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PRIVACY POLICY

1. Why this privacy statement?

Marie-Marie values the protection of your privacy and personal data. We use and process your personal data in accordance with the Privacy Act and other applicable regulations. Every reference in this Privacy Statement to the ‘Privacy Act’ means a reference to the Belgian Act of 8 December 1992 on Privacy Protection in relation to the Processing of Personal Data. Every reference to the Regulation is a reference to the Regulation 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.
With this Privacy Statement Marie-Marie wants to disclose how we process personal data and what the rights are of the User. We assume that while using the website and its services, the User has taken notice of this Privacy Policy and has agreed to the collection and processing of personal information in accordance with it.
The collection and processing of personal data is governed by strict conditions, enforced by the law. The most important law applicable is the Belgian Act of 8 December 1992 on Privacy Protection in relation to the Processing of Personal Data (‘Privacy Act’). Your privacy is very important to us; we want to be very clear and transparent about this. This is why we have designed this Privacy Policy.
Our Privacy Policy may be subject to future amendment or modification. Any such change will be clearly indicated in the Privacy Policy.
Who is responsible for the processing of personal data?
The website marie-marie.be is an initiative of:

Marie-Marie
Steenhouwersvest 12
2000 Antwerpen
Company number (VAT-BE) 0536.914.695
Email: info@marie-marie.be
Phone: 03/232 10 21

2. Goal

Marie-Marie collects and processes your personal information for one overarching goal, i.e. to offer you a safe, comfortable and personalized experience each time you visit the website. Dependant on whether the User makes intensive use of the website or relies on certain services, the collection of personal data may be more extensive.
The information we collect about you is primarily processed to help us ensure the proper technical functioning of our website and the related services. Your personal data will only be processed for the following (internal) purposes:
  • To allow every User access to his/her user profile, with which he/she can use our platform actively.
  • To offer a general and personalised service. This includes billing purposes, providing you useful and necessary information, regardless of the commercial of non-commercial nature, obtaining user reviews and providing support.
  • To offer and improve the delivered goods.
  • To detect and offer protection against all fraud, errors and criminal behaviours on the website.
When visiting the website of Marie-Marie, data are being collected for statistical purposes. Such data is necessary to optimize the use of our website. These data are: IP-address, probable location of consultation, the pages that are being consulted. When you visit the website of Marie-Marie you agree with this collection of data for statistical purposes.
The User always provides his/her personal data to Marie-Marie personally and thus retains control. Personal data are primarily processed for internal use. We can reassure you that personal data won’t be sold, passed on or communicated to any third parties. Marie-Marie has taken every legal and technical precaution to avoid unauthorized access to and use of the data.

3. We also use cookies!

During a visit to our website cookies can be placed on the hard drive of your computer and this solely to optimize the user experience. They allow us to recognize the User and to make an efficient use of our website’s functionalities.
For more information concerning the use of cookies, we kindly refer to our Cookie Statement.
For a proper consultation of the website of Marie-Marie, we advise you to accept our cookies. Of course you are free not to enable cookies in your internet web browser. If you would like to know how to disable cookies, please consult our Cookie Statement.

4. Rights of the User

4.1. GUARANTEE OF A LEGITIMATE AND SECURE PROCESS OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA
Marie-Marie processes your personal data in an honest and fair manner. This includes the following guarantees:
  • Your personal data are only collected and processed according the described and justified purposes of the Regulation.
  • Your personal data are only collected and processed to the extent that this is sufficient, nugatory and not excessive.
  • Your personal data are only stored as long as this is necessary to offer our services.
The risks of an accidental or unlawful destruction, accidental loss, modification of or access to every other not allowed process are reduced to a minimum. In the event of a break-in in its informatics systems, Marie-Marie will immediately take every possible measure to limit the damages to a minimum.
4.2. RIGHT TO INSPECT/RECTIFICATION/ERASURE OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA
If you can prove your identity, you are holder of the right to get a definitive answer from Marie-Marie about whether or not your personal data is being processed. When Marie-Marie processes your personal data, you have moreover the right to inspect your personal data. You have the right to receive information about the purposes of the processing, the categories of personal data that are being processed, the recipients of the personal data, the criteria to determine the time period during which your personal data will be stored and the rights you can exercise in accordance with the Regulation. If you wish to use your right to inspect, Marie-Marie will comply within one (1) month after the receipt of an application. The application takes place through a registered mail.
Inaccurate or incomplete personal data can always be rectified or erased. It is up to the User in the first place to edit inaccuracies in the User profile. You can exercise your right to rectify by providing an additional declaration to Marie-Marie. Marie-Marie will comply with this declaration within one (1) month after the receipt of the additional declaration. However, it is possible that the deleted personal data will still be temporarily stored, without it being visible to the User.
You have the right to let your personal data be erased by us without any unreasonable delay. You can always exercise this right in the below mentioned cases:
  • When your personal data are no longer needed for the purposes for what they have been collected or processed; or
  • When you revoke your permission and there is no longer any other legal ground for the processing; or
  • When the processing is objected and there are no longer any prevailing and compelling justified grounds for the processing; or
  • When the personal data are unlawfully processed; or
  • When your personal data have to be erased in accordance with a legal obligation.
It is up to Marie-Marie to examine the presence of one of these abovementioned cases.
4.3. RIGHT TO LIMITATION OF/OBJECTION AGAINST THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA
You have the right to limit the processing of your personal data:
  • During the period that Marie-Marie needs to control the accuracy of the personal data, in the case of an objection; or
  • When the processing of personal data is unlawful and you request a limitation of the processing in stead of the erasure of the personal data; or
  • When Marie-Marie no longer needs your personal data for the purposes of processing, but you need the personal data for a legal action; or
  • During the period that Marie-Marie needs to assess the presence of grounds for the erasure of personal data.
Moreover, you have the right to object against the processing of your personal data at any time because of specific, personal reasons. If you wish to exercise your right, Marie-Marie will comply within one (1) month after the reception of the application. The application can take place through registered mail or through info@marie-marie.be.
4.4. RIGHT TO DATA PORTABILITY
You have the right to receive the provided personal data in a structured, prevailing, and machine-readable form. You also have the right to transfer these personal data to another controller when the processing of your personal data exclusively relies on your permission.
If you wish to exercise your right, Marie-Marie will comply within one (1) month after the reception of the application. The application can take place through registered mail or through info@marie-marie.be.
4.5. RIGHT TO RETRACT MY PERMISSION/RIGHT TO FILE A COMPLAINT
You have the right to retract your permission at all times. Besides that, you have the right to file a complaint concerning the processing of your personal data by Marie-Marie at the Belgian Commission for the Protection of Privacy.
If you wish to exercise your right, Marie-Marie will comply within one (1) month after the reception of the application. The application can take place through registered mail or through info@marie-marie.be.