PROTECTION OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA
This privacy statement provides information about the processing and the protection of your personal data.
Processing operation: Sanctions Due Diligence Helpdesk for EU SMEs
Data Controller: FISMA-DATA-PROTECTION-COORDINATOR
ec [dot] europa [dot] eu (FISMA-DATA-PROTECTION-COORDINATOR[at]ec[dot]europa[dot]eu)
Record reference: DPR-EC-27828.1
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Why and how do we process your personal data?
- On what legal ground(s) do we process your personal data?
- Which personal data do we collect and further process?
- How long do we keep your personal data?
- How do we protect and safeguard your personal data?
- Who has access to your personal dataand to whom is it disclosed?
- What are your rights and how can you exercise them?
- Contact information
- Where to find more detailed information?
1. Introduction
The European Commission (hereafter ‘the Commission’) is committed to protect your personal data and to respect your privacy. The Commission collects and further processes personal data pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2018 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data by the Union institutions, bodies, offices and agencies and on the free movement of such data (repealing Regulation (EC) No 45/2001).
This privacy statement explains the reason for the processing of your personal data, the way we collect, handle and ensure protection of all personal data provided, how that information is used and what rights you have in relation to your personal data. It also specifies the contact details of the responsible Data Controller with whom you may exercise your rights, the Data Protection Officer and the European Data Protection Supervisor.
The information in relation to the part of the processing operation Sanctions Due Diligence Helpdesk for EU SMEs concerning the content offered on the Helpdesk platform (as described under purpose 4 in data protection record, ref. no. DPR-EC-27828.1), undertaken by DG FISMA to support the implementation of the restrictive measures adopted by the EU in the sanctions area under Article 215 TFEU, is presented below.
2. Why and how do we process your personal data?
The Data Controller (DG FISMA, Unit E5) processes your personal information through the platform EU Sanction Due Diligence Helpdesk (hereinafter referred also as to “the Helpdesk”) and uses it to ensure the correct implementation of the Sanctions Regulations by European business operators, primarily EU Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs). Namely, the personal data are processed to support these operators in complying with the restrictive measures adopted by the EU in the sanctions area under Article 215 TFEU in their business activities.
European operators interested in engaging with countries subject to EU sanctions for legitimate business must consider whether their activities would fall under the applicable restrictive measures and ensure appropriate due diligence procedures are carried out before engaging in any business activity. One of the objectives of the Helpdesk is to contribute to raising awareness of the restrictive measures and allows the SMEs and other stakeholders in the sanctions area to share the experience with the matter. In order to achieve this, the Helpdesk will offer informative materials.
For this purpose, we have to collect and further process the personal data of the guests in podcasts, videos and interviews.
3. On what legal ground(s) do we process your personal data
We process the personal data because the data subject has given consent to the processing of his or her personal data for one or more specific purposes (Article 5(1)(d) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1725.
4. Which personal data do we collect and further process?
In order to carry out this part of the processing operation (i.e. offering informative materials and content concerning the sanctions area as described under purpose 4 in the record), the Data Controller (DG FISMA, Unit E5) collects the following categories of personal data of the data subjects:
- Personal identification: Name, surname
- Communication data: Email address
- Sound or video recording of the guest in case of podcast / video content.
5. How long do we keep your personal data?
The Data Controller (DG FISMA, Unit E5) only keeps your personal data for the time necessary to fulfil the purpose of collection or further processing. Namely, the data processed for the podcasts, interviews and video content are retained as long as they are available on the Helpdesk platform and their backup is retained for 180 days after their removal from the Helpdesk.
6. How do we protect and safeguard your personal data?
All your personal data in electronic format (e-mails, documents, databases, uploaded batches of data, etc.) are stored either on the servers of the European Commission, the servers of its contractors, or the servers of its subcontractors, which are all located in the European Union. All processing operations are carried out pursuant to the Commission Decision (EU, Euratom) 2017/46 of 10 January 2017 on the security of communication and information systems in the European Commission.
The Commission’s contractors are bound by a specific contractual clause for any processing operations of your data on behalf of the Commission, and by the confidentiality obligations deriving from the transposition of the General Data Protection Regulation in the EU Member States (‘GDPR’ Regulation (EU) 2016/679).
In order to protect your personal data, the Commission has put in place a number of technical and organisational measures. Technical measures include appropriate actions to address online security, risk of data loss, alteration of data or unauthorised access, taking into consideration the risk presented by the processing and the nature of the personal data being processed. Organisational measures include restricting access to the personal data solely to authorised persons with a legitimate need to know for the purposes of this processing operation.
7. Who has access to your personal data and to whom is it disclosed?
Access to your personal data is provided to Commission staff responsible for carrying out this processing operation and to authorised staff according to the ‘need to know’ principle. Such staff abide by statutory, and when required, additional confidentiality agreements.
Access to your personal data is provided to the contractor responsible for the day-to-day management of the Helpdesk, and to its authorised staff according to the ‘need to know’ principle. Such staff abide by statutory, and when required, additional confidentiality agreements. The contractor is committed to protecting personal data and respecting privacy. It processes personal data as a data processor on behalf of the Commission as the data controller. It does so based on the agreement with, and in accordance with the instructions of, the data controller. As applicable, it further collects and processes personal data pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation).
The recordings and any personal data stated therein will be publicly available on the Helpdesk platform.
Besides the transmissions listed above, the information we collect will not be given to any third party, except to the extent and for the purpose we may be required to do so by law.
8. What are your rights and how can you exercise them?
You have specific rights as a ‘data subject’ under Chapter III (Articles 14-25) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1725, in particular the right to access, your personal data and to rectify them in case your personal data are inaccurate or incomplete. Where applicable, you have the right to erase your personal data, to restrict the processing of your personal data, to object to the processing, and the right to data portability.
You have consented to provide your personal data to the Data Controller for the present processing operation. You can withdraw your consent at any time by notifying the Data Controller at privacyeu-sanctions-helpdesk [dot] eu (privacy[at]eu-sanctions-helpdesk[dot]eu). The withdrawal will not affect the lawfulness of the processing carried out before you have withdrawn the consent.
You can exercise your rights by contacting the Data Controller, or in case of conflict the Data Protection Officer. If necessary, you can also address the European Data Protection Supervisor. Their contact information is given under Heading 9 below.
Where you wish to exercise your rights in the context of one or several specific processing operations, please provide their description (i.e. their Record reference(s) as specified under Heading 10 below) in your request.
9. Contact information
- The Data Controller
If you would like to exercise your rights under Regulation (EU) 2018/1725, or if you have comments, questions or concerns, or if you would like to submit a complaint regarding the collection and use of your personal data, please feel free to contact the Data Controller, DG FISMA, privacyeu-sanctions-helpdesk [dot] eu (privacy[at]eu-sanctions-helpdesk[dot]eu).
- The Data Protection Officer (DPO) of the Commission
You may contact the Data Protection Officer (DATA-PROTECTION-OFFICERec [dot] europa [dot] eu (DATA-PROTECTION-OFFICER[at]ec[dot]europa[dot]eu)) with regard to issues related to the processing of your personal data under Regulation (EU) 2018/1725.
- The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS)
You have the right to have recourse (i.e. you can lodge a complaint) to the European Data Protection Supervisor edpsedps [dot] europa [dot] eu (edps[at]edps[dot]europa[dot]eu) if you consider that your rights under Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 have been infringed as a result of the processing of your personal data by the Data Controller.
10. Where to find more detailed information?
The Commission Data Protection Officer (DPO) publishes the register of all processing operations on personal data by the Commission, which have been documented and notified to him. You may access the register via the following link: http://ec.europa.eu/dpo-register.
This specific processing operation has been included in the DPO’s public register with the following Record reference: DPR-EC-27828.1.
PROTECTION OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA
This privacy statement provides information about the processing and the protection of your personal data.
Processing operation: Sanctions Due Diligence Helpdesk for EU SMEs
Data Controller: FISMA-DATA-PROTECTION-COORDINATORec [dot] europa [dot] eu (FISMA-DATA-PROTECTION-COORDINATOR[at]ec[dot]europa[dot]eu)
Record reference: DPR-EC-27828.1
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Why and how do we process your personal data?
- On what legal ground(s) do we process your personal data?
- Which personal data do we collect and further process?
- How long do we keep your personal data?
- How do we protect and safeguard your personal data?
- Who has access to your personal dataand to whom is it disclosed?
- What are your rights and how can you exercise them?
- Contact information
- Where to find more detailed information?
1. Introduction
The European Commission (hereafter ‘the Commission’) is committed to protect your personal data and to respect your privacy. The Commission collects and further processes personal data pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2018 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data by the Union institutions, bodies, offices and agencies and on the free movement of such data (repealing Regulation (EC) No 45/2001).
This privacy statement explains the reason for the processing of your personal data, the way we collect, handle and ensure protection of all personal data provided, how that information is used and what rights you have in relation to your personal data. It also specifies the contact details of the responsible Data Controller with whom you may exercise your rights, the Data Protection Officer and the European Data Protection Supervisor.
The information in relation to the part of processing operation Sanctions Due Diligence Helpdesk for EU SMEs concerning the processing of personal data for the purpose of performing the due diligence (described under purposes 1 and 2 in data protection record, ref. no. DPR-EC-27828.1), undertaken by DG FISMA to support the implementation of the restrictive measures adopted by the EU in the sanctions area under Article 215 TFEU, is presented below.
2. Why and how do we process your personal data?
The Data Controller (DG FISMA, Unit E5) processes your personal information through the platform EU Sanction Due Diligence Helpdesk (hereinafter referred also as to “the Helpdesk”) and uses it to ensure the correct implementation of the Sanctions Regulations by European business operators, primarily EU Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs). Namely, the personal data are processed to support these operators in complying with the restrictive measures adopted by the EU in the sanctions area under Article 215 TFEU in their business activities.
European operators interested in engaging with countries subject to EU sanctions for legitimate business must consider whether their activities would fall under the applicable restrictive measures and ensure appropriate due diligence procedures are carried out before engaging in any business activity. The mission of the Helpdesk is to act as a central contact point for European operators having questions concerning due diligence for specific business projects in countries subject to EU sanctions.
For this purpose, we have to collect and further process the following data:
- Contact details of the users; and
- Information on the stakeholders involved in such specific business projects.
3. On what legal ground(s) do we process your personal data
We process your personal data, because processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the Union institution or body (Article 5(1)(a) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1725).
The legal basis for ensuring the correct implementation of the Sanctions Regulations is primarily provided by Article 215 TFEU and Article 17 TEU. Furthermore, each sanctions regime contains its specific provisions, the list of which can be found in the data protection record (reference no. DPR-EC-27828).
In line with Article 10 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1725, we process special categories of personal data indicated in Section 4, because the processing is necessary for reasons of substantial public interest, on the basis of Union law which shall be proportionate to the aim pursued, respect the essence of the right to data protection and provide for suitable and specific measures to safeguard the fundamental rights and the interests of the data subject. Furthermore, some of the processing relates to personal data which are manifestly made public by the data subject.
The information that a natural person on which the due diligence is performed, is subject to the restrictive measures under the sanctions regulations is processed in line with Article 11 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 as it may be considered processing of personal data relating to criminal convictions and offences.
4. Which personal data do we collect and further process?
In order to carry out this processing operation, the Data Controller (DG FISMA, Unit E5) collects the following categories of personal data depending on the category of the data subjects:
- Users of the Helpdesk services:
- Personal identification: Name, surname, professional address, organization that the user represents
- Communication data: professional email address, phone number, professional occupation
- EU Sanctions Due diligence – stakeholders of the business activity:
- Personal identification: name, surname, address, images, ID number, Passport number, nationality
- Communication and Online data: Email address, phone number, social media content (where made manifestly public by the data subject), information included in publicly available media
- Professional occupation, employment status, professional and/or political affiliations
- Social network
- Special categories of personal data and sensitive data (obtained from publicly available sources, including the sanctions regulations in Official Journal): data revealing political opinions (as included in publicly available sanctions lists); personal data relating to criminal convictions and offences, personal data included in published sanctions lists
5. How long do we keep your personal data?
The Data Controller (DG FISMA, Unit E5) only keeps your personal data for the time necessary to fulfil the purpose of collection or further processing, namely for two years from the date that the request was submitted to the data controller.
6. How do we protect and safeguard your personal data?
All your personal data in electronic format (e-mails, documents, databases, uploaded batches of data, etc.) are stored either on the servers of the European Commission, the servers of its contractors, or the servers of its subcontractors, which are all located in the European Union. All processing operations are carried out pursuant to the Commission Decision (EU, Euratom) 2017/46 of 10 January 2017 on the security of communication and information systems in the European Commission.
The Commission’s contractors are bound by a specific contractual clause for any processing operations of your data on behalf of the Commission, and by the confidentiality obligations deriving from the transposition of the General Data Protection Regulation in the EU Member States (‘GDPR’ Regulation (EU) 2016/679).
In order to protect your personal data, the Commission has put in place a number of technical and organisational measures. Technical measures include appropriate actions to address online security, risk of data loss, alteration of data or unauthorised access, taking into consideration the risk presented by the processing and the nature of the personal data being processed. Organisational measures include restricting access to the personal data solely to authorised persons with a legitimate need to know for the purposes of this processing operation.
7. Who has access to your personal data and to whom is it disclosed?
Access to your personal data is provided to Commission staff responsible for carrying out this processing operation and to authorised staff according to the ‘need to know’ principle. Such staff abide by statutory, and when required, additional confidentiality agreements.
Access to your personal data is provided to the contractor responsible for the day-to-day management of the Helpdesk, and to its authorised staff according to the ‘need to know’ principle. Such staff abide by statutory, and when required, additional confidentiality agreements. The contractor is committed to protecting personal data and respecting privacy. It processes personal data as a data processor on behalf of the Commission as the data controller. It does so based on the agreement with, and in accordance with the instructions of, the data controller. As applicable, it further collects and processes personal data pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation).
Data of potential business partners of the user of the Helpdesk:
Some of the personal data concerning the natural persons subject to the restrictive measures under the Sanctions Regulations will be included in the conclusive report which will be the outcome of the due diligence provided to the user of the Helpdesk which requested the due diligence.
The controller may transfer your personal data to the following recipients in a third country or to an international organisation in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2018/1725:
The controller will transfer your personal data based on:
- adequacy decision of the Commission for the United Kingdom and the United States (for commercial organisations participating in the EU-US Data Privacy Framework) (Article 47 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1725); and in the absence of this
- standard contractual clauses for India
- appropriate safeguards (Article 48 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1725) through standard data protection clauses.
For all processed personal data: besides the transmissions listed above, the information we collect will not be given to any third party, except to the extent and for the purpose we may be required to do so by law.
8. What are your rights and how can you exercise them?
You have specific rights as a ‘data subject’ under Chapter III (Articles 14-25) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1725, in particular the right to access, your personal data and to rectify them in case your personal data are inaccurate or incomplete. Where applicable, you have the right to erase your personal data, to restrict the processing of your personal data, to object to the processing, and the right to data portability.
You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data, which is lawfully carried out pursuant to Article 5(1)(a) on grounds relating to your particular situation.
You can exercise your rights by contacting the Data Controller, or in case of conflict the Data Protection Officer. If necessary, you can also address the European Data Protection Supervisor. Their contact information is given under Heading 9 below.
Where you wish to exercise your rights in the context of one or several specific processing operations, please provide their description (i.e. their Record reference(s) as specified under Heading 10 below) in your request.
9. Contact information
- The Data Controller
If you would like to exercise your rights under Regulation (EU) 2018/1725, or if you have comments, questions or concerns, or if you would like to submit a complaint regarding the collection and use of your personal data, please feel free to contact the Data Controller, DG FISMA, privacyeu-sanctions-helpdesk [dot] eu (privacy[at]eu-sanctions-helpdesk[dot]eu).
- The Data Protection Officer (DPO) of the Commission
You may contact the Data Protection Officer (DATA-PROTECTION-OFFICERec [dot] europa [dot] eu (DATA-PROTECTION-OFFICER[at]ec[dot]europa[dot]eu)) with regard to issues related to the processing of your personal data under Regulation (EU) 2018/1725.
- The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS)
You have the right to have recourse (i.e. you can lodge a complaint) to the European Data Protection Supervisor edpsedps [dot] europa [dot] eu (edps[at]edps[dot]europa[dot]eu) if you consider that your rights under Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 have been infringed as a result of the processing of your personal data by the Data Controller.
10. Where to find more detailed information?
The Commission Data Protection Officer (DPO) publishes the register of all processing operations on personal data by the Commission, which have been documented and notified to him. You may access the register via the following link: http://ec.europa.eu/dpo-register.
This specific processing operation has been included in the DPO’s public register with the following Record reference: DPR-EC-27828.1.
PROTECTION OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA
Processing operation: Management of subscriptions to receive information – EU Sanctions Helpdesk Newsletter
Data Controller: European Commission
Record reference: DPR-EC-03928
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Why and how do we process your personal data?
- On what legal ground(s) do we process your personal data?
- Which personal data do we collect and further process?
- How long do we keep your personal data?
- How do we protect and safeguard your personal data?
- Who has access to your personal dataand to whom is it disclosed?
- What are your rights and how can you exercise them?
- Contact information
- Where to find more detailed information?
1. Introduction
The European Commission is committed to protect your personal data and to respect your privacy. The Commission collects and further processes personal data pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2018 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data by the Union institutions, bodies, offices and agencies and on the free movement of such data.
This privacy statement explains the reason for the processing of your personal data, the way we collect, handle and ensure protection of all personal data provided, how that information is used and what rights you have in relation to your personal data. It also specifies the contact details of the responsible Data Controller with whom you may exercise your rights, the Data Protection Officer and the European Data Protection Supervisor.
The information in relation to the processing operation “Management of subscriptions to receive information”, applicable in the present case of your subscription to our EU Sanctions Helpdesk Newsletter,undertaken by the services of the European Commission, is presented below.
2. Why and how do we process your personal data?
Purpose of the processing operation: the controller collects and further processes your personal data so that you can receive information that you have requested on important developments, activities, events, initiatives or thematic issues in the area of (a) service(s) of the European Commission, in particular through articles, reports, interviews, newsletters as well as visual content.
Your personal data will not be used for an automated decision-making including profiling.
3. On what legal ground(s) do we process your personal data?
You have subscribed to receive the information on important developments, activities, events, initiatives or thematic issues in the area of (a) service(s) of the European Commission.
We process your personal data, because you have given your consent to the processing of your personal data for the purpose of receiving the requested information.
4. Which personal data do we collect and further process?
In order to carry out this processing operation, the controller collects the following categories of personal data:
- Your name, surname and email address are needed to ensure the delivery of the service to you as a subscriber.
The following personal data is needed for providing you with a more personalised experience (i.e. better targeting the content of the information) and for generating anonymised statistics:
- Title
- Function
- Country of residence
- Sector of activity / interest
- Profession
5. How long do we keep your personal data?
The controller only keeps your personal data for the time necessary to fulfil the purpose of collection, namely until you unsubscribe from the mailing list.
Depending on the technical solutions available, you can either write to the dedicated functional mailbox and ask to be unsubscribed from the mailing list or follow the unsubscribe link in the information email you have received. Appropriate action shall be taken within a week of receiving the request.
In case where data is kept for statistical purposes, some subscriber's optional data may be kept for 5 years after the un-subscription, providing these do not allow to identify the subscriber anymore and that these are available to a very restricted number of authorised persons performing the processing operation on a need to know basis, for the sole purposes of generating anonymised statistics.
6. How do we protect and safeguard your personal data?
All personal data in electronic format (e-mails, documents, databases, uploaded batches of data, etc.) are stored on the servers of the European Commission (or of its contractors, if a contractor is used to assist the controller in the management of a particular type of subscriptions to receive information). All processing operations are carried out pursuant to the Commission Decision (EU, Euratom) 2017/46 of 10 January 2017 on the security of communication and information systems in the European Commission.
In order to protect your personal data, the Commission has put in place a number of technical and organisational measures. Technical measures include appropriate actions to address online security, risk of data loss, alteration of data or unauthorised access, taking into consideration the risk presented by the processing and the nature of the personal data being processed. Organisational measures include restricting access to the personal data solely to authorised persons with a legitimate need to know for the purposes of this processing operation.
The Commission’s processors (contractors) are bound by a specific contractual clause for any processing operations of your personal data on behalf of the Commission. The processors have to put in place appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure the level of security, required by the Commission.
7. Who has access to your personal data and to whom is it disclosed?
Access to your personal data is provided to the Commission staff responsible for carrying out this processing operation and to other authorised Commission staff according to the “need to know” principle. Such staff abide by statutory, and when required, additional confidentiality agreements.
Access to your personal data is provided also to the Commission’s processors (contractors), for the purpose of assisting the Commission in the management of subscriptions to the Newsletter, and to its authorised staff according to the ‘need to know’ principle. Such staff abide by statutory, and when required, additional confidentiality agreements. The contractor is committed to protecting personal data and respecting privacy. It processes personal data as a data processor on behalf of the Commission as the data controller. It does so based on the agreement with, and in accordance with the instructions of, the data controller. As applicable, it further collects and processes personal data pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation).
Please note that pursuant to Article 3(13) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 public authorities (e.g. Court of Auditors, EU Court of Justice) which may receive personal data in the framework of a particular inquiry in accordance with Union or Member State law shall not be regarded as recipients. The further processing of those data by those public authorities shall be in compliance with the applicable data protection rules according to the purposes of the processing.
The information we collect will not be given to any third party, except to the extent and for the purpose we may be required to do so by law.
8. What are your rights and how can you exercise them?
You have specific rights as a ‘data subject’ under Chapter III (Articles 14-25) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1725, in particular the right to access your personal data and to rectify them in case your personal data are inaccurate or incomplete. Where applicable, you have the right to erase your personal data, to restrict the processing of your personal data, to object to the processing, and the right to data portability.
You have consented to provide your personal data to the controller for the present processing operation. You can withdraw your consent at any time by notifying the Data Controller at privacyeu-sanctions-helpdesk [dot] eu (privacy[at]eu-sanctions-helpdesk[dot]eu). The withdrawal will not affect the lawfulness of the processing carried out before you have withdrawn the consent.
You can exercise your rights by contacting the Data Controller, or in case of conflict the Data Protection Officer. If necessary, you can also address the European Data Protection Supervisor. Their contact information is given under Heading 9 below.
Where you wish to exercise your rights in the context of one or several specific processing operations, please provide their description (i.e. their Record reference(s) as specified under Heading 10 below) in your request.
9. Contact information
- The Data Controller
If you would like to exercise your rights under Regulation (EU) 2018/1725, or if you have comments, questions or concerns, or if you would like to submit a complaint regarding the collection and use of your personal data, please feel free to contact the Data Controller, DG FISMA, privacyeu-sanctions-helpdesk [dot] eu (privacy[at]eu-sanctions-helpdesk[dot]eu).
- The Data Protection Officer (DPO) of the Commission
You may contact the Data Protection Officer data-protection-officerec [dot] europa [dot] eu (data-protection-officer[at]ec[dot]europa[dot]eu) with regard to issues related to the processing of your personal data under Regulation (EU) 2018/1725.
- The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS)
You have the right to have recourse (i.e. you can lodge a complaint) to the European Data Protection Supervisor (edpsedps [dot] europa [dot] eu (edps[at]edps[dot]europa[dot]eu)) if you consider that your rights under Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 have been infringed as a result of the processing of your personal data by the Data Controller.
10. Where to find more detailed information?
The Commission Data Protection Officer (DPO) publishes the register of all processing operations on personal data by the European Commission, which have been documented and notified to him. You may access the register via the following link: http://ec.europa.eu/dpo-register.
This specific processing operation has been included in the DPO’s public register with the following Record reference: DPR-EC-03928.
PROTECTION OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA
Processing operation: Processing of personal data linked to in-person meetings and events organised by the services of the European Commission as part of the activities of the EU Sanctions Helpdesk
Data Controller: European Commission, Directorate-General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union (DG FISMA), Unit E5.
Record reference: DPR-EC-1063
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Why and how do we process your personal data?
- On what legal ground(s) do we process your personal data?
- Which personal data do we collect and further process?
- How long do we keep your personal data?
- How do we protect and safeguard your personal data?
- Who has access to your personal dataand to whom is it disclosed?
- What are your rights and how can you exercise them?
- Contact information
- Where to find more detailed information?
1. Introduction
The European Commission is committed to protect your personal data and to respect your privacy. The Commission collects and further processes personal data pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data by the Union institutions, bodies, offices and agencies and on the free movement of such data.
This privacy statement explains the reason for the processing of your personal data in the context of all in-person meetings and events organised by the services of the European Commission as part of the activities of the EU Sanctions Helpdesk, and specifically:
- Informative events;
- Seminars;
- Meetings with external entities.
It explains the way we collect, handle and ensure protection of all personal data provided, how that information is used and what rights you have in relation to your personal data. It also specifies the contact details of the responsible Data Controller with whom you may exercise your rights, the Data Protection Officer and the European Data Protection Supervisor.
The information in relation to the processing of personal data linked to in-person meetings and events,applicable in the present case to the meetings and events organised by the services of the European Commission as part of the activities of the EU Sanctions Helpdesk is presented below.
2. Why and how do we process your personal data?
Purpose of the processing operation: the European Commission collects and further processes your personal data to provide you with information about the specific meeting or event (before, during and after) and to process your application for participation in that meeting or event.
Your personal data will not be used for any automated decision-making including profiling.
Live web-streaming and audio-visual recording at the event or meeting of the speakers, organisers and participants, as well as photographs of the speakers and panoramic photographs of participants and organisers are likely to be taken and published in the context of the event or meeting at a site or place indicated regarding each particular the meeting or event.
The audience or non-speaker participants are not photographed individually or in groups. They may however appear on panoramic photographs of the whole event/audience.
Participants that do not wish to be part of the above web-streaming and recording/publishing activities have the possibility to object to processing.
You can object to the above processing in cases of live web-streaming, audio-visual recording and/or photographs by addressing the staff, who will consult you accordingly (e.g. to sit in back rows which are not recorded/photographed, to wear special badges, to attend the meeting/event in a separate room without web-streaming, etc.).
3. On what legal ground(s) do we process your personal data?
The processing operations on personal data, linked to the organisation, management, follow-up and promotion of the meeting or event (including web-streaming, photos, audio-visual recording) are necessary for the management and functioning of the Commission, as mandated by the Treaties. Those provisions are in particular, Article 11 of the Treaty on European Union and Article 15 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.
Consequently, those processing operations are lawful under Article 5(1)(a) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 (processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the Union institution or body).
In the event that the organising service of the European Commission has concluded a contract with the speakers for the meeting/event, the processing operations on personal data of the latter are carried out in line with the contractual provisions. Consequently, that processing is necessary and lawful under Article 5(1)(c) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 (processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is party or in order to take steps at the request of the data subject prior to entering into a contract).
For meetings with external participants (which are not comitology or expert (group) meetings nor other working meetings of Commission staff with the staff of other EU institutions and bodies and Member States), the controller will obtain consent for the processing operations indicated below.
Your consent is required for the following actions during or after the meeting or event (if applicable):
- the processing of your personal data relating to your dietary requirements and/or access requirements;
- the potential sharing of the meeting or event participants and/or attendee list containing your name and affiliation with speakers, service providers and subcontractors, European Commission In addition, further information will be given if there are specific purposes for such sharing (e.g. for the purpose of future collaboration);
- the processing of your personal data for inviting you to future events the data controllermay organise;
- the processing of your personal data and feedback for managing the post-event survey responses that will be collected after the meeting or event, for internal reporting purposes.
- the processing of your personal data for managing your subscription to a newsletter of the data controller;
You can give your consent via a clear affirmative act by ticking the box(es) on the online registration form.
If you opt-in, you are giving us your explicit consent under Article 5(1)(d) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 to process your personal data for those specific purposes. You can give your consent via a clear affirmative act by ticking the box(es) on the online registration form.
Your consent for these services can be withdrawn at any time and detailed information on how to withdraw consent will be contained in the privacy statement linked to the specific meeting or event.
4. Which personal data do we collect and further process?
The following personal data may be processed in the context of the meeting or event:
- contact details (function/title, first name, last name, name and type of organisation, city, country, e-mail address, telephone number);
- nationality, passport or identity card number and its date of issue and expiry date may be collected, so that the data subjects may obtain access to the premises where the meeting/event is held;
- financial information (such as a payment card number or bank account) may be collected for the payment of fees of the meeting/event or for possible reimbursements;
- dietary requests (if any) or specific access requirements.
5. How long do we keep your personal data?
The Data Controller only keeps your personal data for the time necessary to fulfil the purpose of collection or further processing.
For each of the categories of personal data that may be processed, please find below the retention details and the reference to the relevant record of processing:
- Personal data related to the organisation and management of the meeting or event (this includes the information given during the registration, before, during or after the event) will be kept for five years after the meeting or event.
- Sensitive personal data relating to dietary and/or access requirements will be deleted as soon as they are no longer necessary for the purpose for which they have been collected in the framework of the meeting or event, but no later than within 1 month after the end of the meeting or event.
- Recordings from the web-streamed meeting or event will be kept for 2 years before being deleted. More information is available in the Record of Processing DPR-EC-00306 (Web-streaming of Commission events).
- In case of audio-visual recording of the meeting or event, the recordings will be kept for 3 months after the meeting or event before being deleted. More information is available in the Record of Processing DPR-EC-01937 (Audio-visual recording of meetings).
- Personal data shared with the Directorate-General for Human Resources and Security of the European Commission for the participants to gain access to Commission buildings is kept for 6 months after the termination of the link between the data subject and the Commission. More information is available in the Record of Processing DPR-EC-00655 (Commission Physical Access Control System (PACS)).
- Personal data shared with the controller for future mailing purposes (e.g., for receiving newsletters or invitations to similar events) are processed in line with the Record of Processing DPR-EC-03928 (Management of subscriptions to receive information) and the specific privacy statement prepared by the organising Commission service.
- Selected service providers for organisational purposes (such as caterers, travel agents or event management organisations) are contractually bound to process personal data on behalf of and in line with the instructions of the data controller, keep confidential any data they process and protect it from unauthorised access, use and retention.
6. How do we protect and safeguard your personal data?
All personal data in electronic format (e-mails, documents, databases, uploaded batches of data, etc.) are stored on the servers of the European Commission (or of its contractors, if contractors are engaged to assist the controller in the organisation and management of a specific meeting or event). All processing operations are carried out pursuant to Commission Decision (EU, Euratom) 2017/46 of 10 January 2017 on the security of communication and information systems in the European Commission.
In order to protect your personal data, the Commission has put in place a number of technical and organisational measures. Technical measures include appropriate actions to address online security, risk of data loss, alteration of data or unauthorised access, taking into consideration the risk presented by the processing and the nature of the personal data being processed. Organisational measures include restricting access to the personal data solely to authorised persons with a legitimate need to know for the purposes of this processing operation.
The Commission’s processors (contractors) are bound by a specific contractual clause for any processing operations of your personal data on behalf of the Commission. The processors have to put in place appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure the level of security, required by the Commission.
7. Who has access to your personal data and to whom is it disclosed?
Access to your personal data is provided to the Commission staff responsible for carrying out this processing operation and to other authorised Commission staff according to the “need to know” principle. Such staff abide by statutory, and when required, additional confidentiality agreements.
Access to your personal data is provided also to the Commission’s processors (contractors), all the purposes listed above under Section 3 of the present statement, and to its authorised staff according to the ‘need to know’ principle. Such staff abide by statutory, and when required, additional confidentiality agreements. The contractor is committed to protecting personal data and respecting privacy. It processes personal data as a data processor on behalf of the Commission as the data controller. It does so, based on the agreement with, and in accordance with the instructions of, the data controller. As applicable, it further collects and processes personal data pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation).
If the publication of any personal data is foreseen, you will be separately asked for your consent for the extent of the personal data each time expected to be published.
Cookies
Cookies are short text files stored on a user’s device (such as a computer, tablet or phone) by a website. Cookies are used for the technical functioning of a website (functional cookies) or for gathering statistics (analytical cookies).
If registration for the meeting/event takes place via a Commission website, the cookies employed by the Commission on the registrant’s device for that purpose will be covered by the cookie policy of the Commission, which is available here: https://ec.europa.eu/info/cookies_en.
When you visit the website(s) of the meeting/event and when you register, we will indicate in the specific privacy statement how long we will keep the browser history of your visit. This information will then be deleted. The collection, aggregation and anonymising operations are performed in the data centre of the European Commission under adequate security measures.
Cookies are stored by Europa Analytics, the corporate service which measures the effectiveness and efficiency of the European Commission's websites on EUROPA. More information is available in the Record of Processing DPR-EC-00685 (Europa Analytics).
Enabling these cookies is not strictly necessary for the website to work but it will provide you with a better browsing experience. You can delete or block these cookies, but if you do that, some features of the meeting/event website may not work as intended.
The cookie-related information is not used to identify data subjects personally and the pattern data is fully under the Commission’s control. These cookies are not used for any purpose other than those described here.
Should you wish to opt your personal data out of our anonymised, aggregated statistics, you can do so on our cookies page. In particular, you can control and/or delete those cookies as you wish.
Third party IT tools, including Social Media
We may use third party IT tools to inform about and promote the meeting/event through widely used communication channels, including the social media. For detailed information about the use of social media by the European Commission, see the Record of Processing DPR-EC-00073 (Social Media Use by the European Commission).
You may be able to watch our videos, which may be also uploaded to one of our social media pages and follow links from our website to other relevant social media.
In order to protect your privacy, our use of third party IT tools to connect to those services does not set cookies when our website pages are loaded on your computer (or other devices), nor are you immediately redirected to those social media or other websites. Only in the event that you click on a button or “play” on a video to watch it, a cookie of the social media company concerned will be installed on your device. If you do not click on any social media buttons or videos, no cookies will be installed on your device by third parties.
In order to view such third-party content on our websites, a message will alert you that you need to accept those third parties’ specific Terms and Conditions, including their cookie policies, over which the Commission has no control.
We recommend that users carefully read the relevant privacy policies of the social media tools used. These explain each company’s policy of personal data collection and further processing, their use of data, users' rights and the ways in which users can protect their privacy when using those services.
The use of a third party IT tool does not in any way imply that the European Commission endorses them or their privacy policies. In the event that one or more third party IT tools are occasionally unavailable, we accept no responsibility for lack of service due to their downtime.
International transfers
Your personal data may be transferred to recipients in a third country or international organisation.
The European Commission will transfer your personal data to the recipients in a third country or to an international organisation in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2018/1725.
The legal basis for the transfer of your personal data should be specified in the specific privacy statement and could be one of the following:
- adequacy decision of the Commission for a specific country / commercial sector (Article 47 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1725); or,
- appropriate safeguards (Article 48 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1725), if there is no adequacy decision for the respective third countries / commercial sectors. The specific privacy statement will provide (1) reference to the appropriate safeguards, and (2) the means by which a data subject can obtain a copy of them / or indicate where they have been made available; or,
- derogation(s) for specific situation(s), if there is no adequacy decision for the respective third countries / commercial sectors, and no appropriate safeguards for transfer.
Please note that pursuant to Article 3(13) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 public authorities (e.g. Court of Auditors, EU Court of Justice) which may receive personal data in the framework of a particular inquiry in accordance with Union or Member State law shall not be regarded as recipients. The further processing of those data by those public authorities shall be in compliance with the applicable data protection rules according to the purposes of the processing.
The information we collect will not be given to any third party, except to the extent and for the purpose we may be required to do so by law.
8. What are your rights and how can you exercise them?
You have specific rights as a ‘data subject’ under Chapter III (Articles 14-25) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1725, in particular the right to access, your personal data and to rectify them in case your personal data are inaccurate or incomplete. Where applicable, you have the right to erase your personal data, to restrict the processing of your personal data, to object to the processing, and the right to data portability.
You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data, which is lawfully carried out pursuant to Article 5(1)(a) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 on grounds relating to your particular situation.
The European Commission will ensure that the data subjects can exercise their right to object to processing whenever possible by the organisers of the meeting/event (for example, on the spot by indicating a non-web streamed seat if requested; or ex-post, by deleting a specific sequence from the online video/voice recording).
You have consented to provide your personal data to the controller for the present processing operation. You can withdraw your consent at any time by notifying the Data Controller at privacyeu-sanctions-helpdesk [dot] eu (privacy[at]eu-sanctions-helpdesk[dot]eu). The withdrawal will not affect the lawfulness of the processing carried out before you have withdrawn the consent.
You can exercise your rights by contacting the data controller, or in case of conflict the Data Protection Officer. If necessary, you can also address the European Data Protection Supervisor. Their contact information is given under Heading 9 below.
Where you wish to exercise your rights in the context of one or several specific processing operations, please provide their description (i.e. their Record reference(s) as specified under Heading 10 below) in your request.
9. Contact information
- The Data Controller
If you would like to exercise your rights under Regulation (EU) 2018/1725, or if you have comments, questions or concerns, or if you would like to submit a complaint regarding the collection and use of your personal data, please feel free to contact the Data Controller, Directorate-General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union (DG FISMA), Unit E5., privacyeu-sanctions-helpdesk [dot] eu (privacy[at]eu-sanctions-helpdesk[dot]eu).
- The Data Protection Officer (DPO) of the Commission
You may contact the Data Protection Officer (DATA-PROTECTION-OFFICERec [dot] europa [dot] eu (DATA-PROTECTION-OFFICER[at]ec[dot]europa[dot]eu)) with regard to issues related to the processing of your personal data under Regulation (EU) 2018/1725.
- The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS)
You have the right to have recourse (i.e. you can lodge a complaint) to the European Data Protection Supervisor (edpsedps [dot] europa [dot] eu (edps[at]edps[dot]europa[dot]eu)) if you consider that your rights under Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 have been infringed as a result of the processing of your personal data by the data controller.
10. Where to find more detailed information?
The Commission Data Protection Officer (DPO) publishes the register of all processing operations on personal data by the European Commission, which have been documented and notified to him. You may access the register via the following link: http://ec.europa.eu/dpo-register.
This specific processing operation has been included in the DPO’s public register with the following Record reference: DPR-EC-1063.
PROTECTION OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA
Processing operation: Processing of personal data linked to online meetings and events organised by the services of the European Commission as part of the activities of the EU Sanctions Helpdesk.
Data Controller: European Commission, Directorate-General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union (DG FISMA), Unit E5.
Record reference: DPR-EC-1063
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Why and how do we process your personal data?
- On what legal ground(s) do we process your personal data?
- Which personal data do we collect and further process?
- How long do we keep your personal data?
- How do we protect and safeguard your personal data?
- Who has access to your personal dataand to whom is it disclosed?
- What are your rights and how can you exercise them?
- Contact information
- Where to find more detailed information?
1. Introduction
The European Commission is committed to protect your personal data and to respect your privacy. The Commission collects and further processes personal data pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data by the Union institutions, bodies, offices and agencies and on the free movement of such data.
This privacy statement explains the reason for the processing of your personal data in the context of all online meetings and events organised by the services of the European Commission as part of the activities of the EU Sanctions Helpdesk, and specifically:
- Online informative events;
- Online trainings;
- Online meetings with external entities.
It explains the way we collect, handle and ensure protection of all personal data provided, how that information is used and what rights you have in relation to your personal data. It also specifies the contact details of the responsible Data Controller with whom you may exercise your rights, the Data Protection Officer and the European Data Protection Supervisor.
The information in relation to the processing of personal data linked to online meetings and events,applicable in the present case to the online meetings and events organised by the services of the European Commission as part of the activities of the EU Sanctions Helpdesk is presented below.
2. Why and how do we process your personal data?
Purpose of the processing operation: the European Commission collects and further processes your personal data to provide you with information about the specific meeting or event (before, during and after) and to process your application for participation in that meeting or event.
Your personal data will not be used for any automated decision-making including profiling.
Live web-streaming and audio-visual recording at the event or meeting of the speakers, organisers and participants, are likely to be taken and published in the context of the event or meeting at a site or place indicated regarding each particular meeting or event.
Participants that do not wish to be part of the above web-streaming and recording/publishing activities have the possibility to object to processing.
You can object to the above processing in cases of live web-streaming and/or audio-visual recording by addressing the organisers, who will consult you accordingly (e.g. to turn off your camera, etc.).
3. On what legal ground(s) do we process your personal data?
The processing operations on personal data, linked to the organisation, management, follow-up and promotion of the meeting or event (including web-streaming, photos, audio-visual recording) are necessary for the management and functioning of the Commission, as mandated by the Treaties. Those provisions are in particular, Article 11 of the Treaty on European Union and Article 15 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.
Consequently, those processing operations are lawful under Article 5(1)(a) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 (processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the Union institution or body).
In the event that the organising service of the European Commission has concluded a contract with the speakers for the meeting/event, the processing operations on personal data of the latter are carried out in line with the contractual provisions. Consequently, that processing is necessary and lawful under Article 5(1)(c) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 (processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is party or in order to take steps at the request of the data subject prior to entering into a contract).
For meetings with external participants (which are not comitology or expert (group) meetings nor other working meetings of Commission staff with the staff of other EU institutions and bodies and Member States), the controller will obtain consent for the processing operations indicated below. Your consent is required for the following actions during or after the meeting or event (if applicable):
- the processing of your personal data relating to your registration and access requirements;
- the potential sharing of the meeting or event participants and/or attendee list containing your name and affiliation with speakers, service providers and subcontractors, European Commission In addition, further information will be given if there are specific purposes for such sharing (e.g. for the purpose of future collaboration);
- the processing of your personal data for inviting you to future events the data controllermay organise;
- the processing of your personal data and feedback for managing the post-event survey responses that will be collected after the meeting or event, for internal reporting purposes.
- the processing of your personal data for managing your subscription to a newsletter of the data controller.
You can give your consent via a clear affirmative act by ticking the box(es) on the online registration form.
If you opt-in, you are giving us your explicit consent under Article 5(1)(d) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 to process your personal data for those specific purposes. You can give your consent via a clear affirmative act by ticking the box(es) on the online registration form.
Your consent for these services can be withdrawn at any time and detailed information on how to withdraw consent will be contained in the privacy statement linked to the specific meeting or event.
4. Which personal data do we collect and further process?
The following personal data may be processed in the context of the meeting or event:
- contact details (function/title, first name, last name, name and type of organisation, city, country, e-mail address, telephone number);
- nationality, passport or identity card number and its date of issue and expiry date may be collected, so that the data subjects may obtain access to the online environment where the meeting/event is held;
- financial information (such as a payment card number or bank account) may be collected for the payment of fees of the meeting/event or for possible reimbursements.
5. How long do we keep your personal data?
The Data Controller only keeps your personal data for the time necessary to fulfil the purpose of collection or further processing.
For each of the categories of personal data that may be processed, please find below the retention details and the reference to the relevant record of processing:
- Personal data related to the organisation and management of the meeting or event (this includes the information given during the registration, before, during or after the event) will be kept for five years after the meeting or event.
- Sensitive personal data relating to registration and access requirements will be deleted as soon as they are no longer necessary for the purpose for which they have been collected in the framework of the meeting or event, but no later than within 1 month after the end of the meeting or event.
- Recordings from the web-streamed meeting or event will be kept for 2 years before being deleted. More information is available in the Record of Processing DPR-EC-00306 (Web-streaming of Commission events).
- In case of audio-visual recording of the meeting or event, the recordings will be kept for 3 months after the meeting or event before being deleted. More information is available in the Record of Processing DPR-EC-01937 (Audio-visual recording of meetings).
- Personal data shared with the Directorate-General for Human Resources and Security of the European Commission for the participants to gain access to Commission buildings is kept for 6 months after the termination of the link between the data subject and the Commission. More information is available in the Record of Processing DPR-EC-00655 (Commission Physical Access Control System (PACS)).
- Personal data shared with the controller for future mailing purposes (e.g., for receiving newsletters or invitations to similar events) are processed in line with the Record of Processing DPR-EC-03928 (Management of subscriptions to receive information) and the specific privacy statement prepared by the organising Commission service.
- Selected service providers for organisational purposes (such as caterers, travel agents or event management organisations) are contractually bound to process personal data on behalf of and in line with the instructions of the data controller, keep confidential any data they process and protect it from unauthorised access, use and retention.
6. How do we protect and safeguard your personal data?
All personal data in electronic format (e-mails, documents, databases, uploaded batches of data, etc.) are stored on the servers of the European Commission (or of its contractors, if contractors are engaged to assist the controller in the organisation and management of a specific meeting or event). All processing operations are carried out pursuant to Commission Decision (EU, Euratom) 2017/46 of 10 January 2017 on the security of communication and information systems in the European Commission.
In order to protect your personal data, the Commission has put in place a number of technical and organisational measures. Technical measures include appropriate actions to address online security, risk of data loss, alteration of data or unauthorised access, taking into consideration the risk presented by the processing and the nature of the personal data being processed. Organisational measures include restricting access to the personal data solely to authorised persons with a legitimate need to know for the purposes of this processing operation.
The Commission’s processors (contractors) are bound by a specific contractual clause for any processing operations of your personal data on behalf of the Commission. The processors have to put in place appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure the level of security, required by the Commission.
7. Who has access to your personal data and to whom is it disclosed?
Access to your personal data is provided to the Commission staff responsible for carrying out this processing operation and to other authorised Commission staff according to the “need to know” principle. Such staff abide by statutory, and when required, additional confidentiality agreements.
Access to your personal data is provided also to the Commission’s processors (contractors), for all purposes listed above, under Section 3 of the present statement, and to its authorised staff according to the ‘need to know’ principle. Such staff abide by statutory, and when required, additional confidentiality agreements. The contractor is committed to protecting personal data and respecting privacy. It processes personal data as a data processor on behalf of the Commission as the data controller. It does so, based on the agreement with, and in accordance with the instructions of, the data controller. As applicable, it further collects and processes personal data pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation).
If the publication of any personal data is foreseen, you will be separately asked for your consent for the extent of the personal data each time expected to be published.
Cookies
Cookies are short text files stored on a user’s device (such as a computer, tablet or phone) by a website. Cookies are used for the technical functioning of a website (functional cookies) or for gathering statistics (analytical cookies).
If registration for the meeting/event takes place via a Commission website, the cookies employed by the Commission on the registrant’s device for that purpose will be covered by the cookie policy of the Commission, which is available here: https://ec.europa.eu/info/cookies_en.
When you visit the website(s) of the meeting/event and when you register, we will indicate in the specific privacy statement how long we will keep the browser history of your visit. This information will then be deleted. The collection, aggregation and anonymising operations are performed in the data centre of the European Commission under adequate security measures.
Cookies are stored by Europa Analytics, the corporate service which measures the effectiveness and efficiency of the European Commission's websites on EUROPA. More information is available in the Record of Processing DPR-EC-00685 (Europa Analytics).
Enabling these cookies is not strictly necessary for the website to work but it will provide you with a better browsing experience. You can delete or block these cookies, but if you do that, some features of the meeting/event website may not work as intended.
The cookie-related information is not used to identify data subjects personally and the pattern data is fully under the Commission’s control. These cookies are not used for any purpose other than those described here.
Should you wish to opt your personal data out of our anonymised, aggregated statistics, you can do so on our cookies page. In particular, you can control and/or delete those cookies as you wish.
Third party IT tools, including Social Media
We may use third party IT tools to inform about and promote the meeting/event through widely used communication channels, including the social media. For detailed information about the use of social media by the European Commission, see the Record of Processing DPR-EC-00073 (Social Media Use by the European Commission).
You may be able to watch our videos, which may be also uploaded to one of our social media pages and follow links from our website to other relevant social media.
In order to protect your privacy, our use of third party IT tools to connect to those services does not set cookies when our website pages are loaded on your computer (or other devices), nor are you immediately redirected to those social media or other websites. Only in the event that you click on a button or “play” on a video to watch it, a cookie of the social media company concerned will be installed on your device. If you do not click on any social media buttons or videos, no cookies will be installed on your device by third parties.
In order to view such third-party content on our websites, a message will alert you that you need to accept those third parties’ specific Terms and Conditions, including their cookie policies, over which the Commission has no control.
We recommend that users carefully read the relevant privacy policies of the social media tools used. These explain each company’s policy of personal data collection and further processing, their use of data, users' rights and the ways in which users can protect their privacy when using those services.
The use of a third party IT tool does not in any way imply that the European Commission endorses them or their privacy policies. In the event that one or more third party IT tools are occasionally unavailable, we accept no responsibility for lack of service due to their downtime.
International transfers
Your personal data may be transferred to recipients in a third country or international organisation.
The European Commission will transfer your personal data to the recipients in a third country or to an international organisation in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2018/1725.
The legal basis for the transfer of your personal data should be specified in the specific privacy statement and could be one of the following:
- adequacy decision of the Commission for a specific country / commercial sector (Article 47 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1725); or,
- appropriate safeguards (Article 48 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1725), if there is no adequacy decision for the respective third countries / commercial sectors. The specific privacy statement will provide (1) reference to the appropriate safeguards, and (2) the means by which a data subject can obtain a copy of them / or indicate where they have been made available; or,
- derogation(s) for specific situation(s), if there is no adequacy decision for the respective third countries / commercial sectors, and no appropriate safeguards for transfer.
Please note that pursuant to Article 3(13) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 public authorities (e.g. Court of Auditors, EU Court of Justice) which may receive personal data in the framework of a particular inquiry in accordance with Union or Member State law shall not be regarded as recipients. The further processing of those data by those public authorities shall be in compliance with the applicable data protection rules according to the purposes of the processing.
The information we collect will not be given to any third party, except to the extent and for the purpose we may be required to do so by law.
8. What are your rights and how can you exercise them?
You have specific rights as a ‘data subject’ under Chapter III (Articles 14-25) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1725, in particular the right to access, your personal data and to rectify them in case your personal data are inaccurate or incomplete. Where applicable, you have the right to erase your personal data, to restrict the processing of your personal data, to object to the processing, and the right to data portability.
You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data, which is lawfully carried out pursuant to Article 5(1)(a) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 on grounds relating to your particular situation.
The European Commission will ensure that the data subjects can exercise their right to object to processing whenever possible by the organisers of the meeting/event (for example, on the spot by indicating a non-web streamed seat if requested; or ex-post, by deleting a specific sequence from the online video/voice recording).
You have consented to provide your personal data to the controller for the present processing operation. You can withdraw your consent at any time by notifying the Data Controller at privacyeu-sanctions-helpdesk [dot] eu (privacy[at]eu-sanctions-helpdesk[dot]eu). The withdrawal will not affect the lawfulness of the processing carried out before you have withdrawn the consent.
You can exercise your rights by contacting the data controller, or in case of conflict the Data Protection Officer. If necessary, you can also address the European Data Protection Supervisor. Their contact information is given under Heading 9 below.
Where you wish to exercise your rights in the context of one or several specific processing operations, please provide their description (i.e. their Record reference(s) as specified under Heading 10 below) in your request.
9. Contact information
- The Data Controller
If you would like to exercise your rights under Regulation (EU) 2018/1725, or if you have comments, questions or concerns, or if you would like to submit a complaint regarding the collection and use of your personal data, please feel free to contact the Data Controller, Unit E5 of Directorate-General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union (DG FISMA), privacyeu-sanctions-helpdesk [dot] eu (privacy[at]eu-sanctions-helpdesk[dot]eu).
- The Data Protection Officer (DPO) of the Commission
You may contact the Data Protection Officer (DATA-PROTECTION-OFFICERec [dot] europa [dot] eu (DATA-PROTECTION-OFFICER[at]ec[dot]europa[dot]eu)) with regard to issues related to the processing of your personal data under Regulation (EU) 2018/1725.
- The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS)
You have the right to have recourse (i.e. you can lodge a complaint) to the European Data Protection Supervisor (edpsedps [dot] europa [dot] eu (edps[at]edps[dot]europa[dot]eu)) if you consider that your rights under Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 have been infringed as a result of the processing of your personal data by the data controller.
10. Where to find more detailed information?
The Commission Data Protection Officer (DPO) publishes the register of all processing operations on personal data by the European Commission, which have been documented and notified to him. You may access the register via the following link: http://ec.europa.eu/dpo-register.
This specific processing operation has been included in the DPO’s public register with the following Record reference: DPR-EC-1063.