Privacy Policy

Last update on 10 June 2024

Because we value your privacy, DBM & CO commits to processing your Personal Data in a respectful and proportionate manner.

This Policy describes how we process information relating to identified or identifiable natural persons (Personal Data) and your rights.

This Policy was last updated on the above date. It may be adapted from time to time, so please check it regularly. Any significant changes to this Privacy Policy will be notified or mentioned on the website's home page.

Concepts such as “processing”, “controller”, “processor”, “data subject”, “personal data”, etc., have the meaning given in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (Regulation 2016/679 of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data). The GDPR is available here: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32016R0679.

Data controller

The controller of your Personal Data is Ms Delphine Barringer, doing business as DBM & Co, having its registered office in Belgium at B-1050 Brussels, rue Fernand Neuray 9A; company number 0756.885.753 (DBM & CO or we).

For any questions regarding the processing of your Personal Data, please send us an email at dbm@dbmco.be.

Purposes and legal basis of the processing

Your Personal Data are processed for specific purposes and have a specific legal basis depending on our relationship.

If you are a candidate:

Purpose Performing our recruitment activities, incl. collecting and verifying data about you and your profile, and connecting you with the right employers.

Legal Basis Your express consent. Once you gave your consent, you can withdraw it at any time.

Purpose Informing you about job opportunities

Legal Basis Our legitimate interest to carry on and develop our business. This instance includes “direct marketing”, i.e. using your email address to send you communications regarding opportunities you might be interested in, because already have been working together. You always have the opportunity to oppose to such communications (see article 6).

Your express consent when you request such information without working with us. Once you gave your consent, you can withdraw it at any time.

Purpose Keeping you posted about the development of the activities of DBM & CO.

Legal Basis Our legitimate interest to carry on and develop our business. This instance includes “direct marketing”, i.e. using your email address to send you communications regarding content you might be interested in, because already have been working together. You always have the opportunity to oppose to such communications (see article 6).

Your express consent when you subscribe to our newsletter without working with us, or when we send you communications on other topics than those for which we already worked together. Once you gave your consent, you can withdraw it at any time.

Purpose Allowing us establishing, exercising or defending legal claims.

Legal Basis Our legitimate interest in handling potential disputes based on (extra)contractual relationships or applicable law

If you are a client:

Purpose Providing the agreed services, incl. lists of candidates, interview supports, references, negotiation, etc.

Legal Basis The performance of our contract with you.

Purpose Keeping you posted about the development of the activities of DBM & CO;

Legal Basis Our legitimate interest to carry on and develop our business. This instance includes “direct marketing”, i.e. using your email address to send you communications regarding content you might be interested in, because already have been working together. You always have the opportunity to oppose to such communications (see article 6).

Purpose Allowing us establishing, exercising or defending legal claims.

Legal Basis Our legitimate interest in handling potential disputes based on (extra)contractual relationships or applicable law.

Categories of Personal Data processed by DBM & CO

We process different types of Personal Data depending on our relationship with you.

If you are a candidate:

We must process the Personal Data that will allow us to provide our services, i.e. assess whether you match a determined role profile and connect you with potential employers. These Personal Data may include:

· Contact details (name, first name, address, phone and email);

· Nationality, date of birth, sex/gender and marital status;

· Photograph;

· Curriculum vitae (education, employment and interests);

· Financial information (current remuneration);

· Any additional information provided by you voluntarily;

· Any additional information obtained through references;

In general, such Personal Data is provided by you or obtained from publicly available sources and websites (including social networks such as LinkedIn).

If you consent to such processing, we may also process data obtained from third parties (including former employers, colleagues, or business relations). When you mention a reference on your CV, you are deemed to consent to the processing of Personal Data originating from that source.

If you are a client:

We must process the Personal Data that will allow us to provide the agreed services and manage our contractual relationship with you. These Personal Data may include:

· Contact details (name, first name, address, phone and email);

· Information regarding your interactions with us (contracts, attendance to our events, …);

· Financial and bank information (bank account, credit history and other financial information).

Recipients of the Personal Data and transfer to other countries

For the purposes described in Article 2, we may transfer your Personal Data to third parties (the « recipients »):

· As a candidate, Personal Data will be shared with our clients, i.e. potential employers looking for profiles like yours;

· Third-party service providers, particularly IT and hosting providers.

Your Personal Data are stored in Belgium or another European Economic Area country.

Your Personal Data shall never be shared with business partners for commercial purposes unless you consent thereto.

Duration of the storage of the Personal Data

We will keep your Personal Data for no longer than necessary for the purposes for which they are processed.

Your rights concerning your Personal Data

You have the following rights concerning your Personal Data:

Right of access

You have the right to obtain confirmation from DBM & Co as to whether or not Personal Data concerning you are being processed and, where that is the case, access to the Personal Data and information regarding their processing.

Right to rectification

You have the right to obtain the rectification of inaccurate Personal Data and to have incomplete Personal Data completed.

Right to erasure

You have the right to obtain the erasure of Personal Data concerning you when there is no longer a reason to process them.

Right to restriction of processing

You have the right to request a restriction of processing. In this case, we can only store your data without any other processing.

Right to object

You have the right to object to processing Personal Data concerning you. You can always object to their processing when your Personal Data is processed for direct marketing.

Right to withdraw consent

When you consent to processing your Personal Data, you have the right to withdraw such consent at any time, without such withdrawal affecting the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.

Right to lodge a complaint with the Data Protection Authority

You have the right to lodge a complaint with the Data Protection Authority, at the conditions and within the limits set by the GDPR and any other legislation applicable to the processing of Personal Data:

Autorité de protection des données
Rue de la Presse, 35, 1000 Brussels
Tel: +32 (0)2 274 48 00 | Fax: +32 (0)2 274 48 35 | Email: contact@apd-gba.be