Privacy Statement

1  L’o de Vie Consulting BV and your privacy

In this Privacy Statement, you will find more information about the processing of your Personal Data by L’o de Vie Consulting BV.

L’o de Vie Consulting BV (“L’o de Vie Consulting BV”, “we” or “us”) considers your privacy as very important. We strive to process your Personal Data in a lawful, appropriate and transparent manner in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (the “GDPR”) and any national legislation adopted pursuant to the GDPR. With this Privacy Statement, we want to emphasise this commitment.

Please take the time to read through this Privacy Statement and better understand the categories of your Personal Data that L’o de Vie Consulting BV processes. We also explain on what legal basis L’o de Vie Consulting BV processes your Personal Data, for what specific purposes and to whom we transfer this data.

This Privacy Statement also describes your data protection rights, including the right to object to (certain) processing activities we perform, and explains how to exercise these rights in accordance with the applicable Data Protection Laws. To exercise your rights, you can make a request to us by contacting us at privacy@lodevieconsulting.be

2  What is the scope of this Privacy Statement and for whom is it intended?

L’o de Vie Consulting BV is a company incorporated under Belgian law, with registered office at Rue D’Aulnoit 79A 7890 Ellezelles (BE), registered with the Belgian Crossroads Bank for Enterprises under business number BE 1005.039.764

In all situations described in this Privacy Statement, L’o de Vie Consulting BV will process your Personal Data as a controller. This means that we determine the purposes and means of processing this Personal Data; in other words, we determine its ‘how’ and ‘why’.

This Privacy Statement is intended for all visitors to the L’o de Vie Consulting BV website, all (potential) applicants and all (potential) service providers and customers of L’o de Vie Consulting BV.  

For the purpose of this Privacy Statement, a L’o de Vie Consulting BV affiliate means any other entity that controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with L’o de Vie Consulting BV. For the purposes of this definition, “control” means the power, direct or indirect, to manage the affairs of an entity by virtue of participating in a shareholding of at least 40 per cent of the voting rights, participating interests or economic interests in that entity.

When you visit the sub-domain of a particular L’o de Vie Consulting BV Affiliate (for example, the sub-domain of L’o de Vie Consulting BV France), L’o de Vie Consulting BV will transfer your Personal Data to the relevant L’o de Vie Consulting BV Affiliate, which will then process your Personal Data as the data controller. Such processing shall be carried out either in accordance with what is described in this Privacy Statement or, where applicable, in accordance with a separate Privacy Statement made available on the sub-domain of the L’o de Vie Consulting BV Affiliate in question. 

For the purposes of this Privacy Statement, the term Data Protection Law means Regulation 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (“GDPR”), as well as any other legislation and/or regulations introduced on the basis of the GDPR and the e-Privacy Law, or which implements, modifies, replaces or consolidates it or any of these, and any other applicable legislation relating to the processing of Personal Data and privacy.

Personal data refers to any information regarding an identified or identifiable natural person. This includes, for example, your name, photograph, telephone number, email address, bank account number etc.

Processing means an operation or set of operations relating to (a set of) Personal Data, whether or not performed by automated means, such as collecting, recording, organising, structuring, storing, updating or amending, retrieving, consulting, using, disclosing by transmission, disseminating or otherwise making available, aligning or combining, blocking, erasing or destroying data.

3  When and why do we process your Personal Data?

3.1. When you visit the website

When you visit the L’o de Vie Consulting BV website, we collect a limited amount of Personal Data necessary for the management and operation of the website. With your consent, we also collect other Personal Data, for example to optimise the user experience on our website or for analytical and statistical purposes.

We therefore ask you to read our Cookie Statement [insert link] when you visit our website. The Cookie Statement explains what cookies are, what cookies L’o de Vie Consulting BV uses and how you can change your cookie preferences. Our Cookie Statement can always be found on our website.

3.2 When you contact us

The L’o de Vie Consulting BV website contains a form through which you can contact L’o de Vie Consulting BV. In the section below you will find more information on how L’o de Vie Consulting BV processes your Personal Data.

3.5.1 Via the general contact form

Should you have a particular question or request, or should you wish to report something to L’o de Vie Consulting BV or respond to something, you can contact us via the general contact form on our website. As part of this, we process your Personal Data for the purpose of managing the various requests for information, including to answer your questions, to decide whether or not to grant a particular request and to follow up your responses. This processing also takes place for the purpose of planning our activities.

The list below describes the categories of data we process for these purposes, where your data comes from, the basis for this processing activity and with whom we may share the data.

Categories of data processed

Data sources

Legitimate grounds for processing

Data recipients

First name, Surname, Telephone number, Email address, Country, Company, Job Title, Interests

Directly from you via the contact form

It is in the legitimate interest of L’o de Vie Consulting BV as a company to be able to properly follow up on the questions, requests, and/or possible complaints regarding which L’o de Vie Consulting BV is contacted, considering the fact that in this context, we always see to it that your interests are also safeguarded.

  • IT service providers 
  • The L’o de Vie Consulting BV Affiliated Company(ies) directly or indirectly concerned by your contact request 

3.6  Social media

We may process Personal Data obtained through social media platforms (including Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter) when something is L’o de Vie Consulting BV-related or directed to L’o de Vie Consulting BV in order to (i) respond to enquiries or complaints in the first line, (ii) monitor our online reputation, (iii) integrate the testimonials about L’o de Vie Consulting BV and our services that you make public into our internal and external communications, and (iv) improve our products and/or services and identify opportunities for L’o de Vie Consulting BV to focus on.

Some of our web pages on social media allow users to post their own material. Please remember that all material posted on our social media is accessible to – and can therefore be seen by – the public. You should therefore be cautious about disclosing certain personal information such as financial information or address details through such platforms. We are not responsible for any action taken by third parties when you post personal information on one of our social media platforms, for example Facebook or Instagram. We also refer to the privacy and cookie statements of the platforms you use.

The list below describes the categories of data we process for these purposes, where your data comes from, the basis for this processing activity and with whom we may share the data.

Categories of data processed

Data sources

Legitimate grounds for processing

Data recipients

First name, Surname, Username, Email address and any other Personal Data relevant to the purposes described above and which you decide to share with us or that you publish on social media

Directly from you via publicly accessible pages on social media

It is in the legitimate interest of L’o de Vie Consulting BV as a company to process the Personal Data that you have chosen to address to us or which you have made publicly available via social media platforms in order to improve services, to identify business opportunities and to strengthen our internal and external communication, given that in this context, we always ensure that your interests are also safeguarded.

  • IT service providers
  • The recipients of our communication
  • The L’o de Vie Consulting BV Affiliated Company(ies) to which what you share on social media directly or indirectly relates

3.7 If you are a (potential) customer of L’o de Vie Consulting BV or a L’o de Vie Consulting BV employee

3.7.1 Processing by L’o de Vie Consulting BV as a data controller for the management and administration of an existing or future customer relationship

L’o de Vie Consulting BV processes Personal Data relating to contacts at its customers for business and administrative purposes, including in particular (i) managing the relationship with the customer or potential customer; (ii) submitting project proposals to the customer or potential customer; (iii) executing the agreement with the customer or taking measures prior to the conclusion of such an agreement; (iv) protecting the economic interests of L’o de Vie Consulting BV, ensuring compliance and carrying out reporting duties (such as compliance with our applicable policies and legal obligations, managing of any alleged cases of misconduct or fraud, conducting audits and pursuing or defending legal claims; (v) managing mergers and acquisitions involving L’o de Vie Consulting BV; (vi) filing and maintaining records; (vii) billing purposes. 

The table below describes the categories of data we process for these purposes, where your data comes from, the basis for this processing activity and with whom we may share the data.

Categories of data processed

Data sources

Legitimate grounds for processing

Data recipients

First name, Surname, Telephone number, Email address, Country, Company, Job Title; Any other Personal Data which you voluntarily provide to us.

  • Directly from you via email, telephone, the L’o de Vie Consulting BV website or in other communications;
  • Directly through the customer you are an employee of

It is in the legitimate interest of L’o de Vie Consulting BV as a company to be able to properly carry out customer acquisition, customer administration and customer management tasks, as well as to be able to properly fulfil the agreements it has entered into with its customers. 

  • IT service providers
  • The L’o de Vie Consulting BV Affiliated Company(ies) with whom you, or the company for which you work, has/have a business or administrative relationship as a (potential) customer 

3.8 If you are a supplier of L’o de Vie Consulting BV or a L’o de Vie Consulting BV employee

L’o de Vie Consulting BV processes Personal Data relating to contacts at its suppliers for business and administrative purposes, including in particular (i) managing the relationship with the supplier or potential supplier; (ii) executing the agreement with the supplier or taking measures prior to the conclusion of such an agreement; (iii) protecting the economic interests of L’o de Vie Consulting BV, ensuring compliance and carrying out reporting duties (such as compliance with our applicable policies and legal obligations, managing any alleged cases of misconduct or fraud, conducting audits and pursuing or defending legal claims; (iv) managing mergers and acquisitions involving L’o de Vie Consulting BV; (v) archiving and maintaining records; (vi) billing purposes. 

Categories of data processed

Data sources

Legitimate grounds for processing

Data recipients

First name, Surname, Telephone number, Email address, Country, Company, Job Title; Any other Personal Data which you voluntarily provide to us.

  • Directly from you via email, telephone, the L’o de Vie Consulting BV website or in other communications;
  • Directly through the customer you are an employee of

It is in the legitimate interest of L’o de Vie Consulting BV as a company to be able properly to conduct customer acquisition, customer administration and customer management, as well as to be able to properly fulfil the agreements it has entered into with its customers. 

  • IT service providers
  • The L’o de Vie Consulting BV Affiliated Company(ies) with whom you, or the company for which you work or with whom you have a business or administrative relationship as a (potential) customer 

4  How is your Personal Data shared with third parties?

We only share and disclose information, including to third parties, as described in this Privacy Statement.

Your Personal Data will also be shared with governmental bodies and/or police officials when this is necessary for the purposes described above, where required by law or where necessary for the legal protection of the Controller’s legitimate interests in accordance with applicable law.

5  Is your Personal Data transferred outside the EEA?

For the purposes described in this Privacy Statement, your data will generally be held within the European Economic Area (“EEA”) and will only be transferred outside the EEA to a country or countries that the European Commission has recognised as providing an adequate level of data protection. If your data are transferred to, or stored in, a country outside the EEA that is not recognised as providing an adequate level of protection, L’o de Vie Consulting BV will take appropriate security measures to ensure that the transfer meets the requirements of the Data Protection Act.

If you would like more information on how L’o de Vie Consulting BV applies the above in connection with your Personal Data, please contact us at privacy@lodevieconsulting.be

6  How long will we keep your Personal Data?

We will retain your Personal Data for as long as necessary for the performance of the processing activities listed in this Privacy Statement, as long as you are otherwise informed or as long as permitted by applicable law.

7  What are your rights and how can you exercise them?

When L’o de Vie Consulting BV processes your Personal Data, the Data Protection Act grants you various rights. Barring legal exceptions, you can exercise them free of charge. These rights may be limited, for example, when complying with a request would reveal Personal Data about another person, or when you ask us to delete information we are legally obliged to retain or that we retain based on our legitimate interests. To exercise your rights, please contact us at privacy@lodevieconsulting.be or by post at the following address: L’o de Vie Consulting BV, for the attention of the Privacy Coordinator, Rue D’Aulnoit 79A 7890 Ellezelles (BE)

If you contact us to exercise your rights, we will respond within one month. Exceptionally, this may take longer (up to a maximum of three months in total), but we will let you know within one month. Whether or not you can exercise your rights depends on the processing and the legal basis.

We ask you to ensure that it is always clear exactly which right you wish to exercise and by what means (e.g. email, post, oral etc.) you wish to receive the information. Please note that in some cases we may need more information. We want to be sure that we are helping the right person.

Should you have any unanswered concerns, you always have the right to complain to the supervisory authority. We naturally encourage you to come to us in the first instance but, to the extent that this right applies to you, you are entitled to complain directly to the supervisory authority.

7.1 Right to access and correct your Personal Data

You have the right to access, review and rectify your Personal Data. You may be entitled to ask us for a copy of your information in order to appraise and/or change it. If you wish to correct information such as your name, email address, address and/or any other data or preferences, you can easily do so by contacting us at privacy@lodevieconsulting.be. You can also ask us for a copy of the Personal Data we process as described in this Privacy Statement.

7.2 Right to object

You may object to the processing of your Personal Data under certain circumstances described in the Data Protection Act, including when your Personal Data is processed for direct marketing purposes, as well for any potential reasons related to your specific situation when L’o de Vie Consulting BV processes your Personal Data based on the legitimate interests of L’o de Vie Consulting BV or a third party. 

7.3 Right to withdraw your consent

Wherever we rely on your consent, you will be able to choose at any time and on your own initiative to withdraw such consent by contacting us at privacy@lodevieconsulting.be. The withdrawal of your consent shall not affect the lawfulness of the processing based on your consent before any such withdrawal.

7.4 Right to restrict processing

Under certain circumstances, and as described in the Data Protection Act, you may request us to restrict the processing of your Personal Data. This is the case, for example, if you are disputing the accuracy of your Personal Data. If so, we will restrict the processing until we are able to verify the accuracy of your data.

7.5 Right of deletion

In accordance with the Data Protection Act, you have the right to delete your Personal Data as processed by us, as described in this Privacy Statement, in the event that it is no longer necessary for the purposes for which the data was initially collected or processed, or in the event that you have withdrawn your consent or objected to a type of processing described in this Privacy Statement and no other grounds for processing exist. If you want your Personal Data to be deleted, you may submit a request via privacy@lodevieconsulting.be

7.6 Right to Transferability of Personal Data

Where the processing of your Personal Data is carried out through automated processes and is based on your consent or on the performance of a contract between you and us, you have the right to receive the Personal Data processed about you in a structured, commonly usable and machine-readable form and to transfer it to another service provider.

8  Does this Privacy Statement apply to third party websites?

When you click on a link from a third-party website, you will be directed to a website over which we have no control and our Privacy Statement will no longer apply. Your browsing behaviour and interaction on any other website is subject to the terms of use and privacy and any other statements applied by the third-party websites. We recommend that you read the privacy statements of other websites carefully. L’o de Vie Consulting BV is not responsible or liable for the information or content presented on third-party websites.

9  What happens if L’o de Vie Consulting BV changes this Privacy Statement?

L’o de Vie Consulting BV reserves the right to modify and update this Privacy Statement as needed. If this involves a fundamental change to the processing or if the changes are relevant to the nature of the processing or affect you and your data protection rights, we will draw your attention to this. The latest version of this Privacy Statement can always be found at www.lodeviewconsulting.be/privacy-policy

10  How can you contact L’o de Vie Consulting BV?

If you have any questions, comments, requests or complaints regarding this Privacy Statement or the processing of your Personal Data by L’o de Vie Consulting BV, you may also contact the L’o de Vie Consulting BV Privacy Coordinator:

  • either by post to the following address: 

L’o de Vie Consulting BV

for the attention of the Privacy Coordinator

Rue D’Aulnoit 79A

7890 Ellezelles Belgium