SkyTeam Airline Alliance Management Coöperatie U.A., a company registered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands (Chamber of Commerce registration number 34345101), whose address for visitors is at (1180 AJ) Amstelveen at Amsterdamseweg 55 (“SkyTeam”, “us”, “we”), is a global airline alliance that coordinates and provides commercial activities on behalf of and – to some extent – together with the SkyTeam Member airlines (Members) in the aviation industry. When you use our The Aviation Challenge website (the “TAC Website”), do business with us as our business partner or supplier and/or make use of our services as indicated in this Privacy Statement, it is important to us to process your personal data carefully and securely in a transparent manner. The processing of your personal data is subject to the rules of the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR), and potentially to one or more EU member states’ national implementation acts of the GDPR, as well as the data protection laws and regulations of other countries (if applicable). This Privacy Statement serves to comply with our transparency obligations under the GDPR, namely to explain to you when we collect your personal data in the capacity of a controller under the GDPR, what personal data we collect, how we use such personal data, and how long we keep your personal data.
The TAC Website is provided solely to assist Users in connection with The Aviation Challenge and for no other purposes. The Aviation Challenge is an initiative of SkyTeam and its alliance members to highlight the importance of environmentally sustainable operations by SkyTeam alliance members and partner airlines and to identify potential improvements to such operations to enhance the competitiveness of such airlines individually and collectively vis-à-vis non-member airlines, including members of other alliances.
This Privacy Statement was last updated in December 2024. This Privacy Statement supersedes any previous versions of our Privacy Statement. When there are any updates, we will inform you there of in this Privacy Statement. Please check this Privacy Statement regularly for the most current version. If we make any changes that may significantly affect you as a data subject, we will endeavor to actively inform you about those changes before the changes come into effect All changes will take effect as soon as the Privacy Statement has been published on the website.
SkyTeam is the controller, within the meaning of the GDPR, of the processing of your personal data indicated in this Privacy Statement.
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We will not retain your personal data longer than is necessary for the purposes for which they are used, as mentioned under "Why do we collect this personal data?". In principle, this means that:
You can change or delete your personal details at any time by logging into your account. |
Your information may be collected by, shared with and processed by persons working for or on behalf of SkyTeam and other users and participants of The Aviation Challenge. The profile and contact details will be visible to all Users of The Aviation Challenge.
We also use third party service providers such as IT suppliers to provide our services. Therefore, your personal data will be processed by these third party service providers. When we use services of a party who processes your personal data on our behalf, acting as a processor, we have concluded appropriate data processing agreements in line with applicable data protection laws.
The processing of your personal data may entail the transfer of your personal data to a third country that does not provide the same level of protection as within the European Economic Area (EEA). This may be the case if we share your personal data with selected third parties, with whom we have partnership agreements, e.g., our IT service provider. Where applicable, we have taken appropriate safeguards to transfer your personal data to a country located outside the EEA, if that country does not provide an adequate level of protection according to the applicable data protection laws, by relying on adequacy decisions issued by the European Commission or by entering including standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission (with supplementary measures to the extent required).
We are committed to ensuring that your personal data is kept secure. In order to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, we have put in place appropriate physical, technical and organizational measures to safeguard the information we collect and process.
You have the right to ask us if we are processing your personal data, and, if so, provide you with a copy of that personal data.
You have the right to rectify your personal data, if you believe that the personal data we have about you is incomplete or inaccurate. If we have shared your personal data with others, we will also inform them of the correction where possible.
You have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal data in some circumstances. If we have shared your personal data with others, we will inform them of the erasure where possible. Due to the way we maintain certain services, it may take some time before backup copies are erased.
You have the right to ask us to block or suppress the processing of your personal data in certain circumstances, which means that we suspend the processing of your data for a certain period of time. Circumstances which may give rise to this right include situations where the accuracy of your personal data was contested but some time is needed for us to verify their (in)accuracy. This right does not prevent us from continuing to store your personal data. We will inform you before the restriction is lifted. If we have shared your personal data with others, we will inform them of the restriction where possible.
You have the right to obtain personal data you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format in certain circumstances. This way you can use your personal data elsewhere or you can also ask us to transfer your personal data to a third party. Upon request and where this is technically feasible, we will transmit your personal data directly to the other controller.
You have the right to ask us to stop processing your personal data, if we are relying on legitimate interests to process your personal data, except if we can demonstrate compelling legal.
Version: June 2025