Privacy
Privacy Statement
This Privacy Statement explains how Hans Van Heghe / Management & Innovation BV, located at Molenstraat 24a, 3191 Hever, with company number BE 0468 546 226, processes personal data through this website.
We respect your privacy and process personal data in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation, Regulation (EU) 2016/679, and applicable Belgian data protection legislation. The GDPR applies to organizations established in the EU that process personal data, and gives individuals rights such as access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability and objection.
1. Who is responsible for your personal data?
The controller of your personal data is:
- Hans Van Heghe / Management & Innovation BV
- Address: Molenstraat 24a, 3191 Hever
- Company number: BE 0468 546 226
- Email: hansvanheghe@outlook.com
As controller, we determine why and how personal data is processed when you use this website. A processor, by contrast, processes data only on behalf of the controller.
2. General website use
When you visit the general pages of this website, we do not actively collect personal data through contact forms, newsletter forms, tracking forms or similar tools.
At this stage, the website is intended primarily to provide information about SSAIF.eu — the Secure Sovereign AI Framework — and related initiatives.
If technical logs are automatically created by the hosting provider for security or performance reasons, these are managed by the hosting provider and are not used by us to identify visitors personally, unless this would be necessary for website security, abuse prevention or legal compliance.
3. Contact and business enquiries
Personal data is only collected when you contact us directly — for example by email or phone — in relation to pilot programmes, investor conversations, partnerships, recruitment or other business enquiries.
In that case, we may process the following data:
- name and first name;
- email address;
- telephone number, if provided;
- company name and role, if provided;
- content of your message and related correspondence.
We process this data only to respond to your enquiry, evaluate possible collaboration, and document the resulting communication.
4. Purposes of processing
- Enquiry handling — To respond to and follow up on questions you send us.
- Pilot and partner evaluation — To assess possible pilot, investor, partner or recruitment conversations.
- Customer service — To answer questions related to SSAIF.eu activities.
- Legal compliance — To comply with applicable legal obligations.
5. Legal bases
Depending on the purpose, we process your personal data on one or more of the following legal bases:
- performance of a contract, when processing is necessary to handle a request or agreement;
- legal obligation, for example for accounting and tax records;
- legitimate interest, for basic administration, security and handling enquiries;
- consent, only where this would be specifically requested, for example for optional marketing communication.
The GDPR requires organizations to have a valid legal ground for processing personal data and to respect principles such as purpose limitation, data minimisation and limited storage.
6. Who receives your data?
Your personal data may be shared only where necessary with:
- the website hosting provider;
- email and communication service providers;
- accounting or invoicing service providers;
- IT support providers;
- public authorities, if required by law.
These parties only receive the data necessary for their role.
We do not sell your personal data.
7. International transfers
Where possible, we work with service providers located within the European Economic Area.
If personal data would be transferred outside the European Economic Area, this will only happen in accordance with GDPR requirements, for example through appropriate safeguards such as Standard Contractual Clauses where applicable.
8. Retention period
We keep personal data only as long as necessary for the purposes described above.
Records linked to contracts, invoices or legal obligations may be retained for the period required under Belgian accounting and tax legislation.
Other correspondence is kept only as long as necessary to handle the enquiry, follow-up or possible dispute.
9. Your rights
Under the GDPR, you have the right to:
- access your personal data;
- correct inaccurate data;
- request deletion of your data, where legally possible;
- restrict processing;
- object to certain processing;
- request data portability, where applicable;
- withdraw consent, where processing is based on consent.
To exercise these rights, you can contact us at: hansvanheghe@outlook.com
We may ask you to verify your identity before responding to your request.
10. Complaints
If you believe that your personal data has not been handled correctly, you may contact us first so we can try to resolve the issue.
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Belgian Data Protection Authority:
- Gegevensbeschermingsautoriteit / Autorité de protection des données
- Drukpersstraat 35 / Rue de la Presse 35
- 1000 Brussels
The Belgian DPA states that individuals may file a complaint if they feel their data protection rights are not respected.
11. Cookies
This website currently does not use tracking cookies, marketing cookies or analytics cookies that identify visitors.
If the website platform uses strictly necessary technical cookies, these are used only to make the website function correctly, for example to maintain security or remember basic technical preferences.
If non-essential cookies are added later, the website will ask for consent where legally required and the cookie information will be updated. See also our Cookie Policy.
12. Changes to this Privacy Statement
We may update this Privacy Statement from time to time, for example when the website, services, processes or legal requirements change.
The latest version will always be available on this website.