Privacy Policy


Privacy Statement - ‘things design’ foundation and/or its affiliated companies
‘things design’ foundation and/or its affiliated companies endeavour to protect your privacy on the Internet. To that end, we have charted a policy on how to deal with your personal data. The contents of our privacy policy are subject to change, so you are advised to peruse the terms and conditions each time you visit our website.

Personal data
We are responsible for all personal data that you provide to us such as e.g. name, address, and date of birth, or data that we compare through an application. The data are stored at ‘things design’ foundation and/or its affiliated companies which is responsible for protecting your personal data. ‘things design’ foundation and/or its affiliated companies will not disclose your personal data to third parties without your prior consent. In accordance with the Personal Data Protection Act, we have reported our registration of personal data to the Personal Data Protection Board.

Why do we collect data and what kind of data are they? 
‘things design’ foundation and/or its affiliated companies process your personal data for the acceptance and processing of your order. ‘things design’ foundation and/or its affiliated companies record your data when ordering articles so as to know where to deliver them. When a fixed account is created, you need not enter your data again next time you order, but simply log in and your data are retrieved. When you sign up for our newsletter, you consent to have your data stored. We use the stored information to keep you informed about ‘things design’ foundation and/or its affiliated companies. Such information can pertain to activities in our stores or other marketing offers. If you do not want ‘things design’ foundation and/or its affiliated companies to use your data for marketing purposes, you can unsubscribe to the newsletter. When you show interest in working at ‘things design’ foundation and/or its affiliated companies or send an application form, you consent to your personal data being used in a recruitment and selection procedure. As a matter of policy, ‘things design’ foundation and/or its affiliated companies request no sensitive information from jobseekers. Therefore, do not provide any sensitive information (e.g. racial/ethnic origin, political sympathies, religious/philosophical conviction, membership in a trade union). We always try to react to your application as promptly as possible.


LINKS

The ‘things design’ websites, www.thingsdesign.nl or www.thingsdesign.org may contain links to other websites that do not fall under our control. We cannot accept any responsibility for the protection of privacy or contents on those websites. We provide these links only to make it easier for our visitors to find more information on specific subjects.

COOKIES

For the websites www.thingsdesign.nl or www.thingsdesign.org to function optimally and to be able to gear them to the preferences of users, what are known as “cookies” are used. These are small text files which are placed automatically on your computer by the visited website. You can switch off the use of cookies through the settings of your Internet browser. To analyse how its website is used, ‘things design’ foundation and/or its affiliated companies uses a web analysis programme that collects information on the basis of cookies and your IP address. An IP address is a number that is automatically attributed to your computer when you surf the Internet.How can you gain access to recorded data? You are entitled to contact us in order to obtain access to your personal data that we have recorded. If they are wrong, incomplete or irrelevant, you can request to have the data corrected or removed.