Privacy Policy

Personal data: general principles

Compliance with the law

COFIM is committed to protecting your personal data and makes every effort to comply with the most stringent provisions applicable in the European Union and in Belgium (law of 8 December 1992). This policy aims to protect individuals against any misuse of their personal data and is also based on the General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") 2016/679 of 27 April 2016, which came into force on 24 May 2016 in order to identify minimum requirements for the collection of personal data online.

Data controller

COFIM is the controller of personal data under European Directive EC 95/46. The Commission for the Protection of Privacy is the supervisory body in Belgium and is located at rue haute 139 - 1000 Brussels.

Prohibition on the sale of data

COFIM undertakes not to sell the personal information collected under any circumstances.

Use of personal data

We process your personal data to manage your request or to communicate commercial offers.

Prior consent - Direct marketing

We may also keep you informed of offers relating to our products by post, e-mail or telephone. In these and all other cases of direct marketing, we ensure that we obtain your prior consent as required by law.

Right to correct or delete your personal data

You may contact us at any time if you have any questions about the protection of your personal data. You may also ask us at any time to examine the personal data you have sent us and ask us to correct or delete it within a reasonable period of time, free of charge.

To do this, simply send a request to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Consent

When you submit your personal data to us, the site's technological interface is configured in such a way as to allow you to read and agree to the terms of the Privacy Policy.

Security

We make every effort to protect your personal data, but you should be aware that data transmission over the Internet is inherently insecure. We cannot therefore guarantee the security of data transmitted over the Internet.

Personal data: additional description

Information collected

# We have the right to collect, store and process the following personal data: information relating to your computer and your visits to the COFIM site, such as your IP address, your geographical location, your browser type, the duration of your visit and the number of pages opened.
# information relating to any transaction carried out between you and us through the COFIM site
# information that you communicate to us in order to register with us.
# information that you provide for the purpose of subscribing to services offered by COFIM sites such as email notifications and other newsletters; and
# any other information that you choose to communicate to us.

Cookies

We use cookies on COFIM websites. A cookie is a file sent by a server to a browser. The file is then sent back to the original server each time the browser displays a page from that server.

We may send this type of file to your browser, which stores it on your hard drive.

We use the information obtained to administer our website and to improve its navigability.

In a commercial context, we may also use this information to track your visits to our site so that we can personalise the site according to your profile (choice of languages, preferences, etc.).

It should be noted, however, that most browsers allow you to refuse cookies.

Such a refusal will have a negative impact on the navigability of many sites, including COFIM sites.

Use of your personal data

Personal data communicated to COFIM may be used within the precise framework set out in this Privacy Policy.

# We reserve the right to use your personal data: to administer the COFIM website
# to improve your browsing experience on our site, if necessary by personalising it
# to improve access to the services available on our site
# to send you goods and services ordered on our site.
# to send you commercial communications
# to send you email notifications that you have specifically requested
# to send you our newsletter and other marketing communications relating to COFIM which we think may be of interest to you by post and, where you have given your prior consent, by e-mail or similar technology
# to provide third parties with statistical information about our visitors (note that this information does not identify you individually)
# to respond to any queries or complaints you may send to us.

Other use

In addition to the uses reasonably necessary for the purposes identified in this Privacy Policy, we may also disclose information about you

# to the extent required by law # in connection with or in connection with certain legal proceedings # to defend and exercise our legal rights, including disclosing personal data to third parties for the purposes of fraud prevention and credit risk reduction # to the purchaser or potential purchaser of any business unit, activity or part of the activity of PFS web Europe that we are prepared to dispose of.

Securing your personal data

Encryption technology

Since there are always risks associated with the communication of personal data, whether this is done in person, by telephone or via the Internet, and since no technological security system is safe from hacking, COFIM undertakes to take all appropriate action to prevent and minimise the risks of unauthorised access, the risks of inappropriate use or the risks of any error relating to personal data.

Physical and logical protection of personal data

COFIM takes appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect personal data against accidental or unlawful destruction or loss, improper use, unauthorised access or disclosure, alteration or destruction. COFIM requires its own service providers and other third parties who contribute to providing COFIM's services to undertake to protect the personal data concerned in the same way.

Minors

Minors who transmit personal data to COFIM are deemed to have done so with the consent of a parent or legal representative in the same way as minors who make a purchase or perform any legal act whatsoever on COFIM's sites are deemed to have done so with that same consent, unless specifically prohibited by the applicable law.

External hyperlinks

To simplify navigation for visitors, COFIM may include hyperlinks to third-party sites.

If you make use of these hyperlinks, you must examine the Privacy Policy before giving your consent.

You acknowledge, however, that COFIM has no control over the content of these sites and therefore cannot assume any responsibility for their content or for the processing of personal data on these sites.

Modification of the Privacy Policy

COFIM reserves the right to modify this document at any time.

Likewise, COFIM reserves the right to modify the content of its web pages or to prohibit access to them at any time and without prior notice.

COFIM will notify you of any such changes by immediately posting the amended version of this Privacy Policy on its website.

You are responsible for regularly checking for any changes to the Privacy Policy.

Regular use of the COFIM site will in any case indicate your consent to any changes.