The European Environmental Bureau (EEB), with headquarters at Rue des Deux Églises 14-16, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium, and Enterprise number BE.0415.814.848, is the controller of the personal data collected by EEB websites (see list below) or data gathered in the field (such as business cards, publicly available contact information, etc.) and the controller of the personal data of its members and the representatives of its members. 

The EEB is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This privacy policy sets out the basis on which we will process any personal information that we may collect about you as a visitor to our website or as a member of the EEB. We ask that you read this privacy policy carefully. 

The Information That We Collect About You

We may collect and process the following information about you: 

  • Information that you give us: This is information about you that you give to us by: (i) making use of our website and the options on our website (e.g., in the event you would sign a petition or make a donation), (ii) subscribing to the receipt of updates by email, (iii) contacting us for information or help, (iv) signing your name on a list of signatures, (v) by becoming a donor via ways other than the internet, or (vi) by participating in EEB campaigns. It may include, for example, your name, address, email address, and telephone number. 
  • Information that our website and other systems collect about you: If you visit our website, third parties (Analytics) will collect some information about you and your visit, such as your IP address and the pages you visit. You can ask Google to provide an extraction of your data related to the EEB website. 
  • Our website may also download “cookies” to your device; this is described in our cookie statement (below). 
  • If you exchange emails, telephone conversations, or other electronic communications (including comments on this website) with our employees and other staff members, our information technology systems will record details of those conversations, sometimes including their content. 
  • Information that third parties collect about you on our website by performing actions: This is information about you that you give to third parties (such as Facebook, Google, and Twitter) by making use of the social network sharing buttons and widgets available on our website. 
  • Information that third parties collect about you on our website by browsing it: This is information about you recorded / tracked by third parties just by making use of the website itself, such as navigating from one page to another (this event will be tracked) or by viewing an embedded Facebook video (if you are logged in to Facebook). 

The Use of Your Information We Collect 

We may use your information for the following purposes: 

  • To provide you with information and services: We may use your information to send you newsletters, updates, and other information about our work. We may also use your information to provide you with access to our online services, such as our online campaigns and petitions. 
  • To communicate with you: We may use your information to contact you about your membership, participation, or other support. We may also use your information to respond to your questions and comments. 
  • To improve our website and services: We may use your information to help us understand how our website and services are used and to make improvements. 
  • To protect our rights and interests: We may use your information to protect our rights and interests, such as to prevent fraud or to comply with legal obligations.    

We will only process your personal information as necessary for the purposes described above. In doing so, we will consider the balance between your privacy and our interest in processing and refrain from processing if your privacy interest overrides our legitimate interest. 

Disclosure and International Transfer of Your Information 

We may disclose personal information about you where we have obtained your consent or where it is reasonably necessary for the various purposes set out below: 

  • to our member organisations which are based in the country you took action from; 
  • to service providers who host our website or other information technology systems or otherwise hold or process your information on our behalf, under strict conditions of confidentiality and security; 
  • to judicial authorities or other public authorities, in case our legal or moral responsibility compels us to do so (e.g., if you express intent about performing a terrorist activity); 
  • to third parties when required by law or to respond to legal process, to protect our customers, to protect lives, to maintain the security of our services, and to protect the rights or property of EEB.    

These disclosures may involve transferring your personal information overseas. If you are dealing with us within the European Economic Area, you should be aware that this may include transfers to countries outside the European Economic Area, which do not have similarly strict data privacy laws. In those cases, where we transfer personal data to the independent organisations or our service providers, we will ensure that our arrangements with them are governed by data transfer agreements or mechanisms designed to ensure that your personal information is protected (including, where appropriate, under an agreement on terms approved for this purpose by the European Commission). 

Please contact us (see below) if you would like to know whether any such agreements are in place. 

Retention and Deletion of Your Information 

EEB intends to keep your personal information accurate and up-to-date. We will delete the information that we hold about you when we no longer need it. 

We will retain your information for no longer than four years after our most recent communication with you, after which it will be deleted or anonymised, unless we have a legal obligation to retain it for a longer period. Contact us for more information.    

Your Rights 

You may have a right of access to the personal information that we hold about you and to some related information, under data protection law. 

  • You can also require any inaccurate personal information to be corrected or deleted. 
  • You can object to our processing of some or all of your personal information (and require them to be deleted) in some other circumstances.    
  • In some circumstances, you may also have a “data portability” right to require us to transfer your personal data to you or a new service provider (e.g., if you wish your data to be transferred from EEB to our member organisations). 

If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us as set out below. We are obliged to request proof of identity before access to your personal information is given. 

If you would like us to remove your information from our mailing list, you can click the “Unsubscribe” link at the bottom of any email we sent to you or contact us as set out below. 

You can also lodge a complaint about our processing of your personal information with the body regulating data protection in your country. 

Security Measures 

We have implemented appropriate technical and organisational measures to secure personal data against loss or against any form of unlawful processing.  

Only employees who require access to information about website visitors to perform their work are granted access to your personal data. 

Contact Us 

Please contact us via: 

EEB 

Rue des Deux Églises 14-16, B-1000 Brussels 

Belgium 

Tel: +32 2 289 10 90   

Or write to eeb@eeb.org 

Changes to This Policy 

Any changes we make to this privacy statement in the future will be posted to our website and also available if you contact us as set out above. Please check back frequently to see any changes. 

Cookies Policy 

We want to ensure that you enjoy browsing our website. To enhance your experience and collect information about your use of our site, we place “cookies” onto your computer. Cookies do not contain any information that personally identifies you, but personal information that we store about you may be linked, by us, to the information stored in and obtained from cookies. 

Use of Google Analytics 

EEB uses Google Analytics to gather visitors’ use of our website and analyse the data to help us maintain and improve the design of our website. Google Analytics generates statistical and other information about website use by means of cookies, which are stored on users’ computers. Google Analytics introduced Data Retention controls, giving organisations the ability to set the amount of time before user-level and event-level data stored by Google Analytics is automatically deleted from Analytics’ servers. For EEB, the Data Retention control for Google Analytics is set to 26 months.  

Use of Social Networks Sharing Buttons and Widgets 

We may embed widgets from Facebook, X, Instagram, LinkedIn and other social media on our website to provide an enhanced experience. These social networking 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.    

Data Subject Rights 

Under certain circumstances, you (data subject) have the right to: 

  • Request access to personal information (commonly known as a “data subject access request”). 
  • Request correction of personal information where it is inaccurate or incomplete. 
  • Object to processing of personal information where EEB is relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) to lawfully process that information. 
  • Request the restriction of processing of personal information. 
  • Request the transfer of personal information to another party. 

If a person wishes to make a request on any of the above grounds, they should email web@eeb.org with “Data Privacy” in the subject heading. 

List of websites managed by the EEB   

eeb.org, meta.eeb.org, metamag.org, eebconference.eu, zeromercury.org,  makeresourcescount.eu, sdgwatcheurope.org, makeeuropesustainableforall.org, sdgtoolkit.org, envjustice.org, digi-label.com, pocketwatt.eu, coolproducts.eu, greenbudget.eu, eurmc.org, euelections.eeb.org 

This list relates to actively managed sites controlled by the EEB. There are a small number of archived websites that are controlled by the EEB but are not actively managed and do not collect data.