Privacy Policy
The New European Reuse Alliance website (referred to as “the website”), whose coordination is hosted by the President of the Board, Mr Gerard BELLET, located at Avenue Louise 209, boîte 7, 1050 Ixelles, Belgium.
We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring a positive user experience on our website. This policy outlines our handling practices and how we collect and use the Personal Data you provide during your online and offline interactions with us.
As used in this Privacy Policy, “Personal Data” means any information that can be used to individually identify a person, and may include, but is not limited to, name, email address, postal or other physical address, title, and other personally identifiable information.
Our website will be the controller of your Personal Data that is provided, collected and/or processed pursuant to this Privacy Policy, except where otherwise expressly stated below. This policy may be updated from time to time for reasons such as operational practices or regulatory changes, so we recommend that you review our Privacy Policy when returning to our website.
New ERA GDPR Roles
In accordance with the
General Data Protection Regulation of the European Union (henceforth referred to as “GDPR”), the New ERA has in place the following
GDPR profiles, roles and responsibilities:
Data Controller: New ERA, with coordination hosted by the President of the Board, Mr Gerard BELLET
Data Processor: New ERA, with the coordination hosted by the Secretary of the Board, Mr Oriol SEGARRA POL
Data Protection Officer: New ERA, with the coordination hosted by the Deputy President of the Board, Mr Olivier POTVIN
Supervisory Authority: In case you are not satisfied with the answers provided to your data and privacy queries by NEW ERA, you can at all times address a
complaint (in French, Dutch or German) to:
Data Protection Authority (DPA) of Belgium
Email:
contact@apd-gba.be Address: Rue de la Presse 35, B-1000, Brussels, Belgium
How we collect and use information
We may ask you to provide your name and contact details when:
- Contacting us with a query via our “Contact Us” page;
- Applying to any calls for tenders/proposals issued by New ERA;
- Registering for a webinar or event;
- Subscribing to our mailing lists or newsletters;Registering as a full or associate member;
- Supporting a specific New ERA campaign/project by signing those Call to Action documents with your name and further details.
We may also maintain records with details of individuals who contact us for (further) information or for help, but only in case we need to contact them later on or provide further information to them in the future.
By providing your e-mail address, you can also subscribe to our mailing list in order to receive updates by email. This data is then managed through Mailchimp – you can read Mailchimp's full
privacy policy here.
We may share social networking buttons and widgets from Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube, aon our website to enable you to easily share the New ERA articles, case studies, service offers, and news with your contacts and networks. These social networking sharing buttons and widgets come from web servers that may track your behaviour on our website and may combine this with other information about you originating from other websites. You can install a browser add-on like “Disconnect” for
Chrome and
Firefox to disable them. New ERA does not have access to any of your details or personal information from these services.
We also gather information automatically about website visitors to help us maintain and improve the design of our website. We use Google Analytics to gather this data and analyse it. You can install the “
Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on” to prevent information about your visits to our website from being sent to Google Analytics. This data is anonymised by Google and we have no access to identifiable information.
Information sharing and disclosure practices
We are also interested in sharing testimonials about collaboration moments with New ERA on our website and social media channels, so that our audiences can better understand the benefits and impact of our mission, vision, and work – in this case, we will approach the potential person first and ask for their explicit permission to share their name, organisation, country, role, and feedback/testimonial as such. No feedback or testimonials will ever be shared without their explicit awareness and consent.
We may also disclose and provide access to the information you provided to our contractors who are performing services on our behalf. However, such contractors are not permitted to use your information for any purpose other than providing services to us.
Finally, where we pass your information to contractors located in countries outside the European Economic Area, we will make sure that they apply the same level of protection to your information as we do.
Security measures
We have implemented appropriate technical and organisational measures to secure personal data against loss or against any form of unlawful processing. Our service purchasing pages, widgets, and tools are secured using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), a security protocol that provides communications privacy over the Internet in a way that is designed to prevent eavesdropping, tampering, or message forgery.
Only employees who need to access information about supporters and website visitors to perform their work are granted access to this personally identifiable information.
What are your data protection rights?
We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:
The right to access - You have the right to request New ERA for copies of your personal data.
The right to rectification - You have the right to request that New ERA correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request New ERA to complete information you believe is incomplete.
The right to erasure - You have the right to request that New ERA erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to restrict processing - You have the right to request that New ERA restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to object to processing - You have the right to object to New ERA’s processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to data portability - You have the right to request that New ERA transfer the data that we have collected to another organisation, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
Questions regarding the processing of your information and your rights
Should you:
Have any questions about the use or collection of your personal data;
Wish to know which personal data are processed;
Wish to alter, delete, or block some of the information processed concerning you;
please contact info@newreusealliance.eu,
We are obliged to request proof of identity before access to personal data is given. If you would like us to remove your information from our mailing list, please click the “Unsubscribe” link at the bottom of any email we sent to you or contact us directly at info@newreusealliance.eu.
Information we may receive from third parties
Third parties may pass certain information about your use of its service in relation to New ERA. Information could include, but is not limited to:The user ID associated with your account (for example, your Facebook UID);An access token necessary to access that service;Any information that you have permitted the third party to share with us; and Any information you have made public in connection with that service. If you allow us access to your friends list, your friends’ user IDs and your connection to those friends may be used and stored to make your experience more social. You should always review and, if necessary, adjust your privacy settings on third-party websites and services before linking or connecting them to the website. You may also unlink your third party account from the Service by adjusting your settings on the third party service.
Analytics information
We may directly collect analytics data, or use third-party analytics tools and services like Google Analytics to help us measure traffic and usage trends. These tools collect information sent by your browser or mobile device, including the pages you visit and other information that assists us in improving our website. We collect and use this analytics information in aggregate form such that it cannot reasonably be manipulated to identify any particular individual user.
Links to Other Websites and Services
We are not responsible for the practices employed by websites or services linked to or from the website, including the information or content contained therein. Please remember that when you use a link to go from our website to another website, our Privacy Policy does not apply to third-party websites or services. Your browsing and interaction on any third-party website or service, including those that have a link or advertisement on our website, are subject to that third party’s own rules and policies. In addition, you agree that we are not responsible and we do not control any third-parties that you authorize to access your User Content. If you are using a third-party website or service (like Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, or Twitter) and you allow such a third-party access to your User Content, you do so at your own risk. This Privacy Policy does not apply to information we collect by other means (including offline) or from other sources other than through the Service.
Changes to our privacy policy
New ERA keeps its privacy policy under regular review and places any updates on this webpage. This privacy policy was last updated on 20 April 2022.