1. Introduction
H&B, a law firm located at Rue de l'Aurore, 44 - 1000 Brussels, Belgium, appreciates your trust and collaboration. We are a Belgian law firm providing professional legal services. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully before using our services and website.
2. DATA COLLECTED
We are a law firm based in Belgium and use web servers hosted in Switzerland by Infomaniak SA. Our hosting provider Infomaniak SA strictly complies with GDPR regulations and ensures the security of your data. For more information on Infomaniak's privacy policy, please see: Infomaniak Privacy Policy. Politique de Confidentialité Infomaniak.
REGISTRATION DATA
If you register on our website, we store your chosen username, your email address, and any additional personal information added to your user profile. You can view, edit, or delete your personal information at any time (except changing your username). Website administrators can also view and edit this information.
CONTACT DATA
Information submitted through the contact form on our site is sent to our professional email address. These submissions are only kept for customer service purposes and are never used for marketing purposes or shared with third parties.
NEWSLETTER
If you subscribe to our newsletter, your data (name and email address) is stored and processed by Mailchimp. Mailchimp complies with GDPR regulations and you can view their privacy policy here: Mailchimp Privacy Policy. You can unsubscribe at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link in each newsletter. Politique de Confidentialité Mailchimp. Vous pouvez vous désabonner à tout moment en cliquant sur le lien de désinscription présent dans chaque newsletter.
COMMENTS
When you leave comments on the website, we collect the data shown in the comments form, as well as the IP address and browser user agent string to help with spam detection.
WEBSITE STATISTICS
We use WordPress's built-in statistics module to analyze anonymous site usage. No personally identifiable data is stored. These statistics help us improve our services and user experience.
USE OF PERSONAL DATA
We use your personal information in the following cases:
- User verification/identification during website usage
- Providing technical assistance
- Sending important updates regarding our services
- Checking account activity to prevent fraudulent transactions
- Personalizing the website for a more personalized experience
- Ensuring overall performance and administrative functions
3. EMBEDDED CONTENT
Pages on this site may include embedded content, such as LinkedIn videos for example. Embedded content from other websites behaves exactly the same way as if you visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content.
We use LinkedIn only to display professional content related to our firm. LinkedIn has its own cookie and privacy policies over which we have no control. Your IP is not sent to a LinkedIn server until you consent to it. See their privacy policy here: LinkedIn Privacy Policy. Politique de Confidentialité LinkedIn.
4. Cookies
This site uses cookies - small text files placed on your machine to help the site provide a better user experience. Generally, cookies are used to retain user preferences and provide anonymized tracking data. You can disable cookies in your browser if you wish.
NECESSARY COOKIES (ALL VISITORS)
- PHPSESSID : To identify your unique session on the website
- wordpress_test_cookie : Used by WordPress to ensure cookies are working correctly
ADDITIONAL COOKIES (LOGGED-IN USERS)
- wp-auth : Used by WordPress to authenticate logged-in visitors
- wordpress_logged_in_{hash} : Used by WordPress for logged-in visitor authentication
- wp-settings-[UID] : WordPress sets a few wp-settings-[UID] cookies to customize your view of the admin interface
5. ACCESS TO YOUR DATA
If you are not a registered client on our site, there is no personal information we can retain or view regarding you. If you are a client with a registered account, your personal information can be accessed by:
- Our system administrators
- Our staff when they need to obtain client account information to provide support
6. THIRD-PARTY ACCESS TO YOUR DATA
We do not share your data with third parties in a way that reveals your personal information such as email, name, etc. The only exceptions to this rule concern partners with whom we must share limited data to provide the services you expect from us:
MAILCHIMP
Mailchimp provides the newsletter platform we use to manage subscriptions. The data they receive is limited to the data you explicitly provide when subscribing. Mailchimp complies with GDPR regulations.
7. DATA RETENTION PERIOD
When you submit a comment or a contact form, your data will only be used in connection with your request.
8. SECURITY MEASURES
We use the SSL/HTTPS protocol throughout our site. This encrypts user communications with servers so that personally identifiable information is not captured by third parties without authorization.
In case of a data breach, system administrators will immediately take all necessary steps to ensure system integrity, contact affected users, and attempt to reset passwords if necessary.
9. YOUR DATA RIGHTS
GENERAL RIGHTS
If you have a registered account on this website or have left comments, you can request an exported file of the personal data we retain, including any additional data you have provided to us.
You can also request that we erase any personal data we have stored. This does not include data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
GDPR RIGHTS
Your privacy is critically important to us. In accordance with GDPR, we aim to comply with GDPR standards. H&B allows European Union residents to use its services. Therefore, H&B is committed to complying with the European General Data Protection Regulation.
10. THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES
H&B may post links to third-party websites on this website. These third-party websites are not screened by H&B for privacy or security compliance, and you release us from any liability for the conduct of these third-party websites.
All social media sharing links, whether displayed as text links or social media icons, do not connect you to any of the associated third parties unless you explicitly click on them.
11. CONTACT
For any questions regarding this privacy policy or to exercise your rights, please contact us:
Hirsch & Bonneure
Rue de l’Aurore, 44
1000 Brussels
Belgium
This privacy policy is effective from [date] and may be updated periodically.