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European Space Agency (herein the “Agency” or “ESA” or “We”) is committed to protect Personal Data in line with the ESA Framework on Personal Data Protection (herein the “ESA PDP Framework”) available at: https://www.esa.int/About_Us/Law_at_ESA/Highlights_of_ESA_rules_and_regulations
The ESA PDP Framework is composed of the following elements:
This notice is intended to describe why and how Your personal data are collected and processed by, or on behalf of, the Agency, as Data Controller, as well as what rights You have in relation to Your personal data. It also informs You about the contact details of the Data Protection Officer. This privacy notice was last updated on 18/10/2023. It must be read in conjunction with the ESA PDP Framework and other privacy notices referred to herein.
The ESA Data Protection Officer (“DPO”) may be contacted in line with the ESA PDP Framework at DPO@esa.int or: ESA Headquarters; Data Protection Officer; 8-10 RUE MARIO NIKIS; CS 45741; 75738 PARIS CEDEX 15; FRANCE.
As the collection and processing concerned by this notice is performed upon initiative of ESCC, questions may also be addressed to:
escc-executive.secretariat@esa.int
ESA collects and processes a variety of Your personal data and may require You to provide personal data for the purposes mentioned further below. The personal data which may be collected and further processed for the purposes mentioned below are in particular:
You are required not to send to the Agency any sensitive information (including information that indicate, directly or indirectly, the personnel’s ethnic origin, political opinions, adhesion to unions, parties etc., health situation, sexual orientation).
Your personal data may be collected by various means, including via registration to the ESCC website and your Website usage.
We collect and process Your personal data because it is necessary for the activities conducted to fulfil Our purpose, which is “to provide for and to promote, for exclusively peaceful purposes, cooperation among European States in space research and technology and their space applications, with a view to their being used for scientific purposes and for operational space applications systems” (as per ESA Convention). We serve the public interest, and we wish to foster the public interest in space activities and programmes.
Your personal data are collected and further processed so that ESA (on behalf of ESCC) can:
In addition to these purposes, the Agency may use your personal information for any of the purposes mentioned in Article 5 of the Policy on Personal Data Protection.
We process Your personal data pursuant to the ESA PDP Framework, in particular pursuant to Article 5 of the ESA PDP Policy, for fair, specified and legitimate purposes or for purposes compatible therewith. Other ESA Rules and Regulations may serve as legal basis, as they may be indicated to You in additional notices, as appropriate.
What are the legal grounds for processing Your personal data?
5.1 General grounds for processing under ESA PDP Policy
Generally, the processing referred to in this notice falls under Article 5.2.1 of the ESA PDP Policy, i.e.:
At times, it is necessary for us to disclose Your personal data to authorised recipients (e.g., ESA staff members, advisors, contractors), under a “need to know” principle, for carrying out the processing operations referred to in this notice. Typically, the third-party recipients include:
1/ service providers: We may engage various service providers such as:
2/ partners of ESA, in relation to ESA activities and programmes and, generally, in relation to ESA mission as foreseen in ESA Convention;
3/ ESA governing bodies ad authorities and their subordinate bodies, as required by the legal framework applicable to ESA.
It is important to note that these third-party recipients are generally situated in the European Union, the European Economic Area or in countries that offer an adequate level of protection equivalent to that offered within the European Union and the European Economic Area (e.g. Argentina, Canada, Japan, Switzerland, United-Kingdom).
When the third-party data recipients are located in a country or international organisation not offering an adequate level of protection (e.g., Australia, United States, etc.), we take necessary measures to safeguard your data, in line with the conditions set forth in ESA PDP framework.
Additionally, we may utilise services provided by IT providers or integrate social media features into our platforms. In such instances, these IT providers or social media platforms may provide links to their respective websites, where they conduct their own data processing activities. It is entirely at your discretion whether you choose to access and utilise these social media features, depending on the terms and conditions applicable to each platform. If you prefer not to engage with social media or accept their terms and conditions, you have the option to refrain registering as a user on these platforms. Your decision regarding social media usage is within your control.
In case of transfer of personal data to the United States or other countries not offering an adequate level of protection, transfer may expose You to certain risks, in particular the risk of profiling, the risk that the applicable legal framework may allow further processing of the personal data and that any given consent may not be withdrawn.
In exceptional cases, for instance in case of a criminal offence evidenced by the collection or processing of data, we may share the said data with the appropriate authorities or bodies, including the ones having an investigative role or the ones involved in the concerned legal proceedings.
Your data are stored for the shortest time possible, taking into account the reasons why we need to process Your data, as well as all legal obligations applicable to the Agency. The Agency established time limits to erase or review the data stored. Retention periods applied by the Agency are proportionate to the purposes for which they were collected. Thus, the Agency will keep Your personal data for as long as necessary for the fulfilment of those purposes and shall be deleted afterwards.
All processing operations are carried out pursuant to ESA Rules and Regulations, including ESA PDP Framework and ESA Security Regulations. In particular, the Agency collects and processes personal data in conditions protecting confidentiality, integrity and security of personal data.
In order to protect Your personal data, ESA has implemented a number of technical and organisational measures against the risks of loss as well as against unauthorised access, destruction, use, modification or disclosure of personal data, in particular when such risks concern sensitive personal data.
These measures take into account the state of the art, the costs of implementation and the nature, scope, context and purposes of processing as well as the risk of varying likelihood and severity for the rights and freedoms of natural persons. They may include, as appropriate, the pseudonymisation and encryption of personal data.
Under conditions detailed in the ESA PDP Framework, You have:
Once a request to erase data is received, we will ensure that the data is deleted unless it can be processed on another legal ground, amongst the ones mentioned in Article 5.1 above. If Your data was being processed for several purposes, We will not use the personal data for the part of the processing for which consent has been withdrawn.
For instance:
When the processing of Your personal data is based on Your consent and unless a specific case applies (e.g. see Article 6 above), You have also the right to withdraw Your consent.
You may wish to exercise any of the above-mentioned rights, by sending a request explicitly specifying Your query to the ESA DPO via e-mail at dpo@esa.int
You may be asked additional information to confirm your identity and/or to assist ESA to locate the data You are seeking.
If Your children want to interact or otherwise engage with ESA, they will often need approval from You, as their parent or legal guardian, as the child’s personal data will be collected for these purposes.
Your child will no longer need parental consent once they have reached the age of majority according to the applicable jurisdiction. We will by default ask for parental consent for any child that is under 16 years old. We may ask for your contact data (e.g. email address) in order to be able to verify your identity and ensure that We have your explicit consent to collect and use you child’s data.