Privacy Policy | Play For Change Awards

Data Protection Notice – for parties registering with or applying for the Play for Change Awards

This Privacy Policy has been updated on 20 January 2020

The Play for Change Awards are organised by Toy Industries of Europe

Toy Industries of Europe, based at 36 Boulevard de Waterloo, 1000 Brussels, Belgium (hereafter “TIE” or “we”), has prepared this data protection notice (the “notice”) to describe its practices regarding the collection, use, storage, transfer and other processing of individually identifiable information (“personal data“) of its parties registering with or applying for the Play for Change Awards (“you”). TIE is the controller responsible for the processing of personal data described in this notice.

Please note that we may occasionally update all or parts of this Privacy Policy. Any change to this Privacy Policy will be posted on this page. We will indicate above the date on which this Privacy Policy was last modified. Your continued use of this site constitutes your agreement to the Privacy Policy and any updates.

What information do we collect from you and for which purposes?

The categories of personal data TIE collects from you are your name, surname, work email, work address, job title and telephone details.

TIE will only use this personal data:

for purposes related to the organisation of the Play for Change Awards and your participation in the Awards. For instance to contact you when we need more information regarding your application.
for communications purposes around the Play for Change Awards. We will send you information to remind you of closing dates of the application, the runners-up, the winners etc…

How do we store your personal data and who has access to your data?

TIE maintains a database with an electronic record of everyone who has registered interest or applied for the Play for Change Awards.

The persons and entities that can have access to your personal data are:

the TIE staff
external professional services, such as TIE’s IT/website supplier and TIE’s external consultants who are involved in the organisation of the Awards

When TIE engages a third-party processor to process personal data on its behalf, such as those listed above, TIE will choose a processor that provides sufficient guarantees with respect to technical and organisational security measures governing the relevant processing.

From time to time, TIE may also need to disclose personal data to other parties, such as any organisation with whom TIE co-organises an event.

How do we protect your data?

We will store your data safely and will take precautionary measures to protect them against loss, abuse or changes. To try to prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy and ensure the correct use of your information, we have implemented appropriate physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information collected.

TIE’s employees or any of TIE’s contractual partners who have access to your data in order to provide services to TIE (e.g. its IT/website supplier, its database software supplier) are contractually obliged to keep such information in confidence and may not use these data for any purpose other than performing their contractual missions for TIE.

Do we transfer your data to third countries?

We use a third-party email service provider that is based in the UK.

The Play for Change Awards website is hosted in the UK.

For how long do we keep your data?

TIE will retain the personal data only for as long as necessary for the purposes described in this notice. We will delete these data when the Awards finish or when the data subject asks us to remove him/her from our contact list.

What are your rights and how can you exercise them?

You have the right to: i) have access to your personal data; ii) have inaccurate data corrected or removed, iii) object to the processing of your personal data; (iv) restrict TIE’s use of your personal data; (v) receive your personal data in a usable electronic format and transmit it to a third party (right to “data portability”); and (vi) lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.

If you wish to exercise any of these rights or if you are not satisfied about how we protect your privacy, you should address your request by email together with a copy of your ID (which we will only use to verify your identity), to TIE, as data controller at the following address: info@toyindustries.eu.

Contact us

If you have any questions, comments or concerns about the protection of your personal Data please direct them to info@toyindustries.eu or by post to the address below.

Toy Industries of Europe (TIE)
Boulevard de Waterloo 36
1000 Brussels

Privacy Policy for Website Users

This Privacy Policy has been updated on 20 January 2020

You are now connected to the Play for Change Awards website. This is an official website (“this site”) of the Awards programme ‘Play for Change’. The Awards programme is run by Toy Industries of Europe (“TIE”). TIE maintains this site to enable public visitors (“visitors”) to access information about the Play for Change Awards.

This privacy policy applies to all visitors regardless of their physical location. This privacy policy does not apply to external sites accessible from links offered on this site. By accessing and using this website, you are accepting the conditions outlined below.

What information do we collect from you and for which purposes?

When you visit this site or download information from it, we make a record of the date, time, and duration of your visit to the site. We also collect information such as the pages you access, the documents you download, the links to others site you follow to reach our site and the type of browser you use.

We do not use this information to identify you. We do not combine this information with other identifiable information about you. Our analytic software only uses this information for statistical purposes.

We only collect personally identifiable information from you on this website when you voluntarily sign up to receive information about the Play for Change Awards.

Use of Cookies

What are cookies?

A cookie is a text file that is installed in the browser of your computer or mobile device by our web server when you consult our website. The browser stores the message in a text file, and the message is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.

A website’s server can only read the cookies it has installed itself, and has no access to other information found in your computer or mobile device. Cookies are stored in the folder of your browser on your computer or mobile device.

Cookies generally make the interaction between the visitor and the website faster and easier, and help the visitor navigate between the different parts of a website. Cookies can also be used to make the content or advertisement on a website more relevant for the visitor, and can be adapted to his personal taste and needs.

Which cookies are used on The Play for Change website?

Play for Change Awards makes limited use of cookies on this website. We (or our service provider acting on our behalf and under our instructions) may notably use cookies or similar tracking technologies that we place on your computer hard drive to measure interest in the Awards, measure usage sessions accurately, and to gain a clear picture of which areas of the sites attract traffic and to deliver a better and more personalised service to you.

Following cookies are used on our website:

_ga - Google Analytics, used to distinguish users.
_gid - Google Analytics, used to distinguish users.

How to manage cookies?

Most Internet browsers are set up to accept cookies. You may decide to reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to notify you when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do decide to refuse all cookies please be aware that some features and services of this website may be unavailable or may not function properly. If you want to object to the use of cookies or similar technologies, please refer to the section ‘Your rights’ in our Privacy Policy. Please note that if you do not object or disable cookies, except where express consent is required by law, you will be deemed to consent to their use for the purposes and in the manner described in this Cookie statement and our Privacy Policy.

The procedure for enabling or disabling cookies and deleting them differs depending on your device and Internet browser. Please consult your browser for further information:

For Internet Explorer, please see the information provided here.
For Mozilla Firefox, please see the information provided here.
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For Safari, please see the information provided here and here.

Contact us

If you have any questions, comments or concerns about the protection of your personal data please direct them to info@toyindustries.eu or by post to the address below.

Toy Industries of Europe (TIE)
Boulevard de Waterloo 36
1000 Brussels