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General terms and conditions governing the use of the Website of HLB Belgium GENERAL The following terms and provisions govern the use of the Website of HLB Belgium, operating under the domain name www.hlb.be, as well as of all websites that have been, or might or could be, developed by HLB Belgium, jointly referred to hereinafter as ‘the Website’. This Website has been created and is managed by HLB Belgium, Bvd. du Souverain 191, 1160 Brussels, VAT number BE 0419 280 718. For more information, kindly send us an e-mail via the contact form. By the simple fact of your access to, and your use of, the Website, you are accepting without reservations the present user conditions and are undertaking to abide by them as required by the statutory prescriptions in casu. No legal cooperative partnership or relationship of any kind shall be established by the use of this Website. In the event that one of the provisions in these user conditions is not of application, or is contrary to a provision of imperative law, this provision shall not affect the validity or the applicability of the remaining provisions stated in the said conditions. HLB Belgium reserves the right to change the provisions of these user conditions whereby the user shall be asked to read through the terms preceding each and every renewed subsequent access and use. The present conditions relate specifically to the use of the Website of HLB Belgium, but likewise to all of the latter’s other Internet and/or network initiatives (see supra), and need to be interpreted in complement to and with the general conditions of HLB Belgium, which shall in their entirety remain of undiminished application for what concerns the legal relationship between HLB Belgium and the customer/user. Please click here to access full information pertaining to the general conditions of HLB Belgium. ACCESS TO THE WEBSITE HLB Belgium is making every conceivable effort to ensure and assure, to the degree feasible, uninterrupted access to its Website 7 days a week and 24 hours a day, without, however, offering any guarantee as to its realisation. Access to the site may be interrupted, possibly for maintenance and updating, or because of breakdowns, or for other technical reasons. INTELLECTUAL RIGHTS The Website, including the textual content, the structure, the lay-out, the graphic components, the presentation, the logos, the software, as well as whatever other elements included in this Website, shall be protected by the intellectual rights of HLB Belgium, its suppliers or partners, case pertaining. These intellectual rights are comprised of the following elements, neither limitative nor exhaustive: the copyright, the neighbouring rights, rights to the database and to trademarks and brand names. Other product or business names mentioned in this Website may refer to the trademarks of their respective owners. The user shall be prohibited from changing, duplicating, reproducing, publishing, translating, licensing, transferring and assigning, selling or alienating, or creating works derived from the afore-mentioned elements without obtaining prior written consent from the legally entitled parties or HLB Belgium. The same restrictions apply to the extracts from works offered on this Website, even if and when they are offered free of charge. Each and every breach upon these intellectual rights may lead to the institution of a civil or criminal procedure before the Courts. LIABILITY This Website is intended to provide general information about the activities and services of HLB Belgium. HLB Belgium and its information providers shall not be held liable for disruptions, break-downs or errors of, and on, its Website and cannot assume any liability for the consequences resulting from such occurrences for the user or third parties. The information and services that are provided by this Website could or may contain technical or contextual inaccuracies or typing errors. In that regard, HLB Belgium cannot offer any assurances as to the accuracy or the up-to-date status of the information as offered on this Website. HLB Belgium shall not be held liable for any illegal act, indirect loss or damage caused in consequence of the present conditions, contractual or product liability, or for any direct or indirect or incidental loss or damage whatsoever, such as operating losses, loss of profit, loss of opportunity, (operational)damage, enforced systems operating downtime, or (personnel) expenditures, even should these be the result of a serious or repetitive error caused by the Website (inclusive of its technical operation or its unavailability), viruses, computer crime, hacking, and this even in instances where HLB Belgium may have received prior warning of the occurrence of such eventualities. In like manner, HLB Belgium shall not be held liable for any temporary or permanent loss of, or damage to, or disruption inflicted upon the data or the computer equipment of the user such as might or could happen during the time of his access to the Website, during his consulting of the pages of the Website or, in general, during the transfer of files and computer programmes that are part of the Website to his own receiver(s). HLB Belgium shall emphatically not be held liable for any possible transfer of viruses via its Website. HLB Belgium shall not be held liable for the fraudulent use of its distribution facilities. HLB Belgium emphatically rejects all liability relating to any and all breaches upon its computer systems and the pirating of such data as may result therefrom. HLB Belgium undertakes to employ any and all resources conducive to, and helpful in, the prevention of said unauthorized intrusions into, and breaches upon, its computer systems. PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA (PRIVACY PROTECTION) HLB Belgium fully respects your privacy. HLB Belgium will only use your personal data to keep you informed of our publications and activities. If you want to see what kind of personal data about yourself have been collected in our database, please contact us via 02 735 43 25 or via HLB Belgium, Blv. du Souverain 191, 1160 Brussels, or by e-mail. HLB Belgium is dedicated to assuring the privacy of each and every one of its customers or visitors to its website. All personal data you may enter into our corporate website will be treated in the strictest confidence. These data are used for the sole purpose of guaranteeing you a more efficient service. On receiving your request for information, HLB Belgium will ask for a minimum of personal details in order to enable us to contact you:
You are free to fill in the rest of your personal details. Subsequently, HLB Belgium will enter your personal data into a file, to enable us to contact you about our ongoing activities. Pursuant to the Law of 08 12 1992 governing the protection of privacy, you are entitled to access, and to correct, your personal data. By providing us with your personal data, you are granting HLB Belgium explicit permission to process them for the above-mentioned purpose. You may at any moment request that your data be deleted from the file. Moreover, you have the opportunity to contest, free of charge, the processing of your data for marketing purposes. HYPERLINKS The Websites outside the domains and sub-domains of www.hlb.be and, in particular, the sites to which the user may be referred by way of hyper-text links on the pages of this Website, shall remain the sole responsibility of the holders of such sites. In effect, HLB Belgium cannot exercise permanent control over these web sites or admit any liability for their content. The addition of these links does not imply approval by HLB Belgium of any of the elements contained in this Website. As such, HLB Belgium rejects all liability with reference to the material and the data, whatever be their nature, contained in, or disseminated by, these web sites to which reference is being made and with respect to the processing of personal data such as is performed therein. APPLICABLE LAW AND COMPETENCE All disputes connected with, or arising as a result of (the use of) the Website shall solely and exclusively be subject to Belgian law, and the Court of First Instance and the Commercial Court of Brussels, as likewise the First District Court of Brussels, shall be exclusively competent to hear and entertain such disputes. HLB Belgium can be summoned to appear before these courts only. HLB Belgium, in turn, reserves the right to unilaterally and at any time, and at its sole discretion and without the need for prior notification thereof, deny any user access to its Website, either wholly or partially, and, more specifically, in case of a clear and unequivocal breach upon the present conditions by the user. The use of the Website in casu is not permitted in those countries where the applicability and application of the totality of the present conditions, including therein this paragraph, is not accepted. In the event that you are not in agreement with the content of these general terms and conditions, the only remaining recourse is to refrain from any further attempt at access to, or use of, the Website. |
