1 General

This notice explains how, as a data controller, Isabel NV/SA (“we”, “us”, “our”, “Isabel”) with offices at Keizerinlaan 13-15, 1000 Brussels, Belgium (phone: +32 2 545 17 11) processes personal data we collect from you through the TruliUs website and platform.

Isabel is part of Isabel Group which is composed of

  • Isabel NV/SA, with offices at Keizerinlaan 13-15, 1000 Brussels, Belgium (phone: +32 2 545 17 11);
  • CodaBox NV/SA, with offices at Diestsepoort 1, 3000 Leuven, Belgium (phone: +32 2 880 84 80);
  • Clearfacts BV/SRL, with offices at Posthoflei 1 / Box 1A, 2600 Antwerpen, Belgium (phone: +32 3 369 55 66); and
  • Clearnox SAS, with offices at 8 Rue Honoré de Balzac, 37000 Tours, France (phone: +33 2 47 60 65 96).

TruliUs is a platform that allows you to act digitally in name of your company by making a bridge between you and partner service providers (or “relying parties”); allowing you to:

  • Identify & authenticate you and other persons in your company;
  • Share and validate company data;
  • Act, sign and pay in the name of your company.

 

2 Updates to this Privacy Notice

We reserve the right to modify this notice at any time, but will in any case do so in accordance with applicable laws and regulations. We will inform you, when possible, of any substantial changes to this notice.

This notice was last modified and revised on the 23/03/2022.

 

3 Information We Collect

3.1 Customer Relationship

When you or your company becomes a customer of Isabel Group or one of its member companies, we collect the following types of personal data about you:

  1. Identification data: your name, email address, language preference and phone number, we will also assign you or your company a customer number;
  2. The products you or your company uses and invoicing information.

 

3.2 Services registration

When you request information about our services, we collect the following types of personal data about you:

  1. Identification data: your name and title, address, phone number, email address and information about your company, its number of banks used and potential users of the services;
  2. We also collect all emails we exchange with you.

When you register to the TruliUs platform, we collect the following types of personal data about you:

  1. Identification data: your name, address, national register number, email address and password;
  2. Information about the company you work for: its name and address, whether you are a legal representative or permanent representative of the company and the end of your mandate, your function within the company, and signing powers for the company;
  3. Information linked to your usage of the services and its security including technical information of devices used to access the website and platform, device identifiers, IP address, operating system and browser information, connections and activities performed.

 

3.3 Customer Support

When we initiate a screen sharing session with you, to support you in the use of our products, we collect the following types of personal data about you:

  1. Identification data: your name and email address;
  2. Any information shared during the screen sharing session (audio and video).

When you contact us through our website or by phone, we collect the following types of personal data about you:

  1. Identification data: your name and title, email address and phone number (optional);
  2. Information relating to your company: your company name and your function within that company;
  3. Data relating to security: your IP address, security logs, connection and activity logs, and the user agent of your web browser;
  4. Any additional information you would include in the messages you are sending us; and/or
  5. Any information shared during the call.

We may also collect, when you provide it, information relating to your personal assistant.

 

3.4 Marketing

When you register for and/or attend an event we organise, we collect the following types of personal data about you:

  1. Identification data: your name and title, email address and phone number;
  2. Information relating to your company: your company name;
  3. Any other information relating to the event.

We also collect personal data about you from other events organisers to which you have provided consent to share those personal data with us.

 When you register for and/or attend a webinar we organise, we collect the following types of personal data about you:

  1. Identification data: your name, email address, phone number and IP address;
  2. Data relating to your company: its name and VAT number;
  3. Data relating to security: security logs, connection and activity logs, and the user agent of your web browser;
  4. The questions you may send during the webinar.

When you participate in one of our surveys, we collect the following types of personal data about you:

  1. Identification data: your name and email address;
  2. The responses you provided to the survey.

When you register to our newsletter, we collect the following types of personal data about you:

  1. Identification data: your name, professional email and language preference;
  2. Work information: your company name and address;

Your device and usage information are also collected when you read the newsletters.

 

3.5 Website browsing

While you browse our website, we collect the following types of personal data about you:

  1. Identification data: your IP address;
  2. Data relating to security: security logs, connection and activity logs, and the user agent of your web browser;
  3. When you allow us, we also collect data relating to your use of the website such as the pages you consulted or if you already visited our website in the past.

 

4 Processing purposes

Your personal data is processed for the following purposes:

a. Where it is necessary for the performance of a contract between you and us or in order to take steps, at your request, to enter into a contract:

    1. To allow you and/or your company users to register and use our services.
    2. To send you important communications relating to your use of the services.
    3. To provide you with the information you have requested and answer your questions when you contact us.
    4. To provide you with support when you face issues in your use our services.
    5. To manage the relationship between you, our customer, and us and other members of the Isabel Group.
    6. To invoice your company or relying parties for the use of our services.
    7. To ensure the security of our services, including your data.
    8. To allow you to register to and attend our webinars or our events.

b. Where you have given your consent:

    1. To contact you, as per your request, and provide you with more information about our services.
    2. To contact you, as per your request, and book an appointment with you.
    3. To allow us to send you promotional offers and information on our and other members of the Isabel Group products, in line with your choices.
    4. To send you surveys, allowing us to receive feedback allowing us to improve our products.
    5. To collect your feedback on our products and services.
    6. To initiate screen sharing session when you request it to obtain support.
    7. To place cookies on your browser and perform advanced statistics based on the information Those cookies provide us.

c. Where necessary for our legitimate interests, as listed below, and where not overridden by your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms:

    1. To ensure the security of our and other Isabel Group applications, services, processes, websites and databases.
    2. To perform company verifications (KYC: Know Your Customer) on the legal entity of new clients and to register this information into our group customer relationship management system.
    3. To allow for business correspondence and business meetings to take place.
    4. To allow review of past calls for training of agents and for quality control.
    5. To retain traces of actions taken during screen sharing sessions.
    6. To support you in completing your registration with our services when your registration was not fully completed.
    7. To send existing customers information on the evolution of Isabel Group and its member companies’ products; you may request these communications to stop at any time via an unsubscribe link present at the bottom of every communication.
    8. To improve our services and develop new group-wide commercial offers by identifying e.g. trends, recurrent issues, customer behaviours, through your use of our services.
    9. To advertise our services towards existing customers.
    10. To get non-nominative information on the visitors that consult Isabel Group websites.
    11. To create a database of trusted combinations of IBAN numbers and account owners that will be used for fraud prevention purposes.

For these purposes, we have conducted a balancing test, as the law requires, and have determined that, taking into account the limited personal data collected, the processing performed and your reasonable expectations, our legitimate interest in conducting these processing activities is not overridden by your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms.

d. Where it is necessary for us to comply with our legal obligations, such as reporting crime or crime intent, or tax reporting.

 

5 Disclosure and Transfer of personal data

As part of your use of the TruliUs platform, you and your company will be allowed to share your personal information with selected partner service providers that you and your company specifically approve; this transfer of personal data is not done at the initiative of Isabel, but only on instruction of your company who will act as a controller for the processing of your personal data.

In order to deliver our services to you and for the above purposes, we need to share your personal data with:

  1. Isabel and Isabel Group personnel with access on a “need to know” basis and to contractors who have signed a confidentiality agreement with us.
  2. Third party processors, located in the European Economic Area, who support us in the processing of your personal data only on our instructions and who are subject to appropriate confidentiality obligations:
    1. Plausible, who provides us a cookie-less website statistics solution.

 

6 Data Security and Retention

Your personal data is and will be kept strictly confidential.

We take all reasonable steps to protect your personal data. This includes setting up processes and procedures to minimise the unauthorised access to, or disclosure of your personal data.

We will store your personal data for as long as it is necessary to achieve the purposes defined in section 4 (Processing Purposes), with maximum retention periods as defined below:

  1. Data collected to create a personal account on our platform will be kept for as long as your account is not deleted (upon your or your company’s request);
  2. Basic customer data and billing information will be kept for 10 years after the end of our contractual relationship.
  3. Data used to perform company verifications on legal entity of new clients will be kept for 10 years after the end of our contractual relationship, as required by Belgian law;
  4. Activity logs will be kept for 10 years after the end of our contractual relationship, as required by Belgian law;
  5. Data collected when you purchase services from us will be kept for 10 years after the end of our contractual relationship, as required by Belgian law.
  6. Data collected when you contact us for questions or support will be kept for 10 years.
  7. Data collected when you request information about our services will be kept for 3 years or until you request us to delete your data.
  8. Calls and screen sharing recording will be kept for 1 month.
  9. Data collected for statistics purposes will be kept for 14 months.
  10. Data collected to allow you to register and attend our webinars will be kept for 12 months.
  11. Data collected to allow you to register and attend our events will be kept for 1 month after the events take place.
  12. Data collected through surveys will be kept for 12 months.
  13. Technical and security logs will be kept for a maximum of 6 months.
  14. Data backups, created for security reasons, are kept for 4 weeks;
  15. Data collected for marketing purposes will be kept for as long as we have your consent.
  16. Information related to reliable IBAN numbers will be retained until we are notified that the account linked to that IBAN has been closed.

 

7 Automated decision-making and profiling

No automated decisions will be taken about you as part of the processing described in this notice.

A profile of your behaviour when you use our website will be created by Isabel Group if you accept our advertising and tracking cookies to be placed on your computer.

 

8 Your rights

You have the right to ask us for a copy of your personal data, to ask us to correct, delete or restrict (stop any active) processing of your personal data and to obtain the personal data you provided us in a structured, machine-readable format. In addition, you can object to the processing of your personal data in some circumstances (in particular when we do not have to process your personal data to meet a contractual or other legal requirement).

Where we have asked for your consent, you may withdraw this consent at any time; however, this will not affect processing that has already taken place before the withdrawal. You may withdraw your consent, linked to our use of cookies, by deleting the cookies linked to our domain.

You may exercise the above-mentioned rights by contacting us as described in the “Contact us” section below.

These rights may be limited, for example if fulfilling your request would reveal personal data about another person, or if you ask us to delete information that we are required to keep by law or that we have a compelling legitimate interest to keep.

If you have unresolved concerns, you have the right to complain to the Data Protection Authority: https://www.dataprotectionauthority.be/.

 

9 Contact us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Notice or wish to contact us for any reasons in relation to the processing of your personal data, please contact our Data Protection Officer at Isabel NV/SA, by sending an email to privacy@isabelgroup.eu, or by sending a dated and signed request to Isabel NV/SA, Keizerinlaan, 13-15, 1000 Brussels, Belgium.

 

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