On a daily basis, BANNISTER Lawyers processes personal data with respect for propriety, fairness, lawfulness, storage limitation, proportionality, finality of processing, integrity and confidentiality.
BANNISTER Advocaten respects the privacy of our clients as well as the persons about whom we receive information. This information is treated with strict confidentiality. In this privacy statement, we would like to explain which personal data we process and why (purposes).
BANNISTER Advocaten, located at Suikerrui 5, 2000 Antwerp, e-mail address: gdpr@bannister.be, is the controller for the processing and storage of your personal data.
Responsible Data Protection Officer: Julie De Paepe.
If you have any questions about the content of the privacy statement, please contact us via e-mail: gdpr@bannister.be
PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA
BANNISTER Advocaten processes your personal data:
- Because of our legal obligations;
- For the sake of an agreement to provide advice and/or assistance;
- And/or because you have provided this personal data to us yourself (via our contact form).
BANNISTER LAWYERS PROCESSES DIFFERENT TYPES OF PERSONAL DATA, FOR DIFFERENT PURPOSES.
WE COLLECT:
- First name and surname
- Gender
- Date and place of birth
- National registry number
- Address details
- Phone number
- Email address
- Other personal data that you provide to us by, for example, filling in a contact form on our website, or in correspondence and/or by telephone.
- Bank account number
PROCESSING SENSITIVE PERSONAL DATA BANNISTER
Lawyers (as the case may be) processes the following sensitive personal data:
- Criminal history, facts or convictions;
- Data of persons under 16 years of age;
- Personal data revealing political opinions or trade union membership;
- Data relating to sexual behaviour or sexual orientation.
The processing of this data is necessary for the establishment, exercise or substantiation of legal claims, within the framework of the consultancy and assistance contract concluded with you.
PROCESSING SENSITIVE PERSONAL DATA BANNISTER SERVICES
BANNISTER Advocaten processes your personal data for the following purposes:
- To comply with anti-money laundering obligations: see http://www.tba.be/nl/witwaswetgeving.
- If the assignment you entrust to us falls within the scope of the Anti-Money Laundering Act (see link above), we are required to identify our clients and request a number of documents to prove that identity, verify them and retain them with a copy of your identity card. We may also have to ask you about the origin of funds or assets.
- In addition, the law and rules of conduct for lawyers require us to identify you by means of a valid identification document. Depending on the services provided, we may need your state registration number.
- To provide our services, we obviously need your name and contact details (surname, first name, phone number, address details and e-mail address) so that we can keep in touch and inform you about the status of your case.
- We need your bank account number to process payments (if any). We only process financial data if absolutely necessary for the conduct of proceedings or for billing purposes.
- Depending on the type of case, we also collect sensitive personal data such as health data and criminal history data, for example in the case of a personal injury case or a criminal case. When you instruct us to handle such a case, we ask for your consent to the processing of such sensitive personal data. Data about your criminal record is provided to us by the Public Prosecutor's Office and this data is necessary to assist you.
- For the representation of the legitimate interests of BANNISTER Lawyers. For this reason, we process your gender in order to enable correct addressing.
- If you are a natural person: your surname, first name, date and place of birth and, to the extent possible, your address.
- If you represent a company: the list of directors;
MARKETING
To increase our customer base, we collect commercially interesting information about companies, such as a company's market position, the company's possible (further) interest in our services and the persons within the company with whom we want to get in touch, or have come into contact. Of those persons, we collect contact details, notes based on (telephone) conversations and visit reports. This information is carefully collated and processed in a database with limited access. This processing is done on the basis of our legitimate business interest.
WITH WHOM DO WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL DATA?
Naturally, we do not sell your data. And as a rule, we do not share your personal data with anyone outside BANNISTER Advocaten, unless this proves necessary for the execution of the agreement. This includes starting and conducting proceedings or for a negotiation process.
YOUR DATA MAY BE SHARED WITH:
- Third parties involved in the provision of services: the postman/courier to deliver documents to you if necessary;
- Law enforcement or government agencies when they ask us to disclose the information;
- Processors providing statistical research and analysis;
- Processors providing our web hosting;
- Processors providing hosting of this Website and related databases;
- Medical advisers, experts, specialists;
- Bailiffs
PROCESSORS
We enter into a processor agreement with all processors to whom we transfer data or who work on our behalf to ensure that the level of security and confidentiality of your data remains the same.
BANNISTER Advocaten makes agreements with the recipients of your data to ensure that personal data is treated confidentially and secured.
BANNISTER Attorneys remains, of course, responsible for this processing.
SECURING PERSONAL DATA
BANNISTER Lawyers takes all reasonable precautions to secure your personal data and requires third parties who handle or process your personal data for us to do the same. Access to your personal data is restricted to prevent unauthorised access, unwanted disclosure, modification or misuse and is only permitted to our employees and processors on a need-to-know basis.
HOW LONG WE KEEP YOUR DATA
We do not keep your personal data for longer than necessary, unless there is a legal duty on us to keep your personal data for longer. Our policy states that we keep your file and thus your personal data for five years. We do this because we find that clients request data from their file after years or other cases follow in which it is necessary to have that data. (E.g. professional liability) We are also not allowed to take action against clients or former clients, barring exceptions. To control this, we therefore continue to keep your name, date and place of birth and your file.
The data collected as a result of your visit to the website are kept for 5 Years.
YOUR RIGHTS AND WHO TO CONTACT
YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO NOTIFY US THAT:
- you want to see the personal data we hold about you;
- you want us to correct, update or delete your personal data in our records;
- you want the processing of your data to be limited;
- you object to the processing;
- you wish to exercise your right to data portability;
- you want to report misuse of your personal data.
To help us process your request, please provide us with your full name and details and address your request to: info@bannister.be. To ensure that the request for inspection is made by you, please enclose a copy of the front of your driving licence or your identity document. Black out your passport photo and identity number in this copy. This is to protect your privacy.
Within a month of submitting your request, we will inform you what action was taken.
You have the right to withdraw your consent to a particular processing at any time, without prejudice to the lawfulness of the processing based on the consent before its withdrawal.
Finally, you always have the right to complain to the supervisory authority (GBA).
1. RIGHT OF INSPECTION
Upon your request, we will inform you in writing whether and what personal data we process about you, and we will provide you with a copy. We will also explain for what purposes the data have been or are being processed, with whom the data are shared, how long they are expected to be stored, and what other rights you may assert.
2. CORRECTION OR COMPLETION
If you have been given access to the processing of your personal data, you may ask us to correct inaccuracies or complete omissions. If we correct them, you will receive a supplementary statement from us. Any recipients of your incorrect or incomplete data will also receive this statement.
3. DATA ERASURE
You can ask us to delete your personal data in our systems in one or more of the following cases:
- The personal data is no longer needed for the purposes for which we processed it;
- You withdraw your consent to (further) processing; and there is no longer any other basis for processing;
- You make a reasoned objection, and there are no compelling reasons not to honour your objection;
- Personal data has been unlawfully processed by us;
- We must delete your personal data on the basis of a legal obligation.
4. LIMITATION OF PROCESSING
If you have reported an inaccuracy or incompleteness in your personal data to us, you may ask us to restrict processing while we are processing your request. You may also ask us to restrict the processing of your data if you believe that we are processing your data unlawfully or no longer need it, or if you have objected to its (further) processing. After receiving your request, we will only process the data after obtaining your consent or for compelling reasons (such as legal proceedings).
5. BEWARE
You may at any time object to the processing of personal data relating to you. This applies in particular to profiles we have created on the basis of your personal data. We will stop processing your data upon receipt of your objection, unless we can provide compelling legitimate reasons that outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms.
6. COMPLAINTS
Do you have a complaint about the use/misuse of your personal data? If so, please refer to the complaints procedure at the GBA. This body is authorised to take cognisance of your complaint:
+32 (0)2 274 48 00/ contact@apd-gba.be /www.gegevensbeschermingsautoriteit.be).
The Belgian Data Protection Authority
Rue du Printing Press 35, 1000 Brussels
+32 (0)2 274 48 00
+32 (0)2 274 48 35
contact@apd-gba.be /www.gegevensbeschermingsautoriteit.be
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NEWSLETTER
We offer a newsletter through which we wish to inform interested parties about news on possible expansion of our services, legislative changes and related matters. Your e-mail address is added to the list of subscribers only with your explicit consent. Each newsletter contains a link that allows you to easily unsubscribe ("unsubscribe"). The newsletter subscriber file will not be provided to third parties.
QUESTIONS?
Still have questions? If so, please send an e-mail with your question to: gdpr@bannister.be.
This privacy statement is in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation. We reserve the right to change or improve this privacy statement periodically. The latest version will be published on this page.
Contact details
BANNISTER Lawyers
Frankrijklei 104
2000 Antwerp
Tel: 03 369 28 00
gdpr@bannister.be
