Privacy declaration
The Thiebaut-Claes law firm attaches great importance to your privacy.
We believe that protecting the privacy of clients is a matter of fundamental importance, and whenever we process your personal data we do so in accordance with the applicable legal provisions.
This page describes the policy that is applied on the website of the Thiebaut-Claes law firm regarding privacy as well as the processing of all information that is collected during or on the occasion of your visit to this website.
We thus invite you to read this privacy statement carefully and take note of its contents. Possible future adaptations cannot be excluded, so we ask that you check this privacy statement regularly in order to stay informed of any such changes.
Controller
Frédéric Thiebaut acts as controller of your personal data such as presented in this privacy statement.
Contact information
Frédéric Thiebaut
Frederik de Merodestraat 6 2800 Mechelen
015 63 66 70
info@thiebautclaesadvocaten.be
The personal data that we process
We process personal data of natural persons with whom we had, have or shall have a direct or indirect relationship. Thus this involves personal data of current and potential clients and/or current or potential suppliers.
We can combine the information that we have collected from you with information that we have obtained from other sources.
In this way we can improve the general accuracy and completeness of the information and we can ensure that our contacts with you are better tailored to you.
The purpose for which and the basis on which we process personal data
We process your personal data for the following purposes:
PROVISION OF SERVICES
We collect personal data in order to be able to provide the requested services to you and to assure smooth processing of your request, such as making an offer or conducting correspondence.
For example, we collect identification data such as your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, bank account and VAT numbers.
This processing of personal data is necessary for fulfilling our agreement with the client.
FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATION
We process personal data in order to be able to conduct our bookkeeping and invoicing. This involves identification data and invoice data.
This processing falls within the legitimate interest of the Thiebaut-Claes law firm, making it possible to conduct our administration and obtain payment for the services provided by us, as well as to fulfil the agreement with the client.
CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT - DIRECT MARKETING
If you are a client, we use your contact information in order to get information about the functioning of our products and services and possibly in order to offer new products or services that we believe might be of interest to you. Sending this type of mailing to our clients falls within the scope of our legitimate interest. It is in both your and our interest that our clients be kept informed of our activities and new services.
Subject to your consent, we collect your contact information with a view to sending out newsletters or information relating to activities and other things that might be of interest to you. Thanks to these data, we can send to you electronically commercial information on new services/products, promotions, benefits, etc.
Sharing the data with third parties
We share your personal data, with your consent, if this is necessary in order to complete a transaction or to deliver a product requested by you and if we are legally required to do so.
When you provide payment data in order to make a purchase, we will share such data with banks and other entities that process payment transactions or provide other financial services, as well as for the prevention of fraud and reduction of the credit risk.
Your personal data will not be sold or sent to third parties, or made public. Your data are not passed on to organisations in countries outside of the European Union.
Finally, and in so far as you expressly declared your consent in advance, we can communicate your personal data to suppliers who are contractually bound to us and who offer products or services that might be of interest to you.
You can withdraw your consent at any time.
Your rights relating to the data collected by us
You have a range of rights concerning the personal data that we process.
THE RIGHT OF ACCESS
You have the right to receive confirmation concerning the processed personal data and to request a free copy of the personal data that the Thiebaut-Claes law firm retains about you.
THE RIGHT TO RECTIFICATION
You have the right to receive confirmation concerning the processed personal data and to request a free copy of the personal data that the Thiebaut-Claes law firm retains about you.
THE RIGHT TO DELETION AND LIMITATION
You are entitled to have your personal data deleted. You hereby acknowledge that a request for removal of personal data may entail that certain services cannot be provided.
You can also request that the processing of your personal data be restricted.
THE RIGHT TO OBJECT
You always have the right to object to the use of your personal data. However, you must give a reason for this request.
You can also expressly object to the processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes; for this it is not necessary to provide any reason.
RIGHT TO PORTABILITY
You have the right to receive your personal data that are processed by us in a structured, commonly-used and machine-readable format. You also have the right to have these data transmitted to other controllers.
RIGHT TO WITHDRAW YOUR CONSENT
You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time for the processing of your personal data (on condition that the processing is based on your consent).
RIGHT TO LODGE A COMPLAINT
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Data Protection Authority:
Commission for the Protection of Privacy
Drukpersstraat 35
1000 BRUSSELS Tel. 02/274.48.00
Fax. 02/274.48.35
commission@privacycommission.be
If you wish to exercise the above rights, you can contact Frédéric Thiebaut, Frederik de Merodestraat 6, 2800 Mechelen, info@thiebautclaesadvocaten.be. We can ask you to produce an identity document before fulfilling your request.
You can also as appropriate consult your account on our website and mailing list.
Period of retention of your data
Your data obtained via the contact form of our website are stored as long as the communication is ongoing.
Your data obtained via the registration form for the newsletter are stored until you deregister.
Your data obtained upon the purchase of a product/service are kept as long as they are necessary for our services including but not limited to maintenance of the customer relationship.
In general, we retain your personal data no longer than is strictly necessary in order to achieve the purposes for which your data are collected, unless for the resolution of disputes or when a longer retention period is required by law.
Non-personal information can be kept without time limitation for statistical purposes.
Security and confidentiality
We undertake to maintain the confidentiality of your personal data and have taken security measures to prevent any possible loss, abuse or falsification of these personal data.
We take all reasonable measures in order to guarantee the confidentiality of the data communicated by the customer/principal. However, the customer acknowledges that sending personal data via the internet is never without risk. The customer/principal therefore acknowledges and accepts that any damage that the customer/principal should suffer due to the wrongful use of personal data by third parties who have not obtained consent for this can never be recovered from the Thiebaut-Claes law firm or its lawyers.
Cookies
We can collect anonymous or aggregated data of a non-personal nature, such as browser type or IP address, the operating program that you use or the domain name of the website from which you came to our website or to which you go when you leave it. This makes it possible for us to constantly optimise the website for the users.
Links to other websites
Links that are included on the website are purely by way of information. Despite careful substantive review, no liability is accepted for either the contents of external links or for compliance with a privacy policy that is identical to the policy such as that defined here. When arriving at the external websites that are linked to, you should always read the privacy policy of the particular site involved.
