Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes Our policies and procedures on the collection, use, and disclosure of your information when you use the Qijco platform and informs you about your privacy rights.

Please be aware that we use your personal data to provide and improve the service. By using the Qijco platform, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Please read this privacy policy carefully and accept it before using the Qijco platform.

1- DEFINITIONS

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:

Account refers to a unique account created to allow you to access the Qijco platform.
Affiliate refers to an entity or person who controls its affiliation with the Qijco platform.
The company refers to Qijco as the legal entity that collects personal information from consumers and determines the purposes and means of processing the personal information of consumers, or on whose behalf this information is collected and who, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of processing the personal information of consumers.
The company (hereinafter referred to as "Qijco", "We", "Our", or "Us" in this Agreement) refers to Qijco, the sole proprietorship located at 1050 Ixelles, chaussée de Boondael 369, registered at the Carrefour Bank of Enterprises under number 1007.076.863, represented by Mrs. Marine EMMERY, for the purposes of the present GDPR.
Consumer - User, refers to You.
Cookies are small files that are placed on your computer, mobile device, or any other device by a website, containing the details of your browsing history on that website among its many uses.
Country refers to Belgium, where Qijco is headquartered at 1050 Ixelles, chaussée de Boondael 369
Data Controller, for the purposes of the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), refers to the company or operator as a legal entity which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of processing personal data.
Device refers to any device that can access the service of the Qijco platform, such as a computer, mobile phone, or digital tablet.

Personal Data refers to all information relating to an identified person. For the purposes of the GDPR, Personal Data means any information about you such as your name, identification number, location data, an online identifier, or one or more elements specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural, or social identity.

Sale refers to the sale, leasing, distribution, disclosure, provision, transfer, or other verbal, written, electronic, or different form of communication of personal information of a consumer-user to another company or a third party in exchange for monetary or other valuable consideration.

The Service refers to the website www.qijco.be.

Provider refers to any natural or legal person who processes data on behalf of the Company or the Operator. These are third-party companies or individuals employed by the Company or the Operator to facilitate the Service, to provide the Service on behalf of the Company or the Operator, to provide related services, or to assist Qijco in analyzing how the Service is used. For the purposes of the GDPR, service providers are considered subcontractors.

Third Party Social Media Service refers to any website or any social networking site through which a user can log in or create an account to use the service.

Usage Data refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).

Website refers to Qijco.be, accessible from www.qijco.be

You refers to the person who accesses or uses the Service of the Qijco platform, or the company or other legal entity on behalf of which such person accesses or uses the Service, as applicable. Under the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), you may be designated as the data subject or as the user since you are the person using the service.

2- CONTACT US

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, you can contact us:

By email: contact@qijco.be – support@qijco.be
By visiting this page on our website: www.qijco.be (Support chat, Contact Us)

3- COLLECTION AND USE OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA

3.1 - Types of Data Collected

3.1.1 - Personal Data

When you use Qijco, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

Email
First name and last name
Phone number
Address, Postal code, City, Country
Bank account information
Credit card number and expiration date
Usage Data

3.1.2 - Usage Data

Usage Data is collected automatically when using the service.

Usage Data may include information such as your device's Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type, browser version, the pages of the Qijco platform you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers, and other diagnostic data.

When you access the service via a mobile device, we may automatically collect certain information, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device you use, your mobile device's unique ID, your mobile device's IP address, your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser you use, unique device identifiers, and other diagnostic data.

We may also collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our service or when you access the service through or via a mobile device.

3.1.3 Information from Third Party Social Media Services

Qijco allows you to create an account and log in to use the Qijco platform through the following Third Party Social Media Services. These services may include, but are not limited to:

On Google
On Facebook

If you decide to register through a Third Party Social Media Service or give us access to it, we may collect personal data that are already associated with your Third Party Social Media Service's account, such as your name, your email address, your activities, or your list of contacts associated with that account.

If you choose to provide these information and personal data, during registration or otherwise, you give Qijco permission to use, share, and store them in accordance with this privacy policy.

3.1.4 Tracking Technologies and Cookies

When you visit or use our Qijco platform, we may use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better, faster, and more secure experience, as well as for advertising and marketing purposes.

These may include:

Browser Cookies: A cookie is a small file placed on your device. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some parts of our service. Unless you have adjusted your browser settings so that it will refuse cookies, our service may use cookies.

Cookies can be "persistent" or "session" cookies. Persistent cookies remain on your personal computer or mobile device when you go offline, while session cookies are deleted as soon as you close your web browser.

We use both session cookies and persistent cookies for the purposes set out below:

Necessary Cookies: These cookies are essential to provide you with the services available on our website www.qijco.be and to enable you to use some of its features. They help to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts. Without these cookies, the services you have requested cannot be provided, and we use these cookies only to provide those services.

Acceptance Cookies: These cookies identify whether users have accepted the use of cookies on the website www.qijco.be.

Functionality Cookies: These cookies allow us to remember the choices you make when you use the website www.qijco.be, such as remembering your login details or language preferences. The purpose of these cookies is to provide you with a more personal experience and to prevent you from having to re-enter your preferences every time you use the website www.qijco.be.

Tracking and Performance Cookies : These cookies are used to track information about traffic to the website www.qijco.be and how users use the site. The information collected through these cookies may directly or indirectly identify you as an individual visitor. We may also use these cookies to test new pages, features, or new functionality of the website www.qijco.be to see how our users react to them.

Request Correction of Personal Data We Hold About You : You have the right to have any incomplete or inaccurate information we hold about you corrected.
Object to Processing of Your Personal Data : This right exists where we are relying on a legitimate interest as the legal basis for our processing and there is something in your particular situation which makes you want to object to our processing of your personal data on this ground. You also have the right to object to us processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes.
Request Erasure of Your Personal Data : You have the right to ask us to delete or remove personal data when there is no good reason for us to continue processing it.
Request Transfer of Your Personal Data : We will provide to you, or to a third party you have chosen, your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Please note that this right only applies to automated information which you initially consented to us using or where we used the information to perform a contract with you.
Withdraw Your Consent: You have the right to withdraw your consent to the use of your personal data. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide you with access to certain specific features of the service.

3.2 Use of your personal data

Qijco may use Personal Data for the following purposes:

To provide and maintain our Qijco platform, including to monitor the use of our Service.
To manage your account: to manage your registration as a user of the service. The personal data you provide may give you access to various features of the service that are available to you as a registered user.
To execute a contract: to draw up, respect and execute a purchase or rental contract through the Qijco platform.
To contact you: to contact you by e-mail, phone calls, SMS or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as push notifications from a mobile application regarding updates or informational communications related to contracted features, products or services, including security updates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation.
To provide you with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events we offer that are similar to those you have already purchased or enquired about, unless you have opted not to receive such information.
To manage your requests: To respond to and manage your requests to us.
To provide you with targeted advertising: We may use your information to develop and display content and advertising (and work with third party providers who do so) tailored to your interests and/or location and to measure their effectiveness.
For business transfers: We may use your information to evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of a bankruptcy, liquidation or similar proceeding, in which personal data we hold about users of our services is one of the transferred assets.
Other purposes: We may use your information for other purposes, such as analyzing data, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and evaluating and improving our service, products, services, marketing and your experience.

We may share your personal information in the following situations:

With service providers: We may share your personal information with service providers in order to monitor and analyze the use of our service, to advertise to you on third-party websites following your visit to our service, to process payments, to contact you.
For business transfers: We may share or transfer your personal information as part of, or during the negotiations of, any merger, sale of company or operator assets, financing or acquisition of all or part of our business to another company.
With affiliates: We may share your information with our affiliates, in which case we will require such affiliates to comply with this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include our parent company and any other subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other companies that we control or that are under common control with us.

With business partners: We may share your information with our business partners to offer you certain products, services or promotions.
With other users: When you share personal information or interact in public areas with other users, this information may be viewed by all users and may be distributed publicly to others. If you interact with other users or register via a third-party social media service, your contacts on the third-party social media service may see your name, profile, photos and activity description. Similarly, other users will be able to view descriptions of your business, communicate with you and view your profile.
With your consent: We may disclose your personal information for any other purpose with your consent.

4- PROTECTION OF PERSONAL DATA

Qijco informs that the user who has communicated personal data will be used exclusively for technical, administrative and commercial purposes within the framework of the services offered by Qijco.

Qijco informs that this data may be transmitted to certain public bodies for which Qijco may be obliged to respond to any judicial, administrative or other request. This data will only be kept for a period not exceeding that necessary for the purposes.

In accordance with the RGPD, the user has a right of access, rectification, opposition on legitimate grounds to personal information concerning him, which he may exercise by simple request to the following e-mail address: contact@qijco.be.

Qijco will endeavor to secure your personal data using technical and organizational security measures to minimize the risks of loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure and modification.

Our safeguards will include, for example, firewalls and data encryption, physical access control at our data centers, and managing permissions for access to information.

If you believe your account has been abused, please contact Qijco at the following email address: contact@qijco.be.

4.1 - Retention of Your Personal Data

The Qijco platform will retain your personal data only as long as necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your personal data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

Qijco will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period, except when this data is used to enhance security or to improve the functionality of our service, or when we are legally required to retain this data for longer periods.

When your personal data is no longer required by law or by rights or obligations on our part or yours, we will delete the personal data. In most cases, personal data will be deleted upon termination or expiration of the agreement between you and Qijco or upon your written request.

4.2 - Transfer of Your Personal Data

Your information, including personal data, is processed at Qijco's offices.

Your consent to this privacy policy, followed by your submission of such information, represents your agreement to this transfer.

Qijco will take all reasonably necessary measures to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and that no transfer of your personal data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place, including the security of your data and other personal information.

4.3 - Deletion of Your Personal Data

You have the right to delete or to request that we help delete the personal data that we have collected about you.

Qijco may give you the ability to delete certain information about yourself from the platform via contact@qijco.be or support@qijco.be.

You can update, modify, or delete your information at any time by logging into your account, if you have one, and clicking on your profile to manage your personal information. You can also contact us to request access, correction, or deletion of any personal information that you have provided to us.

Please note, however, that we may need to retain certain information when we have a legal obligation or a legal basis to do so.

4.4 - Disclosure of Your Personal Data

4.4.1 - Business Transactions

If Qijco is involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, your personal data may be transferred. We will inform you before your personal data is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

4.4.2 – Legal Requirements

In certain circumstances, Qijco may be required to disclose your personal data if the law requires it or in response to valid requests from public authorities.

Qijco may disclose your personal data in good faith believing that such action is necessary to:

Comply with a legal obligation
Protect and defend the rights or property of the Qijco platform
Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with Qijco
Protect the personal safety of users of the Service or the public

4.5 - Security of Your Personal Data

The security of your personal data is important to us, but please remember that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. Although we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

5 - Detailed information on the processing of your personal data

The service providers we use may have access to your personal data. These third-party providers collect, store, use, process and transfer information about your activity on our service in accordance with their privacy policies.

5.1 - Analysis

We may use third-party service providers to monitor and analyze the use of our service. They may include, but are not limited to:

Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of Qijco. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the data collected to contextualize and personalize ads on its own advertising network.

You can refuse to have your activity on Qijco made available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visitor activity. You can disable certain Google Analytics features via your mobile device settings, such as your device's advertising settings, or by following the instructions provided by Google in its privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

For more information on Google's privacy practices, please visit Google's Privacy & Terms of Use webpage: https://policies.google.com/privacy.

5.2 - Email Marketing

We may use your personal data to contact you with marketing newsletters, promotional communications, and other information that may be of interest to you. You can opt out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from us by following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in any email we send or by contacting us.

5.3 - Payments

We may provide paid products and/or services within Qijco. In that case, we may use third-party services for payment processing (e.g., STRIPE acting as our payment processor).

We do not store or collect your payment card details. That information is provided directly to our third-party payment processors whose use of your personal information is governed by their privacy policy. These payment processors adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, Mastercard, American Express, and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of payment information.

The policy for Stripe can be viewed at https://stripe.com/us/privacy

5.4 - Behavioral Remarketing

Qijco may use remarketing services to advertise to you after you have accessed or visited our platform.

We, and our third-party vendors, use cookies and other tracking technologies to help recognize your device and understand how you use our service so we can improve our service to better reflect your interests and show you ads that are more likely to be of interest to you.

These third-party providers collect, store, use, process, and transfer information about your activity on our service according to their privacy policies and to enable us to:

Measure and analyze traffic and browsing activity on Our Service within the Qijco platform
Display advertisements for our products and/or services on websites
Measure and analyze the performance of our advertising campaigns

Some of these third-party providers may use technologies that are not affected by browser settings that block cookies. Your browser may not allow you to block such technologies. You can use the following third-party tools to refuse the collection and use of information for the purpose of serving you interest-based advertising.

You can opt out of all personalized advertising by activating privacy features on your mobile device, such as limited ad tracking (iOS) and disabling ad personalization (Android). For more information, consult the help system of your mobile device.

We may share information, such as email addresses or other online identifiers collected on our service, with these third-party providers. This allows our third-party providers to recognize and deliver ads to you across devices and browsers. To learn more about the technologies used by these third-party providers and their cross-device capabilities, please refer to the privacy policy of each listed provider below.

The third-party providers we may use include, but are not limited to:

Google Ads (AdWords)
Google Ads (AdWords) remarketing service is provided by Google Inc. You can opt-out of Google Analytics for display advertising and customize the Google Display Network ads by visiting the Google Ads Settings page: http://www.google.com/settings/ads. Google also recommends installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on - https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout - for your web browser. The Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on provides visitors with the ability to prevent their data from being collected and used by Google Analytics.

For more information on Google's privacy practices, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy.

Facebook / Meta To learn more about Facebook's interest-based advertising, visit this page: https://www.facebook.com/help/516147308587266. To opt out of Facebook's interest-based ads follow these instructions from Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/help/568137493302217. Facebook adheres to the self-regulatory principles for online behavioral advertising established by the Digital Advertising Alliance.

5.5 - Use, Performance and Miscellaneous

We may use third-party service providers to enhance our service. These may include, but are not limited to, Facebook Messenger - Their privacy policy can be viewed at https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy.

6- GDPR PRIVACY

6.1 - Legal Definitions Regarding the Processing of Personal Data under the GDPR

We may process Personal Data under the following conditions:

Consent: You have given your consent for the processing of personal data for one or more specific purposes.
Performance of a Contract: The provision of personal data is necessary for the performance of an agreement with you and/or for any pre-contractual obligations thereof.
Legal Obligations: The processing of personal data is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the Company or the Operator is subject.
Vital Interests: The processing of personal data is necessary in order to protect your vital interests or those of another natural person.
Public Interest: The processing of personal data is related to a task that is carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the Company or the Operator.
Legitimate Interests: The processing of personal data is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the Company or the Operator.

In any case, Qijco is pleased to help clarify the specific legal basis that applies to the processing, and in particular whether the provision of Personal Data is a legal or contractual requirement, or a requirement necessary to enter into a contract.

6.2 - Your Rights under the GDPR

Qijco undertakes to respect the confidentiality of Your Personal Data and to guarantee You the possibility of exercising Your rights.

You have the right, under this Privacy Policy, and under the law if you reside in Belgium being part of the EU, to:

Request access to your personal data: The right to access, update or delete the information we hold about you. Where possible, you can access, update or request the deletion of your personal data directly in the settings section of your account. If you are unable to perform these actions yourself, please contact us for assistance. This also allows you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
Request correction of the personal data we hold about you. You have the right to have any incomplete or inaccurate information we hold about you corrected.
Object to the processing of your personal data. This right exists when we rely on a legitimate interest as the legal basis for our processing and there is something about your particular situation that causes you to object to our processing of your personal data on this ground. You also have the right to object to the processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes.
Request the deletion of your personal data. You have the right to ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no valid reason for us to continue processing it.
Request the transfer of your personal data. We will provide you or a third party of your choice with your personal data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. Please note that this right only applies to automated information that you have initially consented to us using or where we have used the information to perform a contract with you.
Withdrawing your consent. You have the right to withdraw your consent to the use of your personal data. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide you with access to specific features of the service.

You may exercise your rights of access, rectification, cancellation and opposition by contacting us. Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests. If you make a request, we will do our best to reply as soon as possible.

You have the right to complain to a data protection authority about the collection and use of your personal data. For more information, if you reside in the European Economic Area (EEA), please contact your local data protection authority in the EEA.

7- GENERAL PRIVACY RIGHTS

Our Service is not directed to individuals under 18 years of age, unless authorized by a legal guardian or administrator of the individual and/or property to access the platform and become a full user of the platform.

Registrations by minors are strictly prohibited. By accessing, using, or registering on the Qijco platform, you confirm and attest that you are 18 years or older.

8- CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We may update our privacy policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the

new privacy policy on this page.

We will inform you via email and/or a prominent notice on our service, before the change becomes

effective, and update the "last updated" date at the top of this privacy policy.

We advise you to review this privacy policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this privacy policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

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