Privacy Policy

1. General

The website is owned and managed by Herman Vantrappen (Managing Director, Akordeon bv, company number BE 0464.618.815).

This privacy policy is subject to privacy legislation, amongst which Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council 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, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) (“GDPR”).

2. Purpose

While using the website, you may choose to submit personal data through on-line forms. The authors will use this information to process your requests, but they will not intentionally sell, share, or distribute your personal information to third parties, except as required by applicable law. The authors may also store this information for purposes of communicating with you.

Providing your personal data to the authors implies that you declare that you are fully informed about this privacy policy and that you fully accept this privacy policy without any reservation; and that you give your free, specific, informed and unambiguous consent to the authors to process your personal data in accordance with this privacy policy and the Privacy Legislation. As a consequence, you expressly grant the authors permission to use your personal data to accomplish the Purpose set out herein.

3. Personal data

The personal data the authors can process are, amongst others, but not limited to: first name, name, email address, phone number, company, position, language.  By agreeing to this privacy policy, you guarantee that the personal data you have provided are complete and correct.  The authors store the personal data for as long as is necessary to achieve the Purpose. Under GDPR you have the right to access and amend any of your personal data that we hold. Simply email your request to herman.vantrappen(at)akordeon(dot)com.

4. Cookies

In addition to any information you may affirmatively provide to the authors through on-line forms or otherwise, the website collects data about visitor traffic through the use of cookies. The authors do not attempt to personally identify visitors to the website. Instead they collect data to analyze in the aggregate to determine trends and improve the website. The following are some examples of the types of data that they routinely collect: Internet address of computer, browser type, referring web page, and date, time & duration of visit. Click here to change your privacy preferences.

Effective date: June 15, 2022