Privacy

This privacy policy is to inform you regarding the use of your personal information which is collected during (a) your visit to the Shell LiveWire country website; (b) your entry to any online registration of workshops /courses (c) your entry into online competitions or (d) your vote during the term of online Competition.

We collect and use your personal data for purposes related to the Shell LiveWIRE Program, for the purposes of running the Competition and to inform you of who we are and what we do.
Depending whether you are (a) a visitor to the Shell LiveWire website (b) a participant to the Top 10 Innovators Competition (the “Competition”) (c) a participant to ShellliveWIRE Award (d) a voter during the term of the Competition, we will process, we will process a different scope of your personal information as we only collect and use personal information to the necessary extent.

For participants to the Competition we may collect and process such details as e-mail address, applicant name, applicant role in business, business name and description, description of the innovation introduced in the business, the benefits introduced by the innovation.
If you are an applicant to the Competition, please note that the following details shall be available to the visitors of the Shell LiveWIRE websites and/or voters in the Competition:

• Name
• Business
• Country
• Business Overview – a brief statement of no more than 50 words provided by the applicant about their business.
• Video/Transcript

If you are a voter in the Competition, please note that we will collect and process the following details solely for the purposes related to the organisation of the Competition: e-mail address and/r Twitter ID (if voting through the Twitter account).

We may use your personal information in order to:

• respond to queries or requests submitted by you
• process registrations, Competition entries and requests for newsletters and Competition related communications submitted by you as well as process votes submitted for the Competition
• administer or otherwise carry out our obligations in relation to the Competition you have with us
• where applicable assess the entries submitted as part of the Competition or the votes submitted as a part of the Competition
• anticipate and resolve problems related to the Shell LIVEWire program and/or the Competition.
• Contact participants to the Competition to evaluate their progress/developments following the organisation of the Competition;
  create products or services that may meet your needs.

To optimise our services we may wish to use your personal data for direct marketing. As we respect your privacy we will only use your personal data for this purpose when you are aware thereof and if required we will request your consent prior to using your personal data for direct marketing.

Additionally, if at any time you wish us to stop using your information for any or all of the above purposes, please contact us as set out below. We will stop the use of your information for such purposes as soon as it is reasonably possible to do so.

In addition, the collected personal data may be transferred to selected third parties for the purposes of organising the Competition (including, but not limited to, reviewers, communication providers and collaboration tool providers), which may be located outside of the Economic European Area (“EEA”) as part of the services offered to you through our site. By way of example, this may happen if any of our servers are from time to time located in a country outside of the EEA or one of our service providers is located in a country outside of the EEA.

These third parties will not use your personal information for any other purposes than what we have agreed with them. Shell requests those third parties to implement adequate levels of protection in order to safeguard your personal information.

We respect your personal information and therefore, we will take steps to ensure that your privacy rights continue to be protected if we transfer your information outside of the EEA in this way. In addition, if you use our services while you are outside the EEA, your information may be transferred outside the EEA in order to provide you with those services.

Except as set out in this privacy policy, we will not disclose any personally identifiable information without your permission unless we are legally entitled or required to do so (for example, if required to do so by legal process or for the purposes of prevention of fraud or other crime) or if we believe that such action is necessary to protect and/or defend our rights, property or personal safety and those of our users/customers or other individuals.

Please be assured that we will not use your information for any of the purposes if you have indicated that you do not wish us to use your information in this way when submitting the information or at a later stage.

We will retain your personal information only for (i) the time necessary for the organisation of the Competition; (ii) the time necessary to fulfill the purposes detailed above.

The personal information of the voters to the Competition will be retained for a maximum fo 30 days upon the termination of the Competition,

The personal information provided by the participants to the Competition is retained for the purposes of contacting the participants to discuss and determine progress/developments following the completion of the Competition.

Our website is not aimed at children under 18 years old and we will not collect, use, provide or process in any other form any personal information of children under the age of 18 deliberately. We therefore also ask you, if you are under 18 years old, please do not send us your personal information (for example, your name, address and email address).

If you are under 18 years old and you nevertheless wish to ask a question or use this website in any way which requires you to submit your personal information please get your parent or guardian to do so on your behalf