Privacy Policy
This version is in effect since 17/01/2020
This privacy policy (hereafter the “Privacy Policy”) describes how the private limited liability company incorporated under Belgian law HCC Partners, with registered offices at J. De Ridderlaan 117/1A, 1780 Wemmel, under the number BE 0741.707.332 (hereafter the “Company”, “us”, “we”, or “our”) receives and collects information through its website https://hccp.be/ (hereafter the “Website”, the “Service”) as well as other interaction (e.g. customer support conversations, user surveys, interviews, etc.) you may have with us.
Introduction
This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of Personal Information when you use our Service. It also provides information about how we store, transfer, use, and delete that information, and what choices you have with respect to the information.
This policy applies where we are acting as a Data Controller with respect to the personal data of users of our Services; in other words, where we determine the purposes and means of the processing of that personal data.
For content and data that you make available through the Service (“User Content”), you are responsible for ensuring this content is in accordance with our Terms of Service, and that the content is not violating other users’ privacy.
What personal data we collect
Personal Information
While using our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to, your email address, name, phone number (“Personal Information”).
We collect this information for the purpose of providing the Service, identifying and communicating with you, responding to your requests/inquiries, and improving our services.
Automatically collected technical information – Log Data
We may also collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Service (“Log Data”). This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages and other statistics.
Cookies
The Website may use cookies (small files with a small amount of data, which may include an anonymous unique identifier, stored in your browser) or web beacons (electronic images that allow the Website to count users who have accessed a particular page and to access certain cookies) to collect aggregate data. Cookies themselves do not personally identify you, they merely recognize your web browser. We use cookies to collect information in order to improve our services for you.
In addition, we may use third party services such as Google Analytics to collect, monitor and analyze the traffic to and/or your use of the Website in order to improve our services. These third party service providers have their own privacy policies addressing how they use such information.
Google Analytics is subject to the privacy policy of Google which you can find on Google’s website. By visiting the Website or using the Services, you are agreeing to the terms of the Google Privacy Policy that apply to Google Analytics. We are not responsible for any changes made to the Google Privacy Policy or of advising you of such changes. We reserve the right to change analytical service providers at any time without notice. We refer to our Cookie Policy, which can be consulted on the Website, for any further information.
You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. The Help feature on most browsers provide information on how to accept cookies, disable cookies or to notify you when receiving a new cookie. If you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some features of our Service and we recommend that you leave them turned on.
Why we collect personal data
We use and process collected Personal Information to:
- enhance your experience of the Services;
- operate and maintain the Services;
- investigate and understand how our Services are used;
- monitor and protect the security and integrity of the Services;
- analyze our business;
- analyze user statistics;
- inform you about other services that we provide;
The above mentioned purposes are restrictive. If we do, however, want to use the collected Content for any other purpose, we will contact you and/or obtain, where necessary, your explicit consent.
Who we share your data with
We may disclose your Personal Information as required by law or in response to service of legal process, such as a court order, summons, subpoena, or if we believe that such action is necessary to comply with the law and the reasonable requests of law enforcement or to protect the security or integrity of our Service.
We may share personal information with our corporate affiliates and with business partners who provide services related to the Services (such as website hosting or payment processing) to the extent necessary. We may also share them with academic partners for anonymous academic research. These business partners do not have the right to use this personal information for any purpose other than those related to the Services.
Information about our Users, including personal information, may be disclosed or transferred to entities now or in the future affiliated with us or as part of any merger, acquisition, change of control, debt financing, insolvency, bankruptcy or sale of our assets. Such information may be used in the businesses of any entity so receiving it.
Except as provided above, we will never communicate your personal data to third parties and/or use your personal data for direct marketing purposes, unless you have given your preliminary consent. Once you have given your consent, you are free to change your mind at any time. Belgian law states that any User has the right, upon request and with no charge, to express its objection to the treatment of his/her personal data used for direct marketing purposes. Any request can be made by sending an email to the following e-mail address: contact@hccp.be
Who is responsible for handling a User’s personal information
The entity responsible for handling personal information collected on the Website and/or Services by HCC Partners is HCC Partners.
Where can I file a complaint?
For any question or complaint related to the protection of your privacy, please send an email to the following e-mail address: contact@hccp.be
What rights do I have over my data
You can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
You may ask us, free of charge, to amend or to have removed all your personal data from our database by sending a letter – enclosing a copy of your identity card – to the responsible for the data treatment, to the following address: HCC Partners, J. De Ridderlaan 117/1A, 1780 Wemmel. We will take care of any request as soon as possible.
Other matters
Security
The security of your Personal Information is important to us, and we strive to implement and maintain reasonable, commercially acceptable security procedures and practices appropriate to the nature of the information we store, in order to protect it from unauthorized access, destruction, use, modification, or disclosure. We use rented servers who are physically located within the European Union. We and/or our providers make all reasonable efforts to keep the servers, applications and databases secure and free from unauthorized access and use, by using physical, administrative and technological measures to protect the information maintained. However, please be aware that no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure and we are unable to guarantee the absolute security of the Personal Information we have collected from you.
In case of particular security concerns about certain personal information, it is up to you to decide not to transmit that information over the Internet. For more information relating our security measures, please contact us at the following e-mail address: contact@hccp.be
Other Websites
The Website may contain links to other websites, digital platforms (such as but not limited to Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin, Twitter, …) or Internet resources. When clicking on one of those links you are contacting another website or Internet resources that may collect personal information voluntarily or through cookies or other technologies. We have no responsibility, liability for, or control over those other websites or Internet resources or their collection, use and disclosure of your personal information. We recommend you to review the privacy policies of those other websites and Internet resources to understand how they collect and use information.
Privacy Policy Changes
This Privacy Policy is effective as of 17 January 2020 and will remain in effect except with respect to any changes in its provisions in the future, which will be in effect immediately after being posted on this page. We may change, supplement or amend our Privacy Policy as it relates to any future use of our Service at any time, for any reason, by conspicuously posting a revised policy on the Website. You are encouraged to check this Privacy Policy periodically.
Your continued use of the Service after we post any modifications to the Privacy Policy on this page will constitute your acknowledgment of the modifications and your consent to abide and be bound by the modified Privacy Policy.
If we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you either through the email address you have provided us, or by placing a prominent notice on our website.
How to contact us
If you have any question related to this Privacy Policy, please contact us at the following e-mail address: contact@hccp.be