We may process, use, or share your data when the law requires it, in particular, if a law enforcement agency requests your data by available legal means.

6. Under What Legal Bases We Process Your Personal Data
We process your personal data under the following legal bases:

to perform our contract with you;
Under this legal basis we may:
•    Provide our services (in accordance with our Terms and Conditions)
•    Customize your experience
•    Communicate with you regarding your use of our Website
for our (or others') legitimate interests, unless those interests are overridden by your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms that require protection of personal data;
We rely on legitimate interests:
•    to research and analyze your use of the Website
The legitimate interest we rely on for this processing is our interest to promote our Website in a measured and appropriate way.
•    to enforce our Terms and Conditions and to prevent and combat fraud
Our legitimate interests for this purpose are enforcing our legal rights, preventing and addressing fraud and unauthorised use of the Website, non-compliance with our Terms and Conditions.
to comply with legal obligations.

7. How You Can Exercise Your Privacy Rights
To be in control of your personal data, you have the following rights:
Accessing / reviewing / updating / correcting your personal data
Deleting your personal data
Objecting to or restricting the use of your personal data
Additional information for EEA-based users:
If you are based in the EEA, you have the following rights in addition to the above:
The right to lodge a complaint with supervisory authority. We would love you to contact us directly, so we could address your concerns. Nevertheless, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a competent data protection supervisory authority, in particular in the EU Member State where you reside, work or where the alleged infringement has taken place.
The right to data portability.
To exercise any of your privacy rights, please send a request to [email protected].

8. Age Limitation
We do not knowingly process personal data from persons under 16 years of age. If you learn that anyone younger than 16 has provided us with personal data, please contact us.

9. Contact Information
For more information about our privacy practices, or if you have any questions or concerns, please contact us at:
Email: [email protected]

10. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated effective date. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically to stay informed about our privacy practices.
By using our Website, you confirm your acknowledgement of our Privacy Policy.

11. Governing Law
This Privacy Policy shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Ukraine, without regard to its conflict of law principles.
Thank you for your trust in the International Legion for the Defense of Ukraine.