Privacy and Cookie Policy


Duvel Moortgat N.V. ("Duvel Moortgat") is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
This policy (together with the general website Terms and Conditions, Interactive Terms and Conditions and Content Submission Terms and Conditions and any other documents referred to within them) sets out the basis on which any personal data Duvel Moortgat collect from you, or that you provide, when you access and use the website at www.vedettgazett.com, will be processed by Duvel Moortgat.  Please read the following carefully to understand Duvel Moortgat's views and practices regarding your personal data and how Duvel Moortgat will treat it.
For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the Act), the data controller is Duvel Moortgat N.V. of Breendonkdorp 58, 2870 Puurs, Belgium.


1 INFORMATION DUVEL MOORTGAT MAY COLLECT FROM YOU


1.1 Duvel Moortgat may collect and process the following data about you:

1.1.1 Information that you provide by filling in forms on the Website. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use the Website and when you post or upload information, material and content. Duvel Moortgat may also ask you for information when you enter a competition or promotion sponsored by Duvel Moortgat and when you report a problem with the Website.

1.1.2 If you contact Duvel Moortgat, Duvel Moortgat may keep a record of that correspondence.

1.1.3 Duvel Moortgat may also ask you to complete surveys that Duvel Moortgat use for research purposes, although you do not have to respond to them.

1.1.4 Details of your visits to the Website including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data and the resources that you access.

2 IP ADDRESSES

Duvel Moortgat may collect information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration.

3 COOKIES

3.1 Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit.  They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the website.

3.2 Duvel Moortgat only uses cookies that are essential for the Website to operate and have already been set on your computer (see table below).

Cookie Name Purpose
Interface_language This cookie is essential for the language of the website.
PHPSESSID This cookie is essential for saving the data of the form ‘submit your story’ between the different steps of the forms.
Comment_author This cookie is essential for saving the name when a visitor adds a comment to a story.
Comment_email This cookie is essential for saving the email-address when a visitor adds a comment to a story.

3.3 You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies - including essential cookies - you may not be able to access all or parts of the Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, the Duvel Moortgat system will issue cookies as soon you visit the Website.

4 WHERE DUVEL MOORTGAT STORE YOUR PERSONAL DATA

4.1 The data that Duvel Moortgat collects from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area ("EEA"). It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for Duvel Moortgat or for one of its suppliers.  By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. Duvel Moortgat will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.

4.2 All information you provide to Duvel Moortgat is stored on secure servers.

4.3 Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although Duvel Moortgat will do its best to protect your personal data, Duvel Moortgat cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to the Website; any transmission is at your own risk. Once Duvel Moortgat has received your information, Duvel Moortgat will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.

5 USES MADE OF THE INFORMATION

5.1 Duvel Moortgat use information held about you in the following ways:

5.1.1 In the exercise of any rights granted to Duvel Moortgat pursuant to your registration to use the Website under the Interactive Terms and Conditions or the Content Submission Terms and Conditions including, where you have licensed your intellectual property rights in the material or content that you post or upload on to the Website.

5.1.2 To ensure that content from the Website is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.

5.1.3 To provide you with information, products or services that you request from Duvel Moortgat or which Duvel Moortgat feel may interest you, where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes, including (without limitation) information about beer and beer merchandising products.

5.1.4 To carry out its obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and Duvel Moortgat.

5.1.5 To allow you to participate in interactive features of the service, when you choose to do so.

5.1.6 To notify you about changes to the service.

5.2 Duvel Moortgat may also use your data to provide you with information about goods and services which may be of interest to you and Duvel Moortgat or they may contact you about these by post or telephone.

5.3 If you do not want Duvel Moortgat to use your data in this way, please tick the relevant box situated on the registration form on which Duvel Moortgat collect your data.

6 DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION

6.1 Duvel Moortgat may disclose your personal information to any member of its group, which means its subsidiaries, its ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries.

6.2 Duvel Moortgat may disclose your personal information to third parties:

6.2.1 In the event that Duvel Moortgat sell or buy any business or assets, in which case Duvel Moortgat may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets.

6.2.2 If Duvel Moortgat or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its customers will be one of the transferred assets.

6.2.3 If Duvel Moortgat are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply the general website Terms and Conditions, Interactive Terms and Conditions and Content Submission Terms and Conditions and other agreements or licences; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Duvel Moortgat, its customers, or others.

7 YOUR RIGHTS

7.1 You have the right to ask Duvel Moortgat not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. Duvel Moortgat will usually inform you (before collecting your data) if Duvel Moortgat intend to use your data for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by checking the relevant box on the registration form that Duvel Moortgat uses to collect your data.  You can also exercise the right at any time by contacting Duvel Moortgat at info@vedettgazett.com.

7.2 The Website may contain links to and from the websites of Duvel Moortgat's partner networks and affiliates.  If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that Duvel Moortgat do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies.  Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.

8 ACCESS TO INFORMATION

The Act gives you the right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the Act.

9 CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

Any changes Duvel Moortgat may make to its privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page. 

10 CONTACT

Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to Breendonkdorp 58, 2870 Puurs, Belgium or, info@vedettgazett.com

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