Privacy policy
The owner and maintainer of this website (hereinafter referred to as the Website) is the Latvian Fund for Nature, registered No. 40008019379, legal address: 32-8 Blaumaņa Street, Riga, Latvia, LV-1011.
At the Latvian Fund for Nature we value your privacy and strive to provide a transparent and secure online experience. This Privacy Policy explains how we process your personal data when you use this Website. It also explains your rights in relation to the personal data we process about you.
Information we collect
We may collect the following personal data depending on how you use our Website:
- Usage Data: information about how you use the Website.
- Contact details: name, email address, telephone number.
How we use your information
We use your personal data for the following purposes:
Contact
We use your contact details, such as name and email address, to answer your questions, provide support and address any feedback or concerns you may have.
We may use your contact information to send you newsletters or important information relating to your interaction with us and your use of our Website.
Improving our Website
Your usage data, including your interactions with our Website, is invaluable to enable us to analyse and understand how visitors move around our Website. By analysing this data, we can identify opportunities to make improvements, optimise the functionality of the Website and improve the overall user experience.
By understanding how you interact with our Website, we can tailor content to your preferences and interests. This personalised approach ensures that the information you receive is relevant and engaging to you.
Marketing
With your explicit consent, we may use your personal data to send you promotional material, news and updates about our products or services. The purpose of these communications is to inform you of relevant news and events that may be of interest to you.
Legal basis for processing personal data
We process your personal data on the following legal bases:
Website Usage Analysis
Legitimate interest: We process personal data for analytical purposes based on our legitimate interest to understand how visitors interact with our Website, to improve its functionality and user experience. This includes tracking visitor behaviour such as the number of pages viewed, time spent on the site and navigation patterns.
Consent: 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.
Email newsletter
Consent: We only collect email addresses for sending our newsletter with your explicit consent. By providing your email address and subscribing to our email newsletter, you consent to receive news, updates and promotional material from us. You have the right to unsubscribe at any time.
Transfer of information
We may disclose your data to trusted service providers who assist us in the operation of the Website or in accordance with our legal obligations. Our employees (to the extent necessary) will have access to personal data, for example for the management of email newsletters (such as the email address and name you provide).
Data security
The protection of your personal data is important to us and we implement strict data security measures to protect your data from unauthorised access, disclosure, alteration or destruction. Our security measures comply 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 between your browser and our Website. This ensures that any information transmitted between your browser and our Website is secure and protected from interception by third parties.
Your data may only be accessed by our employees who are duly authorised and to the extent necessary for the performance of their duties. Our employees are familiar with the data protection and security rules and are committed to respecting the confidentiality requirements.
We only collect personal data that is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We do not keep data for longer than necessary and ensure that data is kept up to date and accurate.
We regularly conduct security audits and assessments to identify and address potential vulnerabilities in our systems and processes. This approach enables us to keep your data safe.
In the event of a data breach or security incident, we have an incident management plan in place to respond immediately, mitigate any impact on affected individuals, and comply with legal requirements regarding data breaches.
Your rights
You have the following rights in relation to 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 disclose your personal data to;
- How long we keep your personal data or the criteria for determining this period;
- What your rights are;
- Where we received your personal data from (if we did not receive it from you);
- Whether the processing involves automated individual decision-making (so-called profiling);
- If your personal data is transferred to a country outside the EEA (European Economic Area), how 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 provided on payment of a fee.
Right to rectification
We take steps to ensure the accuracy and correctness of information. However, you have the right to contact us and ask us to correct your personal data if you believe that the data is incorrect or inaccurate.
Right to erasure
In certain circumstances, you have the right to ask us to erase your personal data, for example if the personal information collected from you is no longer necessary for the original purpose or if you withdraw your consent to the processing. However, in this case, other circumstances determining the lawfulness of the processing must also be taken into account. For example, we may have the right to process your personal data because we may have legal obligations or duties that prevent us from deleting the data at your request.
Right to restrict processing
In certain circumstances, you have the right to ask us to restrict our use of your personal data, for example, if you believe that the personal data we hold about you is incorrect or if you have objected to processing - until we have investigated the matter or can confirm the accuracy of the data (or have amended it in accordance with your instructions), or until we have considered your objection to processing.
This means that in this case, we may only process your personal data (other than storing it) with your consent or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims, for the protection of the rights of another natural or legal person, or for the protection of the public interest.
You can also ask us to restrict processing if we have unlawfully processed your personal data but you do not want us to erase it.
Right to data portability
You have the right to request the transfer to you or to another data controller of your personal data which you have provided to us and which we have processed on the basis of your consent or the performance of a contract, in a structured, commonly accepted machine-readable format.
Right to object
If you believe that we do not have the right to process your personal data, you have the right to object to this processing. In this case, we will only be able to continue processing if we can point to compelling legitimate grounds for processing that override your interests, rights and freedoms. However, we may in any event process personal data where necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
Rights in relation to automated decision-making
You have the right not to be the subject of a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you. We do not generally use automated decision-making or profiling, but if you are subject to automated decision-making and disagree with the outcome, you can contact us using the contact details below to request a review of the decision.
Right to withdraw consent
In most cases, our processing of personal data does not depend on your consent. However, in certain cases we may ask for your consent. In this case, you have every right to withdraw your consent for further use of your personal information.
To exercise your right, please contact us by email at plavasprodukts@ldf.lv
Right to lodge a complaint
If you are not satisfied with our responses or believe that we are unlawfully processing your personal data, you may contact the Data Protection Inspectorate (https://www.dvi.gov.lv/lv).
Contact us
If you have any questions or concerns about our Privacy Policy or your personal data please contact us at plavasprodukts@ldf.lv.
Recent changes
We may change this Privacy Policy at any time and we will state the date on which it was last updated. If there are material changes, we will highlight them and endeavor to inform you directly of the changes.
This is the latest version of our Privacy Policy. It was published on .... March 2025.
The website was created within the project "Optimising the Governance and Management of the Natura 2000 Protected Areas Network in Latvia" (LIFE19IPE/LV/000010 LIFE-IP LatViaNature), sub-activity C.4.3 "Development of business initiatives to motivate sustainable management of semi-natural grasslands". The project is implemented with the financial support of the LIFE Programme of the EU and the State Regional Development Agency.
Latvian Fund for Nature is responsible for the content of the website.
