Privacy Policy
Article 1 – Privacy Policy
As an organisation, we strive to process your personal data in a lawful, correct and transparent manner. In this statement, we inform you which personal data we process about you and what purposes are associated with such processing.
Article 2 – Security of Personal Data
Within our organisation, all personal data are accessible only to persons who, within their specific scope of duties, bear responsibility for such data and whose access is expressly required for the performance of those duties.
For questions regarding identification, you may contact us at any time via dpo@grouppeeters.com or by telephone at +32 14 28 33 00 (BE) or +31 164 27 59 99 (NL).
Article 3 – Identification of Personal Data
Various personal data are collected directly. These include, inter alia, standard identification data such as surname, first name and position within a company, contact details such as telephone number and e-mail address, and data for invoicing purposes such as bank account numbers.
Where applicable, these data are provided directly by completing documents, communicating them electronically or by telephone, or by handing over business cards. In such cases, explicit consent is presumed to be given for the storage of the personal data provided.
Various personal data are also collected indirectly. This may include public data subject to a publication obligation or data that have been made public by the data subject himself/herself (e.g. publication on a website). Such publicly accessible personal data may be stored. Consent is presumed, as these data were explicitly made public.
No special categories of personal data are stored without additional consent, such as data relating to race, ethnic origin, health, sexual orientation, etc.
Article 4 – Justification of Processing
In order to provide certain services in a qualitative manner, the organisation requires various personal data as defined in Article 3 of this document.
Depending on the specific situation, your data are used for the following purposes:
- At an initial contact moment with persons at customers, suppliers or business relations, personal data are collected for the following purposes:
- To correctly execute the assignment or agreement and to guarantee the quality described in the relevant document;
- To comply with legal requirements;
- In the context of risk management and quality control;
- In the context of relationship management and the management of customer files;
- To send information in the context of direct marketing, such as newsletters or invitations to events. You may withdraw this consent at any time.
Your personal data are not used in the context of automated decision-making without human intervention.
Article 5 – Transfer of Personal Data
The organisation undertakes not to transfer your personal data to third parties without prior written and explicit consent. Apart from internal employees who are expressly authorised to do so, no other or third parties may take cognisance of the required personal data.
Article 6 – Retention of Personal Data
Your personal data are retained for as long as necessary to achieve the purposes described in Article 4 or for as long as required by law.
Article 7 – Rights of the Data Subject
You have the right at any time to request information regarding your personal data. If your data are incorrect, incomplete or no longer applicable, you may submit a request for correction or deletion.
If you wish to access, delete or amend your data, you may submit your request via dpo@grouppeeters.com. In order to prevent misuse, we may ask you to identify yourself.
We cannot delete your data where a statutory retention obligation applies, such as accounting regulations, or where there are other lawful reasons to retain such data, such as outstanding debts.
Do you have questions or complaints?
If you have complaints about the manner in which our organisation has handled your personal data, we express the wish that you contact the management of our organisation in this regard.
If you nevertheless remain of the opinion that we have not handled your personal data with sufficient care, you may lodge a complaint.
In the Netherlands, this can be done with the Dutch Data Protection Authority: www.autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl;
in Belgium, with the Data Protection Authority: https://www.dataprotectionauthority.be/citizen