Privacy Policy

This privacy policy explains how the partner in charge of communication, Energy Cities (Association Loi de 1901,4 chemin du Fort de Bregille, F-25000 Besançon) (« we », « us ») may collect, store and process your personal data, for which purpose, and what are your data protection rights.

HOW WE COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL DATA

• We collect your personal data when you register to our events;
•We may collect your personal data when you express interest to or if you participate to any other activity we organise;
• We may collect your personal data from public sources online in the public domain, whenever your professional activity is directly linked to POWER UP activities and working topics (i.e. tackling energy poverty, creating energy efficiency and renewables energy services, informing local authorities in the EU and their partners about existing solutions at local, national and EU levels).

WHAT KIND OF PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT, STORE AND PROCESS

The personal data we may collect, store and process are: your name and surname, your gender, your email address, your phone number, your job position and organisation, and your professional postal address.

WHAT DO WE USE AND PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA FOR

We may use your personal data in order to:

• Send you direct targeted emailing for the promotion of our events, projects and new publications once in a while;
• When you register online to our events, the data you provide on our registration forms are used by us to manage your registration and to enable us to communicate with you for the purpose of the event. Your name and surname, job position, organisation and country will be included in the list of participants that is distributed during the event. We do not add your phone number or email address in our events’ list of participants.

You can unsubscribe from any communication around POWER UP by sending an email to powerup@energy-cities.eu.

Your data might be shared with the European Commission Horizon 2020 programme staff in charge of the management of EU funded grants and their contractors for ex-post controls. Under no circumstances do we share your personal data with other organisations, except if a competent authority demands it or if we have your express permission.

WHERE AND HOW LONG WILL YOUR DATA BE STORED?

Your personal data will be stored for as long as it’s needed for the purpose you agreed to, or until you notify us at data@energy-cities.eu that you would like your information to be erased.

Your data is stored on a server of our IT sub-contractor FC-Net (6, rue Gérard Mantion, F-25000 Besançon). This company is based in France and stores its data in France. Your personal information will not be stored out of the European economic area, not even in a cloud.

WHAT ARE YOUR DATA PROTECTION RIGHTS?

• You have the right to obtain confirmation from Energy Cities on whether or not your personal data is being processed by us, and have access to them.
• You have the right to obtain the rectification of inaccurate personal data and to have incomplete personal data completed.
• You have the right to obtain the erasure of your personal data from our records.
• You have the right to object or obtain restriction of processing.
• You have the right to receive your personal data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit those data to another controller.
• You can exercise your rights by contacting us at data@energy-cities.eu. We will reply as quickly as possible.

CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

We keep our privacy policy under regular review and we will publish any updates on this web page.

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COMPLAINTS

If you consider we have not complied with data protection regulation, please inform us at data@energy-cities.eu
You also have the right to make a complaint via the French supervisory authority, see https://www.cnil.fr

HOW TO CONTACT US

Please contact us at data@energy-cities.eu  if you have any questions about our privacy policy or information we hold about you.