Privacy Policy

Hack54 is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy describes how and when Hack54 collects, uses, and shares your information, including informing you of your rights regarding your personal information that we hold.

This Privacy Policy is applicable to personal data submitted through www.hack54.org website (hereinafter – the “Website”). This Website is managed by Socialite AF Ltd, established in Accra, Ghana.

Information you provide

You may provide personally identifiable information (“personal data”) about yourself when you participate to our events and, of course, when you fill in your personal data in “join a hackathon form”, “share your story form”, “become a sponsor form”, or “newsletter subscription form” on our Website (name, e-mail address, job title, and other relevant background information).

Persons that are under 16 years old cannot provide their personal data through this Website. If you are below the age of 16 years, please provide consent for personal data submission and processing by the holder of parental responsibility over you.

Information collected automatically

We may collect following data automatically when you browse our Website:

• IP addresses

• Information about what type of device you use to connect to our website

• How you interact with our website.

• Purposes of the processing and legal basis

• We process personal data for the sole purposes of Hack54, namely:

- for the organisation, management and functioning of the Website;

- for the performance of a contract to which you are party or in order to take steps prior to entering into a contract;

- for the performance of a contract to which the company you are representing is a party or in order to take steps prior to entering into a contract;

- for replying to queries submitted via Website;

- for sending newsletters if you have subscribed to.

By accepting the consent boxes in our forms on the website, you give your consent collection and processing of your personal data as defined in this Privacy Policy. You can withdraw the consent contacting Hack54 as described in the section dedicated to “Exercise of users’ data protection rights”. However, such consent on processing of personal data cannot be revoked retrospectively.

Newsletter

Together with the other services offered through our website, Hack54 also offers the possibility to request the subscription to our Newsletter and be kept up to date with upcoming hackathons. You may unsubscribe from such newsletters by following the instructions specified in every newsletter.

Recipients of Data

We may share your data with the following entities:

Affiliates and Partners. We may share your data with Hack54 sponsors and partners involved in funding and supporting our hackathons. These entities may receive your information only to the extent necessary for the proper execution of the purposes defined above.

Data Processors. We may share your data with partners providing technological services and/or conducting independent researches. In addition, personal data may be transferred in case Hack54 merge, re-organise or transfer all or part of its services in which case your information will be disclosed to potential or actual successors of the business.

Parties when required by law or as necessary to protect our services.

Other Parties in Aggregated Form. We may also share your data with third parties in aggregated or non-personally identifiable form.

Where we store your personal data

We primarily store and process your personal data in the company archives, which is accessible by only our employees and founders.

Period of storage

Your personal data will be kept for no longer than is necessary for the specific purposes for which the personal data are processed.

Security

We implement appropriate technical and organisational measures, which are designed to implement data-protection principles, such as data minimisation, in an effective manner and to integrate the necessary safeguards into the processing in order to meet the requirements of the Regulation and protect the rights of data subjects. Furthermore, we implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure a level of security appropriate to the risk and safeguard personal data in our possession against accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, theft, alteration or unauthorised use or disclosure. Please note, however, that no data transmission or storage can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect the information we maintain, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information that you transmit to us.

Changes to this policy

We may revise this Privacy Policy from time to time. The most current version of the policy will govern our use of your information and will be located at ouur website. We may make changes to this policy at our sole discretion. By continuing to access or use the Website after those changes become effective, you agree to be bound by the revised Privacy Policy.

Exercise of users’ data protection rights

You may contact us, via email at info@Hack54.org in order to assert your rights,

Hack54 shall inform you of any such extension within one month of receipt of the request, together with the reasons for the delay. Where the request is made by electronic form means, the information shall be provided by electronic means where possible, unless otherwise requested by you.

We inform you that you have the right to lodge a complaint to the competent data protection authority, if you believe that your personal data have been processed in violation of any applicable law concerning data protection.