Last Reviewed Date: April, 2025
The European-American Chamber of Commerce, Carolinas (“EACC-Carolinas,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) is committed to protecting your personal data and ensuring transparency in how we collect, use, and safeguard your information in accordance with applicable data protection and privacy laws including, but not limited to, the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (“GDPR”).
This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) outlines how we protect and process personal data (including how we collect, use, and disclose your personal data) collected through interactions with us and our website and related services (together with any and all future websites and related services operated by or on our behalf).
Our website is not intended for children, and we do not knowingly collect personal data relating to children.
A controller alone or jointly determines the purposes for, and the manner in, which any personal data is, or is likely, to be processed.
In most cases, the Controller of your personal data will be:
European-American Chamber of Commerce, Carolinas
SparkCenter 1875, E Main St, Duncan, South Carolina 29334, United States
Email: contact@eacc-carolinas.com
Website: www.eacc-carolinas.com
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or complaints about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, or should you wish to exercise your rights, please contact us using the information provided above and at the bottom of this Privacy Policy.
Personal data means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (e.g. anonymous data). We collect, use, generate, store and transfer your personal data in the course of your relationship with us.
The types of personal data we may process include the following:
We may also use cookies and similar technologies on our website and when you interact with our services (see section 8).
We do not collect any special categories of personal data about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data). We also do not collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.
We may collect, use and share anonymized and aggregated data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Anonymized data will not directly or indirectly reveal your identity and is not considered personal data.
Please keep us informed if your personal information changes during your relationship with us.
We collect your personal data during the course of your relationship with us, including when you visit our website, when you provide this directly such as when you contact us using our contact page through software applications made available by us, through our social media platforms, through extranet sites, when you provide it through any of our registration processes for newsletters, events, webinars and seminars, when you provide it to us in conjunction with our services, when you provide it over the telephone and when you provide it through any paper-based forms and applications, and from third parties. We may also collect personal data from publicly available sources. We may automatically collect technical data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies and other similar technologies/please see our Cookies Policy for further details.
We use your personal data to fulfil the performance of a contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you (“Performance of a Contract”) and to enable us to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations (“Legal Obligation”). In some cases, we may use your personal data to pursue legitimate interests by us or a third party, provided your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests (“Legitimate Interests”).
With limited exceptions, we do not rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your personal data. Where we rely on consent, we will only do so provided you have given your specific consent to processing. You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
The table below summarizes the purposes for which we process your personal data. For each of the following purposes, we have set out he legal basis on which we use it:
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Legal Basis
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To register and manage participation in our events and webinars
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Legitimate interests
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To send information about similar events or services and to send you marketing (including paper and electronic marketing communications) or to contact you by other means to offer you our services products
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Consent Legitimate interests
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To respond to inquiries or contact you upon request
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Legal requirement Legitimate interests Contract
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To analyze site usage and improve functionality
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Legitimate interests
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To manage and administer business operations
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Contract Legitimate interests
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For physical and system security, including monitoring activities and fraud detection and reporting
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Legal Obligation Legitimate Interests
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To manage our relationships including notifying about changes to our terms of business or this Privacy Policy
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Contract Legal Obligation Legitimate Interests
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We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose.
You will not be subject to decisions that will have a significant impact on you based solely on automated decision-making, unless we have a lawful basis for doing so and we have notified you in advance. Where appropriate, we will communicate other purposes to you, to the extent these are not compatible with the original purpose, prior to or at the time of collecting your personal data and, if required by law, seek your consent. We may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent where required by applicable law.
To ensure we provide marketing materials and content on our website that is of interest, we use technology in our emails and on our website that logs whether you click on the links in our emails, and the time and date you access our website as well as the time spent on our website, when you follow a link to our website. You can choose to not click these links. When you interact with our marketing emails, we will log your choices.
Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personal data including special categories of or more sensitive personal data through The European-American Chamber of Commerce, Carolinas public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. The European-American Chamber of Commerce, Carolinas does not read any of your private online communications and does not use this information.
We may share your personal data with the parties below for the purposes set out in the table above:
We may share your personal data with persons or entities outside the EACC if we reorganize or transfer all or part of our business. If a change happens to our business, the acquirer will be entitled to use your personal data in the same way as set out in this Privacy Policy and will assume the rights and obligations regarding your personal data as set out in this Privacy Policy.
Our website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy practices. We have no liability or responsibility for those websites, products and services, their policies, or their collection or other processing of your personal information. The practices of those third parties with respect to information collected through their websites, products or services is governed by their own privacy policies and you should consult the relevant privacy policy.
As a U.S.-based organization, your data may be transferred to a country outside your home country (including outside the UK and the European Economic Area (“EEA”)) where the data privacy laws may not be equivalent to or provide the same level of protection for personal data, as the laws in your home country. Your personal data may be transferred to and processed in the United States. Whenever we transfer your personal data outside your home country, we implement appropriate measures to ensure it remains protected, as required by applicable data protection laws. This may include contractual obligations such as EU-standard contractual clauses (“SCCs”.), are in place.
We retain your personal data only for as long as necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, and no longer than 12 months after your last engagement, unless a longer retention period is required by law or justified by a legitimate interest, including bringing or defending legal action or investigations.
Under some circumstances, we may anonymize your personal data so that it can no longer be associated with you. We reserve the right to use such anonymous and de-identified data for any legitimate business purpose without further notice to you or your consent.
Under certain circumstances, and subject to applicable laws, you may have the right to:
If you object to the processing of your personal data (including restricting processing and withdrawing consent) we will respect this choice. This could mean that we cannot achieve the purposes as described in the table above if we are unable to perform certain actions.
You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your rights), however, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.
Applicable laws may allow or require us to refuse to provide you with access to some or all of the personal data that we hold about you or we may have destroyed, erased, or made personal data about you anonymous in accordance with our record retention obligations and practices. If we cannot provide you with access to your personal data in line with your enquiry, we will inform you of the reasons why (subject to any legal or regulatory restrictions).
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, including any request to exercise your rights, please contact us using the details set out at the end of this Privacy Policy. In order to respond to your enquiry, we may request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity.
Our website uses cookies and similar technologies to improve your experience and personalize content. Cookies are text files which are downloaded to your device (e.g. computer, smartphone, electronic device which accesses the internet) when you visit a website, and they help us understand user behavior and customize services accordingly.
You can manage your consent to your cookie preferences to accept or decline cookies through your browser settings and by using this button. [insert a toggle/button for users to update their preferences]. Note that disabling cookies may limit some functionality of our site. Some cookies are essential or strictly necessary and cannot be turned off.
For more information regarding the cookies we use, and your choices regarding same, including managing your cookie preferences, see our Cookie Policy.
We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal data, to prevent it from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered or disclosed, in accordance with applicable data protection laws. These measures include secure servers, limited access, and encrypted data transfers (e.g., via SSL). We limit access to your personal data to our team and third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions.
After careful selection, we require all our third-party service providers who will process your personal data, to implement appropriate security measures and maintain the confidentiality of your personal data in accordance with applicable data protection and privacy laws. Our third-party service providers must use your personal data for specified purposes only and in accordance with our instructions. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes
We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes to this Privacy Policy will take effect immediately upon this Privacy Policy being posted on this page or otherwise notified to you. The last revised date will be indicated at the top of this Privacy Policy.
The European-American Chamber of Commerce, Carolinas welcomes your comments regarding this Privacy Policy. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, or complaints about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, or should you wish to exercise your rights, please contact us at contact@eacc-carolinas.com.