Privacy statement

Privacy-sensitive data or personal data is processed via DutchSmartshops.com. DutchSmartshops.com believes that careful handling of personal data is of great importance. Personal data is therefore also carefully processed and secured.

When processing personal data, we comply with the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation. This means, among other things, that we:

• Clearly state for which purposes we process personal data;
• Try to limit our collection of personal data to only the personal data necessary for legitimate purposes;
• Ask you first for explicit permission to process your personal data in cases where your permission is required;
• Take appropriate security measures to protect your personal data and also require the same from parties that process personal data on our behalf;
• Respect your right to access, correct or delete your personal data.

We are responsible for data processing. In this privacy statement we explain which personal data we collect and use and for what purpose. We recommend that you read this statement carefully.

This privacy statement was last amended on August 4, 2022 and has version number 1.0.

Personal data we process
DutchSmartshops.com processes your personal data because you use our services and/or because you provide this data to us yourself.

Below you will find an overview of the personal data that we process:

• Email address;
• Other personal data that you actively provide yourself via, for example, our contact form.

This personal data is used to answer your contact requests that you have left with us via our contact form.

Special and/or sensitive personal data that we process
Our website and/or service does not intend to collect data about website visitors who are younger than 18 years of age. Unless they have parental or guardian permission. However, we cannot check whether a visitor is older than 18. We therefore advise parents to be involved in the online activities of their children, in order to prevent data about children being collected without parental consent. If you are convinced that we have collected personal information about a minor without permission, please contact us via our contact form and we will delete this information.

How long do we keep personal data
DutchSmartshops.com does not store your personal data longer than is strictly necessary to realize the purposes for which your data is collected. If your personal data is no longer necessary for these purposes, your personal data will be deleted immediately, unless a legally required retention period applies, in which case we adhere to that statutory retention period.

Sharing personal data with third parties
DutchSmartshops.com only provides to third parties and only if this is necessary for the execution of our agreement with you or to comply with a legal obligation.

View, modify or delete data
You have the right to view, correct or delete your personal data. In addition, you have the right to withdraw your consent to the data processing or to object to the processing of your personal data by DutchSmartshops.com and you have the right to data portability. This means that you can submit a request to us to send the personal data we have about you in a computer file to you or another organization mentioned by you.

You can submit a request for access, correction, deletion, data transfer of your personal data or request for withdrawal of your consent or objection to the processing of your personal data to us via our contact form.

Personal Data Authority
DutchSmartshops.com would also like to point out that you have the opportunity to file a complaint with the national supervisory authority, the Dutch Data Protection Authority. This can be done via the following link: https://autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl/nl/contact-met-de-autoriteit-persoonsgegevens/tip-ons

How we protect personal data
DutchSmartshops.com takes the protection of your data seriously and takes appropriate measures to prevent misuse, loss, unauthorized access, unwanted disclosure and unauthorized modification. If you feel that your data is not properly secured or there are indications of misuse, please contact us via our contact form.

Third-party websites
This privacy statement does not apply to third-party websites that are linked to our website. We cannot guarantee that these third parties handle your personal data in a reliable or secure manner. We recommend that you read the privacy statement of these websites before using these websites.

Changes to this privacy statement
We reserve the right to make changes to this statement. Changes will be published on this website. We recommend that you consult this statement regularly so that you are aware of these changes.

Cookies, or similar techniques, we use

DutchSmartshops.com uses functional, analytical and tracking cookies. A cookie is a small text file that is stored in the browser of your computer, tablet or smartphone when you first visit this website.

Functional cookies
DutchSmartshops.com uses functional cookies to ensure that the website works properly and that, for example, your preferred settings are remembered. These cookies are also used to make the website work properly and to be able to optimize it.

Analytical cookies
In addition, analytical cookies are placed on DutchSmartshops.com by Google Analytics that collects anonymous statistical information about your surfing behaviour. This allows us to analyze how our website is used and with this information we can make decisions about the design of our website in order to improve the website.

On your first visit to our website we already informed you about these cookies and we asked for your permission to place them.

To enable careful processing of your data, we have taken the following measures:

• We have concluded a processing agreement with Google;
• Your IP address will be masked so that it is unrecognizable to Google;
• We have disabled all options that Google offers to “share data with Google”.

We use the following cookies from Google Analytics:

Tracking cookies
DutchSmartshops.com also uses so-called tracking cookies. These are cookies that enable the "tracking" of users on the internet. Thanks to these cookies, advertisements are shown on our website that we think may be of interest to you. This ensures that the advertisements that are shown are tailored to your preferences and that you do not continuously see the same advertisements, because the cookie also keeps track of how often you have seen a certain advertisement. You can change your preferences for personalized ads via this popup.

For more information, see https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites

Delete or reject cookies
You can opt out of cookies by setting your internet browser so that it no longer stores cookies. You can also delete all information previously stored via your browser settings. See the links below how you can do this per browser (we have only listed the largest browsers):

• Google Chrome
• Microsoft Internet Explorer
• Microsoft Edge
• Mozilla Firefox
• Apple Safari
• Opera

For further explanation regarding cookies, see the following website:
https://safeinternets.nl/themes/situation/cookies-what-are-it-and-what-doe-ik-ermee/

Please note: refusing cookies may limit the functionality and ease of use of the website.

Share to social media
On DutchSmartshops.com you can find buttons on certain pages to promote / share the web pages via social media. These buttons work through a link to the social media platform which opens in a new browser window. A piece of extra information is sent behind this link, such as which page you are sharing and a predefined text (you can change this yourself before you share the page on social media).

By using this functionality, no cookies are placed from our website. However, the sites of these social media platforms may use cookies. For more information, we refer to the privacy statements of these social media.