Privacy Statement for Fashion Forever Green Pact

Thank you for deciding to register on the Portal for the Fashion Forever Green Pact (hereinafter “Portal”). We at FSC Global Development GmbH (“FSC GD”) respect your privacy and want you to understand how we collect, use, and share personal data about you in compliance with applicable data protection laws in relation to the use of the Portal.

This Privacy Statement covers our data collection practices and describes your rights to access, correct, or restrict our use of your personal data. Except where we provide you a link to a different privacy statement or reference to other privacy documentation, this Privacy Statement applies when you fill out the Form. By filling-out the Form, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Statement.

Table of Contents:

  1. Description

  2. WhatPersonalDataWeCollect

  3. HowWeCollectYourPersonalData

  4. How We Use Your Personal Data

  5. Who We Share Your Personal Data With

  6. How Long We Keep Your Personal Data

  7. Security

  8. Your Rights

  9. Cookies & Similar Technologies

10.How To Contact Us
11.Changes in our Privacy Statement

1. Description

The Portal is the official platform of the Fashion Forever Green Pact, which enables organisations in the textile industry to express their commitment to sustainable sourcing of forest products (hereinafter “Purpose”). The interface is available on the fashionforevergreen.org .

The duties of hosting, maintenance and data processing are conducted by FSC Marketing and Communication Unit of FSC Global Development GmbH.

FSC GD is the ́controller ́ of the personal data you provide under the Purpose of this Privacy Statement and Squarespace Inc. acts in a function of a ‘processor’ in performing the Purpose of this Privacy Statement.

2. What Personal Data We Collect

In order to fulfill the Purpose of this Privacy Statement, we may need to collect or store some personal data. The personal data we process can include the following:

  • Company name

  • Address

  • Website

  • Link to public procurement policy / forest policy

  • Contact information of a designated person (e.g. name, position, email address,

    telephone number)

  • Public representative for the purpose of this Purpose (e.g. name, position, email

    address, telephone number)

  • General telephone number

  • General e-mail address

  • Details of the progress related to the Purpose.

    We will not collect any personal data from you that is not needed for the Purpose.

    3. How We Collect Your Personal Data

    We process personal data provided to us directly by you or through the Portal and/or follow-up communication. By filling out the Form to provide us your consent in accordance with Art. 6 para 1 lit. a GDPR to process your personal data for the Purpose indicated in this privacy statement.

    If the personal data you provided needs to be corrected, please, indicate the changes by sending the email to fashion@fsc.org.

    We collect anonymised analytics via Microsoft Dynamics 365, which honors “Do not track me”, if you configure your browser accordingly. For details on our use of Microsoft Dynamics 365 cookies, please see the respective section below. For further information in regards to cookies please consult our general privacy statement on the fsc.org/en/page/legal-notice.

    4. How We Use Your Personal Data

    We are not using your personal data for anything else beyond the Purpose or the processing described in this Privacy Statement. Our technical staff will use the log files for purposes of trouble shooting, and for providing help to end users.

  • In detail, we use your personal data to contact the company for any updates or enquires related to the Fashion Forever Green Pact. We might use your personal data to enable the Purpose, to improve and update related services, communicate with you, secure against fraud and abuse, troubleshoot issues and as necessary for safety and integrity based on our legitimate interest (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR). In addition, we use your personal data as is required by law (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c) GDPR).

    5. Who We Share Your Personal Data With

    We will share your company’s name and progress of achieving the Purpose on our website: fashionforevergreen.org. We will share your data also with Canopy for the purpose of joining the Canopy Style initiative.

    All personal data we process for the Purpose of this Privacy Statement is processed as well by FSC GD staff for the purposes of described above.

    If the personal data that we collect from you needs to be transferred to, and processed by a processor based outside of the European Economic Area (EEA), we will take steps, such as including contractual clauses into our contracts with such processors or controllers, that would ensure that your personal data is safe and treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Statement. Other than that, we do not share the personal data with other third parties, unless described in this Privacy Statement or is required to do so by law.

    6. How Long We Keep Your Personal Data

    We will keep your personal data for 7 years following the filling-out the Form.

    7. Security

    We are committed to ensuring the privacy of your personal data. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the personal data we collect online.

    8. Your Rights

    We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all your data protection rights. You are entitled to the following:

    • The right to access enables you to receive information on whether we process your personal data as well as a copy of the personal data we process about you.

    • The right to rectification enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate personal data we hold about you corrected, though we may need to verify the accuracy of the new personal data you provide to us.

    • The right to erasure enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is not a good reason or legitimate interest for us to continue to process it.

    • The right to restrict processing enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data under specific circumstances.

    • The right to data portability enables you to request that we provide you or a third party of your choosing with the personal data which you have provided to us (in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format).

    • The right to object enables you to object to our processing of your personal data where we rely on our legitimate interest as legal basis. In some cases, we may demonstrate that we have compelling legitimate grounds to process your personal data which override your rights and freedoms.

    • The right to make a complaint to the competent data protection authority. We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns so if you have any questions or concerns regarding our processing of your personal data please contact us at privacy@fsc.org.

      If you would like to exercise one of your data protection rights, please do not hesitate to contact us at privacy@fsc.org or our Data Protection Officer at the contact details set out below.

      9. How to Contact Us

      If you have questions about this Privacy Statement, the personal data we hold on you, or you would like to exercise one of your data protection rights, please do not hesitate to contact us:
      Email us at: privacy@fsc.org

      Postal Address and further company details:

      FSC Global Development GmbH, Adenauerallee 134, 53113 Bonn, Germany Phone: 0049 (0) 228 36766 0

      Fax: 0049 (0) 228 36766 30
      Managing Directors: Dr. Subhra Bhattacharjee and Marion Barriskell

      Commercial register: Bonn HRB 15990 VAT-Ident-No: DE258067376

      If you have a complaint about our use of your personal data, please contact our Data Protection Officer to address your complaint:

      Scheja & Partner Rechtsanwälte
      Mr. Boris Reibach
      Adenauerallee 136, 53113 Bonn
      Tel.: +49 (0) 228-227 226-0
      Fax: +49 (0) 228-227 226-26
      E-mail: info@scheja-partner.de
      Contact form: http://www.scheja-partner.de/kontakt/kontakt.html Website: www.scheja-partner.de

      10. Changes to our Privacy Statement

      We reserve the right to unilaterally change this Privacy Statement from time to time to ensure that it complies with current legal requirements or to implement changes to our Services in the Privacy Statement, for example, when introducing new services. In this case FSC GD will send a notification regarding any changes to your email address which is known to FSC GD.

      This Privacy Statement was last updated on 14 October 2024.