Privacy

1. DISCLAIMER

This website is owned by:

Hiros vzw
Rue du Fortstraat 35, 1060 Brussels

By accessing and using the website, you expressly agree to the following terms and conditions.

Intellectual property rights

The content of this site, including logos, text, images etc. are protected by intellectual rights and are the property of Hiros or rightful claimant third parties.

Limitation of liability

Hiros goes to great lengths to ensure that the information provided is complete, correct, accurate and up-to-date. Despite these efforts, errors may occur in the information provided. If the information provided contains inaccuracies or if certain information on or through the website is unavailable, Hiros will do their utmost to ensure that this is rectified as soon as possible.

However, Hiros cannot be held liable for direct or indirect damage resulting from the use of the information on this site.

If you discover errors in the information provided through the site, please contact the site administrator via contact@hiros.be.

The content of the website, including links, may at any time without notice or notification be adapted, modified or supplemented. Hiros does not provide any guarantees as to the proper functioning of the website and cannot be held liable in any way for any malfunctions or temporary (un)availability of the website or for any form of (direct or indirect) damage, which would result from accessing or using the website.

Hiros can in no way be held liable against anyone for any direct, indirect, special or other damage due to the use of this or any other website, and in particular as a result of links or hyperlinks, including, without limitation, all losses, work interruptions, damage to programs or other data on the computer system, equipment, software or other of the user.

The website may contain hyperlinks to websites or third-party pages or refer to them indirectly.

The inclusion of links to these websites or pages in no way implies an implicit approval of their contents.

Hiros expressly states that it has no control over the content or any other features of these websites and can in no way be held liable for their contents or features or for any other form of damage as a result of the use thereof.

Applicable law and competent courts

This website is subject to Belgian law. In case of a dispute, the courts of the arrondissement of Brussels shall have sole jurisdiction.

2. PRIVACY

About us

Hiros is an organisation which supports the development of artistic trajectories.

How does Hiros collect personal information?

Hiros only collects personal information provided by you personally or by third parties if this is necessary to provide a particular service.

What kind of personal information does Hiros process and why?

Newsletter

Hiros collects your personal information (name, first name, organization and email address) when you subscribe to our newsletter. We only use the collected data for the purposes for which we have obtained this information.

Cookies

As most of the online services, our website uses cookies first-party and third-party cookies for a number of purposes.Cookies are small text files that are used to store small pieces of information. The cookies are stored on your device when the website is loaded on your browser. These cookies help us make the website function properly, make the website more secure, provide better user experience, and understand how the website performs and to analyze what works and where it needs improvement.

How do we use cookies?

The first-party cookies are mostly necessary for the website to function the right way, and they do not collect any of your personally identifiable data.

The third-party cookies used on our websites are used mainly for understanding how the website performs, how you interact with our website, keeping our services secure and all in all providing you with a better and improved user experience and help speed up your future interactions with our website.

What types of cookies do we use?

The cookies used on our website are grouped into the following categories.

Necessary: Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously.

Functional: Functional cookies help to perform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the website on social media platforms, collect feedbacks, and other third-party features.

Performance: Performance cookies are used to understand and analyze the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors.

Analytics: Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website like Google Analytics. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.

Others: Other uncategorized cookies are those that are being analyzed and have not been classified into a category as yet.

How can I control the cookie preferences?

You can manage your cookies preferences by clicking on the “Settings” button and enabling or disabling the cookie categories on the popup according to your preferences.

Communication to third parties

We only share your personal information with our service providers if this is needed to ensure a smooth service, for example to manage contact information in a database, to administer and host our website and to disseminate our newsletter. We only work with service providers who respect the privacy laws. We enter into a data processing agreement with each of those external parties, which includes sufficient (technical) measures so as to ensure that your data are safeguarded as much as possible.

We never pass your contact details on to third parties for commercial purposes. We never sell personal data to third parties and never pass them on to third parties without your permission.

How long does Hiros store personal information?

Hiros vzw stores personal information only for as long as is necessary for the purpose for which it was provided.

Your rights regarding your data

You have the right to access and the right to correct or delete any personal data we have received from you. Our contact details can be found at the bottom of this privacy statement.

You can also object to the processing of your personal data (or part thereof) by us or by one of our processors.

You furthermore have the right to have us transfer the information you have provided to us to yourself or directly to a third party on your behalf. We may ask you to identify yourself before complying with the above requests.

Complaints

If you have a complaint about the processing of your personal data, please contact us directly.

You always have the right to file a complaint with the Privacy Commission. This is the supervisory authority in the area of privacy protection.

Amendment of privacy statement

Hiros may amend its privacy statement. We will announce this amendment on our website.

Contact

If you have any questions after reading our privacy statement, any general questions or if you want to get in touch, please use the below contact details:

Hiros vzw
Rue du Fortstraat 35, 1060 Brussels
contact@hiros.be
+32 (0)2 410 63 33