This privacy policy (hereinafter: “Privacy Policy”) governs the processing of your personal data by EuropaBio as part of your visit to our EFIB website https://efibforum.com/ (hereinafter: “Website”), your participation in our (virtual) conference, your communication with us via our register form, e-mail, telephone and social media (hereinafter: “Social Media”; e.g. LinkedIn and Twitter), newsletters and other updates, and in relation to any order or purchase.
We collect and use your personal data whenever you:
Should you have further questions regarding the processing of your personal data, do not hesitate to contact us via e-mail: data-privacy@efibforum.com
Whenever you see a reference to “we” in this privacy policy, it refers to EuropaBio:
EuropaBio
Avenue des Arts 53,
1000 Brussels
VAT 0477.520.310
+32 2 735 03 13
EuropaBio is responsible, and is thus the controller, for collecting and using (“processing”) your personal data as explained in this privacy policy.
When you use our website, social media or communicate with us via phone, e-mail or other digital communication channel, we will collect and use your personal data to:
To achieve the above-mentioned purposes, we process the following personal data:
When you register for our online newsletter or updates, we will collect and use your personal data to be able to send you our newsletter or other electronic communications. We will always ask for your explicit consent before sending you our newsletter, unless you are an existing customer who we wish to keep informed of our services. You will always have the opportunity to unsubscribe from our electronic communications. To send you our electronic communications, we only process your name and e-mail address.
When you register to and participate in our (online) conferences, we will collect and use your personal data to:
To achieve the above-mentioned purposes, we process the following personal data:
When you purchase conference tickets, we will collect and use your financial data, such as your bank account number, VAT number, invoices or other data that we need to process your order or purchase, to:
We believe that the above-mentioned purposes for processing your personal data are within anyone’s reasonable expectations. However, for all of the personal data we have collected in the aforementioned circumstances, we wish to make it clear that we will also process your personal data to:
In principle we will not share your personal data with anyone except our employees and our suppliers who help us process your personal data. Anyone who has access to your personal data will always be bound by strict legal or contractual obligations to keep your personal data safe and confidential. This means that only the following recipients will receive your personal data:
Your personal data are not sent outside the European Economic Area by us (the European Economic Area consists of the EU, Liechtenstein, Norway and Iceland). We will only transfer your personal data outside the EEA when you or your employer, as client or supplier, has establishments outside the EEA with which we are required to interact. If a transfer would take place, we will take adequate safeguards to protect your personal when transferred (e.g. by putting in place standard contractual clauses as drafted by the European Commission).
Visitors have the opportunity to register for partnering as part of the event registration process. The purpose of partnering is to facilitate mutual contact. For this purpose, profiles can be posted on the partnering portal. These profiles are visible to all other visitors who have registered for partnering and can be searched by name of the person and name of the company or organization. It is possible to make contact requests via the partnering portal, about which the requested person will be informed by e-mail. E-mail addresses themselves are not displayed on the partnering portal. After sending the consent to partnering, the data entered in the input masks will be transmitted exclusively for the operation of the partnering portal to Meeting Mojo.
Here you will find the privacy policy of Meeting Mojo Ltd, 5 Spencer Close, Bicester, Oxfordshire OX262FA, United Kingdom: http://info.meeting-mojo.com/legal/privacy_policy.pdf
Your personal data are only processed for as long as needed to achieve the purposes which are described above or, when we asked for your consent, up until such time where you withdraw your consent. In this article we provide you with the information you need to assess how long we will keep your personal data identifiable. As a general rule, we will de-identify your personal data when they are no longer necessary for the purposes outlined above or when the retention period as explained in this article has expired. However, we cannot de-identify your personal data if there is a legal or regulatory obligation or a judicial or administrative order that prevents EuropaBio from de-identifying them.
All personal data we collect through our interactions with you via the website, social media, phone, fax, e-mail and other digital communication channels we keep for as long as required to communicate with you, but also to keep an historical archive of our communications. This allows us to revert back to earlier communications if you return to us with new questions, request, remarks or other input.
All personal data we collect to send you our newsletter and updates we will keep for as long as you remain subscribed to our mailing list or for as long as you remain our client.
All personal data we collect in the context of our conferences and the sale of tickets, we will keep for the duration of the provision of the services and at least until 7 years thereafter or for as long as necessary for our legitimate interests. Any ID/Passport details, however, will be deleted maximum 1 week after the conference.
The security and confidentiality of all data we process is very important to us. Hence, we have taken steps to ensure that all personal data processed are kept safe. These steps include processing only the personal data required for achieving the purposes we have communicated to you. We have also taken technical and organizational measures to secure our infrastructure, systems, applications, premises and processes.
When we collect and use your personal data, you enjoy a number of rights which you can exercise in the manner described below. Please be aware that whenever you wish to exercise a right, we will ask you for a proof of identity. We do this to avoid that we have a data breach on our hands, e.g. because an unauthorized person pretends to be you and exercises a right in your name.
You have the right to access your personal data, which means that you can ask us to provide you information regarding the personal data we have about you. You can even ask for a copy of your personal data. However, note that you must specify for which processing activities you would like to have access to your personal data. If you make the same request repeatedly, clearly causing us nuisance, we are allowed to refuse granting you these subsequent requests or charge an administrative fee covering the expenses. We can also refuse granting you a right to access your personal data, or only grant it partially, if such access would risk disproportional detriment to the rights and freedoms of others, including EuropaBio’s.
You have the right to ask that we correct your personal data if you can show that the personal data we process about you are incorrect, incomplete or outdated. Please specify the context in which we use your personal data (e.g. to send you newsletters or to respond to a request), so that we may assess your request swiftly and accurately.
If we asked for your consent to collect and use your personal data, e.g. to send you newsletters, you have the right to withdraw that earlier given consent.
You can ask that we delete your personal data, if these personal data are no longer needed for the purposes for which we collected them in the first place, if our collection of them was illegitimate or if you have successfully exercised your right to withdraw your consent or your right to object to the processing of your personal data. When one of these circumstances applies, we will immediately delete your personal data unless the law, regulatory obligations or administrative or judicial orders prohibit us to delete your personal data.
You can ask that we restrict the processing of your personal data:
When we process your personal data on the basis of our own interests, i.e. you have not given us your consent and we do not need them for the execution or performance of an agreement nor to comply with legal obligations, you have the right to oppose our processing of your personal data. When our interest relates to direct marketing, we will grant you your request immediately. For other interests, e.g. our security interests, we will ask you to describe your specific circumstances giving rise to request. We then need to balance your circumstances against our interests. If this balancing exercise results in your circumstances outweighing our interests, we will cease processing your personal data.
When we have collected your personal data on the basis of your consent or because they were necessary for the execution or the performance of an agreement with you, you have the right to obtain a copy from us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. However, this right only applies to personal data you have provided to us.
If you would like to exercise any of these rights, we ask that you send us an e-mail. You can reach us at data-privacy@efibforum.com. A request should clearly state and specify which right you wish to exercise. Always indicate the context in which we have obtained your personal data so that we may handle your request swiftly and diligently. Your request should also be dated and signed, and accompanied by a digitally scanned copy of your valid identity card proving your identity. We will promptly inform you of having received this request. If the request proves valid, we will notify you as soon as reasonably possible and at the latest thirty (30) days after having received the request. If you have any complaint regarding the processing of your personal data by EuropaBio, you may always contact us via the e-mail address mentioned in the first paragraph of this clause. If you remain unsatisfied with our response, you may file a complaint with the competent data protection authority, i.e. the Belgian data protection authority (https://www.dataprotectionauthority.be/).