Last updated: August 2022
This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) applies to the processing or your personal data by Ipvocate in connection with the processing of personal data on the IPvocate website (www.ipvocate.com). You will find below detailed information about how we collect, use, disclose, transfer and store your personal information.
IPvocate is committed to protecting and respecting the personal data that it collects and processes. In this context, IPvocate 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 (“GDPR”) and the Belgian Act of 30 July 2018 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data.
Who are the data controllers of your personal data?
Your personal data is processed by IPvocate (“IPvocate”, “we” or “us”) having its registered office at 50 avenue de l’Armée, 1040 Brussels Belgium, registered in the Brussels Company Register under number 827.425.440.
IPvocate is the “data controller” for the purposes of applicable data protection laws.
If you have any questions or concerns about how we treat and use your personal data, or would like to exercise any of your rights below, please contact us at office@ipvocate.com or by writing us at:
IPvocate
50 avenue de l’Armée
1040 Brussels
Belgium
What is personal data?
“Personal data” means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person.
What personal data do we collect?
By accessing and surfing on the Website, you expressly agree that we collect and treat your following personal data:
- your IP address which is automatically detected by the server for each of your visits to the Website;
- your name and email address, if you submit a contact form on our Website ;
- any other information that you have voluntarily transmitted to us;
- information concerning web pages visited on the Website.
How we use your personal data and on which legal basis?
The purpose for which we use your personal data and the legal basis under the data protection laws on which we rely to do this are as follows:
- If you have given us your consent to use it for submitting a contact form, receiving communications and/or interacting with you;
- If it is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation. This includes when you exercise your legal rights under data protection law, to verify your identity;
- If it is necessary for our legitimate interest such as the improving of the Website.
How long do we retain your personal information?
We will keep your personal data as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for and as long as we need it to meet our legal obligations.
Who can access your personal data?
We want to be clear that we do not sell your personal data.
We do not share your personal data with any third party without your consent, except when it’s necessary for processing or responding to your request or if we are required to do so by law.
Your rights
You have the following rights in respect of the processing of your personal data:
- To request access to your information (i.e. to receive a copy of same);
- To have your information corrected, if it is inaccurate or not up to date;
- To have your information erased, although such right may be limited in view of our legal obligations;
- To receive free of charge a copy of your information in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, and to transmit it to another data controller (i.e. the right to data portability);
- To object to processing of your information and to restrict processing of your information, although such right may be limited in view of our legal obligations;
- To withdraw your consent at any time, for the purposes for which we collected your personal data.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at office@ipvocate.com or by writing us at:
IPvocate
50 avenue de l’Armée
1040 Brussels
Belgium
If you intend to make a complaint about our processing of your personal data, please contact us in the first instance before contacting your local data protection authority.
How we use cookies on our Website
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Changes to our privacy policy
We reserve the right to amend and update this Privacy Policy at any time. Changes will be posted on this page and, when appropriate, notified to you by email. Please check back regularly to see if there have been any updates or changes to our Privacy Policy.
Applicable law and jurisdiction
Any litigation in regard to the interpretation or execution of this Privacy Policy will be subject to Belgian Law and subject to exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the Brussels Judicial District.