Privacy Policy

Welcome to Nashat Consulting Privacy Policy

  1. Hi there, this is Daria Nashat a business registered at the Belgian Chamber of Commerce. This privacy policy sets out how I handle your personal information if you’re a client of Nashat Consulting or a visitor of the my website.
  2. When I say ‘Nashat Consulting’ or ‘I’ it’s because I own and run this business and website.
  3. If I say ‘policy’, I’m talking about this privacy policy. It contains the rules for working with me and when using Nashat Consulting’ services.

The type of personal information Nashat Consulting collects

  1. I collect certain personal information about my clients as well as the visitors of the Nashat Consulting website.
  2. The most common types of information I collect include:
  • First and last name
  • email addresses
  • telephone numbers
  • mail addresses
  • transactional details
  • information you give about yourself during training processes (think of personal information about yourself and your situation etc.)
  • information you give about yourself when filling in my forms (think of personal characteristics, preferences and traits)
  • survey responses (e.g. evaluation questionnaire)
  • testimonials about Nashat Consulting
  • IP addresses and other web analytics data

How Nashat Consulting collects personal information

  1. I collect personal information directly when you provide it to me, through other people (e.g. HR responsible, line manager), or automatically as you navigate through the website.
  2. I collect your personal information when you provide it
  • when contacting me regarding my services
  • when agreeing to a training or coaching contract
  • when working with me during a training/coaching process (one on one, coaching programs, workshops)
  • when filling out a survey
  • when sending me an email, letter, short message, etc.

How Nashat Consulting uses personal information

  1. I use your personal information:
  • to fulfill the contract/agreement we have and to deliver the related services
  • where this is necessary for purposes which are in Nashat Consulting’ legitimate interests. These interests include:

– providing you with services described on my Nashat Consulting website
– managing my relationship with you, e.g. by responding to your comments or queries submitted to me per email or asking for your feedback
– managing Nashat Consulting’ legal and operational affairs
– improving Nashat Consulting’ services
– providing general administrative and performance functions and activities
– operating the Nashat Consulting website

  • for purposes which are required by law
  • for responding to requests by government, a court of law, or law enforcement authorities conducting an investigation

When Nashat Consulting discloses your personal information

  1. I will disclose personal information to the following recipients:
  • subcontractors and service providers who assist Nashat Consulting in connection in providing its services, in particular: website hosting provider which is located in Amsterdam, Netherlands; and service providers who I use to provide diagnostic services in the Netherlands, and UK;
  • my professional advisers (lawyers, accountants, financial advisers etc.) which are located in Belgium and the Netherlands
  • regulators and government authorities in connection with compliance procedures and obligations
  • a third party to respond to requests relating to a criminal investigation or alleged or suspected illegal activity
  • a third party in order to enforce or defend Nashat Consulting rights, or to address financial or reputational risks
  • other recipients where I am authorized or required by law to do so.

Where Nashat Consulting stores and/or transfers your personal information

  1. Nashat Consulting is based in Belgium so your data will be mainly processed locally in the Belgium. Some of the recipients I have mentioned in section 9 above, and to whom I disclose your personal information, are based outside of Belgium in places like the Netherlands. I do this based on your consent to this policy. To protect your information, I take care where possible to work with subcontractors and service providers who I believe maintain an acceptable standard of data security compliance.

How long Nashat Consulting keeps your personal information

  1. I retain your personal information for as long as is necessary to provide the services to you and others, and to comply with legal obligations.
  2. In line with the Belgian regulations, I need to keep my administration for seven years. This means that a copy of contracts and invoices I send you will stay in my system for seven years. Probably longer, since it’s a part of my business administration paperwork.
  3. If requested by you, I delete all my notes and working documents after a coaching/training process is finished.

How Nashat Consulting keeps your personal information secure

  1. I store personal information on locally and secured hard drives, and occasionally hard copy files that are kept in a secure location in the Belgium. Personal information that I store or transmit is protected by security and access controls, including username and password authentication and data encryption where appropriate.

How you can access your personal information

  1. You have the right to make a request to receive the personal information I hold about you and to request corrections of any errors in that data. To make an access or correction request, please contact me per email.
  2. You can also request to delete your personal information. Due to Belgian regulations, I need to keep some information for a certain amount of time (see #11).

What about cookies and web analytics

  1. The Nashat Consulting website doesn’t use cookies.
  2. My website is hosted by Greengeeks, a company in the US. The information you enter through my website lives, within my sites database, on their servers in the Netherlands. The host also automatically collects and saves information in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically transmits. These are:
  • IP address
  • Browser
  • Operating system
  • Referrer URL
  • Country
  • Time of server request
  • Pages visited
  • Duration of visit
  • Downloads

This data cannot be attributed to specific people. This data is not merged with other data sources. Nashat Consulting reserves the right to check these data at a later date, if I am aware of any concrete indications for unlawful use.

Not happy?

  1. If you feel that my compliance with privacy legislation is not correct, please let me know so I can fix it. If you are not happy with my response, you have every right to complain, the official body to do so in Blegium is the ‘Gegevensbeschermingsautoriteit’.