Cookies Policy

INTRODUCTION

When you visit our website, information relating to the pages you look at may be saved in files called “cookies”, which are stored on the device that is used to access the site. This page explains what cookies are, what they are used for and how you can adjust your settings to manage cookies.

WHAT IS A COOKIE?

Cookies are text files that that may – depending on your settings – be stored on the hard drive of your device (be it a computer, a tablet, a mobile phone or any other device that can access the internet) when you visit a website or click on an advertisement. Cookies are managed by your internet browser, and only the issuer of a cookie can read or amend the information contained in it. Cookies are used to identify the device on which they are saved and are operational for a limited period of time.

WHAT ARE THE COOKIES ISSUED BY OUR SIDE USED FOR?

There are three different types of cookies that may be saved on your device while browsing our site. The intended purpose of each of these types of cookies is described below.

1. Technical cookies

Technical cookies are necessary to browse our site and access the various products and services that are available. They are used to:

• optimise the presentation of the website in line with your device’s display preferences (language used, screen resolution, operating system, etc.);
• allow you to access personal areas (such as your user account or content that is reserved for you) on the basis of the information that you provided when creating your account;
• remember some information relating to forms that you have filled in on our website;
• compile statistics measuring visits to and use of our site;
• implement certain security measures.

These cookies must not be deactivated. If they are, you will have problems accessing the site and its services.

2. Audience-measuring cookies

Audience-measuring cookies are issued by us and/or our technical service providers in order to measure the number of people accessing our various types of content. These cookies are also used to identify any potential navigation problems and thus improve the website’s usability. These cookies produce only anonymised statistics and do not provide information on individual visitors.

3. Social media and partners cookies

Social media and partners cookies allow you to share our site’s content with other people or tell people what you think about content on the site. A number of sharing buttons are integrated into our site using third-party applications that could issue this type of cookie. This is true, for example, of Facebook’s “like” and “share” buttons, as well as the “Twitter”, “Google+”, “YouTube” and “Instagram” buttons. The social network providing the button in question may be able to use that button application to identify you, even if you do not click on the relevant button while visiting our site. Indeed, that type of button application may allow the relevant social network to see your browsing activity on our site if your account with that social network is active on your device (i.e. an open session) while you are browsing our site. We suggest that you consult the privacy policies of those social networks to see what browsing information acquired via such button applications is ultimately used for (as regards advertising, for example). Those privacy policies should allow you to indicate your wishes to the relevant social network in respect of cookies, notably by adjusting the settings on your user account.

HOW TO CONTROL COOKIES

You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish – for details, see aboutcookies.org. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.

FEI Online Privacy Policy

FEI takes your privacy seriously. Please read the following Privacy Policy carefully to learn more the use of your personal data that FEI may collect when you visit FEI’s official website and/or applications (hereinafter referred to as the “Website(s)”). FEI reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time without notice to you.

SUMMARY OF HOW WE USE YOUR DATA

• FEI uses your personal data for the provision of online services in connection with our Website(s).
• Data is mainly shared with third parties who work on behalf of FEI to provide a product or service to you.
• Where we rely on your consent, such as for certain electronic direct marketing activities, you can withdraw this consent at any time.
• Our Privacy Policy sets out more details of this processing, including details of your data protection rights, including your right to object to certain processing.

WHAT THIS PRIVACY POLICY COVERS

This Privacy Policy covers FEI’s treatment of personal data that FEI may collect when you are on the Website(s) and when you use services on the Website(s).
This Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of any companies or legal entities that FEI does not own or control or to any persons that FEI does not employ.

INFORMATION COLLECTION​

FEI automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser including your Internet Protocol address (IP address), which identifies your device, FEI’s cookies (or similar) information and the page you requested.

FEI collects personal data when you register for certain sections of the Website(s), when you use or buy certain products or services [AKF1] on the Website(s) (e.g. video content) and when you enter promotions, sweepstakes or similar services sponsored by FEI or its business partners.
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INFORMATION USE AND THE LEGAL BASIS FOR THIS USE​

FEI uses information collected for the following purposes:

• To perform our contractual obligations when you use or buy certain FEI products or services
• As required by FEI to conduct our activities and pursue our legitimate interests, in particular:
  • we will use your information to provide products, content and services you have requested, and respond to any comments or questions you may send us;
  • we use information you provide to personalise our Website(s), products or services for you;
• Where you give us consent:
  • we will send you direct marketing in relation to our relevant products and services, or other products and services provided by us, our affiliates and carefully selected partners.[AKF1]
  • we place cookies and use similar technologies in accordance with our Cookies Policy and the information provided to you when those technologies are used
  • on other occasions where we ask you for consent, we will use the data for the purpose which we explain at that time.
• For purposes which are required by law:
  • In response to requests by government or law enforcement authorities conducting an investigation.

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WITHDRAWING CONSENT OR OTHERWISE OBJECTING TO DIRECT MARKETING

Wherever we rely on your consent, you will always be able to withdraw that consent, although we may have other legal grounds for processing your data for other purposes, such as those set out above. In some cases, we are able to send you direct marketing without your consent, where we rely on our legitimate interests. You have an absolute right to opt-out of direct marketing, or profiling we carry out for direct marketing, at any time. You can do this by following the instructions in the communication where this is an electronic message, or by contacting us using the details set out below.

INFORMATION SHARING AND DISCLOSURE

FEI may send your personal data to third parties when:

• FEI has your consent to share the information;
• FEI needs to share your information to provide the product or service you have requested;
• FEI needs to send the information to third parties who work on behalf of FEI to provide a product or service to you (unless otherwise stated, these third parties do not have any rights to use the personal data FEI provides to them beyond what is necessary to provide a product or service to you);
• Personal data may be shared with government authorities and/or law enforcement officials if required for the purposes above, if mandated by law or if required for the legal protection of our legitimate interests in compliance with applicable laws; or
• FEI finds that your actions on the Website(s) violate FEI Website(s) Terms and Conditions or any other FEI’s guidelines or rules applicable for specific services.

In the event that the business is sold or integrated with another business, your details will be disclosed to our advisers and any prospective purchaser’s adviser and will be passed to the new owners of the business.
Your information is transferred and hosted outside the EEA (i.e. in Switzerland, a country which offers an adequate level of data protection according to the European Commission).[AKF1]
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COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES

For more information, please click here.

CHILDREN’S PRIVACY

FEI does not knowingly collect personal data from children under the age of 16.

FEI does not take specific steps to protect the privacy of children who disclose their personal data to FEI.

YOUR RIGHTS

You have the right to ask us for a copy of your personal data; to correct, delete or restrict (stop any active) processing of your personal data; and to obtain the personal data you provide to us for a contract or with your consent in a structured, machine readable format, and to ask us to share (port) this data to another controller.

In addition, you can object to the processing of your personal data in some circumstances (in particular, where we don’t have to process the data to meet a contractual or other legal requirement, or where we are using the data for direct marketing).

These rights may be limited, for example if fulfilling your request would reveal personal data about another person, where they would infringe the rights of a third party (including our rights) or if you ask us to delete information which we are required by law to keep or have compelling legitimate interests in keeping. Relevant exemptions are included in both the GDPR and applicable local data protection legislation. We will inform you of relevant exemptions we rely upon when responding to any request you make.

To exercise any of these rights, or to obtain other information, such as a copy of a legitimate interests balancing test, you can get in touch with us – or our data protection officer – using the details set out below. If you have unresolved concerns, you have the right to complain to an EU data protection authority where you live, work or where you believe a breach may have occurred.

QUESTIONS OR SUGGESTIONS & DATA CONTROLLER

We hope that we can satisfy queries you may have about the way we process your data. If you have any concerns about how we process your data, or would like to opt out of direct marketing, you can get in touch at dpo@fei.org or by writing to FEI, HM King Hussein I Building, Chemin de la Joliette 8, 1006 Lausanne, Switzerland.

Date: 2023