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Speakersbase located at Dendermondsesteenweg 39A-001, 9000 Gent, Belgium is responsible for the processing of your Personal Data, via its website www.speakersbase.com.

Speakersbase processes data from the visitors and/or users for the following purposes:

Executing and offering the services of Speakersbase;
Management of requests for information;
Improvement of the operation of Speakersbase & the Website;
Sending a newsletter / advertisement;
To provide all other services you have requested;
Compliance with applicable legislation.

You can always request access to - and rectification or erasure of Personal Data or to restrict the processing; as well as the right to object to processing, the right to data portability and the right to withdraw your consent at all times.

Personal Data are transferred to the following recipients:

Processors that provide statistical research and analysis;
Processors who provide hosting of this Website and related databases;
Processors and controllers who act as a subcontractor for Speakersbase in the execution of the services;
Companies associated with Speakersbase.

1. Definitions

In this Privacy Statement the following terms are defined as follows:

A. Speakersbase: Speakersbase NV, a company organized and existing under the laws of Belgium, with its registered offices at Dendermondsesteenweg 39A-001, 9000 Gent, Belgium and registered with the Crossroads Bank for Enterprises under number BE 0664.479.494;

B. Website: the website of Speakersbase, www.speakersbase.com, and derivative websites developed and administered by Speakersbase.

C. Personal Data: Any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.

D. Processing: Any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data or on sets of personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organisation, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction;

2. Processing of Personal Data

This Privacy Statement is applicable to all Processing activities undertaken by Speakersbase, related to or following the use of the Website by the visitor.

Speakersbase attaches great importance to respecting and protecting your privacy and the confidentiality and safety of your Personal Data.

By accessing this Website and/or disclosing your Personal Data you expressly consent to the processing of Personal Data in accordance with the conditions set out in this Privacy Statement.

The Personal Data is Processed until 25th May 2018 in accordance with the Act of 8 December 1992 concerning the protection of privacy with regard to the processing of personal data (hereinafter the ‘Act of 8 December 1992’), which implemented the EU Data Protection Directive 95/46 EC; as off and including 25 may 2018 in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (hereinafter ‘GDPR’). These regulations are hereinafter referred to as ‘Data Protection Regulation’.

In this regard Speakersbase acts as the data controller, meaning that it determines the purposes and means of processing of Personal Data.

3. What information

a) Information provided by the Visitor

Speakersbase may process following Personal Data via its Website, through including without limitation, the contact form:

Personal identification data, such as your name, e-mail address, address;
Personal details, such as your age, gender;
Any other information that you choose to provide, by any means.
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Speakersbase may process following Personal Data via its Website, through including without limitation, the application form:

Personal identification data, such as your name, e-mail address, address;
Personal details, such as your age, gender;
Leisure activities and interests, such as your general skills;
Professional activities, such as your current activity;
Academic curriculum;
Professional competence, such as your qualifications;
Professional experience;
Pictures;
Any other information that you choose to provide, by any means.
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Speakersbase may process following Personal Data via its Website, through including without limitation, the newsletter form:

Personal identification data, such as your name, e-mail address, address;

Speakersbase may process following Personal Data via its Website, through including without limitation, the account registration form:

Personal identification data, such as your name, e-mail address, address;
Personal details, such as your age, gender;
Any other information that you choose to provide, by any means.
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b) Information when placing an order

Speakersbase may process following Personal Data via its Website, through including without limitation, through placing of orders by a customer:

Personal identification data, such as your name, e-mail address, address;
Personal details, such as your age, gender;
Financial identification data, such as your bank account number;
Any other information that you choose to provide, by any means.
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c) Information about your visit and usage of the Website

Speakersbase may process following Personal Data via its Website, through including without limitation, the use of cookies:

Information about your PC or mobile device and your visits and use of the Website, including your IP address, operating system, browser type and geographical location;
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The fields of relevant forms denoted with (*) are strictly necessary for the purposes of processing, if one or more of these fields are not completed the form will not be executed. Other fields can be completed to better facilitate the provision of services by Speakersbase.

4. Purposes of processing

Speakersbase collects and processes Personal Data for one or multiple of following purposes:

Executing and offering Company services (as described in the Terms and Conditions)
Execution of an agreement

Management of requests for information
Execution of an agreement

Improve the workings of Speakersbase & the Website
Legitimate Interests of Speakersbase

Sending a newsletter / advertising
Consent

Accounting
Execution of an agreement

To provide any other services you have requested
Execution of an agreement

Compliance with applicable legislation
Legal obligation

When the Processing is based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw consent at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of Processing based on consent before its withdrawal.If the Speakersbase wishes to use Personal Data for an incompatible new purpose Speakersbase will request your consent prior to this new use, unless such Processing is required by Union or national law.

5. Transfers of Personal Data

Personal Data is only processed by Speakersbase for internal use for the above described purposes. We do not rent or sell your Personal Data to third parties for use for their own purposes.

Within Speakersbase the data is passed on only to employees on a ‘’need to know’ basis.

Speakersbase can make use of data processors to process your Personal Data. Data processors are natural or legal persons, public authorities, agencies or other bodies which process Personal Data on behalf of Speakersbase.

Speakersbase can transfer the Personal Data to following (categories of) recipients:

Processors that provide statistical research and analysis;
Processors who provide hosting of this Website and related databases;
Processors and controllers who act as a subcontractor for Speakersbase in the execution of the services;
Companies associated with Speakersbase.

Personal Data may be processed by these recipients outside the European Economic Area, Speakersbase will make sure appropriate safeguards are implemented. You can obtain a copy of the guaranteed measures upon written request.

Speakersbase may alter its corporate structure through including changing legal form, merger, acquisitions and sale of affiliates, in such transactions Personal Data will be passed on in accordance with this Privacy Statement and applicable data protection law.

6. Personal Data storage duration

Speakersbase will store the Personal Data for following periods:

Data website visit
5 year

Account information
Duration of the contract

Contact information
10 year

7. Your rights

You are entitled to request from us access to and rectification or erasure of Personal Data or restriction of processing or to object to processing as well as the right to data portability; For this purpose you should send your dated and signed request to Speakersbase, Dendermondsesteenweg 39A-001, 9000 Gent, Belgium, enclosing a copy of your identity card, or you can contact Speakersbase via email at hello@speakersbase.com and furnish your email with an electronic signature.

Within one month of the submission of the request, you will be informed of the follow-up given to it.

You have the right to withdraw your consent for a particular Processing activity at any time, without this affecting the lawfulness of the processing on the basis of the consent before its withdrawal. In case you have given your permission to receive newsletters and advertising, you can withdraw it by changing your account settings or using the “unsubscribe / unsubscribe” link in this communication.

Finally, you always have the right to submit a complaint to the supervisory authority.

No automated decision making, including profiling, is used in the Processing of Personal Data.

8. Anonymous data

Speakersbase is permitted to collect non-personal and anonymous data when the Website is visited and anonymize Personal Data. This data does not allow Speakersbase to proceed to identify an individual person and this data can be shared with third parties, including for statistical purposes.

9. Cookies

This Website makes use of cookies to enhance the browsing experience. For more information regarding the use of cookies, please refer to our Cookie Statement.

10. Changes

Speakersbase reserves the right to continually update this Privacy Statement.

This Privacy Statement was last updated: 21 November 2018.

11. Miscellaneous

If any of the provisions of this Privacy Statement would be wholly or partially annulled by a binding decision, this shall have no effect whatsoever on the other provisions of this Privacy Statement. Speakersbase is entitled to modify or replace such a provision by another provision which, within legal limits, has the same effect.

The failure of Speakersbase to demand strict compliance with the provisions of this Privacy Statement shall not be construed as a waiver or rejection thereof.

12. Applicable law

Any dispute or claim relating to this Privacy Statement and the processing of Personal Data shall be governed by Belgian law and the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the judicial district where Speakersbase’s registered office is located (Belgium).

13. Contact

If you have any questions or comments regarding the policy concerning the processing of Personal Data after reading this Privacy Statement, please contact the contact person at the address Dendermondsesteenweg 39A-001, 9000 Gent, Belgium or you can contact Speakersbase via email at hello@speakersbase.com.

Please send requests for additional general information concerning the protection of Personal Data to the Belgian Data Protection Authority to the address, 25 Drukpersstraat, B-1000 Brussels telephone number: +32 2 274 48 00 or via email at contact@apd-gba.be (www.dataprotectionauthority.be).