Privacy Statement¶

Welcome to The Framework. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy statement will inform you about how we look after your personal data when you visit our website and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

1. Who We Are¶

The Framework is a blog and professional service website dedicated to Software Architecture for Dynamics 365 Business Central. For the purposes of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Data Controller is:

Name/Company Name: The Framework
Address: Prieelstraat 88, 1730 Asse Belgium

2. The Data We Collect About You¶

Personal data means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. We may collect, use, store, and transfer different kinds of personal data about you, which we have grouped together as follows:

Identity Data: includes your first name and last name (if provided via the Contact form).
Contact Data: includes your email address.
Technical Data: includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
Usage Data: includes information about how you use our website, products, and services.

3. How Is Your Personal Data Collected?¶

We use different methods to collect data from and about you, including through:

Direct interactions: You may give us your Identity and Contact Data by filling in forms (e.g., our Contact form) or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email, or otherwise.
Automated technologies or interactions: As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs, and other similar technologies.

4. How We Use Your Personal Data¶

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

To respond to your inquiries submitted via our Contact page.
To administer and protect our business and this website (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting, and hosting of data).

5. Data Security & Retention¶

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered, or disclosed.

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. By default, inquiries submitted via our contact form are retained for 1 year for customer service purposes, but we do not use the information submitted through them for marketing purposes unless explicitly agreed.

6. Disclosures of Your Personal Data¶

We may have to share your personal data with third-party service providers who provide IT and system administration services (such as our website host GitHub Pages and our contact form provider Formspree) to ensure the proper functioning of the website. We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law.

Under European data protection laws, you have rights in relation to your personal data, including the right to:

Request access to your personal data.
Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you.
Request erasure of your personal data.
Object to processing of your personal data.
Request restriction of processing of your personal data.
Request the transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party (Data Portability).
Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data.

If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us through our contact form or via LinkedIn.

You also have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Belgian Data Protection Authority (Gegevensbeschermingsautoriteit / Autorité de protection des données), the Belgian supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.gegevensbeschermingsautoriteit.be).

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