This Privacy Policy shall govern the processing of your personal data when using our website (www.arenbergauctions.com) and the services associated with it. These processing operations are always carried out by Arenberg Auctions as Controller, located at 1000 Brussel, Wolstraat 19/2 with enterprise number 0657.769.074.
Protecting the personal data of customers and visitors is very important to Arenberg Auctions. Therefore, we make every effort to ensure data protection and to comply with the provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) whenever we process your personal data.
In more concrete terms, Arenberg Auctions will always handle personal data for specific purposes in accordance with the law. We shall take the necessary steps to never request more personal data than is required for the purpose in question and furthermore not to retain such personal data for longer than is necessary. Finally, Arenberg Auctions implements technical and organisational measures to ensure appropriate security for the protection of personal data.
This Privacy Policy was last updated on 27 February 2020. Arenberg Auctions reserves the right to amend this Privacy Policy later. Changes will be clearly communicated in this Privacy Policy.
Arenberg Auctions is a leading Belgian auction house, specialising in rare books, manuscripts, drawings and prints, atlases, maps and photographs. We take care of inventories, valuations and public auctions, among other things.
In this context, Arenberg Auctions comes into contact with personal data, both of our own employees, buyers and sellers. Arenberg Auctions is responsible for this data, and for handling it in a manner consistent with the applicable legal requirements.
According to legislation currently in force, personal data shall mean any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person.
We define the processing of personal data as any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data or on sets of personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organisation, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction of data.
Examples of personal data are the name, address, or email address, but also includes your IP address.
Arenberg Auctions shall only process your identification information (first name, surname, telephone number, e-mail address) in order to communicate by e-mail, via the contact form on the website or directly with one of our employees when we have contact by telephone. If it’s necessary for the auction of goods, we will also process your bank account number. At last, we will also process a copy of your identity card due to a legal obligation in the context of anti-money laundering and counterterrorism.
Arenberg Auctions shall only use your personal data for communication in the context of a professional relationship.
Arenberg Auctions collects invoicing and administrative information to fulfil its administrative obligations, such as charging for services provided to the customer or maintaining our statutory accounting records. Arenberg Auctions is required by law to retain such personal data for 7 years.
The personal data that we collect via www.arenbergauctions.com or via an email to one of our employees will only be used to answer your questions appropriately and accurately.
This information is entered into our client system so that we can offer you an even better service in the future.
In order to fully process your requests for information, we store your personal data for this activity as long as you are a customer of our company. If you are not a client of Arenberg Auctions, we shall delete this information six months after replying to your question.
We believe it is very important to have good relationships and communication with all our clients. Therefore, we shall contact you to keep you informed of relevant auctions, catalogues or other company related activities you may find interesting.
For the processing of personal data under this activity, Arenberg Auctions shall use its legitimate interest. If you receive this communication from us, you may at any time notify us that you no longer wish to receive it.
Arenberg Auctions shall not pass personal data on to other parties, who may use these personal data for their own purposes.
Arenberg Auctions also uses a number of processors, which means that these parties are only permitted to process your data for purposes we determine in the context of our customer relationship. Under no circumstances shall they process your personal data for their own purposes.
Arenberg Auctions shall take the necessary steps to process your personal data solely within the European Economic Area. If your personal data is processed outside the European Economic Area, Arenberg Auctions will take appropriate safeguards.
You have the right to access all personal data concerning you that we process. You may also receive a copy of this data, which we shall send to you on paper or digitally. You can do this by contacting us at the abovementioned address or by sending an email to privacy@arenberghauctions.com.
You have the right to request that we rectify your personal data if they are incorrect or incomplete. You may also request that we temporarily stop using your personal data until they are rectified or completed. You can do this by contacting us at the abovementioned address or by sending an email to privacy@arenberghauctions.com.
You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. You can do this by contacting us at the abovementioned address or by sending an email to privacy@arenberghauctions.com.
You have the right to request the erasure of your personal data in case they are no longer required for the purposes of this Privacy Policy or if you withdraw your consent to the processing. You can do this by contacting us at the abovementioned address or by sending an email to privacy@arenberghauctions.com.
Attention: We are not obliged to erase your personal data if we are required or permitted to retain them on the grounds of a legal obligation.
You have the right to receive your personal data in a universally readable format such as a text file or other digital file. You can do this by contacting us at the abovementioned address or by sending an email to privacy@arenberghauctions.com.
If you feel that we are not using your personal data in an appropriate manner, you may object to such processing operations, for example where such processing is carried out for purposes relating to newsletters, marketing, or other processing operations that are not required in the context of our professional relationship. You can do this by contacting us at the abovementioned address or by sending an email to privacy@arenberghauctions.com.
If you are not satisfied with the manner in which your personal data is processed, you may lodge a complaint with the competent data protection authority. This is the Data Protection Authority in Belgium. For more information, please visit https://www.dataprotectionauthority.be.
