Controller:

Claerhout Communicationhouse
Sint-Denijslaan 485
9000 Ghent
gdpr@communicatiehuis.be
BTW: BE 0443 475 684
RPR: Ghent

1. General Data Protection Regulation

Claerhout Communicationhouse appreciates your interest in its activities and your visit to its website. It is important to us that you do not feel insecure when visiting our website and we want to ensure that it is clear what happens to the personal data you make available to us.

  • Information you give us, for the purpose of obtaining information from us, we store in order to fulfill your information request. This information is not stored longer than necessary.
  • Information that you give us as part of a job application or internship application, we store and treat with extreme care for that purpose. This information is not stored longer than necessary.
  • We will also use the stored information to further optimize our website through visitor analysis.
  • Only when you explicitly authorize Claerhout Communicationhouse to do so, will your personal data be processed for direct marketing purposes. You may object, free of charge, to the use of your personal data for direct marketing purposes at any time. To do so, please address a simple request to the contact person above.
  • We will not provide or sell your personal information to third parties that are not part or related organizations of Claerhout Communicationhouse.  
  • Our website contains links to non- Claerhout Communicationhouse websites. Claerhout Communicationhouse is not responsible for the manner in which those websites handle personal information.

The European General Data Protection Regulation of April 27, 2016 (hereinafter “AVG” for short) places an obligation on the natural or legal person who determines the purposes and means of processing personal data (the controller) to inform the natural persons whose personal data are processed (the data subjects).

Your rights

As a visitor, you have the right to inspection and access, right to rectification, erasure and restriction, right to object, right to withdraw consent, right to portability. In this case, please contact us using the contact information above.

The processing of personal data by Claerhout Communicationhouse is not performed on the basis of automated decisions, in other words not without some human intervention.

Claerhout Communicationhouse does not engage in profiling on the basis of available personal data.

Complaints

If you believe that your rights as a data subject have been violated in the processing of your personal data, you may lodge a complaint with the Data Protection Authority, Drukpersstraat 35, 1000 Brussels, e-mail: commission@privacycommission.be, tel. +32 (0)2 274 48 00, fax +32 (0)2 274 48 35.

2. Cookie policy

In order to better tailor our websites to your needs and preferences, Claerhout Communicationhouse uses cookies. You have the option to refuse cookies. In that case, please note that certain parts of our websites may not function properly. You may also be unable to access certain services we offer on our website. Below we would like to give you more information about cookies using a simple Q&A structure.

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a text file left in the web browser of your computer or your mobile device - such as your Smartphone, iPhone, iPad and the like - by the server of the website you are currently consulting. A cookie contains a code that can only be read by the server that placed it there. Thus, the server has no access to other information located on your computer or mobile device.

How is a cookie file constructed?

A cookie file consists of:

  • The name of the server that placed the cookie file
  • An expiration date is included
  • A unique numeric code

What is the purpose of a cookie?

By using cookies, we ensure that your browsing experience as a visitor on one of our websites is as optimal as possible. Among other things, this is done to allow you to navigate more quickly and easily between the various parts of the website or by adapting the content of our site to your personal preferences, e.g. language preference.

Where can I find these cookies?

Cookies are placed in a separate folder from your browser on your computer or mobile device.

What is a 'Session cookie'?

This cookie's function is to recognize your browser during your visit to our websites.

What is a 'Permanent cookie'?

This cookie has the function of recognizing your browser for the purpose of repeated visits to our websites.

Which cookies are necessary?

You will have the impression that certain parts of our websites do not function properly or at all if you disable necessary cookies. Claerhout Communicationhouse uses such cookies, for example, when you fill out contact forms or to participate in discussions on our blogs. Claerhout Communicationhouse uses “necessary” cookies when you wish to log into your personal account. These cookies allow us to securely verify your identity in order to provide access to the personal information you have left behind.

What are 'Functional Cookies'?

As the word itself suggests, these cookies ensure the optimal functioning of our websites so that you experience the most pleasant and personalized visit to our websites. Claerhout Communicationhouse uses 'Functional cookies' for 'remembering' your personal preferences and for avoiding the same communication on repeated visits, for example when participating in a promotion.

What are 'Performance cookies'?

Claerhout Communicationhouse uses 'Performance cookies' to track how you use our websites with a view to customizing and improving the content and ease of use of our websites. For example, we track the number of visitors per page or the most common language in which the website is visited.

What are 'third party cookies'?

These are cookies that are written away from advertisements placed by third parties on the websites of Claerhout Communicationhouse. This is for the purpose of tailoring the advertisements and/or the content of the advertisements to your personal preferences. You will only see these cookies if you have not disabled them. When using third-party cookies, neither Claerhout Communicationhouse nor the advertisers (third parties) have your personal information.

What is ‘Embedded content’?

Claerhout Communicationhouse may link on its websites to other sites via a clickable link. This takes you to another organization's website. The referred website may also use cookies. In such cases, Claerhout Communicationhouse advises you to consult the terms of use of the relevant organization, which can be found on their website, to inform you of their privacy and cookie policy.

How can I manage cookies?

Managing cookies is within your control. You can adjust your browser settings to suit your personal preferences. You can always delete already installed cookies as well as refuse new cookies by adjusting your browser settings.

Google Analytics cookies

This website uses Google Analytics, one of the most well-known and trusted analytics data collection solutions on the Internet. This helps us understand how you use the website in a way that allows us to make improvements. For example, these cookies can track how long you spend on our website and the pages you visit.

For more information about Google Analytics, please visit the official page.

https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies

Social Media cookies

This website uses social media buttons and/or plug-ins that allow you to connect with your social networks in various ways. Your social networks, including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google+, will set cookies through our site that may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they maintain for various purposes as stated in the respective privacy policies.

https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies
https://www.linkedin.com/legal/cookie-policy

Disclaimer

Use of the Claerhout Communicationhouse website

1. Terms of use

Visiting, browsing and viewing this website is subject to our terms of use and to all applicable laws. By visiting, browsing and viewing this website, you accept the terms of use, as described below, without limitation or exclusion.

2. Copyright

The content of this website is copyrighted. Copyright belongs to Claerhout Communicationhouse, its clients and its partners. All rights are reserved. Information from the website (including but not limited to text, presentations, illustrations, photographs and sound) may not, unless otherwise indicated, be copied, transferred, distributed or stored without the prior written consent of Claerhout Communicationhouse. Modifications to the content of the site are prohibited. Portions of the site contain illustrations expressly copyrighted by the clients.

3. Liability

No rights or claims whatsoever can be derived from the information provided on this website. Links to other websites are provided as a service and it does not mean that Claerhout Communicationhouse is responsible for the content of these websites. Furthermore, it is your own responsibility to verify that such websites are free of viruses and other items of a harmful nature. Information on our website may be changed by us without prior notice or obligation.

4. Comments, questions and suggestions

Claerhout Communicationhouse does not wish to receive any confidential or restricted information via this web site. Any information you provide to us (suggestions, ideas and other) will be considered non-confidential and in the public domain (except as described in section 1. regarding privacy protection). By sending Claerhout Communicationhouse material, you grant Claerhout Communicationhouse the unrestricted and irrevocable right to use, display, modify, process and distribute such information and to legally register it. Also, Claerhout Communicationhouse is free to use the ideas and techniques you send us. Claerhout Communicationhouse has compiled this website with the utmost care. Claerhout Communicationhouse welcomes any suggestions or comments. If you object to certain texts or images, please let us know.

5. Jurisdiction

Claerhout Communicationhouse is free to change the terms of use at any time by publishing them on this web site. The Terms of Use conform to Belgian law and disputes shall be resolved in accordance with that law. In the event that any part of these Terms of Use is declared by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid or unenforceable, that part of the Terms of Use shall be deemed superseded and the remaining provisions shall remain in full force and effect.

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