Last updated: May 25, 2018
European Association for Secure Transactions (Global) Ltd and hereinafter known as ‘EAST’ is committed to safeguarding the data privacy of our users while providing the highest possible quality of service. Under the terms of the Data Protection legislation, we are required to explain to you how we will treat any personal and/or private data which we collect from you.
Founded in February 2004 as the European ATM Security Team, EAST became the European Association for Secure Transactions in June 2017. EAST is a non-profit organisation which has set up a framework network structure to improve cooperation with industry and law enforcement in order to achieve increased awareness and better results in the fight against organised cross-border crime. EAST National Members represent 35 countries.
In this Data Privacy Notice references to we, us and our, are to EAST. References to our Website or the Website are to https://www.association-secure-transactions.eu.
As an international membership organisation EAST has active teams and working groups and, as such, there is a requirement to obtain, use, record and store personal data from both within and outside the European Economic Area (EEA). In order for EAST to operate effectively, designated staff from EAST member organisations need to be able to contact each other. Certain information, with the consent of those affected, is stored on a secure platform on this website (the EAST Intranet).
The information we collect via the Website and through emails and other correspondence may include:
Any personal information we collect from this website, and through emails and other correspondence, will be used in accordance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other applicable laws. The details we collect will be used:
EAST takes reasonable steps to ensure that personal data held is kept accurate and up to date. Your personal data will be held by us until you unsubscribe from our EAST Monthly Updates and/or, if registered through a member organisation, until we receive an instruction from you to remove you from the relevant list of authorised persons, or until we are instructed to remove it by that organisation, or until that organisation ceases to be a member of EAST.
You have the right to request a copy of any information that we currently hold about you. In order to receive such information please email our Data Controller at coordinator@eas-team.eu or fill in the form at https://www.association-secure-transactions.eu/contact/ putting ‘Data Privacy’ in the subject field. Before supplying any information to you, our Data Controller will always verify your identity. There is normally no charge for this. In certain circumstances we reserve the right to make a small charge to cover administration expenses when handling such requests.
This Data Privacy Notice only covers this website. Any other websites which may be linked to by our website are subject to their own policy, which may differ from ours. In such cases we urge you to be careful when you enter any personal information online. EAST accepts no responsibility or liability for these sites. EAST provides these links to you only as a convenience and the inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement of the site by EAST.
EAST operates in accordance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which describes how organisations must collect, handle and store personal information. As part of normal operations some personal data is necessarily shared by EAST with other organisations for the specific purposes of ensuring that all member administrative procedures are followed, and to allow for the proper organisation and administration of EAST events. In all cases such information is shared by EAST under the strict proviso that these organisations are fully compliant with GDPR in all respects.
A ‘cookie’ is a piece of information, like a tag, which some websites create against your PC. EAST uses cookies to provide a higher level of service to its customers. When someone visits our Website we collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behaviour patterns. We do this to find out things such as the number of visitors to the various parts of the site. We collect this information in a way which does not not identify anyone. We do not make any attempt to find out identities of those visiting our Website. We do not associate any data gathered from this site with any personally identifying information from any source. If we do want to collect personally identifiable information through our Website, we will be up front about this. We make it clear we collect personal information and will explain what we intend to do with it.
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