Privacy

The Architects’ council of Europe, with registered address 29 rue Paul-Emile Janson – B-1050 Ixelles, Belgium, is the owner of this website and is data controller for all personal data collected through this website. You can learn more about us on the About us pages.

When you visit our website, you may provide us with information about yourself or your company, such as your name, email, address or login password, that we may need to correspond with you or to enter the content restricted for our members. We will store your personal data only as long as necessary for the fulfillment of the purposes for which it was collected. Providing your personal data is entirely voluntary, however, if you refrain to do so, you won’t be able to use all our services, such as entering the content restricted to our members.

By using this website you accept the use of cookies. 

We want to ensure that our website and services are easy to use and reliable. To achieve this, we may use on our website a technology called "cookies", which is a piece of information that our website places on your computer (more specifically your browser) when you access our website. 

The cookies used on our website do not store your email address or other directly identifying personal data. They do however enable us to recognise your visit, remember your preferences and understand how you interact with our website through the technical information provided by the cookies. 

Strictly necessary cookies - These cookies are necessary to facilitate basic site functionality. Without these cookies, our website cannot provide the service you request. These cookies for example recognise your session so that you stay logged in after going to another page on our website.

Performance cookies - These cookies collect information about how you use our website, measuring how many and how people are using our website, so the website can be made easier. For these purposes, we use for example the Google Analytics cookies. You can read more on Google Analytics at https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/gajs/cookie-usage.

We do not use targeting or tracking cookies on our website.

You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some website features or services may not function properly without cookies. On most web browsers, you will find a “help” section on the toolbar. Please refer to this section for information on how cookie settings are managed by your web browser. On most browsers you can also view technical information on each cookie we use, such as their retention period. For more general information on cookies, please visit www.aboutcookies.org.

You have the right to access your personal data in order to ensure that your personal data is still accurate and up to date. You have the right to ask us if we hold any personal data on you by making an access request. If we hold information about you, we will explain what we have, why we’re holding it and who it could be disclosed to. You may also request to have a copy of the information in an intelligible form. If we hold personal data about you that is incorrect, you may request for us to correct any mistake in the same manner. To make such a request, please see the section Contact Us.

We recognise the importance of information security, and are constantly reviewing and enhancing our technical, physical, and logical security rules and procedures. We have established technical means, procedures and policies to preserve the integrity, confidentiality and privacy of your personal data, during its collection, use, transfer and storage while under our control.

If you wish to contact us to receive more information on how we process your personal data, please visit our Contact page to learn how to contact us.