Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy of the European Council of Engineers Chambers (ECEC) AISBL

Protecting your personal data is very important to us. We process your data solely within the legal regulations (GDPR). Below we inform you about the most important aspects of data processing in the context of our website.

CONTACTING US

If you contact us, your data will be collected for the purpose of processing your enquiry and in the case of further questions. If you contact us via our website, your message will be forwarded directly to our mail account (office@ecec.net). Your personal data is being processed within the scope of regulated tasks in the ECEC AISBL Statutes, for accounting- and invoicing requirements and for the technical administration.

The dataprocessing is based on Article 6(1) c. (Compliance with a legal obligation) and Article 6(1) e. (performance of a task carried out in the public interest) of the GDPR in connection with the AISBL regulation ›Act of 27 June 1921 governing the non-profit associations, the international non-profit associations and the foundations‹, or optionally on the basis of a consent within the GDPR Article 6(1) a. (for example Cookies, Newsletter).

We will not pass your personal data to third parties, except it is necessary for the fulfillment of tasks regulated within the ECEC AISBL Statutes, for accounting- or invoicing requirements, technical administration or if you have given your explicit permission.
Your data will be deleted, once the purpose of storing the information has been fulfilled and the storage is no longer relevant, or if the storage of the information becomes legally inadmissible.

FUNCTIONAL COOKIES

This website is processing the following personal information in a Server log file for the purpose of monitoring the technical functions and improvement of operational safety of the webserver (technical safety measures) on the basis of the overriding legitimate interests of the persons responsible within the meaning of Article 6(1) f. of the GDPR:

+ IP-address
+ Time of server request
+ Method of request (GET, POST, OPTIONS, etc.)
+ Accessed content
+ Server code response and data length
+ Referrer URL
+ Type/version of browser
+ Used operationg system

This data is also maintained by our host the Fondazione Consiglio Nazionale degli Ingegneri (Foundation of the Italian Engineers Chamber). You can find more information on the handling of user data with the Fondazione Consiglio Nazionale degli Ingegneri and their contact details at https://www.fondazionecni.it/privacy. Our host is subject to Italian law, which require 6 months of maintenance for log server without anonymization. This data will not be passed on to third parties.

SOCIAL MEDIA

We want to get more people excited about our project. So the European Council of Engineers Chambers is also represented on linkedin and X. You can find links to these social media platforms on our website. Linkedin and X are mostly settled in the United States. Therefore, it is not excluded that during visiting our website your personal data (e.g. IP-address) will be transferred to countries which are outside the European Union. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) does not apply in these countries.

Please find the data polices of these companies under the following links:

Linkedin: https://de.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy

X: https://x.com/de/privacy

By clicking on the links to open the social media platforms and by activating the social media feeds on our website, you give your consent to processing your personal data in connection with the retrieval of our sites on X, and Linkedin,

On 10 July 2023, the European Commission adopted a new adequacy decision pursuant to Article 45 of the GDPR for the United States of America, known as the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (see https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_23_3721). If a company in the United States appears on this list, the transfer of personal data is possible based on the adequacy decision alone and no further measures need to be taken to protect personal data. LinkedIn Corporation and X Corp. appear on the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework list.

On our website, you have the possibility to subscribe to our newsletter. In order to subscribe, we require your email address and your consent to receive our newsletter. This is ensured through a double opt-in: After you have subscribed to our newsletter, you will receive an email with a link to confirm your subscription.

For our newsletter mailing, we use the newsletter tool “brevo”. For this purpose, we have entered a contract with Sendinblue GmbH for order data processing which is compliant with the GDPR. Please find the data policy of Sendinblue under the following link: https://www.brevo.com/de/legal/privacypolicy/

You can unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time by sending your enquiry to the following email address: office@ecec.net, or when receiving the newsletter by clicking on the link „Unsubscribe from this newsletter“ on the bottom of the page. Your email address will be then immediately removed from our newsletter mailing list.

KNOW YOUR RIGHTS

You have a fundamental right to information, correction, deletion, restriction of processing, data portability, withdrawal and to appeal. If you have any reason to suspect that the processing of your personal data is contrary to the General data protection regulation (GDPR) or that your data protection rights have been violated in any other way, please contact us using the email address or postal address as follows:

European Council of Engineers Chambers (ECEC) AISBL
Rue Saint Georges 32
1050 Brussels
Belgium
office@ecec.net

If you are still concerned, you can lodge a complaint at the Supervisory Authority.
In Belgium, the supervisory authority is the Belgian Data Protection Authority, BE-1000 Brussels, Rue de la Presse 35, web: www.dataprotectionauthority.be).

RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS WEBSITE

European Council of Engineers Chambers (ECEC) AISBL
Rue Saint Georges 32
1050 Brussels
Belgium
tel.: +32 25130475
email: office@ecec.net
www.ecec.net