This is the Privacy Policy of Inovigate.
In the context of our activities (as an independent strategy and management consulting company operating in the Life Science industry, specialized in helping our clients to innovate and navigate through an increasingly complex health ecosystem) we collect, hold, disclose and/or otherwise process personal data. Pursuant to the applicable data protection and privacy legislation, we qualify as the controller with respect to the personal data that we process.
We value your right to privacy and strive to protect your personal data in accordance with applicable data protection legislation and more specifically with the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and its national implementing legislation.
In this Privacy Policy we set forth how we collect your personal data, how and for which purposes we may use your personal data and to whom your personal data may be disclosed by us.
Further, this Privacy Policy includes important information regarding your rights with respect to the processing of your personal data. Therefore, we encourage you to read this Privacy Policy carefully.
From time to time, we may need to change this Privacy Policy. The most recent version of this Privacy Policy is available on our website www.inovigate.com.
Attention: By sharing your personal data with us, we expect that you read this Privacy Policy carefully. This does however not mean that we need your ‘consent’ to the processing of your personal data. We do not process your personal data on the basis of your consent, unless specifically indicated.
In the context of our business (as described above), we process personal data of our clients, of the visitors of our website, of visitors of our premises, of contact persons at administrative authorities, and of persons who otherwise come into contact with us, e.g. because their name and contact details as employee, agent, representative, subcontractor or director of our customers, suppliers, subcontractors and other commercial partners are provided to us.
We collect your personal data in various ways and in various situations:
When we request personal data from you, you have the right to refuse to provide this data. Such a refusal however could obstruct our ability to contract with you or provide the necessary services. Furthermore, it could change the nature and or management of our contractual relationship.
We may collect the following personal data about you (limitative list):
| Identification and contact information | Personal identification data: name, address, telephone/mobile number, email address |
| Electronic identification data: IP addresses, information collected via cookies (see point 10) | |
| Personal characteristics | Personal characteristics: sex, birth date, nationality, language preference |
| Profession and employment | Profession and employment information (individual or company, where appropriate VAT number) |
| Career |
We use personal data for the following purposes:
For your perfect information, you can find hereinafter the legal grounds applicable to these processing activities:
We will implement appropriate safeguards when transferring your personal data to third parties. If necessary, we will for example conclude a data transfer or a processing agreement specifying the limitations to the use of your personal data and the obligations with respect to the security of your personal data.
Your personal data and your profile will not be lent or sold to third parties for marketing purposes without your prior explicit consent.
Your personal data will not be stored for longer than is necessary in relation to the purposes for which we process them (as listed above). Afterwards it is still possible that they can be found in our back-ups or archives, but they will no longer be actively processed in a file.
More specifically, the following retention guidelines are applied by us:
Only where we are legally obliged to, or where this is necessary for defending our interests in the context of judicial proceedings (e.g. in case of a dispute), we will store the personal data for longer periods.
We only allow access to your personal data to persons who require this information to perform their tasks. These persons are required to respect strict confidentiality and have to guarantee that they have taken all the necessary administrative, technical and organizational measures to ensure the confidentiality of your personal data.
We will implement the necessary administrative, technical and organizational measures for ensuring a level of security appropriate to the specific risks that we have identified.
We protect your personal data against destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure of or access to personal data transmitted, stored or otherwise processed.
Further, we seek to ensure that we keep your personal data accurate and up to date. In view thereof, we kindly request you to inform us of any changes to your personal data (such as a change in your contact details).
Our website www.inovigate.com makes use of cookies, i.e. small electronic files that are placed on the computer of the user.
In the current case, cookies placed by the website are measuring tools for Google audience Analytics to obtain information on the browsing of the visitors. They allow in particular to understand how the users access the site and to understand how they browse.
Other information depends on the browser of the user. The user can parametrize his/her browser so that (s)he accepts for example the reception of a cookie or offers the possibility of refusing the insertion of a cookie. (S)he can also delete the cookies that were placed.
You have (under certain conditions), the right to:
When your personal data are processed based on your consent, note that you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time, free of charge, and without this having any negative implications for you.
You can exercise your right by contacting us via post or e-mail:
Finally, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Belgian Data Protection Authority (Drukpersstraat 35, 1000 Brussels, www.dataprotectionauthority.be) relating to the processing of your personal data by us.
To read more about these rights, and circumstances under which you can use these rights, please also read the Annex to this Privacy Policy. In principle you may exercise these rights free of charge. Only where requests are manifestly unfounded or excessive we may charge a reasonable fee.
We aim to respond as quickly as possible to your requests or questions. We might request a proof of identity in advance in order to double-check your request.
It is possible that this privacy policy will be altered in the future. We request you to consult the most recent version of our policy online. We will inform you, via our website and possibly other common channels (e.g. e-mail), regarding changes to our policy.
The following Terms of Business set forth the rights and responsibilities of the parties with respect to the Services and forms an integral part of this agreement.
Travel costs will be added to the fees, including out of pocket expenses (reasonable cost, subsistence and other expenses) incurred in connection with the services (like e.g., small material costs, travel costs).
All invoices will be due for payment 30 days at reception of the invoice. We may give immediate notice to you suspending the performance of our duties and obligations under the contract if we do not receive payment from you of any invoice within 30 days of the invoice date. If we do not receive payment within 30 days of the notice, we may consider the contract dissolved by operation of law with immediate effect, without respecting a period of notice, by notice given in writing by registered mail.
At any given time, either party may terminate the agreement. In this case, only fees up to the date of termination will be invoiced.
The Inovigate contact person and the engagement manager is Ingrid Maes (ingrid.maes@inovigate.com)
Total duration of our offer: 12 months.
Non-disclosure agreement is fully applicable.
If you have any questions, comments or complaints in relation to this Privacy Policy or the processing of your personal data by us, please feel free to contact us via ingrid.maes@inovigate.com or +32 3 345 44 52.