General

Your privacy is important to us
This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) applies to all personal information collected through and/or processed in connection with https://btn-consulting.nl (“Website”), services offered, and oral, electronic communications via email, text messages and other electronic communications between you, our Website and/or BTN Consulting B.V. staff.

In this Privacy Policy, we inform you about our practices regarding the collection and use of your personal information when you visit our Website or use our services. Unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy, capitalized terms used herein shall have the same meaning as in our General Conditions of Sale. All additional terms, conditions, guidelines and regulations, including our General Conditions of Sale and Use, are incorporated by reference into this Privacy Policy.

We may act as a data controller or processor in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (Algemene Verordening Gegevensbescherming).

Our users
Our websites, applications, products and services are intended for companies and their representatives. We do not target consumers - individuals who seek to use our products and services for their personal or household purposes. Accordingly, we treat all personal information we collect as relating to individuals as part of their business and not on an individual basis.

What do we collect
Information provided by you
We may collect your first and last name, company name, company profile, mailing address, email address, telephone number, fax number, username, password, payment information, shipping information, tax registration status and number, and/or demographic information ( for example, depending on your gender and/or profession), as well as other information that you directly provide on our Website.
If you are a manufacturing partner, we may collect information about your capabilities, capacity and supply processes.
If you are a candidate applying to join the BTN Consulting B.V. team, we may collect your work history, including your resume or resume, as well as additional references including, but not limited to, portfolio and social media profiles.

Private messages
By using our services, you can exchange personal messages with us (including, but not limited to, text, verbal, images, videos, locations, contact information). We store these communications to improve our services and to comply with legal requirements.

Automatically generated information
When you visit our website, we automatically log information about you and your computer. This information may include IP addresses, browser type, browser language, browser settings, computer operating system type, the website you visited before viewing our website, the pages you viewed on our website, the time that you spent on the page, access time and information about your use of our Website and services. We may also collect this information through the use of cookies in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Each of the above categories of information includes your “personal information”.

How we use your personal information and on what basis we use it
We may use your personal information as follows:
• to provide you with our services
• to facilitate any communications necessary to provide our services, including the transfer of your personal information necessary to fulfill your order;
• operate, maintain and improve our website, products and services;
• respond to comments and questions and provide customer service;
• to send information, including confirmations, invoices, technical notices, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages;
• to inform you about promotions, upcoming events and other news about products and services offered by us and/or our selected partners;
• to link or combine user information with other personal information;
• to allow you to participate in interactive features of our Website;
• notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide through it;
• process and deliver competition entries and awards;
• to display advertisements tailored to your interests, including the content you have viewed and the pages you have visited;
• to inform marketing analytics;
• in any other way that we may describe when you provide the information; and/or
• for any other purposes with your consent.

If you are a candidate applying to join the BTN Consulting B.V. team, we will use your personal information to assess the suitability between you and BTN Consulting B.V. and to guide you through the recruitment process.

In addition, we may share your personal information for the following legal and security purposes:
• to comply with laws;
• to protect, investigate and prevent fraudulent, unauthorized or illegal activities;
• respond to lawful requests and legal processes;
• to protect the rights and property of the company, our agents, customers and others, including enforcing our agreements, policies and terms of use and sale; and/or
• in emergency situations, this includes protecting the safety of our employees and agents, our customers or any other person.

We may share your personal information as follows:
We may share your personal information with the following parties:
• our subsidiaries, affiliates and any ultimate parent company;
• our contractors, service providers and other third parties that we use to support our business and who are contractually obligated to keep personal information confidential and to use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them; and/or
• a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reformation, dissolution or other sale or transfer of part or all of the assets of BTN Consulting B.V., or negotiations of such a business transaction, whether as a continuing operation or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation or similar proceedings in which personal information held by BTN Consulting B.V. is among the assets transferred.

We may share your personal information with your consent. For example, you may allow us to share personal information with third parties for their own marketing purposes. Such use will be subject to the privacy policies of those third parties.

We may also share aggregated and/or anonymized data with third parties for their own use.
The control and/or processing of your personal information is carried out on the basis of the following:
• your consent;
• preparing or performing an agreement with you;
• compliance with legal obligations;
• for our legitimate interests, namely to provide you with our services, resolve disputes or legal proceedings or for statistical reasons, improve our services, negotiate acquisitions, evaluate your job application, for direct marketing purposes and/or communications with by the public.
We may be legally or contractually obligated to process your personal data. The processing of your personal data may also be necessary to enter into a contract with you. In these cases, we can only continue our relationship with you after you have provided us with the necessary personal data.

How long do we keep your personal information?
We do not keep your personal information for longer than necessary for the purposes stated in this Privacy Policy.
Where we process your personal information based on your consent, we will retain your personal information for no longer than necessary or until you withdraw your consent.
Where we process your personal information in connection with the preparation or performance of an agreement with you, we will retain your personal information for seven years after the terminatgion of our agreement or after resolution of the dispute, whichever is later.

Where we process your personal information on the basis of a legal obligation, we will retain your personal information for the period specified by law. We will process your personal information no longer than the ultimate limitation period for any legal claim we may have against you. We will keep judgments between you and us for twenty years.
When we process your personal information based on your application for employment with BTN Consulting B.V., we will anonymize your personal data after three months or after the vacancy has been filled. For applicants before 25 May 2023, we will anonymize your personal data after three years. In each case, candidates may agree to remain in touch for up to one year.
Depending on the type of cookie, we will store your personal information for a maximum of 2 years.

Selecting and changing information
When we process personal information based on your consent, you can always withdraw your consent.

Our marketing emails tell you how to “opt out.” If you opt out, we may still send you non-marketing emails. Non-marketing emails include emails about your accounts and our business relationship with you.

You may submit requests for personal information to our contact information below. You may request to change your contact information choices, opt out of our sharing with third parties, and/or update your personal information.
You can usually delete and reject cookies from our website through your browser settings. Many browsers are set to accept cookies until you change your settings. If you delete or reject our cookies, this may affect how our website works for you. You can also click here to opt out of Google's ad personalization.
Third parties
We employ third parties to perform functions on our behalf. Examples may include, but are not limited to, hosting services, customer relationship management, analytics, personalized advertising creation and implementation, invoicing, tax preparation, address verification, storage and conversion services for downloaded 3D or other technical drawings, and/or payment processing services . These selected parties may process your personal information to the extent necessary to perform such functions on our behalf and in accordance with our instructions. We have procedures in place to ensure that these third parties value your privacy.

Our partners may collect data and use cookies to personalize and measure ads.
in the EU/EEA or the United States of America (“WE”). If we transfer your personal information outside Europe to a country that, in the opinion of the European Commission, does not provide an adequate level of protection for personal information, the transfer will take place:
• subject to the recipient's compliance with standard contractual clauses, the EU-US Privacy Agreement (or the Swiss-US Privacy Agreement, as applicable) or Binding Corporate Rules;
• in accordance with the consent of the individual to whom the personal information relates; and/or
• unless otherwise permitted by applicable European requirements.
You may contact us if you would like more information about the specific mechanism we use when transferring your personal information outside Europe to a country that, in the opinion of the European Commission, does not provide an adequate level of protection for personal information.
You may be able to access our services or website from another website that integrates our services. BTN Consulting B.V. has no control over the third party websites to which you link. Therefore, you may find that a different privacy policy applies to your use of these third party websites. This Privacy Policy applies only to information collected through BTN Consulting B.V. services and our Website. We do not accept any responsibility for the operation and/or content of third party websites. You can also share information about yourself with others through the BTN Consulting B.V. service. You are responsible for the information you share with others through BTN Consulting B.V. services.

Cookies
We may store some information in the form of so-called “cookies” on your device, such as your computer, in order to offer you a more user-friendly and efficient website and service. "Cookie"
it is a small string of information that is temporarily or permanently stored on your computer when you visit a website.
We use:
• “essential cookies”, these are necessary to enable you to move around the Website and use its features, such as access to secure areas of the Website;
• “functional cookies”, which enable the technical operation of our Website and services. These cookies remain on your computer after you close your browser and can be used by your browser on subsequent visits to our Website. If you disable these cookies through your browser settings, not all features of our Website and/or services will be available; And
• “analytics cookies” to better understand how you interact with our websites and services and to improve our website and services. These cookies remain on your computer after you close your browser and may be used by your browser on subsequent visits to our websites and/or other websites to create personalized ads or for ad measurement purposes.

By using cookies, we can work with Google to deliver personalized advertising based on information we have collected about your personal interests (see “How we use your personal information and the reasons we use it”). For more information about how Google uses information from sites or applications that use its Services, click here.
In addition to the cookies used by us and/or our service providers, some cookies are placed by third parties such as Google. These third party cookies are not under our control and you should check the websites of such parties for more information about their use.
You can disable any cookies and delete existing cookies through your internet browser settings at any time. Please see your browser's Help section for more information.

Security
We recognize our responsibility to protect the information you entrust to us. We have implemented measures to protect your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, modification and disclosure.
These measures ensure an appropriate level of security, taking into account the state of the art and implementation costs, as well as the risks associated with the processing and the nature of the data to be protected. These measures also aim to prevent unnecessary collection and further processing of your personal information.

The security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password to access certain parts of our Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask that you do not share your password with anyone.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information over the Internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on our Website.

Your rights
You have the right to request access, correction, deletion, restriction and/or portability of data. You have the right to object to the use of your personal information. However, we may refuse your request if we have compelling legitimate grounds that override your interests or the processing is for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims.
For security reasons, we reserve the right to take steps to verify your identity before providing access to your personal information. We will respond to your request free of charge, but we reserve the right to charge a reasonable fee for fulfilling your request if your request is excessive or manifestly unfounded.

You can send a request to exercise your right(s) to info@btn-consulting.nl. Please be as clear as possible in your email. In any case, please indicate which right you wish to exercise and on what basis. We will respond to your request within one month of receipt unless we require more time. Within one month of receiving your request, we will inform you that we require a maximum of two more months. During this period of time, we will notify you whether we will comply with your request. If we are unable to comply with your request, we will tell you why.

If you have any complaints about our privacy policy, we would be grateful if you could first contact us at info@btn-consulting.nl. Together we can try to find the source of your complaint and resolve it. You have the right to lodge a complaint about our privacy policy with an authorized supervisory authority at any time. In the Netherlands this is the Official Website of Persoonsgegevens.

Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may change this Privacy Policy at any time. If we make any material changes, we may notify you by sending you an e-mail to the last e-mail address you provided to us (if any) and/or by prominently posting notice of the changes on our Website. You are responsible for providing us with your most current email address. In the event that the last e-mail address that you have provided us is not valid, or for any reason is not capable of delivering to you the notice described above, our dispatch of the e-mail containing such notice will nonetheless constitute effective notice of the changes. described in the notice. These changes are effective immediately for new users of our Website. Continued use of our Website following notice of such changes will constitute your acknowledgment of such changes and agreement to be bound by the terms and conditions of such changes. If you are not a new user and/or do not use our Website within thirty (30) calendar days of our dispatch of an email notice (if applicable) or thirty (30) calendar days of our posting of changes to our Website (if applicable), the expiration of thirty (30) days will constitute your acknowledgment of such changes and agreement to be bound by the terms and conditions of such changes.

It is important that you review the revised Privacy Policy. If you do not wish to agree to the modified Privacy Policy, we may not be able to continue to provide the Website and our services to you. In this case, you must stop accessing the Website and deactivate your BTN Consulting B.V. account. Network.

Children's Privacy
We are committed to complying with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). Our website and services are not intended for children under 16 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16 years of age. If we receive personal information that we discover has been provided by a child under 16, we will promptly destroy such information. Schools and parents should monitor their children's online activity and consider using other means to create a child-friendly online environment. Additional information is available on the Direct Marketing Association's home page at http://www.the-dma.org. If you would like to learn more about COPPA, visit the Federal Trade Commission home page at http://www.ftc.gov.

Questions and suggestions
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at:

Head of Legal Department
BTN Consulting B.V.
+31 6 11130843
info@btn-consulting.nl
BTN Consulting Branch Office
Carolina van Nassaustraat 213
2595SW The Hague, The Netherlands

Additional contact information, including country-specific contact information, can be found at https://btn-consulting.nl/