Who is the data controller for your personal data?

Tack & Tact LLC is a consulting company providing business and project management services.

For some parts of its services, Tack & Tact may be a data processor as well as a data controller.

Unless agreed otherwise, Belgian law will apply to any discussion arising out of the use of the Tack & Tact websites and the courts of Antwerp have exclusive jurisdiction.

What personal data does Tack & Tact collect?

Tack & Tact LLC is a consulting company providing international business and project management services. To do this, relevant data is collected about all companies and organisations.

Tack & Tact processes the following personal data about you. See tables at the bottom of this page.

How does Tack & Tact obtain your personal data?

Tack & Tact LLC uses various private sources to collect personal data

• From you yourself, for example where it concerns information supplied by the relevant company itself, or data that have come into the public domain by virtue of their own activities. This includes, for example, the annual figures for your enterprise;
• Tack & Tact clients and others who have a business or financial relationship with
• Tack & Tact that is relevant for the purpose of the collection and processing of the data;
• Payment behaviour of your enterprise based on the payment experiences other organisations have had with your enterprise.
• Other (commercial) parties Tack & Tact does business with

For what purposes and on what basis does Tack & Tact process personal data?

Tack & Tact relies on its ‘legitimate interest’ as the legal basis for processing data as part of its services.

Tack & Tact processes your personal data on the basis of its ‘legitimate interest’. In that event, the General Data Protection Regulation (hereinafter: ‘GDPR’) requires from Tack & Tact, before it begins processing your personal data, that it carefully weighs up its legitimate interest, and thereby the interests of the services Tack & Tact and its clients provide (being the reliability of the economic traffic and a safe way of doing business) on the one hand, and your basic rights and fundamental liberties as an entrepreneur concerning the protection of personal data, on the other hand.

In considering your interests, Tack & Tact has looked at the possible consequences that the processing of your personal data might have for you. In doing so, Tack & Tact has taken into account, among other things, the following:

• The nature of your personal data: Tack & Tact processes only a limited amount of business-related personal data, such as your name, address, function title, date of birth, and, if available, phone number, e-mail address, and financial data (for example using the annual accounts for your company as published with the NBB). This data is obtained from private (Yourself through applications) sources.
• How your personal data is being processed: Tack & Tact exclusively processes personal data within a business context, for the performance of B2B activities. It supports companies and institutes in the area of project management activities, by processing and providing information about companies, through a business score, business information report, or otherwise. This information, including personal data, is predominantly derived from private sources. Tack & Tact merges this information and, in doing so, only selects that data which is required to compile accurate business information about your enterprise.
• Your privacy expectations: Because you are an enterprise, you participate in the economic traffic. Therefore, data about your enterprise is recorded in registers which, for transparency and reliability reasons, are accessible to everyone. In consequence, entrepreneurs can generally expect that this public data will be processed by, for example, business information specialists like Tack & Tact, which, in that way, contribute to the security of the economic traffic and to a healthier economy.

In consideration of the above, we conclude that Tack & Tact and our clients have a legitimate interest in the processing of your business-related personal data. If you would like to receive a detailed substantiation of Tack & Tact’s legitimate interest, please contact us.

Does Tack & Tact share personal data with other parties?

Tack & Tact shares data only with partners, such as consultants and suppliers.

How does Tack & Tact protect your personal data?

The protection of the privacy and confidentiality of your personal data is very important to Tack & Tact, as such Tack & Tact ensures adequate technical and organisational measures are in place to secure personal data against very form of illegitimate processing, loss, and misuse.
Tack & Tact works with a quality management system which guarantees a consistent service level that complies with the client’s requirements and applicable law and regulations.

What rights do you have with regard to your personal data?

As a data subject, you have several rights, which you can exercise within the framework of our processing of your data:

• Right of access: you can ask Tack & Tact to provide you with the personal data that is being stored by Tack & Tact
• Right of correction and right of erasure: if the information contains errors, is incomplete, or is not relevant for the purpose for which it is processed, or otherwise conflicts with the legal requirement, you can request that Tack & Tact corrects, supplements, or removes that personal data;
• Right of limitation of processing: to limit the processing of your personal data.
• Right of objection: objecting against the processing of your personal data; when your personal data is being used for direct marketing, you may object at any time against that processing. You also have the right to object against profiling.
• Right of portability of data: the right to have your personal data transferred to another supplier that provides the same service. Because other suppliers make use of the same public sources, Tack & Tact will not transfer that data.

What rights do you have with regard to your personal data?

Would you like to know more about Tack & Tact’s vision for privacy, or do you have a question or suggestion? You can contact us by e-mail: m.desk@tacktact.com

This Privacy Statement may be updated from time to time. Therefore, we recommend that you regularly consult our Privacy Statement, to ensure you are informed of any changes.