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<div class="rich-text mx-auto"> <div> <p>Human Rights Watch is committed to protecting the privacy of all users. This policy represents our commitment to your right to privacy. This Privacy Policy sets out Human Rights Watch, Inc.’s information processing practices in relation to you and your personal data and applies when we collect and process personal data from you through various sources and describes your rights regarding your personal data.</p> <p>"Human Rights Watch" or "HRW" refers to Human Rights Watch, Inc., and its affiliates in various parts around the world, including its affiliated charities, branch offices and other registered entities (also referred to as "we", "us", or "our"). HRW is the data controller to which this policy refers to.</p> <p><strong>When and how do we collect your information?</strong></p> <p>Human Rights Watch collects personal data about you when you:</p> </div> <div> <ul><li>Visit our website or use an HRW mobile app;</li> <li>Make a donation;</li> <li>Volunteer;</li> <li>Register for an HRW event;</li> <li>Engage in a campaign by signing an online petition;</li> <li>Make an inquiry;</li> <li>Subscribe to an online publication; or</li> <li>Apply for employment.</li> </ul></div> <div> <p>We may also collect personal data about you from third-party sources, including, but not limited to, information posted on social media and other publicly-available sources.</p> <p><strong>What personal data do we collect?</strong></p> <p>We may collect some or all of the following types of information, some of which may constitute personal data under applicable law, including:</p> </div> <div> <ul><li><strong>Basic contact information. </strong>Our websites may collect personal data, information that either directly identifies you or could reasonably be used to identify you. Examples of personal data include your name, contact information, email address, and other information in combination with such identifiers.</li> <li><strong>Mobile devices information. </strong>If you access our websites on your mobile telephone or mobile device, we may also collect your unique device identifier and mobile device IP address, as well as information about your device's operating system, mobile carrier and your location information as “strictly necessary” for the delivery of services or website content. We may also ask you to consent to providing your mobile phone number (for example, so that we can send you push notifications). If you are accessing our website using your mobile device while located in the EU, UK, EEA or other countries with similar laws., you have the option to opt-in and provide your consent for our collection of this information (except where the collection is “strictly necessary” for the delivery of website content).</li> <li><strong>Other information. </strong>In some instances, we automatically collect other basic information about you which does not directly identify you, but which may correspond with you or a particular device. We use this information to learn more about how our website is used and to otherwise improve and administer the site. Automated technologies may include the use of web server logs to collect IP addresses, "cookies" and web beacons. Further information about our use of cookies can be found below in the <strong>Cookies and other tracking technologies</strong> section at the end of this Statement. If you are located in the EU,UK or the EEA you have the option to opt-in to consent to the collection of this information.</li> </ul></div> <div> <p><em>Social media:</em></p> <p>You can engage with us through social media websites or through features such as plug-ins or applications on Human Rights Watch websites that integrate with social media sites. You may also choose to link your account with us to third party social media sites. When you link your account or engage with us on or through third-party social media sites, plug-ins, or applications, you may allow us to have ongoing access to certain information from your social media account (e.g., name, e-mail address, photo, gender, birthday, the posts or the 'likes' you make).</p> <p>If you post information when you interact with our websites through social media sites, plug-ins or other applications, depending on your privacy settings, this information may become public on the Internet. You can control what information you share through privacy settings available on some social media sites. For more information about how you can customize your privacy settings and how third party social media sites handle your personally identifiable information, please refer to their privacy help guides, privacy notices and terms of use.</p> <p><strong>General Data Protection Regulation</strong></p> <p>We only collect and process your personal data if we have a legal basis, which may include:</p> </div> <div> <ul><li><strong>Legitimate interest.</strong> We process your personal data based on our legitimate interests in communicating with you and managing our interactions with you.</li> <li><strong>Performance of a contract. </strong>We process your personal data as necessary for the performance of a contract with you or at your request prior to entering into a contract.</li> <li><strong>Compliance with applicable laws or </strong>We process your personal data as necessary for us to comply with a relevant legal obligation (e.g. where we are required to make disclosures to courts or regulators).</li> <li><strong>Public interest.</strong> We process your personal data for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest (e.g., the tracking of human rights violations).</li> <li><strong>Consent. </strong>In limited circumstances, we will use your consent as the basis for processing special categories of information or prior to sending you electronic communications.</li> </ul></div> <div> <p> </p> <p><strong>How do we use your personal data?</strong></p> <p>We use the personal data you provide to us to:</p> </div> <div> <ul><li>Manage and process inquiries, registrations, donations and other interactions with you;</li> <li>Fundraise, including learning more about our donors and identifying sources of potential donations;</li> <li>Send you information you have requested or consented to receiving such as newsletters, breaking news, and other information regarding relevant Human Rights Watch Activities;</li> </ul></div> <ul><li>Support your engagement in campaigns, including signing petitions, taking actions and other forms of digital advocacy</li> </ul><div> <p> </p> </div> <div> <ul><li>Provide you with personalized service and with content and advertisements we believe may be of interest to you; and</li> <li>Operate our website and understand its use, for statistical purposes (number of site visits, average time visitors spend at the site, etc.) and security purposes.</li> </ul></div> <div> <p> </p> <p>We may also use information about you or use suggestions, comments, and ideas that do not personally identify you for any purpose, except where we are required to do otherwise under applicable law. We may combine, aggregate or de-identify any of the information we collect from you through any other online or offline source and use it for the aforementioned purpose.</p> <p><strong>With whom do we share your personal data?</strong></p> <p>We do not sell, share, or otherwise disclose the information we collect through our website and mobile applications, except as provided in this Privacy Statement.</p> <p>We may share your personal data with other Human Rights Watch entities, divisions, and branch offices to serve you, including for the activities listed in this statement.</p> <p>We may share your personal data with our affiliates and third-party organizations which we feel could be of interest to you, provided you agree to such sharing and such sharing is legal under applicable law. Please see the section on <strong>Your choices regarding your information </strong>below if you wish to have your information shared this way.</p> <p>We may allow third parties who provide us with various business services, including monitoring and maintaining the websites and with whom we are working to provide you with services or information to process your information.</p> <p>Further information about our use of cookies and similar technologies can be found below in the <strong>Cookies and other tracking technologies</strong> section at the end of this Statement.</p> <p>We may disclose personal data (i) if we are required to do so by law, legal process, statute, rule, regulation, or professional standard, or to respond to a subpoena, search warrant, or other legal request; (ii) in response to law enforcement authority or other government official requests; (iii) when we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to prevent physical harm or financial loss; (iv) in connection with an investigation of suspected or actual illegal activity; or (v) in the event that Human Rights Watch is dissolved or otherwise reorganized. Disclosure may also be required for audits or to investigate a complaint or security threat.</p> <p><strong>Do we transfer your personal data across national borders?</strong></p> <p><br/> We are a global organization and may transfer certain personal data across geographical borders to Human Rights Watch entities, authorized service providers or business partners in other countries working on our behalf in accordance with applicable law. Our affiliates and third parties may be based locally or they may be in other countries, some of which have not been determined by authorities where you are located to have an adequate level of data protection.</p> <p>When we do, we use a variety of legal mechanisms to help ensure your rights and protections travel with your data:</p> </div> <div> <ul><li>we ensure transfers within Human Rights Watch are covered by agreements based on the EU Commission's standard contractual clauses for international data transfers, which contractually oblige each member to ensure that personal data receives an adequate and consistent level of protection wherever it resides within Human Rights Watch;</li> <li>where we transfer your personal data outside Human Rights Watch or to third parties who help provide our services, we utilize an appropriate transfer mechanism to protect your personal data, such as the EU standard contractual clauses; or</li> <li>where we receive requests for information from law enforcement or regulators, we carefully validate these requests before any personal data is disclosed.</li> </ul></div> <div> <p>Examples of countries to which we transfer personal data include, but are not limited to, the United States, the United Kingdom and India.</p> <p>If you would like further information about whether your information will be disclosed to overseas recipients, please contact us as noted below. You also have a right to contact us for more information about the safeguards we have put in place (including a copy of relevant contractual commitments, which may be redacted for reasons of commercial confidentiality) to ensure the adequate protection of your personal data when this is transferred as mentioned above.</p> <p><strong>Do we collect information from children?</strong></p> <p>Our website is not intended for children under 16 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal data from an individual under age 16. If you are under the age of 16, please do not submit any personal data through the website. If you have reason to believe that we may have accidentally received personal data from an individual under age 16, please contact us immediately at <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240406150546/mailto:privacy@hrw.org">privacy@hrw.org</a>.</p> <p><strong>Your choices regarding your information</strong> </p> <p>You may update, correct, or change your information by contacting us at <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240406150546/mailto:privacy@hrw.org">privacy@hrw.org</a> or by following the instructions below in this Privacy Statement. You may also choose not to receive marketing communications from us by clicking on the unsubscribe link or other instructions in our marketing e-mails or contacting us as noted below.</p> <p>With respect to cookie-based advertising, please be aware that the Digital Advertising Alliance maintains a website where consumers can opt out from receiving interest-based advertising from some or all of the network advertising companies participating in the program (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240406150546/http://www.aboutads.info/choices/" target="_blank">www.AboutAds.info/choices/</a>).We offer certain choices about how we communicate with you and what personal data we obtain about you and share with others. When you provide us with personal details, if we intend to use those details for marketing purposes, we will provide you with the option of whether you wish to receive promotional e-mail, SMS messages, telephone calls and postal mail from us. At any time, you may opt out from receiving interest-based advertising or marketing from us by contacting us. If you are located in the EU, UK or EEA you are automatically opted-out and may opt-in should you desire to do so.</p> <p><strong>How can you update your communication preferences?</strong> </p> <p>We take reasonable steps to provide you with communication about your information. You can update your communication preferences in the following ways.</p> </div> <div> <ul><li><strong>Newsletters. </strong>If you request electronic communications, such as an e-newsletter, you will be able to unsubscribe at any time by following the instructions included in the communication.</li> <li><strong>Mobile devices.</strong> If you previously chose to receive push notifications on your mobile device from us but no longer wish to receive them, you can manage your preferences either through your device or the application settings. If you no longer wish to have any information collected by the mobile application, you may uninstall the application by using the uninstall process available on your mobile device.</li> <li><strong>E-mail.</strong> Contact us by e-mail <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240406150546/mailto:privacy@hrw.org">privacy@hrw.org</a> or postal address 350 Fifth Avenue, 34th Floor, New York, New York 10118. Please include your current contact information, the information you are interested in accessing and your requested changes.</li> </ul></div> <div> <p><strong>How long do we retain your personal data?</strong></p> <p>How long we <em>retain</em> your personal data depends on the purpose for which it was obtained and its nature. We will keep your personal data for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this Statement unless a longer retention period is permitted or required by law. In specific circumstances we may store your personal data for longer periods of time so that we have an accurate record of your dealings with us in the event of any complaints or challenges, or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation relating to your personal data or dealings. You may contact us through the provided channels to request deletion of your information.</p> <p><strong>Do we have security measures in place to protect your information?</strong></p> <p>Human Rights Watch takes steps to protect your information from unauthorized access. We implemented a SSL certificate and enforced https traffic on our site. All data transmitted to and from our website, are encrypted to provide an additional level of security. You can read more about the security measures taken by our third-party vendor, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240406150546/https://www.engagingnetworks.net/company-policies/" target="_blank">Engaging Networks</a>, who provides the following services for HRW: online advocacy, event registration and donation pages, and email message deployment.</p> <p>While we take reasonable measures to protect the information you submit via the website against loss, theft, and unauthorized use, disclosure, or modification, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. No internet, email, or mobile application transmission is ever fully secure or error free. Email or other messages sent through the website may not be secure. You should use caution whenever submitting information through email or the website and take special care in deciding which information you provide us.</p> <p><strong>Are we responsible for the websites to which we link?</strong></p> <p>We are not. HRW does not endorse and is not responsible for the content of third-party websites or resources, and our privacy statement does not apply to any sites that are not affiliated with HRW, even if you access them via a link on our site. You should review the privacy policies of any third-party site before providing any information.</p> </div> <div> <p><strong>EU UK, EEA Data Subject Rights </strong></p> <p>If you are an EU, UK or EEA Data Subject, you have the following rights. 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