Privacy Policy

Introduction

At the Global Public Health Benchmark Project ("GPHBP," "we," "us," or "our"), we respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you about how we look after your personal data when you visit our website (regardless of where you visit it from) and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

This policy applies to information we collect on the gphbp.org website and in email, text, or other electronic messages between you and this website.

1. Information We Collect

Personal Data

We may collect, use, store, and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:

• Identity Data includes first name, last name, username or similar identifier.
• Contact Data includes email address and telephone numbers.
• Technical Data includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
• Usage Data includes information about how you use our website, products, and services.

Non-Personal Data

We also collect, use, and share aggregated data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated data could be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data in law as this data will not directly or indirectly reveal your identity.

2. How We Collect Your Data

We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:

• Direct interactions. You may give us your Identity and Contact Data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email, or otherwise.
• Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs, and other similar technologies.
• Third parties or publicly available sources. We may receive personal data about you from various third parties and public sources.

3. How We Use Your Data

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

• Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you.
• Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
• Where we need to comply with a legal obligation.

Purposes for which we will use your personal data:

• To register you as a new user
• To manage our relationship with you
• To administer and protect our business and this website
• To deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you
• To use data analytics to improve our website, products/services, marketing, customer relationships, and experiences

4. Data Security

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered, or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties who have a business need to know.

We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.

5. Data Retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting, or reporting requirements.

To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data, and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal, regulatory, tax, accounting, or other requirements.

6. Your Legal Rights

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data including:

• The right to request access to your personal data
• The right to request correction of your personal data
• The right to request erasure of your personal data
• The right to object to processing of your personal data
• The right to request restriction of processing your personal data
• The right to request transfer of your personal data
• The right to withdraw consent

If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us at [email protected].

7. Cookies

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive.

We use the following cookies:

• Strictly necessary cookies: These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website.
• Analytical/performance cookies: They allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it.
• Functionality cookies: These are used to recognize you when you return to our website.
• Targeting cookies: These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited, and the links you have followed.

8. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our privacy policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new privacy policy on this page and updating the "Last Updated" date at the top of this privacy policy.

You are advised to review this privacy policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this privacy policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

9. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at:

Global Public Health Benchmark Project
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.gphbp.org/contact