Legal notice

Legal information

Responsible publisher: Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB); internal publisher: the Perelman Centre for Legal Philosophy, hereinafter “the Perelman Centre”.
Avenue Franklin Roosevelt 50, CP 132
1050 Brussels, Belgium
Registered in the register of legal entities under number 0407.626.464.

Legal status: an educational and research institution granted legal personality by the Act of 12 August 1911, as amended by the Act of 28 May 1970.

Contact email: centreperelman@ulb.be.

Liability

The Perelman Centre website is an information resource.

The information on this website is general in nature. It is not necessarily suited to every personal or specific situation.

The Perelman Centre takes all necessary steps to ensure that the information on its website is accurate and updated as regularly as possible. It cannot, however, be held liable if incorrect information or inaccuracies remain despite these efforts.

The Perelman Centre cannot be held liable for interruptions in transmission or other technical problems affecting the Internet. Nor can it be held liable for any direct or indirect damage of any nature arising from use of this website (for example, viruses, damaged files, loss of programs or other data).

The Perelman Centre website may contain links to other websites. The Centre has control only over its own website. It undertakes, however, to remove as soon as possible any hyperlink to a website whose content it learns is unlawful.

The Perelman Centre reserves the right to amend or update the information on its website and this legal notice at any time, without prior notice.

Intellectual property

All elements of this website are the property of ULB, through the Perelman Centre, which also holds the copyright, related rights and database rights in them as assignee or producer (of audiovisual works, audio works and databases). These elements include, in particular, photographs, articles and other texts, drawings, logos, soundtracks, films, videos and other animations, and the layout.

The Perelman Centre requires its express written authorisation for any reproduction, communication or modification by a user of one or more elements of the website, on any medium, except for reproductions made for private consultation or for teaching or research purposes.

The Perelman Centre fully recognises the statutory exceptions set out in the Belgian Code of Economic Law. Within the scope of these exceptions, users must nevertheless indicate the origin of the elements they reproduce (namely the website address https://www.centreperelman.be or http://www.philodroit.be, the names of ULB and the Perelman Centre, the author’s name if mentioned on the website, and any title of the reproduced element) and must respect the moral rights of the author or authors concerned, which ULB intends to enforce.

Excluding the use of deep linking, framing and inlining techniques, the Perelman Centre authorises users to create a simple hyperlink to this website provided that the external website linking to it contains no defamatory statements or other unlawful content.

The “ULB” and “Université Libre de Bruxelles” trademarks are protected. Any use or reproduction of these trademarks, in whole or in part, without prior authorisation is strictly prohibited.

Requests for authorisation concerning copyright-protected content and ULB trademarks must be sent to centreperelman@ulb.be.

Image rights

Persons who are depicted and identifiable on this website have authorised ULB, through the Perelman Centre, to reproduce their image. Any reproduction or other use of the image of a person depicted on this website is prohibited.

Personal data protection

As a rule, the Perelman Centre website does not collect personal data. Where it does, users are informed on the page through which the data are collected, and the safeguards set out below apply to the processing.

ULB (through the Perelman Centre) is the controller of personal data concerning you that are collected through this website, which is hosted by ULB, Avenue Roosevelt 50, 1050 Brussels.

In this regard, it complies with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (the General Data Protection Regulation).

Users are informed of the purpose or purposes for which processing is carried out and of the categories of data processed. These data are never transferred to third parties.

These data are retained only by Université libre de Bruxelles (through the Perelman Centre), which implements appropriate security measures to ensure their integrity and confidentiality. Perelman Centre staff, who are the recipients of the processing, have access to them only to the extent strictly necessary to perform their duties. These persons are bound by confidentiality with respect to all personal data managed by ULB (through the Perelman Centre).

Personal data are not retained beyond the period necessary for the purpose of processing, which is specified for each instance of data processing carried out through this website.

For any questions about your personal data and their processing by the Perelman Centre, you may contact ULB’s data protection officer at rgpd@ulb.be. You may also use this address to exercise your rights, subject to providing proof of identity: access, rectification, erasure, restriction, objection and portability.

Security

ULB takes appropriate measures to protect your personal data against unauthorised or unlawful processing and against accidental loss, destruction or damage, taking into account the risks involved in processing and the nature of the data.

In the event of a security incident involving a loss of personal data or confidentiality, ULB will notify the Data Protection Authority in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation.

Cookie policy

In accordance with Article 129 of the Act of 13 June 2005 on electronic communications, ULB informs you that it uses cookies when you connect to and browse its website, to ensure its optimal operation and for internal analytical purposes.

Some cookies enable optimal visual display; others enable a web application to manage logged-in sessions correctly.

The cookies used on this website contain no data that permit the personal identification of users and are used solely to collect information about use of the website.

The cookies used on this website are:

Cookies	Purpose	Lifetime
Analytics	Statistics (analysis of site traffic)	Unlimited

Applicable law and jurisdiction

All use of this website is subject to Belgian law.

Any dispute concerning use of this website or its content falls within the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts and tribunals of the judicial district of Brussels.

Contact

For questions about the website’s content or technical matters: centreperelman@ulb.be.

Last updated: 1 November 2022.