PRIVACY POLICY


PRIVACY STATEMENT AND INFORMATION TEXT ON THE POLICY REGARDING THE PROTECTION AND PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA


The website at the address www.k-mediworld.com or www.k-mediworld.be ("Website") is managed by K-Invest Management BV residing at Volkstraat 27 - 2000 Antwerpen - Belgium, which will act as the data controller ("Company"). The Company, acting as the Data Controller, is responsible for identifying the purposes and means of processing personal data and establishing and managing a data registration system.


As an organization, we take the protection of your personal data seriously. Therefore, we want to inform you about the processing, including purposes, including but not limited to the collection, storage, and transfer of data obtained in connection with the use of the "Company website" in accordance with the legislation on the protection of personal data ("Law").


Processing and transfer of personal data

Company requests certain personal data from users of the Company's website during registration; while shopping or simply using the Company's website. Personal data means: all information that identifies or makes a person identifiable. Such information may include, among other things, a name, address, email address, or phone number of one or more specific individuals. Information collected based on cookies that cannot directly identify a person, such as information on how you use the Company's website, may be considered personal data provided it is based on an identity card issued to a user and is therefore collected, stored, and evaluated after personalization. Non-personal data are aggregated data that can be classified as big data, summarized, collected, evaluated, and anonymized so that they cannot be associated with a natural person at that time.


Personal data is collected by our company due to the nature of the business through the membership form completed by the data subject. The completion of a membership form is the free choice of a data subject. Our company stores IP addresses and uses them to resolve any issues with our system, enable a quick resolution to problems or disputes that may arise in connection with the services we provide. It is also possible to use IP addresses to identify users in general terms and collect comprehensive demographic data.


Our company may also use requested data for direct marketing by itself or its partners, in addition to the purposes and scope defined in the membership agreement. Personal data may also be used, if necessary, to contact users. Data requested by our company or data provided by users or data related to activities performed through our company's website can also be used by us or our partners for various statistical analyses; creating specific databases or market research, while keeping personal data confidential, in addition to the purposes and scope defined in the "Membership Agreement."


Our company may send notifications/messages to its customers and members, such as information and/or advertising campaigns, new packages, promotional offers. Our members can opt-out or choose whether to receive such notifications during the registration on our website, and afterwards, at the administration panel, after logging in to the website, or inform us via the link in the information message sent to our members.


Purposes of processing personal data

Our company processes personal data for specific, explicit, and legitimate purposes. In this context, personal data may be processed and transferred to systems hosted either locally or abroad, including but not limited to countries of the European Union, for the purposes listed below:


• To offer and modify services offered through the website;

• To customize offered products and services according to requests; to update them; to improve them in accordance with customer requirements, or in relation to legal and/or technical developments;

• To perform user definitions for systems, specifically for the offered products and services;

• To conduct new or existing product, service, and campaign announcements, sales and marketing activities;

• To conduct market research;

• To create statistical data and analyze usage patterns;

• To pay and collect product prices, service prices, and selected pickup methods;

• To comply with the obligation to inform based on the relevant article in the law on the regulation of electronic commerce and other applicable legislation;

• To deliver advertisements of products and services to individuals, as well as the company's website in accordance with the purpose of data processing, provide information about products, services, promotions, offers, and campaigns;

• To resolve problems users may experience while using the website;

• To improve user visits, usage, page switching, and purchasing experiences, to provide higher quality service;

• To maintain contact/communication with users;

• To carry out business relationships between partners, suppliers, resellers, and service providers;

• To create reports within the framework of partnership or membership agreements;

• To develop business strategies and create business plans;

• To contact users and/or customers in satisfaction surveys;

• To create participation records for events or training sessions or competitions (= non-exhaustive list of topics) organized by THE COMPANY, to issue relevant certificates/participation certificates, identify prize/gift winners, and deliver prizes/gifts, if applicable;

• To handle judicial/administrative procedures, to respond to requests/orders from government authorities;

• To comply with legal obligations under the legislation, to resolve legal disputes;

• To facilitate investor relations,

• To achieve results and/or data in the event of a merger of the company with another company, spin-off, or partial or complete transfer of the company;

• To present company staff, customers as natural persons, stakeholders in social media posts;

• To conduct job interviews and evaluate job applications;

• To establish, execute, manage, and terminate business relationships and/or agreements;

• To ensure that COMPANY personnel can use the main and fringe benefits where applicable and to evaluate their performance and achievements;

• To create user accounts for staff;

• To create participant records in case of participation in an event on behalf of the company;

• To create registration and certificate records for the training and/or education/training of staff;

• To maintain the security of the Company's website and the Company's Applications;

• To analyze website usage;

• To create an inventory of personal data;

• To evaluate and appropriately respond to questions, requests, suggestions, complaints, and applications, including those related to personal data, in writing, orally, or electronically;

• To perform the agreement, ensure compliance with data security and our company's policy,


Method and legal basis for collecting personal data

Data relating to existing and future users of the Company's website is collected as required by the objectives of the Company, either partially or entirely, through automatic or non-automatic means based on contractual grounds or other grounds as set forth in the applicable legislation.


​Processing of personal data without explicit consent

This processing is based on the relevant law.


The Company is authorized to further process and transfer to third parties those personal data disclosed by yourself, without your explicit and additional consent. Your personal data may be processed or transferred by our Company to third parties without your explicit consent if there are clear legal provisions that lawfully permit such processing without explicit consent.


Our Company may process your personal data without your explicit consent if it is obligatory for us to fulfill our legal obligations, including those data that need to be disclosed under applicable laws or regulations, or a court order or an administrative order.

Our Company processes your personal data without your explicit consent if it is necessary to process data to establish, exercise, or defend a legal right.


Data transferred to third parties

As part of the business activities on the Company's website, we may transfer your personal data to Company staff, business officials, legal, financial, and tax advisors, auditors, entities providing services complementary or extensive to the Company's activities, as well as cloud service providers located abroad to perform data processing, consultants and contracted entities collaborating with the Company, and advertising and marketing agencies collaborating with the Company, and natural and legal persons to provide individuals with ads that meet their interests by anonymizing them, provided that our rights under the law are reserved. Therefore, when you become a member of our website and/or use our website, you are deemed to have given your explicit consent to the processing and transfer of your personal data.



Network Server Data Log

When you visit the company website, your browser is technically configured to automatically send the following data ("data log") to our internet server, and we subsequently store them automatically in data log records, even without your confirmation:

- Login Date

- Login Time

- URL of Redirected Website

- Received Files

- Amount of Transmitted Data

- Browser Type and Version

- Operating System

- IP Address

- Domain of your Internet Service Provider


The aforementioned data are technical requirements to correctly deliver the content you requested. Collecting them is essential for the functioning of websites. The data log is only analyzed for statistical purposes to develop our website and underlying technology, after which it is deleted. The data log is stored separately from other data collected as part of visitors' use of the company website.


Cookies

Like many websites, we use "cookies" when you visit our company website(s). Cookies are small text files stored by a website server on your hard drive. This automatically provides us with certain data such as IP address, browser used, operating system of your computer, and internet connection. This technical communication file records the status and preferences of the website, making the internet easier to use. The technical communication file is not designed to collect personal data or other data from your hard drive or mailbox. Cookies are also used to perform certain applications or exchange files based on the objectives of the web visit.


We use cookies and similar technologies to familiarize you with various services, obtain information about your interests, whether related to our services or not, improve your experience, enhance security, measure the use and effectiveness of our services, obtain statistical data on the number of website visitors, the purpose of visits, and how long visitors stay on the website. They also assist in dynamically creating ads and content on user pages exclusively designed for users.


Through cookies, we may track your navigation on the company website and activities in your membership account, analyze your personal data collected through the company website, or third-party websites and mobile apps through various methods, to provide you with various discount and campaign offers, create ads and promotions, personalize the company website for you, and offer you a personalized browsing experience.


Under no circumstances will the data collected by us be shared with third parties without your consent.


Of course, you can view our website without cookies. Web browsers are set by default to accept cookies. You can control and disable cookies through browser settings and other tools. Use your browser's help function to learn how to change these settings. Keep in mind that if you disable cookies, certain features of our website may not work properly or at all.


Using Social Extensions in the Context of Social Media

The Company uses social extensions ("extensions") from social media platforms such as Facebook, YouTube videos, Twitter, Instagram (non-exhaustive list).


When you visit a page on your website that contains such an extension, they are initially inactive. They are not activated unless and until you click on the given link/icon. By activating these extensions, you connect to social networks and provide your confirmation for data transfer to these networks. If your account is active on these social networks, they can link this visit to your account on the relevant social network. When you click on the respective link/icon, the associated information is directly transferred by your browser to and stored in the relevant social network.


Refer to the data protection statements of relevant social networks regarding data collection, further processing by social networks, scope and purpose of the settings you can make to protect your rights and privacy. If you do not want these social networks to collect data about you through our website, you should log out of relevant social networks before visiting our website.


Your Rights Regarding Your Personal Data

According to the law, you have the following rights regarding your personal data: to find out if your personal data are processed; to determine the purpose of processing your personal data, whether they are used in accordance with the intended purpose; to know the third parties to whom your personal data have been transferred, to request correction in case of missing or inaccurate processing; to request that your personal data be erased or destroyed; to inform third parties to whom your personal data have been transferred, of correction, erasure, or destruction of personal data in case of missing or inaccurate processing; to appeal against any results against your interests that arise from the analysis of processed data via exclusively automated systems; to demand compensation for any damage if you suffer damage due to illegal processing of your personal data.


Exercise of Rights, Application, and Communication

You can submit your requests regarding the above-mentioned rights under the law based on an application form on our website to our Company at the aforementioned address, in writing, in person, or in accordance with the legislation (for example, through a notary), provided that your identity information can be verified.


Data Security

The Company has taken all technical and organizational measures, as much as technically possible, to maintain data security in accordance with the law. Your personal data is stored electronically and/or physically. Business process designs and technical improvements for system or systems security are constantly implemented to maintain a storage environment where your personal data collected and stored by our Company are protected against unauthorized access, manipulation, loss, or damage.


Data of Minors

No personal data of minors should be provided without the explicit consent of their parents or guardians."


Links to Other Websites

Company websites contain links to other websites. We have no control over these website operators and whether they comply with personal data protection legislation. The Company is not responsible for the content of websites reached through such links (and the content of other websites reached through these links) and does not have the authority to monitor the content of such websites reached through such links.


Changes to the Privacy Policy 

This "Data Protection Statement and Information Text on the Protection and Processing of Personal Data" will be amended when necessary to announce changes to our services related to data protection, such as new services and compliance with applicable legal obligations.


User Access

No one has access to your account unless you are invited to do so. Only Company staff has access to your data for support purposes in case of technical and system failures and then only with your authorized consent.


Data Transfer

No data transfer takes place without your consent and to business partners who do not have an adequate level of security.


Data Backup

A backup of your data is made daily in case of possible technical problems.


Intervention in Security Breaches

Despite our efforts, no transfer method and no electronic storage method on the internet is completely secure. We cannot provide an absolute security guarantee. However, if the Company becomes aware of a security breach (of its data), we will notify the affected users so that they can take appropriate protective measures.


Our breach reporting procedures are in line with our legal obligations and all industry guidelines and standards applicable to us. Notification procedures include the publication of notices or the delivery of email notifications in case of a security breach on our website.


Your Responsibilities

Ensuring the security of your data and the safety of your account(s) also depends on you by using sufficiently complex passwords and storing them in secure environments. On your part, you must ensure that the computer, tablet, or phone, or the medium in general that you used to access the services of The Website, has sufficient security.


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