Disclaimer

This website is managed by Dovesco NV and Dovesco MV Comm.V. (together with their respective legal successors hereinafter referred to as “Dovesco”), with registered office at B-9052 Zwijnaarde, Nederzwijnaarde 2.

When you visit the website, you are deemed to have taken note of the conditions set out below and to have accepted them unreservedly. The following provisions apply to the website and to any other Internet or network initiatives on the part of Dovesco.

Dovesco reserves the right to change the following provisions at any time, without any prior or explicit notification of the visitor. Visitors are advised to check the conditions regularly.

Should any of the following provisions be inapplicable or contrary to a provision of mandatory law, this will not affect the applicability or validity of the other provisions in any way.

Purpose of the website

This website aims to provide the visitor with an easily accessible and rapid source of information about the activities and functioning of Dovesco.

Dovesco endeavours to provide visitors to the website with information that is clear, up to date, correct and precise, but does not guarantee that the information provided will always be clear, adequate, correct, free of typographical errors, relevant, complete or up to date, or that the website will be comprehensive. If the website contains information that is defective or incomplete, Dovesco will make every effort to remedy the shortcoming.

Dovesco likewise does not guarantee uninterrupted access to the website or the absence of technical malfunctions, although Dovesco makes every effort to prevent problems of a technical nature.

The information available to visitors to the website is of a general nature. The website’s content should therefore not be regarded as personal or professional advice in any sense, or as constituting an offer of products or services for sale.

The website may be added to, changed or removed at any time by Dovesco, without prior notice and without visitors being informed. Visitors to the website are deemed to be aware that the website is subject to change.

Visitor’s obligations

By using the website, visitors are deemed to have undertaken not to use it for illegal activities, for spreading viruses, for inflicting damage to the website or to other visitors to the website, or for sending unsolicited messages, and not to impede or disrupt access to the website.

Hyperlinks

The website may contain hyperlinks to websites belonging to third parties. Dovesco has no control over the content of such websites, which are managed entirely by third parties both technically and in terms of content. For this reason, a link to another website does not imply agreement with its content. Dovesco disclaims any liability with regard to the content and availability of third-party websites if the visitor incurs damage by visiting them.

Intellectual property rights

The copying, reproduction, distribution, sale, translation and editing of content for commercial use, even with a source acknowledgement, is not permitted without the prior written consent of Dovesco.

Protection of personal data

The term ‘personal data’ is understood to mean all information about an identified or identifiable natural person. A natural person is regarded as identifiable if he or she can be identified directly or indirectly, in particular by means of an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or one or more elements characterising the physical, physiological, genetic, psychological, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person.

Dovesco respects the privacy of visitors. Where personal information about visitors is collected by Dovesco, the processing of such data takes place in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of 27 April 2016 of the European Parliament and of the Council 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, as well as Book XII of the Code of Economic Law on ‘Law concerning the digital economy’.

Dovesco guarantees to visitors that their personal data are collected for the following purposes only:

• Providing visitors with information they have requested.

Dovesco guarantees to visitors that their personal data are only processed for the intended purposes, are not communicated to third parties under any circumstances and are not used for direct marketing. Dovesco provides appropriate security for personal data which have been collected, to prevent any misuse of such data.

Visitors may ask Dovesco for access to their personal data and check their accuracy. Visitors have the right to be informed about the processing of their personal data, the right to request that their data be erased, the right to ask Dovesco to transfer their data to a third party and the right to object to the processing of their data. Any visitor wishing to exercise his or her rights may contact Dovesco’s legal department by email (GDPR@dovesco.com).

Dovesco has the right to transmit the data of visitors who violate Belgian or international legislation to the competent Belgian authorities.

For further information regarding the collection and processing of personal data, visitors are referred to Dovesco’s privacy policy.

Confidentiality

When visitors provide Dovesco with information of their own accord, such as reactions and comments or visual material, this information is not regarded as confidential. Dovesco may use this information for any purpose, on the understanding that Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of 27 April 2016 of the European Parliament and of the Council 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 will be complied with at all times.

Cookies

Cookies are small information files that are stored on the computer’s hard drive via the Internet browser. In the event of a subsequent visit to the same website, the information files are sent back to the website administrator so that the visitor can access the website easily and quickly.

For more information on Dovesco’s cookie policy please refer to the Cookie Policy.

Google Analytics

The website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. Google Analytics uses cookies to help the website analyse how visitors use the website. The information generated by cookies about the use of the website (including the visitor’s IP address) is transferred to and stored by Google Inc. Google Inc. uses the information obtained to keep track of how visitors use the website, in order to compile reports on website activity for the administrator. Google Inc. may only provide the information to third parties if it is obliged by law to do so or if the third parties process the information on behalf of Google Inc. Google Inc. will not combine the visitor's IP address with other data held by Google Inc. Visitors may refuse the use of cookies by choosing the appropriate settings in their Internet browser. Visitors are then likely to find that they can no longer make use of all the possibilities of the website.

Visitors to the website are deemed to have given permission for the processing of information by Google Inc. in the manner and for the purposes described above.

Disclaimer

Dovesco accepts no liability for any damage (including, but not limited to, loss of profits, savings, professional opportunities, or data and damage to the business) due to the content of the website, the lack of particular information on the website, the unavailability or technical malfunctioning of the website, viruses, hacking and other forms of cybercrime, the content and use of websites to which the hyperlinks on the website refer, or the use that is made of the website.

Dovesco likewise accepts no liability for any choices made by visitors, and the consequences thereof, on the basis of the information they find on the website.

This also applies to situations in which programs or other data on the visitor’s computer system are damaged or the visitor incurs other losses as a result of using the website. Dovesco makes every effort to protect the website against viruses, hacking and other forms of cybercrime, but cannot guarantee that they will be completely prevented.

The website is therefore consulted at the visitor’s own risk.

Applicable law and jurisdiction

Any disputes or claims arising from the use and consultation of the website are governed by Belgian law.
Visitors are deemed to have agreed that any dispute that cannot be settled amicably will be brought exclusively before the courts of Ghent.