Privacy Policy

Global PPS, the one responsible for the processing of your data on this site, respects the Belgian Law of 8 december 1992, relating to the protection of your private life, in the processing of personal details and respects the EU law concerning the protection of natural persons’ personal details and the ability to be forgotten (guideline 95/46/EG).

Global PPS has it’s office in University of Antwerp, Universiteitsplein 1, 2610 Antwerpen and can be reached by mailing global-PPS@uantwerpen.be .Further on, Global PPS will be called ‘us’ or ‘we’.

In this statement (afterwards called ‘Privacy Policy’), we let you know which data we track when you use our website, why we track it and how we use this to improve your user experience. This way you know exactly how we work.

This Privacy Policy is applicable to our website (i) Global PPS (afterwards called (the website’), (ii) our services, and (iii) on the sharing of media posts from Global PPS. (Point (i) and (ii) are called will be called ‘the services’ after this.

The use of our website, or one or more services offered by Global PPS, as well as the sharing of media posts by Global PPS, implies your express approval (by means of personal data opt-in) of this Privacy Policy and thus the way in which we track, use and store your data, (where there is no further permission required by law. )

In this policy, personal information means information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. An identifiable person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, and online identifier or to one or more factors specific to his/her physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity.

What personal information is held about you and how do we use it?

Website Global PPS

First name;
Last name;
Email address;

We do not collect sensitive information (such as there is, but not limited to; racial data, medical data, ethnic origin, beliefs, criminal record, sexual orientation,…) when needed, we’ll ask express permission to collect and use this data.
Other personal data we track handle your use of our website:
Log information:
IP address,
Browser-info,
External page you came from,
Pages visited on this website,
Arrival and time spent on website,
Device data: we can see with which device you visited our website.

Use of personal data:

– Handling of the requested information

– Direct marketing

– Processing of questions

– Executing our services

– Assembling user statistics

– Securing en improving our Services

– Visitor administration

This personal information:

Will be used to carry out obligations arising from being a registered user of our services. The lawful basis for processing personal information for this purpose will be “Contractual Need”.
Will be used to send you personalised communications which you have requested or may be of interest to you. These may include information about publications, webinars, events, surveys, service developments. The lawful basis for processing personal information for this purpose will be “Legitimate Interest”.
Will be used to carry out obligations arising from being a subscribed reader of our publication/s. The lawful basis for processing personal information for this purpose will be “Legitimate Interest”.
Will be used to send you personalised communications which you have requested or may be of interest to you. These may include information about publications, webinars, events, surveys, service developments. The lawful basis for processing personal information for this purpose will be “Legitimate Interest”.

Disclosing personal data to third parties:

We don’t share your personal data with third party, unless it’s needed to provide a service to you. If, in this framework, Global PPS has to share your personal data with third parties, this party is obligated to use it in accordance with the provisions in this Privacy Policy.

It is, however, possible that Global PPS shares your information with the authorities (i) when we are obligated to do so by law or in the context of a judicial or future judicial procedure and (ii) to safeguard and enforce our laws.

Global PPS will not sell, rent out or give your data to third parties, unless there’s a data processing agreement, with this party, that contains the necessary guarantees concerning confidentiality and privacy of you personal data.

Storage of personal data

Global PPS will store your data for a period of 10 years (or for the duration of contract), unless when there’s a longer storage period needed or justified by (i) law or (ii) by the compliance of another legal obligation. This period is necessary to achieve and fulfill the goals, described in this Privacy Policy under ‘use of personal data’. We commit us, however, to use a shorter storage period when this 10 year storage is not required.

Your privacy rights:

When you wish to invoke your privacy rights, as described below, please contact us at global-PPS@uantwerpen.be

– Right to access the personal data Global PPS might have on you

– Right to rectify, complete or update your personal data

– Right to be forgotten

– Right to a restriction on the processing of your personal data

– Right to transferability of your personal data

– Right of objection / opposition to the processing of your personal data

– Right of objection / opposition to automated decision-making and profiling.

– Right of objection / opposition to direct marketing practices

You can invoke these rights by sending us a mail at Global PPS or by using the contact form on our website.

Securing your personal data

Global PPS obligates itself to take reasonable, physical, technological and organizational precautions with a view to preventing (i) unauthorized access to your personal data, as well as (ii) loss, misuse or alteration of your personal data.

Global PPS will store all of the personal data processed on a secure server in the European Union.

Notwithstanding our safety policy, the controls that we perform and the actions we take in this context, an infallible level of security can not be guaranteed. No method of transfer or retransmission via the Internet nor any method of electronic storage is 100% secure, so we can not guarantee absolute security in this context.

The visitor acknowledges that possible direct or indirect damage that he or she might suffer as a result of illegal or unlawful use of his or her personal data by third parties who have no permission to do so, can not be blamed on Global PPS. Nor can Global PPS be held accountable as long as it’s not due to a gross error or deceit by Global PPS.

New regulations require us to inform both you and the Privacy Commission as quickly as possible in such situations, here defined as data leaks. For more information, please visit:

https://gdpr.wolterskluwer.be/nl/nieuws/datalekken-in-de-gdpr/ .

Cross-border processing of personal data

All personal data collected by us will only be processed and stored in Belgium or another EU-country. By such, there is no cross-border transmission or processing of your personal data.

Copyright

The content of this site is protected by copyright. This copyright rests with Global PPS, it’s clients and partners. All rights reserved. Information from the website (including, but not limited to; text, illustrations, presentations, pictures, sounds,…) cannot be copied, scattered or saved without written consent by Global PPS. Changes to the content of the site are forbidden.

Update Privacy Policy:

This Privacy Statement is tailored to the use of the Services. Any adjustments and / or changes to any of our Services may result in changes to this Privacy Statement. We are entitled to update this Privacy Statement by posting a new version on the Website. It is therefore advisable to regularly consult this Privacy Statement.

Use of cookies:

Our site uses cookies. A cookie is a text file that our server places in the browser of your computer or mobile device when you consult our website. The cookie contains a unique code that allows us to recognize your browser during the visit to our website (a so-called ‘session’ cookie) or during subsequent, repeated visits (a so-called ‘permanent’ cookie). Cookies can be placed by our servers or by one of our partners with whom our website cooperates. Our server can only read the cookies it places itself and has no access to other information on your computer or device.

Cookies make the interaction between the visitor and our Website easier and faster and help the visitor to navigate between the different parts of our Website. Cookies may contain information about the elements of our Website that you have clicked on. Some of the cookies on our website are necessary for the correct functioning of the website.

You can always remove cookies and refuse the placing of new cookies via the browser settings on your computer. How to do this differs per browser. If necessary, you can consult the help function of your browser.

We use this information to keep track of how you use our Website, to compile reports on website activity and to offer other services relating to website activity and internet use.

Below you will find the cookies you have agreed to by clicking on the OK button of the cookie notice. Our website also uses other cookies for which we do not have to request explicit consent according to current EU legislation. More information can be found here: http://ec.europa.eu/ipg/basics/legal/cookies/index_en.htm

Google Analytics Tracking

We can collect information about your computer, such as your IP address, operating system and browser type. This information is collected for system administration and for formatting reports. It only concerns statistical data on browsing actions and patterns, these data do not identify you as an individual.

On this site we make use of cookies associated with Google Analytics. Google Analytics is a web analysis tool that helps us understand how visitors use the site. We use this information only to find out how we can further improve the site. In the future, we may also use this information to place certain advertisements on our site that are appropriate to your interests. (Name cookie: doubleclick.net).

Cookies contain information that is stored on the hard drive of your computer. These cookies are used to store information, such as the time at which a visit was made to the site, if the user has already visited the site before and / or through which site the user landed on our site. In addition, we can use the target group analysis to see what interests the group of people who visit our site share and what other interests this target group has so that we can better adjust our content to the target group in the future.

Google Analytics collects information anonymously. It reports website trends without identifying the individual visitors. If you do not want Google Analytics to analyze your online behavior, you can download a plug-in here to prevent this: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Installing the plugin has no effects on how you experience the site

For more detailed information about Google Analytics you can visit:

https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage

Global PPS

Global PPS runs on open source wordpress software. To make your browsing experience more enjoyable, information about the site is saved via cookies on the hard drive of your PC.

Specifically, this involves storing certain cache files. These ensure that, on multiple visits, the whole site does not have to be loaded every time, only the recent changes are loaded. This also means that you do not have to accept (or refuse) the cookie notice pop-up at each visit.

Third party cookies

Facebook, Instagram and Google Analytics can use a third party for analysing and collecting your data. Business partners of these companies can place third party cookies on your device. This cookies can be used to advertise products and services to you, at other places on the internet.

You can visit these sites to know more about how these ‘third-party’-cookies work, what kind of information they keep on you, how this information is used and how to make sure that your privacy remains unsullied.

The Network Advertising Initiative => http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp

The Digital Advertising Alliance => http://www.aboutads.info/ .

The European Digital Advertising Alliance => http://youronlinechoices.be/ .
Facebook cookie policy => https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies/
Instagram cookie policy => https://help.instagram.com/1896641480634370?ref=ig

Other websites:

Our services can contain hyperlinks to other websites. You should be aware that Global PPS can not be held responsible for the privacy policy of these third parties.

Complaints:

When you have complaints about the way we track,use and/or process your data, you can submit a complaint at the Privacy Commision.

Contact

When you have questions about this Privacy Policy, you can contact us at global-PPS@uantwerpen.be

Global PPS will occasionally update this Privacy Policy to reflect company and customer feedback. Global PPS encourages you to periodically review this policy to be informed of how Global PPS is protecting your information. You can do that directly on the Global PPS website