Privacy Policy

We, the Hungarian Karate Federation (Magyar Karate Szakszövetség), Istvánmezei str. 1-3, 1146 Budapest, Hungary (hereinafter referred to as “HKF”) process certain information about yourself, including personal data, when you use certain functionalities of one of HKF websites (hereinafter referred to as “Website”) or take part in Certain activities and services operated by HKF on HKF Website.

This Privacy Policy applies to all digital services such as websites, Newsletters, registrations systems offered on one of HKF Websites (www.karatebudapest2023.hu and all subdomains). HKF Website may contain hyperlinks to websites owned and operated by third parties. These third parties websites have their own privacy notices and HKF encourages you to review them. HKF does not accept any responsibility or liability for the privacy practices of such third parties websites and our use of such websites is at your own risk.

For the purposes of this privacy policy “personal data” means any information relating to an identified or identifiable person, in particular with reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location, data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person.

HKF collects the following personal data about you:

In general, you can visit the Website without providing personal data. However, data are generally requested when you wish to take part in certain activities available on the Website, create an account, communicate with us. In such cases, you may be invited or required to provide personal data about yourself such as first name, last name, nationality, age, country of residence, home address and/or email address, phone number, business organisation, job title. Subscription to certain services may require further data. In such a case HKF will inform you of any additional information needed to provide the services which you have requested. By providing HKF with your personal data, you expressly authorize HKF, its partners, subcontractors and/or affiliates to collect and subsequently process such data in accordance with the terms defined herein to provide you the services which you have selected.

Please note that if you do not provide data required, it may prevent you from making full use of HKF services.

When you use the Website, HKF may collect personal data about you by implementing an automatic tracking process (cookies) gathering anonymous information, such as browser type, operating systems and the date and time of access to help improve the content of the Website, to customize the Website for our visitors and to learn more about them and how they use the Website. For use of cookies please see below Article 3.

HKF uses cookies to store visitors’ preferences and to record session information, for purposes including ensuring that visitors are not repeatedly offered the same advertisements and to customize newsletter, advertising and web page content based on browser type and user profile information. We do not link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on the Website. You may be able to configure your browser to accept or reject all or some cookies, or to notify you when a cookie is set (each browser is different, so check the “Help” menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences). However, you must enable cookies from HKF Website in order to use some of its functions. Please note that Website might allow third party advertisers that are presenting advertisements on some of our pages to set and access their cookies on your computer. Advertisers’ use of cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not the HKF Privacy Policy.

Pursuant to this Privacy Policy, HKF will collect and process your personal data solely for the following purposes:
(a) to contact you for services which you have subscribed to, signed up for or participate in;
(b) to manage your user account;
(c) to manage our relationship with you or comply with our contractual obligations;
(d) to fulfil subscription to the HKF Newsletter;
(e) to fulfil subscription to HKF media channels (i.e. Youtube, Facebook, Twitter);
(f) to communicate with you;
(g) to track traffic flows and make HKF Websites easier for you to use;
(h) to maintain and develop HKF’s services;
(i) to send you marketing communication to promote the services and activities of HKF.

HKF will not engage in spamming and will not authorize the use of your personal data for commercial or advertising purposes by third parties, except with your express consent.

Any marketing communication you receive from HKF will always include a clear, simple option to refuse, or ‘opt-out’ of such future communications. You may also opt-out at any time by contacting HKF (see below Article 12).

We only process your personal data in the cases permitted by law. Most frequently, the legal basis for the processing of your personal data by HKF:

(a) Contractual need: contractual necessity applies to justify the following uses of your personal data when personal data are necessary for providing the services you have subscribed for or for the performance of any other contract that we have entered into or are about to enter into with you, for communicating with you, for managing your registration and user account, for sharing data with HKF’s partners, including transferring, storing or processing data outside EU, in relation to the provision of services. Any processing contained in paragraphs (a) to (f) in Article 4 above may be justified by a contractual need;

(b) Legitimate interests of HKF or third parties, provided that your own interests do not prevail: such legitimate interest is deemed to be given when we process your data to establish, exercise or defend our legal claims, to prevent fraud, misuse of our services, to detect any dysfunction of our services and/or Websites, to ensure and improve security of your IT system and network, to process data for statistical purposes. The processing contained in paragraphs (g) to (i) in Article 4 above are necessary for the purposes of HKF’s legitimate interest;

(c) Compliance with legal obligations incumbent upon HKF, especially in the area of archiving and data retention;

(d) Consent which you have given after having been duly informed: such consent is deemed to be given in relation to the sending of advertising offers and marketing materials, such as newsletters and other promotional offers. This consent may be withdrawn at any time as described in the Article 9 below. This withdrawal will not, however, affect the lawfulness of consent-based processing prior to withdrawal.

HKF is based in Hungary and all personal data you submit to HKF will be hosted in a Member State of the European Union. As a matter of principle, HKF will never transmit your personal data to other third parties without your prior consent. However by registering to the Website, you accept that HKF may transmit your personal data to its subcontractors, including outside European Union, if HKF deems it necessary for the purposes mentioned in Article 4. HKF will take all necessary measures to ensure that the receiving entity has agreed to keep your data confidential and secure. If the level of privacy protection in a country does not comply with internationally recognized standards, HKF will ensure by contracting specific safeguards, such as standard clause or express consent, that data transfers to databases in that country are equally protected and that a transfer of data to third parties in such countries does not occur. HKF and its subcontractors reserve the right to release your personal data if required under law to do so, or based on the good-faith belief that such release is necessary to comply with applicable legislation.

HKF will retain your personal data only as long as necessary for the purposes set forth under Article 4 above. Please note that personal data may be kept for a longer period of time exclusively for mere statistical purposes and HKF shall use anonymous data wherever possible.

HKF periodically, but at least every 3 (three) years, checks that no data is stored for longer than needed.

Your principal rights under the data protection law are as follows:

Right to access: you have the right to confirmation as to whether or not HKF processes your personal data and, where HKF does, access to the personal data, together with certain additional information. That additional information include details of the purposes of the processing, the categories of personal data concerned and the recipients of the personal data. Providing the rights and freedoms of others are not affected, HKF will supply to you a copy of your personal data.

Right to rectification: you have the right to have any inaccurate personal data about you rectified and, taking into account the purposes of the processing, to have any incomplete personal data about you completed.

Right to erasure: in some circumstances you have the right to have your personal data erased. Those circumstances are: (i) the personal data are no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed; (ii) you withdraw the consent on which the processing is based and there is no other legal ground for the processing; (iii) you object to the processing of your data and there are no overriding legitimate grounds for the processing; (iv) the personal data have been unlawfully processed; the personal data have to be erased for compliance with a legal obligation to which HKF is subject; (v) the personal data have been collected in relation to the offer of information society services directly to a child.

Right to restrict processing: in some circumstances you have the right to restrict the processing of your personal data. Those circumstances are: (i) you contest the accuracy of the personal data; (ii) processing is unlawful but you oppose erasure; (iii) HKF no longer needs the personal data for the purposes of our processing, but you require personal data for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims; or (iv) you have objected to processing, pending the verification of that objection. Where processing has been restricted on this basis, HKF may continue to store your personal data. However, HKF will only otherwise process it: with your consent; for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims; for the protection of the rights of another natural or legal person; or for reasons of important public interest.

Right to object to processing: you have the right to object to HKF’s processing of your personal data on grounds relating to your particular situation, but only to the extent that the legal basis for the processing is that the processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by HKF or by a third party. If you make such an objection, HKF will cease to process the personal data unless HKF can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing is for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims. You have the right to object to HKF’s processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes (including profiling for direct marketing purposes). If you make such an objection, HKF will cease to process your personal data for this purpose. You’ll be able to opt-out from emails HKF sends you by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of those emails. You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data for scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes on grounds relating to your particular situation, unless the processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out for reasons of public interest.

Right to data portability: to the extent that the legal basis for HKF’s processing of your personal data is: (i) consent; or (ii) that the processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are party or in order to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract, and such processing is carried out by automated means, you have the right to receive your personal data from HKF in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. However, this right does not apply where it would adversely affect the rights and freedoms of others.

Right to withdraw consent: to the extent that the legal basis for HKF’s processing of your personal data is consent, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time. Withdrawal will not affect the lawfulness of processing before the withdrawal.

Automated individual decision making: HKF does not carry out this kind of decision making. However, for your information, you have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning you unless this is necessary for our contract, is authorised under applicable law or is based on your explicit consent.

You may exercise any of your rights in relation to your personal data by emailing info@karatebudapest2023.hu. If HKF has doubts concerning your identity, HKF will require a piece of identification to prove your identity. HKF tries to respond to all legitimate request within one month. Occasionally it may take longer than a month, up to two additional months, if your request is complex or HKF has a number of requests. In this case HKF will let you know of the extended delay within one month following your request. You can also update your personal data at any time by accessing your user account.

HKF is committed to ensure the best possible level of security of your personal data, and will take adequate technical and organizational measures to protect your data against the risks of damage, destruction, loss or unauthorized access.

If you consider that the processing of personal data relating to you infringes the legal regulations, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent authority of the place where you have your habitual residence or place of work or the place of the alleged infringement.

HKF reserves the right to change any of the terms and conditions contained in the present Privacy Policy, at any time and in its sole discretion. When Changes are made, the last updated version will be effective immediately upon posting on the Website. Your continued use of the Website following the posting of changes will constitute your acceptance of such changes. HKF encourages you to review the Privacy Policy periodically to be informed of any change.

If you have any queries, comments or complaints regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact HKF at: info@karatebudapest2023.hu or Hungarian Karate Federation Istvánmezei str. 1-3, 1146 Budapest, Hungary