Privacy Policy
With this privacy statement, we give insight into the personal data that we collect from you and for what purposes we use it. We process all personal data as prescribed by the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). APH Group only stores personal data that is personally provided by the person concerned. This privacy statement becomes effective when you visit our website or use our services.
Responsible person
The responsible person in terms of data protection law is:
APH Group
Mercurius 18
8448 GX Heerenveen
The Netherlands
Tel: +31 (0)513 481 100
E-mail: info@aphgroup.com
We have appointed as data protection officer:
Data Protection Officer of APH Group
Tel: +31 (0)513 481 100
E-mail: info@aphgroup.com
Server Log Files
Purpose, legal basis and legitimate interest
When you access our website, i.e., even if you do not register or otherwise submit information, information of a general nature is automatically collected. This information (server log files) includes, for example, the type of web browser, the operating system used, the domain name of your internet service provider, your IP address, and the like.
This information is processed for the following purposes:
- Ensuring a smooth connection to the website,
- Ensuring the smooth use of our website and
- Evaluating system security and stability.
We also reserve the right to check the server log files retrospectively if there are concrete indications of unlawful use.
The processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR based on our legitimate interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website.
Recipient of the data
For the operation and maintenance of our website, we use technical service providers who act as our processors.
Storage period
The data is deleted as soon as it is no longer required for the purpose for which it was collected. This is generally the case for data used to provide the website when the respective session has ended.
Provision prescribed or required
The provision of the personal data mentioned further above in the text is neither legally nor contractually required. However, without the IP address and the cookie identifier, the service and functionality of our website cannot be guaranteed. In addition, individual services and functions may not be available or may be restricted.
Objection
Please read the information about your right to object according to Art. 21 GDPR below.
Newsletter
Purpose and legal basis
You can subscribe to our newsletter, in which we inform you about news around our services. With your e-mail address, name, and country, you can subscribe to the newsletter via our website. The legal basis for this processing is in each case your consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR.
Recipient of the data
APH Group and the relevant service providers have access to this personal data. We have a processing agreement with the contracted service providers to ensure the same level of security and confidentiality of your personal data.
Storage period
Data will only be processed in this context as long as the corresponding consent has been given. Afterward, they will be deleted.
Provision prescribed or required
Your personal data will only be added to the list of recipients when you have granted permission. You grant permission by clicking on a link in the e-mail which you receive immediately when you register for the newsletter.
External programme
We use the external programme MailChimp to send the newsletter. For this purpose, we share your personal data. You can of course view the privacy policy of MailChimp.
Revocation of consent
You can unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time. This can be done via the link in the newsletter itself.
Contact form
Purpose and legal basis
If you want to contact us, you can fill in a contact form on the website. The personal data entered in the contact form is processed in encrypted form. When you fill in the contact form, we need the following personal information from you:
- Name
- Company name
- Your message
In this way, we can maintain contact with you.
The processing of the data entered in the contact form is based on a legitimate interest (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR) and for the initiation, implementation, or termination of a contractual relationship (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR).
Recipient of the data
APH Group and the relevant service providers have access to this personal data. We have a processing agreement with the contracted service providers to ensure the same level of security and confidentiality of your personal data.
Storage period
When a contact enquiry has been completed, the accompanying personal data will be removed from all parties within 5 days.
Provision prescribed or required
The provision of your personal data is voluntary. However, we can only process your request if you provide us with your name, telephone number, e-mail address, and the reason for the request.
Objection
Please read the information about your right to object according to Art. 21 GDPR below.
Cookies
We use cookies on our website, both for the proper functioning of our website and for analytical purposes. In the following, we explain which cookies are used and for what purpose they are used. If you need more detailed information about cookies, please read our cookie statement.
Google Analytics
APH Group uses Google Analytics to gain insight into how visitors use the website. We use this data to optimise our website. With the help of Google Analytics cookies, pseudo-anonymous personal data of visitors is stored in Google Analytics. Pseudo-anonymous data cannot be traced back to a specific person. This data includes:
- Location
- Operating system
- Browser
- Type of device (tablet, mobile or desktop)
- Pages viewed
- How the visitor has entered the website
- The duration of the visit on the website
- IP adress
However, an IP address, for example, is not visible and cannot be traced back to a specific person. In Google's privacy statement you can find information about the security of your personal data. APH Group has a data processing contract with Google Analytics to ensure the same level of security and confidentiality of your data.
Microsoft Clarity
We use Microsoft Clarity to gain insight into how the website is used and to optimise it for usage. Clarity is used to store pseudo-anonymous personal data of visitors in Microsoft Clarity. Pseudo-anonymous data is the record of visits. Clarity records interactions such as mouse movements, clicks, scrolls, etc. that a user performs on our website. The data is stored for a maximum of one year. Information about the security of your personal data can be found in Microsoft's privacy policy.
Google reCAPTCHA
On this website, we also use the reCAPTCHA function of Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland ("Google"). This function is primarily used to distinguish whether an entry is made by a natural person or is abused by machine and automated processing. The service includes the sending of the IP address and, if applicable, further data required by Google for the reCAPTCHA service to Google and is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR based on our legitimate interest in determining individual personal responsibility on the Internet and the prevention of abuse and spam. The use of Google reCAPTCHA may also involve the transmission of personal data to the servers of Google LLC. in the USA.
Further information on Google reCAPTCHA and Google's privacy policy can be found at: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.
Note on data transfer to the USA
Our website includes links to companies based in the USA. If you make use of these links and click on them, personal data may be passed on to the US servers of the respective companies. We would like to point out that the USA is not a safe third country in the sense of EU data protection law. US companies are obliged to hand over personal data to security authorities without you as a data subject being able to take legal action against this. It can, therefore, not be ruled out that US authorities (e.g. intelligence agencies) process, evaluate and permanently store your data located on US servers for monitoring purposes. We have no influence on these processing activities.
Twitter ('X')
Functions of the Twitter service are integrated on our pages. These functions are offered by Twitter Inc., 1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA. By using Twitter and the "Re-Tweet" function, the websites you visit are linked to your Twitter account and made known to other users. Data is also transferred to Twitter in the process. We would like to point out that we, as the provider of the pages, have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its use by Twitter. You can find more information on this in Twitter's privacy policy at: https://twitter.com/en/privacy.
You can change your privacy settings on Twitter in the account settings at: https://twitter.com/settings/account.
This website uses the following social media plugin:
"Facebook I-Like" or "Facebook Like", operated by: Facebook Inc, 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, United States.
This social media plugin is software developed and provided by the aforementioned social media service, which enables the automated exchange of data between the website and the social media service. Among other things, data can be dynamically transferred from the aforementioned social media service to the website.
At the same time, data of the users of this website can also be transferred to the social media service, including the IP address. You can recognise the use of such social media plugins by the specially marked buttons. Personal data may already be exchanged with the respective social media service when the website is displayed or loaded. In these cases, users have the option of rejecting this data exchange by changing the settings of their user account on the website of the aforementioned social media service.
You can recognise the use of the Facebook plugin on the website by the Facebook symbol (white "f" on blue tile or "thumbs up symbol") on a corresponding button. By clicking on this button, you consent to the use of this plugin and thus also to the transfer of personal data to the aforementioned social media service. We have no influence on the type and scope of the data transferred in this process or on its further processing. According to our current knowledge, the aforementioned social media service is informed about your IP address and the website using the plugin. If you are logged in to the aforementioned social media service platform at the same time, the information can be directly assigned to your user profile. If you wish to avoid such a collection of profile information, you should log out of the aforementioned social media service platform.
You can obtain further information from Facebook on how to use the corresponding plugin and the corresponding social media service at: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/. Further information from Facebook on the so-called data usage guidelines can be found at: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy.
Functions of the Instagram service are integrated on our pages. These functions are offered by Instagram Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA. If you are logged into your Instagram account, you can link the content of our pages to your Instagram profile by clicking on the Instagram button. This allows Instagram to associate the visit to our pages with your user account. We would like to point out that we, as the provider of the pages, have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its use by Instagram. You can find more information on this in Instagram's privacy policy:
https://help.instagram.com/519522125107875.
On our LinkedIn page, you have the opportunity to respond to our posts, comment on them and send us private messages. In addition to the content you submit, information about your profile, "likes" and posts will be visible to us, depending on your privacy settings.
The processing of your data when you contact or interact with our site or its content is carried out by us on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) AVG. Our legitimate interest is to comply with your request. To the extent we can, your data will be deleted when we no longer operate our LinkedIn page. Insofar as this data is further stored by LinkedIn, only the provisions of LinkedIn's data protection policy and data protection regulations apply to this. Provisions in LinkedIn's privacy policy and terms of use: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy.
YouTube
Our website uses plugins from the YouTube site operated by Google. The operator of the pages is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave, San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. When you visit one of our pages equipped with a YouTube plugin, a connection to the YouTube servers is established. This tells the YouTube server which of our pages you have visited.
If you are logged into your YouTube account, you enable YouTube to assign your surfing behaviour directly to your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.
For more information on the handling of user data, please refer to YouTube's privacy policy at: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.
TikTok
We use the TikTok Pixel on our website. The TikTok Pixel is a TikTok Advertiser Tool provided by TikTok Technology Limited, 10 Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin, D02 T380, Ireland, and TikTok Information Technologies UK Limited, WeWork, 125 Kingsway, London, WC2B 6NH, United Kingdom (collectively "TikTok"). The TikTok Pixel is a snippet of JavaScript code that allows us to understand and track visitor's activity on our website. The TikTok Pixel collects and processes information about visitors to our website or the devices they use. The data collected through the TikTok Pixel is used to target our advertisements and to improve ad delivery and personalised advertising. For this purpose, the data collected on our website via the TikTok Pixel is transmitted to TikTok. Some of this data is information stored in the device you are using. In addition, the TikTok Pixel also uses cookies to store information on the device you are using. Such storage of information by the TikTok Pixel or access to information already stored in your terminal device only takes place with your consent. For more information on how TikTok processes personal data, including the legal basis on which TikTok relies and how you can exercise your rights against TikTok, please see TikTok's privacy policy at https://www.tiktok.com/legal/page/eea/privacy-policy/en.
Data from children under 16 years
Our website and/or service do not intend to collect personal data about visitors who are younger than 16 years old, unless they have the permission of parents or guardians. We cannot check if a visitor is older than 16. We, therefore, advise parents to be involved in the online activities of their children, to prevent the collection of personal data about children without parental consent. If you are convinced that we have collected personal data about a minor without permission, please contact us via the contact details at the bottom of this privacy statement. We will delete this information.
Data protection rights
Under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), you have the following rights regarding personal data relating to you:
- Right of access by the data subject according to Art. 15 GDPR
- Right to rectification according to Art. 16 GDPR
- Right to erasure according to Art. 17 GDPR
- Right to restriction of processing according to Art. 18 GDPR
- Right to data portability according to Art. 20 GDPR
- Right to object according to Art. 21 GDPR
Should you wish to exercise your rights, please contact our Data Protection Officer. We will respond to your request as soon as possible and in any case within four weeks. Please enclose a copy of your identity card with your request. Please note that your identity card number must be covered. Furthermore, you must state on your copy that it is being provided for the above-mentioned purpose. This is the only way we can ensure that only you have access to your personal information.
APH Group has no control over the use of data by social media. We cannot obtain traceable personal data from Google Analytics or change it for you.
We would also like to inform you that you have the option to complain to the national supervisory authority, the Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information. You can do this via the following link: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/EN/Buerger/Inhalte/Allgemein/Datenschutz/BeschwerdeBeiDatenschutzbehoerden.html.
Right of objection according to Art. 21 GDPR
You have the right to object at any time, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to the processing of personal data relating to you which is carried out based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR (data processing based on a balance of interests); this also applies to profiling based on this provision within the meaning of Art. 4 No. 4 GDPR.
If you object, we will no longer process your personal data, unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights, and freedoms, or the processing serves to assert, exercise, or defend legal claims.
Address or other identifiers are made to:
APH Group
Mercurius 18
8448 GX Heerenveen
The Netherlands
Tel: +31 (0)513 481 100
E-mail: info@aphgroup.com
How we protect your personal data
APH Group takes the protection of your personal data seriously and takes appropriate measures to prevent abuse of data, loss of data, unauthorised access, unwanted disclosure, and unauthorised modification. For example, APH Group:
- Uses encryption by an SSL layer
- Ensures that only appointed persons have access to the data
- Access to the data is protected
- Safety measures are regularly checked
If you feel that your personal data is not secure or that there are indications of abuse, please contact us via the contact details at the bottom of this privacy statement.
Questions and / or remarks
Do you have any questions or remarks about this privacy statement? You can contact us via the contact details at the bottom of this privacy statement.
Contact details
APH Group
Mercurius 18
8448 GX Heerenveen
The Netherlands
Tel: +31 (0)513 481 100
E-mail: info@aphgroup.com
Homepage: www.aphgroup.com