Privacy Policy
ENERGY EFFICIENT MORTGAGE LABEL FOUNDATION (EEMLF) PRIVACY POLICY
Who are we?
The Energy Efficient Mortgage Label Foundation (EEMLF) was established by the European Mortgage Federation-European Covered Bond Council (EMF-ECBC), which are registered under the Covered Bond & Mortgage Council (CBMC), in 2020.
The EEMLF administers the Energy Efficient Mortgage Label, which is a quality label aimed at providing a clear and transparent quality benchmark for consumers, lenders and investors.
The EEMLF has been registered under Belgian Law as a Private Foundation (fondation privée/private stichting) since 15 May 2020 under number BE07 4687 5551 and is based at Rue de la Science 14A, 2nd Floor, B-1040 Brussels, Belgium.
Our contact details are:
Rue de la Science 14A, 2nd Floor
B-1040 Brussels - Belgium
+32 2 285 40 30
info@energy-efficient-mortgage-label.org
www.energy-efficient-mortgage-label.org
Data protection contact
For any questions relating to this Privacy Policy or the processing of your personal data, you may contact:
Irene Lanfranchi
Office Manager
+32 2 285 40 30.
How do we collect information from you?
We obtain information about you when you use our websites, for example, when you contact us using the contact form or via email, or if you register to receive one of our newsletters or download one of our publications.
What type of information is collected from you?
The personal information we collect might include your name, address (if provided), e-mail address, your organisation’s name (if provided), your job title (if provided), telephone number (if provided), LinkedIn profile (if provided), IP address, and information regarding what pages are accessed and when.
How is your information used?
We may use your information to:
- process questions you have submitted via the contact form/e-mail/telephone;
- process your participation in events you choose to register for, including your addition to lists of registered attendees;
- manage our membership records and administer participation in our activities, including the registration for and attendance tracking of events through our membership and event management application;
- to carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into by you/your company and us;
- send you communications which you have requested and that may be of interest to you/your company. These may include information about campaigns, newsletters, position papers or other publication material;
- activities, promotions of our association’s activities;
- process a job/internship application.
Legal basis for processing your personal data
We process personal data only where we have a valid legal basis under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Depending on the context in which your personal data is collected, we rely on one or more of the following legal bases:
Consent
Where you have given clear consent for us to process your personal data for a specific purpose (for example, subscribing to our newsletters).
Contractual necessity
Where processing is necessary to perform a contract with you or to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract (for example, registering you for an event organised by the EEMLF).
Legal obligation
Where processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the EEMLF is subject (for example, accounting or regulatory obligations).
Legitimate interests
Where processing is necessary for the legitimate interests pursued by the EEMLF, provided that such interests are not overridden by your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms. This may include, for example:
- responding to enquiries sent via our contact forms or email;
- managing event participation and maintaining professional contact lists;
- improving our website and communications;
- sending information about our activities that may be relevant to professionals working in our sector.
Where we rely on legitimate interests, we ensure that a careful balancing test has been carried out.
Subscription to our newsletters
With our newsletters, we inform you about the EEMLF and its activities.
If you wish to receive our newsletters, we require a valid e-mail address from you as well as information that allows us to verify that you are the owner of the e-mail address provided and/or that the owner consents to the receipt of the newsletter. No other data is collected. This data will only be used for sending newsletters and will not be disclosed to third parties.
During the registration for our newsletters, we save your IP address and the date of registration. The storage of this data serves exclusively as evidence in cases where a third party misuses an e-mail address to subscribe to our newsletters without the authorised owner’s knowledge.
You may revoke your consent to the saving of the data, the e-mail address, as well as their use for sending our newsletters at any time. This revocation can be submitted via a link in the newsletters themselves, or via a message sent to info@energy-efficient-mortgage-label.org.
Who has access to your information?
Your personal data will only be handled by or on behalf of the EEMLF and with utmost care for your privacy. We do not sell or rent your information to third parties. We will not share your information with third parties for marketing purposes.
Third Party Product Providers we work in association with
We work with certain third-party product providers to deliver quality and reliable services (for example e-mail newsletters and other relevant messages sent through service providers including Outlook, Hubspot, SendGrid, Wufoo, SurveyMonkey). We advise you to also read their Privacy Policy.
Embedded services of third-parties
It may be the case that third-party content, such as videos from YouTube, map material from Google Maps or graphics from other websites are embedded within our website. This always requires the third-party providers to gain knowledge of the user’s IP address. This is because without the IP address, they would be unable to send the content to the browser of the corresponding user. Hence, the IP address is necessary to display such content. We strive to use only such content whose corresponding provider uses the IP address exclusively for delivering the content. However, we have no control over whether the third-party provider does in fact store the IP address, e.g. for statistical purposes. If we should become aware of this, we shall inform you.
How long do we keep your personal data?
When contacting us via the contact form or e-mail, your personal data provided (such as name and e-mail address) will be saved for the purposes of processing the query, as well as in case there are follow-up questions.
If you sign up for our newsletters, we will keep your contact details in our mailing list until you decide that you no longer wish to receive our newsletters and unsubscribe or let us know via e-mail (info@energy-efficient-mortgage-label.org) or until they are no longer of interest to you.
We review our retention periods for personal information on a regular basis. We are legally required to hold some types of information to fulfil our statutory obligations. We will hold your specified personal information on our systems for as long as is necessary for the relevant and specified activity.
Your rights & choices
You have the right to access the personal data we hold of you, of course free of charge. Equally, you have the right to have your personal data removed/deleted (unless we are processing your data as part of a legal obligation), corrected or completed. If we are using your data on the legal basis of legitimate interest (for example, direct marketing or processing for statistical purposes), you have the right to object to processing. In order to do so, please contact us via info@energy-efficient-mortgage-label.org.
You always have the right to lodge a complaint with the relevant supervisory authority. For the EEMLF, the supervisory authority is:
Belgian Data Protection Authority
Rue de la Presse 35
1000 Brussels – Belgium
www.dataprotectionauthority.be
You have a choice about whether or not you wish to receive information from us. If you do not want to receive communications from us, then you can select your choices by ticking the relevant boxes situated on the form on which we collect your information.
The table below shows which right you can rely on, depending on the legal basis applicable to the specified processing of your personal data:
How can you access, update and delete your information?
The accuracy of your information is important to us. If you change e-mail address, or any of the other information we hold is inaccurate or out of date, please let us know by e-mail to: info@energy-efficient-mortgage-label.org. Alternatively, you can call us: +32 (0) 2 285 40 30.
Security precautions in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of your information
When you give us personal information, we take steps to ensure that it is treated securely.
Non-sensitive details (your e-mail address etc.) are transmitted normally over the internet, and this can never be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk.
Once we receive your information, we make our best effort to ensure its security on our systems. Where we may have been given (or where you may have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our websites, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone.
Profiling
The EEMLF does not use automated systems to make decisions about individuals that would have legal or significant effects on them.
However, we may analyse certain professional information you provide to us, such as your organisation, professional role or sector, in order to better understand your interests and send you communications that may be relevant to your professional activities (for example, invitations to events or publications related to your field).
This processing is carried out on the basis of the EEMLF’s legitimate interest in promoting its activities and ensuring that communications are relevant to recipients. You have the right to object to this processing at any time by contacting us at info@energy-efficient-mortgage-label.org.
Use of “Cookies”
Our websites use cookies and similar technologies to ensure the proper functioning of the website, improve user experience and collect information about how visitors use the site.
Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit a website. They allow the website to recognise your device and remember certain information about your visit.
We may use the following categories of cookies:
- Strictly necessary cookies – required for the operation and security of the website.
- Analytics cookies – used to understand how visitors interact with our website and to improve its functionality.
- Functional cookies – used to remember your preferences and improve your browsing experience.
Where required by law, non-essential cookies will only be placed on your device after you have provided your consent through our cookie banner.
You can manage or disable cookies at any time through your browser settings. Please note that disabling certain cookies may affect the functionality of our website.
Further information about the cookies we use may be provided in a separate Cookie Policy.
Links to other websites
Our websites may contain links to other websites run by other organisations.
This privacy policy applies only to our websites‚ so we encourage you to read the privacy statements on the other websites you visit. We cannot be responsible for the privacy policies and practices of other sites even if you access them using links from our website.
In addition, if you linked to our websites from a third-party site, we cannot be responsible for the privacy policies and practices of the owners and operators of that third-party site, and recommend that you check the policy of that third-party site.
Use of social plug-ins (LinkedIn)
The EEMLF website uses social plugins of the social networks, LinkedIn and X. You can identify the plugins by the following icons: (X) and
(LinkedIn).
By accessing a page through a plugin, the content of the plugin is directly transmitted to your browser via LinkedIn or X, which then embeds it in the web page. Hence, we have no influence over the scope of the data which LinkedIn or X collects with the help of this plugin.
If you wish to suppress the linking of your data with LinkedIn or X, please log out before visiting our website. You can also review your privacy policy applicable to your LinkedIn and X usage on the respective websites.
16 or under
We are concerned to protect the privacy of children aged 16 or under. If you are aged 16 or under‚ please get your parent/guardian’s permission beforehand whenever you provide us with personal information.
Transferring your information outside the EU
Transfers of personal data outside the European Economic Area
In certain circumstances, your personal data may be transferred to organisations located outside the European Economic Area (EEA). By way of example, this may happen if you request information that one of our non-EU member associations is better placed to answer, we may transfer your request and contact information to them. We will always inform you if we forward your personal data.
Where such transfers occur, the EEMLF ensures that appropriate safeguards are in place to protect your personal data in accordance with applicable data protection law.
By submitting your personal data, you are agreeing to this transfer, storing or processing.
If you use our services while you are outside the EU, your information may be transferred outside the EU in order to provide you with those services.
Review of this Policy
We review this Policy in case of policy changes. This Policy was last updated in March 2026.