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Privacy Policy
This is the privacy policy of EDGE Netherlands B.V., a private company with limited liability established under the laws of the Netherlands, registered with the Chamber of Commerce under number 24291656. EDGE has its registered office at Marten Meesweg 8, 3068 AV Rotterdam (“EDGE”). EDGE offers sustainable, forward-thinking, well-designed buildings and technology driving the cities of the future.
EDGE collects your personal data via edge.tech (“Website”) or when you otherwise make use of our products and services. This privacy policy is meant to advise you about the type of information that EDGE collects via the Website and its products and services and the purposes for which this information is being processed (“Privacy Policy”).
What we collect
When you contact us through the Website, visit our Website or when you otherwise make use of our products and services, you may provide us with information about yourself, such as your (company) name, e-mail address and phone number that is provided by you through your message. When you visit our Website, we also automatically collect information via the use of cookies, such as your IP address, browser type, the pages you visit and the time and duration of your visit.
How we use it
If you choose to provide us with your e-mail address or other (indirect) personally identifiable information, we will use such information to respond to your inquiry (communication and customer service), to carry out a contract that was concluded with you or for marketing purposes. The processing of this information is for purposes of a legitimate interest pursued by us, namely to conduct our normal business activities, in order to carry out a contract that was concluded with you or on the basis of consent.
The personal data collected by us through the Website (Cookies) is used to improve our online services and may also be used to comply with legal and/or regulatory requirements. In that case we process your personal data for purposes of a legitimate interest pursued by us, namely to conduct our normal business activities, on the basis of consent.
If your personal information of processed on the basis of a legitimate interest pursued by us, information can be obtained by you as to the so-called balancing test that was carried out to allow reliance on a legitimate interest. Please find our contact details below.
We store your personal data for as long as is necessary for the abovementioned purposes or for secondary purposes in line with those purposes.
EDGE observes a strict duty of confidentiality with regard to your personal information. Without your consent EDGE does not share, sell, rent, lend or disclose any of the personal data you provide to us with any third party (e.g. for direct marketing purposes), except as described in this Privacy Policy, unless:
- We must do so by law because we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation; or
- Some of our businesses may be restructured, bought or sold. In this event, your personal data may need to be transferred in order for the new or surviving entity to be able to continue to provide ongoing service to the affected customers.
We do not share your personal data with third parties.
Cookies
EDGE uses cookies and similar techniques whenever you interact with this Website. Cookies are small files that are sent along with this Website and placed on your equipment by your browser. On each subsequent visit to this Website, the browser searches for cookies and sends the available information stored therein to the servers of this Website.
EDGE uses the following types of cookies:
- Technically necessary cookies
These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the Website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the Website. Without these cookies, services you have asked for cannot be provided. - Analytical/Performance cookies
These cookies collect information about how visitors use the Website, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. All information these cookies collect is aggregated. This information is used to provide aggregated and statistical information on the use of the Website and is used to improve the contents of the Website to enhance your user experience. - The Website also uses analytics cookies placed by Google Analytics (including Google Tag Manager) to measure the number of visits and the parts of the Website that are the most popular among the Website’s visitors as well as for benchmarking purposes. This information is used to provide aggregated and statistical information on the use of the Website and is used to improve the contents of the Website to enhance your user experience. EDGE has followed the Manual of the Dutch Data Protection Authority in order to ensure that Google Analytics is used in a privacy friendly manner. This means that EDGE has instructed Google to remove the last three digits of your IP-address (“Anonymize IP”) and EDGE has disabled the standard setting to share data with Google. Furthermore, EDGE has concluded a data processing agreement with Google Inc. and EDGE does not use other Google services in combination with the Google Analytics-cookies.
- Functionality cookies
These cookies may store your browser name, the type of computer and technical information about your means of connection to the Website, such as the operating system and the Internet Service Providers utilized and other similar information. This information is used to technically facilitate the navigation and use of the Website. In addition, functional cookies may be used to store personal settings, such as language, or to remember your information for next visits if so requested. The information these cookies collect will be anonymised and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.
Controlling / deleting cookies
If you do not want to have cookies used by EDGE stored on your computer or want to remove cookies used by EDGE that have already been stored, you can disable these cookies via your browser settings. You are also entitled to revoke your consent for the use of cookies referred to above by EDGE at any time. If you wish to revoke your consent for use of these cookies by EDGE, you can change your cookie settings here: youronlinechoices.com
If you disable the cookies through browser settings, the Website or certain parts of the Website may not work properly. Furthermore, certain personalized features may not be provided to you and thus you may not be able to take full advantage of all of the Website’s features.
The browsers on all devices used by you to use or access the Website (e.g. on your smartphone, tablet, laptop etc.) will need to be adjusted to suit your cookie preferences. If you require more information or help to change your cookie preferences in your browser, please go to: allaboutcookies.org.
Links
For your convenience, we have provided links to certain third party websites, including but not limited to some of EDGE’s partnerships. EDGE is not responsible or liable for any processing of your personal data via these websites. If you choose to visit a third party’s site, please be aware that the third party’s privacy policy, and not EDGE’s, will govern your activities and any information you disclose while visiting the third party’s site. If you share content from the Website via social media, your personal data will be visible to those visiting your personal pages on these social media websites. EDGE is not responsible or liable for any processing of your personal data via such media. Please refer to the privacy and cookie policies of the relevant third party websites/social media for information on the processing of personal data by those websites/social media and their use of cookies.
Security
EDGE has taken appropriate technical and organizational security measures in order to protect your personal data against loss, misuse, alteration and/or destruction. Although we exercise reasonable care in providing secure transmission of information between your equipment and our systems, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information transmitted to us over the internet. For more information about communicating with EDGE and the use of this Website, please refer to our disclaimer.
Policy changes
This Privacy Policy can be changed over time to comply with law or to meet our changing business requirement. The most up-to-date Privacy Policy can be found on our website. This Privacy Policy was last changed on 27 October 2023. We will inform you appropriately of any relevant changes in this Privacy Policy.
Your rights
- In so far as the personal data processing is based on consent (see above), you have the right to withdraw consent at any time.
- You have the right to request access to your personal data. This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
- You have the right to request rectification of the personal data that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected.
- You have the right to request rectification of the personal data that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected.
- You have the right to request erasure of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal data where the personal data are no longer necessary, you have withdrawn your consent, you have objected to the processing activities, the personal data have been unlawfully processed, the personal data have to be erased on the basis of a legal requirement or where the personal data have been collected in relation to the offer of information society services. We do not have to honour your request to the extent that the processing is necessary for exercising the right of freedom of expression and information, for compliance with a legal obligation which requires processing, for reasons of public interest in the area of public health, for archiving purposes or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
- You have the right to object to processing of your personal data where we are relying on a legitimate interest. Insofar as the processing of your personal data takes place for direct marketing purposes, we will always honour your request. For processing for other purposes, we will also cease and desist processing, unless we have compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms or that are related to the institution, exercise or substantiation of a legal claim.
- You have the right to request restriction of processing of your personal data in case the accuracy of the personal data is contested by you to enable the controller to verify the accuracy, the processing is unlawful and restriction is requested instead of erasure, the controller no longer needs the personal data but they are required by you for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims or in case you have objected to processing.
- You have the right to request to transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party (right to dataportability). We will provide to you, or a third party you have chosen, your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Note that this right only applies to automated information regarding which you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the information to perform a contract with you.
- We may request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and your right to access, and to provide you with the personal data that we hold about you or make your requested changes.
- The exercise of the abovementioned rights is free of charge and can be carried out by contacting us by e-mail. Please find our contact details below. We will provide you with information about the follow-up to the request immediately and in any case within one month of receipt of the request. Depending on the complexity of the request and on the number of requests, this period can be extended by another two months. We will notify you of such an extension within one month of receipt of the request. Applicable law may allow or require us to refuse your request. If we cannot provide you with access to your personal data, we will inform you of the reasons why, subject to any legal or regulatory restrictions.
- If your requests are manifestly unfounded or excessive, in particular because of the repetitive character, we will either charge you a reasonable fee or refuse to comply with the request.
- When processing your personal data, we do not make use of automated decision-making.
- In addition to the above-mentioned rights you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority in accordance with applicable data protection legislation, in particular in the EU Member State of your habitual residence, place of work or of an alleged infringement of the applicable data protection legislation at all times. However, we would appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the supervisory authority so please contact us beforehand.
Contact
If you have any questions or suggestions about our privacy practices, please feel free to contact us by e-mail at info@edge.tech.