Privacy Policy

Privacy policy

This Privacy Statement provides an overview on which personal information will be collected from you when visiting the website, how this information will be processed and used.

Your personal data are processed in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of individuals regarding the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and Belgian Law of 30 July 2018 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data.

    1. What personal data do we collect?

The information collected, including personal and non-personal data, could include:

Via Mailchimp, Survey Monkey, Microsoft forms:

    • Individual name and surname,

    • Name of the organization (when corresponds)

    • Form interaction

    • Username,

    • Email address,

    • sex,

    • Country of residence

Via Matomo (see privacy policy):

    • IP address

    • User ID

    • Location of the user

    • Date and time

    • Title of the page being viewed

    • URL of the page being viewed

    • URL of the page that was viewed prior to the current page

    • Screen resolution

    • Time in local timezone

    • Files that were clicked and downloaded

    • Link clicks to an outside domain

    • Pages generation time

    • Country, region, city

    • Main Language of the browser

    • User Agent of the browser

You may choose to prevent this website from aggregating and analyzing the actions you take here. Doing so will protect your privacy, but will also prevent the owner from learning from your actions and creating a better experience for you and other users.

    1. How do we collect your data?

We collect your data and process data when you:

    • Visit our website

    • Subscribe to receive our news (by completing a Mailchimp form)

    • Complete a survey (on Survey Monkey or Microsoft Forms)

    1. How will we use your data?

The collection and subsequently processing of the personal information are necessary for the following purposes, specifically to:

    • Make relevant contents on the website and social media channels

    • Report on the progress of the project to funders

    • Share news about the project and related topics with you

    • Enable the interaction on the website (i.e., sharing function)

    1. What is the legal basis for the processing?

The individuals are invited to provide personal information through an online form. The legal basis for this processing operation is consent.

The processing of personal data with Matomo is based on legitimate interests: processing your personal data is helping us identify what is working on your website and what is not. For example, it helps us identify if the way we are communicating is engaging or not and how we can organize the structure of the website better. Your data will be used only to improve the user experience on our website.

You can withdraw your consent at any time until one month before the end of the project, by writing an email to the following address: info@zerohiddenhungereu.com, however that will not affect the lawfulness of the processing of your personal data prior to such withdrawal.

    1. How do we store your data?

Your data is securely stored by EUFIC on a password-protected server in France. Only authorized people can access the information.

Your data will be stored until the end of the project (31 December 2027). Once this time period has expired your data will be deleted.

    1. Who is responsible for the data processing?

The Controller for this processing operation is the Zero Hidden Hunger EU project partner EUFIC.

    1. Recipients of personal data

Only defined EUFIC staff working on the EUFIC project are allowed to process personal information. Other project partners are able to access data for specific reasons (e.g., circulation of information) related to the project. However, they are only able to access specific criteria, e.g., email addresses and first name.

All recipients of the data are reminded of their obligation not to use data for any further purpose other.

The personal information collected will not be communicated to third parties, except where necessary for the purposes outlined and to the entities identified above or otherwise specified.

The collection and part of the processing of personal information are carried out through:

You may choose to prevent this website from aggregating and analysing the actions you take here. Doing so will protect your privacy but will also prevent the owner from learning from your actions and creating a better experience for you and other users.

    1. Social media interactions

The Zero Hidden Hunger EU website integrates social media interactions allowing project website content to be shared on social media platforms and related actions. Using these interactions, your personal data may be shared with a wide audience including, in some cases, those who are not logged on to the social media selected. However, these data will always be anonymized.

The applicable data protection provisions of the social media integrated in the Zero Hidden Hunger EU website can be accessed under the following links:

    1. Will the personal data be transferred to countries outside the European Economic Area without an adequate level of data protection?

Part of the collection and processing of personal information are carried out through ‘MailChimp’ a platform provided by the Rocket Science Group LLC, an American company. Adequate safeguards have been adopted as required by law through standard contractual clauses (SCCs).

The Zero Hidden Hunger EU website contains links to other websites. Our privacy policy applies only to our website, so if you click on a link to another website, you should read their privacy policy.

    1. What are your data protection rights?

You have the right to access your personal data, which is the right to obtain confirmation about your data processed by EUFIC and the right to rectification of any inaccurate or incomplete personal data. You have also the right to object or restrict to the processing or request the removal of your personal data, which will be implemented as soon as your specific request will have been deemed legitimate. You have the right to withdraw consent, which can be exercised by writing to the data controller. Withdrawing consent will not affect the lawfulness of the processing of your personal data prior to the withdrawal.

If you have any queries concerning the processing of your personal data, you may address them to the data Controllers. You will find the address in the section ‘Contacts’ below.

    1. Changes to our privacy policy

Zero Hidden Hunger EU keeps its privacy policy under regular review and places any updates on this web page. This privacy policy was last updated on April 30th 2024

    1. Contacts

All your requests concerning your data protection rights should be addressed to:

European Food Information Council (EUFIC)

Rue Belliard 2A, 1040 Brussels, Belgium

Debora Serra (debora.serra@eufic.org)

You have at any time the right to lodge a complaint to the Belgian data protection authority at:

Autorité de protection des données

Rue de la Presse 35, 1000 Brussels, Belgium

contact@apd-gba.be.