Privacy Policy: DC Book Club (The Anthropocene Reviewed)

DC BOOK CLUB PRIVACY POLICY

DC Book Club International Oy Ltd (“DC Book Club,” “We,” or “Us”) respects your privacy and is dedicated to protecting the privacy of those persons (“You”) participating in events organized by DC Book Club and using the DC Book Club website and associated services (“Services”). This Privacy Policy helps You to understand what Personal Information (as defined below) and non-personal information We collect, and how We use it.

This Privacy Policy applies to the processing of Personal Information and non-personal information in connection with the Services and You should read this document before using our Services. If You do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, you may not use our Services.

“Personal Information” refers to information, which allows You to be directly or indirectly identified as an individual person. We may also collect “non-personal information,” meaning it can’t be used to specifically identify anyone. Non-personal information may also result from removing the personally identifiable parts from Personal Information. We collect and use both types of information and combinations of both types.

Processing Personal Information

DC Book Club will only collect such Personal Information that is relevant for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.

DC Book Club will process Your Personal Information for the purposes of providing the Services, including organizing events and facilitating participant networking using the DC Book Club website and the associated services.

DC Book Club will process Your Personal Information to provide customer service and other services at your request, to send You information, including confirmations, invoices, and other communications, as well as communicate with You about promotions and other news about services offered by DC Book Club.

DC Book Club commits to adhere to the applicable laws and regulations pertaining to processing of Personal Information, as well as to process Personal Information in compliance with good processing practices. All DC Book Club’s personnel processing Personal Information are obliged to keep such information strictly confidential.

Legal Basis for the Processing

The applicable legal basis for the processing of Personal Information depends on the circumstances relating to the relevant processing activities, as further described below:

If the processing of Personal Information is necessary for one or more specific purposes, GDPR art. 6(1)(a) serves as the legal basis for processing operations.
Performance of a contract. If the processing of Personal Information is necessary for the performance of a contract, such as for providing certain services, to which the data subject is party, GDPR art. 6(1)(b) serves as the legal basis for processing operations. The same applies to such processing operations which are necessary for carrying out pre-contractual measures, for example in the case of inquiries concerning our products or services.
Legal obligation. If the processing of Personal Information is necessary for complying with a legal obligation, such as for the fulfillment of tax obligations, GDPR art. 6(1)(c) serves as the legal basis for processing operations.
Vital interests. If the processing of Personal Information is necessary for protecting the vital interests of a natural person, such as if a visitor were injured in our premises and his information would have to be passed on to medical personnel, GDPR art. 6(1)(d) serves as the legal basis for processing operations.
Legitimate interests. If the processing of Personal Information is necessary for processing operations which are not covered by any of the abovementioned legal grounds, but are deemed permissible for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by Us, such as marketing, GDPR art. 6(1)(f) serves as the legal basis for processing operations.

Information We Collect and Sources of Information

We collect several categories of information:

Information You give to us,
Technically gathered information when You use our Services,
Information from publicly available sources and third parties in relation to our service.

We collect information that You give to us, for example when You use our Services. This information may include your name and email. On our website, You are also given the opportunity to subscribe to our newsletter.

DC Book Club also collects non-personal information on Your activities in the Services, such as your Internet Protocol address, and time of Your requests or actions in the website and referring website addresses, hardware type, operating system version, browser type, and language.

DC Book Club retains the Personal Information collected pursuant to this Privacy Policy for the period necessary to fulfil the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. The criteria used to determine the period of storage of Personal Information depends on the applicable legal basis for the processing of Personal Information: e.g., where the processing of Personal Information is necessary for the performance of a contract, DC Book Club retains the Personal Information as long as it is necessary for the fulfillment of the contract or the initiation of a contract; or, where the processing of Personal Information is necessary for complying with a legal obligation, DC Book Club retains the Personal Information for the respective statutory retention period; or, where the processing of Personal Information is permissible for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by Us, such as marketing, DC Book Club retains the Personal Information as long as it is permitted by law.