Who we are
This website is run and maintained by Green Liberty (biedrība “Zaļā brīvība” in Latvian), a non-profit NGO registered in Latvia. Green Liberty is the controller of personal data collected and processed in relation to this website.
Information We Collect
We may collect the following types of personal information depending on how you use our website:
- Usage Data: Information about how you interact with our website. This iformation includes:
- Your IP address (anonymized before storage or further processing)
- Information about your device and browser (type, version, operating system)
- Pages you visit and actions you take on our website
- Date and time of your visit
- Referring website (if applicable)
- Approximate geographic location (city/region)
- Contact Information: Name, email address, phone number.
How We Use Your Information
We use your personal information for the following purposes:
Communication
We use your contact information, such as your name and email address, to respond to your inquiries, provide support, and address any feedback or concerns you may have.
We may use your contact details to send you updates or important information related to your interactions with us and our website.
Improving Our Website
Your usage data, including interactions with our website, is invaluable for us to analyze and understand how visitors navigate through our site. By analyzing this data, we can identify areas for improvement, optimize website functionality, and enhance the overall user experience.
Understanding how you interact with our website allows us to tailor content to suit your preferences and interests. This personalized approach ensures that the information you encounter is relevant and engaging.
Use of Cookies
We use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google LLC (“Google”), to understand how visitors interact with our website and to help us improve our services. Google Analytics uses cookies (_ga, _gid, _gat, etc.) to collect and analyze information about your use of our site. For more information on how Google Analytics handles user data, please visit: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245.
Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data
We process your personal data based on the following legal grounds:
Analytics of Website Usage
Legitimate Interests: We process personal data for analytics purposes based on our legitimate interest in understanding how visitors interact with our website, improving its functionality, and enhancing user experience. This includes tracking visitor behavior, such as page views, time spent on the site, and navigation patterns.
Consent: In cases where analytics tools use cookies or similar technologies that collect personal data, we will obtain your consent before processing such data. You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
Communication
Legitimate Interests: We process personal data related to our communication based on our legitimate interest to maintain effective communication with you, to respond to inquiries and provide requested information.
Access to Your Data and Sharing of Information
Our employees will have access to the personal data (limited to what is necessary), e.g. your name and contact information to respond to your inguiries and feedback.
We may share data with trusted service providers who assist us in website operations, with our partner organisations (only if it is necessary), or in accordance with our legal obligations.
Information generated by Google Analytics cookies about your use of our website may be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States or other countries outside the European Economic Area (EEA). We have enabled IP anonymization to protect your privacy. Google acts as a processor on our behalf; however, in some cases, Google may use the data for its own purposes as described in their privacy policy.
Data Security
We take the protection of your personal information seriously. Our commitment to data security is aligned with the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to ensure the confidentiality and integrity of your personal data.
We use Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption technology to encrypt data transmitted between your browser and our website. This ensures that any information exchanged between you and our website is secure and protected from interception by third parties.
Access to your personal data is restricted to authorized personnel who require access to perform their duties. Our employees are trained on data security best practices and are bound by confidentiality obligations.
We only collect personal information that is necessary for the purposes outlined in our Privacy Policy. We do not retain data longer than necessary and ensure that data is kept up-to-date and accurate.
We conduct regular security audits and updates of the website to identify and address potential vulnerabilities in our systems and processes. This proactive approach allows us to maintain a secure environment for your data.
Data retention
Analytics of Website Usage: We retain analytics data for a period of 14 months to allow us to analyze long-term trends and improve our website.
Communication: We keep communication data while it remains relevant.
Your Rights
You have the following rights regarding your personal data:
Right of access
You can request information about how we process your personal data, including information about:
- Why we process your personal data;
- What categories of personal data we process;
- Who we share your personal data with;
- How long we store your personal data or the criteria for determining this period;
- What are your rights;
- Where we have received your personal data from (if we have not received it from you);
- Does the processing involve automatic decision-making (so-called profiling);
- If your personal data is transferred to a country outside the EEA, how do we ensure the protection of your personal data.
All of the above information is available in this Privacy Policy.
You can also request a copy of your personal data that we process. However, additional copies of such information will be issued for a fee.
Right to correct
We take reasonable steps to ensure that the information we hold about you is accurate and correct. However, you have the right to contact us with a request to correct your personal data if you find that the processed data is incorrect or inaccurate.
Right to erasure
In certain cases, you have the right to ask us to delete your personal information, for example, when the personal information collected from you is no longer necessary for the original purpose or you withdraw your consent. However, in this case, other circumstances that determine the legality of data processing must also be taken into account. For example, we have the right to process your personal data because we may have legal or regulatory obligations that prevent us from fulfilling your request.
The right to restrict processing
In certain cases, you have the right to ask us to restrict the use of your personal information, for example, if you believe that the personal information we hold about you is incorrect, or if you have objected to the processing and until we have been able to investigate the case or can confirm the correctness of the data (or we have changed it in accordance with your instructions), or while we examine the circumstances surrounding your objection.
This means that in this case we may process your personal data (except for the storage of personal data) only with your consent or for the purpose of requesting, fulfilling or defending legal claims, to protect the rights of another person or to protect the public interest.
You can also request restriction of processing if we are processing your data unlawfully but you do not want us to delete it.
Right to data portability
You have the right to request the transfer to you and/or another data controller of your personal data, which you have provided to us and which we process based on your consent or for the performance of a contract, in a structured, generally accepted and machine-readable format.
The right objects
If you believe that we do not have the right to process your personal data, you have the right to object to the processing. In such cases, we can only continue processing if we can present compelling justifying reasons that outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms. However, we may in any case process your personal data if it is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims.
Rights related to automated decision-making
You have the right not to be subject to automated decision-making, including profiling, which may have legal or otherwise material consequences for you. We generally do not use automated decision-making or profiling, but if you have been subject to automated decision-making and do not agree with the outcome, you can contact us using the contact details below and ask us to review the decision.
Right to withdraw consent
For the most part, the processing of personal data does not depend on your consent. However, we may ask for your consent in certain cases. In this case, you have every right to withdraw your consent to further use of your personal information.
To exercise your rights please contact us by means provided in section “Contact Us” below.
Right to complain
If our answer is unsatisfactory or you believe that we are processing your personal data illegally, you can contact the Latvian Data State Inspectorate or your local supervisory authority.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about our Privacy Policy or your personal data, please contact us at info@zalabriviba.lv.
What Changes Have We Recently Made?
We may change this Privacy Policy at any time, and will indicate the date the Privacy Policy was most recently updated. If there have been significant changes, we will highlight any such changes, and will attempt to directly alert you when possible.
This is the first version of our Privacy Policy. We published it on May 6, 2025.