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Disclaimer
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The collection of data is based on voluntary agreement by the data subjects.
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How long your data are kept?
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How can you access to your data, check their accuracy and if needed, correct them?
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What are the technical means used and the security measures to avoid misuse or unauthorized access?
The Publications Office has put in place, and regularly reviews and updates, appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and help prevent unauthorized access, maintain data security, and correctly use the information collected.
Your enquiry is stored on the server of our contractor, processed and may also be forwarded by email to the expert responsible for replying to the enquiry.
Such external contractors have signed a contract with the Publications Office which legally bind them to comply with the applicable legislation on the protection of personal data and the processing thereof, and more specifically with Regulation (EC) No 45/2001.
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Changes to this Privacy Notice
If this Privacy Notice changes in any way, we will place an updated version of it on http://eur-lex.europa.eu/en/editorial/legal_notice.htm. Regularly reviewing this page ensures that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances, if any, we will share it with other parties.