Privacy Policy and Cookies

Data Protection Declaration and your privacy

We would like to provide you, as visitor to our website, with the following facts and information on the care we take to protect your privacy.

Anonymous data collection

As a matter of principle, you can visit our website without letting us know who you are. Only technical data will be available to us, such as the name of your internet providor, your anonymised IP address, the website from which you have come and the pages of our website that you visit. This information is assessed together with date and time details for internal statistical purposes with a view to website analysis. This will help us improve the design of our website for better user experience. You, the user, remain completely anonymous during this process. No pseudonym usage profiles are generated.

Customer data

We will safeguard and retain customer data in line with GDPR stipulations.

As soon as you become a customer of Wientjens, and when you provide us with personal data, we store your data according to the legal stipulations of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We will collect and use this personal data to conclude a possible agreement with you and perform this agreement. We may then also use your data within the legal framework to send you advertising material on other products.

Data of potential customers and of suppliers

We will safeguard and retain your data in line with GDPR stipulations.

If you are a potential customer of ours, we will use your data to be able to send you an offer, to be able to determine what specifications or wishes certain goods or services must satisfy, in order to be able to deliver goods or carry out activities for you, in order to be able to invoice you and to be able to communicate with you quickly and efficiently concerning the implementation aspects of an agreement.

If you are a (potential) supplier or another contractor, your personal data are also required for concluding and performing any agreement. In case of purchasing, this is necessary in order to be able to inform you what specifications or wishes certain goods or services should satisfy in our opinion, to be able to send a request for an offer or to place an order with you, to be able to pay your invoices and to able to communicate with you quickly and efficiently concerning other aspects of an agreement.

You are not obliged to provide your personal data to us. However, if you do not provide personal data to us or provide us with insufficient personal data we may not be able to carry out the activities mentioned above.

Data belonging to other business contacts

We would like to draw your attention to the fact that we will collect and use the personal data you provide to us based on your consent or because this is necessary in order to look after our legitimate interests. We process the following data: name, address and contact details.

If you are a business contact of ours, we will use your data to be able to contact you for purposes that are in the interest of our business. This includes for example discussion of a possible collaboration, providing and obtaining information and maintenance of our network.

You are not obliged to provide your personal data to us. If you do not provide personal data to us or provide us with insufficient personal data we may not be able to carry out the activities mentioned above. Your data will be safeguarded and retained in line with GDPR stipulations.

Direct marketing

If you have granted us your approval to do so, we will store and use the personal data you have provided in order to be able to inform you personally in the future of our existing and new products and services and possibly make you an offer in this connection. Every time we send you a marketing e-mail, you have the option of informing us that you no longer wish to receive such e-mails. See the opt-out link at the bottom of each e-mail.

Transfer to third parties

In connection with the performance of a possible agreement with you it may be necessary to provide your personal data to parties that supply parts, materials or products to us or who perform activities on our instructions. We furthermore make use of external server space for the storage of (parts of) our sales and purchasing records and our records of business relations. Your personal data are part of these records. Therefore your personal data are provided to the service space provider. We also use Microsoft Office and the related storage facilities for e-mails and other files. As we make use of a newsletter mailing service, your personal data are finally transferred to the provider of this service.

Digital newsletter

We offer a newsletter to inform our relations of the latest news regarding our services and related issues. Your e-mail address is added to the mailing list with your explicit permission only. Every newsletter contains a link you can use to easily unsubscribe.

We use Mailchimp to distribute our newsletters. Mailchimp generates information on the reading and clicking behavior of newsletter recipients. Wientjens does not look at or use this personal information. We have entered into a processing agreement with Mailchimp regarding processing of this data. This information is not shared with third parties.

Your rights

You have the right to request to inspect your own personal data. If there is reason to do so, you may also request us to supplement your personal data or to correct inaccuracies. You also have the right to request that your personal data be deleted or that the use of your personal data be limited. You can also submit an objection to the collection and use of your personal data to us or submit a complaint to the Dutch Data Protection Authority. And finally, you have the right to request to obtain your personal data or that they are transferred to another party. In order to be able to exercise your rights, you can apply to:

Wientjens BV,
Sprokkelveld 9
6596DH Milsbeek
The Netherlands

Tel.: +31 485 516441
Email: info@wientjens.com

Naturally you can contact us if you have questions or require further information concerning the collection and use of your personal data.

May 2018

Cookies

We use cookies in order to improve the quality of the structure and content of our internet site. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer, tablet or smartphone during a visit to our website. Information is stored in these text files that is later recognised again by the website during a subsequent visit. Our website makes use of functional and analytical cookies. Cookies cannot damage your computer.

Functional Cookies

Our website uses functional cookies to allow you to navigate your way around our site as smoothly as possible.

Google Analytics

This website further uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Analytical cookies allow us to see, for instance, what pages are visited and what sections of our website receive clicks so that we can improve the relevance of our website. We use Google Analytics for this purpose and have signed a data processing agreement with Google Analytics. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address truncated by the last octet prior to its storage using the “_anonymizeIp()” method) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use the information from the cookies for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.

The information collected by Google Analytics as outlined above is anonymised by masking of the last octet of your IP address. There is no further data sharing with Google Analytics and we do not use any other Google services in combination with Google Analytics. Your privacy is therefore protected.

You may refuse the use of analytical cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser.