Data processing convention


DATA PROCESSING AGREEMENT

BETWEEN:

1/ Limited company “SMARTBEAM”, with its registered office at Avenue Louise 486/15, 1050 Bruxelles, Belgium, VAT BE- 0675.367.844, hereby duly represented by its managing director Caroline BASECQZ;

Hereinafter referred to as “**SMARTBEAM”
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2/ The Customer

Hereinafter collectively referred to as the “Parties” and individually as a “Party”.

CONSIDERATIONS

Within the context of the performance of certain activities and services for the Customer, SMARTBEAM shall have access to personal data and/or will have to process these personal data, for which the Customer is responsible as ‘controller’ in accordance with (i) the Belgian Privacy Act of 8 December 1992 regarding the protection of privacy in relation to the processing of personal data, (ii) the General Data Protection Regulation of 27 April 2016 (‘the Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data and repealing Directive 95/46/EC’) and/or and (iii) all (future) Belgian laws regarding the implementation of this Regulation (hereinafter referred to as the “Privacy Legislation”).

Through this agreement Parties wish to determine in writing their mutual agreements with regard to (i) managing, securing and/or processing of such personal data and (ii) Parties' obligation to comply with the Privacy Legislation.

THEREFORE, PARTIES HAVE AGREED AS FOLLOWS

1 DEFINITIONS

In this agreement, the following concepts have the meaning described in this article (when written with a capital letter):

Assignment: All activities, performed by SMARTBEAM for the Customer, and any other form of cooperation whereby SMARTBEAM Processes Personal Data for the Customer, regardless of the legal nature of the agreement under which this Processing takes place;

Controller: The entity, which determines the purposes and means of the Processing of Personal Data;

Data Subject: A natural person to whom the Personal Data relates;

Data Breach: Unauthorized disclosure, access, abuse, loss, theft or accidental or unlawful destruction of Personal Data, which are processed by SMARTBEAM on behalf of the Customer;

Personal Data: Any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person;

Platform: The online application of SMARTBEAM with the brand name “SMARTBEAM”;

Processor: The entity which Processes Personal Data on behalf of the Controller;

Process/Processing: Any operation or set of operations which is performed upon Personal Data or sets of Personal Data, including, but not limited to: collection, recording, organization, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction of Personal Data;

Services: All services, provided by SMARTBEAM to the Customer with respect to the Platform;

Sub-processor: Any Processor engaged by SMARTBEAM.

The agreement includes the following annexes:

Annex I:

Overview of (i) the Personal Data, which Parties expect to be subject of the Processing, (ii) the categories of Data Subjects, which Parties expect to be subject of the Processing, (iii) the use (i.e. the way(s) of Processing) of the Personal Data, (iv) the goals and means of such Processing and (v) the term(s) during which the (different types of) Personal Data shall be stored;

Annex II:

Overview and description of the security measures taken by SMARTBEAM under this agreement.

2  ROLES OF THE PARTIES

Parties acknowledge and agree that with regard to the Processing of Personal Data, the Customer shall be considered ‘Controller’ and SMARTBEAM ‘Processor’. Further, SMARTBEAM is allowed to engage Sub-processor(s) pursuant to the requirements set forth in Article 6. 


3  USE OF THE PLATFORM AND/OR THE SERVICES

**3.1  **The Customer acknowledges explicitly that:

  • SMARTBEAM purely acts as a facilitator of the Platform and/or the Services. Hence, the Customer shall be solely responsible on how it makes use of the Platform and/or the Services; 


  • It shall be solely responsible to comply with all laws and regulations (such as but not limited to the retention period) imposed on it by making use of the Platform and/or the Services. 


**3.2  **In case of misuse by the Customer of the Platform and/or the Services, the Customer agrees that SMARTBEAM can never be held liable in this respect nor for any damage that would occur from such misuse. 


**3.3  **The Customer therefore undertakes to safeguard SMARTBEAM when such misuse would occur as well as for any claim from a Data Subject and/or third party due to such misuse. 


4 OBJECT

**4.1  **Customer acknowledges that as a consequence of making use of the Platform and the Services of SMARTBEAM, the latter shall Process Personal Data as collected by the Customer. 


**4.2  **SMARTBEAM shall Process the Personal Data in a proper and careful way and in accordance with the Privacy Legislation and other applicable rules concerning the Processing of Personal Data. 
More specifically, SMARTBEAM shall – during the performance of the Assignment – provide all its know-how in order to perform the Assignment according to the rules of art, as it fits a specialized and ‘good’ processor. 


**4.3  **Nonetheless, SMARTBEAM shall only Process the Personal Data upon request of the Customer and in accordance with its instructions, as described in Annex I, unless any legislation states otherwise. 


**4.4  **The Customer, as Controller, owns and retains full control concerning (i) the Processing of Personal Data, (ii), the types of Personal Data Processed, (iii), the purpose of Processing and (iv) the fact whether such Processing is proportionate (non-limitative). 
Moreover, the Customer shall be solely responsible to comply with all (legal) obligations in its capacity as Controller (such as but not limited to the retention period) and shall have the sole responsibility for the accuracy, quality, and legality of the Personal Data, entered into the Platform, and the means by which it acquired such Personal Data. 
The responsibility and control concerning the Personal Data, subject to this Agreement, shall thus never be vested in SMARTBEAM. 


5  SECURITY OF PROCESSING

Taking into account the state of the art, SMARTBEAM implements appropriate technical and organizational measures for the protection of (i) Personal Data – including protection against careless, improper, unauthorized or unlawful use and/or Processing and against accidental loss, destruction or damage – (ii) the confidentiality and integrity of Personal Data, as set forth in Annex II. 


6  SUB-PROCESSORS

The Customer acknowledges and agrees that SMARTBEAM may engage third-party Sub-processors in connection with the Assignment. In such case, SMARTBEAM shall ensure that the Sub- processors are at least bound by the same obligations by which SMARTBEAM is bound under this agreement. SMARTBEAM undertakes to inform the Customer of any intended change relating to the adding or replacing of a Sub-processor, entitling the Customer to raise objections in that respect.

7 DATA PROTECTION OFFICER

SMARTBEAM has not appointed a data protection officer.

8 TRANSFER OF PERSONAL DATA OUTSIDE THE EEA

Any transfer of Personal Data outside the EEA to a recipient which residence or registered office does not fall under an adequacy decision issued by the European Commission, shall be governed by the terms of a data transfer agreement, which shall contain (i) standard contractual clauses as published in the Decision of the European Commission of February 5, 2010 (Decision 2010/87/EC), the Customer granting explicit general mandate to SMARTBEAM in that respect, or (ii) other mechanisms foreseen by the Privacy Legislation and/or and other applicable rules concerning the Processing of Personal Data.

9 CONFIDENTIALITY

9.1 SMARTBEAM shall maintain the Personal Data confidential and thus not disclose nor transfer any Personal Data to third parties, without the prior written agreement of the Customer, unless when:

  • Explicit written deviation from this agreement; 


  • Such disclosure and/or announcement is required by law or by a court or other government decision (of any kind). In such case SMARTBEAM shall, prior to any disclosure and/or announcement, discuss the scope and manner thereof with the Customer. 


9.2 SMARTBEAM shall ensure that its personnel, engaged in the performance of the Assignment, are informed of the confidential nature of the Personal Data, have received appropriate training on their responsibilities and have executed written confidentiality agreements. SMARTBEAM shall ensure that such confidentiality obligations survive the termination of the personnel engagement.

9.3 SMARTBEAM shall ensure that its access to Personal Data is limited to such personnel performing the Assignment in accordance with the agreement. 


9.4 It is expressly agreed by the Customer that SMARTBEAM may treat, at its entire discretion, aggregate Personal Data (i.e. on an anonymous basis) so as to analyse, measure and study (or even communicate) them, in order to continuously improve the quality of its services.

**10 NOTIFICATION
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10.1 SMARTBEAM shall use its best efforts to inform the Customer within a 
reasonable term when it: 


  • Receives a request for information, a subpoena or a request for inspection or audit from a competent public authority in relation to the Processing of Personal Data; 


  • Has the intention to disclose Personal Data to a competent public authority; 


  • Determines or reasonably suspects a Data Breach has occurred in relation to the Personal Data. 


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  • 10.2 In case of a Data Breach, SMARTBEAM:

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  • Notifies the Customer without undue delay after becoming 
aware of a Data Breach and shall provide – to the extent possible – assistance to the Customer with respect to its reporting obligation under the Privacy Legislation;

  • Undertakes – as soon as reasonably possible – to take appropriate remedial actions to make an end to the Data Breach and to prevent and/or limit any future Data Breach.

11 RIGHTS OF DATA SUBJECTS

**11.1  **To the extent the Customer – in its use of the Platform and/or the Services – does not have the ability to correct, amend, block or delete Personal Data, as required by Privacy Legislation, SMARTBEAM shall – to the extent it is legally permitted to do so – comply with any commercially reasonable request by the Customer to facilitate such actions. 
To the extent legally permitted, the Customer shall be responsible for any costs arising from SMARTBEAM’s provision of such assistance. 


**11.2  **SMARTBEAM shall, to the extent legally permitted, promptly notify the Customer if it receives a request from a Data Subject for access to, correction, amendment or deletion of that Data Subject’s Personal Data. SMARTBEAM shall, however, not respond to any such Data Subject request without Customer’s prior written consent except to confirm that the request relates to the Customer to which the Customer hereby agrees.

SMARTBEAM shall provide the Customer with commercially reasonable cooperation and assistance in relation to the handling of a Data Subject’s request for access to that person’s Personal Data, to the extent legally permitted and to the extent the Customer does not have access to such Personal Data through its use of the Platform and/or the Services. 


To the extent legally permitted, the Customer shall be responsible for any costs arising from SMARTBEAM’s provision of such assistance. 


12 RETURN AND DELETION OF PERSONAL DATA

**12.1  **Upon termination of the Assignment and/or termination of the agreement, SMARTBEAM shall notify the Customer that it has the possibility during a term, as mentioned in such notification, to have a “read-only” access to its account and to the Personal Data.

**12.2  **Once the aforementioned term has passed, SMARTBEAM shall first delete the Personal Data via ‘soft deletion’ and subsequently, once a term of (maximum) six (6) months has passed, anonymize the Customer Data.

13 CONTROL

13.1 SMARTBEAM undertakes to provide the Customer with all information, required by the Customer to allow verification whether SMARTBEAM complies with the provisions of this agreement.

13.2 In this respect SMARTBEAM shall allow the Customer (or a third party on which the Customer appeals) to undertake inspections – such as but not limited to an audit – and to provide the necessary assistance thereto to the Customer or that third party.

14 MISCELLANEOUS

**14.1  **The agreement lasts as long as the Assignment has not come to an end. The provisions of this agreement shall apply to the extent necessary for the completion of this agreement and to the extent intended to survive the end of this agreement (such as but not limited to Article 9 and 15). 


**14.2  **If one or more provisions of this agreement are found to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, in whole or in part, the remainder of that provision and of this agreement shall remain in full force and effect as if such invalid, illegal or unenforceable provision had never been contained herein. Moreover, in such event, Parties shall negotiate to replace the invalid provision by an equivalent provision in accordance with the spirit of this agreement. If Parties do not reach an agreement, then the competent court may mitigate the invalid provision to what is (legally) permitted. 


**14.3  **Deviations, alterations and/or additions to this agreement shall only be valid and binding to the extent that they have been accepted in writing by both Parties. 


**14.4  **This agreement and the corresponding rights and obligations that exist in respect of the Parties, cannot be transferred, directly or indirectly, without the prior written consent of the other Party. 


**14.5  **(Repeatedly) non-enforcement by a Party or by both Parties of any right or provision of this agreement, can only be regarded as a toleration of a certain state, and does not lead to forfeiture.

**14.6  **This agreement prevails to any other agreement between the Parties. 


15 APPLICABLE LAW AND JURISDICTION

**15.1  **All issues, questions and disputes concerning the validity, interpretation, enforcement, performance or termination of this agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with Belgian law, without giving effect to any other choice of law or conflict-of-laws rules or provisions (Belgian, foreign or international) that would cause the laws of any country other than Belgium to be applicable. 


**15.2  **Any dispute concerning the validity, interpretation, enforcement, performance or termination of this agreement shall be submitted to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of SMARTBEAM’s registered office.

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ANNEXES:

-  Annex I – Overview of Personal Data 


-  Annex II – Description of security measures 


Annex I – Overview of Personal Data1

I. Overview of the Personal Data, which Parties expect to Process

  • Last name

  • First name

  • Function

  • Company

  • Password (crypted)

  • Email address

  • Phone number

II. The categories of Data Subjects whose Personal Data shall be Processed:

  • Employees

  • Prospects

  • Customers

  • Suppliers

  • Other

III. The use (= way(s) of Processing) of Personal Data and the means and purposes of Processing:

Use of Personal Data:

o Retention in the Platform and/or the app

o Processing

Means of Processing:

o Through SMARTBEAM’s developed software

Integrations:

  • Standard integrations

  • Integrations selected by the Customer

Purpose of Processing:

The data shall be used for the following purposes:

  • Standard integrations

  • Quotation requests

  • Adding participants to a project

  • Encoding of price offers

  • Contractor identification

  • Invoicing

  • Creation and management of orders

  • Creation, planning and management of events

  • Saving and collecting documents

  • Creation of SMARTBEAM accounts by Customer

  • Integrations selected by the Customer (the purpose of Processing of such integrations shall depend on the integrations selected

IV. The term(s) during which the (different types of) Personal Data shall be stored:

SMARTBEAM shall retain the Personal Data as long as the Assignment and/or the agreement is ongoing. Once the Assignment and/or the agreement has been terminated and the period of read-only access by the Customer has expired, SMARTBEAM shall first delete the Personal Data via ‘soft deletion’ and subsequently, once a term of (maximum) six (6) months has passed, anonymize the Customer Data.

Teamleader opts for ‘soft deletion’ to deal with, such as but not limited to, mistakes/errors from the Customer and reactivation of the Teamleader account upon termination thereof.

Upon termination of the Assignment and/or the agreement, SMARTBEAM shall also be entitled to retain the anonymized Personal Data (or part thereof) for statistical and analytical reasons.

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Annex II – Description of security measures

This document entails the technical and organizational security measures implemented by SMARTBEAM in support of its (Processing) activities, as set forth by the Privacy Legislation.

I. **Access Control of Processing Areas (Physical) 
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**The documents uploaded by customers of SMARTBEAM are located in secure data centers in Ireland, which are operated by Amazon Web Services, Inc. with whom SMARTBEAM has signed the “AWS Data Processing Addendum” in order to be compliant with the standards and obligations as set forth in the Privacy Legislation. 
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**Web applications, communications and database servers of SMARTBEAM are located in secure data centers in Belgium, which are operated by Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Inc. with whom SMARTBEAM has signed the “AWS Data Processing and Security Terms (Customers)” in order to be compliant with the standards and obligations as set forth in the Privacy Legislation. 
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II. **Access Control to Personal Data Processing Systems (Logical) 
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SMARTBEAM has implemented suitable measures to prevent its Personal Data Processing systems from being used by unauthorized persons.

**This is accomplished by: 
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  • Establishing the identification of the terminal and/or the terminal user to the SMARTBEAM systems;


  • Automatic time-out of user terminal if left idle. Identification and password required to reopen;


  • Automatic lock out of the user ID when several erroneous passwords are entered. Events are logged and logs are reviewed on a regular basis;

  • Utilizing firewall, router and VPN-based access controls to protect the private service networks and back-end-servers;


  • Ad hoc monitoring infrastructure security;


  • Regularly examining security risks by internal employees;


  • Issuing and safeguarding of identification codes;


  • Role-based access control implemented in a manner consistent with principle of least privilege;


  • Access to authorized functionnalities is logged;


  • Making use of commercial and custom tools to collect and examine its Platform and system logs for anomalies.

III. Availability Control

SMARTBEAM has implemented suitable measures to ensure that Personal Data is protected from accidental destruction or loss. This is accomplished by:

  • Redundant service infrastructure;


  • Constantly evaluating data centers and Internet service providers (ISPs) to optimize performance for its customers in regards to bandwidth, latency and disaster recovery isolation;

  • Situating data centers in secure co-location facilities that are ISP carrier neutral and provide physical security, redundant power, and infrastructure redundancy;

  • Service level agreements from ISPs to ensure a high level of uptime;

  • Rapid failover capability.

IV. Transmission Control

SMARTBEAM has implemented suitable measures to prevent Personal Data from being read, copied, altered or deleted by unauthorized parties during the transmission thereof or during the transport of the data media.

This is accomplished by:


  • Use of adequate firewall and encryption technologies to protect the gateways and pipelines through which the data travels;

  • Sensitive Personal Data is encrypted during transmission using up to date versions of TLS or other security protocols using strong encryption algorithms and keys;

  • Protecting web-based access to account management interfaces by employees through encrypted TLS

  • End-to-end encryption of screen sharing for remote access, support, or real time communication.

V. Input Control

SMARTBEAM has implemented suitable measures to ensure that it is possible to check and establish whether and by whom Personal Data have been input into Personal Data Processing systems or removed.

This is accomplished by:


  • Authentication of the authorized personnel;

  • Protective measures for Personal Data input into memory, as well as for the reading, alteration and deletion of stored Personal Data, including by documenting or logging material changes to account data or account settings;

  • Segregation and protection of all stored Personal Data via database schemas, logical access controls, and/or encryption;

  • Utilization of user identification credentials;

  • Physical security of data processing facilities;


  • Session timeouts.

VI. Monitoring

SMARTBEAM does not access Personal Data of the Customer, except:

  • To provide the required services under the agreement with the Customer;

  • In support of its customer experience;


  • As required by law; or


  • Upon request of the Customer.

This is accomplished by:


  • Individual intervention of system administrators;

  • Adoption of suitable measures to register system administrators' access logs to the infrastructure.


  1. The Customer acknowledges that the summary, as mentioned above, provides a general overview of the Personal Data, which SMARTBEAM may Process through its Platform. In case the Platform is customized following a request of the Customer, SMARTBEAM can upon explicit request from the Customer provide a customized/updated overview resp. make it available on the Platform ↩︎