Privacy Statement
Personal information processed by The Storyteller’s Platform
The Storyteller’s Platform processes personal information about you because you are using its services and/or because you provide The Storyteller’s Platform with this information. Please find an overview of the personal information that The Storyteller’s Platform processes below:
- First and last name
- Email address
- Information regarding your activities on the website of The Storyteller’s Platform
Special and/or sensitive personal information that The Storyteller’s Platform processes
The Storyteller’s Platform’s website and/or services do not intend to collect data about website visitors under the age of 16, unless they have permission from their parents or guardian. However, The Storyteller’s Platform cannot check whether a visitor is older than 16. If you are convinced that The Storyteller’s Platform has collected personal information about a minor without parental consent, please send an email to: connect@thestorytellersplatform.com. The Storyteller’s Platform will then remove this information.
Why The Storyteller’s Platform requires information
The Storyteller’s Platform processes your personal information for the following purposes:
- To provide you with products and services
- The Storyteller’s Platform analyzes your behavior on the website to improve its website and tailor its products and services to your preferences
If you fill out a contact form on the website or send an email to The Storyteller’s Platform, the information you send to The Storyteller’s Platform will be retained for as long as required to respond to and handle it completely based on the nature of the form or the content of your email.
Sharing with others
The Storyteller’s Platform will only provide third parties with information if this is necessary for the performance of its agreement with you or to meet a legal obligation.
Mapping website visits
The Storyteller’s Platform only uses technical and functional cookies, as well as analytical cookies that do not violate your privacy. A cookie is a small text file that is stored on your computer, tablet, or smartphone when you first visit this website. The cookies that The Storyteller’s Platform uses are necessary for the technical functioning of the website and for your ease of use. They ensure that the website works properly and remember your preferences, for example. They also allow The Storyteller’s Platform to optimize its website. You can opt out of cookies by changing your settings so your internet browser will no longer save cookies. You can also remove all previously stored information through your browser settings.
Accessing, adapting, or removing information
You have the right to access, correct, or remove your personal information. You can send a request to access, correct, or remove it to: connect@thestorytellersplatform.com. To ensure that the access request was made by you, The Storyteller’s Platform requires you to attach a copy of your ID when sending the request. Please ensure that your photo, MRZ (Machine Readable Zone: the strip with numbers at the bottom of your passport), passport/document number, and social security number are unrecognizable by blackening them, so your privacy is protected. The Storyteller’s Platform will respond to your request as soon as possible, but at the latest within four weeks.
Security
The Storyteller’s Platform takes the protection of your information seriously and takes appropriate measures to counter abuse, loss, unauthorized access, unwanted disclosure, and unauthorized modification. If you feel that your information is still not properly protected or if there are any indications of abuse, please send an email to: connect@thestorytellersplatform.com.
Cookie Statement
What is a cookie?
This website uses cookies. A cookie is a small, simple file that is sent along with this website’s pages [and/or Flash applications] and stored on your computer’s hard drive by your browser. The information stored therein can be sent back to the servers of The Storyteller’s Platform during your next visit.
Use of permanent cookies
Through the use of a permanent cookie, The Storyteller’s Platform can recognize you when you visit its website. As a result, the website can be tailored to your preferences. If you have given permission to place cookies, The Storyteller’s Platform can also remember this through a cookie. This ensures that you will not have to keep resetting your preferences, which means you can save time and use the website in a more pleasant way. You can delete permanent cookies through your browser settings.
Use of session cookies
The Storyteller’s Platform can see which parts of the website you have viewed during this visit using a session cookie. This allows The Storyteller’s Platform to adapt its services to its visitors’ surfing habits to the highest possible extent. These cookies are automatically removed as soon as you close your web browser.
Google Analytics
Through The Storyteller’s Platform’s website, US company Google places a cookie as part of the “Analytics” service. The Storyteller’s Platform uses this service to keep track of and get reports on visitors’ use of the website. Google may provide third parties with this information if Google is legally required to do so, or insofar as third parties process the information on behalf of Google. The Storyteller’s Platform cannot influence this. The Storyteller’s Platform has not allowed Google to use the Analytics information obtained for other Google services.
The information collected by Google will be anonymized to the highest possible extent. Your IP address is expressly not provided. The information is transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the US. Google claims it adheres to the Safe Harbor principles and is affiliated with the US Department of Commerce’s Safe Harbor Program. This means that the level of protection for the processing of any personal data is appropriate.
Social share buttons
The Storyteller’s Platform’s website has included buttons to be able to promote (“like”) or share (“tweet”) web pages on social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google+. These buttons work through pieces of code that come from Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google+, respectively. Cookies are placed through this code. The Storyteller’s Platform cannot influence this. Please read the privacy statements of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google+, respectively (which may change regularly), to read how they handle your (personal) data which they process through these cookies.
The information that they collect will be anonymized to the highest possible extent. The information is transmitted to and stored by Twitter, Facebook, Google+, and LinkedIn on servers in the United States. LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and Google+ claim to adhere to the Safe Harbor principles and are affiliated with the US Department of Commerce’s Safe Harbor Program. This means that the level of protection for the processing of any personal data is appropriate.
Right of access to and correction or removal of your data
You have the right to request access to and correction or removal of your data. To this end, please refer to the contact page on the website of The Storyteller’s Platform. To prevent abuse, The Storyteller’s Platform may ask for proper identification. If you would like to access personal data linked to a cookie, you must send a copy of the cookie in question, which you can find in your browser settings.
Enabling, disabling, and deletion of cookies
More information regarding the enabling, disabling, and deletion of cookies can be found in the instructions and/or using your browser’s Help feature.
Want more information regarding cookies?
On the following website, you can find more information regarding cookies:
Your Online Choices: “A guide to online behavioural advertising”