Privacy policy
1. Who?
This Privacy Policy governs the processing of personal data by the data controller LE GRAND & ASSOCIATES, private limited liability company, with registered office at 9051 Sint-Denijs-Westrem, Kortrijksesteenweg 1146, with company number VAT BE0599.940.248, and whose contact person is Mr. Charles-Henry Provenzano ( info@legrand-associates.com) Le Grand & Associates bvba respects your privacy. If you use this website or otherwise provide us with personal information, you agree to this Privacy Policy. Le Grand & Associates bvba complies with the European Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 of April 27, 2016. It is hereby the data controller for the processing of your personal data within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
2. What data
Through this website or otherwise, you may provide information about yourself to us. For example, when you register as a prospective employee or submit your resume or cover letter. The information we may need includes your name, address, e-mail address, phone number, work experience, studies, salary expectations, salary and resume, and other information we need in the course of our main business.
2.1 When you have checked the opt-in box in the job listings
When you have checked the opt-in box for a job listing on our website, we collect your personal data to provide you with relevant job listings and marketing communications. The data we process in this context includes, among other things, first name, last name, and email address. The personal data is used for:
- communicating relevant job openings
- personalized offers and promotions
- newsletters and company news
- advertisements
3. What will the data be used for?
Your data may be shared with potential employers, external (marketing) platforms, and technical service providers (such as hosting companies or CRM providers), government agencies if required by law, or with other entities within our group. We may use your information for the following purposes:
Regarding users of the website:
Handling of information requested by you or obtained from you; providing information on current developments (for example through newsletters and other mailings) and personalized offers on our products and services if you have expressly subscribed to these; improvement and security of our website; and recording visitor data of (parts of) our website and compiling usage statistics.
Regarding the candidates:
Your data will be reviewed and analyzed and incorporated into internal systems. If the candidate agrees, the data may be shared with companies that have a vacancy open to which the candidate matches. Subject to consent, your data will be stored after filling the position and may be used to contact you for a position that matches your profile. Your data will not be traded, sold, rented or passed on to third parties. On rare occasions, Le Grand & Associates bvba may be required to disclose your Personal Data pursuant to a court order or to comply with other mandatory laws or regulations. Le Grand & Associates bvba will make reasonable efforts to inform you in advance in this regard, unless subject to legal restrictions. Personal data are kept and processed by Le Grand & Associates sprl for a period necessary in function of the purposes of the processing and in function of the contractual relationship between the Le Grand & Associates sprl and the user.
4. Safety measures
Le Grand & Associates sprl has developed security measures adapted at the technical and organizational levels to avoid the destruction, loss, falsification, modification, unauthorized access or inadvertent notification to third parties of personal data collected as well as any other unauthorized processing of this data. Under no circumstances can Le Grand & Associates sprl be held liable for any direct or indirect damage resulting from an erroneous or unlawful use by a third party of your personal data. You must comply with the security regulations at all times, including preventing any unauthorized access to your login and code. You are solely responsible for the use made from the Website of your computer, IP address and of your identification data, as well as for their confidentiality.
5. Rights of Data Subjects.
You have the right to learn about your personal data, as well as Le Grand & Associates bvba’s use of your personal data at any time, free of charge.
5.1 Right of rectification, deletion and restriction
You are free to communicate or not your personal data to Le Grand & Associates bvba. In addition, you always have the right to request Le Grand & Associates bvba to correct, supplement or delete your personal information. You acknowledge that in the event of a refusal to communicate or request the removal of personal data, certain services may not be available. You may also ask to restrict the processing of your personal data.
5.2 Right of opposition
You have a right to oppose the processing of your personal data for serious and legitimate reasons. In addition, you always have the right to oppose the use of personal data for direct marketing purposes; in such case, you do not even have to provide reasons.
5.3 Right of free data transfer
You have the right to obtain your personal data provided by you to Le Grand & Associates bvba in a structured, common and machine-readable form and/or to have it transferred to other responsible parties.
5.4 Right to withdraw consent
To the extent that the processing is based on your prior consent, you have the right to withdraw that consent.
5.5 Exercise of your rights
You may exercise Your rights by contacting Le Grand & Associates bvba to that effect, either by e-mail to charles@legrand-associates.com,by mail to 9000 Ghent, Ottergemsesteenweg-Zuid 808 bus 505 or by using the “Contact Us” contact form on the Website, provided that You enclose a copy of Your identity card.
You have certain rights regarding your personal data. For example, you have the right to access the data we process about you, to have incorrect data corrected, to have your data deleted, or to have its processing restricted.
Data used for marketing communications is retained until you unsubscribe or withdraw your consent. If you wish to exercise your rights, please contact us at admin@lgahrgroup.com. Please include proof of your identity so that we can verify that you are indeed the data subject.
You may withdraw your consent at any time via the unsubscribe link in our marketing emails or by contacting marketing@lgahrgroup.com regarding marketing communications.
Finally, you have the right to file a complaint with the Data Protection Authority via www.gegevensbeschermingsautoriteit.be.
5.6 Automatic decisions and profiling
The processing of your personal data does not involve profiling nor will Le Grand & Associates bvba subject you to automated decisions.
5.7 Right to file complaint
You have the right to file a complaint with the Belgian Privacy Commission: Commission for the Protection of Privacy, Rue du Printing Press 35, 1000 Brussels, Tel +32 (0)2 274 48 00, Fax +32 (0)2 274 48 35, e-mail: commission@privacycommission.be. This is without prejudice to a remedy before a civil court.
6. Retention Periods
- Your data will not be retained for longer than is necessary for the purposes for which it was collected.
- We retain job application data for up to 5 years after the last active contact, unless you withdraw your consent earlier.
- Customer and supplier data is retained for up to 10 years after the end of the business relationship, in accordance with tax retention periods.
- Newsletter or event registrations are retained for as long as you remain subscribed or registered.
- Data used for marketing communications is retained until you unsubscribe or withdraw your consent.
7. Hyperlinks
This website may contain hyperlinks to other parties’ websites. Also, websites of other parties may contain hyperlinks to this website. Le Grand & Associates bvba is not responsible for the privacy policies of those other parties’ websites, and the use of cookies on those websites.
8. Changes
This Privacy Policy is subject to change. We recommend that you periodically review this Privacy Policy for any changes.
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Last updated version: 16/09/2025