Privacy & cookies
At the European Specialist Nurses Organisation (ESNO), we are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy under the EU General Data Protection Regulation, EUGDPR, this Policy explains when and why we collect personal information about our Network, how we use it, the conditions under which we may disclose it to others and how we keep it secure.We may change this Policy from time to time so please check our website occasionally to ensure that you are happy with any changes. By joining our Network, you are agreeing to be bound by this Policy. Any questions regarding this Policy and our privacy practices should be sent by email to info@esno.org or by writing to Rue Belliard 15/17, 1040 Brussels, Belgium │ Alternatively, you can telephone at + 31-6-23343086.
Who are we?
The European Specialist Nurses Organisation (ESNO), is a non-profit membership organisation that focusses on enhancing the capacity and capability of specialist nurses to deliver high quality healthcare in Europe. ESNO is a registered under the Dutch law. The registered address is Rue Belliard 15-17, 1040 Brussels, Belgium.
How do we collect information from you?
We obtain information about you when you join our Network and when you use our website. On the website we do not use cookies but only anonymous statistics: ‘ESNO-webstat’.
What type of information is collected from you?
The personal information we collect by e-mail and busniescart provided by you might include your name, address, phone number, email address, country, job title, and place of employment. It might also include your financial bank details information such as your name, IBAN, SWIFT, name of the Bank.
How is your information used?
We may use your information to:
• Process a payment that you have made;
• Seek your views or comments on the services we provide;
• Notify you of changes to our services;
• Send you communications which you have requested and that may be of interest to you.
These may include information about events, update on European Affairs, research opportunities, promotions of third organisations’ services, and ESNO internal news.
We are legally required to hold some types of information to fulfil our legal and financial obligations. We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as is necessary for the relevant activity, or as long as is set out in any relevant contract you hold with us and within the legal requirements
Who has access to your information?
We will not sell or rent your information to third parties. We will not share your information with third parties for marketing purposes. We may share your information with third parties upon your explicit consent, and only for the specific purpose that was agreed upon. Third Party Service Providers working on our behalf. We may pass your information to our third-party service providers, agents subcontractors and other associated organisations for the purposes of completing tasks and providing services to you on our behalf (for example to send you mailings). However, when we use third-party service providers, we disclose only the personal information that is necessary to deliver the service and we have a contract in place that requires them to keep your information secure and not to use it for their own direct marketing purposes. Please be reassured that we will not release your information to third parties unless you have requested us to do so, or we are required to do so by law, for example, by a court order or for the purposes of prevention of fraud or other crime. When ESNO is going to use an secure online payment pages -what is not the case in this stage- your payment will be processed by a third-party payment processor, who specialises in the secure online capture and processing of credit/debit card transactions. If you have any questions regarding secure transactions, please contact us. We may transfer your personal information to a third party if we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation or to enforce or apply our terms of use or to protect the rights, property or safety of our supporters and customers. However, we will take steps with the aim of ensuring that your privacy rights continue to be protected.
Your choices
You have a choice about whether or not you wish to receive information from us. If you do not want to receive direct communications from us about the vital work we do to improving health and healthcare, then please contact us by email at info@esno.org or telephone at +31-6-23343086.
How you can access and update your information
The accuracy of your information is important to us. We are working on ways to make it easier for you to review and correct the information that we hold about you. In the meantime, if you change email address, or any of the other information we hold is inaccurate or out of date, please email us at info@esno.org or write to us at European Specialist Nurses Organisation, Rue Belliard 15-17, 1040 Brussels, Belgium. Alternatively, you can telephone at +31-6-23343086.
You have the right to ask for a copy of the information ESNO holds about you. You are entitled to access anytime your personal information, and to rectify or remove them by contacting us at info@esno.org. In case of a removal request, ESNO commits to delete the personal information as promptly as possible and within a reasonable delay, giving you confirmation by email once the removal is completed.
Security precautions in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of your information When you give us personal information, we take steps to ensure that it is treated securely. Any sensitive information (such as bank details) is only collected within the protected ESNO bank account system , ESNO does not collect bank details in ESNO data files.
Non-sensitive details (your name, email address, etc.) are transmitted normally by e-mail and over the Internet, and this can never be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your information, we make our best effort to ensure its security on our systems.
Where we have given (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our websites, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone.
Profiling
We may analyse your personal information to create a profile of your interests and preferences so that we can contact you with information relevant to you. We may make use of additional information about you when it is available from external sources to help us do this effectively. We may also use your personal information to detect and reduce fraud and credit risk.
Use of 'cookies'
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small text file containing information. A cookie is stored by your browser on the hard drive of your device. Some of these cookies are necessary for the website to function, while others help us to improve the website and make it more user-friendly. The information stored using cookies can be sent back to our servers during a subsequent visit.
What types of cookies do we use?
We use functional and analytical cookies on our website, as described below. We do not use tracking cookies.
- Functional cookies
These cookies are essential for the core functionality of our website and are automatically enabled when you use the website. They are technically necessary for the website to function properly. This type of cookie does not affect your privacy. We therefore do not need your consent to place them.
- Analytical cookies
These cookies help to improve the performance of the website and provide a better user experience. This enables PCO to offer you a high-quality experience by customizing our website and content and quickly identifying and resolving any issues. For example, we use these cookies to track which pages are the most popular, which method of linking between pages is the most effective, and to determine why some pages receive error messages. We use Google Analytics for this purpose. The statistics and other reports cannot be traced back to individual persons.
The analytical cookies on our website are not privacy-sensitive. We therefore do not need your consent to place them, but you can choose to disable this type of cookie via your browser. More information about this can be found under the heading “How can I manage cookies?”.
Third parties
Our website may contain buttons, widgets, tools and/or content that link to other companies(' services). PCO may collect information about your use of these features. When you view or use these buttons, widgets, tools and/or content, or when you view a web page that contains them, certain information from your browser may also be automatically sent to the other company. Please read that company's privacy statement for more information.
How can I manage cookies?
You can adjust your web browser settings to refuse cookies. This may prevent our website from functioning properly. Where exactly you can find this setting depends on the browser you use, but usually you can enable or disable this setting via the browser's “Settings”.
Links to other websites
Our website may contain links to other websites run by other organisations. This privacy policy applies only to our website‚ so we encourage you to read the privacy statements on the other websites you visit. We cannot be responsible for the privacy policies and practices of other sites even if you access them using links from our website. In addition, if you linked to our website from a third-party site, we cannot be responsible for the privacy policies and practices of the owners and operators of that third-party site and recommend that you check the policy of that third-party site.
18 or Under
Underage children are not allowed to join our Network or purchase services from us.
Transferring your information outside of Europe
No information is shared to any region in Europe and out side Europe.
Review of this Policy
We keep this Policy under regular review. This Policy was last updated in 16th May 2018.