Privacy policy.
Effective Date: 8 October 2025
1. Introduction
The Institute for Global Peacecraft, a Swedish nonprofit research institute ("IGP," "we," "us," or "our"), is committed to protecting the privacy of individuals who visit our website at globalpeacecraft.org (the "Site") and interact with our organization. This Privacy Policy describes our practices regarding the collection, use, disclosure, and protection of personal data. By accessing our Site or providing personal information to us, you consent to the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
2. Information Collection
We collect information that you voluntarily provide when you subscribe to our newsletter, contact us through our Site, apply for partnerships or collaborations, make donations, or otherwise communicate with us. Such information may include your name, email address, postal address, telephone number, professional affiliation, and payment information. We also automatically collect certain information when you visit our Site, including your Internet Protocol address, browser type and version, pages of our Site that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, and other diagnostic data.
3. Use of Information
We process your personal data for legitimate purposes including to provide you with newsletters and updates about our research, to process and acknowledge donations, to respond to your inquiries and fulfil your requests, to improve and optimize our Site and services, to comply with applicable legal obligations, and to analyse anonymized usage patterns for research purposes. We will only use your personal information for the purposes for which we collected it unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason that is compatible with the original purpose.
4. Data Sharing and Disclosure
We do not sell, trade, rent, or otherwise transfer your personal information to third parties except as described in this Privacy Policy. We may share your personal information with service providers who perform services on our behalf, subject to confidentiality obligations. We may disclose your information when we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to comply with applicable law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request, to enforce our rights, to protect the safety of any person, or to detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security, or technical issues.
5. Data Security
We implement appropriate technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we process. These measures are designed to provide a level of security appropriate to the risk of processing your personal information. However, please be aware that no system of electronic data transmission or storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee the absolute security of your personal information.
6. International Data Transfers
As an international organization headquartered in Sweden, we may transfer your personal data to countries outside the European Economic Area. Where we transfer personal data internationally, we implement appropriate safeguards to ensure that your personal data remains protected in accordance with this Privacy Policy and applicable data protection laws.
7. Data Retention
We retain personal information for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes for which we collected it, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.
8. Your Rights
Subject to applicable law, you have the right to access personal information we hold about you and to request that your personal information be corrected, updated, or deleted. You may also have the right to object to the processing of your personal information, request restriction of processing, or request portability of your personal information. You have the right to withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal information. You have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection authority about our collection and use of your personal information.
9. Cookies
Our Site uses cookies and similar tracking technologies to enhance user experience and analyse Site usage. Essential cookies are necessary for Site functionality. Analytical cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our Site. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings in your browser; however, this may prevent you from using certain features of our Site.
10. Children's Privacy
Our Site is not directed to individuals under the age of sixteen, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under sixteen. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a child under the age of sixteen, we will take steps to delete such information.
11. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated "Effective Date" and the updated version will be effective as soon as it is accessible. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically to stay informed about how we are protecting your information.
12. Contact Information
If you have questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at privacy@globalpeacecraft.org or by mail at Institute for Global Peacecraft, Junohällsvägen 9, 11264, Stockholm, Sweden.