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Five high-profile legal blunders by well-known companies, each with a clear lesson: bol.com transferred over 750,000 euros to scammers after a whaling email and had to pay Brabantia after all; at Allekabels.nl, leaks...

Health data are “special categories of personal data” under the GDPR and enjoy additional protection: you may only process them if strict requirements are met, usually with explicit consent. Furthermore, medical professionals have...

As of January 1, 2022, significant tax changes took place for entrepreneurs: a minimal reduction in the income tax rate, a multi-year phase-out of the self-employment deduction, a more favorable environmental investment deduction (MIA),...

If an employee creates a creative work (a website, text, or design) during their employment, the copyright usually rests with the employer — the employer's copyright under Article 7 of the Copyright Act. That...

An unclear or incomplete privacy statement can result in a massive fine: WhatsApp (Meta) received one of approximately 225 million euros for it, purely because it failed to properly comply with the duty to provide information. You...

Whether a customer may cancel and what that costs depends primarily on your agreements — usually in the general terms and conditions. In the case of a purchase agreement, there is no automatic right of cancellation (except...

In principle, an employer is free to award bonuses, but must act as a good employer: the bonus policy must not discriminate or be arbitrary, and you must be able to justify any differences. Speaks...

For a purchase made remotely or outside the retail premises (online, by telephone, or at the door), a consumer almost always has a 14-day cooling-off period, starting upon delivery. Do you inform the consumer...

The right to be forgotten is not absolute: if you have a legal obligation to retain data, you do not have to delete it in response to a deletion request. For example, a primary school was allowed to...

If an employee dies, the employment contract ends immediately and automatically — you do not need to give notice or dissolve it. You pay the wages and holiday allowance up to the day of death...