This specific privacy statement provides information about the processing and the protection of your personal data.
Processing operation: Processing of personal data linked to on-line and on-site events related to EU Defence Innovation Scheme (EUDIS) Business Accelerator – “EUDIS Business Accelerator”.
Data Controller: European Commission, Directorate General for Defence Industry and Space – Unit A.3 for European Defence Fund Implementation – Defence Technologies and Innovation [“DG DEFIS Unit A.3” or the “Data Controller”], DEFIS-A3@ec.europa.eu
Record reference: DPR- EC-01063
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Why and how do we process your personal data?
3. On what legal ground(s) do we process your personal data?
4. Which personal data do we collect and further process?
5. How long do we keep your personal data?
6. How do we protect and safeguard your personal data?
7. Who has access to your personal data and to whom is it disclosed?
8. What are your rights and how can you exercise them?
9. Contact information
10. Where to find more detailed information?
The European Commission is committed to protect your personal data and to respect your privacy. The Commission collects and further processes personal data pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data by the Union institutions, bodies, offices and agencies and on the free movement of such data.
This privacy statement explains the reason for the processing of your personal data in the context of a meeting or event organised by the European Commission. It explains the way we collect, handle and ensure protection of all personal data provided, how that information is used and what rights you have in relation to your personal data. It also specifies the contact details of the responsible Data Controller with whom you may exercise your rights, the Data Protection Officer and the European Data Protection Supervisor.
The information in relation to the processing of personal data linked to “EUDIS Business Accelerator 2025” organised by DG DEFIS Unit A.3 of the European Commission, is presented below.
Purpose of the processing operation: the European Commission collects and further processes your personal data to provide you with information about the specific meeting or event (before, during and after) and to process your application for participation in that meeting or event.
Your personal data will not be used for any automated decision-making including profiling.
Live web-streaming and audio-visual recording at the meeting or event of the speakers, organisers and participants, as well as photographs of the speakers and panoramic photographs of participants and organisers may be taken and published at www.eudis-business accelerator.eu, www.defence-industry-space.ec.europa.eu/index and dedicated platform hosted on SwapCard.
The audience or non-speaker participants are not photographed individually or in groups. They may however appear on panoramic photographs of the whole event/audience.
Names of speakers may be published at www.eudis-business-accelerator.eu.,www.defence industry-space.ec.europa.eu/index and dedicated platform hosted on SwapCard.
Please note that this meeting or event may be held using a third-party videoconference IT service, such as Microsoft Teams, which processes personal data. Please read section 7 below for more information.
Participants that do not wish to be part of the above web-streaming and recording/publishing activities have the possibility to object to processing, by sending an e-mail to the organiser prior to the event. In such a case, data subjects may be offered the opportunity to sitting in back rows that are not recorded/photographed, wearing special badges, attending the meeting in a separate room without web-streaming, or other options, depending on the circumstances of the particular meeting.
The processing operations on personal data, linked to the organisation, management, follow-up and promotion of the meeting or event (including web-streaming, photos, audio-visual recording) are necessary for the management and functioning of the Commission, as mandated by the Treaties. Those provisions are in particular, Article 11 of the Treaty on European Union and Article 15 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.
Consequently, those processing operations are lawful under Article 5(1)(a) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 (processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the Union institution or body).
The processing operations on personal data of the speakers for the meeting or event with whom a contract is concluded, are carried out in line with the contractual provisions. Consequently, that processing is necessary and lawful under Article 5(1)(c) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 (processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is party or in order to take steps at the request of the data subject prior to entering into a contract).
Your consent is required for the following actions during the meeting or event (if applicable):
€ the processing of your personal data relating to your dietary and/or access requirements;
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€ the sharing of the participants list containing your name and affiliation with other participants for the purpose of future collaboration;
€ the sharing of the attendee list containing your name and affiliation among participants, in order to create working groups to continue the collaborate work launched during the meeting or event;
€ the processing of your personal data for inviting you to future events the data controller may organise; and
€ the processing of your personal data for managing your subscription to a newsletter of the data controller.
If you opt-in, you are giving us your explicit consent under Article 5(1)(d) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 to process your personal data for those specific purposes. You can give your consent via a clear affirmative act by ticking relevant box(es) on the online registration form to EUDIS Business Accelerator programme.
Your consent for these purposes can be withdrawn at any time by writing to the data controller, European Commission, Directorate General for Defence Industry and Space – Unit A.3 for European Defence Fund Implementation – Defence Technologies and Innovation [“DG DEFIS Unit A.3” or the “Data Controller”], DEFIS-A3@ec.europa.eu
The following personal data may be processed in the context of the meeting or event:
• contact details (function/title, first name, last name, name of organisation, city, country, e-mail address, telephone number);
• nationality, passport or identity card number and its date of issue and expiry date may be collected, so that the data subjects may obtain access to the premises where the meeting or event is held;
• financial information (such as a payment card number or bank account) may be collected for the payment of fees of the meeting or event or for possible reimbursements (for coaches, trainers/guest speakers and field experts only);
• signature and audio-visual recording of the meeting, for establishing the attendance list and the minutes.
• dietary requests (if any) or specific access requirements.
The Data Controller only keeps your personal data for the time necessary to fulfil the purpose of collection or further processing. For each of the categories of personal data that may be processed, please find below the retention details and the reference to the relevant record of processing:
€ Personal data related to the organisation and management of the meeting or event (this includes the information given during the registration, before, during or after the event) will be kept for five years after the meeting or event.
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€ Sensitive personal data relating to dietary and/or access requirements will be deleted as soon as they are no longer necessary for the purpose for which they have been collected in the framework of the meeting or event, but no later than within 1 month after the end of the meeting or event.
€ Recordings from the web-streamed meeting or event will be kept for 2 years before being deleted. More information is available in the Record of Processing DPR-EC-00306 (Web-streaming of Commission events).
€ Audio-visual recordings will be kept for 3 months after the meeting or event before being deleted. More information is available in the Record of Processing DPR-EC-01937 (Audio-visual recording of meetings).
€ Personal data shared with the Directorate-General for Human Resources and Security of the European Commission for the participants to gain access to Commission buildings is kept for 6 months after the termination of the link between the data subject and the Commission. More information is available in the Record of Processing DPR-EC-00655 (Commission Physical Access Control System (PACS)).
€ Personal data shared with the controller for future mailing purposes (e.g., for receiving newsletters or invitations to similar events) are processed in line with the Record of Processing DPR-EC-03928 (Management of subscriptions to receive information) and the specific privacy statement prepared by the organising Commission service.
€ Selected service providers for organisational purposes (such as caterers, travel agents or event management organisations) are contractually bound to process personal data on behalf of and in line with the instructions of the data controller, keep confidential any data they process and protect it from unauthorised access, use and retention.
All personal data in electronic format (e-mails, documents, databases, uploaded batches of data, etc.) are stored on the servers of the European Commission or of its contractors (Starburst). All processing operations are carried out pursuant to Commission Decision (EU, Euratom) 2017/46 of 10 January 2017 on the security of communication and information systems in the European Commission.
In order to protect your personal data, the Commission has put in place a number of technical and organisational measures. Technical measures include appropriate actions to address online security, risk of data loss, alteration of data or unauthorised access, taking into consideration the risk presented by the processing and the nature of the personal data being processed. Organisational measures include restricting access to the personal data solely to authorised persons with a legitimate need to know for the purposes of this processing operation.
The Commission’s processors (contractors) are bound by a specific contractual clause for any processing operations of your personal data on behalf of the Commission. The processors have to put in place appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure the level of security, required by the Commission.
Access to your personal data is provided to the Commission staff responsible for carrying out this processing operation and to other authorised Commission staff according to the “need to know” principle. Such staff abide by statutory, and when required, additional confidentiality agreements.
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Where necessary, we may also share your information with service providers for the purposes of organising the meeting or event:
Starburst Accelerator SAS (France) as the data processor and prime contractor of the Consortium for EUDIS Business Accelerator and Matchmaking and collector of the personal data;
Data sub-processors:
Civitta Eesti AS (Estonia) as Consortium Member;
WSL (Belgium) as Consortium Member;
TEKNOLOGIAN TUTKIMUSKESKUS VTT OY (Finland) as Consortium Member;
The above data processors may engage the following sub-processors of your personal data for the purposes of organising the meeting or event:
Swapcard (France);
Tally B.V. (Netherlands);
and Formagrid Inc. (USA – data storage in Frankfurt, Germany)
Audio-visual recordings and photographs will be published based on consent.
Cookies are short text files stored on a user’s device (such as a computer, tablet or phone) by a website. Cookies are used for the technical functioning of a website (functional cookies) or for gathering statistics (analytical cookies).
Registration for the meeting takes place via SwapCard, which employs cookies as described here: swapcard.com/legal/privacy-policy
Enabling these cookies is not strictly necessary for the website to work but it will provide you with a better browsing experience. You can delete or block these cookies, but if you do that, some features of the event website may not work as intended.
The cookie-related information is not used to identify data subjects personally. These cookies are not used for any purpose other than those described here.
Should you wish to opt your personal data out of our anonymised, aggregated statistics, you can do so on our relevant cookies page. In particular, you can control and/or delete those cookies as you wish.
We may use third party IT tools to inform about and promote the meeting or event through widely used communication channels, including the social media. For detailed information about the use of social media by the European Commission, see the Record of Processing DPR EC-00073 (Social Media Use by the European Commission).
You may be able to watch our videos, which may be also uploaded to one of our social media pages and follow links from our website to other relevant social media.
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In order to protect your privacy, our use of third-party IT tools to connect to those services does not set cookies when our website pages are loaded on your computer (or other devices), nor are you immediately redirected to those social media or other websites. Only in the event that you click on a button or “play” on a video to watch it, a cookie of the social media company concerned will be installed on your device. If you do not click on any social media buttons or videos, no cookies will be installed on your device by third parties.
In order to view such third-party content on our websites, a message will alert you that you need to accept those third parties’ specific Terms and Conditions, including their cookie policies, over which the Commission has no control.
We recommend that users carefully read the relevant privacy policies of the social media tools used: X, LinkedIn, Instagram and YouTube. These explain each company’s policy of personal data collection and further processing, their use of data, users' rights and the ways in which users can protect their privacy when using those services.
Please note that this meeting or event may be held using a third-party videoconference IT service such as Microsoft Teams. This IT tools have their own cookies and privacy policies (available here: Microsoft Privacy Policy; Microsoft Teams Commission Record DPR-EC-4966 and Microsoft Privacy Policy; over which the Commission has a limited or no control. By participating into the meeting or event via a videoconference IT tool, the participants consent to the processing of their personal data via the third-party tool as described in the related privacy policy.
The use of a third-party IT tool does not in any way imply that the European Commission endorses them or their privacy policies. In the event that one or more third-party IT tools are occasionally unavailable, we accept no responsibility for lack of service due to their downtime.
No transfer of your data outside of the EU is foreseen for this activity.
Please note that pursuant to Article 3(13) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 public authorities (e.g. Court of Auditors, EU Court of Justice) which may receive personal data in the framework of a particular inquiry in accordance with Union or Member State law shall not be regarded as recipients. The further processing of those data by those public authorities shall be in compliance with the applicable data protection rules according to the purposes of the processing.
The information we collect will not be given to any third party, except to the extent and for the purpose we may be required to do so by law.
You have specific rights as a ‘data subject’ under Chapter III (Articles 14-25) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1725, in particular the right to access, your personal data and to rectify them in case your personal data are inaccurate or incomplete. Where applicable, you have the right to erase your personal data, to restrict the processing of your personal data, to object to the processing, and the right to data portability.
You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data, which is lawfully carried out pursuant to Article 5(1)(a) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 on grounds relating to your particular situation.
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The European Commission will ensure that the data subjects can exercise their right to object to processing whenever possible by the organisers of the meeting/event (for example, on the spot by indicating a non-web streamed seat if requested; or ex-post, by deleting a specific sequence from the online video/voice recording).
If you have consented to provide your personal data to the data controller for the present processing operation, you can withdraw your consent at any time by notifying the data controller. The withdrawal of your consent will not affect the lawfulness of the processing carried out before you have withdrawn the consent.
You can exercise your rights by contacting the Data Controller, or in case of conflict the Data Protection Officer. If necessary, you can also address the European Data Protection Supervisor. Their contact information is given under Heading 9 below.
Where you wish to exercise your rights in the context of one or several specific processing operations, please provide their description (i.e. their Record reference(s) as specified under Heading 10 below) in your request.
- The Data Controller
If you would like to exercise your rights under Regulation (EU) 2018/1725, or if you have comments, questions or concerns, or if you would like to submit a complaint regarding the collection and use of your personal data, please feel free to contact the Data Controller:
European Commission, Directorate General for Defence Industry and Space – Unit A.3 for European Defence Fund Implementation – Defence Technologies and Innovation [“DG DEFIS Unit A.3” or the “Data Controller”], DEFIS-A3@ec.europa.eu
- The Data Protection Officer (DPO) of the Commission
You may contact the Data Protection Officer (DATA-PROTECTION-OFFICER@ec.europa.eu) with regard to issues related to the processing of your personal data under Regulation (EU) 2018/1725.
- The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS)
You have the right to have recourse (i.e. you can lodge a complaint) to the European Data Protection Supervisor (edps@edps.europa.eu) if you consider that your rights under Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 have been infringed as a result of the processing of your personal data by the data controller.
The Commission Data Protection Officer (DPO) publishes the register of all processing operations on personal data by the European Commission, which have been documented and notified to him. You may access the register via the following link: http://ec.europa.eu/dpo register.
This specific processing operation has been included in the DPO’s public register with the following Record reference: DPR-EC-01063
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Electronically signed on 15/03/2025 17:11 (UTC+01) in accordance with Article 11 of Commission Decision (EU) 2021/2121