Informer acts in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Alongside the personal data known to Informer, the company data of its business relations is treated under the same strict rules.

• Data collected about business relations is used solely for the purpose of providing services to those relations.
• Data is not used for unrelated purposes, is not sold, and is not passed to third parties for advertising. It goes only to the providers who process it on our behalf for the purposes set out in this statement, and to authorities where the law obliges us to disclose it.
• Information entered by users of Informer remains, in all circumstances, the property of those users.
• Support staff can only access a user's books if that user has opened them and thereby formally granted permission. This is offered as the default setting for new books and can be withdrawn at any time.
• Personal data held about users and business relations can be requested in writing by the person concerned, and can be amended or deleted on written request, as far as proper subscription administration for existing contracts remains possible.

We retain and use only the personal data that you provide to us directly, or where it is clear on provision that it is being supplied to us. Data that is no longer needed is deleted. You can request access to, amendment of or deletion of your data. We do not pass your personal data to third parties unless this is necessary to perform a contract you enter into with us, or where we are legally required to do so.

If you complete a contact or sign-up form, or send us an email, the data you send is retained for as long as the nature of the form or the content of your message requires for it to be answered and handled in full. We use your data to inform you through newsletters about relevant market developments and offers for related products and services. Every newsletter contains an unsubscribe option, and you can indicate in your account which newsletters you wish to receive. The subscriber list is not shared with or made available to third parties.

General visit data is recorded on the website. In particular your computer's IP address, any username, the time of the request and the data your browser sends may be recorded and used for statistical analysis of visiting and clicking behaviour.

The part of this that is server log data is recorded whatever you decide about cookies, because the website cannot be delivered or kept secure without it. The statistical analysis itself is carried out with the tools named under "Cookies and access to your device" and takes place only once you have consented. Those providers receive the data concerned; the rest of it is not passed to third parties.

Cookies are small files that a website stores in your browser. Comparable techniques such as local storage and counting pixels work in the same way, and the same rule applies to all of them: information may be stored on your device, or read from it, only where that is strictly necessary for the service you have asked for, or where you have consented.

We distinguish two categories:

• Strictly necessary cookies, without which the website and signing in do not work.
• Cookies and comparable techniques for statistics and reach measurement, which we use only after you have consented.

The first category includes a session cookie that recognises you for the remainder of a session once you have signed in. As soon as you have made a choice about cookies, storing that choice belongs in this category too, so that we do not have to ask you again on every page. Storing and reading these cookies needs no consent under Article 129 of the Belgian Electronic Communications Act of 13 June 2005, which implements Article 5(3) of the ePrivacy Directive, because they are strictly necessary. The processing that follows is based on our legitimate interest in a working and secure website (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR) and, where the use of an account is involved, on the performance of our contract with you (Article 6(1)(b) GDPR). This category cannot be switched off.

The second category covers Google Tag Manager and the reach measurement we run through ywt.informer.eu. Google Tag Manager is not an analytics tool itself but a management tool: it loads and fires further scripts, known as tags. ywt.informer.eu is a subdomain of our own domain informer.eu, so the measurement runs over an address we operate rather than a third party's. Both are loaded, and store or read information on your device, only once you have consented. The legal basis is your consent under Article 6(1)(a) GDPR, together with Article 129 of that Act. Without your consent, neither of them runs.

We do not use cookies for advertising, for profiling, or to recognise you across other people's websites. Should that change, those cookies will be subject to your prior consent in the same way, and we will update this statement before we introduce them.

Your consent is voluntary. If you do not give it, you can still use this website in full, and you are put at no disadvantage.

You can withdraw consent at any time, with effect for the future. Withdrawing does not affect the lawfulness of the processing carried out before you withdrew. Where a cookie preferences dialogue is offered on this website, you can reopen it and change your choice there at any time. Independently of that, a message to [email protected] withdrawing your consent is always sufficient.

You can also delete cookies at any time through your browser settings, and restrict or block their storage entirely. That affects the strictly necessary cookies as well, and it may impair how the website works.

This statement does not apply to third-party websites connected to this site by links. We cannot guarantee that those third parties handle your personal data reliably or securely. We recommend reading the privacy statement of those websites before using them.

We reserve the right to make changes to this statement. We recommend consulting it regularly so that you are aware of any changes.

For questions about our privacy policy, or for requests to access, amend or delete your personal data, you can contact us at any time at [email protected].