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Privacy Statement Blendpicker

This is the privacy statement of Karolien Sluimer acting under the name Blendpicker, hereinafter: Blendpicker. Blendpicker is registered with the Dutch Chamber of Commerce under number 53700961. This document explains how Blendpicker handles the processing of your personal data. Blendpicker takes the greatest possible care when processing your personal data.

Obtaining personal data:

If you use Blendpicker’s services, you provide a number of personal data to Blendpicker yourself, or personal data is obtained from you in the context of the agreement. Personal data is understood to mean all data relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.

Categories of personal data

Blendpicker processes the following categories of personal data:

  • Contact, name and address data, including location data, telephone number, e-mail address;
  • Financial details;
  • Account details;
  • Other personal data provided by you.

Purpose of the processing

The personal data processed by Blendpicker is intended:

  • to contact you to inform you about the services you have purchased and their implementation;
  • to be able to perform its services;
  • to improve its services;
  • to be able to make payments;
  • to be able to comply with legal obligations;
  • to be able to make marketing and communication expressions, including improving the website by analyzing visitor behavior on the website;
  • to be able to send newsletters;
  • to exchange data with third parties for the performance of the service, insofar as this is necessary.

Processing basis

The processing of personal data is only possible on the following grounds: (i) legal obligation, (ii) execution of the agreement, (iii) obtained (explicit) permission from the data subjects, and (iv) legitimate interest. Personal data is processed when providing Blendpicker’s services. Blendpicker only processes data that Blendpicker deems necessary for (improving) the service and handles the (personal) data that it has collected about you and your use of the services with care. The basis for processing this data is the agreement that you have entered into with Blendpicker. Your personal data may also be processed by visiting the website https://www.blendpicker.com/ if you have given permission for this.

Processing need

The processing of your personal data is necessary to be able to perform the service. The services that Blendpicker offers cannot be fully performed without processing your personal data. If your explicit permission is required for specific purposes with regard to the personal data, you must give permission for this separately.

Automated decision making

There is no automated decision-making.

Retention period

The personal data processed by Blendpicker is stored in accordance with the relevant laws and regulations. If a longer retention period is necessary on the basis of legislation or regulations, the personal data will be kept longer in accordance with these requirements. All (obtained) personal data will not be kept longer than is strictly necessary.

Processing by third parties

Blendpicker only shares personal data with third parties if this is strictly necessary for the execution of an agreement and to comply with relevant laws and regulations. No personal data is sold. Blendpicker may have a legal obligation to share personal data with third parties. If personal data is shared with third parties, processing agreements are concluded for this. The third parties with whom personal data is shared are:

  • The Payment Provider, for the purpose of executing an agreement. The categories of personal data that are processed are financial data.
  • The Bookkeeper, for the purpose of executing an agreement. The categories of personal data that are processed are contact and name and address data and financial data.
  • Software suppliers, for the purpose of executing the agreement. The categories of personal data that are processed are the contact and name and address details.
  • Website administrator, for the purpose of executing the agreement. The categories of personal data that are processed are the contact and name and address details.
  • Third parties engaged for the purpose of executing the agreement. The categories of personal data that are processed are the contact and name and address details.

Security of Personal Data

Blendpicker takes the protection of your personal data seriously and takes into account the state of the art, implementation costs, as well as the nature, scope, context and processing purposes and the risks to the rights and freedoms of individuals, which vary in likelihood and seriousness. appropriate technical and organizational measures to ensure a level of security appropriate to the risk.

Disclaimer

By using the application and website you agree to the disclaimer. Blendpicker reserves the right to change the content of its application, website and/or this disclaimer at any time without informing its customers and/or users of the application or website about this change. The content of the application and website has been composed with the greatest possible care, but may nevertheless contain possible inaccuracies or be incomplete. Blendpicker does not accept any liability whatsoever for damage caused by or resulting from the use of the application or website. Using the application or website is entirely at the expense and risk of a user of the application or website. No rights can be derived from the content of the application or website. All texts on the application or website are copyrighted and property of Blendpicker insofar as they do not belong to third parties.

The information found on Blendpicker’s application or website is not intended to be a substitute for qualified medical advice. Blendpicker is not a qualified doctor and does not provide medical advice. If you are being treated by an attending physician, the medical advice of the attending physician should be leading. Blendpicker has no intention of interfering with medical treatment.

Blendpicker accepts no liability for damage resulting from inaccuracies or imperfections in the texts of the application or website, nor for problems caused by the use of these texts for third parties.

Cookie statement

Blendpicker uses technical and functional cookies to optimize the website. Cookies are small text files that are sent along when you visit a website to make the user experience of visitors more efficient. Blendpicker may, by law, store cookies on your device if these cookies are strictly necessary to use the website. Other types of cookies require your permission. Blendpicker advises you to accept the cookies in connection with the user-friendliness of the website. Visitors to the website have a check-in option.

The cookies that Blendpicker uses are functional cookies: these cookies ensure that the website works properly. These cookies have no consequences for privacy, so that no permission has to be requested and granted. With these cookies, for example, your browser settings are stored so that our website can be viewed best, or that the website remains accessible (load balancing), but also cookies that ensure that no other cookies may be placed (no-follow).

With your permission, Blendpicker places “tracking cookies” on your computer. Blendpicker uses these cookies to keep track of which pages you visit, in order to build a profile of your online behavior. This profile is not linked to your name, address, e-mail address and the like, but only to tailor advertisements to your profile so that they are as relevant to you as possible.

Cookies from Google are also placed on the Blendpicker website for the purpose of Google Analytics. This means that Blendpicker cannot link information to a natural person. Blendpicker does not keep any information about what you do on the internet. Google Analytics may be required by applicable laws and regulations to provide access to this data.

Use social media

Blendpicker uses cookies from third parties to optimize the website. Some cookies are placed by third party services that appear on the website. Third parties meaning Google Analytics and social media (Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest). The privacy and cookie policy of the relevant company applies to the use of cookies from other companies (third parties). When you click the social media button on the website, a social media cookie is placed. This allows the social media party to recognize your IP address as soon as you share an article from the website. For the cookies of social media parties and the data and/or personal data they collect with them, Blendpicker refers you to the privacy and cookie statements of these parties.

Email newsletter and other marketing emails

You can register via the website for a newsletter and/or for other commercial offers. When you register, Blendpicker asks you for permission to process your email address for the purpose of sending you marketing emails containing the most recent information about products and services, special offers and marketing campaigns. You will only receive marketing emails if you have given your consent.

Your consent also includes your consent that Blendpicker may personalize the content of marketing emails in accordance with your needs and interests based on any user profile created for you.

Your consent to the sending of marketing emails can be withdrawn by you at any time by clicking “Unsubscribe” at the end of the marketing email. Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out prior to the withdrawal of consent.

Browser Settings

If you do not want websites to place cookies on your device that you use to view the website, you can adjust your browser settings. Before a cookie is placed, you will receive a warning and you must give permission for the cookie. Failure to do so may, for example, result in the website not working properly. You can adjust the settings of your browser so that your browser refuses all cookies and also cookies from third parties. You can also delete placed cookies. For this you have to adjust the settings of your browser via preferences and then you can adjust the privacy settings.

This privacy statement does not apply to websites of third parties that are connected to this website by means of links. Blendpicker cannot guarantee that these third parties handle your personal data in a reliable or secure manner. Blendpicker advises you to read the privacy statement of these websites before using these websites.

Right of data subjects

As a data subject you have the following rights:

  • Right of access;
    As a data subject, you have the right to obtain a definitive answer as to whether or not your personal data is being processed and, if so, to inspect the processing thereof.
  • Right to rectification;
    You have the right to obtain rectification and completion of incorrect data.
  • Right to erasure;
    A data subject must obtain erasure of personal data concerning him/her without undue delay.
  • Right to restriction of processing;
    As a data subject, you have the right to restrict the processing of your personal data. Please contact Blendpicker for this.
  • Right to data portability;
    A data subject has the right to obtain the personal data concerning him that he has provided to Blendpicker in a structured, common and machine-readable form in order to possibly transfer this personal data to a third party. A data subject can also instruct Blendpicker to transfer this data directly to a third party.
  • Right to object;
    The data subject has the right to object at any time, on grounds relating to his particular situation, to the processing of personal data concerning him/her, including profiling based on those provisions. Blendpicker will stop processing the personal data unless there are compelling legitimate grounds for the processing that outweigh the interests, freedoms and rights of the data subject that are related to the exercise, institution or defense of legal claims.

Complaint

If you have a complaint about the way in which Blendpicker handles your personal data, or if you wish to exercise one of the above rights, you can contact us via the website or by e-mail at info@blendpicker.com. To be sure that you wish to exercise a right, Blendpicker asks you to enclose a copy of your proof of identity. You can black out your passport photo and MRZ (strip with numbers at the bottom) to protect your privacy. Blendpicker will respond to your request as soon as possible, but at the latest within 4 weeks. You can also submit a complaint to the Dutch Data Protection Authority. This is the competent enforcement body. You can contact us via this link: https://autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl/nl/contact-met-de-autoriteit-persoonsgegevens/tip-ons.

Changes to Privacy Statement

Blendpicker can change the privacy statement at any time. The most recent version is published on the website. Therefore, always keep an eye on the website for the most recent version. If the new privacy statement has consequences for the way in which Blendpicker processes already collected data relating to you, Blendpicker will inform you by e-mail.

This version was last adopted on March 21, 2022.