Privacy statement

Privacy & Cookie policy

Dutch Housing Company B.V. (DHC), together with its operating companies Dutch Housing Company Ontwikkeling B.V. and Dutch Housing Company Realisatie B.V., attaches great importance to the protection of privacy and the security of personal data. We will always process personal data in accordance with the provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation (AVG), the AVG Implementation Act and other applicable laws and regulations.

DHC reserves the right to amend this Privacy & Cookie Policy (Policy) to be unilaterally amended or supplemented from time to time. You are therefore advised to consult this page regularly. When there are material changes to the Policy, a clear notification will follow via our website.

This Policy was last updated on: 24-5-2018.

Use of personal data

On our website www.dutchhousingcompany.com and on our project websites, personal data are requested and used in a number of places. For example, you can request a brochure, you can register for an event or apply for a vacancy. The information you provide (consisting of your name, job title, company name, address, e-mail address and topics/projects you are interested in) will only be used to fulfil your request and will not be used for purposes other than those known to you at the time of your request. Your information will not be disclosed to third parties without your consent, unless we cannot otherwise fulfil your request.

In addition, we process personal data automatically for the technical and functional management of our website and to ensure that it is easy for you to use. For this purpose, we may process data such as your IP address, the pages you visit, the browser you use, previous visits to the websites, demographic information, and the time and duration of your visit. We also use cookies for the same purpose. Cookies help us learn more about how the website is used, which helps us improve the whole experience. See below for further information on cookies.

In addition to the personal data we obtain from you by visiting our website, we also collect personal data that you have provided to us by other means, such as entering into an agreement with us, giving us your business card, or applying for a job. We may also obtain your personal data from other sources, such as the Trade Register, the Land Registry or by using other public sources.

Personal data obtained directly and indirectly from you will at all times be processed on the basis of one or more of the following legal bases:

  • the performance of a contract;
  • fulfilling a legal obligation;
  • legitimate interest;
  • your consent.

Personal data security

DHC and third parties engaged by us to process your personal data have taken all appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect personal data against unauthorised or unlawful processing, accidental loss, destruction, damage, alteration or disclosure. These measures ensure an appropriate level of security.

In case of a serious data breach, DHC will report this to the Personal Data Authority. If the data breach is likely to have adverse effects on your privacy, the data breach will also be reported to you.

Hyperlinks

If you choose to share content from our website via social media sites, such as LinkedIn, Facebook and/or Twitter, your personal data (such as your name and the fact that you are in contact with DHC will also be visible to visitors to your personal web pages on these social media sites. The use of such websites is governed exclusively by the terms and conditions (including the privacy policy) of the relevant social media websites. DHC is in no way responsible for the data processing or privacy policies on such social media websites, nor does this Policy apply to the use of such websites.

Retention of data

DHC does not retain personal data longer than necessary for the purposes for which it was obtained and to comply with applicable laws and regulations. In the case of personal data processed in the context of job applications, DHC will not keep such data longer than the statutory retention period, except where you have given your express consent to keep it longer. This, for example, for the purpose of filling future positions. In that case, we will keep your personal data for a maximum of 1 year.

Cookies

Cookies are small files stored on your computer by your browser so that a website can store and retrieve information. DHC only uses cookies that have no or little privacy infringement, in particular to make our website work better. In particular, these are analytical cookies.

Our website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. (Google). Google Analytics uses multiple cookies. These cookies remain stored on your computer indefinitely. Among other things, Google Analytics records which pages visitors to our website view, which country they come from, what they click on, which browser they use and what screen resolution they use. This information is used to optimise the website. The information obtained is stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google is a member of the EU-US Privacy Shield. Google may only provide your information to third parties if Google is legally required to do so, or to the extent that third parties process the information on Google's behalf. For more information, read Google's Privacy Policy.

If you have Adobe Flash installed on your computer and you listen to audio files or view video files on this website, Google Analytics will use a Local Shared Object or Flash Cookie to measure how many times an audio file and/or video file has been played, how many visitors have played the audio file and/or video file entirely, and how many visitors have stopped playing the audio file and/or video file for the duration of the file.

In addition, cookies may be set through this website by Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn because visitors to our website can share information from our website through the icons of these organisations. For more information on the privacy policies of these organisations, please refer to their respective websites

Refusing and deleting cookies

You can set your browser to not store cookies, to allow or deny each cookie individually or to delete all cookies when you close your browser. You can find a useful roadmap for managing cookies on the Consumers' Association website.

Cookies are placed on every computer you use to visit websites. If you no longer want to receive cookies at all, you need to adjust the settings on all the computers you use. Please note that refusing and/or deleting cookies will also affect strictly necessary cookies. This may limit your ability to use our websites or parts of them.

Your rights

With regard to your personal data, you have the following rights:

  • The right to access, which means that you can make a request to see the personal data we have collected from you. In doing so, you should note that there may be circumstances in which we are authorised, for example due to professional privilege, not to comply with your request to provide copies of personal data;
  • The right to correct your data if it is incorrect or incomplete;
  • The right to have your personal data deleted;
  • The right to object to or request restriction of the processing of your personal data;
  • The right to data portability, which means you have the right to receive your data in a structured, common and machine-readable form. In doing so, you have the right to transfer this data to another controller;
  • The right to file a complaint with a regulator, such as in the Netherlands the Personal Data Authority;
  • The right to withdraw a given consent to process your personal data.

In relation to the aforementioned rights, circumstances may arise where we are authorised to continue processing your data, in particular to comply with our legal and statutory obligations.

Contact

You may exercise the aforementioned rights, object to the use of your personal data for direct marketing purposes or ask questions regarding our privacy policy by sending a request to Dutch Housing Company, to the privacy officer of DHC, Bezuidenhoutseweg 161, 2594 AG The Hague or info@dutchhousingcompany.com.