PRIVACY POLICY

1. Scope

This privacy policy pertains to the handling of personal data of visitors to our website, supporters, testimonials, and other interested individuals (the "Data Subjects") by fpap-europe.org (hereinafter "FPAP-Europe" "we," or "us").

 

Belgian law applies. Please note that this privacy policy may be subject to adjustments from time to time. The current version published on our website is always applicable.

 

2. Information about us

fpap-europe is owned by the FP AP Association based in Brussels (Belgium). The organisation is responsible for processing personal data. If you have data protection concerns, you can contact us. 

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3. Collection and Processing of Personal Data

We only share your information with our service providers who help us operate our business, in which case those third parties are required to comply with the GDPR framework.

3.1 Improving the user experience

We primarily process personal data obtained from Users (emails, name) through our newsletter form, payment process, submit a request form or contributor form, to improve the user experience and process payments through our marketplace. We may use the personal data also to inform about new products, updates in our marketplace send offers, and so on.

We use this data to manage relationships with Data Subjects or based on consent, as voluntarily provided by Data Subjects.

 

3.2 When Visiting Our Website

This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:

• Information about your browser, network, and device

• Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

• Your IP address

  This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

• Clicks

• Internal links

• Pages visited

• Scrolling

• Searches

• Timestamps

We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

 

Cookies

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses.

These functional and required cookies are always used, which allows Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you.

These analytics and performance cookies are used on this website, as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.

 

Visitor data

When you visit this website, we may collect personal information from you. We may collect information like your:​

• Email address

• Name

• Phone number

We share this information with Wix, our online store hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us.

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4. Purpose of Data Processing

We primarily process the collected personal data to improve the user experience and process payments.

Furthermore, we process your personal data for various purposes:

- For the secure and stable operation of the website. Our legitimate interest is the basis for this;

- To provide services within the scope of contractual relationships or to initiate such contractual relationships and to exercise associated rights and fulfill related obligations;

- To respond to your inquiries. This is based on your consent or, if applicable, to initiate contractual relationships;

- For marketing measures, especially newsletter distribution. Our legitimate interest is the basis for this. Depending on the marketing measure, a separate consent may be obtained.

For accounting and archiving purposes according to applicable law and to fulfill other legal requirements.

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5. Other Recipients of Your Data

Transmission of your personal data to third parties for purposes other than those listed does not occur. However, the involvement of data processors is possible, especially in connection with external IT service providers. These data processors perform the respective data processing exclusively on our behalf and according to our instructions. They are bound by the same data protection regulations as we are.

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7. Rights of the Data Subjects

In connection with the processing of personal data, the data subjects have the following rights as provided by law. Please note that their existence and scope may vary depending on the specific applicable data protection legislation:

Information/Access: Data subjects have the right to inquire whether personal data about them is being processed and, if so, what this data is. Requests for information can be made for this purpose.

Correction: If personal data is incorrect, data subjects have a legal right to correction.

Withdrawal of Consent: If the processing of personal data is based on the data subject's consent, the data subject can withdraw it. The withdrawal does not affect processing based on other legal grounds. The withdrawal applies only to the future.

Restriction: Under certain conditions, data subjects can request the restriction of the processing of their personal data. This may occur if the accuracy of the data is doubted. Please note that this may restrict or even prevent the provision of services in individual cases.

Data Portability: Data subjects can request the personal data they provided to us in a commonly used and machine-readable format and, subject to significant conflicting interests, reuse it.

Deletion: Data subjects have a legal right to the deletion of their personal data if it is no longer needed for the purpose for which it was collected, or in case of justified objection or withdrawal of consent. The use may still be allowed for legal reasons or for the assertion, exercise, or defense of legal claims.

Complaint: We also inform that data subjects have a legal right to file a complaint with the supervisory authority if they disagree with the handling of their personal data.

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8. Location of Data Processing

The data processing by us generally takes place in the European Union. Cross-border disclosure of personal data from European Union is possible. Therefore, your data may be processed in Europe, the USA, or, in exceptional cases, in any country worldwide.

The disclosure is made to countries that have an equivalent level of data protection, through the application of appropriate data protection guarantees (especially the standard contractual clauses of the European Commission) or with the consent of the data subject.

If you have any questions about this, we are happy to assist.

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9. Data Security

We implement appropriate security measures to maintain the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of your personal data, protect it against unauthorized or unlawful processing, and guard against the risks of loss, accidental alteration, unintended disclosure, or unauthorized access.

 

10. Duration of Storage of Personal Data

Personal data of data subjects is retained for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, or as long as we have a legitimate interest in it. In case of withdrawal of your consent, we delete your data from that point onwards. Legal retention obligations remain reserved.

 

For inquiries:

FP-AP SECRETARIAT

Place de la Nation

1BE - 1009 Bruxelles

info@fpap-europe.org