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The information on this site is subject to Europa's disclaimer, copyright notice and rules related to personal data protection.
One of your rights under EU law is that you must be informed when your personal data − also known as personal information − is processed (collected, used, stored) by any organisation including one of the EU institutions. You also have the right to know the details and purposes of that processing.
Your personal data is processed in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 2018/1725 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data by the Union institutions, bodies, offices and agencies and on the free movement of such data.
The data controller of the processing operation is the Head of the Unit I-02. SMP/COSME Pillar of the European Innovation Council and SME Executive Agency (EISMEA).
The legal basis of the processing operation are in particular:
The purposes of this data processing are to provide the interested public with:
Web contact forms: personal data included in contact forms is collected only to the extent necessary to reply. If the EISMEA support team in charge of the mailbox is unable to answer your question directly, it will forward your e-mail to another service in EISMEA or in the European Commission, or to an Enterprise Europe Network member organisation. You will be informed, via e-mail, about which service your question has been forwarded to. If you have any questions about the processing of your e-mail and related personal data, do not hesitate to include them in your message.
Email alerts: when you fill in the alert subscription form, the mandatory fields marked with an asterisk (*) are necessary for the verification of your data so we can create an account.
This site serves also as an access point to the Network where partners to the Enterprise Europe Network and interested third parties establish contacts. Via the home page of this site, registered users can access the Intranet and Partnering tools of the Enterprise Europe Network. Access to these tools is available only to registered users based on different user profiles.
Registered users may also be contacted proactively in relation to services provided to them by the Enterprise Europe Network.
The recipients of your data will be EISMEA staff members and the advisers of the Enterprise Europe Network who are respectively responsible for the management of the site and for the activities of the Network. Your data can be transferred to organisations which are members of the Enterprise Europe Network, in all the countries it is present.
The following safeguards are in place for this transfer:
The information in question can be transferred to bodies charged of monitoring or inspection tasks in application of Union law (e.g. internal audits, European Anti-fraud Office-OLAF). Third parties, such as external service providers having signed a service contract with EISMEA, may also have access to your data, where necessary for the purposes outlined above.
You have the right to:
If processing is based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of the processing based on your consent before its withdrawal.
Your request to exercise one of the above rights will be dealt with without undue delay and within one month.
Your data will be removed immediately after your request to quit the reception of alerts and, for users of the Intranet, after the request to remove their user account, except for data necessary for audit purpose which are kept for five years after the request for deletion of the account. The name of participants to events is kept for two years after the end of the event.
If you have any queries concerning the processing of your personal data, you may address them to the Data controller Head of Unit I-02. SMP/COSME Pillar via this contact form.
You have right of recourse at any time to the EISMEA Data protection officer and the European Data Protection Supervisor.
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The European Innovation Council and SME Executive Agency (EISMEA) maintains the Enterprise Europe Network central website to ensure access to information about the Network and its local contact points. Our goal is to keep this information timely and accurate. If errors are brought to our attention, we will try to correct them. However, EISMEA accepts no responsibility or liability whatsoever with regard to the information on this site.
This information is:
It is our goal to minimise disruption caused by technical errors. However some data or information on our site may have been created or structured in files or formats that are not error-free, and we cannot guarantee that our service will not be interrupted or otherwise affected by such problems. EISMEA accepts no responsibility with regard to such problems incurred as a result of using this site or any linked external sites.
This disclaimer is not intended to limit the liability of EISMEA in contravention of any requirements laid down in applicable national law, or to exclude its liability for matters which may not be excluded under that law.
Get in touch with your local Network contact point by selecting the country and city closest to where your business is based. They can help you with advice, support and opportunities for international partnerships.
