River of Words Privacy Notice

River of Words (ROW) Privacy Notice

Introduction

The Saint Mary’s College of California Privacy Policy can be found here. The ROW Privacy Policy provides additional information specific to how ROW collects and uses personal information.

Children’s Privacy

The ROW website and information about ROW contests and activities is intended to be used by school teachers, facilitators, parents and legal guardians of school age children and is not intended to be used by children under the age of eighteen (18). If you are under the age of eighteen (18), please get your parent or legal guardian’s permission to use the site and enter our contests.  

ROW will never intentionally collect Personal Data from persons under the age of eighteen (18) and we request that any forms or other submissions made in response to contests and activities be completed by a parent or legal guardian and not the child.  If it appears that we have collected or received Personal Data on a child under the age of 18 without parental consent, it will not be used and we will promptly delete the information from our files.

Social Media

Our social media sites are not intended for the use of children under the age of eighteen (18). If you or your child choose to connect one or more of your social media accounts with our site to enable the sharing of Personal Data via social media platforms, certain categories of Personal Data relating to you from your social media account(s) will be shared with us.

How and Why we Collect Personal Data 

As a general rule, we only collect data directly from you when you register for a ROW contest and we will use that data for the legitimate business interests of running our ROW contests.  

Personal Data relating to Third Parties

By providing us with or allowing us to access Personal Data relating to individuals other than yourself, you are letting us know that you have the authority to send us that Personal Data or the authority to permit us to access those data in the manner described in this Privacy Policy.

What we use your Personal Data for (Purpose of Processing)

The following is a description (in a clear and plain manner) of what we use your Personal Data for and the corresponding legal ground(s) we rely on for doing so.

Please note that WHERE WE RELY ON YOUR CONSENT, THIS CAN BE WITHDRAWN AT WILL (See Special Note on Consent below).

Special Note on Consent 

Where we cannot rely on a legal ground to process Personal Data (for example, our legitimate interests), we will process the Data on the basis of consent. When we rely on consent to process Personal Data, you have the right at any time to withdraw your consent by directly emailing us at rowinfo@stmarys-ca.edu.

Should you exercise the right to withdraw consent we will determine whether at that stage an alternative legal basis exists for processing. Where participant Personal Data has already been made public pursuant to contest process (for example, when a participant is named as a finalist in an anthology or on our website) withdrawn consent will not apply.  

Accuracy of Personal Data

Reasonable efforts are made to keep any Personal Data we may hold about you up-to-date and as accurate as possible. You can check the information that we hold about you at any time by contacting us at rowinfo@stmarys-ca.edu. We will correct inaccurate data, and where required, delete data as necessary.

Direct Marketing

We only send mail, messages and other communications relating to marketing where we are authorized to do so at law. In most cases we rely on your consent to do so (especially where we use electronic communications). If, at any time, you no longer wish to receive direct marketing communications from us you can exercise this right by contacting us at rowinfo@stmarys-ca.edu.

Internet Communication 

When data is transmitted across international borders we cannot be held responsible for actions or omissions done by you or any third party in connection with Personal Data transmissions that occur prior to our receiving the data including but not limited to transfers of Personal Data via technological means that may provide a lower level of protection (for example, WhatsApp, Skype, Dropbox etc.).

Sharing of Personal Data with other Categories of Recipients

Generally, Personal Data may be disclosed or shared as appropriate in the administration of ROW contests, with ROW administrators, judges, and members of the Saint Mary’s community. The Personal Data of contest finalists and winners may be shared with the public at large via our website, published anthologies, and ROW events.

Personal Data will never be shared with third parties for their marketing purposes (unless you give your consent thereto).

Retention Periods

Contest participants’ poetry and artwork (collectively “Works”) may be retained by ROW indefinitely. Personal Data identifying the participant Works is retained with the submitted Works and may therefore also be retained indefinitely. Some Works and Personal Data may also be catalogued for academic research and retained indefinitely for that purpose.

Where Works and Personal Data are no longer required by ROW, we will securely delete or the Personal Data in question.

European Union Contest Participants and Users of our Website

You may have the following rights related to the processing of your personal data:

• Right of Access to Personal Data
• Right to Rectify and Restrict the Use of Personal Data
• Right of Erasure (The Right to be Forgotten)
• Right of Portability
• Right to Object to Certain Processing
• Right to Lodge a Complaint

Time Limit for a Response 

We try to reply to all legitimate requests within one month from receiving them. Last Updated August 28, 2019.