Brussels Expo appreciates your interest in its products, services and website. We want you to know how we collect, process and keep your personal data, which we aim to do with respect for your rights. We also want you to be aware of these rights. For this reason, we invite you to read this policy carefully. If you have a question about the processing of your data or if you have any queries about information given in this charter, we invite you to contact us at the address “[email protected]”.
What do the law and the regulations say about this issue?
Although we tend to offer guarantees going beyond the applicable laws on this matter, we have taken organisational and technical measures to meet the provisions of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27/04/2016, commonly known as the General Data Protection Regulations (hereafter GDPR).
What concepts will be useful for you in understanding this charter?
Data subject: a natural person who can be directly or indirectly identified by information. This is a person whose personal data is collected and processed by a data controller or on its behalf. In practice, it means for instance: our visitors; people who fill in contact forms on one of our websites; people who buy tickets for events organised at our site; any other person whose personal data is given to us, etc.
Personal data: all information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (= the data subject). This definition is broad because data is considered to be personal as soon as it allows an individual to be identified either directly (surname, first name, photo, etc.) or indirectly (e-mail address, customer number, employee number, etc.). When reference is made to “data” in this charter, we mean personal data.
Processing: any operation or set of operations, whether or not it is carried out using automated means, applied to personal data or sets of data. Here, too, the definition is broad. Any manipulation of personal data constitutes processing: collection, consultation, storage, disclosure by transmission, adaptation or alteration, erasure, etc.
Controller: the natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which determines the purposes of processing personal data and the means to carry it out. This is the person who decides why your data is collected and processed. It is your point of contact and the person who will be held responsible for complying with the data protection regulations in force.
Processor: the natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which processes personal data on behalf of the controller. The processor does not decide why processing is carried out, it merely carries it out for a controller.
Who we are?
The not-for-profit association Parc des Expositions de Bruxelles, known in abbreviated form as “Brussels Expo”, has its registered address at 1, Place de Belgique, B-1020 Brussels. VAT nº: BE 0406655573.
Each person or organisation processing personal data must determine whether it is processing this data as a controller or a processor. This distinction in the processing of personal data is very important. It seems appropriate for us at this stage to present you with our activities and vision, as well as our relationship with our partners.
Our mission is to promote and develop a meeting venue highlighting economic, commercial, industrial, scientific, cultural, and entertainment activities, particularly through the various sites we have been granted by the City of Brussels. For this purpose, we carry out all activities we consider useful or necessary, particularly providing all services directly or indirectly connected with organising fairs and shows, congresses, conferences, exhibitions, concerts, festivals and other events. Part of our mission is also to continually improve the experience of customers visiting our site. We establish our activities in pursuit of these aims, supported by several partners.
We are always concerned to offer a diversified programme of activities and we also try to offer a full service to event organisers in order to attract diverse events that may be of interest both to the general public and to specific groups. More broadly, in terms of our particular position, we perform an important task coordinating the events and providing an overall strategy with a view to achieving our principal mission. We also have the power to decide on the events to be organised and we try to adopt a strategy coherent with our wish to develop the sites entrusted to us.
As a result of this particular position, when a data subject holds a ticket for an event, that person is always linked both to Brussels Expo and to the organiser of the event he or she wishes to attend. These two different organisations are therefore both data controllers as defined above.
In order to obtain full information, you are therefore invited to read our privacy policy, on one hand, and, on the other, that of the organiser of the event you wish to attend.
What does this policy cover?
The purpose of this privacy policy is to inform you of the data we collect, the way this data is processed and the reason for such processing. Through this policy, we inform you of our commitments and your rights concerning the protection of your personal data.
This policy covers all personal data collected by Brussels Expo in the context of all its activities: fairs and shows, congresses, conferences, exhibitions, concerts, festivals and other events using the following means:
Website www.brussels-expo.com
Website www.tickets.brussels-expo.be
Website www.bsf.be
Website www.palais12.be
Website www.la-madeleine.be
Personal data collected when you take part in a survey or competition
When you give us your personal data by one of these means, or by any other means, you must provide us with correct information about yourself.
What are our principles concerning data protection?
Your personal data and your privacy are important to us. It is priority for us that you trust us. We try to process your data lawfully, in a transparent manner, faithfully and responsibly. We make every effort to adopt the appropriate organisational and technical measures to protect your data. Finally, we make an effort to collect as little data as possible while still achieving our aims.
The data we collect, how we process it and why?
We do not process sensitive data in relation to racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership, health or a natural person’s sex life or sexual orientation. We do not process genetic or biometric data. If the processing of a so-called “sensitive” data is contemplated, you would be duly informed in advance.
We do not authorise sales to children aged under 16 and we do not process data relating to children.
The data we collect and process is the data that you have voluntarily given us or one of our subcontractors/partners. For certain operations involving orders, you may give data about yourself to third parties via their own services – specifically when you make payments. We do not hold this data: its collection and processing is governed by the conditions of the parties concerned. We invite you to consult their terms and conditions before giving your data.
What is the basis for us processing your data?
How we protect your data?
We have established the necessary technical and organisational measures, proportional to the risk of breach of your rights, in order to protect your personal data. Our security measures are regularly assessed and adapted in order to ensure a permanently high level of protection.
With whom do we share your data?
We promise not to pass on or sell your personal data to third parties other than our subsidiaries, our processors and our direct partners whose intervention is necessary to achieve the aforementioned purposes.
In the context of the organisation of an event, we share your personal data with:
Your personal data will be sent to a third country only if an event organiser has its headquarters in a third country and no representative in the Union. On the day this charter is published, all the organisers we work with have establishments within the European Union. You will be informed of any data transfer outside the European Union when you order your ticket for an event.
How long do we keep your data?
The period for which the personal data will be stored depends on the processing carried out. Your data will be kept by Brussels Expo for five years from your last purchase, except for processing based on our legitimate interest (five years from the last contact with you) and processing justified by the legal obligations we are subject to. We do not keep your payment data.
What are your rights?
You are in charge of your data and its processing. We make every effort to ensure your rights are respected. So that you can manage your personal data better, you need to know that you have:
We try to comply with your requests to exercise your rights as quickly and efficiently as possible. We inform you, though, that, in certain situations described in the applicable laws on this issue, we have the right to refuse to allow you to exercise certain rights when this is justified by the situation. We try to notify you of our refusal immediately, giving reasons, so you can understand why we cannot proceed with your request.
We are trying to establish a dynamic platform allowing you to exercise your rights at all times. While this platform is being developed, we invite you to exercise your rights by sending an e-mail to the address: [email protected].
Important: before giving us your personal data, bear in mind that, if we receive a request to exercise one of your rights, we have no choice but to give out personal data concerning you. For this purpose, our power to check the identity of the data subject behind the request is limited. In accordance with our principle of restricting data collection to the data strictly necessary for achieving our purposes, we try not to collect additional data in order to verify your identity. We therefore consider that any request to exercise your rights coming from your account or your registered e-mail address is sufficient evidence of your identity. We invite you to register with your own e-mail address and urge you to be careful with securing it.
Where can I complain if my rights are breached?
If there is a problem, you can, of course, contact us at the address [email protected] so that we can help you better. You also always have the right to complain to the data protection authority. Further information on www.dataprotectionauthority.be.
Updates to our privacy policy
Our privacy notice policy may be extended or adapted in future, for example if there are new developments. We advise you to consult this privacy policy regularly.
Date of the last update: 08/01/2019
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P12 will not sell your details to third parties and will only make your details available to third parties (with the exception of the companies belonging to the Brussels Expo Group) with our explicit permission in advance.
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What personal information we collect:
The personal information collected may include at least some of the following:
How We Use Your Personal Information:
We use your personal information to:
Contacting us, correcting or updating your information:
You can help us maintain the accuracy of your personal information by notifying us of any changes to this information. In the event that you have any questions about BRP’s Privacy Policy or if you request access to or correction or update of your personal information you may contact us any one of the following ways: E-mail
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