Privacy & Cookie Policy
Who we are
AA North Sea Convention is the annual Alcoholics Anonymous Triborders Group Convention. Our website address is: https://www.northseaconvention.com.
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This privacy notice tells you what to expect when Alcoholics Anonymous collects personal information. It applies to information we collect about:
• Website visitors and the use of Cookies
• Use of Search Engines and business listings such as Google Search and Google Maps and
• Search media such as Google Search and Google Maps
• Members and others who use ‘northseaconvention.com’ email addresses.
We have written this notice in a way we hope is clear and easy to understand. It does not provide exhaustive detail of all aspects of Alcoholics Anonymous’ collection and use of personal information however, we are happy to help and to provide any additional information or explanation needed. If you agree, we will try to deal with your request informally, for example by providing you with the specific information you need over the telephone or, if you prefer by email. We are happy to provide copies of the data in a format that is easily accessible and easy for you to use.
Any requests for information or more details should be sent by email to contact@northseaconvention.com.
Mailing List
If you want to join our mailing list, you agree to this privacy & cookie policy as well as the privacy conditions of Sendinblue. You give us permission to e-mail you in order to confirm that you are the holder of the specified e-mail address and agree to receive our information. Further data is not collected. We use this data exclusively for sending the requested information and do not give it to third parties.
The granted consent to the storage of the data, the e-mail address and their use for the purpose of emailing you the requested information can be revoked at any time, for example via the “Unsubscribe” link contained at the bottom of the welcome email you received and any email we sent you via Sendinblue or with a short e-mail to contact@northseaconvention.com.
Cookies
We will place 🍪🍪 on your device when you visit our website to enable the site to work and to make the experience better for you.
The different types listed here do not mean all of the types are actually used. For a list of actually placed 🍪🍪 please refer to the list of placed 🍪🍪 further below.
Essential: Some 🍪🍪 are essential for you to be able to experience the full functionality of our site. They allow us to maintain user sessions and prevent any security threats. They do not collect or store any personal information. For example, these 🍪🍪 allow you to log-in to your account and add products to your basket, and checkout securely.
Statistics: These 🍪🍪store information like the number of visitors to the website, the number of unique visitors, which pages of the website have been visited, the source of the visit, etc. These data help us understand and analyze how well the website performs and where it needs improvement.
Functional: These are the 🍪🍪 that help certain non-essential functionalities on our website. These functionalities include embedding content like videos or sharing content of the website on social media platforms.
Preferences: These 🍪🍪 help us store your settings and browsing preferences like language preferences so that you have a better and efficient experience on future visits to the website.
Should you decide to change your preferences later through your browsing session, you can click on the “Manage cookie consent” tab on your screen. This will display the consent notice again enabling you to change your preferences or withdraw your consent entirely.
In addition to this, different browsers provide different methods to block and delete 🍪🍪 used by websites. You can change the settings of your browser to block/delete the 🍪🍪. To find out more about how to manage and delete 🍪🍪, visit wikipedia.org, www.allaboutcookies.org and view our Cookie Policy below.
Access to personal information
Alcoholics Anonymous tries to be as open as it can be in terms of giving people access to their personal information while keeping in mind the Twelfth Tradition “Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our Traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities”. We only store the data we need to do our service and business.
Changes to this privacy notice
This document was updated in October 2021.
Cooke Policy
This Cookie Policy was last updated on July 3, 2025 and applies to citizens and legal permanent residents of the European Economic Area and Switzerland.
1. Introduction
Our website, https://www.northseaconvention.com (hereinafter: "the website") uses cookies and other related technologies (for convenience all technologies are referred to as "cookies"). Cookies are also placed by third parties we have engaged. In the document below we inform you about the use of cookies on our website.
2. What are cookies?
A cookie is a small simple file that is sent along with pages of this website and stored by your browser on the hard drive of your computer or another device. The information stored therein may be returned to our servers or to the servers of the relevant third parties during a subsequent visit.
3. What are scripts?
A script is a piece of program code that is used to make our website function properly and interactively. This code is executed on our server or on your device.
4. What is a web beacon?
A web beacon (or a pixel tag) is a small, invisible piece of text or image on a website that is used to monitor traffic on a website. In order to do this, various data about you is stored using web beacons.
5. Cookies
5.1 Technical or functional cookies
Some cookies ensure that certain parts of the website work properly and that your user preferences remain known. By placing functional cookies, we make it easier for you to visit our website. This way, you do not need to repeatedly enter the same information when visiting our website and, for example, the items remain in your shopping cart until you have paid. We may place these cookies without your consent.
5.2 Statistics cookies
We use statistics cookies to optimize the website experience for our users. With these statistics cookies we get insights in the usage of our website. We ask your permission to place statistics cookies.
5.3 Marketing/Tracking cookies
Marketing/Tracking cookies are cookies or any other form of local storage, used to create user profiles to display advertising or to track the user on this website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
6. Placed cookies
7. Consent
When you visit our website for the first time, we will show you a pop-up with an explanation about cookies. As soon as you click on "Save preferences", you consent to us using the categories of cookies and plug-ins you selected in the pop-up, as described in this Cookie Policy. You can disable the use of cookies via your browser, but please note that our website may no longer work properly.
7.1 Manage your consent settings
8. Enabling/disabling and deleting cookies
You can use your internet browser to automatically or manually delete cookies. You can also specify that certain cookies may not be placed. Another option is to change the settings of your internet browser so that you receive a message each time a cookie is placed. For more information about these options, please refer to the instructions in the Help section of your browser.
Please note that our website may not work properly if all cookies are disabled. If you do delete the cookies in your browser, they will be placed again after your consent when you visit our website again.
9. Your rights with respect to personal data
You have the following rights with respect to your personal data:
- You have the right to know why your personal data is needed, what will happen to it, and how long it will be retained for.
- Right of access: You have the right to access your personal data that is known to us.
- Right to rectification: you have the right to supplement, correct, have deleted or blocked your personal data whenever you wish.
- If you give us your consent to process your data, you have the right to revoke that consent and to have your personal data deleted.
- Right to transfer your data: you have the right to request all your personal data from the controller and transfer it in its entirety to another controller.
- Right to object: you may object to the processing of your data. We comply with this, unless there are justified grounds for processing.
To exercise these rights, please contact us. Please refer to the contact details at the bottom of this Cookie Policy. If you have a complaint about how we handle your data, we would like to hear from you, but you also have the right to submit a complaint to the supervisory authority (the Data Protection Authority).
10. Contact details
For questions and/or comments about our Cookie Policy and this statement, please contact us by using the following contact details:
Belgium
Website: https://www.northseaconvention.com
Email:
This Cookie Policy was synchronized with cookiedatabase.org on June 14, 2024.