& DE BANDT values and respects your privacy and the protection of your personal data. This Privacy and Cookie Policy explains how we process your data and informs you of your rights in respect of our processing of your personal information.
Data controller
DE BANDT Advocaten Avocats Attorneys Rechtsanwalte cv, located at Avenue de l’Yser 19, 1040 Brussels, Belgium, with company number 0893.065.340 (“& DE BANDT” or “we”), is responsible for the processing of your personal data.
Personal data we collect about you
When you contact us via our website, for example through a contact form on one of our web pages, or if you contact us directly by e-mail, telephone, fax or postal letter, you may choose to provide us with certain personal data such as your name, job title, name of the company you work for, address, phone number, e-mail address, etc., or with any other information that you choose to submit to us voluntarily.
When you visit our website, we may also process certain technical data associated with the device you use to access our website, such as your IP address, operating system and the web browser that you use (please see below for more details on cookies).
When you apply to work at & DE BANDT, we may process your name and job title, your contact information, curriculum vitae or any other information relevant to your potential recruitment or selection.
As part of the provision of our services as a law firm, certain personal data may be provided to us by our clients or prospective clients. This may include, among other things, personal information relating to our clients’ or prospective clients’ officers or personnel, opponents and/or their advisors or personnel.
If you are an individual (prospective) client of our services, we may also process certain data such as your name and job title, your contact information, your payment information or any other relevant information necessary for the provision of our services.
Why do we process your personal data?
We may process your personal data for the following purposes:
- To verify your identity;
- To guarantee the fulfilment of our services;
- To improve, develop and market new services;
- To respond to your questions, requests or complaints;
- To investigate or resolve enquiries or disputes;
- To process your job application and contact you in this regard;
- To process your registration for an event, keep you posted about any changes or updates, and invite you to upcoming events;
- To send you our newsletters and event invitations;
- To ensure, secure and/or improve the technical and functional management of our website;
- For business administration, to comply with our legal obligations and to enforce our legal rights.
What is our legal basis?
For these activities, the processing of your personal data is based, as the case may be, on your consent (e.g. when you ask us a question or register for our newsletter), on a (pre-)contractual necessity (e.g. in the context of a job application or the provision of our services), on a legal basis (e.g. when we send newsletters or invitations to our clients). Our legitimate interests include but are not limited to ensuring a proper communication with you, promoting our client services, managing our business responsibly and professionally, providing a properly functioning and secure website, improving your experience on our website, and enforcing our rights and complying with our legal obligations.
Third parties
Within the context of the purposes listed above, trusted third party service providers with whom we work may have access to your personal data for the provision of their services, such as our IT support services or software providers. We may also share personal data with our external advisers (e.g. accountant, etc.), or provide certain personal data to third parties in the course of the services we provide to our clients (e.g. opposing party and their counsel, mediators, clerks, court, experts, etc.). This means that it is possible that your personal data are processed outside the European Economic Area. In such case, we take adequate safeguards to protect your personal data when transferred (e.g. by putting in place standard contractual clauses as drafted by the European Commission). We also reserve the right to transfer your personal data at the request of public authorities, government or regulatory authorities, when required by law or regulation or by court order.
For how long do we retain your personal data?
We do not retain your personal data for longer than necessary to achieve the purpose(s) for which they were initially collected, as long as it is required by law, or, when we asked for your consent, up until such time as you withdraw your consent.
Security measures
We use up-to-date technical and organisational measures, such as secure servers, firewalls, access and authentication controls, to ensure the security and confidentiality of your personal data and protect it from accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorised access or disclosure or any other unauthorised processing. When transferring your personal data to third parties, we also conduct an appropriate level of due diligence and put in place contractual documentation in relation to any sub-contractor to ensure that they process personal data in accordance with the GDPR.
Your rights
You have the right to request access to the personal data that we process about you and to correct these data if the personal data we hold about you is inaccurate or incomplete. In certain circumstances, you also have the right to request a restriction of the processing of your personal data (e.g. where you contest the accuracy of that data), to have your personal data deleted (e.g. if you withdraw your consent, where applicable) or to request the portability of your personal data (the right to obtain personal information you provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and to reuse it elsewhere or to ask us to transfer this to a third party of your choice).
You also have the right to object to the processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes and, if substantiated, for the processing of your data based upon & DE BANDT’s legitimate interests.
If the processing of your personal data is based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. This does not affect the lawfulness of the processing based on your consent before your withdrawal.
Please note that some of these rights may be limited where we have an overriding interest or legal obligation to continue to process the data or where data may be exempt from disclosure due to reasons of legal professional privilege or professional secrecy obligations.
If you wish to exercise these rights, please contact us via info@debandt.eu. In order to comply with your request, we may require further information to verify your identity.
You also have the right to file a complaint with the Belgian Data Protection Authority (contact@apd-gba.be).
Cookies
We use cookies when you visit our website to distinguish you from other users of the website. A cookie is a small text and number file that is stored in your browser or on your computer's hard drive.
On your first visit to the website, you can set your cookie preferences via the cookie pop-up. You can disable the use of cookies at any time via your browser settings. These settings can usually be found in the 'Options' or 'Preferences' menu of your web browser. In order to better understand these settings, the following links may be helpful. If not, you should consult the 'Help' function in your web browser for more details:
- Cookie settings in Internet Explorer
- Cookie settings in Firefox
- Cookie settings in Chrome
- Cookie settings in Safari
Please note, however, that certain parts or functionalities of the website may be inaccessible or unavailable if you disable the use of cookies.
Below you will find more information about the different applications of cookies on our website.
- Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies are necessary in order for our website to function properly and provide access to our services. They help us to ensure the security of the websites, to remember your preferences (e.g. cookies preferences) and to facilitate your use of the website. If you do not add these cookies, some of these services may not function properly.
| Name | Expiration | Purpose | Host |
| cookiesjsr | 1 year | Remembers the user’s choice about cookies | www.debandt.eu |
- Performance cookies
These cookies are used to analyse the behaviour of website visitors on the basis of statistical data. This helps us to improve the functioning of our website, to understand the interests of our visitors and to measure how effective the content of our website is. & DE BANDT uses Google Analytics (for more information, see: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/partners/).
| Name | Expiration | Purpose | Host |
| _ga_N6LD62RY2C | 400 days | Google Analytics cookie to measure and determine how visitors use the website. | debandt.eu |
| _ga | 400 days | Google Analytics cookie to identify a visitor by a randomly generated ID. It is included in each page request in a site and is used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. | debandt.eu |
Other websites
Our website may contain links to third-party websites of interest. Please note that we are not responsible or liable for any processing of your personal data via these websites.
Changes to our Privacy and Cookie Policy
This Privacy and Cookie Policy was last updated on 30th May 2025 and may be modified from time to time. You can always view the latest version of our Policy on our website.
How to contact us
If you have any questions, comments or complaints about our Privacy and Cookie Policy, please contact us via info@debandt.eu.