General terms of use of Philippe & Partners web site and personal data protection

I. General terms of use

1. Philippe & Partners

Philippe & Partners is a law firm with offices in Brussels, Charleroi, Liege and Luxembourg.

The list of partners and associates is available on the website or on request at the address below.

The editor responsible for the website is Philippe & Partners SCRL whose office is located at 1050 Brussels, Avenue Louise 240 and registered under the number 0874.756.490.

The present website is developed by Blue4You on behalf of Philippe & Partners.

2. Acceptance of general terms of use

You are kindly invited to read the general terms of use of our website carefully. You will find these by clicking on the link appearing on each page of the website. In using our website, you are deemed to fully agree with the present general terms of use.

Please note that Philippe & Partners is entitled to change these general terms of use at any time. Therefore, we strongly recommend you to read them on a regular basis.

3. Use of the website

The content of this website is available for general information purposes on Philippe & Partners and its activities only. The use of the content of this website is restricted to services offered on the present website and for you personal use.

4. Illegal use

You have to use this website in the observance of all legal and contractual provisions. It is forbidden to use it in a way which could damage Philippe & Partners’ interests or its customers’ interests.

5. Disclaimer

You are using this website under your own responsibility. Anything downloaded or obtained by any other means while using it, is at your own risk. You are the only person liable for any damage to your computer or any loss of data subsequent to the downloading of these elements.

Philippe & Partners supplies this service without any commitment on availability or performance. Philippe & Partners cannot insure that the service works on an uninterruptible basis, is appropriate, safe or exempted from errors. Nor can it ensure that the results obtained by using it are accurate, reliable or that potential defects, if any, will be redressed.

Philippe & Partners seeks to publish information on this website that is, to its best knowledge, up to date. Philippe & Partners does not guarantee that this information is appropriate, accurate, exhaustive or updated on a permanent basis. The information in this website, especially financial information and tariff conditions, can be inaccurate from a content or a technical viewpoint and can contain typos. This information is provided for an illustrative purpose only and is subject to periodical modifications. Philippe & Partners is untitled to change or modify this website at anytime and without prior notice.

This website contains links to other websites and links to other sources of information. These are at your disposal for information purposes only. Philippe & Partners has no control over the information in these websites. Therefore, Philippe & Partners cannot offer any guarantee regarding the quality and/or the completeness of this information.

Philippe & Partners can never be hold liable for any type of damage, direct or indirect, or of any other nature, resulting from the use of this website or of the impossibility of using this website for any reason whatsoever, irrelevant of the type of liability (contractual, in tort, delict, quasi-delict, or no–fault liability). This is so even if Philippe & Partners was aware of the potential of such damage. Moreover Philippe & Partners can never be hold liable for acts of the users of its website.

6. Contact

You can address your comments or suggestions by e-mail to info@philippe-law.com or by regular mail to Philippe & Partners, Odile Dupont, Avenue Louise 240, 1050 Brussels.

7. Copyright notice

Materials available on this website (texts, pictures, images, icons, clips, software, databases, data, etc.) as well as their combination or compilation are protected by Philippe & Partners’ intellectual property rights.

Unless otherwise explicitly indicated, you must obtain a prior written permission of Philippe & Partners to copy, reproduce, represent, modify, transform, publish, adapt, distribute, broadcast, grant sublicense, transfer, sell any material whatsoever, by any mean whatsoever, or use by any way whatsoever, all our parts of this website.

8. Personal data protection

Any visit of our website implies collection and treatment of personal data. Philippe & Partners has defined a clear and accurate policy of protection of personal data, in compliance with the relevant legal provisions. You are kindly invited to read our personal data protection policy below.

9. Accessibility and compatibility

A special attention is drawn to the observance of compatibility rules.

The website is designed to allow an easy use through domain IT interfaces (Windows, Macintosh and Linux). Users using other types of interfaces have also access to it provided that the interface is recent.

10. Dispute resolution, tribunal having jurisdiction and applicable law

Belgian Law is applicable to the present terms of use. Any dispute arising from or related to the use of it will be subject to conciliation between parties. In the event of failure of the conciliation, the dispute may be deferred exclusively to the Tribunals of Brussels (Belgium). Philippe & Partners is entitled to sue before another competent Tribunal if it deems is appropriate.

The printed version of these general terms of use and of any other note in electronic format are deemed to benefit from the same conditions than those of commercial documents or registers created and stored in printed version during any administrative or judicial proceedings.

II. Personal data protection

1. Personal data

Any visit of our website implies the collection and treatment of personal data.

The process of personal data related to this website falls under Belgian Law (Belgian Personal Data Protection Act of 8 December 1992, as amended by the Law of 11 December 1998 transposing the Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data).

Philippe & Partners has defined a clear and accurate personal data protection policy, in compliance with the relevant applicable legal provisions.

Philippe & Partners has also developed security measures aiming at avoiding any loss, any abusive use or any deterioration of personal data belonging to users of the website, to which Philippe & Partners has access.

The present policy is not prejudicial to the right Philippe & Partners has towards users, in relation to which Philippe & Partners is entitled to perform more extended operations under any type of contractual, legal or regulatory provision. In the letter case, Philippe & Partners benefits from the most favourable rule towards it.

Following your visit, Philippe & Partners stores the following data:

  • Your domain (automatically detected);
  • Any information disclosed to Philippe & Partners on a voluntary basis (by having answered to a survey or registered to the website, e.g.).

2. Purposes

These personal data are used in order to:

  • Enhance the content of the website;
  • Send newsletters on recent legal developments.

Philippe & Partners is entitled to use personal data for purposes other than those listed in the general terms of use. In this case, prior to the use of your data, Philippe & Partners will contact you to inform you of the modifications to the personal data protection and to provide you with the possibility to refuse to participate to these new uses.

3. Transfer of personal data

The collected information is in no way transferred to any other person (individual or legal entity).

4. Newsletters

This website offers newsletters to users free of charge. This service aims at informing users of recent legal developments. This service is provided for an information purpose only. Users are offered the possibility to de-register.

5. Right of access, right to request corrections or suppressions and right to object

In compliance with the Belgian Personal Data Protection Act, you are entitled to have access to data related to you and to request corrections or suppressions of them. You are also entitled to object to the process of your personal data free of charge.

These rights can be implemented by:

  • A regular email to Philippe & Partners, Odile Dupont, Avenue Louise 240, 1050 Brussels; or
  • An email to info@philippe-law.com

6. Cookies

This website uses cookies. Cookies are small files sent by our server and installed on your hard-disk. They track a particular user’s access to a site and contend information related to the pages visited by the user. These cookies contribute to the proper functioning of this website.

They aim at simplifying your visit and improving the dialogue. You can refuse the installation of such cookies by configuring your navigator accordingly. This can however prevent you from having access to certain services on the website.