Privacy policy and cookies

The party responsible for the collection of personal data through this website (www.hylas.nl) is:
Hylas B.V. (hereinafter referred to as “Hylas”)
Ambachtsweg 7
6662 NV Elst
The Netherlands
KvK 09084332

Should you wish to pose any queries regarding the protection of personal data, please contact the party responsible by one of the following means:

By email: info@hylas.nl
By telephone: +31 481 371 948 (local rate)
Or write to: Human Resources, Ambachtsweg 7, 6662 NV Elst, The Netherlands

Privacy policy

Personal data

Should you visit our website, our webserver will neither recognise your domain name nor your email address automatically. Whenever you visit our website we save:

• Your email address, if you submit messages, queries or orders through this website
• Your email address, if you inform us of it
• All information that you provide voluntarily (e.g., survey data and/or site registration).

Definition of the purpose

Personal data collected by the party responsible is used to:

• Contact you at a later stage for marketing purposes (by means of our newsletter, etc.)
• Process orders.

Should you change your mind after having subscribed to our newsletter, then you always have the option of unsubscribing. You can do so by simply clicking "unsubscribe" in the newsletter.
The data accumulated is used solely internally, and is therefore not passed on to other organisations for commercial purposes, unless this proves necessary to execute the contract between Hylas and the party in question, or if the latter grants explicit permission to do so. All personal data collected by Hylas is treated as confidential.
Hylas may use the personal data for purposes other than those envisaged when compiling its current privacy policy. In that case, Hylas shall issue notice on its website (www.hylas.nl) before proceeding to use your data for said purposes. We shall therefore inform you by this means of the changes to our privacy policy with regard to the protection of personal data, thereby offering you the opportunity to withdraw from participation.

Security measures

Whenever the party responsible transfers or receives your data via this website, we always make use of the IT standard coding technologies.
Whenever the party responsible receives or transfers certain critical information, such as financial data, we use a secure server. We have introduced the security measures necessary to prevent the loss, improper use or unauthorised changes to information that we receive on our site. Hylas holds an SSL certificate and makes use of a secure (HTTPS) connection.

Right of access

On request, Hylas shall grant the party/parties in question access to all of the personal data that we retain about them. Should you require access to said data, please contact us at the address listed above.

On request, we also offer the party/parties in question the opportunity to correct any incorrect data that we retain about them. Should you wish to correct your personal data, please contact us at the address listed above.

Furthermore, if you feel that our site contains material that is inconsistent with our privacy policy, please contact us at the address listed above.

Cookies

What do cookies do for you?

As is the case with the majority of internet sites, our website uses cookies in order to give you the best user experience. Cookies are small text files stored on your computer when you visit a website (the term of storage varies depending on the particular cookie in question).
Our cookies help us to:

• make the website work as you would expect
• save your personal settings both during and between visits
• increase the speed of our site and improve its security
• adapt our website to your needs, making it easier for you to find what you are looking for
• continually improve our website for you

We do not use cookies to:

• collect personally identifiable information (without your explicit permission)
• collect confidential information (without your explicit permission)
• transfer data to advertisement networks
• transfer personal and confidential data to third parties
• pay commission to third parties.

If the settings on the browser that you use to visit this website permit the use of cookies, and you proceed to view our website, then we assume that you accept our use of cookies.

Removing / disabling cookies

Should you wish to remove or disable our cookies, then this can be carried out as follows. It is, however, highly probable that you will then no longer be able to make (full) use of our website. The majority of browsers can be set in such a manner as to either refuse the use of cookies or to inform you whenever you receive a cookie. Instructions on how to change browser settings can be found by clicking ‘Help’ in most browsers’ toolbar. On subsequent visits, you can usually make full use of the website(s). However, it may also prove the case that certain services or elements of the website do not operate ideally if you refuse cookies.

First party cookies

First party cookies are used for various purposes, such as remembering your log-on name or the items placed in your shopping basket. We make use of such cookies to remember your log-on name the next time that you log on to our website.

Third party cookies

Our site makes use of third party functions. Our site uses the following services, which use cookies:

• www.youtube.com
• www.facebook.com
• www.twitter.com
• www.linkedin.com

The impact on your privacy may vary greatly from one social media platform to another, as it is dependent on the privacy level that you set on the website in question. If you disable these cookies, then you will no longer be able to view the YouTube films contained on our website, unfortunately.
We also use cookies to record visitor statistics, in order to establish:

• how many people visit our site
• which browser you use (to make absolutely sure that our website works properly on all browsers)
• how long visitors view our pages on average and which pages they view (so that we can continually improve our website)

These cookies also tell us on the basis of anonymity how people found our website (e.g. using a search engine) and whether they have visited the site previously.

We do this using cookies provided by:

• Google Analytics

Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. (otherwise known simply as “Google”). Google Analytics uses cookies (small text files which it installs on your computer) to help the website analyse the way visitors use it. The data about your use of the website (including your IP address) generated by the cookie is transferred to Google, which saves it on servers in the USA. Google uses this data to monitor the way you use the website, to compile reports on website activity for website operators, and to provide other services relating to website activity and internet use.
Google may supply this data to third parties if it is legally obliged to do so, or if said third parties process the data on its behalf. Google will not combine your IP address with other data which it possesses. You can choose to refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings in your browser. Please bear in mind, however, that you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website if you do so.
By using this website, you consent to Google processing data about you in the manner and for the purposes described above.
Should you wish to submit any queries or requests with regard to our data protection policy, please do not hesitate to get in touch using our contact details.