This is the privacy statement of Van Adel Watches. Van Adel Watches is registered with the Chamber of Commerce and is located in Amsterdam. This document explains how Van Adel Watches handles the processing of your personal data. When processing your personal data, Van Adel Watches takes the utmost care.
Obtaining Personal Data:
If you use the services of Van Adel Watches, you will provide Van Adel Watches with personal data yourself, or personal data will be obtained from you within the framework of the agreement. Personal data is understood as all data related to an identified or identifiable natural person.
Categories of Personal Data
Van Adel Watches processes the following categories of personal data:
- Contact, name, and address details;
- Different delivery addresses;
- Financial data;
- Order history;
- Other personal data provided by you.
Purpose of Processing
The personal data that are processed by Van Adel Watches, are intended to be used to:
- Contact you to inform you about the services you have purchased and their implementation;
- Carrying out its services;
- Improve service;
- Making payments;
- Compliance with legal obligations;
- Doing marketing and communication;
- Improve the website by analyzing visitor behavior on the website;
- Sending out newsletters;
- Data exchange with third parties for the performance of the service.
Basis Processing
The processing of personal data is only possible based on the following principles: (i) legal obligation, (ii) performance of the agreement, (iii) obtained (explicit) consent of the data subjects, and (iv) justified interest. When providing the services of Van Adel Watches, personal data will be processed.
Van Adel Watches only processes data that Van Adel Watches deems necessary for (improving) its services and handles with care the (personal) data that it has collected about you and your use of the services. The basis for processing this data is the agreement that you have entered into with your visit to the Van Adel Watches site. Your personal data can also be processed by visiting the website vanadelwatches.com if you are permitted to do so.
Necessity Processing
The processing of your personal data is necessary to provide the service. The services offered by Van Adel Watches cannot be fully executed without processing your personal data. If for specific purposes concerning personal data, your explicit permission is required, you must give separate permission for this.
Automated Decision Making
There is no question of automated decision-making.
Storage Period
The personal data processed by Van Adel Watches are stored under the relevant laws and regulations. If a longer storage period is necessary based on laws or regulations, personal data will be stored longer under these requirements. All (obtained) personal data will not be stored longer than strictly necessary.
Who Has Access To Your Data
If you are not a purchasing client from our site, there is no personal information we can retain or view regarding you. If you are a purchasing client, if you contacted us by any means, or if you’ve subscribed to our newsletters, your personal information can be accessed by:
- Our system administrator(s).
- Our support team when they (to provide support) needs to get the information about the client accounts and access.
Processing by Third Parties
Van Adel Watches 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 will be sold. Van Adel Watches may have a legal obligation to share personal data with third parties. If personal data is shared with third parties, processing agreements will be made. The third parties with whom personal data is shared are:
- The engaged delivery service(s), for the implementation of the agreement. The categories of personal data that are processed are contact, name details, and location details.
- The Payment Provider, for the execution of an agreement. The categories of personal data that are processed are financial data.
- The Accountant, for the performance of a contract. The categories of personal data that are processed are contact, name records, and financial data.
- Software suppliers, for the implementation of the agreement. The categories of personal data that are processed are location data, e-mail address, contact, and name details.
- Website administrator, for the execution of the agreement. The categories of personal data that are processed are location data, e-mail address, contact, and name and address details.
Security of Personal Data
Van Adel Watches takes the protection of your personal data seriously and, taking into account the technical state, implementation costs, as well as nature, scope, context, and processing purposes, and the risks to the rights and freedoms of individuals, which vary in probability and seriousness, appropriate technical and organizational measures will be taken to ensure a high level of security appropriate to the risk.
We use the SSL/HTTPS protocol throughout our site. This encrypts our user communications with the servers so that personally identifiable information is not captured/hijacked by third parties without authorization. In case of a data breach, our support team will immediately take all needed steps to ensure system integrity.
GDPR Rights
Your privacy is critically important to us. Going forward with the GDPR we aim to support the GDPR standard. Van Adel Watches permits residents of the European Union to use its Service. Therefore, it is the intent of Van Adel Watches to comply with the European General Data Protection Regulation. For more details please see here: EU GDPR Information Portal.
Disclaimer
By using the website you agree to the disclaimer. Van Adel Watches reserves the right to change the content of its website and/or this disclaimer at any time without informing its customers and/or users of the website about this change. The content of the website has been compiled with the greatest possible care, but may nevertheless contain inaccuracies or be incomplete.
Van Adel Watches accepts no liability whatsoever for damage caused by or resulting from the use of the website. The use of this website is entirely at the user’s own risk and expense. No rights can be derived from the content of this website. All texts on the website are copyrighted and owned by Van Adel Watches as far as they do not belong to third parties.
Cookie Statement
Van Adel Watches uses technical and functional cookies to optimize the website. Cookies are small text files that are sent along with the visit to a website to make user experiences more efficient. Van Adel Watches may, according to the law, store cookies on your device if these cookies are strictly necessary to use the website. For other types of cookies, your consent is required. We recommend that you accept cookies in connection with the user-friendliness of the website. Visitors to the website have a check-in option.
The cookies used by Van Adel Watches are functional: these cookies ensure that the website works properly. These cookies do not affect your privacy, so no permission needs to be requested and granted. For example, these cookies store your browser settings so that our website can best be viewed, 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, we place tracking cookies on your computer. We use these cookies to track which pages you visit to build a profile of your online behavior. This profile is not linked to your name, address, email address, etc., but only to tailor advertisements to your profile so that they are as relevant to you as possible.
On the Van Adel Watches website, Google cookies are also placed on behalf of Google Analytics. We do not keep track of what you do on the internet. Google Analytics may be required under applicable laws and regulations to provide access to this data. This means that Van Adel Watches’s information cannot be linked to a natural person. If you have any questions about this, please contact us via support@vanadelwatches.com.
Social Media
Van Adel Watches uses cookies from third parties to optimize the website. Some cookies are placed by third-party services that are displayed on the website. Third parties meant Google Analytics and Social Media (LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram). The use of cookies from other companies (Third Parties) is subject to the privacy and cookie policy of the company concerned. When you click on 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 on the website. For the cookies of Social Media parties and the data and/or personal data they collect, Van Adel Watches refers you to the privacy and cookie statements of these parties.
Embedded Content
Pages on this site may include embedded content, like YouTube videos, for example. Embedded content from other websites behaves in the same way as if you visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Below you can find a list of the services we use:
The Instagram plugin is used to display our Instagram timeline on our site. Instagram has its own cookie and privacy policies over which we have no control. There is no installation of cookies from Instagram and your IP is not sent to a Facebook server until you consent to it. See their privacy policy here: Instagram Privacy Policy.
The Facebook plugin is used to display our Facebook timeline on our site. Facebook has its own cookie and privacy policies over which we have no control. There is no installation of cookies from Facebook and your IP is not sent to a Facebook server until you consent to it. See their privacy policy here: Facebook Privacy Policy.
Youtube
We use YouTube videos embedded on our site. YouTube has its own cookie and privacy policies over which we have no control. There is no installation of cookies from YouTube and your IP is not sent to a YouTube server until you consent to it. See their privacy policy here: YouTube Privacy Policy.
Browser Settings
If you do not want websites to place cookies on the device with which you view the website, you can adjust your browser settings. Before a cookie is placed, you will receive a warning and must give your consent to the cookie. If you do not do so, this may result in the website malfunctioning.
You can adjust the settings of your browser so that your browser rejects all cookies and also the cookies of Third Parties. You can also delete placed cookies. To do this, you need to adjust the settings of your browser via preferences and then you can adjust the privacy settings.
This privacy statement does not apply to Third-Party websites linked to this website. We cannot guarantee that these Third Parties will handle your personal data reliably or securely. We advise you to read the privacy statements of these websites before using them.
Rights of Those Involved
As a person involved, you have the following rights:
- Right of inspection; As a data subject, you have the right to be informed whether or not your personal data is being processed and, if so, to obtain access to the processing thereof.
- Right of rectification; You have the right to obtain rectification and addition of incorrect data.
- Right of data erasure; Without unreasonable delay, a data subject must obtain the erasure of personal data concerning him/her.
- Right to restrict processing; As a data subject, you have the right to restrict the processing of your personal data. Please contact Van Adel Watches for this.
- Right to transfer data; A data subject has the right to obtain the personal data concerning him or her that he or she has provided to Van Adel Watches, in a structured, common, and machine-readable form, and to transfer this data to Van Adel Watches without being hindered by the data controller to whom they were provided.
- Right of objection; The data subject has the right to object at any time to the processing of personal data concerning him/her, including profiling based on these provisions, for reasons relating to his/her specific situation. Van Adel Watches discontinues the processing of personal data unless there are compelling legitimate grounds for processing that outweigh the interests, freedoms, and rights of the data subject related to the exercise, institution, or substantiation of a legal claim.
Complaint
If you have a complaint about the way Van Adel Watches 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 support@vanadelwatches.com. To be sure that you wish to exercise a right, Van Adel Watches requests that you 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. Van Adel Watches will respond to your request as soon as possible but at the latest within 4 weeks.
You can also submit a complaint to the Personal Data Authority. This is the competent enforcement authority. You can contact them by finding the Personal Data Authority of your country via their website.
Changes Privacy Statement
Van Adel Watches may 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 how we process data already collected concerning you, we will inform you by e-mail.
This version was last adjusted on 30 April 2024.