Privacy policy

General

In the course of its activities, Bizantium processes personal data.

Personal data means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.

Processing must be interpreted broadly, and means any operation or set of operations performed on personal data or sets of personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organisation, structuring, storage, updating or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction of data.

As Bizantium values and respects the privacy and security of personal data, this personal data is processed exclusively in accordance with (i) 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, commonly known as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), as well as with (ii) all applicable national legislation.

This privacy policy aims to inform you transparently about:

(a) The controller of your personal data

(b) The purposes for which your personal data is processed

(d) Your rights with respect to this processing

(e) Our obligations with respect to this processing

(f) Cookies

The controller of your personal data

BIZANTIUM VENTURES, registered with the Crossroads Bank for Enterprises under number 1002.497.770, with its registered office at Antwerpselaan 1, 1853 Grimbergen, is the controller of your personal data.

This means that BIZANTIUM VENTURES determines the purpose of, and the means for, the processing of personal data.

BIZANTIUM VENTURES does so in its capacity as a private limited company with which you maintain (directly or indirectly) a contractual relationship as a customer or supplier, or whose website you visit.

The purposes for which your personal data is processed

How? BIZANTIUM VENTURES collects personal data via (i) agreements that you conclude with us (directly or indirectly), (ii) voluntary provision thereof by the data subject (whether or not via contact forms), or (iii) through the use of our website and social media (including the technologies linked thereto, such as cookies).

What? The personal data collected by BIZANTIUM VENTURES are (i) personal identification data, (ii) electronic identification data, (iii) financial identification data, and (iv) personal characteristics.

Why? The personal data is always collected and processed by BIZANTIUM VENTURES for one or more specific purposes. The purposes for which BIZANTIUM VENTURES processes personal data are the following: (i) to perform the agreements concluded with it, (ii) to comply with applicable legal obligations, (iii) to improve our services, and (iv) to combat fraud.

Consequence of not providing data? The provision of personal data is a necessary condition for concluding an agreement. If the personal data necessary to carry out our assignment is not provided, no services can be rendered.

The period for which data will be stored

Your personal data will be retained for as long as necessary to achieve the purpose for which it was collected, in line with the applicable statutory, regulatory and internal requirements in this regard, and no longer than 10 years after the end of the business relationship with the client or, in the case of an occasional transaction, from the date of that transaction, in accordance with Article 60 of the Act of 18 September 2017. This provision does not, of course, affect your rights as set out in section 5 below.

Your rights with respect to this processing

Right to withdraw consent: You always have the right to withdraw your consent as described in section 6 below. This does not, of course, affect the lawfulness of the processing carried out before this withdrawal.

Right of access: You always have the right to obtain confirmation from BIZANTIUM VENTURES as to whether or not your personal data is being processed, as well as to obtain access to it.

Right to rectification: You always have the right to obtain, without undue delay, rectification of inaccurate personal data from BIZANTIUM VENTURES.

Right to erasure: You have the right to obtain from BIZANTIUM VENTURES, without undue delay, the erasure of personal data in the following cases: (i) the personal data is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected; (ii) the consent on which the processing is based is withdrawn; (iii) you object to the processing carried out on the basis of a general or legitimate interest, or carried out for direct marketing purposes; (iv) the personal data has been unlawfully processed; (v) the personal data must be erased to comply with a legal obligation; (vi) the data was obtained in relation to an offer of information society services to a child.

Right to restriction of processing: In a number of exhaustively listed situations, you also have the right to restriction of processing, namely: (i) when the accuracy of the personal data is contested, for a period enabling the controller to verify the accuracy of the personal data; (ii) when the processing is unlawful and the data subject objects to the erasure of the personal data; (iii) when BIZANTIUM VENTURES no longer needs the personal data for the processing purposes, but the data subject needs it for the establishment, exercise, or defence of a legal claim; (iv) when the data subject has objected to the processing.

Right to data portability: Under certain circumstances, you have the right to receive your personal data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, and to transmit it to another controller.

Right to object to processing for marketing purposes: You have the right, at any time, to object to the use of your personal data for direct marketing purposes.

Our obligations with respect to this processing

Principles relating to processing: BIZANTIUM VENTURES will always process personal data in accordance with the following principles: (i) in a manner that is lawful, fair, and transparent in relation to the data subject; (ii) for specified, explicit, and legitimate purposes; (iii) adequate, relevant, and limited to what is necessary for the purposes for which it is processed; (iv) the data will be accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date; (v) retained in a form that allows data subjects to be identified for no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which the personal data is processed; (vi) all appropriate technical and organisational measures will be taken to ensure that the personal data is processed in a manner that guarantees appropriate security, and that it is protected against unauthorised or unlawful processing and against accidental loss, destruction, or damage.

Lawfulness of processing: BIZANTIUM VENTURES is only entitled to process personal data if one of the following conditions is met: (i) you have given explicit consent for this; (ii) the processing is necessary for the performance of an agreement to which you are (directly or indirectly) a party; (iii) the processing falls within a legal obligation of BIZANTIUM VENTURES; (iv) the processing is necessary to protect your vital interests or those of another natural person; (v) the processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority; or (vi) the processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the controller (except where the interests of the data subject override those interests).

Sharing of personal data: Within BIZANTIUM VENTURES, your personal data is only accessible to employees who need access to it as part of their job duties. These employees are bound by strict internal rules regarding the processing of personal data. Where BIZANTIUM VENTURES engages external parties for the processing of personal data, it will only engage parties that offer sufficient guarantees that the processing meets legal requirements and that your rights are safeguarded. Your personal data may be transmitted to the following categories of recipients, among others: IT suppliers, legally competent authorities, and external consultants, always in the context of carrying out our assignment.

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