1. INTRODUCTION

This Privacy and Cookie Policy informs you about the ways your personal data is collected, stored and used by EGBA, and how you can exercise your rights.

EGBA is a non-profit association and we do not use any of your personal data for commercial marketing and/or commercial purposes.

All personal data that you provide us via this website is processed in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679(“GDPR”).

 

2. DEFINITIONS

In this policy the following terms shall have the following meanings:

“EGBA/we/us/our” means the European Gaming and Betting Association (EGBA) located in Avenue de Broqueville 12, 1150 Brussels, Belgium;
“Personal data” means any information relating to an identified or identifiable individual;
“You” means you, the person engaging with us, for example by visiting this website, contacting us, or interacting with us in any other way;
“Cookie” cookies are small text files placed on your web browser by websites that you visit while browsing the Internet;
“Communications” means any internal or external communications made by EGBA;
“Web Site” means this website www.safergambling.eu and any sub-domains of this site, unless expressly excluded by their own terms and conditions.

 

3. HOW TO CONTACT US

Avenue de Broqueville 12, 1150 Brussels, Belgium.

Email: egba@egba.eu

 

4. INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT ABOUT YOU

Personal data that we may collect and use includes the following:

  • Your name and contact information, including email address and telephone number, job title and company details including your address;
  • We will collect any information contained in any correspondence between you and us via the website, emails, telephone calls, or any other means;
  • We may collect information about you visiting our website. This may include your IP address, geographical location, device information, browser type, operating system. This information may be collected by a third party website analytics service provider on our behalf and/or may be collected using cookies;
  • Any information you provide when contacting us through a website contact form or point, or “request the graphics” link.

 

5. HOW AND WHY WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

The GDPR allows us to process your personal information only if we have a proper reason for doing so, e.g.:

  • when you consent to the processing of your personal data;
  • to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations;
  • for the performance of our contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract;
  • for our legitimate interests or those of a third party.

A legitimate interest is when we have a business reason to use your information, so long as this is not overridden by your own rights and interests.

EGBA considers as legitimate interests: to inform you and keep in contact with you about industry news and regulatory developments that we believe may be of interest you and; to contact you with information about events organised by EGBA.

EGBA does not use your information for commercial purposes.

EGBA does not use any type of automated decision-making affecting your personal data.

EGBA does not disclose your personal data, except as described in this Privacy Policy.

We may use your information for the following purposes:

  • to provide you with services or information that you have requested from EGBA such as receiving an email, newsletter or press release;
  • to contact you with information about an event organised by EGBA;
  • to inform you and keep in contact with you about other events or services that we believe may interest you;
  • to perform statistical analyses of users of the website to improve the user’s experience.

For these purposes, we will keep your personal data for as long as necessary to provide you with the information and services described above or for as long as we are legally obliged to do so.

You can always withdraw your previously granted consent; however, this will not invalidate any previously consented processing.

Moreover, you have the right to opt out of receiving our general communications at any time by:

This will not prevent us contacting you in relation to administrative issues or regarding a specific request that you have made.

 

6. WHO WE MIGHT SHARE YOUR INFORMATION WITH

For the provision of our internal and external services, we make data accessible to third party service providers (e.g. distribution mailing services, website hosts). In the case in which the third party is located outside of EU, we will take measures to ensure it is protected to the same standards as it would be within the EU by relying on one of the following:

  • The country that is receiving your Personal Data has been found by the European Commission to offer the same level of protection as the EEA. More information can be found on the European Commission Justice website;
  • We will use contracts that require the recipient to protect your Personal Data to the same standards as it would be within the EEA.

 

7. SECURITY

Data security is of great importance to EGBA and to protect data we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure data collected, in accordance with the applicable laws.

 

8. YOUR RIGHTS

Under the GDPR, you have the following rights:

  • The right to be provided with a copy of your personal information (right of access);
  • The right to require us to correct any mistakes in your personal information;
  • The right to require us to delete your personal information in certain situations;
  • The right to require us to restrict processing of your personal information in certain circumstances, e.g. if you contest the accuracy of the data;
  • The right to receive the personal information you provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and/or transmit that data to a third party in certain situations;
  • The right to object (i) at any time to your personal information being processed for direct marketing (including profiling) and (ii) in certain other situations to our continued processing of your personal information, e.g. processing carried out for the purpose of our legitimate interests.
  • The right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing (including profiling) that produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you.
  • The right to propose a complaint to the Belgium supervisory authority, the Commission for the Protection of Privacy, where the conditions exist.

Requests to exercise the rights referred above are to be sent to egba@egba.eu.

 

9. COOKIES

EGBA uses cookies to automatically collect information about website users when they navigate on our website.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files placed on your computer or mobile device by websites you visit. They are widely used to make websites work or improve the efficiency of a website. Cookies help with website functionality and user experience because websites can read and write to these text files, enabling the site to recognise you and remember important information that will make your use of the site more convenient.

Types of cookies we use

  • Strictly necessary cookies

These cookies are essential for our website to function properly, enable you to navigate the site, and for you to use certain site functions.

  • Forms related cookies

When you submit data through a form, such as those found on contact pages or comment forms, cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.

  • Analytics cookies

These cookies help us understand how visitors use our website, such as which pages are most visited. We use this information to improve our website and user experience. We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors use our website. This helps us improve the website and ensure safer gambling information reaches those who need it. You can learn more about how Google Analytics uses your data by visiting Google Analytic’s privacy policy.

How we obtain consent

When you first visit our website, a cookie banner will appear asking you to consent to non-essential cookies. You can choose to:

  • Accept all cookies.
  • Reject all cookies (except those strictly necessary).
  • Manage your preferences.

Your consent preferences are stored and can be changed at any time by clicking “Cookie Settings” on the page.

Disabling cookies

You can enable, disable, or delete cookies through your internet browser. To do so, follow the instructions provided by your browser. For information about how to change your cookie preferences or disable cookies altogether, visit: https://allaboutcookies.org/managecookies/index.html.

 

10. CHANGES TO THIS POLICY

EGBA reserves the right to change this Privacy and Cookie Policy as we may deem necessary from time to time or as may be required by law. Any such changes will be posted on this page. We will notify you of any significant or material changes in the way we treat your information by placing a prominent notice on our site or by email.

 

CONTACT US

If you have questions about our Privacy and Cookie Policy, please contact us:

European Gaming and Betting Association (EGBA)

Avenue de Broqueville 12

1150 Brussels

Belgium

Email: egba@egba.eu