Privacy statement

Meridian & Partners attaches great importance to the protection of your personal data. We process only what is necessary to advise you, and no more. This statement explains what we process, why, for how long, and what rights you have.

1. Who is responsible

The controller is Bedrijvenmakelaardij B.V., trading as Meridian & Partners, established in Belgium, registered with the Belgian Crossroads Bank for Enterprises under number 0454.886.250. For questions about this statement, contact directie@meridian-partners.be.

2. What we process

Contact details. Name, role, company, email address, telephone number and postal address, when you contact us or become a client.

File data. Financial and business information about your company, to the extent required for our engagement.

Identification data. Identity documents, ultimate beneficial ownership and source of funds, to the extent we are legally required to collect them under anti-money-laundering legislation.

Website usage. Anonymised visitor statistics. We use no advertising cookies and no third-party tracking.

3. Purposes and legal bases

Performance of the engagement. To carry out our work, invoice and communicate with you. Basis: performance of a contract.

Legal obligations. Accounting, tax retention and, where applicable, client due diligence. Basis: legal obligation.

Answering your enquiry. When you use the contact form. Basis: pre-contractual steps at your request.

Security and improvement of our services. Basis: legitimate interest, using anonymised data only.

4. Who we share data with

Your data stays with us and is used only for your file. We never provide information about your company to a prospective buyer or investor without your prior written approval and without that party having signed a confidentiality agreement.

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We do use service providers who process data on our behalf: our email and document environment, our hosting provider, our virtual data room provider and our accountant. A processing agreement is in place with each.

Processing takes place within the European Economic Area where possible; for transfers outside it, appropriate safeguards such as the European Commission's standard contractual clauses apply.

We may also provide data to supervisory, judicial or other public authorities where legally required.

5. Retention

Contact form messages are kept for a maximum of twelve months where no engagement follows. File data is kept for the statutory limitation and retention periods after completion. Data collected under anti-money-laundering legislation is kept for the period prescribed.

6. Security

We apply appropriate technical and organisational measures, including two-factor authentication on all accounts, device encryption, encrypted transmission of confidential documents, need-to-know access, and a fixed verification procedure for changes to payment details. We never accept changes to bank details by email alone.

7. Your rights

You have the right of access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, data portability, and objection to processing based on legitimate interest. Where processing rests on consent, you may withdraw it at any time without affecting the lawfulness of earlier processing.

Requests can be sent to directie@meridian-partners.be. We respond within thirty days and may request additional identification first.

If you are not satisfied with how we handle your request, you may lodge a complaint with the Belgian Data Protection Authority, Drukpersstraat 35, 1000 Brussels, or with the supervisory authority in your country of residence.

8. Changes

We may amend this statement. The current version is always on this page, with the date of last amendment at the top.

12. Legal notice

Meridian & Partners advises on the sale, acquisition and capitalisation of businesses. Our service consists of advice and guidance on transactions; we provide no investment services and require no licence for them.

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The information on this website is general in nature and intended for orientation. It is not investment, legal or tax advice, and it is neither an offer nor an invitation to make one. Tailored advice follows only after an engagement.

In every file we sit on one side of the table: our client's. We make that choice at the outset and hold to it for the whole engagement.

The legal entity behind Meridian & Partners is Bedrijvenmakelaardij B.V., registered with the Belgian Crossroads Bank for Enterprises under number 0454.886.250.