Privacy Policy

For iTalents, with address at Frankrijklei 5, 2000 Antwerp, BE, the protection of your personal data and privacy are very important.

By visiting our website, you provide us with certain personal data. You must therefore be able to trust that we will handle this data carefully and confidentially.

Italents always treats personal data with great care and does this completely transparently to all persons involved. Below you can read what data we collect from you, how and for what purpose we do this, what your rights are and how you can exercise them.

Persons to whom this privacy statement applies

This privacy statement describes the processing of personal data of all persons who visit the Italents website.

Definitions
Personal data: Personal data is any information that can be traced back to an identified or identifiable natural person. These are of course obvious data such as your name, address, gender, etc., but also things such as your job preferences, training courses completed and consumption behavior.

Processing of personal data: Processing is any operation carried out with personal data. This includes the collection, recording, organization, storage, updating, modification, retrieval, consultation, use, transmission, distribution, making available, bringing together, relating, blocking, erasing and destroying data.

Legal grounds

The law provides for certain scenarios in which a party is permitted to process personal data. We process your data in the cases that:

We need the data to fulfill our obligations to you. These may be the services we offer you or the obligations arising from the employment or cooperation agreement that we conclude with you or your employer
We need the data to comply with legal obligations, such as correctly declaring and paying taxes and levies
We as an organization have legitimate interests in processing your personal data without harming your own interests, rights or obligations
We have received your explicit and unambiguous consent to carry out certain processing

Which personal data do we process?

When you visit our website, we process the following personal data about you, but we anonymize your IP address so that we can never link it back to you:

IP address (immediately anonymized by replacing the last numbers with zeros)
Personal details such as your date of birth and gender
Your approximate geographic location at the time you visit our website
Specifications of your computer or mobile device (type, operating system, browser, language,…)
How you arrived at our website (via which link)
Your surfing behavior on the website (duration of your visit, which pages you view, click behavior…) We also process certain information by means of cookies. Cookies are pieces of information that are stored on your computer or mobile device and read during your (next) website visit.

We use the following cookies:

Necessary cookies: this type of cookie improves the user experience by storing certain things such as your language preference and login details (if you use the latter) and ensures that the website can function correctly.
Performance cookies: through these cookies we collect aggregated data about the use of our website, such as the links that are clicked and how long people stay on a particular page. Based on this data we can improve our website and optimize the user experience.
Marketing cookies: these are cookies that collect your click and surfing behavior on our website and share it with our advertising network for the purpose of more targeted advertising.
We view necessary and performance cookies as essential for the correct functioning and maintenance of our website and you cannot refuse them. Before using marketing cookies, we will first ask your explicit permission. You can withdraw this at any time.

What do we use your personal data for?

We use your personal data to ensure the correct functioning of our website and to make your surfing experience as pleasant and smooth as possible.

We also use your (anonymized) personal data to compile statistics and perform analyzes on them. This is with the aim of detecting certain trends and tendencies in order to optimize our website and better tailor it to our target audience.

For example: If we notice that a certain page on our website is rarely or not visited, we know that it is difficult to find for our visitors or that the visitors have little/no interest in it.

We also use the information about your surfing behavior on our website to optimize our marketing campaigns and to write to target groups in a more targeted manner.

Your data will under no circumstances be used for profiling or automatic decision-making purposes.

Who has access to your personal data?

We use the Google Analytics tool to process the data below:

Specifications of your computer or mobile device (type, operating system, browser, language,…)
How you got to our website (via which link)
Your behavior on the website (duration of your visit, which pages you view, etc.)

The appropriate precautions are taken so that neither we nor Google can link this data to you. We use the Hotjar software to record your surfing and clicking behavior. We share the captured data with Facebook and LinkedIn to show you relevant advertisements on those pages. We will never do this without your consent and you can refuse this processing at any time. We never sell the personal data we have collected to third parties and do not share it with parties outside the European Union.

How long are personal data stored with us?

You can disable or delete all installed cookies from your computer or mobile device at any time via the settings of your browser (usually under “Help” or “Internet Options”). Each type of browser has its own settings for managing cookies. You can find the information on the help page of the browser you are using. The following data will be deleted 50 months after your visit:

Specifications of your computer or mobile device (type, operating system, browser, language,…)
How you got to our website (via which link)
Your behavior on the website (duration of your visit, which pages you view, etc.)

This data is immediately anonymized upon receipt and can therefore not be directly traced back to you.

How do we protect your personal data?

We make every effort to ensure the secure processing of your personal data. To this end, we have implemented various technical and organizational security measures to protect personal data against unauthorized access, unauthorized use, loss and theft. The most important are:

We use software and IT infrastructure from market leaders in the field who maintain the highest security standards and closely follow legal regulations
Only authorized persons have access to your personal data
All our employees are trained to process personal data in accordance with the rules prescribed by law
We only work with companies that follow legal regulations and attach equal importance to the safe processing of personal data

In the event of a data breach that could potentially impact your rights and freedoms, you will be notified in the manner prescribed by law.

What are your rights?

You have the right at any time to:

Access your personal data and request a copy of it
Have incorrect, incomplete, inappropriate or out-of-date data amended
Submit an objection to the processing of your personal data and have it partially or fully restricted, even if you had previously given permission for this
To have your data deleted (“right to be forgotten”)
Receive your data in a structured and digitally readable format

You also have the right to file a complaint with the local data protection authority: Data Protection Authority Drukpersstraat 35 1000 Brussels Belgium +32 (0)2 274 48 00 contact@apd-gba.be www.dataprotectionauthority.be

Changes to the privacy statement

This privacy statement was last updated on May 4, 2023.

In order to comply with the most current regulations and advice from the Data Protection Authority, this statement may be adjusted from time to time.

Most changes are expected to be minor. If significant changes are to be made, we will communicate this clearly via our website and (if possible) by e-mail.

Contact us

If you have any further questions after reading this privacy statement, please contact us at the following contact details:

iTalents, with address at Frankrijklei 5, 2000 Antwerp, BE

iTalents
Frankrijklei 5,
2000 Antwerp,
BE

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