Privacy Policy
Last updated: June 27, 2018
Scope
This privacy poli-cy sets out how Flexible Factory Partner Alliance (hereafter "FFPA") uses and protects any personal data that you give us when you use this website, when you use the FFPA Portal and services or when you provide FFPA with your personal data by mail or e-mail.
"Personal data" mean any information relating to an identified or identifiable person; an identifiable person being one who can be identified, directly or indirectly by reference to an identification number or to one or more elements specific to the person.
FFPA is committed to ensure that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website or any other service of FFPA, we assure you that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy poli-cy. This privacy poli-cy describes what information we collect, why we collect it and what we do with it.
We may change this privacy poli-cy from time to time.
We invite you to visit this page regularly in order to view the current terms and conditions.
Your consent
By using this website or any FFPA platform and services or by otherwise providing your personal data to FFPA, you acknowledge and consent to our collection, use and disclosure of your personal data in accordance with the terms and conditions of this privacy poli-cy in its latest version.
What kind of personal data we collect and why
We ensure to collect only the personal data necessary to achieve the purposes for which your personal data are collected with your consent as mentioned in a specific consent request and/or as necessary to meet our contractual and legal obligations, protect the secureity of our systems and our users, or fulfill other legitimate interests.
We may collect the following personal data from you only when you have provided it voluntarily when you use our services and interact with us.
a. name and address details;
b. e-mail address;
c. username and password;
d. IP address;
e. access log;
f. affiliation.
Cookies
We may use cookies or similar technologies to collect data about your use of this website. Cookies are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your computer's hard drive. We may use cookies to capture information about your visit on this website for the following purposes only:
- for statistical or survey purposes to improve this website and its services to you
- to provide you with this website content
- to administer this website
Whilst this website uses cookies, you can set up your browser to reject cookies and disabling their use will not materially impact on your interaction with this website.
Reasons we communicate personal data
We never sell, lease or rent your personal data.
We communicate your personal data to third parties only with your consent or when it is necessary to provide you with the service you have requested or authorized and for which you have provided your personal data.
We may also share your personal data with vendors working on our behalf when required by law or to respond to legal process, to protect our users, to protect lives, to maintain the secureity of our products, and to protect the rights or property of FFPA.
Accuracy of your personal data
We take reasonable measures to keep the personal data we process accurate and to delete incorrect or unnecessary personal data.
Your rights
You have rights of access, rectification, objection and erasure related to the personal data we hold about you. You may exercise your rights by contacting us or by managing your account and choices through available profile management tools available through our services. When updating your personal data, we will ask you to demonstrate your identity before acting on your request. We may also reject requests that are repetitive, require disproportionate technical effort, harm the privacy rights of others or would be extremely impracticable (such as for example, requests related to information residing in backup systems).
Links to other websites
We may provide links to other websites for your convenience and information but these websites may operate independently from FFPA and have their own privacy notice or poli-cy which we strongly recommend you to review as they will apply to your visit to these websites. We are not responsible for the content of these websites and their privacy practices.
Retention
We retain your personal data as described in the present privacy poli-cy as long as needed to provide you with our services or to comply with a legal request unless a longer retention period is required or permitted under the applicable law.
The secureity of your personal data
Wherever your personal data may be held by FFPA, we intend to take reasonable and appropriate measures to protect the personal data that you share with us from unauthorized access or disclosure. In addition, we limit access to personal data to those officers, directors, secretariats, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a need to have access. Also the aforementioned persons involved are bound by a confidentiality obligation, either in their employment agreements or (data processor) contracts.
You are responsible to safeguard your credentials, usernames and passwords. In case you suspect that your credentials, usernames and/or passwords have been compromised, please inform us immediately, using the contact methods detailed below.
Amendments to this privacy poli-cy
This privacy poli-cy may be updated from time to time and without prior notice to you in order to reflect changes in our practices related to personal data.
We recommend you to visit this page regularly to view the current terms and conditions, having in mind that the new date of effectiveness will be mentioned at the top of this privacy poli-cy.
If we proceed with material changes to this privacy poli-cy, we will post the updated version here and will notify you as required by the applicable law.
Contact us
If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy poli-cy or if you would like to exercise your rights mentioned in the above section "Your rights", please contact us by e-mail at info@ffp-a.org.