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Privacy Statement

BANNISTER Lawyers processes personal data on a daily basis with respect for propriety, fairness, lawfulness, storage limitation, proportionality, finality of processing, integrity and confidentiality.

BANNISTER Lawyers 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 by email: gdpr@bannister.be

PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA

BANNISTER Lawyers 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 and last name
  • Gender
  • Date and place of birth
  • National registry number
  • Address details
  • Phone number
  • Email address
  • Other personal data you provide us by, for example, filling out a contact form on our website, or in correspondence and/or by telephone.
  • Bank account number

PROCESSING SENSITIVE PERSONAL DATA BANNISTER

Lawyers processes the following sensitive personal data (as the case may be):

  • Criminal history, facts or convictions;
  • Data of persons under 16 years of age;
  • Personal data demonstrating political views or union membership;
  • Data relating to sexual behavior or sexual orientation.

The processing of this data is necessary for the establishment, exercise or substantiation of legal claims, within the framework of the contract for advice and assistance concluded with you.

PROCESSING SENSITIVE PERSONAL DATA BANNISTER SERVICES

BANNISTER Lawyers 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), then we are required to identify our clients and request, verify and retain a number of documents attesting to that identity, along with a copy of your identity card. We may also need to ask you about the origin of funds or assets.
  • In addition, under the law and rules of attorney conduct, we are required to identify you by a valid form of identification. Depending on the services provided, we may require your state registry number.
  • To provide our services, we obviously need your name and contact information (surname, first name, phone number, address 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 it is 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 process that sensitive personal data. Data about your criminal history is provided to us by the Public Prosecutor's Office and this data is necessary to assist you.
  • For the protection 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 name, first name, date and place of birth and, to the extent possible, your address.
  • If you represent a corporation: the list of directors;

MARKETING

In order to increase our customer base we collect commercially interesting information about companies, such as the market position of a company, the possible (further) interest of the company in our services and the persons within the company with whom we want to come into contact, or have come into contact. Of those persons we collect contact information, notes based on (telephone) conversations and visit reports. This information is carefully organized 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 Lawyers, unless this proves necessary for the execution of the agreement. This includes the initiation and conduct of proceedings or for a negotiation process.

YOUR DATA MAY BE SHARED WITH:

  • Third parties involved in the performance of services: the mail carrier/courier to deliver documents to you if necessary;
  • Law enforcement or government agencies when they ask us to disclose the information;
  • Processors that provide statistical research and analysis;
  • Processors who provide our web hosting;
  • Processors providing hosting of this Website and related databases;
  • Medical consultants, experts, specialists;
  • Bailiffs

PROCESSORS

With all processors to whom we transfer data or who work on our behalf, we enter into a processor agreement to ensure that the level of security and confidentiality of your data remains the same.

BANNISTER Lawyers makes arrangements with the recipients of your information 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 unauthorized access, unwanted disclosure, alteration 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 longer than necessary, unless there is a legal duty on us to keep your personal data longer. Our policy states that we will keep your file and therefore 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) Also, we are not allowed to take action against clients or former clients, barring exceptions. Therefore, to control this, we 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 is kept for 5 Years.

YOUR RIGHTS AND WHO TO CONTACT

YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO NOTIFY US THAT:

  1. you want to see the personal data we hold about you;
  2. you want us to correct, update or delete your personal data in our records;
  3. you want the processing of your data to be limited;
  4. you object to the processing;
  5. you wish to exercise your right to data portability;
  6. you want to report misuse of your personal data.

To assist us in processing your request, please provide us with your full name and details and direct your request to: info@bannister.be. To make sure that the request for access is made by you, please enclose a copy of the front of your driver's license or ID card. In this copy, black out your passport photo and identity number. This is to protect your privacy.

Within one 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 of it. We will also explain for what purposes the data have been or will be processed, with whom the data will be shared, how long it is expected to be stored, and what other rights you may assert.

2. ENHANCEMENT OR SUPPLEMENTATION

If you have received access to the processing of your personal data, you may ask us to correct inaccuracies or complete omissions. If we proceed with correction, 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 may 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 honor your objection;
  • Personal data has been unlawfully processed by us;
  • We must delete your personal data due to 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 that 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 authorized to take cognizance of your complaint:

+32 (0)2 274 48 00/ contact@apd-gba.be /www.gegevensbeschermingsautoriteit.be).
The Belgian Data Protection Authority.
Press Street 35, 1000 Brussels
+32 (0)2 274 48 00
+32 (0)2 274 48 35
contact@apd-gba.be /www.gegevensbeschermingsautoriteit.be

USE OF COOKIES

BANNISTER Advocaten only uses functional cookies. These cookies are indispensable for visiting our websites and using certain parts of them. For example, these cookies allow you to navigate between different parts of the website or, for example, to fill in forms. If you reject these cookies, certain parts of the website will not work or will not work optimally.

NEWSLETTER

We offer a newsletter through which we want to inform interested parties about news in terms of possible expansion of our services, legislative changes and related matters. Your e-mail address will be 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

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