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1. Data controller

The controller of your personal data is BEGENTLEMEN SRL, a private limited company incorporated under Belgian law, with its registered office and atelier at Avenue Louise 201, 1050 Brussels, Belgium.

Field
Detail
Company name
BEGENTLEMEN SRL
Legal form
Société à responsabilité limitée (SRL / BV)
Registered office
Avenue Louise 201, 1050 Brussels, Belgium
Enterprise number (BCE/KBO)
0649.923.061
VAT number
BE 0649.923.061
E-mail
Telephone
+32 2 648 74 78

We have not appointed a Data Protection Officer, as we are not required to do so under Article 37 GDPR. Privacy questions are handled directly by the management, at the address above.

2. What we collect, and on what legal basis

We collect only what is needed to receive you in the atelier and to make your garment. We do not operate an online shop and we take no payment through this website.

Data
Purpose
Legal basis (Art. 6 GDPR)
Name, telephone, e-mail, preferred language
Booking, confirming and rescheduling appointments; answering enquiries
Performance of a contract or steps prior to it — Art. 6(1)(b)
Appointment details: date, service requested, occasion, wedding date
Managing the atelier diary and allocating a tailor
Art. 6(1)(b)
Body measurements, posture and fit notes, garment history
Cutting your pattern and keeping it usable for later commissions
Art. 6(1)(b); retention beyond the order rests on your consent — Art. 6(1)(a)
Order and invoice data
Invoicing and statutory bookkeeping
Legal obligation — Art. 6(1)(c)
Newsletter address
Sending occasional news about the house
Consent — Art. 6(1)(a), withdrawable at any time
Cookies and site usage
Consent — Art. 6(1)(a), except strictly necessary cookies
Correspondence, including WhatsApp messages
Answering you on the channel you chose
Art. 6(1)(b) and legitimate interest — Art. 6(1)(f)

Providing your name and a means of contact is necessary to book an appointment; without it we cannot hold the slot. Everything else is optional.

Special categories. Measurement is not health data. If, however, you tell us about a physical condition that affects the cut — a prosthesis, a spinal condition, recent surgery — that note is health data under Article 9 GDPR. We record it only with your explicit consent, we keep it in your client file and nowhere else, and you may ask us to erase it at any time without affecting your order.

3. How long we keep it

We do not keep data indefinitely "just in case".

Data
Retention
Enquiries that do not lead to an appointment
12 months from the last contact
Appointment records
24 months after the appointment
Client file: measurements, pattern notes, garment history
10 years after your last order, so that a later commission can be cut from the same pattern — or until you ask us to erase it
Health-related fit notes
Erased with the client file, or immediately on request
Invoices and accounting records
7 years, as required by Belgian tax law
Newsletter subscription
Until you unsubscribe
Cookie consent proof
6 months, after which we ask you again
CCTV in the boutique, where installed
7 days, then automatic overwrite

4. Who else sees your data

We do not sell your data and we do not share it for anyone else's marketing. We do use service providers, who act as processors on our instructions under Article 28 GDPR:

Recipient
Role
Location
Our hosting provider
Website and form hosting
European Union
Our e-mail provider
Sending confirmations and correspondence
European Union
Calendar and diary software
Appointment scheduling
European Union
WhatsApp / Meta Platforms Ireland
Messaging, if you choose that channel
Ireland, with transfers to the United States
Google (Maps, Fonts, and analytics if you consent)
Map display, typography, statistics
Ireland, with transfers to the United States
Instagram / Facebook / Meta
Social profiles and campaign measurement, if you consent
Ireland, with transfers to the United States
Our accountant
Statutory bookkeeping
Belgium
Fabric mills and specialist workshops
Producing your garment, using measurements only, never your identity where avoidable
European Union and United Kingdom

We may also disclose data where a Belgian authority or court lawfully requires it.

5. Transfers outside the European Economic Area

Where a provider processes data in the United States — Meta and Google in particular — the transfer relies on the European Commission's adequacy decision for the EU–US Data Privacy Framework, and, where that does not apply, on the Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses together with supplementary technical measures.

If you would rather no data reached those providers, contact us by telephone or e-mail instead of WhatsApp, and refuse statistics and marketing cookies. Nothing is withheld from you as a result.

6. Your rights

Under Articles 15 to 22 GDPR you may:

Right
What it means
Access
Obtain a copy of the data we hold about you
Rectification
Have inaccurate data corrected — including your measurements
Erasure
Have your data deleted, unless we must keep it by law
Restriction
Have processing paused while a dispute is resolved
Portability
Receive the data you gave us in a machine-readable file
Objection
Object to processing based on our legitimate interest
Withdraw consent
Withdraw any consent at any time, without giving reasons
Automated decisions
We take no automated decisions and carry out no profiling that produces legal effects for you

Write to info@begentlemen.be or to the registered office. We reply within one month; if the request is complex we may extend that by two months and will tell you why. We may ask for proof of identity where there is genuine doubt. Exercising these rights is free.

If our answer does not satisfy you, you may complain to the Belgian Data Protection Authority — Autorité de protection des données / Gegevensbeschermingsautoriteit, Rue de la Presse 35, 1000 Brussels, +32 2 274 48 00, contact@apd-gba.be — or to the authority where you live. You may also bring the matter before the Belgian courts.

7. Security

Access to client files is limited to the tailors and staff who need it. Data is transmitted over encrypted connections, accounts are individual and password-protected, and paper measurement cards are kept in the atelier and not removed from it. Should a breach occur that presents a risk to you, we notify the Data Protection Authority within 72 hours and inform you directly where the law requires it.

8. Children

This website is not directed at children. We measure minors — for a communion, a wedding, a graduation — only in the presence of a parent or guardian, who provides any consent required.

9. Cookies

Non-essential cookies are set only after you have agreed. The categories, the individual cookies and their lifetimes are set out in the Cookie Policy, and you may change or withdraw your choice at any time via cookie settings.

10. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy when our practices or the law change. The date below always reflects the current version, and material changes are announced on the website. This policy is at present issued in English only, and the English text is the binding version. A French or Dutch copy is provided free of charge on request to info@begentlemen.be, and you are welcome to exercise your rights in French, Dutch, German or English.

11. Contact

BEGENTLEMEN SRL, Avenue Louise 201, 1050 Brussels — info@begentlemen.be — +32 2 648 74 78.