GDPR

Declaration on the protection of Personal data General Data Protection Regulation – GDPR

1. Preliminary Provisions

The General Data Protection Regulation – GDPR (Regulation EU 2016/679 of 27 April 2016) – containsprovisions for managing, Processing and more effectively securing the Personal data of Europeancitizens.
When performing Contracts entrusted to it by its clients, Co-mana processes the Personal datacommunicated to it by its clients and/or by Participants in the Events which it organises.Most of the Processing is carried out by Co-mana as a Processor since it processes Personal data underinstructions it receives from the client who is the Controller. Co-mana may also act as Controller where it has itself defined the purposes of the Processing operations.

2. Purpose

The purpose of this Declaration is to define the terms and conditions applicable to the Processing byCo-mana of the Personal data entrusted to it by Participants and/or its clients.

3. Definitions

In this Declaration, the terms below have the following meanings assigned to them:

Contract: the formal or informal request received by Co-mana from its client to organise an
Event;
GDPR: Regulation 2016/679 of 27/04/2016 by the European Parliament and the Council;
Event: any Event organised by the client who subcontracts all or part of it to Co-mana on thebasis of a Contract, and bringing together Participants who have voluntarily manifested theirdesire to take part in it;
Participant: any natural person who has expressed his interest in participating in or in beinginformed of the existence of an Event organised by the client and who agrees to supplyPersonal data for the purpose of having it processed in order to facilitate the communicationof information regarding the Event and/or his presence at it;
Registration website: a website dedicated to the collection of data on Participants for a given Event;
Processing: any operation or set of operations which is performed on Personal data or on setsof Personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording,organisation, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use,disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment orcombination, restriction, erasure or destruction;
Personal data: any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘datasubject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, inparticular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic,mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person;
Controller: the natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which, alone orjointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the Processing of Personal data;where the purposes and means of such Processing are determined by Union or Member Statelaw, the Controller or the specific criteria for its nomination may be provided for by Union orMember State law;
Processor: a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which processes Personal data on behalf of the Controller.

4. The categories of Personal data processed by Co-mana

The Personal data processed by Co-mana is only that of Participants as supplied by them through the Registration website or by the client.

The categories of data are as follows:

Identification data: name, forename, address, passport number, date of birth, nationality, telephone number, mobile phone number, email address, …
Job data: company, position, …
Travel data: departure and arrival airports, airline company, flight schedule, name of the hotel, number of nights, …
Accounting and financial data: bank account numbers, VAT number, credit card details, participation fees, reimbursement class, …
Private life data: diet, shared accommodation, relevant medical data (allergies, …), contacts in case of emergency, dependent children, …

5. Nature and purpose of Processing

The nature and purpose of the Processing carried out by Co-mana are solely to enable it to organise the Event for which the data has been collected.
Co-mana undertakes to process the Personal data of Participants only, and insofar as is necessary, for the purpose of carrying out the services described in the Contract with its client. Unless expressly agreed otherwise beforehand and in writing by the Participant and the client, Co-mana shall refrain from Processing the data for any other purpose. Where Co-mana carries out the Processing in pursuit of legitimate interests, it shall satisfy itself that the interests or basic rights and freedoms of the data subject do not prevail over the legitimate interests it seeks to pursue.

6. Duration of the Processing The Processing of the data shall be carried out throughout the duration of the Contract.

7. Storage and erasure of Personal data Co-mana will store Personal data throughout the duration of the Contract.

At the end of the Contract, Co-mana will erase all Personal data or render it anonymous after the expiry of storage periods imposed by law and relevant periods of limitation.

8. Data Protection Officer

The Data Protection Officer of Co-mana is:
Eric VANDEN BORRE
S&F Director
Co-mana sprl
Rue Ortelius, 22
1000 Brussels
eric@co-mana.com

9. Security of Personal data

Co-mana carries out all necessary technical and organisational measures to ensure the security of any Personal data entrusted to it, and in particular:

Ensuring user awareness
Authentication and authorisation of users
Access management and incident management
Rendering workstations secure
Protection of the internal data network
Security of servers
Security of the websites
Ongoing updates of infrastructure security
Maintenance and planning for the continuation of the business
Secure and validated archiving
Secure physical access to data
Control of data storage and erasure
Management of subcontractors
Secure exchanges with other bodies
Protection of premises
Control of data Processing developments
Use of encryption.

10. The rights of data subjects

Data subjects have the following rights:

right to access
right to rectification
right to erasure or to be forgotten
right to restriction of Processing
right to objection
right to data portability.

Data subjects also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Data Protection Authority regarding the application of the provisions contained in the GDPR.

11. Obligations of Co-mana as a Processor

11.1 As a Processor, Co-mana will process data only according to documented instructions from the Controller. The Contract constitutes the documented instructions which the client hands Co-mana concerning the Processing of Personal data.
If Co-mana considers that such an instruction infringes the European Regulation or other Union or
Member State data protection provisions, he will immediately inform the Controller.

11.2 Co-mana undertakes to process Personal data in total secrecy. To that end it informs the members of its staff of their obligations regarding Personal data and guarantees that the persons authorised to process such data are bound by an obligation of secrecy.

11.3 At the request of the client and, given the nature of the Processing and the information to
which Co-mana is privy, Co-mana will assist the client to:
– implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to guarantee a level of security
that is appropriate to the risk,
– notify, if necessary, any violations of Personal data to the Supervisory Authority and/or the
data subject,
– carry out, where necessary, an assessment of the impact of Processing Personal data and to
consult the supervisory authority in advance.

11.4 Co-mana will notify the client and the Participant concerned of any violation of Personal data occurring in the Processing procedure covered by the Contract and will do so as soon as possible once the violation has come to its attention.

11.5 Co-mana will make available all information necessary to demonstrate its compliance with the obligations laid down in Article 28 of the GDPR.
11.6 Where it is informed by the client, Co-mana will, given the nature of the Processing and the information to which it is privy, assist the client insofar as is possible to meet its obligation to respond to requests it receives from data subjects exercising their rights.

12. Recourse to subcontracting Processors

Co-mana may subcontract specific data collection or Processing activities to other Processors. In so doing it shall call only on Processors who offer sufficient guarantees of being able to comply with the provisions of the GDPR and who in particular have the necessary technical and organisational measures in place.
The client is hereby informed that Co-mana calls on the services of several subcontractors to meet its contractual obligations and perform the services agreed, and gives its consent to Co-mana seeking recourse to the following:

Evenium
Ardeson
Cvent
Event-O-Planner
Eventtia
Big Marker
StreamYard
Zoom
Teams
Hopin
MeetSyS
EventMobi

(The list of platforms given is non-exhaustive and should not be regarded as final since solutions may evolve or other become available.)

The client gives Co-mana a general authority to resort to other subcontractors and/or replace existing subcontractors.
The client and the Participants are informed that, depending on the subcontracting Processor used, data could be stored on servers located in countries outside the European Union. The Participants are informed that, depending on the nationality of the client, data could be transferred to countries outside the European Union.