ASCRL Membership Agreement
Part VII.
ASCRL Privacy Policy and ASCRL Statement of Compliance With General Data Protection Rules
You agree to ASCRL’s Privacy Policy and General Data Protection Rules as set forth herein.
You further expressly consent to ASCRL’s processing your personal data for the purposes of ASCRL’s compliance with and performance of the ASCRL Membership Agreement and ASCRL Mandate, for ASCRL’s use in the conduct of its present and future business, for ASCRL’s use for statistical, analytical, purposes in the course of ASCRL’s business and in support thereof, and for the purposes of performing services for you and other ASCRL Members.
You understand and agree that your consent is given for the use of your personal data for the foregoing purposes, and as stated in ASCRL’s Privacy Policy and Statement of Compliance With General Data Protection Rules, and for any other lawful purpose consistent with the ASCRL Membership Agreement or with the management of ASCRL’s business.
You further warrant and represent that you have read and agree to the ASCRL Privacy Policy and Statement of Compliance With General Data Protection Rules, which contains important information concerning your rights regarding your personal data.
The ASCRL Privacy Policy and Statement of Compliance With General Data Protection Rules may be changed or modified, consistent with law, by posting the change on the ASCRL website. Such change will become effective immediately when posted, and your explicit consent will be deemed to be given to the change at the time you access your membership account and or submit a claim, whichever is sooner.
ASCRL Privacy Policy and ASCRL Statement of Compliance With General Data Protection Rules
ASCRL’s legal name is the American Society for Collective Rights Licensing, Inc. ASCRL’s business address is 1050 30thStreet NW Washington, DC, 2007. ASCRL’s website is www.ASCRL.org. ASCRL is a controller of personal data and ASCRL determines the purposes and means of processing your personal data. ASCRL may also act as a processor of personal data. This privacy policy and statement of compliance with general data protection rules is designed to inform you about ASCRL’s handling of personal data and important rights you have regarding your personal data.
A. Your Personal Data.
Your personal data includes your membership registration information, membership registration identification materials that you provide, your email, financial information pertaining to how you have directed ASCRL to make payments to or for you, information concerning who you may designate as a payment agent, information concerning remuneration that may be or that has been distributed to you, tax information you provide to ASCRL, and other information that ASCRL collects that relates to you and that is identifiable with you. Please note that ASCRL does not collect data concerning racial or ethnic origins, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, genetic data, biometrical data, or health or sexual orientation data. ASCRL may also obtain personal data from organizations with whom ASCRL transacts business, including, for example, and not by way of limitation, reprographic rights organizations and collective management organizations, from whom ASCRL obtains funds in order to make reprographic remuneration distributions to members. ASCRL might also obtain personal data that concerns you from the International ISBN Agency or its affiliates, the International Organization for Standardization, publishers in whose works your authorship or copyrightable content is included, and from Internet or web-based platforms on which your work is published, as well as your legally appointed agents and representatives.
B. What We Do With Your Data.
ASCRL may process your personal data by performing certain operations with your data, including, for example, its inclusion in an ASCRL data base, and by ASCRL computer reporting and computer and non-computer analysis functions that occur on and off of the computer data base (such as the creation of financial reports, distribution histories, auditing, membership data reports, and other reports), and by other means that involve its collection, recording, organization, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, and or its retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination, or by making it available, or by its alignment and or combination, or by its restriction, erasure or destruction.
ASCRL may also outsource the processing of ASCRL business office functions to third party processing firms that assist us with the processing of our business operations and financial transactions. ASCRL does not authorize these entities to use or disclose your personal data except where they may do so for the payment purposes that they are authorized to perform, and for the purposes of reporting directly to ASCRL. ASRL maintains a written confidentiality agreement with third party processing firms in which is included a condition that, at ASCRL’s request, they destroy certain data, including personal data if ASCRL requests the same.
Recipients of your data may include the International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organizations, other reprographic rights organizations, other collective management organizations, trade associations that conduct or may conduct business with ASCRL, tax authorities such as thf
