Privacy
policy

BRANDON & BRANDA, located at 9000 Ghent, Limburgstraat 78, enterprise number 0476.993.144, is the data controller of Personal Data as outlined in this privacy statement.

Contact information:

brandonbranda.com
Limburgstraat 78
9000 Ghent
info@brandonbranda.com

BRANDON & BRANDA values the protection of your privacy and strives to process your Personal Data in a legal, fair, and transparent manner. In this Privacy Statement, we explain the information we collect about you, how we use that information, and to whom we disclose it. Additionally, this statement outlines your rights and how to exercise them.

In summary, our privacy statement states that we will:

Use your Personal Data only for purposes agreed upon with you.
Not share it with others.
Secure it diligently.

If you have additional questions or suggestions/comments about the content of this Privacy Statement, you can contact us by sending an email or using the contact details mentioned above.

1. TERMS IN THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT

Personal Data’: personally identifiable information that directly or indirectly reveals something about you as an individual (name, address, phone number, etc.).
‘Data Controller’: the ‘owner’ of certain Personal Data. This can be BRANDON & BRANDA itself or a third party (such as our clients).
‘Processor’: the entity that actually processes the data. This can be BRANDON & BRANDA (as a service provider) or a third party processing data on behalf of BRANDON & BRANDA.

For questions regarding this Privacy Statement, you can contact us via digital@brandonbranda.com.

2. WHAT PERSONAL DATA DO WE PROCESS?

BRANDON & BRANDA processes your Personal Data when you use our services and/or when you provide this data to us. This includes Personal Data of individuals with whom we have, had, or wish to have a direct or indirect relationship. This includes the contact persons provided by our clients and suppliers, potential clients, potential employees, and respondent data.

BRANDON & BRANDA may collect or obtain the following Personal Data from you:

Identity information (name, email address, phone number, position).
Billing-related information (VAT number, bank account number).
Academic curriculum-related information (in the context of a job application).
Personal details (age, gender, etc.).
Complaints or requests you submit to us.
We may also collect so-called ‘special categories’ (Art. 9 GDPR) of Personal Data, such as medical data, only processed with your explicit consent.

BRANDON & BRANDA does not intend to collect data from website visitors under the age of 16. However, we cannot verify whether a visitor is older than 16. We recommend that parents be involved in their children’s online activities to prevent data collection about children without parental consent. If you believe that we have collected personal data from a minor without permission, please contact us at digital@brandonbranda.com, and we will delete that information.

3. WHY DO WE PROCESS PERSONAL DATA?

The processing of this Personal Data is necessary to:

Serve our clients.
Maintain our client relationship through the sending of newsletters, promotions, etc.
Contact you if necessary to provide our services.
Comply with our legal obligations, such as tax reporting.
Place orders with our suppliers.
Hire new employees.
BRANDON & BRANDA does not make decisions that may have consequences for individuals based on automated processes.

4. ON WHAT LEGAL BASIS DO WE RELY?

The legal basis for these processes lies in:

The agreement you entered into with us for the provision of our services.
• Your consent.
• Our legal obligation to retain certain data.
• Our legitimate interest.

5. ACCESS BY AND TRANSFER TO THIRD PARTIES

BRANDON & BRANDA does not sell your data to third parties and only discloses it if necessary for the execution of our agreement with you or to comply with a legal obligation. Recipients of your Personal Data may only use that information for the execution of the agreement between you and us and do not have the right to use the data for other purposes. We enter into a data processing agreement with companies processing your Personal Data on our behalf to ensure a similar level of security and confidentiality of your data.

Additionally, BRANDON & BRANDA has a department in Dubai. We have concluded the Model Contractual Clauses with our partner in Dubai, providing sufficient guarantees for a lawful transfer of personal data to third countries, based on a decision of the European Commission under Article 26(4) of Directive 95/46/EC.

6. DURATION OF PROCESSING

BRANDON & BRANDA does not retain your Personal Data longer than reasonably necessary for the purposes mentioned in this privacy statement.

7. CONFIDENTIALITY AND SECURITY

BRANDON & BRANDA commits to take all reasonable measures to ensure the protection of your Personal Data through technical security measures to prevent misuse, loss, unauthorized access, unwanted disclosure, and unauthorized alteration. The Personal Data provided to BRANDON & BRANDA is stored on servers in Belgium or the European Union, if applicable, with the Processor.

8. YOUR RIGHTS

You have the right to access, correct, or delete your personal data. Additionally, you have the right to withdraw your consent for data processing or object to the processing of Personal Data by BRANDON & BRANDA. You also have the right to data portability. You can request the Personal Data we have about you in a computer file to be sent to you or to another organization you specify.

You can send a request to exercise one or more of the above rights to digital@brandonbranda.com. To ensure that the request is made by you, we ask you to include a copy of your identity card.

We will respond as soon as possible, within 4 weeks at the latest, to your request.

Finally, we want to remind you that you have the right to file a complaint with the supervisory authority.

Data Protection Authority
Drukpersstraat 35
1000 Brussels
Tel. 02/274.48.00
Fax. 02/274.48.35
contact@apd-gba.be

9. BRANDON & BRANDA AS PROCESSOR

BRANDON & BRANDA may also process Personal Data for third parties.

BRANDON & BRANDA is a service provider to its clients, acting as a Processor of Personal Data. Personal Data entrusted to us by clients for processing purposes is used solely for the clearly defined tasks you have provided. These data are never used for any other purpose. Our obligations regarding the processing of the Personal Data we receive from our clients are governed by a data processing agreement concluded between BRANDON & BRANDA and our client.

If you have any further questions about our privacy policy, please contact us at digital@brandonbranda.com.