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Privacy Statement

By visiting the website www.houseofboards.eu and possibly entering your contact information, you agree to and accept the contents of this privacy statement.

1. INTRODUCTION

House of Boards , with registered office at 7780 Komen, Chaussée de ten Brielen 1, and with company number BE 1011.755.233 attaches great importance to the safe, transparent and confidential collection and processing of your personal data. In particular, we want to protect the data of, among others, our clients, subcontractors and suppliers against loss, leaks, errors, unauthorized access or unlawful processing.

We wish to inform you about the collection and processing of your personal data through this privacy statement.

We ask that you read this privacy statement carefully, as it contains essential information about how your personal data is processed and for what purpose.

By communicating your personal data, you expressly declare that you have read this privacy statement and also expressly agree to it, as well as to the processing itself.

2. SCOPE

This privacy statement covers all services provided by us and, in general, all activities we conduct.

3. PROCESSING CONTROLLER AND ITS COMMITMENTS.

House of Boards, with registered office at 7780 Komen, Chaussée de ten Brielen 1 and with company number BE 1011.755.233 is the controller of your personal data.

When collecting and processing your personal data, we respect Belgian regulations on the protection of personal data, as well as the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) as of its entry into force on May 25, 2018.

4. PERSONAL DATA

House of Boards processes your personal data because you use our services and/or because you (have) provided it to us yourself.

Below is an overview of the personal data we (may) process:

  • first and last name;
  • sex;
  • date of birth;
  • birthplace;
  • address information;
  • phone number;
  • email address;
  • IP address;
  • other personal data that you actively provide, for example by filling out a contact form on this website, in correspondence and by telephone;
  • location data;
  • Data about your activities on our website;
  • data about your browsing behavior across different websites (for example, because this company is part of an advertising network);
  • bank account number.

House of Boards processes (potentially) the following special and/or sensitive personal data about you:

  • criminal history, facts or convictions;
  • data of persons under 16 years of age;
  • personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership, and processing of genetic data, biometric data for the purpose of uniquely identifying an individual, or data concerning health, or data relating to an individual’s sexual behavior or sexual orientation.

Our website does not intend to collect information about website visitors who are under the age of 16, unless we have parental or guardian consent or we are bound by the performance of our legal obligations.

However, we cannot verify whether a visitor is over 16 years of age. We therefore recommend that parents be involved in their children’s online activities to avoid collecting data about children without parental consent.

If you believe that we have collected personal information about a minor without such consent, please contact us at christof@houseofboards.eu.

5. PROCESSING PURPOSES AND LEGAL BASIS.

5.1 Client data

As part of our services and operations, we collect and process the identity and contact information of our clients, their staff, employees, appointees and other useful contacts. The purposes for this processing are the performance of agreements with our clients, client management, accounting and direct marketing activities such as sending promotional or commercial information and our newsletters. The legal grounds are the performance of the agreement, the fulfillment of legal, regulatory and/or deontological obligations and/or our legitimate interest.

5.2 Details of suppliers and subcontractors

We collect and process the identity and contact information of our suppliers, their staff, employees, appointees and other useful contacts. The purposes of this processing are the performance of this agreement, supplier management, accounting and direct marketing activities such as sending promotional or commercial information. The legal grounds are the performance of the agreement, the fulfillment of legal, regulatory and/or deontological obligations and/or our legitimate interest.

5.3 Staff data

We process the personal data of our employees, as well as that of potential employees/applicants within the scope of our personnel management and payroll administration. Given its specific nature, this processing is regulated more comprehensively in an Employee Data Protection Policy.

5.4 Other data

In addition to client, supplier and staff data, we also process personal data of others, such as potential new clients, useful contacts within our industry, network contacts, expert contacts, bailiffs, notaries, etc. The purposes of this processing are in the interest of our business, direct marketing and public relations. The legal basis is our legitimate interest or in some cases the performance of a contract.

5.5 Special and/or sensitive personal data

Special and/or sensitive personal data are processed by us solely for the performance of an agreement or the fulfillment of a legal, regulatory and/or deontological obligation.

6. DURATION OF PROCESSING

Personal data will be kept and processed by us for a period necessary in function of the purposes of the processing and in function of the relationship (contractual or otherwise) we have with you.

Customer data and supplier data will be deleted from our systems after a period of seven years after the final termination of the agreement or project, except with respect to such personal data that we are required to keep longer under specific legislation or in the case of an ongoing dispute for which the personal data is still necessary.

7. RIGHTS

In accordance and under the terms of Belgian privacy legislation and the provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation, we inform you that you have the following rights:

Right of access and inspection: you have the right to acquaint yourself, free of charge, with the data we hold about you and to find out what it is used for.

Right to rectification: you have the right to obtain rectification (correction) of your incorrect personal data, as well as to complete incomplete personal data.

Right to data erasure or restriction: you have the right to request us to erase or restrict the processing of your personal data in the circumstances and under the conditions stipulated by the General Data Protection Regulation. We may refuse data erasure or restriction of any personal data necessary for us to carry out a legal obligation, the performance of the contract or our legitimate interest, and for as long as such data is necessary for the purposes for which it was collected.

Right to data portability: you have the right to obtain the personal data you have provided to us in a structured, common and machine-readable form. You have the right to transfer this data to another data controller.

Right to object: you have the right to object to the processing of your personal data for serious and legitimate reasons. Please note, however, that you cannot object to the processing of personal data that are necessary for us to carry out a legal obligation, the performance of the contract or our legitimate interest, as long as these data are necessary for the purposes for which they were collected.

Right to withdraw consent: if the processing of personal data is based on prior consent, you have the right to withdraw this consent. These personal data will then only be processed if we have another legal basis for doing so.

Automatic decisions and profiling: we confirm that the processing of personal data does not involve profiling and that you will not be subject to fully automated decisions.

You may exercise the aforementioned rights by contacting our company at christof@houseofboards.eu.

We make every effort to handle your personal data in a careful and legitimate manner in accordance with applicable regulations. If, nevertheless, you believe that your rights have been violated and your concerns have not been addressed within our company, you are free to file a complaint with the Commission for the Protection of Privacy:

Privacy Commission

Drukpersstraat 35, 1000 Brussels

+32 (0)2 274 48 00

+32 (0)2 274 48 35

commission(at)privacycommission.be

8. TRANSFER TO THIRD PARTIES

Certain personal data collected by us will be transmitted to and possibly processed by third party service providers, including but not limited to our IT Provider, social secretariats, government agencies (e.g. judicial authorities etc.).

It is possible that one or more of the above third parties may be located outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”). However, personal data will only be transferred to third countries with an adequate level of protection.

The employees, managers and/or representatives of the aforementioned service providers or institutions and the specialized service providers appointed by them must respect the confidential nature of your personal data and can only use these data for the purposes in the context of which they were provided.

If necessary, your personal data may be passed on to other third parties. This may be the case, for example, if we were to be reorganized in whole or in part, if our business were to be transferred or if we were to be declared bankrupt. It is also possible that personal data may have to be transmitted pursuant to a court order or in order to comply with a particular legal obligation. In such a case, we will make reasonable efforts to inform you in advance of such communication to other third parties. However, you will recognize and understand that in certain circumstances this may not always be technically or commercially feasible or legal restrictions may apply.

Under no circumstances will we sell or make your personal data commercially available to direct marketing agencies or similar service providers, except with your prior consent.

9. TECHNICAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL MEASURES

We take the necessary technical and organizational measures to process your personal data according to an adequate level of security and protect it from destruction, loss, falsification, modification, unauthorized access or notification by mistake to third parties, as well as any other unauthorized processing of this data.

Under no circumstances can House of Boards be held liable for any direct or indirect damage resulting from an erroneous or unlawful use by a third party of the personal data.

10. THIRD PARTY ACCESS

For the purpose of processing your personal data, we provide access to your personal data to our employees, associates and appointees. We guarantee a similar level of protection by making contractual obligations opposable to these employees, associates and appointees, which are similar to this privacy statement.

11. ANY QUESTIONS?

If, after reading this privacy statement, you have further questions or comments regarding the collection and processing of your personal data, please contact us at christof@houseofboards.eu.