PRIVACY POLICY

Last modified: December 25th, 2023

QLE Group (“Company” or “we”) respects your privacy, and we are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.

This policy describes the types of information we may collect or that you may provide when you visit qlegroup.com (our “Website”) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.

This policy applies to information we collect on the Website. It does not apply to information that we collect through any product, service, or other means that includes a separate privacy policy. Similarly, it does not apply to information collected by any third party, including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or on the Website.

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, you should not use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this privacy policy. We may change this policy from time to time at our discretion. Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.

Website visitors

This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including:

Information about your browser, network and device

Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

Web pages you view while on this website

Your IP address

Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.

Cookies

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses.

These functional and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you.

These analytics and performance cookies are used on this website, as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.

Analytics

This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:

Information about your browser, network, and device

Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

Your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

Clicks

Internal links

Pages visited

Scrolling

Searches

Timestamps

We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

Use of share buttons

This website includes share buttons which enable you to share pages or other content from this site to the following third party services: [LIST SERVICES]. If you click a share button, these third parties may receive your personal data, including:

Information about your browser, network and device

Details about the web page or content you shared or proposed to share

Your IP address

Use of blog comments

This website includes commenting functionality on some pages which enables you to post a comment. This website collects personal data when you post a comment, including:

Your name (which will be displayed as part of your posted comment)

Your email address (optional, to let you know if someone replies to your comment)

Your website URL (optional)

This website includes “likes” functionality on some blog posts which enables you to “like” a post. This website collects personal data when you like a post to try to prevent the same person from liking the same post during the same visit, including:

Information about your browser, network and device

Details about the web page or content you shared or proposed to share

Your IP address

Form block submissions

When you submit information to this website via webform, we collect the data requested in the webform in order to track and respond to your submissions. We share this information with Squarespace, our online store hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us.

Fonts

This website serves font files from and renders fonts using Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, these third parties may receive personal information about you, including:

Information about your browser, network, or device

Information about this site and the page you’re viewing on it

Your IP address

Children’s privacy

The Website does not knowingly collect, use, or disclose personal information from children under the age of 13, except as permitted by the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”). If we are made aware that we have collected personal information from a child under 13 years old in a manner that is inconsistent with COPPA, we will delete this information as soon as possible.

Additional Information for EU Residents

If you are resident in the EU you are entitled to certain rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The following notice applies only to EU residents who use the Website.

Our lawful bases for the use of your personal information are: (i) consent or (ii) any other applicable lawful bases, such as it may be necessary to process your personal information in order to fulfill the terms of any contract we make with you or our legitimate interest in engaging in commerce, offering products and services of value, preventing fraud, ensuring information and network security, direct marketing and complying with industry practices.

If you are resident in the EU:

You have the right to withdraw consent to processing, where consent is the basis of processing. For personal information we collect on the Website, you may withdraw your consent by requesting that we delete your personal information by contacting us using the details below.

You have the right to access the personal information that we hold and how we process it, under certain conditions.

You have the right to demand rectification of inaccurate personal information.

You have the right to object to unlawful data processing under certain conditions.

You have the right to erasure of past data about you (your “right to be forgotten”) under certain conditions.

You have the right to demand that we restrict processing of your personal information, under certain conditions, if you believe we have exceeded the legitimate basis for processing, processing is no longer necessary, are processing, or believe your personal information is inaccurate.

You have the right to data portability of personal information concerning you that you provided to us in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format, subject to certain conditions.

You have the right to complain to a data protection supervisory authority in your country.

To exercise any of the above listed rights (with the exception of the right to complain to a data protection authority in your country) please contact us using the details in the “Contact Us” section below. We will process any requests in accordance with applicable law and within a reasonable period of time. We may need to verify your identity before processing your request.

Contact us

To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at Info@QLE.be