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Bosta Privacy Policy

Version 30/10/2019
Only The Dutch version is binding

Content

1 Your privacy is important

2 Your right to privacy

3 Why do we want to process your personal data?

4. Which personal data do we process and for what purposes?

5. About sharing and storing your personal data

1 Your privacy is important

Your privacy is important to us. We aim to process your personal data with integrity and in a legal, correct and transparent way. In this document, our privacy policy, we explain how the processing is done and which personal data are involved. The term processing includes collecting, recording, organizing, storing, updating, modifying, retrieving, consulting, using, distributing, or making available, compiling, combining, archiving, deleting or ultimately destroying in any way.

We are referring to you as a customer of our company, as a prospective customer, as a visitor of Bosta’s Paper Show fair, as a beneficiary, or to another concerned party or a person within another organization that has dealings with us.

1.1. Preliminary remarks

We advise you to read this document carefully, so you know why and for what purposes we process your personal data. It also lists your rights and how to exercise them.

We may adjust our privacy policy. The most recent version can be retrieved from our website.

1.2 Who processes your data? Who are we?

BOSTA VZW is a non-profit association active in the Belgian Business to Business industry with registered offices at Bruyndonckxstraat 31/B1 te 1780 Wemmel and VAT number BE 0425.419.729. Bosta is responsible for processing your personal data.

1.3 How can you reach us?

If you have any questions about your privacy or you want to change your privacy settings or exercise your right, you can contact us via regular mail at the address of our registered offices (see 1.2) or via mail using the dedicated web form on our website.

1.4 The leading supervisory authority of BOSTA VZW

For BOSTA VZW, the Belgian supervisory authority is the leading authority:

Data protection authority

Drukpersstraat 35, 1000 Brussels

+32 (0)2 274 48 00 / Contact@apd-gba.be

2 Your right to privacy

You have many rights when it comes to processing your personal data. When BOSTA VZW requests your permission, you can always revoke that permission.

The implementation of your rights in our systems and procedures takes place no later than 30 days after receiving your application. If for any reason this term cannot be met, we will inform you before the expiry of the original period.

2.1 Right of access

You have the right to view the personal data we process about you, the purpose of their processing, where we have retrieved the data and who receives the data.

You can also find out how long we keep the data, whether the data is used in automated decision-making or whether we intend to send data to a country outside the European Union.

We will supply the requested information in writing or digitally within a reasonable time.

2.2 Right to rectification/completion

It is possible that the data we process from you is not or no longer accurate. You can always request to have the incorrect data rectified or supplemented with the missing data.

2.3 Right to erasure

If you believe we have no legitimate reason for processing the personal data, you may request these personal data to be erased. This request for the deletion of personal data may be refused by BOSTA, when justified. For example when exercising or substantiating a legal claim or because of a legal obligation to maintain records of certain data.

2.4 Right to restriction of processing

2.5 Right to lodge a complaint

You have the right to lodge a complaint against the processing of your personal data, including profiling. Processing is stopped immediately, unless it is required for compliance with social and fiscal legislation, for representing the interests of a third party or lodging, exercising or substantiating of a legal claim.

2.6 Right to data portability

You have the right to request your personal data to be transmitted directly to a third party.

2.7 Right to lodge a complaint

If you do not agree with our point of view, you can address the Belgian Data Protection Authority, where you can also lodge a complaint. The contact details can be found in 1.4.

2.8 Identification of the applicant

You can exercise the implementation of your rights to the processing of your personal data by written request to the address of our registered offices.

In exercising your rights always be as a specific as possible. This will allow us to process your request correctly. To prevent someone else from exercising your rights, we need to verify your identity as best we can. The application should therefore always contain a document that proves that the identity of the applicant matches your identity. You can do this by attaching a copy of your identity card to the application. Make sure, however, that the photo and number on your identity card (etc.) have been blacked out, for privacy protection reasons.

If we believe the submitted document does not provide sufficient proof, you will be informed of this. We reserve the right not to respond to the request until sufficient evidence has been submitted.

3 Why do we want to process your personal data?

3.1 BOSTA VZW is required to comply with legal obligations

We are legally required to process your personal data in specific cases. We list the most important ones below:

• Tax law

• Commercial law

• We may be compelled to provide personal data to the authorities or other third parties. For example when we are legally required to or for the performance of a public service task.

3.2 BOSTA VZW must be able to execute its contract with you

As a member you call on our services. To guarantee the correct execution of our agreement, we have to process and manage these contracts for administration, accounting and operational purposes.

This also applies when you’re a client and/or supplier of BOSTA VZW. In this case, too, we need to respect the contract and process and manage the suppliers for administration, accounting and operational purposes.

3.3 BOSTA VZW must be able to function as a company with respect to the organization of events and communication

As a membership organization and as organizer of the professional fair the” Bosta Paper Show”, we have a number of legitimate interests that form the basis for the processing of personal data. We strive to maintain a good balance between your right to privacy and the legitimate interests of BOSTA VZW. Should you still have objections to the processing on this basis, you may lodge a complaint against this processing.

We strive to maintain a good balance between your right to privacy and the legitimate interests of BOSTA VZW. Should you still have objections to the processing on this basis, you may lodge a complaint against this processing

Every year BOSTA VZW organizes a trade show, the Bosta Paper Show, which aims to bring together its members with professional customers, prospects and suspects. By participating you have shown an interest for this fair and her exhibitors. The collection and the processing of your personal data is only done with the purpose of organizing a safe and interesting fair for you as a visitor and sharing this data with exhibitors is done from the principle of your legitimate interest. This includes sharing your data with third parties who are delivering services or organizing communication for Bosta, the “Paper Show” and your visit to these fairs.

During fairs, member meetings and trainings organized by Bosta it is possible that photos, taken to capture the mood at these events, may appear on the website. It is also possible that a participant or visitor of these events appears recognizably in these photographs. We process these personal data as part of our company’s legitimate business interest. In case you do not want a photograph on which you appear to be published on our website, please let us know. We will then remove this photograph from our website.

4. Which personal data do we process and for what purposes?

4.1. From our business relations

Our business relations are our customers and the exhibitors of the Bosta Paper Show fair, suppliers and prospects. BOSTA VZW processes the personal data of the staff of suppliers, customers and visitors with whom she does business with or has contact with. The purpose for this processing is to provide information about our services, the organization of the Paper Show and to maintain business relationships.

To contact and identify your within the framework of our customer and supplier management, we process the following data: name, first name, address, title, phone and/or mobile phone number, language, e-mail address, VAT and bank account number.

4.2. From our members

Our members are companies that are active in the school and office supplies industry To identify you and communicate with you as a member, we process the following personal data: name, first name, address, title, phone number, mobile phone number, e-mail address, VAT number and bank account number. These data also appear on our website where they have been published with your permission, obviously.

4.3. From the visitors of the Bosta Paper Show

Persons who wants to visit the Bosta Paper Show fair, meetings or trainings of Bosta can register for participation. With this registration, we gather your gender, function, name, surname, email address, phone number and mobile phone number.

4.4 From our prospective members

On a regular basis we screen companies active in our industry in our region. BOSTA VZW approaches non-member companies to become part of the organization.

We process the following personal data of these prospective members: name, first name, phone and/or mobile phone number, e-mail address and title, language, VAT and bank account number.

4.5. From the users of our websites

BOSTA VZW manages this informative website. Its purpose is to better coordinate the supply and demand of sustainable, environmentally friendly office and school supplies. Registered and other users can store their favorite products, download information about these favorites and contact a manufacturer or importer’s contact person directly. We only send news to registered users, unless they have unsubscribed from the newsletter.

For that purpose, we process the following personal data: name, e-mail address and function within the registered user’s / user's organization

5. About sharing and storing your personal data

5.1. With whom do we share your personal data?

We only share your data with persons who have received our explicit permission, if they need this information to perform their tasks. These persons will process your data pursuant to the agreement under which we have received them from you.

We share the data gathered during the visitor registration process of the Bosta Paper Show fair, both from the preregistrations as from the registration on site.

To organize the fair as visitors can expect from us we share the personal data of visitors with staff of the exhibitors, and with other third parties such as, but not limited to; EasyFairs International, Advanced Fair and Professional Media Group.

We will never share your personal data with other parties than those mentioned above to use them for their own commercial benefit.

We rely on various processing companies for the processing of personal data. These are our subcontractors who process personal data at our request. And they will not use the received personal data from our visitors for their own commercial purposes. BOSTA VZW only works with processing companies who can guarantee the same level of technical and operational safety.

We will only share your data if we are required to do so by law or government order.

5.2. We do not store your data indefinitely

BOSTA VZW uses your personal data with a very clear and specific purpose. When this goal has been achieved, the data are erased.

The starting point for maintaining your personal data is the legal retention period.

Initially, we store the personal data of customers, suppliers, prospects and registered users for a period of 10 years. If there has been a new contact within this period, another 10-year period begins from that point onwards.

We keep records of visitors of the Bosta Paper Show for a period of 18 months after the end of the fair.

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