Privacy statement | Georix Engineering

1. Who is responsible?

The controller of your data is Georix Engineering BV, with registered office at [address], company number [number]. For questions about privacy, email info@georix.be.

2. Which data do we process, and why?

Situation	Data	Why	Retention period
You visit our website	IP address, date and time, requested page, referrer, browser type and operating system (in the server logs of Gandi)	To display and secure the website and to detect faults or misuse	A few weeks up to a few months at most, after which they are automatically overwritten or deleted
You email or call us	Name, email address, phone number, content of your message	To answer your question and prepare a possible quote or collaboration	3 years after the last contact, or for as long as an assignment runs and the legal period afterwards
You apply, or ask for an internship or master's thesis	Name, contact details, CV, motivation and other data you send yourself	To assess your application and contact you	12 months after the last contact; longer only with your consent
You are a client, or a contact at a client or partner	Name, job title, company, contact details, data about the assignment and invoicing	To carry out the assignment, invoice and comply with accounting law	During the assignment and afterwards the legal retention period, for example 7 years for accounting records

3. On what legal basis?

Legitimate interest for displaying and securing the website: we want a secure, stable website that works well and that allows us to detect misuse.
Performance of a contract or pre-contractual steps when you ask us a question, request a quote or give us an assignment.
Legal obligation, for example for accounting.
Your consent when we keep your application longer than the usual period. You can withdraw this consent at any time.

4. With whom do we share your data?

We do not sell your data. We do use parties that help us, so-called processors, who work only on our instructions:

Gandi SAS (France), for hosting the website, our domain name and the DNS.
Microsoft (Microsoft 365), for our email and documents.
Our accountant, IT supplier and insurer, to the extent necessary.

We also pass on data to public authorities when the law requires us to.

5. Does your data leave Europe?

Our hosting provider Gandi SAS is established in the European Union (France) and its servers are located in France or Luxembourg. Microsoft may process data outside the European Economic Area, for example in the United States. Microsoft relies on recognised safeguards for this, such as the EU-US Data Privacy Framework or the standard contractual clauses of the European Commission.

6. Cookies

Our website does not use cookies. You will find more information on the Cookies page.

7. How do we protect your data?

We take appropriate technical and organisational measures: secure connections (https), access management, two-factor authentication on our accounts and access only for those who need it.

8. What are your rights?

You can ask us for:

access to the data we hold about you;
rectification of incorrect data;
erasure of your data, if we no longer need it;
restriction of processing;
portability of your data to yourself or another party, where applicable;
to stop processing based on our legitimate interest (objection).

Email us at info@georix.be. We reply within one month. We may ask for proof of identity to prevent someone else from requesting your data.

9. Complaints

Are you unhappy with how we handle your data? Please contact us first, we are happy to find a solution. You can also lodge a complaint with the Belgian Data Protection Authority: Rue de la Presse 35, 1000 Brussels, www.dataprotectionauthority.be.

10. Changes

We may amend this statement, for example if we add new services to the website. The date at the bottom shows the latest version.

Last updated: 8 November 2026.