“Solve for Tomorrow Latam” platform Privacy Policy
Effective date: February 15th, 2023
Solve For Tomorrow Latam (“Platform”) is a platform developed and provided by the Regional Office of Samsung Eletrônica da Amazônia Ltda. for Latin America (“Samsung Latin America Office”) for Samsung’s global Corporate Citizenship Program, Solve for Tomorrow, which has the purpose of enhancing young people’s interest in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM education) through search solutions to local challenges that affect their lives and communities. Built from the practical experiences of Solve for Tomorrow, the Platform aims to recognize and strengthen the network of professors engaged with the program in Latin America, offer content created by educators to other users, favoring the exchange of knowledge from various countries and contexts, in addition to systematizing Solve for Tomorrow’s memory in the region.
This Privacy Policy is important as it describes how your personal information will be used to provide this Platform.
What information do we collect?
When registering on the Platform, you (“User”) provide the following data:
Mandatory User identification information: full name, email and password.
This is the information necessary to make all the functionalities of the Platform available to the User.
Optional User identification information, such as:
Personal identification: phone number, city, state and country
Data about your professional activity: position, subjects you teach, institution, and age group you work with
Participation in the Solve for Tomorrow program: year of participation and ranking achieved
Profile on Instagram and LinkedIn
Accept or not to receive communications from the program
In addition, when using the platform, you will also provide activity registration information and access logs, such as user activity and login attempts, date and time and IP of origin of accesses, changes in registration/login, changes in content, and plug-in changes, among others.
How do we use your information?
We use the information collected for the following purposes:
Identify and authenticate your user so that you can use the Platform.
Provide all services and functionality of the Platform to you.
Operate, evaluate, and improve the Platform and our programs.
Protect, identify, and prevent fraud and other criminal activities.
Comply with applicable legal requirements, as well as this Privacy Policy.
Samsung processes personal information for the purposes described above. We will collect your consent to process personal data under applicable law, unless we have another legal basis for processing your information without consent, where applicable, such as to comply with the law, regulatory obligations, and legal process, or to perform a contract that you celebrated with us. The legal basis may vary from one country to another, but we will use the legal basis provided by the data protection law and other similar laws in your country.
Samsung’s legal basis for processing personal information includes processing for:
(i) to fulfill our commitments to you, such as to provide you with the Platform – execution of a contract or preliminary procedures (article 7, V of the LGPD).
(ii) promote our commercial interests (for example, managing our relationship with you – a legitimate interest (Article 7, IX of the LGPD).
(iii) comply with the law, regulatory obligations, and legal processes (Article 7, II, VI of the LGPD); and
(iv) With your consent (Article 7, I of the LGPD).
Os envios e postagens que você faz dentro da Plataforma, podem ser visualizados por outros usuários. Não controlamos e não somos responsáveis por como outros usuários da Plataforma podem usar essas informações. Por exemplo, as informações pessoais que você enviar em áreas públicas da Plataforma podem ser coletadas e usadas por outras pessoas.
Who do we share your information with?
We will disclose your information both internally and to the entities below, but only for the purposes set out above.
Affiliates: other companies in the Samsung Electronics group.
Service providers: carefully selected companies that provide services to us or on our behalf, such as, for example, the technical and operational service provider responsible for the Platform. These providers are also committed to protecting your information.
Other parties where required by law or as necessary to protect our business: For example, it may be necessary for us to disclose your information by law, legal process, or court order from government authorities. They may also seek your information from us for law enforcement, national security, anti-terrorism, or other public safety-related purposes.
Other Parties in Connection with Corporate Transactions: We may disclose your information to third parties as part of a merger or transfer, acquisition, or sale, or in the event of bankruptcy.
Other Parties with Your Consent or Upon Your Request: In addition to the disclosures described in this Privacy Policy, we may share information about you with third parties when you consent or separately request such sharing.
Submissions and posts that you make within the Platform can be viewed by other users. We do not control and are not responsible for how other users of the Platform may use this information. For example, personal information that you submit in public areas of the Platform may be collected and used by others.
How do we keep your data safe?
We put in place reasonable physical and technical measures to protect the information we collect in connection with the Platform. However, please note that despite taking reasonable steps to protect your information, no website, internet transmission, computer system or wireless connection is completely secure.
Where do we send your data?
For the purposes noted in this Privacy Policy, the data collected from the User may be transferred, stored, or otherwise processed in a location outside of Brazil, including South Korea, the United States of America, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Dominican Republic, Uruguay, and Venezuela. Please note that the data protection and other laws of countries to which your information may be transferred may not be as comprehensive as those in your country. By using the Platform, the User agrees to this transfer, storage, or processing of personal data abroad. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and under this Privacy Policy. For more information about the safeguards we take to ensure the lawful transfer of your data to other countries, please contact us using the methods described in this Privacy Policy.
What are your rights?
Your personal information belongs to you. You can ask us to provide details about what we collect and you can ask us to delete or correct any inaccuracies. You can also ask us to restrict or limit the processing, sharing or transfer of your personal information, as well as to provide you with your collected personal information so that you can use it for your purposes.
However, even in case of revocation of the consent granted by you for the processing of certain personal data, we may maintain the processing of such personal data, in the following cases: (i) in case of a different legal basis for the processing of the data; or (ii) to comply with a legal obligation.
How long do we keep your information?
We will not keep your personal information longer than necessary for the purposes for which it was collected. This means that information will be destroyed or deleted from our systems when it is no longer needed.
We take appropriate steps to ensure that we process and retain information based on the following rationale:
For as long as necessary to achieve the purposes for which they were collected and processed.
As required by law, a contract related to our legal obligations or longer if required by contract, applicable law.
Only for as long as necessary for the purpose for which it was collected or processed, or longer if required by any contract, applicable law or for statistical purposes, subject to appropriate safeguards.
Cookies
Our Platform uses cookies to distinguish you from other users. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when browsing our website and allows us to improve it.
Cookies are small files of letters and numbers that we store in your browser or on your computer’s hard drive if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.
We use the following cookies:
Strictly necessary cookies. These cookies are necessary for our website to function. They include, for example, cookies that allow you to log in to secure areas of our website.
Analytical or performance cookies. This allows us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our site when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example by ensuring that users can find what they are looking for easily.
Functionality cookies. They are used to identify and recognize you when you return to our website. This allows us to personalize our content for you, greet you by name, and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
We do not share information collected by cookies with third parties.
You can block cookies by activating the setting in your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies), you will not be able to access all or parts of our website.
Except for essential cookies, all cookies expire after a maximum period of one year.
Your choices
You, as a data subject, can make choices related to the collection, deletion, and sharing of your data collected and used on the Platform, provided they are supported by applicable laws. However, if you revoke your consent to the collection, storage, or sharing of certain personal information, you may not be able to use all the features available on our Platform.
To exercise your choices, please contact us as indicated in the following section of this Privacy Policy.
Who can the User contact in case of queries?
If the User needs clarification on these Terms and/or on Samsung’s practices, please contact the area responsible for Solve For Tomorrow or send an email to:
- Email: sftlatam@samsung.com