Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website vanvanharen.com and use our services. Please read this policy carefully to understand our practices regarding your personal data.

1. Controller of Personal Data
The controller of your personal data is vanvanharen.com. We are committed to protecting your privacy and handling your data transparently and securely.

2. Personal Data We Collect
We may collect and process the following categories of personal data:

  • Identification Data: Such as your name.
  • Contact Data: Such as your email address.
  • Technical Data: Such as your IP address, browser type and version, time zone setting, operating system, and other technology on the devices you use to access our website.
  • Usage Data: Information about how you use our website and services.
  • Marketing and Communications Data: Your preferences in receiving marketing from us.

We collect this data through direct interactions (e.g., when you contact us), automated technologies (e.g., cookies as you browse), and from third parties (e.g., analytics providers).

3. Purposes and Legal Basis for Processing
We process your personal data based on lawful grounds, including:

  • Performance of a Contract: To execute and fulfill orders, manage your account, and deliver purchased products or services.
  • Legitimate Interests: For website administration, security, fraud prevention, improving our services, and marketing our own similar products/services, provided your interests do not override ours.
  • Consent: Where you have given clear consent, for example, for specific marketing communications. You can withdraw consent at any time.
  • Legal Obligation: To comply with legal and regulatory requirements.

4. Cookies and Similar Technologies
Our website uses cookies and similar tracking technologies to distinguish you from other users. This helps us provide a better experience and allows us to improve our site. You can set your browser to refuse all or some cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. Please note that disabling cookies may affect the functionality of our website.

5. Sharing Your Personal Data
We may share your personal data with:

  • Service Providers: Trusted third parties who provide IT, system administration, hosting, payment processing, order fulfillment, and marketing services under strict confidentiality agreements.
  • Professional Advisors: Such as lawyers, bankers, auditors, and insurers where necessary.
  • Authorities: If required by law or to protect our rights, property, or safety.

We do not sell your personal data to third parties.

6. International Transfers
We primarily process data within the European Economic Area (EEA). If we transfer data outside the EEA, we ensure an adequate level of protection is in place through standard contractual clauses or other approved mechanisms.

7. Data Security
We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal data against unauthorized or unlawful processing, accidental loss, destruction, or damage.

8. Data Retention
We will retain your personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

9. Your Rights
Under data protection law, you have rights including:

  • Access: The right to request access to your personal data.
  • Rectification: The right to have inaccurate data corrected.
  • Erasure (‘Right to be Forgotten’): The right to request deletion of your data under certain circumstances.
  • Restriction: The right to request restriction of processing.
  • Data Portability: The right to receive your data in a structured, commonly used format.
  • Objection: The right to object to processing based on legitimate interests or for direct marketing.
  • Withdraw Consent: To withdraw consent at any time where processing is based on consent.

To exercise these rights, please contact us using the details in the “Contact” section of our website.

10. Third-Party Links
Our website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins, and applications. Clicking on those links may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements.

11. Children’s Privacy
Our website and services are not intended for individuals under the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children.

12. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this policy from time to time. The latest version will always be posted on our website with an updated effective date. We encourage you to review this policy periodically.

13. Contact
For any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy and our privacy practices, please reach out to us via the contact options provided on vanvanharen.com.