This Policy describes the way we process the information relating to identified or identifiable natural persons (Personal Data) as well as your right, i.a. when using the website http://eustrategy.eu (Website).

This Policy was last updated on the above date. It may be adapted from time to time so please check it regularly. Any significant changes to this Privacy Policy will be notified to you or clearly mentioned on the home page of the Website.

Concepts such as “processing”, “controller”, “processor”, “data subject”, “personal data”, etc. have the meaning given in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (Regulation 2016/679 of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data). The GDPR is available here: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32016R0679.

Your personal Data are processed for specific purposes depending on the type of relationship we have with you.

Your Personal Data are only processed for the following purposes:

• If you are a client:
  • To perform the contract between you and us
  • To send you news items you might be interested in, as an existing or former client
  • To keep you posted about the development of the activities of EU STRATEGY, as an existing or former client;
  • To allow us establishing, exercising or defending legal claims.
• If you are a supplier:
  • To communicate with you ;
  • To manage our relationship with you;
  • To establish, perform and terminate contracts for the provision of goods and/or services;
  • To allow us establishing, exercising or defending legal claims.

With a view to allow us providing our services, you have to share certain Personal Data with us, which are necessary to the performance of these services:

• As a client of EU STRATEGY, the Personal Data with a view to manage our contractual relationship with you, i.e. mainly information about the contact persons within your organization ;
• As a supplier, we need certain Personal Data with a view to manage our contractual relationship with you.

The processing of your Personal Data by EU STRATEGY relies on the following legal grounds:

1. Our contract with you

   In most cases, we process the Personal Data necessary for the performance of our contract with you.
   
   We only collect those data which are necessary to perform such activities. The Personal Data that you provide through the contact form on our website is processed in order to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract with us.

2. Our legitimate interest

   In certain cases, we may process your Personal Data on the basis of our legitimate interest to do so.
   
   This is i.a. the case when we process your Personal Data with a view to communicate with you or inform you about our services similar to those for which we already worked together. Under these circumstances, our legitimate interest is to carry on and develop our business.

Depending on our relationship with you, we process different types of Personal Data. These data include inter alia,

If you are a client :

• Contact details (name, first name, address, phone, fax and email);
• Professional details (company, function, website, ...);
• Information regarding your interactions with us (contracts, ...);
• Financial and bank information (bank account, credit history and other financial information);

If you are a supplier :

• Contact details (name, first name, address, phone, fax and email)
• Professional details (company, function, department, website)
• Financial and bank information (bank account, credit history and other financial information)
• Information allowing us to receive your goods and services

The Personal Data at our disposal are always communicated by yourself, when contacting us via our Website or when subscribing to our Newsletter.

For the purposes described in Article Error! Reference source not found., we may transfer your Personal Data to third parties (the « recipients »):

• As a client, while it is necessary to perform the contract between you and us ;
• Third party service providers, and in particular IT and hosting providers.

Your Personal Data are stored in Belgium or in another country of the European Economic Area.

Your Personal Data shall never be shared with business partners for commercial purposes.

We will keep your Personal Data for no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which the Personal Data are processed.

You have the following rights with respect to your Personal Data:

1. Right of access

   You have the right to obtain from EU STRATEGY confirmation as to whether or not Personal Data concerning you are being processed and, where that is the case, access to the personal data and information regarding their processing.

2. Right to rectification

   You have the right to obtain the rectification of inaccurate Personal Data, and to have incomplete Personal Data completed.

3. Right to erasure

   You have the right to obtain the erasure of Personal Data concerning you when there is no reason to process them any longer.

4. Right to restriction of processing

   You have the right to obtain restriction of processing. In such case, we will only be allowed to store your data to the exclusion of any other processing.

5. Right to object

   You have the right to object to processing of Personal Data concerning you. When your Personal Data are processed for direct marketing purposes, you can object their processing at all times.

6. Right to withdraw consent

   When you gave your consent to the processing of your Personal Data, you have the right to withdraw such consent at all times, without such withdrawal affecting the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.

7. Right to lodge a complaint with the Data Protection Authority

   You have the right to lodge a complaint with the Data Protection Authority, at the conditions and within the limits set by the GDPR and any other legislation applicable to the processing of Personal Data:
   Autorité de protection des données
   Rue de la Presse, 35, 1000 Bruxelles
   Tel : +32 (0)2 274 48 00
   Fax : +32 (0)2 274 48 35
   Email : contact@apd-gba.be