Privacy policy
Version 1.0 (01-01-2024)
The Church of Cyberology (also “Cyberology” hereafter) operates on the internet and therefore processes personal information. In this privacy policy we will elaborate on what personal data we collect, how we collect personal data, for what purposes we use personal data, how we retain personal data and to whom personal data is disclosed by us.
Further this privacy statement includes information regarding your rights with respect to the processing of your personal data. If you have any questions about the processing of (your) personal data, please contact us.
Privacy by design
All our processes (online and offline), are built in accordance with current privacy design strategies and best practices in mind. In short this means:
- We limit, separate, abstract and hide (the processing of) personal data as much as possible.
- We’re transparent about the processing of personal data to our data subjects.
- We will never sell personal data to third-parties.
- We don’t share personal data with third-parties unless it’s one of our data processors or unless we are compelled to do so by a competent authority.
1 Website
The Church of Cyberology has the following websites:
When you visit our website(s), your IP address and browser user agent are processed by the webserver in order to serve the website’s content to your browser. In addition we retain these personal data for 30 days for the purpose of finding and preventing abuse and keeping the website(s) available. We may create (truly) anonymous aggregated statistics as well.
For our webhosting needs we make use of the Netherlands based IT service provider Nozel.
| Personal data | Controller | Processor | Purpose | Legal basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IP address | Cyberology | Nozel | Detect and prevent abuse/availability | Legitimate interest |
| Browser user agent | Cyberology | Nozel | Detect and prevent abuse/availability | Legitimate interest |
2 Email
You can send us an email. In order to receive, read, reply to and (permanently) archive these emails we process your mailserver’s IP address, contents of the email and email address(es)/account name(s) of email recipients and senders.
We use two email service providers to handle email: the Germany based secure email service Tutanota by Tutao GmbH (Tutao) and the Netherlands based secure email service Soverin by Soverin B.V. (Soverin).
| Personal data | Controller | Processors | Purpose | Legal basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mailserver’s IP | Cyberology | Tutao Soverin |
Handling email | Legitimate interest |
| Email address | Cyberology | Tutao Soverin |
Handling email | Legitimate interest |
| Name(s) | Cyberology | Tutao Soverin |
Handling email | Legitimate interest |
| Email content | Cyberology | Tutao Soverin |
Handling email | Legitimate interest |
Do note that upon request we can provide a secure email link for sharing sensitive information or data.
3 Your rights
Although the GDPR only applies to data subjects who are in the European Economic Area, we will take every request and complaint seriously no matter the data subject’s physical location on planet earth.
- You may ask us for information about your personal data.
- You may ask us for access to your personal data.
- You may object to the processing of your personal data by us.
- You may ask us to rectify your personal data.
- You may ask us to delete your personal data.
- You may ask us to restrict the processing of your personal data.
- You may ask us to receive your personal data in a structured, commonly used and machine readable format.
And finally, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Dutch Data Protection Authority.
4 Policy review
This Privacy Policy will be reviewed periodically to ensure that it remains current, effective, and aligned with the church’s goals and mission. Amendments or revisions to the policy may be made as necessary with approval from the governing board.