PRIVACY NOTICE

Related to Airbus Supply Portal

Document updated in February 2021

 

1.        Introduction

Airbus SAS and its affiliates (also known as, "Airbus", or "we" or "us") appreciate your interest in our products, services and business lines and your use of Airbus Supply Portal including applications on them. Your privacy is important to us and we want you to feel comfortable using Airbus Supply Portal. Personal Data collected to access and use Airbus Supply Portal is processed by us according to General Terms and Conditions to access to and use of Airbus Supplier Portals signed by your Company in the course its business activity with Airbus.

Airbus is committed to protecting the rights of individuals in line with the General Data Protection Regulation (reference EU2016/679) of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of Personal Data and on the free movement of such data (hereinafter referred as : "GDPR") as well as each applicable national Personal Data protection laws and regulations (collectively referred as "Data Protection Laws and Regulations").

This Privacy Notice will inform you of the Personal Data we collect when you access/use the Airbus Supply Portal; how we use and disclose your data; how you can control the use and disclosure of your data; and how we protect your Personal Data. However, Airbus Supplier Portals will include links to other portals or applications which are not necessarily covered by this Privacy Notice. In this event, we encourage you to carefully read the privacy policies of such portals.

 

2.        What is Personal Data?

Personal Data is information that can be used to identify a person either directly or indirectly (hereinafter referred as: "Personal Data". A "personal identifier" is a piece of information that can identify an individual. This definition covers a wide range of personal identifiers to constitute Personal Data, including name, address, email address, identification number, location data or online identifier.

 

3.        Which sources and what Personal Data do we use?

Before accessing to Airbus Supply Portal at first company registration, Airbus will collect directly from the Administrator appointed in your Company, the following Administrator Personal Data via notably the Identity Administrator and Documentation Manager Registration Form and Company Administrator Registration Form:

·         Identification data: Administrator title, first name and family name, professional email address, signature

·         Professional data : company legal name, address, post code, country, Phone number

·         the date and length of visit to the site, the pages you view etc…

·         Account information (role and permissions, settings and preferences, login, password)

When you use Airbus Supply Portal and their applications, Airbus will collect, use and process the following Personal Data you provide us:

·         Identification data: your complete name, professional email address.

·         Professional data : as mandatory data: company name, Phone number.

·         IT data: any information generated as a result of using Airbus Portals, such as IP address, the date and length of visit to the site, the pages you view etc…

·         Account information (role and permissions, settings and preferences, login, password)

We may collect this Personal Data:

          directly from you. For example, when filling the Documentation Manager registration Form Company Administration Form or a TechRequest, you get asked optionally to enter your phone number and your job title.

          indirectly for those Personal Data made available from your company via your Administrator. For example, when asking for your Airbus Supply account creation, your User Entity Administrator enters your Personal Data.

 

4.        What are the purposes of the processing of your Personal Data?

By using Airbus Portal and their applications, Airbus will collect and process your Personal Data in accordance with this Privacy Notice. Your Personal Data may be used for the following purposes (hereinafter referred as: the "Purposes"):

1.    Portal Browsers / Administration.

We use your Personal Data for administrative purposes, including to help us better understand how our customers access and use our portals and applications; to provide reports to prospective partners, service providers, regulators, and others; to implement and maintain security, anti-piracy, fraud prevention, and other services designed to protect our customers, partners and us; and to enforce our policies, directives and processes.

2.    Outsourcing and supplier management.

We use your Personal Data in the course of the management of Airbus supply chain and of your Company’s performance with regards to deliverables expected as per the relevant contract with your Company. Airbus Supplier portal is a means allowing to improve the exchange information between our both companies in the course of the performance of the contract. 

3.    Communication.

We use your Personal Data to communicate with you, including responding to requests for assistance. We can communicate with you in a variety of ways, including email.

4.    Legal compliance.

We use your Personal Data to comply with applicable legal obligations, including responding to an authority or court order or discovery request.

 

5.     To protect us and others.

 

Where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person or violations of policies, terms, and other policies.

5.        What is the legal basis for processing of your Personal Data?

In accordance with the GDPR, in the course of your access and use of Airbus Supplier Portal, we may process your Personal Data for the following purposes (hereinafter referred as the “Purposes”) such as :

1.   Within the scope of a legitimate interest while taking into account the minimum privacy impact for you. On occasion we may not need your consent to use your data, given our legitimate interest to do so but we must inform you that we do this; examples of this are:

o    For the analysis and optimization of the Airbus Supplier Portal.

o    For ensuring IT security on Airbus network and the IT operation of Airbus.

2.    On the basis of Airbus’ legal obligations. Airbus, as any other company, is subject to legal obligations and regulations. In some cases the processing of your Personal Data will be necessary for Airbus in order to fulfil these obligations, including without limitation the GDPR, anti-corruption.

6.        Who will receive your Personal Data?

We may disclose your Personal Data to the following recipient(s) on a strict need to know basis and for the purposes as outlined in this Privacy Notice:

        Airbus and its affiliates;

        Authorized persons working for or on behalf of Airbus; including our agents, service providers providing the variety of products and services we need such as (e.g. Third party service providers and advisers providing the variety of products and services we need such as IT maintenance and support, compliance and security services, etc.);

        Your company;

        Airbus business partners in connection with Airbus activities (including law firm/consultancy firms,..)

        Other authorized third parties in connection with a reorganization or sale of Airbus businesses and/or assets;

        Law enforcement or government authorities where necessary to comply with applicable law or in response to any subpoenas, court orders, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or to defend against legal claims.

 

7.        Which countries and/or regions will Airbus transfer your Personal Data to?

Airbus processes your Personal Data mostly in the EEA. On occasion Personal Data is transferred to the relevant recipients as described in Section “Who will receive your Personal Data?” including entities outside the EEA. This transfer is subject to appropriate safeguards, and through the legal framework of our Binding Corporate Rules, that can be found on our portal www.airbus.com or viewed here Airbus BCR's or through alternative contractual frameworks (so called Standard Contractual Clauses) or relevant adequacy decision where the relevant data recipients as defined in Section “Who will receive your Personal Data?” is engaged to help us providing/support services to Airbus.

Our Binding Corporate Rules allow us to transfer Personal Data within our international organisation for Airbus daily business activity and internal organisation, and they include a list of countries where Airbus Affiliates having signed the BCR and which might have access to your Personal Data if relevant.

Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, , Denmark, , Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Philippines, Poland, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Taïwan, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, Uruguay, United States of America.

8.        How long will your Personal Data be stored?

We process and store your Personal Data as long as it is required to access and use our Airbus Portal and/or meet our legal, contractual and statutory obligations. If your Personal Data is no longer required, these will be erased on a regular basis unless further processing is necessary, for instance, for preserving particular evidence under the applicable Data Protection Laws and Regulations, or in the context of legal statutes of limitation.

9.        What about the security of your Personal Data?

We use technical and organizational security measures in order to protect the Personal Data we have under our control against accidental or intentional manipulation, loss, destruction and against access by unauthorized persons. Our security procedures are continually enhanced as new technology becomes available.

10.  What are your rights and how to exercise them?

Under some circumstances provided by law, you may at any time exercise your data protection rights as listed below:

        Right to access/obtain a report detailing the information held about you: You have the right to obtain confirmation as to whether or not your Personal Data is being processed by Airbus and if so, what specific data is being processed.

        Right to correct Personal Data: You have the right to change any inaccurate Personal Data concerning you.

        Right to be forgotten: In some cases, for instance, when the Personal Data is no longer necessary in relation to the Purposes for which they were collected, you have the right for your Personal Data to be erased.

        Right to restrict the processing of your Personal Data: You have the right to restrict the processing of your Personal Data by Airbus, for instance when the processing is unlawful and you oppose the erasure of your Personal Data. In such cases, your Personal Data will only be processed with your consent or for the exercise or defence of legal claims.

        Right to data portability: you have the right to receive the Personal Data concerning you in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and/or transmit those Personal Data to another data controller.

        Right to object: In some cases required by law, you may ask us to stop processing your Personal Data.

               

10. How to exercise your rights and/or contact Airbus in respect of your Personal Data?

If you want to exercise your rights or you are unhappy with the way in which your Personal Data has been processed or should you have any questions regarding the processing of your Personal Data, you may refer in the first instance to the Airbus Data Protection Officer, who is available, at the following email address: dataprotection@airbus.com or you can write to the address below: Airbus SAS, Head of Data Protection, 2 rond-point Emile Dewoitine 31700  Blagnac cedex France.

In case of doubt of your identity, we may ask you to justify it by enclosing a copy of any identity document.

11. Are you obliged to provide your Personal Data?

In the context of accessing Airbus Supplier Portal, some Personal Data are strictly necessary, any failure to provide the requested Personal Data may conduct us not being able to grant you the appropriate access rights and thus fulfil our respective contractual obligations with your company or to achieve the expected results.

12. Are your Personal Data the basis for automated decision-making, including profiling?

As a matter of principle, we do not use fully automated decision-making processes. In the event that we should use such processes in individual cases, we will if prescribed by law, specifically inform you of this and of your rights in this respect.

13. How to ask for assistance to the competent authorities?

If you remain unsatisfied, then you have the right to lodge a complaint to a Data Protection Supervisory Authority. Listed below are the four main European countries where Airbus operates and the relevant Supervisory Authority:

        FRANCE: CNIL: Supervisory Authority France

        GERMANY: Each German federal state has its own Data Protection Authority that can be found under the following link: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html (see tab “„Aufsichtsbehörden für den nicht-öffentlichen Bereich“, i.e. Data Protection Authorities for the private sector)

        SPAIN: AEPD. Supervisory Authority Spain

        UK: ICO: Supervisory Authority UK

14. Cookies

14.1 What are cookies?

Cookies are small files or amount of information that may be stored to, accessed and remove from your device when you access Airbus Portal.

For instance, a “Cookie” may refer to “http cookie”, flash cookie” (used by some applications or website relying on Flash technology), local storage area of your internet browser, unique identifier

 calculated from your internet browser characteristics (also known as “browser fingerprinting”), or unique identifiers related to your device or your internet browser (device serial number, MAC address, Android ID, advertising ID, etc...)].

Cookies allows us to recognize your device and store information about your preferences or past actions. We may use Cookies:

(i)            to record the preferences of our users,

(ii)           to enable us to optimize the design of Airbus Portal,

(iii)          to ease navigation, and increase the user-friendliness of Airbus Portal,

(iv)          to analyze the usage Airbus Portal, and/or to identify the most popular sections of Airbus Portal,

(v)           to provide content that is more accurately suited to your needs, and, in doing so, Airbus Portal. Cookies can be used to determine whether there has been any contact between us and your device in the past,

(vi)          to facilitate secure online access so that you do not need to enter your user ID and password again when you access Airbus Portal.

 

14.2 Which cookies do we use?

Please find below a table with specific information for cookies types that we may use on our Airbus Portal. The Personal data are never kept in cookies after your session has been closed.

Other cookies that you could see are not listed below because they do not use Personal Data.

TYPE OF COOKIES

PURPOSE

RETENTION PERIOD

MANDATORY

Siteminder cookies

Identification for SSO connection

Session duration

YES

Tomcat cookies

AirbusSpares session control(“jsessionid”)

Session duration

YES

WCP cookies

Save the actions done by the user relative to the internet pages built

Session duration

YES

WCC cookies

Save the actions done by the user relative to the documents acceded

Session duration

YES

Fed search cookies

Save the search actions done by the user

(user login used as key)

Session duration

YES

Technical/network  cookies

Load balancing use

Session duration

YES

 

When the Cookies we use are strictly necessary for technical reasons, they are marked as “mandatory” on the table above. Those Cookies does not require consent from you.

 

You can prevent Cookies from being stored on your device by setting your browser to not accept cookies. The exact instructions for this can be found in the manual for your browser. You can also delete Cookies already on your device at any time through your browser’s settings.

 

For the purpose of statistical analysis, we use analytics tools relying on specific Cookies. You may object at any time to the collection and analysis of statistical data regarding your access to and use of Airbus Portal through the cookies settings interface mentioned above.

To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.

15. Modification of the Privacy Notice

Airbus will update this Privacy Notice from time to time in order to reflect the changes in our practices and services and also to remain compliant to Data Protection Laws and Regulations. We will inform you of any substantial modification in how we process your Personal Data.

 

 

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