This website is the property of:

ARCHITENKO - Urban Design and Architecture BVBA

Nieuwdorpstraat 23, 3600 Genk BE

Telephone: 0032 (0)2 233 81 53

E-mail: info@architenko.com

Enterprise number: 0714.918.209

By accessing and using the website, you expressly declare that you accept the following general conditions.

1. Intellectual property rights

The contents of this site, including brands, logos, drawings, data, product or company names, texts, images, etc. are protected by intellectual rights and belong to ARCHITENKO - Urban Design and Architecture bvba or right-holding third parties.

2. Limitation of liability

The information on the website is general nature. The information is not adapted to personal or specific circumstances and thus cannot be regarded as personal, professional or legal advice to the user.

ARCHITENKO - Urban Design and Architecture bvba (hereinafter "ARCHITENKO" or "we") makes great efforts to ensure that the information provided is complete, correct, accurate and up to date. Despite these efforts, inaccuracies can occur in the provided information. If the provided information should contain inaccuracies or if certain information should be unavailable on or via the website, ARCHITENKO will make every effort to rectify this as soon as possible. 

However, ARCHITENKO may not be held liable for direct or indirect damage arising from use of the information on this site. If you should find inaccuracies in the information that is made available via the site, please contact the site manager.

The content of the site (including links) can be adapted, modified or supplemented without announcement or notification at any time. ARCHITENKO offers no guarantees for the proper functioning of the website and may by no means be held liable for a poor functioning or temporary (un)availability of the website or for any form of damage, direct or indirect, that should derive from accessing or using the website.

ARCHITENKO may under no circumstances be held liable vis-à-vis anyone, directly or indirectly, specially or in any other way, for harm attributable to the use of this site or a different one, especially as a result of links or hyperlinks, including without limitation all losses, work stoppages, damage to programs or other data on the computer system, to hardware, software, etc. of the user.

The website can contain hyperlinks to websites or pages of third parties or indirectly refer to them. The insertion of links to these websites or pages by no means entails any implicit approval of their contents.

ARCHITENKO expressly declares that it has no control over the content or other characteristics of these websites and cannot under any circumstances be held liable for their content or characteristics or for any other form of damage resulting from their use.

3. Applicable law and competent courts

Belgian law applies to this site. In the event of a dispute, only the tribunals of the judicial district of Hasselt have jurisdiction.

4. Cookies

During a visit to the site, cookies can be installed on the hard disk of your computer. This is done solely in order to better adapt the site to match the needs of returning visitors. These mini-files or cookies are not used to check the surf behavior of the visitor on other websites. Your internet browser allows you to block the use of cookies, to receive a warning when a cookie is being installed, or to remove the cookies afterwards from your hard disk. Consult the help function of your internet browser for this.

5. Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses "cookies", which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyse how users make use of 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 will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services related to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with 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 process data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.

6. Data Protection Notice

ARCHITENKO attaches great importance to the secure, transparent and confidential collection and processing of your personal data. In particular we want to protect the data of parties such as our customers, subcontractors and suppliers against, for example, loss, leaks, errors, wrongful access or wrongful processing.

We want to use this Data Protection Notice to inform you about the collection and processing of your personal data.

We ask you to read this Data Protection Notice carefully, as it contains essential information on how your personal data are processed and for what.

By sharing your personal data you explicitly declare to be familiar with this Data Protection Notice and you explicitly consent to it, as well as to the data processing itself.

6.1. Area of application

This Data Protection Notice relates to all services provided by us and to all activities that we carry out in general.

6.2. Controller and its obligations

ARCHITENKO - Urban Design and Architecture BVBA, with registered office at Nieuwdorpstraat 23, 3600 Genk, registered in the Crossroads Bank of Companies with company registration number 0714.918.209  is the controller of your personal data.

During the collection and processing of your personal data we comply with the Belgian regulations relating to the protection of personal data, as well as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) since its coming into force on 25 May 2018.

6.3. Personal data

You share the following personal data depending on your activities and your relationship with our company: your identity and contact data (name, term of address, address, email-address, landline and mobile telephone number). For certain specific legal obligations you may have to provide us with additional data. If you have liked our company on social media, we also come into possession of your personal data.

We draw your attention to the fact that you bear responsibility for all data that you provide to us and that we assume their correctness. Should your data no longer be up to date, we request you to inform us of this immediately.

You are not bound to share your personal data, but you understand that the provision of certain services or cooperation is impossible if you do not consent to the collection and processing of the data.

6.4. Processing purposes and legal basis

Customer data

Within the context of our service and our activities, we collect and process the identity and contact data of our customers, their personnel, employees, appointed parties and other useful contact persons. The purposes for this processing are the carrying out of the agreements with our customers, customer management, accounting and direct marketing activities such as sending promotional or commercial information. The legal basis is the carrying out of the agreement, compliance with legal and regulatory obligations and/or our legitimate interest.

Data on suppliers and subcontractors

We collect and process the identity and contact data of our suppliers and subcontractors, as well as any of their (sub)contractor(s), their personnel, employees, appointed parties and other useful contact persons. The purposes of this processing are the carrying out of this agreement, the management of suppliers/subcontractors, accounting and direct marketing activities such as sending promotional or commercial information. The legal basis is the carrying out of the agreement, compliance with legal and regulatory obligations and/or our legitimate interest (such as for direct marketing). 

Personnel data

We process the personal data of our employees for our personnel management and pay administration. In view of the specific nature of these data, this processing is more strictly controlled in a Data Protection Policy for employees.

Other data

Besides data on customers, suppliers/subcontractors and personnel, we also process personal data on other parties such as potential new customers/prospects, useful contacts within our sector, network contacts, contact data on experts, etc. The purposes of this processing are the interests of our activities, direct marketing and public relations. The legal basis is our legitimate interest or in some cases the carrying out of an agreement.

We only process personal data on minors (persons younger than 16 years of age) if we have written permission for this from the parent or legal representative.

6.5. Duration of processing

The personal data are saved and processed by us for a period required for the purposes of the processing and depending on the (contractual or otherwise) relationship we have with you.

6.6. Rights

In conformity with and under the conditions of Belgian privacy law and the provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation, we inform you that you have the following rights:

• Right to access and viewing: you have the right to view the data that we have on you free of charge and to know what these data will be used for.
• Right to rectification: you have the right to rectify (correct) your incorrect personal data, and to complete incomplete personal data.
• Right to data erasure or restriction: you have the right to  request us to erase your personal data or restrict its processing in the circumstances and under the conditions as determined by the General Data Protection Regulation. We can refuse the erasure or restriction of any personal data that are required by us  to comply with a legal obligation, to carry out the agreement or that are required in our legitimate interest, and this for as long as these data are required for the purposes for which they were collected.
• Right to transferability of data: you have the right to obtain the personal data that you have provided to us in a structured, usual and machine-readable form. You have the right to transfer these data to another data controller for processing.
• Right of objection: you have the right to object to the processing of your personal data for serious and legitimate reasons. Please note that you cannot object to the processing of personal data that are required by us to comply with a legal obligation, to carry out the agreement or that are required in our legitimate interest, and this for as long as these data are required for the purposes for which they were collected.
• Right of withdrawal of permission: If the processing of the personal data is based on prior permission, you have the right to withdraw this permission. These personal data will then only be processed if we have another legal basis for this.
• Automatic decision-making and profiling: we confirm that the processing of the personal data involves no profiling and that you will not be a subject of fully automated decisions.

You can exercise the above mentioned rights by contacting us via info@architenko.com.

We make every effort to process your personal data in a careful and legitimate way in accordance with the applicable regulations. Should you nevertheless be of the opinion that your rights are being violated and you are not receiving a satisfactory response to your concerns from our company, you are free to submit a complaint to: Commissie voor de Bescherming van de Persoonlijke Levenssfeer (Drukpersstraat 35, 1000 Brussel - Tel. 02 274 48 00 - Fax. 02 274 48 35 - E-mail: commission@privacycommission.be)

You can also approach a law court should you believe that you may suffer damage as a result of the processing of your personal data.

6.7. Transfer to third parties

Certain personal data collected by us will be transferred and possibly processed by third party service providers such as our IT supplier, accountant or revisor, as well as by the authorities.

It is possible that one or more of the above-mentioned third parties are located outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”). Personal data will, however, only be sent to third countries with a suitable level of protection.

The employees, managers and/or representatives of the abovementioned service providers or bodies and the specialised service providers appointed by them must respect the confidential nature of your personal data and can only use these data for the purposes for which they were provided.

If necessary your personal data can be shared with other third parties. This can, for example, be the case when we wholly or partly reorganise, transfer our activities or should we be declared bankrupt. It is also possible that personal data must be shared as a result of a legal ruling or to comply with a certain legal obligation. We will in that case make reasonable efforts to inform you beforehand about this data sharing with other third parties. You will, however, acknowledge and understand that this is in certain circumstances not always technically or commercially feasible, or that legal restrictions may be applicable.

We will under no circumstances sell your personal data or make them commercially available to direct marketing agencies or similar service providers unless you have given your prior permission for this.

6.8. Technical and organisational measures

We take the necessary technical and organisational measures to process your personal data at an adequate security level and protect these data against destruction, loss, forgery, changing, unauthorised access or inadvertent sharing with third parties, as well as any other not permitted processing of these data.

Under no circumstances can ARCHITENKO - Urban Design and Architecture BVBA be held liable for any direct or indirect damage resulting from incorrect or wrongful use of the personal data by a third party.

6.9. Access by third parties

For the purposes of processing your personal data, we provide access to your personal data to our employees, colleagues and appointed parties. We guarantee a similar level of protection by imposing contractual obligations on these employees, colleagues and appointed parties, that are similar to those in this Data Protection Notice.

6.10. Do you have any further questions?

If after reading this Data Protection Notice you have any further questions or remarks with respect to the collection and processing of your personal data, you can contact us via info@architenko.com.

This Data Protection Notice is applicable in its current form up to the time of the next change