If you are, or have been, a member of NISPAcee, have contacted us by email, participated in one or more of our activities, subscribed to our newsletter or visited our website, this means that you have entrusted us with some of your personal data.
This document answers any questions you may have about who we are, how we process and protect your personal data, and what your rights are in relation to the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
The GDPR is the new EU Regulation on the protection of personal data, which replaced Directive 95/46/EC and came into force throughout the European Union on 25th May 2018.
The purpose of the GDPR is to harmonise and strengthen the protection of privacy and personal data in the EU. To make sure that we comply with the requirements of the GDPR and that we process your data fairly and lawfully, we require your consent.
Your personal data are processed in accordance with the relevant legislation of the Slovak Republic and the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Your personal data are processed from the moment we receive them. This applies particularly when you:
• Apply for participation in various NISPAcee activities and projects.
• Attend an event organised by NISPAcee.
• Subscribe to our newsletter.
• Communicate with us.
• Visit our website.
• Enter into contract with us.
(B) Data open to the public in the databases of institutions and other persons
1. NISPAcee members have full access to data indicated as being public. It is one of NISPAcee’s membership benefits.
2. The general public can view the first and surname of a person, his/ her institution and country.
• To provide opportunities for networking and collaboration between NISPAcee members.
• To inform you about our activities, planned and past events, new publications and send email communications (invitations and newsletters).
• To process event registrations and create the necessary documentation (attendance lists) in order to comply with the rules on publicly funded events/projects.
• To manage our website and social media accounts to enable the most relevant content to be viewed based on data testing and analysis.
• To fulfil contracts if you are in a contractual relationship with us.
• To fulfil the qualification requirements of the various NISPAcee activities and projects.
How we use your data?
In principle, we will not disclose your personal confidential data to any third party. Any other data disclose is processed with your approval. In exceptional cases we may disclose your personal data to companies that provide services to our organisation (such as, for example, IT services), which will act on behalf of and under written instruction by NISPAcee and are not allowed to use your data for their benefit or disclose this to third parties. Also, we will use your personal data for keeping you up-to-date until you unsubscribe from our recipients’ list.
How long do we process your personal data for?
Your rights
• Ask us to delete any of your personal data that we process. Upon receiving such a request, we will delete all your personal data contained in the databases that we and our processors operate. We will do so within 30 working days of receiving your request.
• Ask us to correct any personal data we process that is incorrect and any personal data that is no longer up-to-date.
• Limit the scope or purposes for which your personal data are processed.
• Ask us to access your personal data. Within 30 working days, we will provide you with the details of the data we process.
• Opt-out of your personal data being processed for the purposes of legitimate interest and for direct marketing.
• Revoke consent for your personal data to be processed. Once we receive your request, we will not process your personal data any further. Revoking consent has no bearing on the legality of the data processing undertaken before consent was revoked.
• File a complaint regarding any illegal processing of your personal data. You can make a complaint to us at any time, or you can complain to the Office for Personal Data Protection of the Slovak Republic.
If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at [email protected] or by post to NISPAcee, Polianky 5, 84101 Bratislava, Slovak Republic.
We assure you that all our staff and co-workers who come into contact with your personal data are instructed on how to handle personal data in order to ensure maximum protection and are bound by the confidentiality of the personal data. This continues once our relationship comes to an end. Apart from our staff, co-workers and intermediaries, no third party has access to your personal data in category A (see above).
This statement regarding the processing and protection of personal data is valid from 25.5.2018.