Privacy Issues

Uploading data to the Indigenous Navigator Data Portal requires community consent.

When you respond to and submit the online questionnaires to the Indigenous Navigator's Data Portal, your data will automatically be included into the Indigenous Navigator bank of data. However, the data is not automatically public.

The questionnaire gives you the opportunity to upload data, submit the data for review, revise and utilise the full suite of analytical tools, without making that data public.  One of the first questions in the questionnaires will ask you whether or not you will allow us to publish your data online. Only if you answer yes, go through the review and revision process and finally publish the survey will your data be publicly available. Otherwise, the data will remain private within the data portal. 

If you don’t want to share your data in any form, you can choose to print and fill out the questionnaires and keep the results to yourself. Apart from gathering global data, the Indigenous Navigator is intended as an internal tool for indigenous communities and organisations to monitor their rights. The objective being that surveys and data are used by indigenous communities and organisations to monitor and document their situation, and used for planning and advocacy in the ways they see themselves see fit. For this reason, the surveys, tools and framework are all available as stand-alone components for use as needed.

If you intend to carry out a survey in your community, we recommend that the specific purpose that the data will serve within the community is discussed and agreed with the whole community from the outset. Records should be kept by the data collector to ensure FPIC and consent have been obtained, not only at the outset, but throughout the process.

In order to avoid misrepresentation of communities, there should always be an identified respondent to the questionnaire. This could be a person or an organization authorized by the community to upload the data. The user can choose to publicly disclose their identity online or not. If the respondent will prefer not to disclose, his/her identity will remain anonymous.

Privacy statement

The Indigenous Navigator project understands the importance of individual privacy and we are committed to protecting the privacy of our partners, donors and website visitors.

This privacy statement covers your use of The Indigenous Navigator’s website. The purpose of this Privacy Statement is to inform you of our commitment to protecting your privacy and making it clear how we may use your information. By continuing to access the website you accept and agree to be bound by the terms of this Privacy Statement.

About The Indigenous Navigator

The Indigenous Navigator is a framework and set of tools for and by indigenous peoples to systematically monitor the level of recognition and implementation of their rights. By using the Indigenous Navigator, indigenous organisations and communities, duty bearers, NGOs and journalists can access free tools and resources based on community-generated data.

Do we collect any of your personal information?

When connecting to any website on the Internet your IP address may be visible and could be tracked by the Internet Service Provider or external hosting partners. Although this information may be captured by our website, this information is not used in any form by The Indigenous Navigator nor our partners.

When you are using our website, we may collect limited automatic information using “cookies” which are strictly necessary for the functionality of the website and which allow us to improve its effectiveness.

We don't disclose your personal information. The Indigenous Navigator does not collect any of your personal information in order to provide you with the website. We do not pass your personal information on to third parties. Our website is purely a portal to inform you about the Indigenous Navigator's work and activities.

The Indigenous Navigator uses personal data provided by you for the following: 

1. Personal data provided by you

We collect and process personally identifiable data when you create a user profile strictly related to the functioning of the Global Portal, When you subscribe / sign-up for the Indigenous Navigator's newsletter, and to respond to General inquiries via, for example, forms on our website or regarding the data portal. 

2. Statistics on your visits to our website

When you visit the Indigenous Navigator's website, our web server registers your visit using cookies, i.e. small data files with a unique ID that allows us to recognise revisits. The web server primarily stores general information about your visit, for example the pages on our website you have visited, the time of the visit and the length of the visit. We use this information to calculate statistics about the traffic on our website.

We do not register your computer's IP address. 

If you subscribe to our newsletter, we also collect data on whether the newsletter has been opened and on the use of links in the newsletter to continuously improve the newsletter. 

Erasure of personal data

Your personal data will be erased when we no longer needed to process it for one or more of the purposes above. However, we may process and store statistical data longer in anonymised form.

Security and storage of personal information and data

We have taken technical and organisational measures to prevent your data from being accidentally or illegally erased, published, lost or impaired, or from being disclosed to unauthorised persons, abused or otherwise processed contrary to legislation. 

Data entered on the website is transferred in encrypted form between the user's browser and the website. Https:// is the default connection method within the website and on the data portal. 

Disclosure of data

We use a number of suppliers to store and process data, for example suppliers host the website and administrate subscribers to newsletters. These suppliers only process data on our behalf and may not use this data for their own purposes. 

Access and complaints

You are entitled to be informed about what personal data we process about you. Moreover, you can object to the data being used at any time. You can also withdraw your consent to processing of your personal data.

If your personal data is inaccurate, you are entitled to have it rectified or erased. For any inquiries, please contact: Navigator@iwgia.org 

Cookies

At IndigenousNavigator.org we do not use cookies for tracking, personalization and marketing. However, some pages require cookies, e.g. when playing YouTube videos. In the videos we ask for the acceptance of cookies.

What is a Cookie?

A cookie is a small piece of data sent from a website and stored in a user's web browser while the user is browsing the website. There is no personal information stored in the cookies on this website, the cookies cannot extract any information from the user’s computer and they cannot contain a virus.

Some cookies are placed by parties (so-called 3rd parties) other than the one in the browser's address bar (URL), such as when embedding a video from YouTube or a Google card. This means that cookies are stored from parties other than the owner of the website.

Some cookies are only stored on the user's IT equipment as long as the user has their browser open (session cookies). Other cookies are stored for a long period of time (persistent cookies). When the user revisits a website, session cookies will be reset, while persistent cookies are typically simply renewed.

The cookies will be deleted after a period time. Session cookies will be deleted as soon as the user closes the browser while persistent cookies will typically be stored on the computer for between 12 and 24 months, but the duration of persistent cookies can vary. All cookies will be renewed at each visit.

Cookies at IndigenousNavigator.org

We use the traffic analysis tool from Matomo to track visitors' use of the pages. We have opted out of recognizing returning visitors, which is why cookies (and IP information) are not used. The anonymous information about the individual visits is stored on a server that only we and the system provider can access, and is used solely to make reports on the use of the website. Data is not disclosed to any third party.

On our website we show some videos from YouTube. YouTube sets a cookie that we cannot turn off. YouTube uses cookies to track the use of the video and target marketing. Therefore, before playing the video, we ask for consent for these cookies to be set.

You can read more about cookies and the rules in the Cookie Order on the Danish Business Authority's website

How to Delete Cookies

You will always be able to delete cookies stored on your computer.  

• How to Delete Cookies in Microsoft Internet Explorer
• How to Delete Cookies in a Mozilla Firefox Browser 
• How to Delete Cookies in a Google Chrome Browser 

How to reject use of cookies

You can set your browser so that it will not store cookies on your computer. However, note that you may not be able to use all of the website's features if you do so. We hope that you will allow our cookies, because they help us to improve the pages.

You can read more about cookies and the rules on cookies in the Executive Order on Cookies on the Danish Business Authority website.

Links to external websites

Our website contains links and/or references to other websites to which this Privacy Statement does not apply. These links may be to individual websites of IWGIA members, or may be operated by external third parties.

The Indigenous Navigator is not responsible for the privacy practices of other websites, and we recommend that you contact the administrators of other websites, should you have any questions about their privacy policy. If You submit personal information to any of those sites, your information is governed by their terms. We recommend that, where available, you read the privacy policies of each website that You visit.

Changes to this Privacy Statement

The Indigenous Navigator reserves the right to modify this Privacy Statement at any time. We recommend that you review it periodically.

Contact us

Should you have questions about this Privacy Statement or The Indigenous Navigator's collection of information, use and disclosure practices, please contact us on info@indigenousnavigator.org