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ETSC and your personal data

ETSC collects certain information or data about you when you use etsc.eu.

We collect:

  • questions, queries or feedback you leave, including your email address if you contact ETSC
  • your name, job title, organisation name and country if you register for one of our events. For events held in the European Parliament, attendees without a permanent access pass need to send us their nationality, date of birth and i.d. or passport number which is then shared with the European Parliament security services.
  • your email address and subscription preferences when you sign up to our email alerts, and how you use our emails – for example whether you open them and which links you click on
  • information on how you use the site, using cookies and page tagging techniques. The ETSC website itself does not use cookies, however certain content embedded in our web pages from other services, such as Google Sheets, Infogram, MailChimp, Twitter and YouTube may use cookies and track your usage of those services.

This data can be viewed by authorised people in ETSC to:

  • improve the site by monitoring how you use it
  • manage our event registrations and contact you about events you have registered for
  • gather feedback to improve our services, for example our email alerts
  • respond to any feedback you send us, if you’ve asked us to
  • send email alerts to users who request them

Where your data is stored

We store your data on a secure server located in Belgium.  Our website is hosted by Dreamhost, our mailing list database is stored with MailChimp and event registrations are recorded using Google Sheets. Other services such as YouTube, Twitter and Infogram may use cookies and track your usage of those services.

Keeping your data secure

Sending information over the internet is generally not completely secure, and we can’t guarantee the security of your data while it’s in transit.

Any data you send is at your own risk.

We have procedures and security features in place to keep your data secure once we receive it.

Disclosing your information

We may pass on your personal information if we have a legal obligation to do so.

We won’t share your information with any other organisations for marketing, market research or commercial purposes, and we don’t pass on your details to other websites.

Your rights

You can find out what information we hold about you, and ask us not to use any of the information we collect.  Please contact us at dataprotection@etsc.eu.

If you’ve signed up for email alerts, you can unsubscribe or change your settings at any time by selecting the ‘unsubscribe’ link that appears in every email.

etsc.eu contains links to other websites.

The above information only applies to etsc.eu, and doesn’t cover other websites that we link to.

Further information

For more information on data protection and the new EU General Data Protection Regulation (from May 2018), please visit this website.