PRIVACY AND COOKIES

Privacy is of great importance to Specter. We respect the privacy of visitors to our website and ensure that the personal information you provide is treated confidentially. Processing of personal data is done in accordance with the applicable privacy legislation.

Purposes of the data processing

We process your personal data for the following purposes:

• providing access to our websites bespecter.nl and bespecter.com;
• the use of the functionalities on our websites;
• entering into and executing agreements with regard to our services;
• conducting conversations via the chat option offered on our websites;
• contacting you upon your request;
• sending newsletters per email;
• gaining insight into the use of our websites;
• improve and evaluate our websites and services; and
• make it possible for you to email, print or share a page via social networks such as LinkedIn.

We will not process your personal data for purposes other than those mentioned above, unless you have given prior consent for this or we are allowed or obliged to do so by law.

Categories of personal data

We use the following data for the purposes stated in this privacy and cookie statement:

• company name and data (insofar as these are personal data);
• name and address details of the contact person;
• email address of contact person;
• telephone number of contact person; and
• IP addresses.

Retention periods

We do not keep your data longer than necessary to achieve the purposes stated in this privacy and cookie statement.

Provision of data to third parties

Specter shares personal data with third parties engaged by Specter in the context of its services such as lawyers, notaries, insurers, brokers and other service providers. As part of the execution of our services, it may be necessary to send personal data to recipients in countries outside the European Economic Area. In that case, Specter ensures that this transfer takes place in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.

Specter shares personal data with external service providers, such as website hosting providers and cloud service providers. Specter will not share more personal data with these service providers than strictly necessary in connection with the services.

Third parties with whom Specter shares personal data are solely responsible for processing such personal data. Specter is neither responsible nor liable for the processing of your personal data by third parties. When a third party acts as a processor of personal data for Specter, Specter will conclude a processing agreement with this third party.

To the extent necessary for the performance of their duties, Specter employees have access to personal data. All Specter employees are bound by an obligation of confidentiality.

Security

We take appropriate security measures to limit misuse of and unauthorized access to your personal data. For example, we ensure that only the necessary people have access to your data, that access to the data is protected and that our security measures are checked regularly. In addition, we use SSL certificates for the secure transfer of your data and for communication.

Our hosting is done by managed hosting provider True, a reliable Dutch party that places its hosting at well-secured and advanced data centers in the Netherlands and guarantees uptime. True is ISO 27001: 2013 certified which means that the company works according to the latest international standards for information security.

Cookies

Cookies are information files that can be automatically stored on or read from the visitor's device (such as a PC, tablet or smartphone) when visiting a website. This is done via the web browser on the device.

Cookies or similar technologies are used on our website where information is stored on the device and / or read (for ease of reading, all such techniques are hereinafter referred to as "cookies"), used to:

• make website functionalities possible and to protect the website (technical or functional cookies); and
• analyse the use of the website and improve the website based on this (analytics cookies).

The information that a cookie receives about your use of the website can be transferred to secure servers of a third party engaged by us for this purpose.

Technical or functional cookies

Some cookies ensure that certain parts of the website work properly and that your user preferences remain known. For example, cookies can be used to properly render fonts, to remember your usage session on the web server so that you can view the website, or to remember a search term that is searched within the website or a selected filter. We use session cookies to remember account details and orders (technically necessary).

Analytic cookies

We also use cookies from Google Tag Manager (Analytics), so that Google can give us insight into how our website is used and provide us with reports about the website and the effectiveness of our campaigns.

Enable and disable cookies

In your browser you can set that the storage of cookies is only accepted upon your agreement. Do note that many websites do not work optimally if cookies are disabled.

Deletion of cookies

Many cookies have an expiration date. If such date is set the cookie is automatically deleted when it expires. You can also choose to delete the cookies manually before their expiration date. Consult the manual of your browser for this.

Websites of third parties

This privacy and cookie statement does not apply to third-party websites, including those of our partners, that are connected with our website through links. We cannot guarantee that these third parties will handle your personal data in a reliable or secure manner. We recommend that you read the privacy statement of those websites before using them.

Interested parties rights

If you provided us with personal data you can send us a request to view, change, move or delete such data. You can submit a request by sending an email to info@bespecter.com.

Amendments privacy and cookiestatement

We reserve the right to amend this privacy and cookie statement. Amendments will be published on this website. It is advisable to consult this statement regularly so that you are aware of these changes.

Personal data authority

Under the Dutch privacy legislation you have the right to submit a complaint to the Dutch Data Protection Authority about our processing of your personal data.