Privacy Policy

Last updated: February 28th, 2024

Blijjenberg Books and its affiliates and subsidiaries (collectively, “Company”, “us”, “we”, or “our”) respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it by complying with this policy.

This policy describes:

• How we collect, use, disclose, and protect the personal information of our customers and Site users (“you”).
• The types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website wietskeblijjenberg.com
• Our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.

We will only use your personal information in accordance with this policy unless otherwise required by applicable law. We take steps to ensure that the personal information that we collect about you is adequate, relevant, not excessive, and used for limited purposes.

Personal information we collect

We receive, collect and store any information you enter on our website or provide us in any other way. In addition, we collect the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet; e-mail address; and computer and connection. We may use software tools to measure and collect session information, including page response times, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information, and methods used to browse away from the page. We also collect personally identifiable information (including email, communications).

When you subscribe to our newsletter, as part of the process, we collect personal information you give us such as your email address. Your personal information will be used for the specific reasons stated above only.

Special and/or sensitive personal information that we process

We do not have the intention to collect personal information of website visitors younger than the age of 16, unless they have permission from a parent or guardian. However, we cannot verify if a visitors are younger than 16. We therefore recommend that parents and guardians be involved in their children’s online activities, to prevent data about children from being collected without parental consent. If you are convinced that we have collected personal information about a minor without parental consent, please contact us at privacy@wietskeblijjenberg.com and we will delete this information.

For what purpose and on what basis we process personal information

We collect such Non-personal and Personal Information for the following purposes:

1. To provide and operate the Services;
2. To provide our Users with ongoing customer assistance and technical support;
3. To be able to contact our Visitors and Users with general or personalized service-related notices and promotional messages;
4. To create aggregated statistical data and other aggregated and/or inferred Non-personal Information, which we or our business partners may use to provide and improve our respective services;
5. To comply with any applicable laws and regulations.
6. To send our newsletter.

We may contact you to send updates about our company, or as otherwise necessary to contact you to enforce our User Agreement, applicable national laws, and any agreement we may have with you. For these purposes we may contact you via email.

How long we keep Personal Information

Except as otherwise permitted or required by applicable law or regulation, we will only retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. Under some circumstances we may anonymize your personal information so that it can no longer be associated with you. We reserve the right to use such anonymous and de-identified data for any legitimate business purpose without further notice to you or your consent.

Sharing of Personal Information with third parties

We do not sell your personal information to third parties and will only provide personal information to third parties if this is necessary for the execution of our agreement with you or to comply with a legal obligation. To ensure the security and confidentiality of your data, we enter into a processor agreement with companies that process your data on our behalf. Blijjenberg Books remains responsible for these processes.

Our company is hosted via STRATO.nl. STRATO.nl provides us with the online platform that allows us to provide our services to you. Your data may be stored through STRATO.com’s data storage, databases and the general STRATO.com applications. They store your data on secure servers behind a firewall.

Our newsletter services are provided by MailerLite. They handle Personal Information as specified in their privacy policy, which can be found at https://www.mailerlite.com/legal/privacy-policy. MailerLite provides us with the online platform that allows us to provide our services to you. To provide our newsletter services, we share your email address with MailerLite. Your email address may be stored through MailerLite’s data storage, database and the general MailerLite applications. They store your data on secure servers behind a firewall.

Cookies, or similar technologies, that we use

Blijjenberg Books only uses technical and functional cookies, and analytical cookies that do not infringe on your privacy. A cookie is a small text file that is stored on your computer, tablet, or smartphone when you first visit this website. The cookies we use are necessary for the technical operation of the website and your ease of use. They ensure that the website works properly and, for example, remember your preference settings. We can also optimize our website with these cookies. You can opt out of cookies by configuring your internet browser so that it no longer stores cookies. In addition, you can delete all information previously stored via the settings of your browser.

Access, correct, amend or delete Personal Information

You reserve the right to access, correct, amend, or delete your Personal Information. In addition, you have the right to withdraw your consent to the processing of your personal information or to object to the processing of your personal information by Blijjenberg Books. In addition, you have the right to data transferability. This means that you can submit a request to us to send the personal information we have about you in a computer file to you or another organisation mentioned by you. You can a request for access, correction, amending, deletion, or data transfer of your personal data, or a request for withdrawal of your consent, or objection to the processing of your personal data to privacy@wietskeblijjenberg.com. To ensure that the request for access has been made by you, we ask you to enclose a copy of your proof of identity with the request. In this copy, black out your passport photo, MRZ (machine readable zone, the strip with numbers at the bottom of the passport), passport number, and Citizen Service Number (BSN). This is to protect your privacy. If you are contacting us about the deletion of an email address, sending an email from the email address you want us to delete will suffice. We will respond to your request as soon as possible, but within four weeks. Blijjenberg Books would also like to point out that you have the option 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 Information

Blijjenberg Books takes the protection of your data seriously and takes appropriate measures to prevent misuse, loss, unauthorised access, unwanted disclosure and unauthorised modification. If you feel that your data is not properly secured or there are indications of misuse, please contact us via privacy@wietskeblijjenberg.com.

Our website may contain links to other third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We neither own nor control these third-party websites and assume no responsibility for the data security practices of those websites. You should inform yourself with the privacy policies of those third-party websites.

Changes to our privacy policy

We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it. We include the date the privacy policy was last revised at the top of the page. You are responsible for periodically visiting our website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.

For Users in California

California residents are entitled to request a notice from us describing which categories of personal information we have shared with third parties or corporate affiliates for those third parties or corporate affiliates’ direct marketing purposes within the last calendar year, and the name and address of such parties. If you are a California resident and would like a copy of this notice, please send an email in writing to privacy@wietskeblijjenberg.com indicating “California Privacy Rights Request” in the subject line.

Contact

https://www.wietskeblijjenberg.com
E-mail: privacy@wietskeblijjenberg.com