Privacy statement

Zaanstreek Marketing Foundation

Stichting Marketing Zaanstreek (SMZ) uses the legal rules to protect your privacy. Those rules are laid down in the General Data Protection Regulation. SMZ respects your privacy and always treats the personal information you provide to us confidentially and in accordance with the legal rules. You can read how we do this in this statement.

In this privacy notice:
- our data;
- what we mean by personal data;
- what we mean by processing personal data;
- for what purposes we process your personal data;
- what your rights are;
- what we do to ensure that your personal data is processed securely;
- how long your personal data will be kept.

This privacy notice applies when you visit www.zaanstreek.nl or www.zaans.nl/en or sign up for a newsletter.

Our details:
Zaanstreek Marketing Foundation
Stadhuisplein 96
1506 MZ Zaandam
Phone number: 075-6150406
Chamber of Commerce number: 51367378
www.zaans.nl/en
zaanstreekzaans.nl/en

Personal data
Personal data is any data that gives information about you and makes you directly or indirectly identifiable.

Processing personal data
By processing personal data we mean: the collection, recording, organisation, storage, updating, modification, retrieval, consultation, use, combination, association, as well as blocking, erasure or destruction of your personal data.

Purposes
We request personal data only to the extent necessary. We process your personal data for the following purposes:

- to provide requested information;
- to send newsletters;
- to send invitations to our activities;
- for general or targeted offers.

We only process personal data necessary for these purposes. Stichting Marketing Zaanstreek never sells your personal data to third parties.

Your rights
We only process the personal data you have entered. Would you like to know which personal data we have processed? If so, please send an e-mail to info@zaanstreek.nl with a request to inspect your data. You will receive a response to the request within four weeks at the latest.

Are your personal data incorrect, incomplete, irrelevant to the purposes for which they have been processed or otherwise in breach of the Personal Data Protection Act or other legislation? If so, you are entitled to have your personal data corrected. Correction includes improvement, addition, deletion or blocking of your personal data. Please send a request to info@zaanstreek.nl.

We leave personal data to Mailchimp to send out newsletters, we only do this if you have signed yourself up for this. Of course, you have the right to terminate this. You can unsubscribe yourself from the newsletters using the link at the bottom of each newsletter or by sending an e-mail to zaanstreekzaans.nl/en requesting unsubscription.

Security
Personal data is personal and must remain personal. It is just as important to us as it is to you that personal data does not end up on the street or are processed unlawfully. That is why we apply all possible technical and organisational measures to process your personal data securely. The websites managed by Marketing Zaanstreek use a reliable SSL Certificate to ensure that your personal data do not fall into the wrong hands.

If you have the impression that your data is not properly secured or there are indications of misuse, or if you would like more information about the security of personal data collected by Marketing Zaanstreek, please contact us at zaanstreekzaans.nl/en.

Mapping website visits
General visit data is kept on the website, including the IP address of your computer and the time of retrieval and data sent by your browser. This data is used for analyses of visiting and clicking behaviour on the website. Marketing Zaanstreek uses this information to improve the functioning of the website. This data is anonymised as much as possible and is not provided to third parties.

Google analytics
Marketing Zaanstreek uses Google Analytics to track how users use the website and how effective MarkeZaanstreekZaans's Adwords ads are on Google search result pages. The information thus obtained, including the address of your computer (IP address), will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Please read Google's privacy policy for more information. You will also find Google Analytics' privacy policy here.

Google uses this information to track how our website is used, to provide reports on the website to Marketing Zaanstreek and to provide its advertisers with information on the effectiveness of their campaigns. Google may provide this information to third parties if Google is legally required to do so, or to the extent that these third parties process the information on Google's behalf. MarkeZaanstreekZaans has no influence on this. Zaanstreekting Zaans has not given Google permission to use Analytics information obtained through us for other Google services.

Retention of personal data
We do not retain your personal data for longer than strictly necessary for the fulfilment of the purposes. If legal requirements apply to retention, personal data will not be kept longer than legally required.