Privacy and Disclaimer

Handling customer data in Labourline

When logging in with the username and email address, they are stored in Labourline. The information is used for the following purposes:

User ID ----> User identification
Email    ----> Default address for email

The email address stored in Labourline is used only to send emails requested by the user, such as sending of result search lists, due date reminders and new entries alerts. In addition to the above information, Labourline may store information about the user’s activities. Such information includes the receiving of due date reminders and new entries alerts, records saved in the user’s lists, social metadata (comments, reviews, …), browsing borrowed and reserved material, as well as making reservations, renewing loans.

Data file contact person

ETUI documentation centre
Boulevard du Jardin Botanique, 20
1000 Brussels
Belgium
Email: dataprivacy@etui.org

Regular sources of data

For internal ETUI users, the information are be recorded by the staff of the ETUI documentation centre.
For external user, the information are be recorded by the user himself.
For personalised functions, the information must be recorded by the user.

Regular disclosure of information

The information will not be disclosed to third parties.

Data file usage

This register will be used to identify users in order to enable personalised services, such as the news alert service which will send an email to the user whenever new entries relating to a search are added to the database.

Data types included in the file

Basic user information

• User ID
• Email

Data collected for personalised services

• Personal settings
• Favourites
• Tags
• Comments
• Reviews
• Reservations
• Loans
• Information stored in My Space

Principles of data security

The information is recorded exclusively in an electronic format. Only system administrators, authenticated by username and password, may access the information.
Please note that we cannot guarantee the security of any transmission of personal information over the Internet. Communications sent over the Internet, such as emails, are not secure, although their security may be increased if they have been encrypted. We cannot guarantee the security of any information transmitted to us over the internet.

Right to inspect the data file
Users may contact the data file contact person to inspect their personal information stored on the server.

Rectifying inaccurate information

If the information retrieved from the user’s home organisation is inaccurate, the user should contact the data file contact person.

Disclaimer

The documentation centre staff has prepared the content of this website responsibly and carefully to ensure that information and documents contained in this site are correct and error free, as far as possible.

An abstract/summary is supplied as additional information only if such a text is freely available on the Internet. The summary is always placed between quotation marks to indicate that the documentation centre is not responsible for its drafting but that it remains the intellectual property of the author or publisher.

No responsibility or liability can be accepted by the documentation centre staff for any loss or damage incurred as a result of relying on information or downloading files contained within this website. In accordance with standard computer practice we strongly recommend that you use and regularly update anti-virus software and submit all downloaded documents to a virus checker prior to opening.

The documentation centre is not responsible for the content of external websites. References and links to any such sites shall not be taken as an endorsement by the documentation centre of opinions expressed or services provided at those sites.

The European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) is financially supported by the European Union. The European Union is not responsible for any use made of the information contained in this website.