Privacy Statement: Bevraging toegangsprocedures binnenvaart

Port of Antwerp-Bruges (as specified and hereinafter referred to as "POAB", "we" or "us") attaches great importance to the protection of personal data. Personal data consist of all the information about an identified or identifiable natural person (hereinafter referred to as the "data subject", "you" or "your"). POAB will protect your personal data at all times in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council 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, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (hereinafter the "General Data Protection Regulation" or "GDPR"), including any national or international legislation implementing or replacing the GDPR (hereinafter collectively referred to as the "Applicable Privacy Legislation") that is applicable now or that may apply in the future.

This notification concerning the processing of your personal data (hereinafter “Privacy Statement”) was drawn up in order to provide you with clear information concerning the processing of your personal data and your rights as a data subject in relation to the TOOL application on the My Port of Antwerp-Bruges platform. Please therefore read this document carefully and if you have any questions, please contact us using the contact details in Section 9 below.

This privacy notice applies to the processing of personal data of the following categories of data subjects: 

• Employees of Terminals in the Port who complete the survey on inland navigation access procedures.

The controller for this processing is Port of Antwerp-Burges.

POAB processes the personal data that it obtained from you when you completed the survey.

Only POAB will process these data.

Your personal data will not be transferred outside the European Economic Area (EEA).

POAB will retain your personal data for as long as necessary to achieve the purposes mentioned in article 3. This is a maximum of 6 months. After that, the personal data will be deleted/anonymised. 

For more information you can always contact [email protected].

In accordance with the Applicable Privacy Legislation, you may exercise the following rights (if and to the extent applicable):

• You can request access to and receive a copy of any personal data we have processed concerning you;
• You can also request that any of your personal data that are incorrect or incomplete be corrected or completed;
• You can request that your personal data be erased;
• You can object to the processing of your personal data, ask us to restrict the processing of your personal data or request the portability of your personal data.
• If we collect and process your personal data with your consent, you can withdraw your consent at any time. The withdrawal of your consent does not affect the lawfulness of any processing based on your consent before its withdrawal.

You can exercise these rights by sending an email to [email protected]. We will handle your request in accordance with the Applicable Privacy Legislation.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Belgian Data Protection Authority:

Data Protection Authority
Rue de la Presse 35, 1000 Brussels
+32 (0)2 274 48 00
+32 (0)2 274 48 35
[email protected]

POAB is responsible for collecting and using your personal data as described in this Privacy Notice. You can contact our DPO (Data Protection Officer) via [email protected].

We may update this Privacy Statement from time to time to comply with business, legal or technical developments. Whenever we update our Privacy Statement, we will take appropriate measures to inform you, depending on the significance of the changes and the statutory requirements in that regard.