Privacy Policy

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The privacy policy below applies to all site visits, transactions and agreements with Personal Protection Dogs (www.personalprotectiondogs.nl).

Basis for processing personal data

Personal Protection Dogs processes your regular personal data according to the legal bases of the AVG law. Based on this law, we can appeal to (one of) the following bases:

  • Consent of the person concerned (Newsletters, agreements)
  • Necessity for the performance of an agreement
  • Necessary for compliance with our legal obligations
  • Protecting legitimate interests (processing agreement/personnel administration)

Purposes of processing

Personal Protection Dogs processes your personal data for:

  • The execution of agreements, transactions and services;
  • Relationship management;
  • Newsletters;
  • Product and service development;
  • Administrative actions;
  • Determining strategy and policy;
  • Human resources administration;
  • Application procedure;
  • Offers

Personal Protection Dogs processes personal data that are necessary to fulfill the agreement. This data has been collected on an agreement or you have already provided it with a previous agreement. We will send an order confirmation, an invoice and if necessary a reminder or notice. By giving an order you also give permission to use the personal data provided by you for administrative processing. Without this processing we cannot be of service to you.

Anyone can sign up for our newsletter, we will then regularly send you news by email. These letters contain invisible codes, with which we can track how many people read our newsletter and which subjects are clicked on. We do not register anything by name, we only use general information to improve our newsletter. You can also easily unsubscribe from the newsletter, via a link at the bottom of the newsletter.

When visiting our website, no personal data will be collected by us without your permission. We do register data that does not contain personal information. This is to gain insight into the way in which our website is used (cookies).

Providing personal data

Personal Protection Dogs needs your data to keep records, to contact you, to fulfil our obligations arising from the agreements made and to store correspondence data.

If you do not provide data, Personal Protection Dogs cannot do its work and we cannot be of service to you. This makes the provision of personal data a condition for entering into an agreement with Personal Protection Dogs.

In addition, Personal Protection Dogs uses your data to contact you to discuss your order/reservation, which you may appreciate; satisfaction, adjustment, offers (unless you have indicated that you do not wish to receive offers, etc.).

Recipients of personal data

Personal Protection Dogs processes your data in a database, this system is used by Personal Protection Dogs only for the processing and development of our products and services. The Personal Protection Dogs database is well secured according to European standards.

A limited portion of personal data will be provided to third parties (domain name registration, if necessary for collection), for purposes necessary to provide our services and fulfill the agreement made.

The necessary (processing) agreements form the basis for the “third parties” that Personal Protection Dogs uses to provide its services.

Provision to third parties

Your personal data will not be provided to third parties without your express permission, unless this is necessary to execute a relevant agreement, to provide a specific service or when required by law. Your personal data will never be provided to third parties outside the EU.

Save data

We will retain your data for as long as necessary to process our agreement and thereafter according to legal retention periods in our archives. Newsletter data will be retained for as long as you have given permission for it, as soon as an unsubscribe from a newsletter is received, we will delete the data. We will not retain your data longer than necessary.

In case of an application, we will store your personal data for as long as necessary for the application procedure. If no relationship is established, we will delete your data or ask permission to store your data for a longer period.

Data security

Personal Protection Dogs uses careful security procedures for the protection of the processed data, among other things to prevent unauthorized persons from accidentally gaining access to this data. Personal Protection Dogs therefore uses an SSL security certificate.

Personal Protection Dogs uses an internet company in the Netherlands for its website. This company has well-secured servers and your data is secured in accordance with the applicable security standards.

Social media buttons

We have a number of social media buttons on our website. This is to make it as easy as possible to share messages. The social media channels work with cookies and adhere to the EU-US Privacy Shield. We use:

Cookies

Personal Protection Dogs uses two types of cookies on its website:

  • Functional cookies: The main purpose of these cookies is to save you time and effort. For example, if you customize a web page to your personal preferences or navigate a website, cookies will remember your chosen settings and preferences for future use. When you visit the website again later, the previously entered data can be retrieved by the cookies, allowing you to easily use the features of the website as you previously set them.
  • Analytics cookies: Personal Protection Dogs uses analytical cookies (Google analytics). By means of these cookies, Personal Protection Dogs gains insight into the use of our website. The information obtained with this, Google analyses for us. The privacy of the visitor is guaranteed with these analytical cookies. With this data we can optimize our website, which allows us to improve the user experience for you as a visitor. Google is an American company that stores its data on American servers. Google complies with the EU-US Privacy Shield Principles.

At Personal Protection Dogs, cookies are automatically accepted, but you can change your browser settings to not accept cookies if desired. If you choose not to accept cookies, you may not be able to fully use the interactive features of this website or other sites you visit.

Links to other websites

Our internet pages contain links to other websites. Personal Protection Dogs is not responsible for the privacy policy of websites that do not fall under Personal Protection Dogs. In this case, we refer you to the privacy statement of the website in question.

Data breach reporting obligation

In the event of a data leak, Personal Protection Dogs will immediately report this to our internet agency, which will then report its data to the Dutch Data Protection Authority in accordance with the VGA. A data leak is a breach of the security of personal data (hack). All parties involved will also be informed of the data leak and an urgent assessment will be made of the risk that is being run with the resulting data leak.

Right of access, rectification, erasure and objection

You may ask Personal Protection Dogs to inspect the data stored about you. You may also request Personal Protection Dogs to change, supplement or delete this data. You can do this by contacting us via info@personalprotectiondogs.nl

After receiving your request, it will be tested against legal standards before deleting the data. You can object to the processing of your data or you can withdraw your consent to process data. Personal Protection Dogs will test your objection/withdrawal, i.e. see if your objection does not jeopardize the processing of the purposes.

If you have any complaints about the processing of personal data, you can address your complaint to: autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl

Automated decision-making

Personal Protection Dogs uses automated decision-making regarding the creditworthiness of our customers. Personal Protection Dogs may investigate the creditworthiness before carrying out work. If this investigation produces a negative result, Personal Protection Dogs may choose to terminate the agreement. Personal Protection Dogs may also choose, in the event of poor creditworthiness, to carry out work in stages, whereby payment in advance may be a condition.

Changes

Personal Protection Dogs reserves the right to make changes to this privacy statement, for example due to new legal developments or online services.