PRIVACY POLICY

Last updated: 20 July 2024

I. About this Privacy Policy
This privacy policy explains how Ladies Who Tech collects, stores, and processes personal information. It also lists the different types of services and cookies we use to provide a seamless browsing experience to the visitors of our websites.
This privacy policy applies to the following website:
https://ladieswho.tech/

II. General Information
1. Scope of Collection and Processing of Your Data
Ladies Who Tech collects and processes personal information whenever a user comes in contact with the website, application, or product – further referred to collectively as the “Services” – or exchanges information via direct contact forms embedded on the Ladies Who Tech website. The visitors are informed of the processing of personal data throughout the website and provide informed consent whenever necessary.
You may always choose not to provide personal information, reject cookies, or opt out of the online web analytics collecting services we use. Please be aware choosing to do so may cause some parts of Ladies Who Tech Services to become unavailable to you.
2. Changes to the Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to amend this privacy policy at any time and without notice. Any changes or amendments to this policy are effective immediately.
In case of changes that affect your experience on Ladies Who Tech website or require action from your side, we will let you know via email or a prominent notice on our websites prior to the change becoming effective.
We recommend you review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.
3. Privacy Policies of Other Websites
The Ladies Who Tech website contains links to other websites. Our privacy policy applies only to our website, so if you click on a link to another website, please familiarize yourself with their privacy policy.

III. Types of Data We Collect
We distinguish between two types of data streams:
Data you provide to us directly; and
Data we collect automatically.

1. Data You Provide Directly to Ladies Who Tech
We collect variations of the following types of data whenever you get in touch with us:
Personal identification information (Name, Surname, username).
Details of your profession, such as job title, company, fields of work, and interests.
Contact information, such as a postal address or phone number.
Payment method data and billing information.
Any other information that you choose to provide during direct communication.

2. Date We Collect Automatically
This type of information is collected and used primarily to deliver a seamless user experience to those visiting the Ladies Who Tech website. This includes:
Usage statistics, such as the number of users, session statistics, approximate geolocation, Browser and device information, your IP address, and information about the pages you visited before visiting our websites.
Tracking technologies and cookies.

IV. How Do We Collect Data

1. Data You Provide Directly to Ladies Who Tech
Whenever you choose to provide Ladies Who Tech with your personal information, you do so through the following services:
Contact forms embedded on our websites and service platforms belonging to Ladies Who Tech;
Newsletter registration form managed by MailChimp;
Event registration forms managed by Ladies Who Tech, including those on the website and on the third-party event management platforms;
Placing an order for any of our products or services;
Feedback forms and surveys on any of our message boards (such as Telegram) or via email.;
Direct communication: emails, phone calls, video calls.Any activity where you are getting in touch with Ladies Who Tech and actively providing your personal information.

2. Data We Collect Automatically
Ladies Who Tech collects data automatically via the following services:
Website analytics via Google Analytics;
Cookies and other tracking technologies known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags and single-pixel gifs).

2.1. Google Analytics
Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services.
Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network. You can opt out of having made your activity on the Service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity. https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy and Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy

2.2. Google Ads
We use Google Ads for online advertising. Google Ads is the new name for Google’s range of advertising capabilities — on Google.com and across Google’s other properties, partner sites and apps. These services are designed to help businesses and marketers connect with billions of people who are finding answers on Search, watching videos on YouTube, exploring new places on Google Maps, discovering apps on Google Play, browsing content across the web, and more.
Google Ads serve personalized ad campaigns based on your browsing history and use cookies to collect information about your activity on our websites, as well as other websites in the Google Ads network. You can find out more about what it means for your privacy: https://safety.google/privacy/ads-and-data/
If you would like to turn off personalized ads completely visit My Ad Center to update your preferences: https://myadcenter.google.com/
If you choose not to see personalized ads, you’ll still see ads, but they will be less relevant.

2.3. Tracking Technologies and Cookies
We use Cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our websites specifically. Tracking technologies used are cookies, beacons, tags, and scripts.
Web Beacons. Certain sections of our websites and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit us, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics.
Cookies or Browser Cookies. A cookie is a small file placed on your device. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent by choosing different options on the cookies notice bar at the bottom of this page. However, this may disable certain parts of our websites. For further information, visit allaboutcookies.org. Cookies can be “Persistent” or “Session” cookies. Persistent cookies remain on your personal computer or mobile device when You go offline, while session cookies are deleted as soon as you close the web browser.

Types of cookies we use:

Necessary
Necessary cookies are required to enable the basic features of this site, such as providing secure log-in or adjusting your consent preferences. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable data.
Functional
Functional cookies help perform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the website on social media platforms, collecting feedback, and other third-party features.
Analytics
Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. These cookies help provide information on metrics such as the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.
Performance
Performance cookies are used to understand and analyze the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors.
Advertisement
Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with customized advertisements based on the pages you visited previously and to analyze the effectiveness of the ad campaigns.
Uncategorized
Other uncategorized cookies are those that are being analyzed and have not been classified into a category as yet.
Manage cookie preferences

Cookie Settings
You can change your cookie preferences any time by clicking the above button. This will let you revisit the cookie consent banner and change your preferences or withdraw your consent right away.
In addition to this, different browsers provide different methods to block and delete cookies used by websites. You can change the settings of your browser to block/delete the cookies. Listed below are the links to the support documents on how to manage and delete cookies from the major web browsers.
Chrome: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/32050
Safari: https://support.apple.com/en-in/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac
Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/clear-cookies-and-site-data-firefox?redirectslug=delete-cookies-remove-info-websites-stored&redirectlocale=en-US
Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/how-to-delete-cookie-files-in-internet-explorer-bca9446f-d873-78de-77ba-d42645fa52fc
If you are using any other web browser, please visit your browser’s official support documents.

V. How Do We Use This Data
Ladies Who Tech collects personal information with the specific goal of providing the best possible experience and services. This means we collect information to:
  • contact you;
  • to provide you with relevant information, services, and offers;
  • maintain and improve our services;
  • analyze and improve our websites;
  • provide a tailored user experience on our pages;
  • to communicate with our clients, visitors, and partners;
  • inform decisions, and product development to best reflect the needs of our target audience.

VI. Your Data Protection Rights
Ladies Who Tech would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:
The right to access – You have the right to request Ladies Who Tech for copies of your personal data.
The right to rectification – You have the right to request that Ladies Who Tech corrects any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request Our Company to complete the information you believe is incomplete.
The right to erasure – You have the right to request that Ladies Who Tech erases your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that Ladies Who Tech restricts the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to Ladies Who Tech processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to data portability – You have the right to request that Ladies Who Tech transfers the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at our email: hello@ladieswho.tech.

VII. Data Retention
Ladies Who Tech will retain your data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your personal data to the extent necessary to comply with our contractual obligations; provide you a service you paid for, or to comply with any other legal agreements and policies.
Ladies Who Tech will also retain usage data for internal analysis purposes. Usage data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our service, or if we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

VIII. Data Transfer
Your information, including personal data, is processed at the Ladies Who Tech operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that this information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those from your location.
Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.
Ladies Who Tech will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of Your personal data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.
Disclosure of Your Personal Data

IX. How We Store Your Data
The security of your data is important to us and we strive to make sure your information is protected during all stages of data collection, processing, and management.

X. Contact Information
If you have any questions about Ladies Who Tech privacy policy, your data with us, or you would like to exercise one of your data protection rights, please do not hesitate to contact us via email: hello@ladieswho.tech.