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This is the privacy policy of EDGE Netherlands B.V., a private company with limited liability established under the laws of the Netherlands, registered with the Chamber of Commerce under number 24291656. EDGE has its registered office at Marten Meesweg 8, 3068 AV Rotterdam ("EDGE"). EDGE offers sustainable, forward-thinking, well-designed buildings and technology driving the cities of the future.
EDGE collects your personal data via edge.tech ("Website") or when you otherwise make use of our products and services. This privacy policy is meant to advise you about the type of information that EDGE collects via the Website and its products and services and the purposes for which this information is being processed ("Privacy Policy").
When you contact us through the Website, visit our Website or when you otherwise make use of our products and services, you may provide us with information about yourself, such as your (company) name, e-mail address and phone number that is provided by you through your message. When you visit our Website, we also automatically collect information via the use of cookies, such as your IP address, browser type, the pages you visit and the time and duration of your visit.
If you choose to provide us with your e-mail address or other (indirect) personally identifiable information, we will use such information to respond to your inquiry (communication and customer service), to carry out a contract that was concluded with you or for marketing purposes. The processing of this information is for purposes of a legitimate interest pursued by us, namely to conduct our normal business activities, in order to carry out a contract that was concluded with you or on the basis of consent.
The personal data collected by us through the Website (Cookies) is used to improve our online services and may also be used to comply with legal and/or regulatory requirements. In that case we process your personal data for purposes of a legitimate interest pursued by us, namely to conduct our normal business activities, on the basis of consent.
If your personal information of processed on the basis of a legitimate interest pursued by us, information can be obtained by you as to the so-called balancing test that was carried out to allow reliance on a legitimate interest. Please find our contact details below.
We store your personal data for as long as is necessary for the abovementioned purposes or for secondary purposes in line with those purposes.
EDGE observes a strict duty of confidentiality with regard to your personal information. Without your consent EDGE does not share, sell, rent, lend or disclose any of the personal data you provide to us with any third party (e.g. for direct marketing purposes), except as described in this Privacy Policy, unless:
We do not share your personal data with third parties.
EDGE uses cookies and similar techniques whenever you interact with this Website. Cookies are small files that are sent along with this Website and placed on your equipment by your browser. On each subsequent visit to this Website, the browser searches for cookies and sends the available information stored therein to the servers of this Website.
EDGE uses the following types of cookies:
Technically necessary cookies
These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the Website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the Website. Without these cookies, services you have asked for cannot be provided.
Analytical/Performance cookies
These cookies collect information about how visitors use the Website, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. All information these cookies collect is aggregated. This information is used to provide aggregated and statistical information on the use of the Website and is used to improve the contents of the Website to enhance your user experience.
The Website also uses analytics cookies placed by Google Analytics (including Google Tag Manager) to measure the number of visits and the parts of the Website that are the most popular among the Website's visitors as well as for benchmarking purposes. This information is used to provide aggregated and statistical information on the use of the Website and is used to improve the contents of the Website to enhance your user experience. EDGE has followed the Manual of the Dutch Data Protection Authority in order to ensure that Google Analytics is used in a privacy friendly manner. This means that EDGE has instructed Google to remove the last three digits of your IP-address ("Anonymize IP") and EDGE has disabled the standard setting to share data with Google. Furthermore, EDGE has concluded a data processing agreement with Google Inc. and EDGE does not use other Google services in combination with the Google Analytics-cookies.
Functionality cookies
These cookies may store your browser name, the type of computer and technical information about your means of connection to the Website, such as the operating system and the Internet Service Providers utilized and other similar information. This information is used to technically facilitate the navigation and use of the Website. In addition, functional cookies may be used to store personal settings, such as language, or to remember your information for next visits if so requested. The information these cookies collect will be anonymised and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.
If you do not want to have cookies used by EDGE stored on your computer or want to remove cookies used by EDGE that have already been stored, you can disable these cookies via your browser settings. You are also entitled to revoke your consent for the use of cookies referred to above by EDGE at any time. If you wish to revoke your consent for use of these cookies by EDGE, you can change your cookie settings here: youronlinechoices.com
If you disable the cookies through browser settings, the Website or certain parts of the Website may not work properly. Furthermore, certain personalized features may not be provided to you and thus you may not be able to take full advantage of all of the Website's features.
The browsers on all devices used by you to use or access the Website (e.g. on your smartphone, tablet, laptop etc.) will need to be adjusted to suit your cookie preferences. If you require more information or help to change your cookie preferences in your browser, please go to: allaboutcookies.org.
For your convenience, we have provided links to certain third party websites, including but not limited to some of EDGE’s partnerships. EDGE is not responsible or liable for any processing of your personal data via these websites. If you choose to visit a third party’s site, please be aware that the third party’s privacy policy, and not EDGE’s, will govern your activities and any information you disclose while visiting the third party’s site. If you share content from the Website via social media, your personal data will be visible to those visiting your personal pages on these social media websites. EDGE is not responsible or liable for any processing of your personal data via such media. Please refer to the privacy and cookie policies of the relevant third party websites/social media for information on the processing of personal data by those websites/social media and their use of cookies.
EDGE has taken appropriate technical and organizational security measures in order to protect your personal data against loss, misuse, alteration and/or destruction. Although we exercise reasonable care in providing secure transmission of information between your equipment and our systems, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information transmitted to us over the internet. For more information about communicating with EDGE and the use of this Website, please refer to our disclaimer.
This Privacy Policy can be changed over time to comply with law or to meet our changing business requirement. The most up-to-date Privacy Policy can be found on our website. This Privacy Policy was last changed on 20 June 2018. We will inform you appropriately of any relevant changes in this Privacy Policy.
If you have any questions or suggestions about our privacy practices, please feel free to contact us by e-mail at info@edge.tech.