Cookie notice
We – Bosal Emission Control Systems (hereinafter: “BOSAL”, “we”, “us”, “our”) – provide you with this cookie notice to inform you about the use of cookies on our website.
Cookies are small text files which are stored on a device’s hard drive and which contain certain information and sometimes personal data.
If you want information on how we process personal data on our other website or in the context of our communications with you, you are kindly referred to our data protection notice.
By continuing to use the website after having been informed of the use of cookies, you acknowledge that you have read and that you accept the terms of this cookie notice.
1. IN GENERAL
1.1. The data controller for the processing of your personal data is Bosal Emission Control Systems, Dellestraat 20, 3560 Lummen, Belgium, with corporate registration number 0431.440.855.
1.2. You can contact us via e-mail at info@bosal.com.
1.3. Where we refer to certain laws or regulations, such reference shall also include any change, replacement or annulment of said laws and regulations, including any related executive decisions.
1.4. We reserve the right to modify, change or amend this data protection notice from time to time and at our own discretion. You can always consult the latest version of this data protection notice on our website.
2. COOKIES
2.1. You can avoid cookies being placed by configuring your browser as such. Guidelines about how to do this, can be found here:
- Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies,
- Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en,
- Safari: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac,
- Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences.
However, not allowing cookies when visiting our website can cause certain or all features of our website to stop working properly.
2.2. When you visit our website, we place a number of cookies on your device. Most data pertaining to these cookies, their placement and use allow us and our partners to identify you, and we use them to gain insight in how you and other visitors use our website by gathering statistical and usage data, enabling us to provide you with a better user-experience on our website.
2.3. We know about the following cookies being used on our website:
- _dc_gtm_UA-#
- Type: Statistics
- Purpose: Used by Google Tag Manager to control the loading of a Google Analytics script tag.
- Storage Period: 1 day
- ga
- Type: Statistics
- Purpose: Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.
- Storage period: 2 years
- _gid
- Type: Statistics
- Purpose: Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.
- Storage period: 1 day
- ads/ga-audiences
- Type: Marketing
- Purpose: Used by Google AdWords to re-engage visitors that are likely to convert to customers based on the visitor’s online behaviour across websites.
- Storage period: Session
2.4. You can at all times withdraw your consent with our use of cookies. It suffices to delete the cookies, which have been placed on your device. To do so, you are kindly asked to refer to the appropriate instructions of your browser manufacturer, as listed above.
3. PURPOSES FOR WHICH WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA
3.1. We process your personal data to perform statistical analyses so that we are able to improve our website, products and services or to develop new products and services.
3.2. We process your personal data for advertising purposes.
3.3. We also process your personal data for the preservation of our legitimate interests or the legitimate interests of our partners or any third party, if your use of the website can be considered (a) a violation of this cookie notice or the intellectual property rights or any other right of a third party, (b) a threat to the security or integrity of our website, (c) a danger to our website or any of our or our subcontractors’ underlying systems due to viruses, Trojan horses, spyware, malware or any other form of malicious code, or (d) in any way hateful, obscene, discriminating, racist slanderous, spiteful, hurtful or in some other way inappropriate or illegal.
3.4. We process your personal data in order to comply with legal obligations or to meet any reasonable request from authorised agents or representatives of police, judicial authorities, government authorities or bodies, including competent data protection authorities. We will, on our own initiative, transfer your personal data to the police or to the judicial authorities as evidence or if there is a justified suspicion of an illegal act or crime that you have committed.
4. LEGAL BASIS FOR PROCESSING YOUR PERSONAL DATA
4.1. For the purpose outlined in Article 3.1 and 3.2 we ask for your consent.
4.2. For the purposes set out in Article 3.3, the processing of your personal data is based on the necessity for our legitimate interests, such as:
- Continuous improvements of our website, products and services to ensure that you have the best user-experience possible,
- Keeping our website, products and services safe from misuse and illegal activity,
- Marketing and promotion of our products, services, brands and overall successful commercialisation of our products and services.
Note that we ask your consent for the collection of your personal data by other cookies than functional and necessary ones.
4.3. The processing of your personal data for the purpose described in article 3.4 is necessary to allow us to comply with our legal obligations.
5. TO WHOM WE SEND YOUR DATA
5.1. We rely on third-party processors who process your personal data on our behalf in order to provide you with our products and services and to improve them. These third-party processors are only allowed to process your personal data on our behalf and upon our explicit written instructions.
We warrant that all third-party processors are selected with due care and are obliged to observe the safety and integrity of your personal data.
5.2. We share your personal data with other entities within the Bosal Group. However, we ensure that all Bosal entities will take due care that all processing of your personal data is in line with what is set out in this cookie notice.
5.3. We do not send your personal data in an identifiable manner to any third party without your explicit permission to do so other than the ones mentioned in Article 5.1 and Article 5.2.
6. LOCATION AND TRANSFER
6.1. We process your personal data within the European Economic Area (EEA). However, in order to process your personal data for the purposes outlined in Article 3 above, we also transfer your personal data to third parties who process these data on our behalf outside the EEA.
6.2. Each such partner outside the EEA that processes your personal data will be bound to observe adequate safeguards with regard to the processing of your personal data. Such safeguards will be the consequence of:
- The recipient country having legislation in place which can be considered equivalent to the protection offered within the EEA, or
- A contractual arrangement between Bosal and that third party.
7. QUALITY ASSURANCES
7.1. We do our utmost to process only those personal data that are necessary to achieve the purposes mentioned in Article 3 above.
7.2. Your personal data is only processed for as long as needed to achieve the purposes mentioned in Article 3 above or up until such time where you withdraw your consent for processing them. Your withdrawal of consent can imply that you can no longer use the whole or part of the website. We will de-identify your personal data when they are no longer necessary for the purposes outlined in Article 3 above, unless there is:
- An overriding interest of us or of any other third party in keeping your personal data identifiable,
- A legal or regulatory obligation or a judicial or administrative order that prevent us from de-identifying them.
7.3. We take appropriate technical and organisational measures to keep your personal data safe from unauthorised access or theft as well as accidental loss, tampering or destruction. Access by our personnel or our third-party processors will only be on a need-to-know basis and be subject to strict confidentiality obligations. You understand, however, that safety and security are best efforts obligations which can never be guaranteed.
8. YOUR RIGHTS
8.1. You have the right to request access to all personal data processed by us pertaining to you. We reserve the right to charge an administrative fee for multiple subsequent requests for access that are clearly submitted for causing nuisance or harm to us. Each request will specify for which processing activity you wish to exercise your right to access and will specify to which data categories you wish to gain access to.
8.2. You have the right to ask that any personal data pertaining to you that is inaccurate, is corrected free of charge. If you submit a request for correction, your request needs to be accompanied of proof of the flawed nature of the data for which correction is asked.
8.3. You have the right to withdraw your earlier given consent for processing of your personal data.
8.4. You have the right to request that personal data pertaining to you is deleted if the data is no longer required in the light of the purposes outlined in Article 3 above or if you withdraw your consent for processing them. However, you need to keep in mind that we will evaluate a request for deletion against:
- Our overriding interests or the overriding interests of any other third party, and
- Legal or regulatory obligations or administrative or judicial orders which contradict such deletion.
Instead of deletion you can also ask that we limit the processing of your personal data if (a) you contest the accuracy of the data, (b) the processing is illegitimate, or (c) the data is no longer needed for the purposes listed under Article 3 above.
8.5. You have the right to oppose the processing of personal data if you are able to prove that there are justified reasons connected with these particular circumstances that warrant such opposition. However, if the intended processing qualifies as direct marketing, you have the right to oppose such processing free of charge and without justification.
8.6. You have the right to receive from us in a structured, commonly-used and machine-readable format all personal data you have provided to us.
8.7. If you wish to submit a request to exercise one or more of the rights listed above, you can contact us by e-mail at info@bosal.com.
A request to exercise a right will not be construed as consent with the processing of your personal data beyond what is required for handling your request. Such request should clearly state which right you wish to exercise and the reasons for it if such is required. It should also be dated and signed and accompanied by a digitally scanned copy of your valid identity card proving your identity.
We will promptly inform you of having received this request. If the request proves valid, we shall honour it as soon as reasonably possible and at the latest thirty (30) days after having received the request.
If you have any questions or complaints regarding how we process your personal data, please feel free to contact us by e-mail at info@bosal.com. You also have the right to file a complaint with the competent supervisory authority.