This Privacy Notice is provided by Belgius Capital (“we” and “us”) to inform you about how we use the Personal Data that we collect.
Extent and Definitions
When we use the term “Services,” we refer collectively to:
- Any websites owned and controlled by us connected to this Privacy Notice (Sites);
- Providing investment and other services related to our business, and
- Marketing and business development activities, including events, social media, and emails (Marketing Activities).
- By using “Personal Data,” we are referring to information that can be used to reasonably identify an individual or that links to an identifiable individual (Data Subject).
The Data Subjects we collect Data from in delivering our Services are:
- Directors, officers, employees, representatives and other individuals connected to companies in which Belgius Capital has invested or is potentially investing;
- Individual representatives of third-party sellers, investment bankers, consultants, lawyers, accountants, advisers, and other service providers, whether or not engaged by us
- Directors, officers, employees and other representatives of Belgius Capital;
- People inquiring about working with us; and
- Users of our Sites and users of any digital services we provide.
- The https://www/belgiuscapital.com Site
For additional security, https://www/belgiuscapital.com (“the Site”) operates from servers based in the United States. BY USING THIS SITE AND PROVIDING INFORMATION TO US, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT YOUR PERSONAL DATA CAN BE TRANSFERRED AND PROCESSED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
Our Site may contain web links to other websites operated by third parties. We do not control and nor are we responsible for the content or privacy practices and policies of third-party websites.
What Personal Data Is Collected
In providing our Services, we may collect:
- Identification information such as your name, ID card, and passport numbers, nationality, place, and date of birth, gender, picture, IP address;
- Contact details such as your postal address, e-mail, and phone numbers;
- Family information such as marital status and number of children;
- Tax status such as tax ID and residence;
- Professional and employment information (such as resume details, work history, personnel files, pay, and benefits information);
- Financial information such as bank account details, credit card numbers, money transfers, assets, investment history, debts, and expenses;
- Service data, such as information on requests to us;
- Other background details, such as information relating to any criminal activity.
How Personal Data Is Collected
We may collect Personal Data in different ways, such as:
- Directly from the Data Subject such as from visitors to our Sites, or if you provide information when you apply for a job, email us, send other correspondence, or you complete the contact form;
- Indirectly from other sources such as when we are assessing a potential investment, and we obtain diligence information from the target that may contain personal data, when service providers provide us data in relation to their services, or when we carry out certain investment activities during which we may receive personal data from, investment bankers, consultants, lawyers, accountants, advisers, and others, whether or not engaged by us; and visitors to our Site who may be distinguishable by the use of data collection tools (“Cookies”) that log usage information, including the number and frequency of users of the Site. This may include the websites that you view before and after your visit to the Site and which Internet browser is being used.
How Personal Data Is Used
We use Personal Data for different purposes, such as:
- making, maintaining, managing and selling investments;
- conducting due diligence and assessing business opportunities;
- developing new investment opportunities;
- running, operating and expanding our business, managing our services and client accounts, including through the use of third-party service providers;
- complying with legal or regulatory responsibilities, such as tax requirements;
- processing and reviewing applications for employment, including evaluating and confirming suitability for positions and the accuracy of information provided;
- monitoring and auditing compliance by internal procedures, legal responsibilities and to meet the demands of regulatory authorities, and;
- conducting risk mitigation to protect the safety and security of our services, systems, premises, and to avoid and detect security threats, fraud, or other criminal or harmful behavior.
We also may use Personal Data to undertake a contract with you or to take measures at your request before entering into a contract, such as to:
- Provide you with information about our services,
- We are not responsible for any expenses You incur to access and use the Site.
- assist you and respond to requests, or
- assess whether we can offer you our services and under what if any conditions.
We also may use Personal Data with your consent, but only in cases where we make it clear to you beforehand that we depend on your consent for the usage.
How Personal Data Is Shared
Within Belgius Capital. We share your Personal Data within our business for the purposes detailed above.
Service Providers.
We may share Personal Data with third-party service providers to assist us with services such as website hosting, professional services, including I.T., customer service, auditing, and other such services.
Affiliates.
We may share Personal Data with our affiliates for the purposes described in this Privacy Notice, and to maintain our standards of delivering the first-class service and engagement experience that our international clients have come to expect from us.
Performing Investment Services.
We will also share Personal Data with the following categories of third parties:
- anyone involved in the situation that we are working on, such as lawyers, barristers, counterparties, experts, mediators, opponents, and witnesses,
- law enforcement, tax, and regulatory authorities,
- insurers, and
- service providers such as I.T. and telephone services, catering, document production, and mail and delivery services.
Satisfy Requests.
We may share Personal Data with third parties in order to undertake the services you request.
Corporate Events.
We may share your information to a third party in circumstances such as a corporate reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, or other disposal of all or any part of our business, assets or capital, including in relation to bankruptcy or similar proceedings.
Other Legal Reasons.
We may also use or share your Personal Data as we consider necessary or appropriate:
- under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence;
- to respond to requests from public and government authorities, including public and government authorities outside your country of residence;
- to comply with legal processes;
- to seek remedies or limit damages we may suffer;
- to protect our business or that of our affiliates;
- to protect our rights, privacy, security or property, our affiliates, you and others; and
- to implement our terms and conditions.
How Personal Data Is Protected
Belgius Capital maintains physical, electronic, and procedural protections in line with our information security program to safeguard personal data from unauthorized access or use. However, please understand that no data transmission or storage methods can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
How Long Personal Data Is Retained
We retain personal data in accordance with our records retention policy for as long as it is required for the purposes detailed in this Privacy Notice unless a longer time is required or allowed under applicable law or is needed to settle disputes or protect our legal rights.
Keeping Personal Data Up-to-date
We aim to keep your Personal Data accurate and current. However, you are responsible for, and we ask that you let us know of any changes to your Personal Data or circumstances, such as a telephone number being changed. To amend or correct Personal Data that we have on record, please contact us by e-mail.
European Economic Area-Specific Disclosures
For individuals in the EEA, please below for additional detailed information.
Contact and Complaints
We take any complaints we receive about our use of your Personal Data very seriously. Queries, comments, requests, or complaints about the Site, this Privacy Notice, and/or our use of Personal Data should be sent to info@belgiuscapital.com.
All Personal Data we receive from you about a complaint will be treated in accordance with this Privacy Notice and used only to respond to the complaint and assess the service we deliver. In the same way, when inquiries are made to us, we will only use the information provided to handle the inquiry and any ensuing issues and to assess the service we deliver.
FURTHER INFORMATION FOR EEA RESIDENTS
The information below concerns individuals residing in the European Economic Area. For purposes of the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679), we act as a data controller, and as a data controller, we can decide how we retain and manage Personal Data.
GDPR Data Protection
For the collection, retention, storage, use, and management of your Personal Data:
- We will manage the data lawfully, reasonably, and openly and transparently.
- We will only use the data for valid purposes that have been clearly explained and not use data in any way that is contrary to those purposes.
- The data we collect will be used for the purposes we have notified you about and only for those purposes.
- We will take appropriate measures to maintain the data in an accurate and current manner.
- We will use appropriate steps to ensure the proper security of the data.
Personal Data Transferred Out of the European Economic Area
Transferring Personal Data from the European Economic Area to us outside the EEA is overseen by data transfer agreements approved by the European Council.
When your Personal Data is processed by third parties not inside the EEA, we ensure that reasonable protections are in place to sufficiently safeguard your Personal Data, in accordance with applicable law, including the use of standard contractual clauses if the recipients are not in a country with acceptable data protection laws (as defined by the E.C.) or covered by the EU-US Privacy Shield framework.
GDPR Rights
Under the GDPR, in certain situations, an EEA-resident has rights concerning the Personal Data that is held about them. Specifically, you may have the right to:
- Ask for access to any data held about you.
- Request to have inaccurate or out of date data updated.
- Request information held about you to be deleted, as long as the data is not required by Belgius Capital to fulfill a contract, resolve a legal claim, or is needed to comply with legal or regulatory requirements.
- Constrain or limit the use of data which is no longer needed.
- Request the transfer of data to a third party where this is technically practical.
- Also, in the circumstances where you may have provided your consent to the collection, use, and transfer of your Personal Data for a particular reason, you have the right to remove your consent for that particular reason at any time. Once your consent has been removed, we will no longer use your information for the reason or reasons you originally agreed to, unless we have another legitimate, legal basis for doing so.
As a resident of the European Economic Area, you are also entitled to direct any complaints concerning our use of your Personal Data to your national data protection supervisory body.
Automated Decision Making
We respect your rights not to be subject to decisions that are based only on the automated use of your Personal Data, including profiling, particularly where such use has legal or other significant effects on you. In forming and maintaining a business relationship, we typically do not use any automated decision-making in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation.
Contact us at info@belgiuscapital.com for all inquiries.