1 – About Stichting Love Foundation

Stichting Love Foudation is a non-profit stichting registered in the Netherlands. It is the umbrella and license holder of all Love Foundation properties. Love Foundation organizes events, workshops, art exhibitions and others to fundraise money for WASH projects in the global south. This website serves as a representation of the work of Love Foundation around the world.
Matomo is an open source web analytics platform. A web analytics platform is used by a website owner in order to measure, collect, analyse and report visitors data for purposes of understanding and optimizing their website. If you would like to see what Matomo looks like, you can access a demo version at: https://demo.matomo.org.

2 – Purpose of the processing of data

Stichting Love Foundation uses Matomo, an open source web analytics platform.

Matomo is an open source web analytics platform. A web analytics platform is used by a website owner in order to measure, collect, analyse and report visitors data for purposes of understanding and optimizing their website. If you would like to see what Matomo looks like, you can access a demo version at: https://demo.matomo.org.

Matomo is used to analyse the behaviour of the website visitors to identify potential pitfalls; not found pages, search engine indexing issues, which contents are the most appreciated and much more. Once the data is processed (number of visitors reaching a not found pages, viewing only one page…), Matomo is generating reports for website owners to take action, for example changing the layout of the pages, publishing some fresh content… etc.

Stichting Love Foundation is processing the following personal data:

  • Location of the user

And also:

  • Date and time
  • Title of the page being viewed
  • URL of the page being viewed
  • URL of the page that was viewed prior to the current page
  • Screen resolution
  • Time in local timezone
  • Files that were clicked and downloaded
  • Link clicks to an outside domain
  • Pages generation time
  • Country, region, city
  • Main Language of the browser
  • User Agent of the browser

The processing of personal data with Matomo is based on legitimate interests.

3 – The legitimate interests

Processing your personal data such as cookies is helping us identify what is working and what is not on our website. For example, it helps us identify if the way we are communicating is engaging or not and how we can organize the structure of the website better. Our team is benefiting from the processing of your personal data, and they are directly acting on the website. By processing your personal data, you can profit from a website which is getting better and better.

Without the data, we would not be able to provide you the service we are currently offering to you. Your data will be used only to improve the user experience on our website and help you find the information you are looking for.

We do not use cookies to track users visiting our services. We also do not employ cookies for any other services at the current time.

4 – Recipient of the personal data

The personal data received through Matomo are sent to:

  • Stichting Love Foundation
    • admin@love-foundation.org
  • Our service provider (server host): 
    Contabo GmbH
    Aschauer Straße 32a
    81549 Munich
    Germany
    Tel: +49 89 3564717 70

    Fax: +49 89 216 658 62

    info@contabo.com

5 – Details of transfers to third country and safeguards

Matomo data is hosted in Germany. Hence, there are no addiitonal safeguards as we do not transfer data to third countries.

6 – Retention period or criteria used to determine the retention period

We are keeping the personal data captured within Matomo for a period of 13 months. This is so we can create accurate yearly reports of visitors to our website.

7 – The existence of each of the data subject’s rights

As Matomo is processing personal data on legitimate interests, you can exercise the following rights:

  • Right of access: you can ask us at any time to access your personal data.
  • Right to erasure: you can ask us at any time to delete all the personal data we are processing about you.
  • Right to object: you can object to the tracking of your personal data by using the following opt-out feature:


8– The right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority

If you think that the way we process your personal data with Matomo analytics is infringing the law, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.

9 – The existence of automated decision-making, including profiling and information about how decisions are made, the significance and the consequences

Stichting Love Foundation is not doing any profiling.

If you have any questions dealing with this privacy policy in particular, do not hesitate to contact us.