Purposes and legitimate grounds for the processing of your personal data
PurposesThere are several purposes of the processing of your personal data by Block Lane:To provide our services and carry out our agreement with youBlock Lane processes your personal data in the first place to be able to deliver our services to you and to run, maintain and develop our businesses. We use the data for example to handle your payments, provide services or contact you regarding your registration to one of our events. If you contact our customer service, we will use the information provided by you to answer your questions or solve your complaint. In order to ensure that our services are in line with your needs, this data can be used for things like customer satisfaction surveys. We might also request another party to do this for us.
For customer communication (including marketing)
Block Lane processes your personal data to contact you regarding our services and to inform you of changes to our services and products. Your data are also used for research and analysis to improve our services and our websites. We may also use your data entered on our websites in certain cases to send information by e-mail about other services of Block Lane to you, provided that you have given us consent to that.
For quality improvement and trend analysis
We may also process information about your use of the services to improve the quality of our services e.g. by analyzing any trends in the use of our services. When possible, we will do this using only aggregated, non-personally identifiable data.
Legitimate grounds for processing
Block Lane processes your personal data to perform our contractual obligations towards you and to comply with legal obligations. Furthermore, we process your personal data to pursue our legitimate interest to maintain and develop our businesses.
Transfer to countries outside Europe
Block Lane may transfer your personal data to countries outside the European Union and the European Economic Area. When we transfer any data to a country for which no adequacy decision of the European Commission exits, such transfer will be subject to the provisions of the (standard or other) clauses adopted by the European Commission. If you wish to know more about international transfers of your personal data, you may contact us via the contact details above.
Recipients
We only share your personal data within the organization of Block Lane if and as far as reasonably necessary to perform and develop our services, e.g. with our customer service and marketing employees.
We do not share your personal data with third parties outside of Block Lane unless one of the following circumstances applies:It is necessary for the purposes of this Privacy StatementTo the extent that third parties need access to personal data to perform such services, Block Lane has taken the appropriate contractual and organizational measures to ensure that your data are processed exclusively for the purposes specified in this Privacy Statement and in accordance with all applicable laws and regulations. Furthermore, we may provide your personal data to our affiliates or other trusted businesses or persons to process it for us, based on our instructions and in accordance with our Privacy Statement and any other appropriate obligations of confidentiality and security measures.
For legal reasons
We may share your personal data with third parties outside Block Lane if we have a good-faith belief that access to and use of the personal data is reasonably necessary to: (i) meet any applicable law, regulation, and/or court order; (ii) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues; and/or (iii) protect the interests, properties or safety of Block Lane, our users or the public as far as in accordance with the law. When possible, we will inform you about such processing.
With your explicit consent
We may share your personal data with third parties outside Block Lane for other reasons than the one mentions before, when we have your explicit consent to do so, unless such is necessary for the provisions of our services. You have the right to withdraw this consent at all times.
Storage period
Block Lane does not store your personal data longer than is legally permitted and necessary for the purposes for which the data were collected. The storage period depends on the nature of the information and the purposes of processing. The maximum period may therefore vary per use. In general, we store data for the provision of services for a maximum of five years after our relation ended.
TITLE 4: Your rights
Right to access
Block Lane offers you access to the personal data we process. This means you can contact us asking us to inform you about your personal data that we have collected and processed and the purposes such data are used for.
Right to correct
You have the right to have incorrect/unprecise, incomplete, outdated, or unnecessary personal data we have stored about you corrected or completed by contacting us.
Right to deletion
You may also ask us to delete your personal data from our systems. We will comply with such a request unless we have a legitimate ground to not delete the data. After the data has been deleted, we may not immediately be able to delete all residual copies from our active servers and backup systems.
Right to object
You may object to a certain use of your personal data if such data is processed for other purposes than necessary for the performance of our services or for compliance with a legal obligation. You may also object to any further processing of your personal data after prior given consent. If you object to the further processing of your personal data, this may lead to fewer possibilities to use our websites and other services.
You have the right to opt out of receiving electronic direct marketing communications from us by clicking on the opt-out link provided in all marketing communications we send you and choosing not to receive marketing communications from us in the future. You also have the right to prohibit us from using your personal data for direct marketing purposes, market research and profiling by contacting us on the addresses indicated above.
Right to restriction of processing
You may request us to restrict certain processing of your personal data. If you restrict certain processing of your personal data, this may lead to fewer possibilities to use our websites and other services.
Right to data portability
You have the right to receive your personal data from us in a structured, commonly used format in order to transmit the data to another controller.
How to use your rights
You may use these rights by sending a letter or e-mail, including your name, address, phone number and a copy of a valid ID to us on the addresses set out above. If your request regards personal data in a cookie, you have to enclose a copy of the said cookie. We may request the provision of additional information necessary to confirm your identity. We may reject requests that are unreasonably repetitive, excessive or manifestly unfounded. In case you consider our processing activities of your personal data to be inconsistent with the applicable data protection laws, you may lodge a complaint with the local supervisory authority for data protection.
Information security
We will take all reasonable, appropriate security measures to protect Block Lane and our customers from unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of personal data we hold. Measures include, where appropriate, encryption, firewalls, secure facilities and access rights systems. Should, despite of the security measures, a security breach occurs that is likely to have negative effects to your privacy, we will inform you about the breach as soon as reasonably possible.
Applicability and changes
Our Privacy Statement applies worldwide, to all of the services offered by Block Lane. This Privacy Statement is published in English. Our Privacy Statement may change from time to time. You can find the current version on our website www.blocklane.eu. We will not make substantial changes to this Privacy Statement or reduce your rights under this Privacy Statement without providing you with a notice.