Privacy Statement for FSC x UN-REDD Lower Mekong Initiative FSC Sustainable Tropical Timber Trade Network and Information Hub.

Disclaimer:

FSC Sustainable Tropical Timber Trade Network and Information Hub (‘Portal’) is an online open-content portal that is a voluntary initiative by combined efforts of FSC and FAO.

The structure of the project allows anyone with an internet connection to access the information shared. Please be advised that nothing found here has necessarily been reviewed by FSC staff to provide you with complete, accurate and reliable information.

Nothing in this Portal and nothing in FSCs statements shall be construed as a promise or guarantee about the outcome of your matter or your expectations.

All FSC comments about the outcomes of using this Portal are expressions of predictions only.

Introduction:

Thank you for accepting to register on the Portal for the FSC x UN-REDD Lower Mekong Initiative FSC Sustainable Tropical Timber Trade Network and Information Hub (hereinafter “Portal”). We at FSC Global Development GmbH (“FSC GD”) respect your privacy and want you to understand how we collect, use, and share personal data about you in compliance with applicable data protection laws in relation to the use of the Portal.

This Privacy Statement covers our data collection practices and describes your rights to access, correct, or restrict our use of your personal data. Except where we provide you a link to a different privacy statement or reference to other privacy documentation, this Privacy Statement applies when you register the Portal. By registering the Portal, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Statement.

Table of Contents:

1. Description

2. What Personal Data We Collect

3. How We Collect Your Personal Data

4. How We Use Your Personal Data

5. Who We Share Your Personal Data With

6. How Long We Keep Your Personal Data

7. Security

8. Your Rights

9. Cookies & Similar Technologies

10. How To Contact Us

11. Changes in our Privacy Statement

1. Description

The Portal aims to connect buyers and FSC-certified suppliers and to facilitate networking of such within the Asia Pacific region. (hereinafter “Purpose”)

FSC GD is the ´controller´ of the personal data you provide under the Purpose of this Privacy Statement and www.wix.com acts in a function of a ‘processor’ in performing the Purpose of this Privacy Statement.

2. What Personal Data We Collect

In order to fulfill the Purpose of this Privacy Statement, we may need to collect or store some personal data. The personal data we process can include the following:

Full name (title, first name, middle name, last name)
Company name
Contact person (e.g. name, position, mobile number)
Contact details (e.g. address)
Telephone number
Email
Email correspondence
Type of certification
Certificate number
License code
Product information including FSC-certified product types and trade names of the products

3. How We Collect Your Personal Data

We process personal data provided to us directly by you or through the Portal or follow-up communication. By filling out the Portal to provide us your consent in accordance with Art. 6 para 1 lit. a GDPR to process your personal data for the Purpose indicated in this privacy statement.

If the information you provided needs to be corrected, please, indicate the changes by sending the email to asiapacific@fsc.org.

4. How We Use Your Personal Data

We are not using your personal data for anything else beyond the Purpose or the processing described in this Privacy Statement.

In detail, we use your personal data to display on the Suppliers’ Search where other Portal users can also access.

5. Who We Share Your Personal Data With

All personal data we process for the Purpose of this Privacy Statement is processed by FSC Group staff and external staff for the purposes of described above.

If the personal data that we collect from you needs to be transferred to and processed by a processor based outside of the European Economic Area (EEA), we will take steps, such as including contractual clauses into our contracts with such processors or controllers, that would ensure that your personal data is safe and treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Statement. Other than that, we do not share the personal data with other third parties, unless described in this Privacy Statement or is required to do so by law.

6. How Long We Keep Your Personal Data

We will keep your personal data for 7 years following the de-registration from the Portal.

7. Security

We are committed to ensuring the privacy of your personal data. In order to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the personal data we collect online.

8. Your Rights

We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all your data protection rights. You are entitled to the following:

The right to access enables you to receive information on whether we process your personal data as well as a copy of the personal data we process about you.
The right to rectification enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate personal data we hold about you corrected, though we may need to verify the accuracy of the new personal data you provide to us.
The right to erasure enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is not a good reason or legitimate interest for us to continue to process it.
The right to restrict processing enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data under specific circumstances.
The right to data portability enables you to request that we provide you or a third party of your choosing with the personal data which you have provided to us (in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format).
The right to object enables you to object to our processing of your personal data where we rely on our legitimate interest as legal basis. In some cases, we may demonstrate that we have compelling legitimate grounds to process your personal data which override your rights and freedoms.
The right to make a complaint to the competent data protection authority. We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns so if you have any questions or concerns regarding our processing of your personal data please contact us at privacy@fsc.org.

If you would like to exercise one of your data protection rights, please do not hesitate to contact us at privacy@fsc.org or our Data Protection Officer at the contact details set out below.

9. How to Contact Us

If you have questions about this Privacy Statement, the personal data we hold on you, or you would like to exercise one of your data protection rights, please do not hesitate to contact us:

Email us at: privacy@fsc.org

Postal Address and further company details:

FSC Global Development GmbH,

Adenauerallee 134, 53113 Bonn, Germany

Phone: 0049 (0) 228 36766 0

Fax: 0049 (0) 228 36766 30

Managing Director: Kim Bering Becker Carstensen

Commercial register: Bonn HRB 15990

VAT-Ident-No: DE258067376

If you have a complaint about our use of your personal data, please contact our Data Protection Officer to address your complaint:

Scheja & Partner Rechtsanwälte

Mr. Boris Reibach

Adenauerallee 136, 53113 Bonn

Tel.: +49 (0) 228-227 226-0

Fax: +49 (0) 228-227 226-26

E-mail: info@scheja-partner.de

Contact form: http://www.scheja-partner.de/kontakt/kontakt.html

Website: www.scheja-partner.de

10. Changes to our Privacy Statement

We reserve the right to unilaterally change this Privacy Statement from time to time to ensure that it complies with current legal requirements or to implement changes to our Services in the Privacy Statement, for example, when introducing new services.

In this case FSC GD will send a notification regarding any changes to your email address which is known to FSC GD or indicate the update the Portal.

This Privacy Statement was last updated on 17 November 2022.