Privacy and cookie policy
This is a translation for your convenience; in case of any discrepancy the Dutch version prevails.
Cookie policy
Hof Rodin, with registered office at Rhoode 52, 2360 Oud-Turnhout, Belgium, registered under enterprise number 1000.659.819 and VAT number BE1000659819 (hereinafter “the website owner”) uses cookies to improve the user experience (for example to remember a language choice) and to collect web statistics about visitors to the website hofrodin.be (hereinafter the “Website”).
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small text file that a website’s server places in the browser of your computer or mobile device when you visit the website. The cookie contains a unique code that allows your browser to be recognised during the visit (a ‘session’ cookie) or on later visits (a ‘persistent’ cookie). Cookies can be placed by the server of the website you visit or by partners that this website works with. A website’s server can only read the cookies it has placed itself; it has no access to other information on your computer or mobile device. Cookies are stored in your browser’s folder. A cookie usually contains the name of the server that placed it, an expiry date and a unique numeric code. Cookies generally make the interaction between visitor and website easier and faster and help the visitor to navigate between the different parts of a website. Cookies can also be used to make the content or advertising on a website more relevant to the visitor and tailored to personal tastes and needs.
Use of cookies on the Website
Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies are essential for visiting the Website and using certain parts of it, for example to navigate between its different sections. If you refuse these cookies, some parts of the Website will not work, or not work properly.
Functional cookies
Functional cookies make our Website easier and more pleasant to use and give you a more personalised experience. Examples are cookies that remember your language preference, or that record whether you have already been asked to take part in a survey so that we do not show you the same survey again.
Performance cookies
We use performance cookies to collect information about how visitors use our Website, in order to improve its content, adapt it better to visitors’ wishes and make it easier to use.
Third-party cookies
Our Website may, now or in the future, contain elements from third parties, such as video services, social media buttons and/or advertisements.
Managing cookies
You can set your browser to notify you when a cookie is placed, or to refuse cookies. If you block cookies, some functions of the Website may not work or you may not be able to use certain services of the website owner. We do not use cookies to identify you personally or to store personal data without your knowledge. If you want to limit, block or delete cookies on your computer or mobile device, you can do so in your browser settings; see your browser’s HELP function for instructions.
Privacy policy
This version applies from 1 January 2015 and was amended on 18 April 2018 in view of the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679, mandatory from 25 May 2018.
1. Website procedures
This privacy policy describes how the website owner uses and protects the data that users provide when visiting this Website. You do not have to provide personal information to use hofrodin.be. In principle the Website does not collect personal data. If it does so, now or in the future, it will only collect personal data that users provide explicitly and voluntarily.
2. Automatically collected information
2.1 Technical information. The Website collects certain non-identifiable information about its users, such as the internet protocol address, the date and time of your visit, the website from which you followed a link to this Website, your operating system, the parts and pages of the Website you visit and the materials you send to or download from the Website. This technical information is used for website and system administration and to improve the Website.
2.2 Cookies and web beacons. To ensure that the Website is properly managed and to make navigation easier, the website owner may use cookies (small text files stored in the user’s browser) or web beacons (electronic images that count the number of visitors to a page and give access to certain cookies) to collect aggregate data. This information may be used to analyse visitor numbers in the different sections of the Website and to make sure the Website is a useful and effective source of information. Neither the cookies nor the web beacons of the website owner collect personal data. Most browsers allow users to disable cookies; in some cases this may prevent access to certain parts of the Website. For more information, see our cookie policy above.
3. Information used
The website owner may use non-personal information to generate aggregate tracking reports on the demographics of Website users and the use of the Website. This tracking information is not linked to the identity or other personal data of individual users.
4. Other matters
4.1 Security. The website owner does everything it can to secure its servers, applications and databases and to prevent unauthorised access or use, using physical, administrative and technological measures.
4.2 Other websites. The Website may contain links to other websites or internet resources, which may collect information about you, knowingly or through cookies or other technologies. The website owner is not responsible or liable for, and has no control over, these websites or resources or their collection, use and disclosure of your personal data. Please check their privacy policies yourself.
4.3 Changes to this privacy policy. The website owner may change, supplement or amend its privacy policy at any time, for any reason, by publishing the revised policy prominently on the Website.
5. Notice
The website owner cares about your privacy and processes your personal data in accordance with Belgian law, its general data protection policy and the strictest standards of fair information, as well as with European law under the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679, in force since 27 April 2016.
6. Why do we record your personal data?
6.1 General purposes. Where necessary, the website owner processes your personal data solely for (i) carrying out and developing its activities and (ii) informing you about its other goods and/or services.
6.2 Direct marketing and communication with third parties. The website owner treats your personal data as confidential information that it will never pass on to third parties and will not use for direct marketing unless you have given your prior consent. If you have given consent, you can of course unsubscribe at any time. By law you have the right to object, on request and free of charge, to the use of your personal data for direct marketing. Simply send your request to info@hofrodin.be or call us on +32 14 94 59 42.
7. Who is responsible for processing your personal data?
The controller of all personal data collected through the Website is the website owner.
8. How can I access my personal data?
You can ask the website owner free of charge for access to your personal data, or to correct or delete it, by sending a letter or e-mail together with a copy of your identity card. The website owner will then do its best to meet your request as quickly as possible.
9. General information
This policy for the protection of your personal data complies fully with all legal provisions in Belgium and the European Union:
- The Belgian Act of 8 December 1992, the “Privacy Act” (last amended by the Act of 11 December 1998)
- The General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 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, repealing Directive 95/46/EC
We are not responsible for the privacy policies of websites linked from the Website. This privacy policy is governed exclusively by and must be interpreted in accordance with Belgian law. In the event of a dispute, the courts of the website owner’s registered office have jurisdiction.