Disclaimer

Terms and Conditions of Use of the Port of Brussels Internet Portal and its inherent Data Protection Policy

The provisions hereafter seek to define the terms and conditions under which the Port of Brussels grants you access to its websites.

This Internet portal is an initiative of the Port of Brussels, a type "B" body of public interest created and governed by the “ordonnance” dated 3 December 1992 on the use and expansion of the canal, port and port facilities on which they depend in the Bruxelles-Capitale Region, and subsequent changes to them, its registered office are at place des Armateurs, 6, 1000 Brussels.

1. Scope

These terms and conditions – this disclaimer – apply to and regulate the portal (www.port.brussels) and any other sites held by or for the Port: (http://rapportannuel.port.brussels), (http://jaarverslag.port.brussels), (https://www.feteduport.be) et (https://www.havenfeest.be). These different sites must host this disclaimer, refer to it or present a hyperlink to it, to inform users and enable them to oppose it.

Thus, the word ‘website’ in this text refers to any of the aforementioned sites held by or for the Port.

2. Acceptance of the General Terms and Conditions of Use

The Port of Brussels grants you access to this website and the information which it contains insofar as you unreservedly accept the terms and conditions contained on this page, the "Terms and Conditions of Use". Consulting the website and the information contained in it implies that you accept the terms and conditions. The Port of Brussels may amend them at any time.

3. Use of the Internet portal

Website content is provided purely for the purposes of general information on the Port of Brussels and its activities.

The content of the website may only be used in the context of the services offered on the portal and for your personal use. This website may not be used as the basis for any assessment of the Port of Brussels; it does not under any circumstances bind the Port of Brussels, and no-one may oppose it. Nothing on the website may be considered an offer to buy or provide services or sign a contract.

Users shall use the Internet portal in accordance with laws and legal and/or contractual statements. Users may not use it in any way which compromises the interests of the Port of Brussels, its suppliers, its clients, its partners or anyone else associated with it mentioned in it.

4. Guarantees and limits of liability concerning use of the Internet portal

Under no circumstances can the Port of Brussels accept any liability for direct or indirect harm, or any other damage of any nature, resulting from use of the website or impossibility to use it for any reason, be the liability contractual, the result of crime or near crime, or founded on liability where no-one is at fault, or otherwise, even when the Port of Brussels was warned that such harm could occur.

4.1. Information

The Port of Brussels uses all reasonable resources to publish information on its website which is up-to-date to the best of its knowledge and belief. However, it cannot guarantee the adequacy, accuracy or exhaustiveness of such information or guarantee that the website is permanently complete and up-to-date in every respect. The information found on this Internet portal may contain errors in its content, technical inaccuracies or typographical mistakes. Details are provided for information only and will change periodically. At any time and without notice, the Port of Brussels may be led to improve and/or make changes to the website.

Users alone are liable for how they use the website, and consequently, information obtained or items downloaded while using the service. The Port of Brussels cannot accept any liability for harm which results from use of information on this Internet portal.

Moreover, users hereby acknowledge that they are solely liable for harm caused to their computer system or loss of data after downloading content.

4.2. Internet portal access

The website is provided based on an "as is" service accessible according to its availability. The Port of Brussels cannot guarantee that service will be uninterrupted, opportune, safe or error-free, that results obtained using the service will be accurate and/or reliable, or that bugs in software used, if any, will be corrected.

4.3. Hypertext links

The website and this disclaimer contain hypertext links to other sites and links to other data sources, provided for information only. The Port of Brussels does not control these sites and information contained in them and so cannot provide any guarantee as to the quality and/or exhaustiveness of such information.

The Port of Brussels cannot accept any liability for contact which is inappropriate, illegitimate or illegal found in the hyperlinks or harm resulting from consulting them.

If, from your own site, you would like to create a hypertext link to the Port of Brussels' portal, please contact the Port of Brussels first by e-mailing info@port.brussels for details, which we will send as soon as possible, on the legitimacy of your request.

4.4. Surfers' acts

Under no circumstances can the Port of Brussels accept any liability for acts undertaken by surfers.

5. Intellectual property rights

All items and information accessible on the Internet portal, plus their compilation and layout (texts, photographs, images, icons, videos, software, databases, data, etc.) are protected by the Port of Brussels' intellectual property rights.

The Port of Brussels names and logos which appear on sites held by the Port or for the Port are protected brand names and/or trade names. Site brand names may not be used in conjunction with any product or service besides those of portals or the Port of Brussels, in any way whatsoever, likely to create confusion amongst consumers or in any way which would downgrade or discredit the Port of Brussels.

Unless expressly agreed thus, under no circumstances may users copy, reproduce, translate, represent, modify, transmit, publish, adapt, distribute, diffuse, license, transfer, sell, on any medium whatsoever, or use in any way at all, any or all of the Internet portal without the Port of Brussels' prior written permission. Any breach will result in civil and criminal action.

6. Privacy policy

6.1 Principles

The Port of Brussels, which owns the site, is keen to adapt to the new realities of digital and the new provisions of European law.

The portal (www.port.brussels) and other sites held by or for the Port meet European Parliament and Council Regulation (EU) 2016/679 dated 27 April 2016 on individuals' protection in terms of personal data processing and free data circulation, abrogating Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation).

This regulation reinforces European citizens' rights and grants them more control over their personal data, especially offering them a unified legal framework.

The Port of Brussels has defined a clear, concise policy on personal data protection which meets inherent legal provisions.

Via the following questions and answers, further details are given concerning how your personal data is used:

6.2 What personal data is collected and for what purposes?

Through its websites, the Port of Brussels only collects personal data insofar as is necessary for a specific purpose. The information will not be reused for other purposes;

Action	Purpose(s)	Data collected	Storage time
Newsletter	To inform individuals who have signed up for the Port of Brussels newsletter on what it is doing and its news	E-mail address	99 years
Contact form	To collect individuals' requests	E-mail address Name	Data will be deleted/rendered anonymous 1 month after the request was processed. The term will be extended if the request results in a contract with the Port of Brussels
Participation in a competition	To contact the winner(s) To send prices	E-mail address Postal address First name, surname Telephone number	Data will be deleted/rendered anonymous 1 month after the winner(s) has/have been notified.
Participation in an event requiring registration	To determine the number of people registered Participant management	E-mail address First name, surname	Data will be deleted/rendered anonymous 1 week after the event

However, under legislation, individuals have a number of rights which they may invoke concerning their personal data. These rights are listed and detailed in point 5.7 hereof. Data for statistical purposes, if rendered anonymous rather than deleted, will be rendered completely anonymous insofar as no person al data will remain.

6.3 Who can grant their consent?

Users confirm that they have registered and grant their clear, express and unequivocal consent for their data to be processed.

Accordingly, users shall "grant their express consent".

Users are entitled to withdraw their consent at any time; this will not affect the legitimacy of processing founded on consent granted before said consent was withdrawn.

In using site services, users hereby declare, under Belgian and European civil law, that they are competent to exercise their rights or – if minors – they have obtained their parents' or legal representatives' valid permission.

The Port of Brussels will ensure that it protects minors' privacy and encourages parents or legal representatives to become actively involved in their children's online activities.

Under no circumstances may minors under 13 grant their own consent for their personal data to be processed for the purposes of using this site.

The Port of Brussels cannot accept any liability if services were used without the aforementioned supervision and permission.

6.4 Who will ultimately use personal data?

Personal data collected and processed will be used exclusively by the processing manager. Under no circumstances will be it be transferred to a third party or State which is not part of the European Union.

6.5. Who is the processing manager?

For the website, the processing manager is the Port of Brussels, represented by its directors: Mr. Alfons Moens and Mr. Philippe Matthis. The Port of Brussels may be contacted at the following address: Place des Armateurs 6, 1000, Brussels or by e-mail: info@port.brussels.

6.6. What is personal data processing as far as users are concerned?

User data is used legally, loyally and transparently for directly processing their requests, messages or actions in which they participate via the website. It is processed in such a way as to appropriately ensure personal data security, including protection against unauthorised or illegal processing and loss.

6.7. What rights can you exercise where your personal data is concerned?

Under European regulations governing protection of individuals where personal data processing and free circulation of said data are concerned, users enjoy complete transparency in terms of how their data is processed.

Users may exercise the rights they hold, acknowledged hereafter, by sending the processing manager a signed and dated request, accompanied by a double-sided copy of their identity card, which they deliver to the site in person or send by post to the following address – Place des Armateurs, 6, 1000 Brussels – or using any other means of telecommunication.

If a request is delivered to the site in person, the person receiving it will immediately issue a dated and signed acknowledgement of receipt to the requesting party.

6.7.1. Right of access

Internet portal users are entitled to obtain from the processing manager, in intelligible form, communication of the data being processed, plus any information available on the source of the processing.

The information will be communicated no more than forty-five days after receiving the request.

6.7.2. Right of correction

Free of charge, users may have any inaccurate data concerning them corrected and also have any personal data about them deleted or removed, which, for processing purposes, is incomplete or irrelevant or whose saving, communication or storage is banned or has even been kept for longer than is permitted.

Requested data corrections or deletions must be communicated, by the processing manager, within a month of the request being made, to users or the people to whom the incorrect, incomplete or irrelevant data was communicated, unless notification to said recipients is impossible or implies disproportionate effort.

6.7.3. Right of opposition

For genuine, legitimate reasons in a particular situation, users are entitled to oppose data about them being processed, unless it is collected to meet a legal obligation, if it is necessary to performing a contract to which a user is party or if it is used for a purpose for which a user indisputably granted their consent;

If the opposition is justified, the processing undertaken by the processing manager may no longer focus on the data.

6.7.4 Right of data portability

Users are entitled to receive personal data about them provided to the processing manager, in a structured format, currently used and machine-readable, and are entitled to transmit said data to another processing manager, the processing manager to whom the personal data was sent not constituting an obstacle to this, when:

a) the processing is founded on consent or a contract;

b) the processing is undertaken through automated processes;

6.7.5 Right to forget and right to limit data processing

Users are entitled to request that their personal data be deleted. They are also entitled to request that use of their personal data be limited. In either case, the conditions set out in regulations must be met.

Data protection policy does not compromise the rights which the Port of Brussels holds with regard to certain users vis-à-vis whom a contract, the law or any other document of a contractual, regulatory or legal nature authorises it to conduct more extensive operations. In this case, the standard most favourable to the Port of Brussels applies.

6.8. How are cookies used?

The website seeks to inform users on use of what the law qualifies as "data stored on end user terminals", more commonly known as "cookies".

A cookie is a file sent by the website's server which is saved on your computer's hard disk, marking out the route to the website visited and containing a certain amount of information on the visit.

Users may refuse to install cookies on their computer by configuring their browser appropriately. However, refusal may prevent access to certain Internet portal services. Below, we set out methods for deleting and/or blocking cookies depending on the browser you have.

6.8.1. Functional cookies:

These cookies manage certain site functions. The cookies are anonymous (no data collected will create a link to your identity). Furthermore, with the exception of cookies for setting your language preferences, the cookies will expire when you close your browser. So they are deleted from your computer or terminal when you exit the software.

6.8.2. Statistical cookies:

Statistical cookies enable the website to, for example, determine visitor numbers, their geographical location, what they did while on the site (how they accessed it, from what page, pages they then visited during their session and the page through which they exited the site), the time of the visit, etc.. The cookies are anonymous and their life is up to 2 years.

6.8.3. Sharing cookies (social networking):

These cookies enable sharing of website content via social networking. Certain sharing buttons are integrated via third party applications which send cookies of this type.

A social network providing such a button is likely to identify you through the button, even if you did not use the button when you consulted the website. Please consult the social network's privacy policy for details of how the browsing data collected through the sharing buttons is used, by visiting its respective website.

6.8.4. Publicity cookies:

These cookies are used for marketing purposes, especially to display targeted publicity, conduct market surveys and assess the effectiveness of an advertising campaign.

6.8.5. How are cookies controlled?

You may control and/or delete cookies as you wish. To find out more, please consult www.aboutcookies.org and youronlinechoices.com. These websites are not the Port of Brussels' responsibility and the Port of Brussels cannot accept any liability for harm caused to users.

You may delete all cookies already stored on your computer and configure most browsers so that they block them. However, if you do, you may personally have to set certain preferences every time you visit a site, and certain services and functions may not be available.

Purely and exclusively for information, the procedure for controlling cookies is set out hereafter, depending on your browser. For further details or if you have any questions, please consult the explanations provided by your browser.

Google Chrome

1. To delete cookies which are already on your terminal:

Click the menu in the browser's toolbar;
Select "Settings";
Click "Advanced settings";
In "Confidentiality and security", click "Content settings";
Then click "Cookies";
Select "Display all site cookies and data";
Then chick "Clear all" and finally "Delete all". It is also possible to remove certain cookies by clicking the "bin" icon located on the same line as the cookie.