This website can be used at any time without the user having to provide personal data. Personal data collected on this website is provided voluntarily by the user. Personal data will not be passed on to third parties if the user has not given his/her express consent.

Insofar as personal data are collected on this website, this is always done in accordance with the provisions of Belgian data protection legislation. Insofar as personal data are collected, this data protection declaration provides information on the nature, scope and purpose of the collection and use of personal data.

Despite the utmost care taken to protect your data, the transmission of data over the Internet always involves risks due to security breaches. It is therefore impossible to guarantee complete data protection at all times.

Personal data

We use and collect, to the extent necessary, your personal data for establishing, creating the content of or amending a contractual relationship between you and us.

This data is not generally passed on to third parties, nor is any related information shared with third parties. By order of the competent authorities, we are obliged to provide information on personal data as this is necessary for the purposes of criminal prosecution or defense or for the fulfillment of other statutory tasks.

Usage data

We collect and use your “usage data” insofar as necessary. Usage data is data that allows you to use our internet offering and is also used for billing purposes. This data provides us with information on not only the time and extent of your usage but also your identification characteristics.

Note that we are permitted to generate usage profiles – i.e. a collection of data detailing the history of visits to our website – for promotional, market research or website optimization purposes. These usage profiles do not contain any personal information and are not combined with any other data collected by us, which means that individual persons cannot be identified through the amalgamation of different data. You have the right to revoke at any time consent to your data being used in this way.

Newsletter data

When you order the newsletter offered on our website, we ask for your e-mail and store your IP address. No further data are collected. This data is used exclusively for sending the requested information and is not passed on to third parties.

You have the right to withdraw your consent to the storage of your data and e-mail and to their use for sending the newsletter at any time; you can do so, for example, via the unsubscribe link provided in each newsletter.

Right to information

You have the right to request information about your stored data from us and, in case of incorrect data, to have it blocked, deleted or corrected. Such information can be provided by e-mail.

Changes to the privacy statement

In case of future changes to our data protection statement, the changes will always be announced on this website.

When you visit our website, data is automatically transmitted from your browser to our web server. This data includes anonymous access data such as date and time, browser type, volume/type of data accessed and your IP address. This data is stored separately from all other data collected during your visit to our website. This data does not allow the identification of individual persons and is collected solely to record user behavior and for statistical purposes. After the data has been evaluated accordingly, arrangements are made to delete the data.

Cookies

We use cookies on our website both for quality assurance and to expand the functional scope of our internet offer. Cookies are text files that are stored on your computer and are used to determine the number of page visits. We only use this information to improve our website.

Newsletter data

When you order the newsletter offered on our website, we ask for your e-mail and store your IP address. No further data are collected. This data is used exclusively for sending the requested information and is not passed on to third parties.

You have the right to withdraw your consent to the storage of your data and e-mail and to their use for sending the newsletter at any time; you can do so, for example, via the unsubscribe link provided in each newsletter.

Right to information

You have the right to request information about your stored data from us and, in case of incorrect data, to have it blocked, deleted or corrected. Such information can be provided by e-mail.

Changes to the privacy statement

In case of future changes to our data protection statement, the changes will always be announced on this website.

Data privacy statement – Google Analytics

Our website uses the services provided by Google Analytics, a web analysis service from Google Inc. Analysis of your website usage is enabled by means of “cookies”, which are stored on your computer, generate information on your usage behaviour and send the data to Google Inc. Under normal circumstances, a shortened version of your IP address is sent to the Google servers, although in exceptional cases the full IP address may also be sent. Google uses this information on our behalf to create a report on user behaviour on our website. The IP address identified by Google Analytics is not combined with any other Google data. If you do not want any cookies to be stored on your computer, you can change the appropriate settings in your browser, although this can result in your being unable to benefit from the full scope of our website.

If the IP addresses have not been anonymized anyway (IP masking) through the addition of the code the collected data is processed in accordance with the relevant legal provisions laid down in the Federal Data Protection Act and Google’s own terms of use, which means that the forwarding of personal data to Google is not permitted.