Privacy and Cookie Policy

I. Legal terms: BECOFFI GALERIE

This site, www.becoffigalerie.net (hereinafter the “Site”), is published by BECOFFI & co, a private limited company with share capital of 3,000 Euros, registered with the Belgian Crossroads Bank for Enterprises under number 1036.589.114, whose registered office is at Rue de la Grande-Louvière (L.L) 13 - 7100 La Louvière - email: becoffigalerie@becoffigalerie.com

The manager of BECOFFI GALERIE and Publication Director is Mr Coffi Barboza.

BECOFFI GALERIE is located at 46 rue Ravenstein, 1000 Brussels (Rotonde Galerie Ravenstein, Brussels).

Hosting of the Site is provided by the company cargo.site.

Access to the Site and use of its content are subject to the terms of use set out below. Accessing and browsing the Site constitutes unreserved acceptance by the user of the following provisions.

II. Intellectual property

II.1 Ownership

BECOFFI GALERIE owns the domain name of the Site.

The Site as a whole, as well as the elements composing it (in particular texts, tree structures, software, animations, photographs, videos, illustrations, diagrams, graphic representations, logos, etc.) constitute works of the mind protected by the provisions of Book XI of the Code of Economic Law (CEL). The Site and the elements composing it are the exclusive property of BECOFFI GALERIE, which alone is entitled to exercise the intellectual property rights and personality rights attached to them.

II.2 Sanctions

The use of all or part of the Site, in particular by downloading, reproduction, transmission, representation or distribution for purposes other than the user's personal and private, non-commercial use, is strictly prohibited. Infringement of BECOFFI GALERIE's rights exposes its author to the sanctions provided both by the Intellectual Property Code, in particular for copyright and trade mark infringement, and by the Civil Code in matters of civil liability, Book XI (Intellectual Property) of the Code of Economic Law, more particularly Articles XI.165 et seq. for copyright, as well as Title 5 (Articles XI.295 et seq.) concerning sanctions and remedies.

II.3 Hyperlinks

The creation of any hyperlink pointing to any of the web pages or elements composing the Site is prohibited, save with the prior written authorisation of BECOFFI GALERIE, such authorisation being revocable at any time. All sites carrying a hyperlink to the Site or to any of the elements composing it are not under the control of BECOFFI GALERIE, which therefore declines all liability (in particular editorial) concerning access to those sites and their content.

III. Personal data

This section is devoted to our Privacy Protection Policy and is intended to inform users of the Site about the personal data collected during their browsing and its use by BECOFFI GALERIE, as well as about their rights. This Policy is therefore important for you, who wish to have a positive and confident experience of our Services, and for Us, who wish to answer your questions about your visit to our site precisely and fully and to take your wishes into account.

III.1 Nature of the personal data collected

“Personal data” means any personal information within the meaning of the applicable law and regulations on personal data, in particular the General Data Protection Regulation of 27 April 2016 (hereinafter the “GDPR”), which users may provide to BECOFFI GALERIE when subscribing to the newsletter, when creating an account on the Site, or when using the “Consign my works” or “artist enquiries” sections. This data includes in particular, but is not limited to, users' surnames, first names, date of birth, login and password of the account registered on the Site, e-mail address, postal addresses, telephone number and, where applicable, bank details.

This personal data, of whatever nature, may enable BECOFFI GALERIE, directly or indirectly, to identify and better know users and to send them newsletters and/or to reply to their messages or to the forms they submit on the Site. The user undertakes to answer the questions put to them when subscribing to the newsletter or when using the forms of the Site, and to provide BECOFFI GALERIE in that context with complete, accurate and up-to-date information that does not prejudice the interests or rights of third parties.

Where such information is not provided, or where inaccurate personal data is supplied, BECOFFI GALERIE cannot be held liable if the user does not receive the gallery's communications and offers, or if a request submitted on the Site is not processed.

III.2 Consent

No personal data is collected without the consent of users. By subscribing to the newsletter, by sending a message via the “Contact”, “Artist enquiries” or “Consign my works” sections of the Site, or by creating a customer account on the Site, the customer consents to the collection and processing of their personal data by the Company. Whether the information to be provided to BECOFFI GALERIE in the context of the collection carried out on the Site is optional or mandatory will be indicated to users beforehand. Users are in no way obliged to transmit personal data to BECOFFI GALERIE.

III.3 Identity of the controller of personal data processing

The company BECOFFI GALERIE is responsible for the collection and processing of the personal data of users of the Site.

III.4 Recipient(s) of the personal data

BECOFFI GALERIE is in principle the sole recipient of the personal data collected on the Site.

BECOFFI GALERIE transmits personal data to a third party only in the following cases:

The user has given prior consent to the sharing of their personal data,
BECOFFI GALERIE must share this information with third parties in order to provide Users with the service requested,
BECOFFI GALERIE is required by a judicial authority or any other administrative authority to disclose the personal data.

III.5 Use of personal data

The personal data relating to users collected on the Site is processed by BECOFFI GALERIE in accordance with the applicable law and regulations on personal data, in particular the GDPR.

BECOFFI GALERIE uses the personal data provided by Users for the following purposes:

Sending newsletters and communications of an event-related or commercial nature;
Commercial prospecting;
Processing requests submitted on the Site, including but not limited to requests concerning works of art available for sale, requests for the valuation of works of art held by users, putting users in contact with BECOFFI GALERIE staff or any expert able to value secondary-market works, providing an estimate for secondary-market works entrusted by users to BECOFFI GALERIE, and searching for potential buyers for secondary-market works.

III.6 Retention of personal data

Data relating to users is kept for a period of three (3) years from the date the account was created or from the last transaction carried out by the customer from their account, except for the storage of bank details, which are kept for 10 years.

III.7 Users' rights

In accordance with Articles 15 et seq. of the GDPR, every user has a right of access and a right to rectify, complete, update, block or erase the personal data concerning them and, on legitimate grounds, to object to its processing. To exercise these rights, the user may contact BECOFFI GALERIE by e-mail at the following address: becoffigalerie@becoffigalerie.com.

III.8 Cookies

When browsing the Site, information relating to the browsing of the user's terminal (computer, tablet, smartphone, etc.) may be recorded in “Cookie” files installed on the user's terminal.

Only the sender of a cookie is able to read or modify the information contained in it.

When the user connects to the Site, BECOFFI GALERIE may install various cookies on the user's terminal enabling it to recognise the browser for the period of validity of the cookie concerned. The Cookies issued by BECOFFI GALERIE are used for the purposes described below, subject to the user's choices, which result from the settings of the browsing software used when visiting the Site. The Cookies issued by the Site make it possible:

to implement security measures, for example when you are asked to log in again to a piece of content or a service after a certain period of time;
to count the number of visits to the Site and thereby to produce statistics.

The issue and use of cookies by third parties are subject to those third parties' privacy protection policies. We inform you of the purpose of the cookies we are aware of and of the means available to you to make choices about those cookies. Where applicable, the cookies issued by those third parties may enable them, for the period of validity of those cookies, to recognise you.

Your choices concerning cookies

Several options are available to you for managing cookies. Any setting you may apply is liable to alter your browsing on the Internet and your conditions of access to certain services requiring the use of Cookies.

You may choose at any time to express and change your wishes regarding cookies, by the means described below. You can configure your browsing software so that cookies are stored on your terminal or, on the contrary, so that they are rejected, either systematically or according to their sender. You can also configure your browsing software so that acceptance or refusal of cookies is offered to you from time to time, before a cookie is liable to be stored on your terminal. For more information, see the section “How to exercise your choices, depending on the browser you use?”

(a) Agreement to Cookies

The storage of a cookie on a terminal is essentially subject to the wishes of the Terminal's user, which they may express and change at any time and free of charge through the choices offered by their browsing software.

If you have accepted in your browsing software the storage of cookies on your Terminal, the cookies embedded in the pages and content you have viewed may be stored temporarily in a dedicated space on your Terminal. There they will be readable only by their sender.

(b) Refusal of Cookies

If you refuse the storage of cookies on your terminal, or if you delete those already stored there, you will no longer be able to benefit from a number of features which are nonetheless necessary to browse certain areas of our site. This would be the case if you tried to access our content or services that require you to identify yourself. This would also be the case where we, or our providers, were unable to recognise, for technical compatibility purposes, the type of browser used by your terminal, its language and display settings, or the country from which your terminal appears to be connected to the Internet.

Where applicable, BECOFFI GALERIE declines all liability for the consequences of the degraded operation of its services resulting from BECOFFI GALERIE's inability to store or read the cookies necessary for their operation, which you have refused or deleted.

(c) How to exercise your choices, depending on the browser you use?

For the management of cookies and of your choices, the configuration of each browser is different. It is described in your browser's help menu, which will tell you how to change your wishes regarding cookies.

For Internet Explorer™: windows.microsoft.com
For Safari™: docs.info.apple.com
For Chrome™: support.google.com
For Firefox™: support.mozilla.org
For Opera™: help.opera.com

IV. Liability

BECOFFI GALERIE endeavours, to the best of its ability, to ensure the accuracy and updating of the information published on the Site, the content of which it reserves the right to correct at any time and without notice. However, BECOFFI GALERIE cannot guarantee the accuracy, precision and completeness of the information made available on the Site, which information constitutes neither a warranty nor an undertaking on the part of BECOFFI GALERIE towards the user. In particular, BECOFFI GALERIE cannot be held liable:

for any imprecision, inaccuracy or omission concerning information available on the Site;
for any damage resulting from a third party's computer intrusion having led to a modification of the information made available on the Site and, more generally, for any damage, direct or indirect, whatever its causes, origins, nature and consequences, caused by anyone's access to the Site or inability to access it, as well as by the use of the Site and/or reliance placed on any information coming directly or indirectly from it.

BECOFFI GALERIE implements means intended to ensure the security of the files built from the personal data collected on the Site. It is nonetheless recalled that BECOFFI GALERIE does not control the risks inherent in the working of the Internet and draws users' attention to the existence of possible risks in terms of the confidentiality of data travelling over that network.

V. Amendments to legal terms

BECOFFI GALERIE informs users visiting the Site that these terms may be amended at any time. Such amendments are published by being placed online and are deemed accepted without reservation by any user who accesses the Site after they are placed online.

VI. Disputes

These terms are established in accordance with Belgian law and in particular with the provisions of the Belgian Code of Economic Law (in particular within Book XII) relating to information technology, files and freedoms. The courts within the jurisdiction of the Brussels court, Belgium, have territorial jurisdiction to hear any dispute relating to the use of the Site, save for contrary provisions arising from the Regulation of the Belgian Code of Economic Law on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters (Brussels I).

For any question the user may have about the use of the Site and/or about these terms, or for any other request, an e-mail may be sent to BECOFFI GALERIE at the following address: becoffigalerie@becoffigalerie.com.

1. Scope and Application

This Policy applies to persons anywhere in the world who access or use BECOFFI GALERIE’s Services or provide us with Services, or provide us with information, including advisors (including legal), accountants, professional experts, clients & customers, complainants, correspondents, enquirers, members of BECOFFI GALERIE Network, relatives and associates, staff (agents, employees), suppliers and artists (“Users”).

2. Collection of Information

Information you give us and we collect about you By providing information or filling in forms or using our Services or when we are using yours (as the case may be), or by corresponding with us (for example, by telephone, e-mail or any other digital or electronic form) you are providing us with personal data. It includes for example information you provide when you contact us, register for newsletters or other subscription services, or when you contact us for enquiry purposes or when you report a problem with our website, or when you are using any of our Services or when we are using yours (as the case may be).

If you contact us, we will keep at least an electronic record of such correspondence, including personal information shared at that time, in order to reply or process it as per your request.

The personal information you give us and we collect about you may include your name, gender, age, date of birth, place of birth, address, e-mail address and phone number, certain device information, username, password, residential building, work address, photograph, billing address, identity documents, social media username and private messaging application username, bank account details, and other information you choose to provide (“Personal Information” or “Personal Data”). During the course of our Services we collect and process Personal Data in accordance with the DP Law and applicable laws, including for specific, lawful purposes explained herein or at the time of collection, or for the performance of tasks carried out in your interests or the legitimate interests of BECOFFI GALERIE.

Information we collect about your device

Each time you use our website we may and often will automatically collect the following information:

technical information, including the type of mobile device you use, a unique device identifier (for example, mobile network information, your mobile operating system, the type of mobile browser you use, device token, device type, time zone setting) (“Device Information”);
details of your use of our Website including, but not limited to traffic data, weblogs and other communication data, and the resources that you access (“Log Information”);
location information if the Website uses GPS technology to determine your current location. If you wish to use the particular feature, you may be asked to opt-in to your data being used for this purpose.

If you do not wish to share certain data with us or do not want us to use / share it for certain purposes (to the extent possible, in accordance with applicable laws and information in this notice), you can alter your preferences at any time. Where applicable, please check with your device provider's instructions for further information about how to do this.

3. Use of Personal Data

We may use Personal Data which you provide to us or we collect from you in the following contexts:

To proceed with BECOFFI GALERIE Auditing & Accounting,
To administrate our clients records, potential clients records and membership records,
To advertise and marketing our Services, including, for example sending you invitation to our event on social media to your account on a private messaging application,
In connection with the consultancy & advisory services, as well as legal services, that you are providing to us (as the case may be),
To manage the invoicing and payment of our employees, suppliers and the payment of our clients, for example by saving your bank account details in our records,
To deal with lawful authorities for licensing & registration purposes, for instance by communicate your name to a court upon a lawful and valid court order from a relevant jurisdiction,
To operate some researches in relation to the applicable laws and regulatory requirements, for instance in the context of our mandatory obligations regarding anti-money laundering compliance,
To manage and administrate our staff,
To provide, maintain, and improve our Website or our Services, including, for example, to facilitate payments, send receipts, provide products and services you request (and send related information about them), develop new features that will enhance your user experience and our efficiency, provide customer support to Users, authenticate users, and send administrative messages, whether information-only or required by applicable law;
To perform internal regulatory, administrative and operational requirements, including, for example, to prevent fraud or abuse of our Services; to troubleshoot software bugs and operational problems; to conduct permitted data analysis, testing, and research; to ensure you and BECOFFI GALERIE are complying with internal or external legal requirements, including those that necessitate use of digital systems; and to monitor usage and activity trends;
To send you communications we think will be of interest to you based on your previous interactions with us, including information about products, services, promotions, news, and BECOFFI GALERIE events, where permissible under DIFC Laws and guidance, and according to any other applicable laws; and to process contest, sweepstake, or other promotion entries and fulfill any related awards;
To notify you about changes to this Policy,
To allow you to participate in any interactive features of our Website,
To keep our website and our Services safe and secure; or/and,
To personalize and improve the Website and our Services, including to provide or recommend features, content, social connections, referrals, and advertisements, in accordance with your preferences, to the extent permissible by law.

4. Processing, Storage and Transfer of Personal Data

We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure your Personal Data is processed fairly and lawfully, in accordance with the DP Law, other applicable laws and this Policy. By submitting your Personal Data, we expect you to understand that such transfer, storing or processing in order for BECOFFI GALERIE to perform its general administrative functions is necessary and will be done in a proportionate, lawful manner, including but not limited to responding to enquiries you raise via our Website, or to the following email address: becoffigalerie@becoffigalerie.com, oversight of the business entities registered in DIFC’s jurisdiction and maintaining contacts for future informational or promotional activities. Unless otherwise notified, BECOFFI GALERIE does not ordinarily rely solely on automated decision making when processing your Personal Data.

In order to conduct our operations or fulfil regulatory obligations, we may transfer the Personal Data described in this Policy to BECOFFI GALERIE’s affiliates, including in Belgium where the General Data Protection Regulation applies. However, we take appropriate security measures to protect your Personal Data in accordance with this Policy.

To preserve the integrity of our databases, to carry out on-going Services on behalf of all Users or to be provided with Services (as the case may be), for research, analytics and statistics purposes and to ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulations, we retain Personal Data submitted by Users for a reasonable length of time unless otherwise prescribed by applicable law.

BECOFFI GALERIE is not responsible for the accuracy of the information you provide, and will modify or update your Personal Data in our databases when you provide updated information or ad hoc upon your request, as further outlined below. We will erase or put beyond active use your Personal Data upon request, unless we are required to retain it in accordance with DIFC or other applicable laws or to perform agreed services, in which case we align with applicable principles such as purpose specification and data minimization.

If it is not disproportionate or prejudicial, and required beyond this policy’s notices, we will contact you to let you know we are processing your personal information.

By providing our Services, or when you provide Services to us, we reasonably expect that you understand that all information submitted by you to BECOFFI GALERIE may be used by us to support these processing operations, in accordance with applicable laws and its policies.

5. Sharing of Personal Data

We may share Personal Data which we collect about you as described in this Policy or as described at the time of collection or sharing, including as follows:

With third parties to provide you a service that you requested through a partnership or promotional offering made by a third party or us; or
With third parties with whom you choose to let us share your Personal Data, for example other apps or websites that integrate with our API or Website Services, or those with an API or Service with which we integrate;
With BECOFFI GALERIE subsidiaries and affiliated entities, to the extent permissible by law;
With vendors, consultants, marketing and advertising partners, and other service providers who need access to such Personal Data to carry out work on our behalf or to perform a contract we enter into with them;
If we otherwise notify you and you provide your affirmative opt-in to share your data, where needed;
In response to a request for information by a competent authority or government entities if we determine that such disclosure is in accordance with, or is otherwise required by any applicable law, regulation, or legal process;
With law enforcement officials, government entities or authorities, or other third parties as required by applicable law;
With third parties in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, consolidation or restructuring, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by or into another company; or
With third parties in an aggregated and/or anonymized or pseudonymized form that cannot reasonably be used to identify you.

Government Data Sharing

In some circumstances we are legally obliged to share information with public authorities or law enforcement. For example, we may be required to provide information related to a court order or where we must cooperate with supervisory authorities in handling complaints or investigations. In any scenario, we’ll attempt to satisfy ourselves that we have a lawful basis on which to share the information, document our decision making, and satisfy ourselves we have a legal basis on which to share the information.

We may also share information in the event of the non-payment including of a monetary penalty or court ordered costs. If the debt remains outstanding after the specified timeframe for payment, no payment plan is in place or an agreed payment plan is not being adhered to, we may initiate formal proceedings to recover the full amount of the unpaid penalty.

As a result, BECOFFI GALERIE will share Personal Data with the litigation and recovery specialists it instructs in order for them to identify assets and undertake recovery action through the courts.

6. Your Rights and Choices

Marketing and Preferences

BECOFFI GALERIE supports Users’ legal rights to opt-in or subsequently opt-out of receiving communications from us and our partners. You have the option to ask us not to process your Personal Data for marketing purposes and to remove it from our database, to not receive future communications or to no longer receive our Services.

You may change your preferences at any time.

Please note that we may continue to send you transactional or service-related e-mails despite your desire to not receive promotional or marketing e-mail messages. Additionally, please note that if you elect to opt-out of or unsubscribe from receiving promotional or other similar e-mails or messaging from one of our Services, you may continue to receive promotional emails from our other websites, providers, or other, non-affiliated marketers whose services you may have accessed via our Services.

Finally, while we may remove your individual contact information from our professional contacts database, please be aware that if such information is in a different, third party's marketing directory through your request or election, you will need to request removal with such third party directly.

Access to and Correction of Your Personal Information

You have the right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised for any reason, at any time, in accordance with DIFC and other applicable laws.

You have the right to ask us to rectify information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.

You may also request that we restrict the processing of, erase, transfer the information you gave us from one organisation to another, or otherwise process your Personal Data in line with the relevant articles providing for such rights set out in the DP Law or other applicable laws.

Any access request generally comes at no cost to you and we must respond within one month unless provided otherwise by the DP Law or other applicable laws. We may, where permissible, impose a reasonable fee to meet any extraordinary administrative costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you.

When you contact us about a potential Personal Data error or query, we will endeavor to confirm or verify the information in question, then correct verified inaccuracies and respond to the original inquiry. We will endeavor to send a correction notice to businesses or others whom we know to have received the inaccurate data, where required and / or appropriate. However, some third parties and third party sites may continue to process inaccurate data about you until their databases and display of data are refreshed in accordance with their update schedules, or until you contact them personally to ensure the correction is made in their own files.

As set out in Article 39 on the DP Law, we may not discriminate against you for exercising your rights by denying services or changing prices or quality of service, unless reasonable to do so in general, as objectively determined, and applicable to all individuals offered or receiving such benefits.

7. Security Precautions

BECOFFI GALERIE makes every effort to ensure that your Personal Data is secure on its system. BECOFFI GALERIE employees are aware of our data protection and security practices. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, BECOFFI GALERIE cannot warrant or guarantee the security of any Personal Data you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk.

If you have any further questions about our security and processing activities, please contact BECOFFI GALERIE team. To the extent permitted by applicable law, BECOFFI GALERIE expressly disclaims any liability that may arise should any other third parties obtain the Personal Data you submit through fraud or otherwise where it is no fault of BECOFFI GALERIE.

8. Cookies

A cookie is a small text file that is unique to the web browser on your computer or mobile device, which is used to retain user preferences, and enhance browsing experience ("Cookie"). BECOFFI GALERIE’s website may create a Cookie in the hard drive of the Internet user's computer solely with the aim of recognizing the said user when he or she subsequently views the website. Only the sender of a Cookie can read or modify the information contained in it. The term of conservation of information concerning browsing by the Internet user, as provided by the Cookie on the Website, shall not exceed one year. The Internet user is reminded that he or she may prevent cookies from being created on his or her hard drive by configuring their Internet browsing software accordingly (Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Safari, etc.). To this end, the Internet user is referred accordingly to the user guide of their Internet browsing software ("Help" section of the browser's toolbar) or may obtain any such information from the publisher of the said software.

BECOFFI GALERIE uses Cookies to track overall site usage and enables us to provide a better user experience. We do not use Cookies to “see” other data on your computer or determine your email address.

Alternatively you may wish to visit an independent source of information, www.aboutcookies.org, which contains comprehensive information on how to alter settings or delete Cookies from your computer as well as more general information about Cookies. For information on how to do this on the browser of your mobile phone you will need to refer to your handset manual or network operator for advice.

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9. External Links

The website may contain links to other websites on the Internet that are owned and operated by third parties (the "External Sites"). These links are provided solely as a convenience to you and not as an endorsement by BECOFFI GALERIE of the contents of or reliability on such External Sites. You acknowledge that BECOFFI GALERIE is not responsible for the availability of, or the information and content of any External Site. You should contact the site administrator or webmaster for those External Sites if you have any concerns regarding such links or the content located on such external Sites.

If you decide to access linked third party websites, you do so at your own risk. BECOFFI GALERIE does not accept liability, and shall not be liable to you for any loss or damage arising from or as a result of your acting upon the content of another website to which you may link from the Website and our Services.

10. Buildings Security and Contents

Building security records containing sign in and sign out information collected at the time of visiting and departing BECOFFI GALERIE offices and galleries will be maintained in accordance with the applicable building management policy.

To the extent permitted by applicable law, BECOFFI GALERIE is not responsible for any contents, whether or not they contain Personal data or other business information, that remain in our premises after you leave BECOFFI GALERIE offices.

11. Changes to this Policy

BECOFFI GALERIE may change this Policy from time to time and without notice. If we make significant changes in the way we treat your Personal Data, or to the Policy, we will endeavor to provide you notice through the website or by some other means, such as email. Your continued use of our Services after such notice constitutes your understanding of the changes. We encourage you to periodically review this Policy for the latest information on our privacy practices. We provide links to it through:

The website,
Incorporating it into our contracts, agreements, and other documents as necessary or appropriate.

Contact Us

If you have any questions, comments and requests related to this Policy, or if you have any complaints related to how BECOFFI GALERIE processes your personal data, please contact us by phone or email:

Phone: +32 493 07 77 02 - Email: becoffigalerie@becoffigalerie.com

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