Legal Notice & Terms of Use

Trust The Belly: Legal Notice & Terms of Use

trustthebelly.be | Applicable from 7 May 2025
Last updated: 7 May 2025

Part I — Legal Notice (Impressum)

Publisher

Business name: Trust The Belly

Owner / Natural person: Simon Buyck

Legal form: Sole proprietor (Eenmanszaak / Indépendant)

Registered address: Lendeleedsestraat 131, 8870 Izegem, Belgium

KBO/BCE number: BE1004.319.687

Email: info@trustthebelly.be

Website: https://trustthebelly.be

Hosting

Hosting provider: Vercel Inc., 340 Pine Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94104, USA

CDN / Security: Cloudflare Inc., 101 Townsend St, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA

Applicable Law and Jurisdiction

This website is operated from Belgium. Belgian law applies to all matters relating to the use of this website, including the Belgian Code of Economic Law (CEL / WER) and all applicable EU regulations including the GDPR. Any dispute shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the competent courts of Kortrijk, Belgium.

Part II — Terms of Use

1. Acceptance of Terms

By accessing or using the website located at trustthebelly.be (the 'Website'), you agree to be bound by these Terms of Use. If you do not agree, please do not use this Website. We reserve the right to modify these terms at any time; continued use constitutes acceptance of any changes.

2. Description of Services

Trust The Belly is a full-service creative studio offering branding and interactive web design services. The Website provides information about these services, a portfolio, and a means of contact. The Website is currently a pre-launch ('coming soon') page and full services and content will be made available progressively.

3. Intellectual Property

All content on this Website, including but not limited to the name 'Trust The Belly', logo, visual identity, text, illustrations, animations, code and design — is the exclusive property of Simon Buyck / Trust The Belly and is protected by Belgian and international intellectual property law.

You may not reproduce, distribute, modify, publish, transmit or create derivative works from any content on this Website without prior written authorisation, except for:

Personal, non-commercial use
Sharing links to the Website (with proper attribution)

Any unauthorised use constitutes copyright infringement and may result in legal action.

4. Acceptable Use

You agree not to use this Website to:

Violate any applicable law or regulation
Transmit harmful, offensive, defamatory or fraudulent content
Attempt to gain unauthorised access to any part of the Website or its infrastructure
Scrape, crawl or index the Website's content without express permission
Use automated tools to generate or submit contact form submissions

5. Contact Form

The contact form is provided to allow potential clients and interested parties to reach out to Trust The Belly. By submitting a contact form, you confirm that:

The contact form collects the following data:

Full name
Email address
Company name (optional: only if provided)
Message content you choose to include

By submitting a contact form, you confirm that:

The information you provide is accurate and truthful
You are not submitting spam or unsolicited commercial messages
You consent to us processing your submitted data to respond to your enquiry (see our Privacy Policy)

Submitting the contact form does not create any contractual relationship. A contract is only formed through a separate, written agreement signed by both parties.

6. Disclaimers

6.1 Accuracy of Information

The information on this Website is provided for general informational purposes only. While we strive for accuracy, we make no warranty, express or implied, regarding the completeness, accuracy, reliability or fitness for a particular purpose of any information presented. Prices, availability and service descriptions are subject to change without notice.

6.2 Third-Party Links

This Website may contain links to third-party websites. These links are provided for convenience only. Trust The Belly has no control over the content or practices of those websites and accepts no responsibility for them. Inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement.

6.3 Availability

We endeavour to keep the Website available at all times, but we do not guarantee uninterrupted, error-free access. The Website may be temporarily unavailable due to maintenance, updates, or circumstances beyond our control. We are not liable for any loss or damage arising from unavailability.

7. Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by Belgian law, Trust The Belly (Simon Buyck) shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages arising from:

Your use of or inability to use the Website
Any errors, omissions or inaccuracies in the content
Unauthorised access to or alteration of your data
Any action taken in reliance on information published on the Website

Our total liability in connection with the Website, whether in contract, tort or otherwise, shall not exceed €500.

8. Privacy and Cookies

Your use of this Website is also governed by our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy, which are incorporated into these Terms by reference. We encourage you to read both documents carefully.

9. Force Majeure

We shall not be held liable for any failure or delay in performance of our obligations under these Terms where such failure results from causes beyond our reasonable control, including but not limited to natural disasters, war, pandemic, government action, internet outages or third-party platform failures.

10. Severability

If any provision of these Terms is found to be unlawful, void or unenforceable, that provision shall be deemed severable and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of the remaining provisions.

11. Governing Law

These Terms of Use are governed by Belgian law. Any dispute arising out of or in connection with these Terms shall be submitted to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Kortrijk (West-Vlaanderen), Belgium.

12. Contact

For any questions regarding these Terms of Use or Legal Notice, please contact: