PRIVACY POLICY
BeInfluence (Belgium) SPRL (BE0677.512.237) (Be0677.512.237) (BeInfluence or Us or Us) is committed to respecting the confidentiality of your information and personal data.
This privacy policy explains our policy for processing the information and personal data that we collect through the following channels (here and below, the Collection Channels): - our online properties (here and after, each a “Site”), in particular: - the BeInfluence Platform (including the BeInfluence Influencer mobile application); - our websites, in particular https://www.beinfluence.eu/Vous can contact us with any questions relating to this privacy policy or your personal data En contacting the BeInfluence Privacy Officer in Belgium by email: contact@beinfluence.eu or by post: 175, Rue Bara 1070 Anderlecht Brussels.
PERSONAL INFORMATION IS IMPORTANT TO US
We are committed to protecting the confidentiality of personal information. We recognize that you have the right to control how your personal information is collected and used. Providing personal information is an act of trust and we take it seriously. Unless you agree otherwise, we will only collect and use personal information as described below.
Throughout this Privacy Policy, we refer to your “Personal Information,” which is information or an opinion about an identified individual or a reasonably identifiable individual, whether that information or opinion is true or false and whether recorded in material form or not. Examples of information that may constitute personal information include your full name, gender, birth date, home address, home address, home address, mobile phone number, email address, and workplace contact information. Personal information may also include information that we may collect about your individual preferences.
BeInfluence has developed and implemented its Personal Information Privacy Policy to reflect global best practices in privacy policies. These principles meet and exceed the requirements and take into account the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Please refer to paragraphs 40 to 49 for additional information relating to the rights of data subjects in the European Union.
In order to keep up with changing legislation and best practices, we may revise this privacy policy at any time without notice. We will post any changes to this Privacy Policy on our websites and therefore encourage you to review it from time to time.
In addition to the provisions of this Privacy Policy, there may also be specific and additional privacy and consent provisions that apply to certain Collection Channels. As these specific and additional provisions also concern the protection of your privacy, we recommend that you consult them when they appear. In the event of any inconsistency between the provisions of this Privacy Policy and these other specific and additional provisions, the specific and additional provisions will prevail.
ANONYMITY AND PSEUDONYMY
Where possible, we will allow you to deal with us anonymously or under a pseudonym. If possible, our collection channels will only seek information in this way. However, where this is not possible for the purposes for which the information is being collected, we will look for the information identified below. It will not be possible to deal with you on an anonymous or pseudonymous basis if we want to send you direct marketing materials or if we need to provide you with the goods or services you have requested.
TYPES OF PERSONAL INFORMATION THAT BEINFLUENCE COLLECTS AND STORES
Personal information that may be requested includes, but is not limited to, the following:
- contact information such as your full name, birth date, telephone number, telephone number, mobile phone number, current and valid email address, residential address, and postal code
; - your Apple AppStore and/or Google Play Store ID and your unique device ID (UDID);
- your social media and login details, including user names;
- location information;
- more detailed contact preferences;
- sensitive information about you;
- photographs of you;
- your profession and information about your professional history and professional interests;
- information concerning your education and qualifications;
- information about your personal interests and interesting and relevant information about you;
- financial details, including bank account and PayPal details;
- your online behavior and interests based on your online browsing activity;
- information about your preferences, interests, and experiences with our products or services. This information is collected in order to personalize our communications and to continuously improve our products and services;
- information about your experience with our products or services or the products or services of third parties appearing on a website;
- the contact details of third parties. If you are asked to provide information about others, please ensure that these individuals agree to have their contact details transmitted to BeInfluence and used for the purposes set out in this policy (which may include using their contact details for marketing purposes);
- any other personal information that you provide to us directly. When you provide us with unsolicited personal information, we keep that information as long as it is consistent with our primary purposes for collecting personal information (as set out in this Privacy Policy).
When you use a website, we may also collect personal information about you in the following general categories:
- usage and preference information: we collect information about how you interact with a website, including what pages you visit, your preferences, and what settings you choose. We may do this by using cookies and other similar technologies that uniquely identify you;
- device information: we may collect information about your mobile device, such as hardware model, operating system, preferred language, unique device identifier, and mobile network;
- other information: we may also collect and record information such as your IP address, dates and times of access, browser type, and pages visited when you interact with a website.
SENSITIVE INFORMATION
We only collect sensitive information with your consent and when you provide it to us directly. When you provide us with sensitive information (including, but not limited to, information about your sexual orientation, religious beliefs, medical and/or criminal history), we only use that information for the purposes indicated at the time it was collected and we share it with our trusted third parties in the manner indicated on the website or in this Privacy Policy.
HOW DOES BEINFLUENCE COLLECT AND STORE PERSONAL INFORMATION
We only collect or control personal information about you with your consent, including as provided in this Privacy Policy or as otherwise lawful. The only personal information we collect is information that was provided or collected to us in accordance with this Privacy Policy or that was legally provided to us by third parties, including social media platforms such as Instagram and Facebook and Facebook and Twitter and Twitter and Google and Snapchat.
ACTIVE COLLECTION OF INFORMATION
Information may be collected (and combined) through our Collection Channels if you:
- have previously provided personal information to us prior to the entry into force of this Privacy Policy, either directly from you personally or through a third party;
- register and/or register to become a member of a Collection Channel;
- download and use a mobile and/or tablet application, including the BeInfluence Influencer App application;
- submit any content or participate in any way through a collection channel, including engaging with other users or taking part in campaigns;
- subscribe to newsletters, updates, alerts, or press releases, or request information about launches or events or information about our products or services or other information services as well as products or services from third parties;
- fill out and submit forms or requests;
- contact us directly in person or by any means, including mail, telephone, telephone, social media, and commercial electronic messages (SMS (Short Message Service), MMS (Multimedia Message Service), IM (Instant Messaging), and email), including through contact details provided on a website;
- participate in offers, promotions or marketing activities;
- interact with a website for a specific purpose; - interact with a website or browse it in general;
- Personal information is requested in order to allow you to participate in a collection channel, facilitate, or provide you with certain content, products, or services, as well as information about such content, products, or services (including downloading, accessing, and receiving content on a website and purchasing transactions made on a website), marketing materials (including direct marketing materials), newsletters, electronic newsletters (e-newsletters), news and press releases/launch information, as well as to inform you of other opportunities and products, services, offers, competitions or events from BeInfluence or third parties that may be of interest to you. No one is required to provide personal information. However, if you do not do so, you may not be able to participate in a collection channel and BeInfluence may not be able to facilitate or provide you with certain content, products or services, information about products or services, information about products or services, opportunities and upcoming promotions, opportunities and upcoming promotions, information about contests, offers or events, information about contests, offers or events or to accept contest entries or other content from you (as applicable).
- We may also obtain your personal information from legitimate third party sources, including social media channels, list brokers, and other data providers or organizations that share data in circumstances where it is legal and/or you have given them permission to do so. If you are a representative of a company we trade with, we may also obtain information about your credit history from a credit reporting organization, and information about your business history from references you provide to us.
KIDS
The collection of personal information is not intended for or directed at persons under the age of sixteen (16). Personal information will not be collected by anyone who BeInfluence knows is under the age of sixteen (16). Persons under the age of sixteen (16) may use our websites only with the participation and consent of a parent or legal guardian.
PASSIVE INFORMATION COLLECTION
As with many commercial websites and mobile and tablet applications, we may also collect information that tells us about visitors to our websites. For example, we may collect information about the date, time, and duration of visits and which pages of a Website are most frequently visited. This information is generally not linked to the identity of visitors, except when a website is accessed through links in an email sent by us or when we are able to uniquely identify the device or user accessing a website. By accessing a website through links contained in an email sent by us and/or by accessing a website in general, including when logged into an account, you consent to the collection of this information when it comes to personal information.
When you browse our websites, some information may be collected passively (that is, without you actively providing the information) using a variety of technologies, such as unique device identifiers (UDIs), cookies, web beacons, or web beacons, and web beacons, and web beacons, and web beacons, and web browsing data collection (log files, server logs, web beacons, web beacons, web beacons, web beacons, pixel tags, web beacons, web beacons, web beacons, web beacons, web beacons, web beacons, web beacons, web beacons, web beacons, web beacons, web beacons, web beacons, web beacons, or web beacons, and web beacons) In some circumstances, this information may be considered anonymous information or personal information. It depends on the device used and the method by which a person connects to the Internet. Your Internet browser automatically transmits some of this anonymous or personal information to the website you are viewing, such as the URL of the website you came from, the Internet Protocol (IP) address, the UDI (if applicable), and the version of the browser that your device is currently using. Our websites may also collect anonymous information or personal information from your device through cookies and web beacons or web beacons. You can set your browser to notify you when a cookie is being sent or to refuse cookies altogether, but some features of a website may not work without cookies and this may limit the services provided by a website. Cookies and other technical methods may involve the transmission of information either directly to us or to another party authorized by us to collect information on our behalf.
Our websites may use and combine this passively collected anonymous or personal information and/or information from various third party sources, including as described above, and may combine this anonymous or personal information with other personal information collected from you in order to provide better service to visitors and users of the website in order to provide better service to visitors and users of the website, to personalize a website to suit your preferences, to compile and analyze statistics and trends, to provide you with advertisements relevant when you visit a website or a third party website, and to otherwise manage and improve a website for your use. From time to time, we may combine information about your visiting session or other information collected through tracking technologies with personally identifiable information in order to understand and measure your online experiences and to determine what products, promotions, and services may be of interest to you. By accessing a website, you consent to the collection, compilation, and use of information about you in this manner.
PURPOSES FOR WHICH BEINFLUENCE COLLECTS, MAINTAINS, USES, AND DISCLOSES PERSONAL INFORMATION
The personal information collected will be used for the following main purposes:
- for the purposes set out in the privacy statement of a particular collection channel;
- to maintain the functionality of a website, including to provide you with information relating to the content available on the website and e-commerce transactions carried out via the website;
- to fulfill the obligations relating to the download terms of use, the download, sales and purchase contract and/or any other contract between you and BeInfluence;
- to send you any technical, administrative or legal notifications that are important for our websites;
- to allow you to create an account, log in and use the functionalities of a particular collection channel, including the BeInfluence Influencer App;
- allow you to respond to opportunities, briefs or campaigns created by other users of a collection channel;
- allow you to publish messages on your social media channels through a collection channel;
- facilitate the payments you make and receive through a collection channel;
- provide you with information about your transactions (including downloading, accessing, and receiving content on a website, and purchase transactions made on a website), content, services, and products.
To provide you with direct marketing materials, events, special offers, offers, contests, and promotions in person and by any means, including mail, telephone, and commercial electronic messages (SMS (Short Message Service), MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service), MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service), MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service), IM (Instant Messaging), IM (Instant Messaging), email), or any other form of electronic, emerging, digital, or conventional communication channel.
- To provide you with relevant advertising when you use our websites or those of a third party. - To maintain our relationship with you.
- To provide services related to our business (such as after-sales services and inquiries).
- To provide you with newsletters by mail and electronic newsletters (e-newsletters) through commercial electronic messages.
- To respond to customer inquiries, complaints, and complaint handling.
- To improve the website and system administration.
- To obtain opinions or comments on products and/or services and to conduct further research and development.
- Record statistical data for the purposes of marketing analysis and market research.
- Sharing personal information with our group companies, our promotional partners, trusted brands using a particular collection channel and their associated companies and agents, and other trusted third parties in the manner described below.
- If you are a company with which we do business, to carry out our commercial relationship with you, in particular to identify and contact you, to bill you correctly, to assess the risks associated with the granting of credit to you or your business, and to guarantee and collect any debt owed to us.
- Any other purpose that would be deemed reasonably necessary by BeInfluence depending on the circumstances.
- For the purposes described above, personal information may be shared with BeInfluence's promotional partners and their affiliated companies, as well as with other trusted third parties, including brands and companies using BeInfluence's services (as well as their directors, agents, and agents) in Belgium or elsewhere in the European Union. If you do not provide personal information, BeInfluence may not be able to provide you with certain content, information, upcoming opportunities, promotions, events, or products and/or to accept content and promotions participations (if applicable).
- In order to operate a website or provide a service (including, for example, credit card payment processing), personal information may also be shared with BeInfluence, selected service providers and their affiliated companies, and/or other trusted third parties in Belgium or elsewhere in the European Union. BeInfluence, selected service providers, and/or other trusted third parties may be engaged by BeInfluence to perform a variety of functions, such as legal and accounting services, data storage, order fulfillment, conducting market research, conducting market research, processing credit card payments, processing credit card payments, processing credit card payments, assisting with promotion, and providing technical services for our websites. These companies may have access to personal information as required to perform these functions. Your credit card details are only used to facilitate your purchase. They are not used for other purposes and will never be provided to a third party other than BeInfluence or our relevant service provider. If you are a business we do business with, we may disclose your information to debt collectors or credit reporting agencies as required.
- We recognize the confidence with which you provide personal information to us and, except as stated in this Privacy Policy or otherwise legal, such information will not be used or disclosed for any other purpose without your consent. However, BeInfluence reserves the right to use or disclose any information, including personal information, as necessary to satisfy a law, regulation, or legal request, to protect the rights or property of BeInfluence, a BeInfluence member, or a member of the public, to protect the integrity of a website, to protect the integrity of a website, to respond to your requests or to cooperate with a law enforcement investigation or an investigation of a public safety issue.
CONTACT BY BEINFLUENCE
- BeInfluence (as well as their directors, agents and agents), BeInfluence's promotional partners and their affiliated companies or trusted third parties (including users of a Collection Channel) and other selected service providers and other non-BeInfluence companies or professionals, in Belgium or elsewhere in the European Union, may contact you by telephone, in Belgium or elsewhere in the European Union, may contact you by telephone, by SMS (Short Message Service), by MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service), by IM (Instant Messaging Service), by IM (Instant Messaging Service), by IM (Instant Messaging Service), by IM (Instant Messaging Service), by IM (Instant Messaging Service), by IM (Instant Messaging Service), by IM (Instant Messaging Service), by IM (Instant Messaging Service), by IM (Instant Messaging Service), by IM (Instant Messaging Service), by email, by post or by any other form of electronic, emerging, digital or conventional communication channel, using the information provided, in order to contact you as part of the main purposes of collecting personal data as indicated above.
- BeInfluence does not send advertising or marketing information without obtaining prior consent, for example the consent contained in this privacy policy, or without it being otherwise legal. If you receive communications from BeInfluence that you do not wish to receive, you may remove your name from the database in the manner indicated in the communication, including by using the functional unsubscribe/exclusion device (if the communication is by commercial electronic message) or by contacting BeInfluence using the contact details in this Privacy Policy. Please allow 30 days for this request to be processed.
- Despite deleting your name from the database to receive future advertising and marketing information, BeInfluence may send you non-commercial “administrative emails”. Administrative letters are linked to a BeInfluence user account and may include administrative and transaction confirmations, requests and queries, or information about a particular BeInfluence user account. If you do not want to receive such communications from BeInfluence, you can remove your name from the database by using the unsubscribe function.
ABILITY OF OTHERS TO SEE INFORMATION
BeInfluence may provide areas on a website where you can upload user-generated content, post or provide information about yourself, communicate with other users, including commercial users and brands, provide reviews of content, products, and/or services, use features that allow you to post content on your own social media channels, or interact with or vote on particular content. This information may be shared with others and may be posted on our websites, including, but not limited to, other social media platforms and other public forums in which you choose to participate. This information may become available to the public and may be read, collected, and used by others on our websites or outside of our websites. BeInfluence is not responsible for the conduct of others who may read, collect, and use this information.
YOUR RIGHT OF ACCESS
- You have the right to access and rectify personal information concerning you that may be recorded in the BeInfluence database. You can exercise this right by contacting BeInfluence's Privacy Officer using the contact details in this privacy policy. Please allow 30 days for this request to be processed.
- On a case-by-case basis, BeInfluence may determine that it is not necessary to give an individual access to their personal information insofar as it is legal for BeInfluence to do so. If such a decision is made, BeInfluence will inform you in writing.
- If you require information on an electronic file, or if you wish to obtain hard copies of personal information, we reserve the right to charge reasonable handling and shipping costs.
- In the case of certain personal information that may be stored, for example when kept on program tapes, it is not practical to provide this information to you without charging an appropriate fee that we consider reasonable under these circumstances.
CHANGING AND DELETING INFORMATION WE HOLD ABOUT YOU
- It is possible to change the information in the database, or to change your preferences in contacting us, by contacting BeInfluence's Privacy Officer using the contact details in this privacy policy. The processing time for this request is 30 days.
- Similarly, a request to delete personal information may be made, and all reasonable steps to delete the information will be taken, unless required for legal reasons. Deleting information may prevent us from facilitating or providing you with information about certain transactions (including downloading, accessing, and receiving content on a website, and purchase transactions completed on a website), other content, services, or product information, information about upcoming promotions, contests, or events, and/or from providing certain content, services, or services.
- We are not responsible for removing your personal information from the lists of a third party who has previously received your information in accordance with this policy.
STORAGE AND SECURITY OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
BeInfluence strives to take all reasonable steps to secure the personal information stored, and to ensure that this information is accurate, up-to-date, complete, and relevant. We ensure that only those who are needed have access to your personal information. Personal information is stored on secure servers that are protected in controlled facilities. This service may be performed on our behalf and the data may be hosted by the data storage providers we have selected. In some cases, these installations may be located elsewhere than in Belgium, but always within the European Union.
DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION TO FOREIGN RECIPIENTS
In some cases, BeInfluence may disclose your personal information to overseas recipients, including, but not limited to, recipients in New Zealand, the United States of America, the United States of America, the Philippines, and the United Kingdom. BeInfluence employees, data processors, and other trusted third parties are required to respect the confidentiality of any personal information held by BeInfluence. However, the security of Internet communications cannot be guaranteed, and therefore it is not possible to give absolute assurance that information will be secure at all times. BeInfluence cannot be held responsible for events resulting from unauthorized access to personal information.
BEINFLUENCE AND LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
Our websites may, from time to time, contain links to the websites of other organizations that may be of interest to you. Their inclusion cannot be considered as implying any endorsement or validation by us of the content of the third party website. The linked websites are responsible for their own privacy practices and you should review their respective privacy statements. BeInfluence is not responsible, and does not accept any responsibility, for the conduct of companies linked to our websites.
BEINFLUENCE RELATED SITES
All websites operated by BeInfluence adhere to this privacy policy.
SALE OF THE COMPANY
If BeInfluence merges with, or is acquired by, another company, or sells all or a portion of its assets, your personal information may be disclosed to our advisors and to the advisor of any potential purchaser, and may be among the assets transferred. However, personal information will always remain subject to this privacy policy.
PROBLEMS OR QUESTIONS
If you have any questions about our privacy policy, or if you have any issues or complaints about how we collected, used, used, stored, processed and/or disclosed your personal information, please contact our Privacy Officer by any of the following means:Address: BeInfluence, 175, Rue Bara, 175, Rue Bara, 175, Rue Bara 1070, Rue Bara 1070 Anderlecht BrusselsPhone: +32 491 08 34 51 Email: Contact@beinfluence.eu
RIGHTS OF DATA SUBJECTS IN THE EUROPEAN UNION
- BeInfluence complies with the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which comes into force on May 25, 2018. Paragraphs 40 to 49 of this privacy policy provide you with further information regarding the rights of data subjects in the European Union under the GDPR. Paragraphs 40 to 49 of this Privacy Policy should be read in the context of this Privacy Policy as a whole.
- The RGPD deals with the processing by BeInfluence of “personal data”. This is any information relating to a natural person identified or identifiable directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more elements specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, genetic, genetic, genetic, psychological, economic, cultural or social identity of this natural person. Personal data generally includes “personal information,” as defined above.
Legal bases for processing:
BeInfluence processes your personal data on the legal basis of consent, which you grant when you subscribe to our Collection Channels or when you request it. BeInfluence also processes your personal data in order to perform its obligations under the agreement it has entered into with you under the terms of use of the BeInfluence platform, and, where applicable, for the purposes of our legitimate interests as defined in this Privacy Policy, such as maintaining a register of rights assigned or granted to us. To the extent that your personal data must be provided to us, this is a contractual and not a legal requirement. You do not have to provide us with your personal data. However, if you do not provide this personal data to us, if you withdraw your consent, if you request a restriction, or if you otherwise object to the processing of your personal data, we may not be able to provide you with access to the BeInfluence platform or all of its functionalities, or to other products or services.
Purposes of the processing of personal data:
BeInfluence will process your personal data in the following way:
- BeInfluence will process the following categories of personal data that we collect from you and third parties in accordance with this privacy policy: personal information in general, in accordance with paragraph 7;
- personal information from your use of our websites, including usage and performance information, device information, and other information in accordance with paragraph 8;
- sensitive information (special category data) in accordance with paragraph 9 above. BeInfluence will process your personal data for the purposes set out in paragraph 19 above.
Recipients or categories of recipients of personal data:
- The recipients of personal data are BeInfluence and the entities set out in paragraphs 20 to 22 above.
Withdrawal of consent, or opposition or restriction to the processing of personal data:
- You can withdraw your consent at any time for the processing of your personal data, or ask us to restrict the processing of your personal data. Please note that this does not affect the legality of the processing before you withdraw your consent or request the restriction of the processing of your personal data.
Retention period of your personal data:
- BeInfluence will retain your personal data for as long as you engage in a collection channel and for a subsequent period based on our legal document retention obligations, to comply with audit and financial obligations, and with respect to personal information contained in the material that you licensed or transferred to us, for the period necessary to assert or establish our rights to that material.
Use of automated decision making:
- BeInfluence may use automated decision-making based on your social media monitoring to determine your eligibility to use certain aspects of the BeInfluence Platform.
In addition, BeInfluence can use an automated decision-making process to:
- Determine the operating region in which the service is offered to you.
- Determine from which operational region to serve you.
- Associate you with opportunities, cases or campaigns, or with participants created by other users of a collection channel.
- Investigate, prevent or take action regarding illegal activities and/or violations of the terms of use of the BeInfluence Platform.
Your rights under the GDPR:
You have a number of rights under the GDPR. These include:
- request access to your personal data;
- to request that we correct or delete your personal data;
- to withdraw your consent for us to use your personal data;
- in certain circumstances, to object to the use of your personal data by us and to request that we restrict our use of your personal data;
- receive the personal data that we hold about you, in a commonly used electronic format, or ask us to transfer this data to another service provider of your choice;
- to file a complaint relating to the processing of your personal data with a data protection supervisory authority under the GDPR; and
- to be informed in general terms about the collection and use of your personal data, including when we intend to further process your personal data for additional purposes other than those mentioned above.