Privacy and Cookie Policy

This “Privacy Policy” governs the processing of your personal data by the controller: Molse Bouwmachines, hereinafter referred to as the “company”.”

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully as it contains essential information about how your personal data is processed and which cookies are used. By providing your personal data on the website www.molsebouwmachines.be and by providing personal data using the email addresses mentioned on this website, you declare that you have taken note of this Privacy Policy and you expressly agree to it, as well as to the processing itself.

Article 1 – General

Molse Bouwmachines complies with the “Law of 8 December 1992 on the protection of privacy with regard to the processing of personal data”, as amended by the Law of 11 December 1998, as well as the anti-spam provisions from Book XII of the Code of Economic Law concerning the “right to the electronic economy”.

Molse Bouwmachines hereby also complies with European Regulation 2016/679 of 27 April 2016 on the protection of personal data by means of this Privacy Policy.

The controller of your personal data is Molse Bouwmachines. .

Article 2 – Personal Data

2.1. Personal data you provide to us:

• Without registration: your IP address
• On registration: when signing up for our newsletter: your email address;
• When asking a question via the website: surname, first name, email address, phone number, address
• Via cookies

2.2. Molse Bouwmachines can collect your personal data in several ways:

• by the use of cookies (see below);
• during your registration and use of the Website;

2.3. The Website also uses cookies which collect a number of personal data. For the provisions regarding the use of cookies, see Article 9.

Article 3 – Purposes of processing

3.1. General purposes:

The company will use the personal data collected from you solely for the following purposes:

• Maintaining and improving this website, and processing personal data in anonymised statistics from which the identity of specific individuals or companies cannot be traced, on the legal ground of Molse Bouwmachines' legitimate interests to continuously improve its website and services;
• Sending newsletters, invitations to seminars, with your explicit, prior consent as the legal basis;
•  In the event a question is asked: contact the question asker with the aim of providing an answer

You are not obliged to disclose your personal data, but please understand that the provision of certain services will become impossible if you refuse processing.

3.2. Disclosure to third parties:

In the event of a full or partial reorganisation or transfer of activities by Molse Bouwmachines, whereby it reorganises, transfers, ceases its business activities, or if Molse Bouwmachines goes bankrupt, this may mean that your data is transferred to new entities or third parties by whom all or part of the business activities of Molse Bouwmachines are carried out.

Molse Bouwmachines will make reasonable attempts to notify you in advance when Molse Bouwmachines discloses your data to the aforementioned third party, but you also acknowledge that this is not technically or commercially feasible under all circumstances.

Molse Bouwmachines will not sell, rent, distribute or otherwise commercially make your personal data available to third parties, except as described above or unless with your prior consent.

3.3. Statutory requirements:

In rare instances, Molse Bouwmachines may be required to disclose your personal data pursuant to a court order or to comply with other mandatory legal or regulatory provisions. Molse Bouwmachines will make reasonable attempts to inform you in advance of doing so, unless this is subject to legal restrictions.

Article 4 – Duration of processing

Personal data will be retained and processed by us for a period necessary for the purposes of processing and in relation to the contractual relationship between Molse Bouwmachines and you.

Article 5 – Your rights

5.1. Right to access and inspect:

You have the right to access your personal data and to be informed about how we use your personal data, at any time and free of charge.

5.2. Right of rectification, erasure and restriction:

You are free to choose whether or not to share your personal data with Molse Bouwmachines. Furthermore, you always have the right to request that we improve, supplement, or delete your personal data. You acknowledge that if you refuse to provide data or request its deletion, certain services will not be available. You may also request to restrict the processing of your personal data.

5.3. Right of objection:

You also have the right to object to the processing of your personal data for serious and legitimate reasons.

Furthermore, you always have the right to object to the processing of personal data for direct marketing purposes; in such a case, you do not need to provide any reasons.

5.4. Right to data portability:

You have the right to obtain and/or transfer your personal data, processed by us, in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format.

5.5. Right to withdraw consent:

As far as the processing is based on your prior consent, you have the right to withdraw that consent.

5.6. Exercising your rights:

You can exercise your rights by contacting us for this purpose, either by email at info@molsebouwmachines.be, by post to Molsebouwmachines – Lichtstraat 2 – 2400 Mol, or by using the “Ask your question here” section on the website.

5.7. Automated decision-making and profiling:

The processing of your personal data does not include profiling, nor will you be subject to automated decision-making by us.

5.8. Right to lodge a complaint:

You have the right to lodge a complaint with the Belgian Privacy Commission: Commission for the Protection of Personal Privacy, Drukpersstraat 35, 1000 Brussels, Tel +32 (0)2 274 48 00, Fax +32 (0)2 274 48 35, e-mail:  commission@privacycommission.be.

This does not prejudice the provision for a civil court.
If you suffer damage as a result of the processing of your personal data, you may bring a claim for compensation.

Article 6 – Safety and Confidentiality

We have developed technical and organisational security measures to prevent the destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorised access or mistaken disclosure to third parties of personal data collected, as well as any other unauthorised processing of such data.

Molse Bouwmachines shall not be held liable for any direct or indirect damage arising from any faulty or unlawful use by a third party of personal data.

You must at all times comply with the security rules, including preventing any unauthorised access to your login and code. You are therefore solely responsible for the use made from the Website of your computer, IP address, and identification details, as well as for their confidentiality.

Article 7 – Third-party access

In order to process your personal data, we grant access to your personal data to our employees and associates.

We guarantee a similar level of protection through contractual obligations enforceable against these employees and appointees, which are similar to this Privacy Policy.

Article 8 – Privacy Commission Declaration

For this processing of personal data, a declaration was made to the Commission for the Protection of Privacy. You can always contact this Commission at the following addresses:

Commission for the Protection of Personal Data
Drukpersstraat 35
1000 Brussels
+32 (0)2 274 48 00
+32 (0)2 274 48 35
commission@privacycommission.be

Article 9 – Cookies

9.1. What are cookies?

A “cookie” is a small file sent by the Molse Bouwmachines server and placed on your computer's hard drive. The information stored on these cookies can only be read by us and only during the duration of your visit to the website.

9.2. Why do we use cookies?

Our website uses cookies and similar technologies to distinguish your usage preferences from those of other users of our Website. This helps us to provide you with a better user experience when you visit our website and also allows us to optimise our website.

As a result of recent legislative changes, all websites targeting specific parts of the European Union are required to ask for your consent to use or store cookies and similar technologies on your computers or mobile devices. This cookie policy provides you with clear and complete information about the cookies we use and their purpose.

9.3. Types of cookies:

Although there are different types of cookies, distinguished by functionality, origin or retention period, legislation primarily distinguishes between functional or technically necessary cookies on the one hand and all other cookies on the other.

What cookies do we use? In short:
1. Functional cookies or necessary cookies 
Functional cookies ensure that our website functions correctly. This includes saving your browser settings so that you can view our website optimally on your screen.

2. Analytical cookies
The Molse Bouwmachines website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses "cookies" to help analyse how visitors use the website. By measuring website usage, we can continue to improve our website for the benefit of our users. Among other things, they give us insight into how often we are visited and where we can improve our website. This way, we ensure that the experience with our website is continuously optimised.
What is stored

The IP address, which is anonymised;

• Technical characteristics such as the browser you are using (e.g. Chrome, Internet Explorer or Firefox), your computer screen resolution and which device you are using;
• From which page you arrived on the website;
• When and how Lange visits us;
• Which pages you visit. .

We use these cookies for example for:

• Keeping track of visitor numbers;
• Measuring the duration of visits;
• Determining the order in which a visitor navigates through the different pages of our site.

The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website will be transferred to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google may provide this information to third parties if Google is legally obliged to do so or insofar as these third parties process the information on behalf of Google. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. By using this website, you consent to the processing of the information by Google in the manner and for the purposes described above. Google's cookie is stored for a maximum of 2 years and they do not share your information with third parties: privacy statementhttps://policies.google.com/privacy)

3. Advertising cookies 
Based on your browsing behaviour, your demographic and user data, we can make our advertisements more efficient and better tailor them to your interests, showing you only personalised advertising messages. With the cookies and tools from Google's advertising network (Google Adwords) and Facebook's (Custom Audiences), we can also show you advertisements on websites that are part of these networks that you may be interested in.

4. Social media cookies
These cookies enable social media website functionalities such as Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and Instagram. For example, this includes displaying our stores on Google Maps or a “like” button for Facebook.

5. To measure and improve the success of our advertising campaigns, technologies such as web beacons (or clear GIFs) and action tags count the number of visitors to our website following an advertisement on a third-party site. Certain pages on our websites also use pixel tags. These pixels track, among other things, what you have viewed on our pages. Based on this, we can show you relevant advertisements on, for example, Facebook and Google.

9.4. Your consent:

On your first visit to our website, you will be asked to accept our different types of cookies. You can allow or refuse cookies category by category. You can change the cookie settings for our website at any time via the hyperlink at the bottom of our website and thus withdraw your consent.

You can refuse the installation of these cookies by selecting “Reject cookies” in the pop-up screen offered when you first use the website.

You can also refuse or block cookies by changing your browser's configuration settings. Disabling cookies may mean that you cannot use certain functionalities on the website.

Should you have any further questions or comments regarding the processing of your personal data, please do not hesitate to contact Us, either by email at info@molsebouwmachines.be, by post to Molsebouwmachines – Lichtstraat 2 – 2400 Mol or by using the contact form on the Website.

You can also find more information about cookies at: http://www.allaboutcookies.org/
You can find more information on online behavioural advertising and online privacy here: http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/