I. General
In this privacy statement (the “Statement”), Advocatenkantoor Geukens-Jennen-Wouters provides a detailed explanation of how it handles your personal data as a data controller.
Advocatenkantoor Geukens-Jennen-Wouters complies with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (the “General Data Protection Regulation” or “GDPR”), as well as the Act of 8 December 1992 on the protection of privacy with regard to the processing of personal data, as amended by the Act of 11 December 1998 and the anti-spam provisions in Book XII of the Belgian Code of Economic Law (the ‘law on the electronic economy’).
By providing your personal details and by using this website, you explicitly consent to the manner in which Advocatenkantoor Geukens-Jennen-Wouters gathers and processes your personal data as described in this Statement.
Advocatenkantoor Geukens-Jennen-Wouters has taken suitable measures to prevent misuse, loss, unauthorised access, unwanted disclosure and unauthorised changes.
If you believe your data is not property protected or if there are any indications of misuse, please contact info@advocaten-kantoor.be
II. Data protection officer
Your personal data will be processed by: Advocatenkantoor Geukens-Jennen-Wouters, Lindestraat 2, 2490 Balen, Belgium, registered in the Crossroads Bank for Enterprises under number 0824.670.145.
Our firm has appointed an internal data protection officer, who is always available for information regarding your privacy and the processing of your data. You can contact this officer via info@advocaten-kantoor.be
III. Personal data that may be processed
As part of the processing of your data, Advocatenkantoor Geukens-Jennen-Wouters handles information that may be used to identify you.
The personal data to be processed varies depending on the exact circumstances.
An overview of the personal data Advocatenkantoor Geukens-Jennen-Wouters may process (if required) is provided below:
- name and surname
- sex
- date of birth
- place of birth
- address details
- telephone number
- occupation
- e-mail address
- IP address
- location details
- data regarding your activities on this website
- bank account details
- other data you actively provide, for example in correspondence or over the telephone
The following special and/or sensitive personal data may also be processed:
- criminal records, offences and convictions
- details of persons under the age of 16
- personal data that may reveal your race or ethnic background, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs or trade union membership, genetic data or biometric data processed for the purpose of unique personal identification, or data surrounding a person’s sexual behaviour or orientation.
IV. Personal data storage
Advocatenkantoor Geukens-Jennen-Wouters will not store your personal data for any longer than strictly necessary to fulfil the purposes for which your data was collected, considering also our statutory and ethical obligations.
V. Processing purposes and bases
Advocatenkantoor Geukens-Jennen-Wouters may process your personal data for the following purposes:
- to safeguard your vital interests or those of another natural person, possibly in the context of legal assistance/defence, our advice, general and financial administration and the provision of legal services in general;
- to be able to telephone or e-mail you if required to fulfil our services;
- to inform you about changes and/or adjustments to our services;
and on the following bases:
- an agreement between you and Advocatenkantoor Geukens-Jennen-Wouters in the context of legal service provision in the broadest sense of the term;
- in compliance with statutory obligations, such as anti-money laundering legislation;
- You are under no obligation to disclose your personal data, but please be aware that it will be impossible to provide certain legal services if you do not consent to us processing your data.
VI. Third-party personal data sharing
Advocatenkantoor Geukens-Jennen-Wouters will not sell, lease or share your personal data with third parties and will only disclose such data if necessary for the fulfilment of our
statutory obligations and responsibilities or our agreement with you.
VII. Your rights
You have the right:
- to inspect, restrict, correct and/or delete your personal data;
- to withdraw any consent you may have given to process your data or to object to the processing of your personal data;
- to transfer your data: this means you have the right to send us a request to transfer the personal data we hold on you in a computer file to you or to another organisation, as specified by you.
You may submit any request to inspect, restrict, correct, delete or transfer your personal data or any request to withdraw your consent or object to the processing of your personal data to info@advocaten-kantoor.be
To allow us to verify that any such request was submitted by you, we request that you send a copy of your identity document with your request.
You also have the right to submit a complaint to the national supervisory authority. You can do so using the following contact details:
Data Protection Authority, Drukpersstraat 35, 1000 Brussels, Belgium, tel.+32 (0)2 274 48 00, fax +32 (0)2 274 48 35, contact@apd-gba.be of commission@privacycommission.be
VIII. How your personal data is protected
Advocatenkantoor Geukens-Jennen-Wouters has developed technical and organisational security measures to prevent the loss, destruction, incorrect use, falsification and unauthorised amendment of your personal data.
IX. Cookies
Advocatenkantoor Geukens-Jennen-Wouters only uses technical and functional cookies
that do not breach your right to privacy.
A cookie is a small text file that is stored on your computer, tablet or smartphone on your first visit to this website. The cookies we use are essential for the technical functioning of our website and your ease of use. They make sure the website functions properly and remember your preferences, for example. Cookies also allow us to optimise our website.
We use tracking cookies to enable us to measure the performance of our website and make any necessary adjustments.
To do so, we use Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google. Among other things, this service measures the number of visitors and general surfing behaviour such as the duration of a visit to the website or the average number of pages users view.
For more information on how these cookies work, please refer to Google’s cookie and privacy statements.
You can opt out of cookies by configuring your internet browser to no longer store any cookies.
In addition, you can delete all information previously stored via your browser’s settings.