Legal notice
Website publisher
Edouard Hennin
Self-employed — Belgium
Email: contact@edouardhennin.com
Company status to come. In this initial phase, the site is published on a personal basis, without commercial activity (free, no advertising, no data collection).
Hosting
Front-end (website): Cloudflare Pages — Cloudflare, Inc., 101 Townsend Street, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA.
Back-end (API api.indexation-loyer.be): Hostinger International Ltd., 61 Lordou Vironos Street, 6023 Larnaca, Cyprus.
Intellectual property
The site's source code is the property of the publisher. The health index data are published by Statbel (Directorate-General Statistics of the Belgian FPS Economy) under the Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 licence. The citation of Belgian legal texts (Law of 6 August 1993, Royal Decree of 24 December 1993, regional decrees) is free in accordance with public use.
The site's editorial content (guides, FAQ, methodology) is protected by copyright. Any reproduction without prior authorisation is prohibited, except for short citations with attribution.
Liability limitation
The indexation-loyer.be website provides an informative calculation tool and educational explanations on rent indexation in Belgium. It does not constitute legal advice. The calculations and explanations are provided for informational purposes only and cannot engage the publisher's liability.
For any disputed or complex situation, we recommend consulting a lawyer specialised in real estate law or referring to the justice of the peace of the commune concerned (low-cost procedure, no lawyer required).
Personal data (GDPR)
No personal data is retained by the site during an indexation calculation. The parameters entered into the calculator (region, EPC class, dates, €50 rent band, language, originating page) are logged anonymously to measure how the site is used and improve its tools: no IP address, no cookie, no persistent identifier, and never associated with your identity.
Address suggestions — to help you enter an address in the letter generator, the characters typed in a “Street and number” field (from three onwards) are sent through our server, with no other data, to an address service based on OpenStreetMap (Photon, komoot) that returns suggestions. These fragments are neither kept nor linked to your identity; you can ignore the suggestions and type everything yourself.
If you use the contact form, your name, email and message are forwarded by email to the publisher (contact@edouardhennin.com) and then deleted from the server. No database stores this information.
When you use the letter generator (the « PDF Wizard ») to receive your indexation letter by email, we retain an anonymous hash (SHA-256) of your email address paired with non-identifying metadata (region, EPC class, year of lease signature, interface language, municipality of the property, €50 rent band, type of email address — public webmail or professional domain — and, for professional addresses, the domain name). No name, street or email address is retained. This hash is irreversible: it does not allow your clear-text email to be recovered. Purpose: anonymous internal statistics (legitimate interest, GDPR art. 6.1.f) and long-term abuse detection. Your email address in clear text is only kept during the 24 h of the temporary PDF download link, then automatically purged.
The site uses no tracking cookies or advertising. No intrusive third-party analytics (Google Analytics, etc.) is enabled.
Annual indexation reminder (opt-in) — if you tick the "remind me next year" box, we store your email address, your lease parameters (base rent, signature date, indexation date, region, EPC class, language) and proof of your consent (date, IP address), for the sole purpose of sending you one email per year with the newly calculated amount (art. 6.1.a GDPR — consent). This email may mention the publisher's other tools. Every email contains a one-click unsubscribe link; deactivated subscriptions are deleted after 13 months. Immediate deletion can be requested via the contact form.
Space and kept files — when the “My space” area is active, the file created by the wizard (lease, letters, entered details, email) is kept so that you can find it, edit it and receive next year's letter pre-filled, under our terms of use: access by link without a password, you are the controller of your tenants' data and we are the processor, deletion at any time from your space, automatic deletion after 24 months without interaction (warning 30 days before), export of your data on request.
Cookies
The site uses only one technical cookie to store your language preference (FR/NL/EN). This cookie remains on your browser and is not shared with any third party. You can delete it at any time via your browser's settings.
External links
The site contains links to external websites (Statbel, Belgian institutional sites). The publisher is not responsible for the content of these third-party sites.