Privacy Statement for FSC Certificate Status API Developer Portal
Introduction:
Thank you for joining FSC Certificate Status API Developer Portal (hereinafter: “FSC Developer Portal”). We at FSC Global Development GmbH (hereinafter: “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 FSC Developer 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 visit or use the FSC Developer Portal. By registering to FSC Developer Portal, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Statement.
Table of Contents:
2. What Personal Data We Collect
3. How We Collect Your Personal Data
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
11. Changes in our Privacy Statement
1. Service Description
The FSC Developer Portal is a computer-based interface which allows users to use the API which takes as input the license code and returns a result with the certificate scope details (hereinafter: “Services”).
The duties of hosting, maintenance and data processing are conducted by FSC International IT Services of FSC GD. FSC GD is the ´controller´ of the personal data you provide to the FSC Developer Portal and Microsoft Azure Developer Portal acts in a function of a ‘processor’ in providing the technical infrastructure of the platform.
2. What Personal Data We Collect
In order to provide the Services, we may need to collect or store some personal data. The personal data we process can include the following:
• Full name
• Email address
• Global system ID
• Username
• Encrypted password
• Log in times to the platform
We will not collect any personal data from you that we do not need to provide and oversee this Service to you.
3. How We Collect Your Personal Data
We process personal data provided to us directly by you or through import from the currently used database, where this data is already captured. You as user of the FSC Developer Portal are responsible to provide accurate, complete and up-to-date information during or after the registration to the FSC Developer Portal.
If the personal data needs to be corrected, please, indicate the changes through your FSC Developer Portal.
During the use of the FSC Developer Portal we will log personal data concerning your activities and log-in times to the FSC Developer Portal for purposes of supporting the Service (log files of the webserver). We collect anonymized analytics via Microsoft Azure Developer Portal, which honors “Do not track me”, if you configure your browser accordingly. For details on our use of Microsoft Azure Developer Portal cookies, please see the respective section below.
4. How We Use Your Personal Data
We are not using your personal data for anything else beyond the providing the Services or the processing described in this Privacy Statement. In detail, we use your personal data to provide our Services, improve and update our 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).
Our technical staff will use the log files for purposes of trouble shooting, and for providing help to end users. The collected analytics, anonymized and aggregated information, is used to improve the platform.
We will not share your personal data with other third parties, unless described in this Privacy Statement or as required to do so by law.
All the personal data we process in this portal is processed by FSC GD, for the purposes of IT hosting and maintenance this information is located on servers in West Europe (Netherlands) and Nord Europe (Ireland).
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. This Service is provided solely for your convenience.
6. How Long We Keep Your Personal Data
We will keep your personal data for maximum of 7 years following the termination of your account on our FSC Developer Portal if this is legally necessary.
7. Security
We are committed to ensuring the privacy of your personal data. In order to prevent unauthorized 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.
What are cookies?
Like many other websites, we also use "cookies". Cookies are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyse how users use the site. This automatically gives us certain personal data, such as IP address, browser used, operating system from your computer and your connection to the Internet.
How do we use cookies?
We use analytics cookies of the service provider Microsoft Azure Developer Portal. We only keep track of the statistical usage and telemetry information for the Developer Portal. These cookies enable counting of the number of users accessing the Developer Portal over time.
There cookies we collect:
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Cookie name |
Cookie Type |
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ai_user |
Persistent |
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_ga |
Persistent |
You can view our website without cookies. You can refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings (“do not accept cookies”) on your browser. Please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website.
10. 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 Director: Kim Bering Becker Carstensen
Commercial register: Bonn HRB 15990
VAT-Ident-No: DE258067376
IT Development and Maintenance:
FSC Global Development GmbH
FSC International IT Services
Adenauerallee
134 · 53113 Bonn · Germany
Phone: +49 (0) 228 367 66-0,
Fax: +49 (0) 228 367 66-30
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
11. 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 21 April 2020.