The Paragliding Forum (PGF) is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. Any personal data you provide for the purposes of your membership will be stored in a fair, lawful, secure, and transparent way. This is valid for both sites, Paragliding Forum and Leonardo - the global flight database.
The personal data we hold on you
The personal data we hold on you arises solely as a function of you being a member of the Paragliding Forum. The personal data will comprise the information that you have provided to us.
This will include:
the obligatory information to use the full function of the forum:
Your name, email address, username and password (the password is stored as a hash).
and also the voluntary information in the profiles of PGF and Leonardo:
Details about your flying experience, your flying qualification, location, occupation, sex, birth date, etc. (please see your profiles for all details)
The forum software stores automatically:
Your joining date, last visit, IP for every post, karma giving.
Logs
Whilst visiting our site, certain information is automatically logged on the web server. This information includes the IP address, date and time, used browser and the pages you visit while on our site, but no user related information.
The logs are stored for a few weeks.
Who is the nominated Data Controller?
The forum admins are the Data Protection Officers for Paragliding Forum. They can be contacted at
"admins (at) paraglidingforum.com".
Why we need your personal data
The reason we need your personal data is to administer your membership.
To allow use of forum facilities.
To provide accountability in the case of opinions published.
To ensure compliance with the forum’s rules.
The forum does not use your data for any purposes related to direct marketing by third-party vendors. The personal data you have provided is not used for profiling purposes.
Who has access to your data?
Each member of the admin team has access to your personal data via their account on the Paragliding Forum website using their own logon and unique password.
The lawful basis for processing your data
Our lawful basis for processing your data is that we have a legitimate interest in doing so as part of our obligation to you as a forum member, to ensure accountability, and adherence to the forum's rules.
With whom we share your personal data
We synchronize the flights of pilots who provided their CIVL ID on Leonardo with the FAI World XC Contest WXC.
PayPal
We store the information for the donations to cover the cost to run the forum. This contains PayPal account (email), date, payment ID, username and name.
YouTube / Vimeo
We’re using the video embedding function for Youtube- and Vimeo-videos. These videos are stored on www.youtube.com or www.vimeo.com and are directly playable from our website. By visiting a topic with embedded videos a connection between your browser and the video networks and associated services may be established.
For Youtube please visit: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/
For Vimeo please visit: http://vimeo.com/privacy
Google Maps
Leonardo uses maps from Google Maps. Google may collect the IP address, your location, et al.
Please see: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/
Cookies
Our website uses cookies, as almost all websites do. They help to remember your settings during and between visits or allow a quick and easy login. Turning off cookies will likely limit the functionality of the forum.
How long we hold your personal data
Your username and real name must be held as long as you are a member of the forum. You may erase other personal data without affecting your membership.
Your rights regarding your personal data
You have the right to ask that we delete all your personal data, by contacting the admin team via email from your registered email account. This will be done within 4 weeks. Once done, your account will be permanently unavailable to you.
Accuracy of your personal information
The personal data we hold on you will comprise the personal information that you have provided to us. It is your responsibility to ensure that the information provided is accurate and you should check as appropriate.
Security
The personal information you have provided will be stored on the website and access to this site is password protected. On joining the forum you would have been given access to the website and you will have chosen an unique password. It is essential that you maintain the security of the website by keeping your password secure.
The Internet is a global environment. The web hosting company that the forum uses is based in Germany.
We will take all reasonable steps to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with the forum's Security Policy and Privacy Notice.
ParaglidingForum.com | May 2018