This website is edited by « European Aluminium Association » (hereinafter « European Aluminium »), an international non-profit association incorporated under Belgian in accordance with the Law of 21 February 1921 on non-profit associations, with head office in 1150 Woluwe Saint-Pierre, Avenue de Tervueren 168, and with national company registration number 480.720.716.
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By using the website, you are informed that your data will be collected in accordance with our privacy statement.
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This information is made available to the website visitors on the condition that each of them will make his/her own determination whether the information is suitable prior to making any appropriate use of it.
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Your privacy on the Internet is of utmost importance to European Aluminium. This privacy statement describes the policy concerning the gathering and sharing of users’ information through this European Aluminium website.
The present privacy statement complies with Regulation EU 2016/679 of the European Parliament and the Council of 27 April 2016, on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and the free movement of such data and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation), and is established pursuant to articles 6.1, f) and 13 of the Regulation.
Why does European Aluminium collect your personal data?
European Aluminium may collect and process personal data for the following purposes:
European Aluminium may also use and process the personal information you provide to:
European Aluminium collects personal data about its members’ representatives and employees, decision makers, stakeholders, and people who might show an interest in challenges, issues and news related to the aluminium sector in general. Such personal data may include your name and surname, professional address, email, phone number, former or current position, employer, firm, or institution.
European Aluminium may collect and process your personal data through this website, through publicly available information sources and communication channels, or orally during phone conversations, events, or other communication channels.
Your registration on this website requires personal information such as your name, your email and your company name. This information will be only visible to the staff of European Aluminium.
Additional information may be added to your profile, including your office. This information will be only visible to European Aluminium staff members unless you indicate otherwise by sending an email to communications@european-aluminium.eu. Your profile allows for more information to be added (i.e. postal address), however, this will not be visible in any circumstance to anyone else but the staff of European Aluminium.
This information is collected only with your knowledge and is kept in secure databases.
Providing personal information on the European Aluminium website is compulsory for the purpose of registering to have access to content such as newsletters, publications, and feedback forms. The mandatory information you need to provide is your name, your email, and the name of your company. This information will be only visible to the staff of European Aluminium.
Additional information may be added to your profile however, this information will be only visible to European Aluminium staff members unless you indicate otherwise by sending an email to communications@european-aluminium.eu.
European Aluminium may share your personal data with third parties for achieving the aforementioned purposes (e.g : printers, event organizers, webmasters, etc.)
Where appropriate, third parties may be located both in the European Union and outside of it. In the event of data transfers to third parties outside the European Union, European Aluminium complies with the legal and regulatory provisions in force regarding such transfers and, in particular, ensures an adequate level of protection for the personal data thus transferred, on the basis of the solutions imposed or recommended by the European Commission, such as the standard contractual clauses.
You have the right to:
• obtain from European Aluminium, confirmation that personal data about you are or are not being processed and, if so, when they are, and to access this data (right to access);
• correct the data and, where appropriate, have your personal data completed if it is inaccurate or incomplete (right to rectification) ;
• delete personal data in certain circumstances (right to erasure);
• impose limitations, in certain circumstances, on processing data that is of a personal nature (right to limitation);
• oppose, for reasons relating to the particular situation, personal data processing based on the legitimate interests of European Aluminium (right to opposition) ;
• oppose the treatment of your personal data for direct marketing purposes, including profiling for direct marketing purposes (right to opposition);
• opt for exclusion from being the subject of a decision based exclusively on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects that concern you or significantly affect you. However, if the automated process is necessary for the conclusion or the performance of a contract, you have the right to human intervention from European Aluminium, to express your point of view and to challenge the decision made by European Aluminium (opt-out);
• receive personal data that you have provided to European Aluminium in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format; to transmit this data to another person or institution responsible for processing it in cases when (i) processing your personal data relies on your consent or for the purposes of executing a contract and (ii) the processing is carried out with the aid of an automated process; and to have your personal data transmitted directly from one responsible person or institution to another where technically possible (right to portability);
• withdraw your consent at any time, without prejudice to lawful processing prior to the withdrawal of said consent, when processing your personal data relies on your consent.
To exercise any of the abovementioned rights, please contact European Aluminium communications@european-aluminium.eu by standard mail or by email, with a copy of your ID card or another identity document
Complaints can be lodged with the Belgian Data Protection Authority
Rue de la Presse, 35
1000 Brussels
Tel: + 32 2 274 48 00
Fax: + 32 2 274 48 35
You can also file a complaint with the Court of First Instance in your home area.
Your personal data will be stored until the cancellation upon request from you.
We do not sell or share any personally identifiable information volunteered on the European Aluminium website with any third party. Any information provided to European Aluminium by users of the European Aluminium website is held with the utmost care and security and will not be used in ways other than as set forth in this privacy policy or in ways to which you have explicitly consented. European Aluminium employs a range of technologies and security measures to protect the information maintained on our systems from loss, misuse, unauthorized access or disclosure, alteration, or destruction.
All our employees who have access to, and are associated with the processing of personal data, are obliged to respect the confidentiality of official business matters, including personal data.
The European Aluminium website may contain links to sites external to it. European Aluminium shall not be held responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such sites.
For questions or queries regarding this privacy policy, please contact us at communications@european-aluminium.eu.