Privacy Policy

This website is owned by Vae Vaengineering

Contact information: Thomas Van Aken

Registered office address: Rechtstro 1/2 – 9185 Wachtebeke

Company number: VAT BE 0678.683.066

By accessing and using the website, you expressly agree to the following terms and conditions.

Intellectual Property Rights

The content of this site, including trademarks, logos, drawings, data, product or company names, texts, images, etc., is protected by intellectual property rights and belongs to VAEngineering or entitled third parties.

Limitation of Liability

The information on the website is of a general nature. The information is not adapted to personal or specific circumstances and can therefore not be considered as personal, professional, or legal advice to the user.

Vae Vaengineering makes great efforts to ensure that the information provided is complete, correct, accurate, and up-to-date. Despite these efforts, inaccuracies may occur in the information provided. If the information provided contains inaccuracies or if certain information on or via the site is unavailable, Vae Vaengineering will make the greatest possible effort to rectify this as soon as possible. However, Vae Vaengineering cannot be held liable for direct or indirect damage resulting from the use of the information on this site. If you find any inaccuracies in the information made available through the site, you can contact the site administrator.

The content of the site (including links) can be adapted, changed, or supplemented at any time without notice or notification. Vae Vaengineering does not guarantee the proper functioning of the website and cannot be held liable in any way for poor functioning or temporary (un)availability of the website or for any form of damage, direct or indirect, arising from access to or use of the website. Vae Vaengineering can in no case be held liable to anyone, directly or indirectly, specifically or otherwise, for damage due to the use of this site or another, particularly as a result of links or hyperlinks, including, without limitation, all losses, work interruptions, damage to programs or other data on the computer system, hardware, software or other of the user.

The website may contain hyperlinks to websites or pages of third parties or refer to them indirectly. Placing links to these websites or pages does not imply in any way an implicit approval of their content.

Vae Vaengineering expressly declares that it has no control over the content or other characteristics of these websites and can in no case be held liable for the content or characteristics thereof or for any other form of damage due to its use.

Applicable Law and Competent Courts

Belgian law applies to this site. In the event of a dispute, only the courts of the district are competent.

Privacy Policy

Vae Vaengineering processes personal data in accordance with this privacy statement. For further information, questions, or comments about our privacy policy, please contact Dimitri at dimitri.g@vaengineering.be.

Processing Purposes

Vae Vaengineering collects and processes the personal data of customers for customer and order management (including customer administration, following up on orders/deliveries, invoicing, following up on solvency, profiling, and sending marketing and personalized advertising).

Legal Basis of the Processing

Personal data is processed based on article 6.1. necessary for the execution of an agreement of the General Data Protection Regulation. [Insofar as the processing of personal data takes place based on article 6.1. a) (consent), the customer always has the right to withdraw the given consent.]

Transfer to Third Parties

If necessary to achieve the stated purposes, the customer’s personal data will be shared with other companies (of Vae Vaengineering) within the European Economic Area that are directly or indirectly connected with Vae Vaengineering or with any other partner of Vae Vaengineering; Vae Vaengineering guarantees that these recipients will take the necessary technical and organizational measures to protect personal data.

Retention Period

The personal data processed for customer management will be kept for the period necessary to comply with legal requirements (including in the field of accounting).

Right of Access, Correction, Deletion, Restriction, Objection, and Transferability of Personal Data

The customer has the right at any time to inspect their personal data and can correct them (or have them corrected) if they are incorrect or incomplete, have them deleted, restrict the processing of their data, and object to the processing of their personal data based on article 6.1 (e) or (f), including profiling based on these provisions. In addition, the customer has the right to obtain a copy (in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable form) of their personal data and to have the personal data forwarded to another company. To exercise the above rights, the customer is requested to:

  • Adjust the settings of their customer account themselves; and/or
  • Send an email to the following email address: dimitri.g@vaengineering.be;

Direct Marketing

The customer has the right to object, free of charge, to any processing of their personal data with a view to direct marketing.

Complaint

The customer has the right to file a complaint with the Data Protection Authority (Drukpersstraat 35, 1000 Brussels – commission@privacycommission.be).

Use of Cookies

During a visit to the site, ‘cookies’ may be placed on the hard drive of your computer. A cookie is a text file that is placed by the server of a website in the browser of your computer or on your mobile device when you consult a website. Cookies cannot be used to identify individuals; a cookie can only identify a machine.

Please be aware that if you do not accept cookies, we cannot guarantee that our website will function properly. Some features of the site may be lost or you may not be able to view certain websites at all.

In addition, refusing cookies does not mean that you will no longer see advertisements. The ads are then no longer tailored to your interests and are repeated more often.

Why Do We Use Cookies?

Websites use convenient and useful techniques that increase user-friendliness and make the site as interesting as possible for each visitor. The best-known examples of this kind of technique are cookies and scripts (hereinafter collectively referred to as “cookies”). Cookies can be used by website holders or by third parties – advertisers, for example – who communicate through the website you visit.

What Types of Cookies Exist?

‘First party cookies’ or ‘functional cookies’ are technical cookies that are used by the visited site itself and that aim to make the site function optimally. Example: settings that the user made during previous visits to the site, or: a pre-filled form with data that the user has made during previous visits.

‘Third party cookies’ are cookies that do not originate from the website itself, but from third parties, for example, an existing marketing or advertisement plugin. For such cookies, the site visitor must first give permission – this can be done via a bar at the bottom or top of the website, with reference to this policy, which does not prevent further surfing on the website).

Managing Cookies

You can set your internet browser in such a way that cookies are not accepted, that you receive a warning when a cookie is installed, or that the cookies are subsequently removed from your hard drive. You can do this via the settings of your browser (via the help function). However, please note that certain graphic elements may not appear correctly, or that you may not be able to use certain applications.

Other Cookies

Due to the way the internet and websites work, it may be that we do not always have insight into the cookies that are placed via our website by third parties. This is especially the case if our web pages contain so-called embedded elements; these are texts, documents, images, or videos that are stored with another party, but that are shown on, in, or via our website.

Should you encounter cookies on this website that fall into this category and which we have not mentioned above, please let us know. Or contact the third party directly and ask what cookies they place, what the reason for this is, what the lifespan of the cookie is, and how they have safeguarded your privacy.

Use of Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies” (text files placed on your computer) to help the website analyze how users use the site.

The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google uses this information to track how you use the website, compile reports on website activity for website operators, and provide other services relating to website activity and internet usage.

Google may transfer this information to third parties if Google is legally required to do so, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.

You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser. However, please note that if you do this, you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.

Your Consent

By continuing to use our website, you agree to the use of Hotjar as described above. We appreciate your trust in us and promise that we will use the collected data responsibly and in line with our privacy policy.