Introduction & definitions
Birgitberg.com has prepared this cookies and privacy policy to inform you about the cookies it places on its websites and the processing of personal data of registered and non-registered users of birgitberg.com’s services. Controller of personal data processing is Archer Writing, Chambers of Commerce number 66793807, based in Sleeuwijk, the Netherlands.
The services of birgitberg.com are to be understood as all current and future electronic, or digital services offered by birgitberg.com, such as its (mobile) website www.birgitberg.com, digital news facilities (such as newsletters) and archives, which are used by natural persons or legal entities or to which natural persons or legal entities subscribe (hereinafter: “Services”).
Relations (hereinafter “Relations”) are to be understood as (i) all natural persons and organisations that purchase or have purchased paid and unpaid services from birgitberg.com in the past and (ii) all natural persons and organisations that have been in contact with birgitberg.com via one of the contact channels (telephone, email, letter mail, website, account manager) and thereby shared data with birgitberg.com.
Cookie policy
Types of cookies and purposes
Websites employ convenient and useful techniques that increase ease of use and make the sites as interesting as possible for each visitor. Birgitberg.com uses cookies on its website as part of its services.
Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer’s hard disk or memory. This cookie policy applies to the birgitberg.com website and services mentioned in this document. Birgitberg.com considers it very important for you to know which cookies are deployed on our website and for what purposes.
Functional cookies
Cookies that are necessary for the services of birgitberg.com to function. Birgitberg.com uses these cookies, for example, to enable logging in to the website or to remember page settings.
Analytical cookies (anonymised)
Cookies that analyse the use of birgitberg.com websites so that birgitberg.com can improve the quality and/or effectiveness of its website. Birgitberg.com uses these anonymised cookies, among other things, to see how often and how long (pages of) its website are visited, from which website(s) users come from and in what order users visit the various pages of its website.
To receive the information about the use of the website, birgitberg.com uses the services of Google Analytics from Google Inc (“Google”). Birgitberg.com always anonymises data from analytical cookies before sharing it with Google Analytics. However, we do pass on the IP address to Google Analytics, see Tracking Cookies.
Tracking cookies
With your consent, birgitberg.com and third parties collect information about the use of the birgitberg.com website and users’ interests via cookies. Cookies are explicitly not used to tailor advertisements to users’ interests. Birgitberg.com uses tracking cookies only with users’ consent among other things to track personalised statistics via Google Analytics. We do not store IP addresses within Google Analytics anonymously, which means we have a good indication of the location (down to place name) of our visitors.
Social Media Cookies
Personalised social media cookies may be placed on the birgitberg.com website by Facebook, LinkedIn and Youtube with your consent. Social media cookies allow users of the services to directly share the content of the birgitberg.com website with others via social media. Birgitberg.com has no influence on this and refers for more information to the statements these social media parties make on their own websites about this: Facebook, LinkedIn, and YouTube.
We use embedding from YouTube. This party also records information on viewing behaviour when these videos are viewed via our website. We do not embed these in privacy mode.
Data
The data (including personal data) that birgitberg.com processes can be divided into three categories:
- Data provided by relations to provide the service subscribed to; such as name, address and place of residence, email address, telephone number, bank account number. Processing of this data is necessary to provide the subscribed services.
- Derived data; we obtain data through the use of our digital services (website, newsletters); such as device data, pages visited, articles read, location of reading (in this the at municipality level), clicks on text links and advertisements, as well as data on platform usage, time , topics read and clicks. This data is only processed with the consent of users (see also chapter “Cookie policy”)
- Data resulting from the occasional contact relations have with one of our contact channels (phone, email, letter mail, website, account manager, etc..); such as notes of conversations, customer queries, complaints and participation in surveys. This contact can be initiated by relations as well as by birgitberg.com itself.
Data storage & security
The data collected will be stored in various source systems of birgitberg.com; the website database or the third parties mentioned. The data will not be used in any way for the purpose of lending, renting, selling or otherwise disclosing the data.
Third-party websites
When you click an internet link on the website or in any of the services that leads you to a third-party website, you will leave the birgitberg.com service. Use of third-party websites is not subject to the terms of use and this cookie and privacy policy of birgitberg.com, but different terms apply. Birgitberg.com is in no way liable for the use of third-party websites.
Engagement of third parties
Birgitberg.com may use the services of third parties for the provision and operation of its services, for example to perform website-related services. These third parties may have access to your personal data. Birgitberg.com will require these third parties not to disclose your personal data except to the extent necessary for the performance of the services.
Transfer to other countries
Countries outside the European Union (hereinafter “EU”) do not always provide the same protection for your data as countries within the EU. However, it may sometimes be necessary for birgitberg.com to transfer your data to those countries, for example because the (servers of the) companies that support it or are engaged by it in the performance of its services are located there. Birgitberg.com is entitled to transfer your personal data – in order to perform the services – to countries outside the EU.
Age
You warrant to birgitberg.com that all information you provide is accurate and complete and that you are 18 years of age or older. If you are under 18 years of age, you must obtain consent from your parents/guardian before using the Services. By agreeing to this cookie and privacy policy, you warrant to us that you are 16 years of age or older, or that you have obtained the consent referred to here.
Inspection & correction
It is possible to send an e-mail to info@birgitberg.com stating ‘privacy’. At your request, birgitberg.com will correct and/or supplement your personal data if they are incorrect and/or incomplete. Also, at your request, birgitberg.com will delete your personal data (or have it deleted), if your personal data prove to be irrelevant for the purpose of processing, unless and insofar as the law obliges us to retain the personal data in question or there are (other) compelling reasons against deletion.
Modification of cookie & privacy policy
The cookie & privacy policy of birgitberg.com may be extended or amended from time to time. It therefore makes sense to regularly review this cookie & privacy policy and the related birgitberg.com cookie policy.
Contact
If you have any questions about this cookie & privacy policy, please feel free to e-mail us.
Last updated: October 15th 2023