Privacy and cookie policy
Introduction
Thank you for visiting our website. At Bluespar we care about your privacy and want to keep your information safe.
Personal data is all information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. We will only process your personal data in a controlled and ethical way and in accordance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
This Privacy Statement explains what personal data we collect, for what purposes, with whom we share it, what your rights are and how we keep your personal data safe. We also share our contact details in case you have questions about privacy and/or your personal data processed by us.
Why do we process your personal data?
We process your personal data for the following purposes:
- To provide our services to you, your company or our clients in general (including training courses), and to handle requests, enquiries or complaints received .
- To manage our relationship with our suppliers and business partners (including a due diligence procedure).
- To comply with regulatory and policy requirements
- To identify services you may be interested in and to communicate with you about our services (e.g. via our newsletters or events) and to build or maintain a professional relationship .
- To maintain, develop and improve our website, apps and social media pages, in particular by generating statistics regarding their use .
- To exercise our rights by establishing, exercising or defending a legal claim or in order to defend ourselves or our staff against a legal claim from third parties (including disputes, complaints, questions and/or investigations).
- To handle your subscription to any of our services or events, handle your job application and assess your eligibility to work with us.
With whom might we share your personal data?
Third party organisations that provide applications/functionality, data processing or IT services to us
We use third parties to support us in providing our services and to help provide, run and manage our internal IT systems. For example, providers of information technology, cloud based software as a service providers, identity management, website hosting and management, data analysis, data backup, security and storage services.
Third party organisations that otherwise assist us in providing goods, services or information
On certain client engagements, we may engage or otherwise work with other providers to help us provide professional services to our clients.
Our clients
Where we need to process personal data to provide professional services to our clients, we may share personal data in our deliverables (such as the reports we create).
Auditors, insurers and professional advisers
We may provide personal data to external auditor(s) to the extent necessary for the audit(s). We have a business insurance policy in place and we may need to share personal data with the insurer, for example, in the case of a claim. We use other professional advisors, such as law firms, where necessary to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights and obtain advice in connection with the running of our business. Personal data may be shared with these advisors if necessary in connection with the products and services that we have requested to deliver.
Law enforcement or other government and regulatory agencies or to other third parties as required by, and in accordance with, applicable law or regulations
We will only honor requests for the provision of personal data if this is permitted on the basis of applicable laws and regulations.
External links
Bluespar has included links to third-party websites. If you go to another website via one of these links, you should be aware that Bluespar’s Privacy Statement will no longer apply. It is possible that these third parties or other parties will collect information about you on these websites. Bluespar is not responsible for the content of these websites, nor for the actions of these third parties and other parties. Therefore, we advise you to read the Privacy Statement of these websites before providing any personal data.
The Bluespar website may contain functionality to enable visitors to share information via social media (like LinkedIn). These social media applications may collect and use information about your usage of the Bluespar website. Personal data that you share via social media applications may be used by other users of that social media application and the privacy policies of the respective social media applications govern this interaction.
Cookies
Cookies are small text files containing information installed on your device when you visit a website. Some cookies are essential for properly operating a website, meaning certain activities cannot be performed without them. These technical or session cookies do not require your consent.
Functional cookies enable websites to remember your actions and preferences, which is useful when you revisit a website or navigate between its pages. These cookies also do not require consent. Additionally, cookies are used for analytics (e.g., to understand how you use a website) or for tracking your behaviour online to display targeted ads. These cookies typically require your consent. We do not use these types of cookies.
If you wish to share our content on social media through the share buttons on our website, cookies may be set by these social media platforms as independent controllers. This may also occur when you visit our company page on LinkedIn.
What are your rights?
Every individual whose personal data we process has certain rights regarding their personal data. Below is an overview of the potentially relevant rights:
- You have the right to receive confirmation from us on whether we are processing your personal data.
- You have the right to access the personal data we process about you.
- You have the right to correct the personal data we process about you if it is inaccurate.
- You have the right to have your personal data deleted.
- You have the right to restrict how we process and use your personal data.
- You have the right to file a complaint with the Data Protection Authority.
Contact
In case you have any questions about our use of your personal data, please contact us at info@bluespar.nl.
