Terms of Use and Confidential Processing of Personal Data
Privacy Statement
Vakantiehuis Brickx (hereinafter “we”), with address Zeelaan 45, 8670 Koksijde, is the owner of the website vakantiehuis-brickx.be. This is a public website on which the promotional information of Vakantiehuis Brickx is published.
We like to take good care of our guests. Taking care of the personal data you share with us is an important part of this. This privacy statement explains how we use your data to offer you a better and more inspiring user experience.
Protection of your privacy – responsible controller
Vakantiehuis Brickx is the controller responsible for the processing of personal data on the website vakantiehuis-brickx.be (hereinafter: “the Website” or vakantiehuis-brickx.be) and undertakes to respect and protect the confidential nature of your personal data.
The “confidential” processing means that we process your personal data “confidentially” in accordance with the applicable national and international legal provisions, including the Belgian Act of 8 December 1992 on the protection of privacy (Belgian Official Gazette, 18 March 1993), as amended by the Act of 11 December 1998 (Belgian Official Gazette, 3 February 1999) and the General Data Protection Regulation as from its entry into force on 25 May 2018. In this way, no personal data such as address, e-mail, telephone and fax number, demographic data or identification data will be processed without you having given consent to such processing and without you knowing the purpose of such processing.
Registration of personal data
You can freely visit the website vakantiehuis-brickx.be and consult all available information about Vakantiehuis Brickx, the products and their prices without having to provide any personal data whatsoever.
Whenever you provide personal data, we will treat it in accordance with the policy described here and the legal obligations regarding the processing of personal data.
Confidential processing of the data
The personal data collected by Vakantiehuis Brickx is stored in a secure environment that is not accessible to the public. The file can only be consulted by a limited number of persons employed by Vakantiehuis Brickx. The information will be processed solely for internal purposes.
As a rule, Vakantiehuis Brickx does not disclose personal data to third parties, except to comply with legal obligations and in the event of an explicit request by judicial authorities or police services.
Vakantiehuis Brickx does NOT sell your data to third parties.
Which personal data is processed?
- Your e-mail address, including interests, when registering for our newsletter on the Website.
- Your e-mail address, reason, first name, last name, telephone number, message (possibly also data from category 2 if you choose to create an account and category 3 if you choose to subscribe to the newsletter) when submitting a contact request on the Website.
- The data we keep below is not personal data. We keep track of:
- For non-logged-in users, a session cookie is set which keeps track of whether or not the visitor is logged in. This session cookie also keeps track of which search parameters the visitor used, but only so that they can return to the previous page via “Back to overview”. Favorites for a non-logged-in user are also stored in this. This session cookie is only valid for the duration of the visitor’s browser session—until it expires—and is not permanently stored anywhere.
- A cookie is set to keep track of whether or not the user has clicked away the slide-out at the bottom of the page. This is to ensure it does not keep appearing after it has been dismissed.
- A cookie is set when the user is not logged in for technical reasons. This cookie does not contain any personal data.
Purpose of processing personal data (cf. the above-mentioned data categories)
- Category 1 Managing your account on the Website for the purpose of using our website, with the legal basis being the performance of a contract requested by you. And, if indicated by you, also sending direct marketing, with the legal basis being your explicit, prior consent. If health-related data indicated by you is used for direct marketing, then of course only with prior consent.
- Category 2 Sending you direct marketing, newsletters, offers and promotions, with the legal basis being your explicit, prior consent. If health-related data indicated by you is used for direct marketing, then of course only with prior consent.
- Category 3 and 4 Delivery and invoicing of products ordered by you, with the legal basis being the performance of a contract requested by you.
- Category 9 To guarantee security and availability, with the legal basis being the legitimate interest of Vakantiehuis Brickx to continuously improve the Website and services.
- Category 10 To check for spam, with the legal basis being the legitimate interest of Vakantiehuis Brickx to continuously improve the Website and services.
- Category 11 To guarantee security with a view to prevention, detection and prosecution of criminal offences, with the legal basis being the legitimate interest of Vakantiehuis Brickx.
- Category 13 Maintaining and improving this Website and recording data in anonymous statistics from which the identity of specific persons or companies cannot be derived, with the legal basis being the legitimate interest of Vakantiehuis Brickx to continuously improve the Website and services.
Google Analytics
Via our website, a cookie is placed by the American company Google, as part of the “Analytics” service. We use this service to track and receive reports on how visitors use the Website. Google may provide this information to third parties if Google is legally required to do so, or insofar as third parties process the information on behalf of Google. We have no influence over this. We have allowed Google to use the analytics information obtained for other Google services.
The information Google collects is anonymized as much as possible. Your IP address is explicitly not provided. The information is transferred to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google states that it adheres to the Privacy Shield principles and is affiliated with the Privacy Shield program of the U.S. Department of Commerce. This means that there is an adequate level of protection for the processing of any personal data.
Retargeting cookies
We use so-called retargeting cookies. This allows us to show advertisements on third-party websites based on your previous visits to our website. For this we use Facebook Pixel.
The information they collect is anonymized as much as possible. The information is transferred to and stored by Facebook on servers in the United States. Facebook states that it adheres to the Privacy Shield principles and is affiliated with the Privacy Shield program of the U.S. Department of Commerce. This means that there is an adequate level of protection for the processing of any personal data.
About deleting cookies
More information about enabling and disabling and deleting cookies can be found in the instructions and/or by using your browser’s Help function.
Some tracking cookies are placed by third parties. You can delete these cookies centrally via Your Online Choices so that they are not re-placed by a third party’s website.
Other social media features
Our website(s) and mobile app(s) contain social media features such as Twitter, Google+ and Pinterest, which have their own privacy statements.
Make sure you read their terms and the privacy statement carefully before entering personal data; we accept no responsibility or liability for these features.
Consent for processing
If Vakantiehuis Brickx wishes to process your personal data for other purposes or wishes to pass it on to organizations or companies with which the organization collaborates, Vakantiehuis Brickx will ask for your explicit consent and you can object to it.
Duration of processing
We process this data for the period necessary in view of the purposes described above.
Profiling
The processing of your personal data does NOT include profiling. This implies that, based on the personal data you provide to us, we do NOT build a profile about you in order to show you appropriate advertisements and proposals. However, you will not be subjected to automated decision-making in any way based on this profile.
Your rights
- Right of access and inspection
You have the right to inspect the data Vakantiehuis Brickx has recorded about you and to have inaccurate or incomplete data corrected. In addition, you can request at any time that your personal data be removed from Vakantiehuis Brickx’s file.
- Right to unsubscribe, correct, supplement and delete personal data
You are free to communicate your personal data to the Website or not.
If you do not (or no longer) wish to receive information from Vakantiehuis Brickx, you can unsubscribe at any time (via unsubscribe) or by e-mail to info@vakantiehuis-brickx.be or by letter to Zeelaan 45, 8670 Koksijde stating your name, postal address and e-mail address.
You will still receive service-related messages from us, such as important information about the use of our products or services.
In addition, you always have the right to request that we correct, supplement or delete your personal data. You acknowledge that if you refuse to provide personal data or request its deletion, certain services and products cannot be delivered.
- Right to object
You also have the right to object to the processing of your personal data for serious and legitimate reasons.
In addition, you always have the right to object to the use of personal data for direct marketing purposes; in such a case you do not have to provide reasons.
- Right to data portability
You have the right to obtain your personal data processed by us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable form and/or to transfer it to other controllers.
- Right to withdraw consent
Insofar as the processing is based on your prior consent, you have the right to withdraw that consent.
- Exercising your rights
You can exercise your rights by contacting us, either by e-mail to info@vakantiehuis-brickx.be, by post to Zeelaan 45, 8670 Koksijde or by using the CONTACT US/CONTACT/… section on the Website.
- Right to lodge a complaint:
If you have a complaint, we ask that you contact Vakantiehuis Brickx directly via info@vakantiehuis-brickx.be or +32 (0) 472 73 97 97. We will take all possible measures to address your concern regarding the processing of personal data.
You have the right to lodge a complaint with the Belgian Privacy Commission:
Commission for the Protection of Privacy, Drukpersstraat 35, 1000
Brussels, Tel +32 (0)2 274 48 00, Fax +32 (0)2 274 48 35, e-mail: commission@privacycommission.be.
This does not prejudice proceedings before a civil court.
If you suffer damage as a result of the processing of your personal data, you can bring an action for compensation.
Security
We have developed security measures adapted at a technical and organizational level to avoid the destruction, loss, falsification, alteration, unauthorized access to or accidental disclosure to third parties of personal data collected, as well as any other unauthorized processing of this data.
Under no circumstances can we be held liable for any direct or indirect damage resulting from incorrect or unlawful use by a third party of personal data.
You must comply with the security regulations at all times, including preventing any unauthorized access to your login and password. You are therefore solely responsible for the use made of vakantiehuis-brickx.be from your computer, IP address and your identification data, as well as for their confidentiality.
Access to data
In order to process your personal data, we grant access to your personal data to our employees.
We guarantee a similar level of protection by making contractual obligations enforceable against these employees and appointees, similar to this Privacy Statement.
In order to provide the services and products you request, we may share your personal data with the providers of the ultimate travel services in the context of package travel.
We also work with carefully selected suppliers who perform certain tasks for us (e.g. IT).
If we share personal data with other organizations, we require them to store this data securely and prohibit them from using the data for their own marketing purposes.
We only share the personal data that our suppliers and partners need in order to provide you and/or us with their services, with the legal basis being the performance of a contract requested by you and/or us.
Copyright
No texts or images from this website may be reproduced in any way without the express permission of Vakantiehuis Brickx.
Changes to this Statement
This Statement replaces all previous versions. We may amend this Statement at any time, so please check our website(s) regularly to see if there are updates. If the changes are significant, we will place a clear notice on our website(s) and, where applicable, also notify you electronically.