Privacy policy VDL Groep

General

VDL Groep welcomes you to this website and appreciates your interest in our company, products and services. VDL Groep attaches great importance to your privacy. That is why we feel it is important to inform you about how we handle your personal data. This privacy policy applies to all personal data provided by visitors to the website of VDL Groep B.V. or its subsidiaries. For the sake of transparency, we have described what we do with this data in this privacy policy.

Types of personal data

The personal data processed by VDL via the website often concerns your contact details such as your name and email address, a search query you enter or a question you ask in the form. In addition, you can search for vacancies via the 'Vacancies, Working at VDL, Internships & Training and Contact' functions, and these searches can also be saved and linked to, for example, your IP address, as well as the information that a website visitor uploads or fills in on the website. Of course, we also process uploaded CVs and motivation letters.

In addition, information about you as a visitor to this website, such as your IP address and your click behavior, can be stored automatically. We often extract this information directly via your visit using so-called cookies. More information about this can be found in the cookie statement

We would like to point out that even if you visit the website as a business customer, we consider this data to be (indirect) personal data and we therefore guarantee your privacy.

Purpose for processing personal data

Data that you provide to VDL Groep via the website will be processed by us for general business purposes such as providing information about certain products and services. We can then contact you with the stored personal data.

Your data can also be used to send digital newsletters, provided you have given your explicit consent for this. We consider this form of contact to be VDL's legitimate interest

In addition, the website is also intended as a job application channel and vacancies are also posted on the website. These processing activities are also considered to be VDL's legitimate interest, as well as necessary for the execution of (the preparation of) an employment contract.

Receiving party

The processing activities include the sending of personal data within the VDL Groep. This website serves as a central point, and personal data is forwarded to the relevant entity that wishes to approach you as a business customer or job applicant. Naturally, this personal data is only passed on if there is a necessary reason to do so, and only to recipients for whom the personal data is relevant. It is possible that your data will be shared with foreign VDL entities.

If VDL believes that you are using the website unlawfully, this may be a reason to forward your personal data to a (legal) third-party recipient.

On our website, you will find buttons at various places that provide access to social media channels. If you use these social media buttons, the privacy statement of the social media in question applies and they will store your personal data. VDL has no influence on, and takes no responsibility for, the use of social media buttons on the VDL website.

Retention period

VDL Groep does not store your data any longer than is strictly necessary. A retention period of six months is reasonable for the purposes described above. In addition, VDL may store anonymized data for statistical and research purposes. VDL will not retain personal data that we receive in the context of a job application or the run-up to a job application for longer than 4 weeks after the closure of the relevant procedure. If VDL has requested and obtained your permission, VDL may retain this application data for a maximum of one year.

Your rights

Because we process your personal data, you have the right to

• Submit a request to inspect your personal data;
• Submit a request to correct or delete certain data if the personal data is irrelevant or incorrect;
• Submit a request to limit and object to the processing of personal data;
• Submit a request for data portability;
• Withdraw your consent.

If you wish to make use of (one of) these options, please contact: AVG@vdl.nl. VDL will consider your interests and rights in all requests and will honor your request as much as possible. If for any reason you wish to withdraw your consent, we are obliged to comply.

All personal data that you leave on this website is provided voluntarily. However, it goes without saying that we are unable to contact you, provide you with information or carry out a job application procedure if we do not have the correct personal data.

Changes and notifications about your privacy

If you have any questions or comments about our processing of your personal data, please contact us at AVG@vdl.nl. We will do our utmost to help you. If you wish to respond to this privacy policy or if you believe that VDL Groep is not acting in accordance with this privacy policy, please contact VDL Groep at AVG@vdl.nl. If we are unable to resolve the matter, you always have the option of reporting it to the Dutch Data Protection Authority.

This privacy policy was last amended on May 25, 2018, and applies to VDL Groep B.V., (P.O. Box 8811, 5605 LV Eindhoven, the Netherlands) If VDL chooses to change this privacy policy, we will announce this on this page.

Cookies

In order to optimize the service, so-called 'cookies' are placed on your computer to a limited extent via the website. These are small information files that are stored on your computer. The cookies are used, among other things, to keep track of visitor interaction with the website. This involves the use of the program Google Analytics, a web analysis service from Google Inc.

You can regulate the placement of cookies via your browser settings. Most browsers can be set to refuse cookies or to notify you when you receive a cookie. For instructions on how to adjust your browser settings, please refer to your browser supplier. Adjusting your browser settings for cookies does not affect your ability to use this website, but it may affect your use of other websites.