EcoHubs.community ("we," "us," or "our") is committed to protecting your personal data in accordance with Ecuador's Organic Law on Personal Data Protection (LOPDP) and international data-protection standards.
01 Data controller
The data controller responsible for your personal data is:
- Entity: EcoHubs.community
- Location: Ecuador
- Contact: privacy@ecohubs.community
02 Legal basis for processing
In accordance with Article 10 of the LOPDP, we process your personal data on the following grounds:
- Consent — when you voluntarily provide information through our contact or application forms.
- Legitimate interest — for website analytics to improve our services (with anonymised data).
- Legal obligation — when required by applicable laws.
03 Personal data we collect
Contact form data
- Name
- Email address
- Message content
Application form data
- Full name
- Email address
- Location / country
- Skills and experience
- Motivation and interests
Automatically collected data
- IP address (anonymised)
- Browser type and version
- Pages visited and time spent
- Referring website
04 Purpose of processing
In keeping with the LOPDP's transparency principle, we use your personal data to:
- Respond to your inquiries and messages.
- Process community-membership applications.
- Send relevant updates about EcoHubs.community (with your consent).
- Improve our website and services through anonymised analytics.
- Comply with legal obligations.
05 Cookies and analytics
We use cookies and similar technologies to enhance your experience.
Essential cookies
Necessary for the website to function and not disable-able. They include cookies that remember your cookie-consent preferences.
Analytics cookies (Google Analytics 4)
With your consent, we use Google Analytics 4 to understand how visitors interact with our website. We have configured GA4 with privacy-enhancing settings:
- IP anonymisation enabled.
- Secure cookie flags (SameSite=Strict).
- No data sharing with Google for advertising purposes.
You can withdraw your consent at any time by clearing your browser cookies and declining when the consent banner appears again.
06 Third-party services
We use the following third-party services that may process your data:
- Ghost CMS — for blog content delivery.
- Google Analytics — for website analytics (consent-based).
Each third-party service has its own privacy policy governing its data-processing activities.
07 Your rights under LOPDP
Under Ecuador's LOPDP, you have the following rights regarding your personal data:
- Right of access — request information about what personal data we hold about you.
- Right to rectification — request correction of inaccurate or incomplete data.
- Right to erasure — request deletion of your personal data.
- Right to data portability — receive your data in a structured, commonly used format.
- Right to withdraw consent — withdraw consent at any time without affecting prior processing.
- Right to object — object to processing based on legitimate interests.
To exercise any of these rights, write to privacy@ecohubs.community. We respond within 15 business days as required by the LOPDP.
08 Data retention
We retain your personal data only for as long as necessary:
- Contact form data — 2 years from last interaction.
- Application data — duration of membership consideration plus 1 year.
- Analytics data — 14 months (Google Analytics default).
09 International data transfers
Some of our third-party providers may process data outside Ecuador. When that happens, we ensure appropriate safeguards are in place as required by the LOPDP, including:
- Use of services with adequate data-protection certifications.
- Standard contractual clauses where applicable.
10 Security measures
We implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect your personal data, including:
- HTTPS encryption for all data transmission.
- Secure server infrastructure.
- Access controls and authentication.
- Regular security assessments.
11 Children's privacy
Our services are not directed to individuals under 18 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children.
12 Updates to this policy
We may update this privacy policy from time to time. We will notify you of any material changes by posting the new policy on this page with an updated revision date.
13 Contact information
If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our data practices, write to us:
- Email — privacy@ecohubs.community
- Contact form — ecohubs.community/contact
14 Supervisory authority
If you believe your data-protection rights have been violated, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Superintendencia de Protección de Datos Personales (SPDP) of Ecuador.