Page: Terms of Use
I. Ownership of Rights and Limitation of Use
All contents on this Website or the Subsites and all copyrights, trademarks and any other intellectual property rights related to these contents are owned by Hypertek Systems B.V. or the owner of such contents. Except to the extent expressly permitted by applicable law, no contents on this Website or the Subsites may be used, copied, modified, translated, distributed or otherwise utilized without the prior permission of Hypertek Systems B.V. or the owner of the contents. Hypertek Systems B.V. reserves the right to add, delete, or modify these Terms or the contents of this Website or the Subsites at any time without notice.
II. Disclaimers of Warranties
The contents on this Website or the Subsites are provided “AS IS” without warranties of any kind, either express or implied (including, but not limited to, any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, or non-infringement of third parties’ rights). The Hypertek Systems B.V. does not warrant that the contents are error-free. The Hypertek Systems B.V. will use reasonable efforts to place accurate and up-to-date information on this Website but makes no warranty of its accuracy, completeness and/or timeliness.
III. Disclaimer of Links
Except for this Website and the Subsites, the Hypertek Systems B.V. does not operate or maintain contents on websites that are directly or indirectly linked from this Website or the Subsites (the “Linked Sites”). Any reference to a Linked Site or to a specific third party’s product or service on the Website, the Subsites, or a Linked Site, is not a recommendation by the Hypertek Systems B.V. The Hypertek Systems B.V. disclaims liabilities for access to and use of Linked Sites.
IV. Limitation of Liability
The Hypertek Systems B.V. is not liable for direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, punitive, or other damages (including, but not limited to, economic losses, lost profits, lost revenues, or lost data) arising out of the access to or inability to access to this Website, the Subsites or the Linked Sites, even if advised of the possibility of such damages.
V. Transmitted Materials
Any materials, information, or ideas that you transmit to or post to the Website or the Subsites (“Transmitted Material”) is deemed non-confidential and non-proprietary and the Hypertek Systems B.V. has no obligations including without limitation confidentiality obligations in connection with the Transmitted Material.
VI. Linking to the Website
Permission is granted to link to the Website if you comply with the following linking policy: your site must not slander or damage the Hypertek Systems B.V. or contain inappropriate content; you may not create a frame around Hypertek Systems B.V. content or create any impression by any other method that the content does not belong to the Hypertek Systems B.V.; you must use our name correctly: This permission terminates automatically if you breach any terms or conditions of these Terms or any applicable terms of use on the Subsites. Upon termination, you must remove any link. Please place your link in with the following way.
VII. Disclaimer on Hypertek Systems B.V.’s Official Social Media Accounts
The Hypertek Systems B.V. as a leading company of the IT distribution, promotes dialogue with various stakeholders by leveraging what Social Media has to offer as a global communication platform through the Internet.
Hypertek Systems B.V.
Copyright © 2023 Hypertek Systems B.V. All rights reserved.
Definition Of ‘Cookies’
Cookies are small pieces of text dropped on your browser when you visit a website, email, advertisement, or other online service that store information.
Pixels (also known as web beacons), are pieces of code embedded in a website, email, application, advertisement, or other online service that sends information about your use to a server. There are various types of pixels, including image pixels (which are small graphic images) and JavaScript pixels (which contain JavaScript code). When you access a location that contains a pixel, the pixel may drop or read cookies on your browser. We also use other technologies, such as software development kits, for similar purposes.
In this Cookie Statement, we hereafter refer to all of these technologies as “cookies.”
Types Of Cookies
We use cookies to provide, protect, and improve our products and services, such as by personalizing content, understanding user behavior, and providing a safer experience. We also use cookies to provide you with personalized advertisements, including on third-party websites and applications, and to determine the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns. We describe below the various types of cookies we use and the purposes they perform. Please note that the specific cookies we may use vary depending on the specific websites and services you use.
- Essential cookies
These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with our websites and services and to enable essential features, such as providing shopping cart or product application functionality. If you disable these cookies, we will not be able to fulfill your requests.
- Performance and functionality cookies:
These cookies collect information about how you use our websites and services and allow us to remember the choices you make while browsing. The information these cookies collect allows us to optimize our websites and make them easier for you to use, and it does not personally identify you. If you disable or opt out of these cookies, you may not be able to use certain features of our websites, applications, and services, and it may reduce the support or information that we can provide you.
- Analytics and customization cookies:
These cookies collect information we use in aggregate form to help us understand how our websites, applications and services are being used and how effective our marketing campaigns are, and to help us customize our websites. If you disable or opt out of these cookies, you may not be able to use certain features of our websites, applications and services, and it may reduce the support or information that we can provide you.
- Advertising cookies:
These cookies collect information about your browsing or shopping history and are used to make advertising messages more relevant to you. They perform functions like.
Cookies Placed By Third Parties
You may also encounter cookies on our websites, applications and services that are placed by third parties. For example, when you buy our products online, our e-commerce vendor may use cookies and other technologies. We may also allow third parties to place cookies on our websites to track information about your online activities and/or across third-party sites or online services, including to send you targeted advertisements based on that information, which may include the remarketing of our products and services that you have viewed on our websites and on third-party websites.
This Cookie Statement does not apply to the cookies, applications, technologies, or websites that are owned and/or operated by third parties, or such third parties’ practices, even if they use or access our technology to store or collect information. To understand how third parties use cookies, please review their privacy and cookie policies.
Controlling And Opting Out Of Cookies
To update your settings, please visit Cookie Preferences.
In addition, your browser or device may offer settings that allow you to choose whether browser cookies are set and to delete them. For more information about these controls and to exercise your cookie preferences, visit your browser or device’s help material. If you choose to reject cookies, as noted above, you may not be able to use certain features of our websites and services.
Please note that your opt-out generally will only apply to the specific browser or device from which you opt-out, and may reset if you delete your browser cookies or change your settings.
Do Not Track
Some browsers include the ability to transmit “Do Not Track” signals. We do not process or respond to “Do Not Track” signals. Instead, we adhere to the standards described in our Privacy Statement and this Cookie Statement.
Hypertek Systems B.V. and data privacy
Hypertek Systems B.V. and its subsidiaries (“Hypertek Systems”) are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
This privacy policy sets out the basis on which we will process any personal information that we may collect about you as a visitor to our website or premises or a contact at one of our customers or potential customers, suppliers or potential suppliers or other business partners or in any other cases where we specifically state that this policy will apply.
This privacy policy also sets out how we protect your privacy and your rights in respect of our use of your personal information.
Hypertek Systems may have a privacy policy or statement specific to particular local laws, products or services in which case such policy or statement shall supersede or supplement this privacy policy.
What personal information do we collect?
We may collect and process the following personal information about you.
Personal information that you give us.
- This is information about you that you give to us by filling in forms on our website (or other forms that we ask you to complete), giving us a business card (or similar) or corresponding with us by telephone, post, email or otherwise. It may include, for example, your name, address, email address and telephone number; information about your business relationship with Hypertek Systems; and information about your professional role, background and interests.
Personal information that our website and other systems collect about you.
- If you visit our website it will automatically collect some information about you and your visit, including the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your device to the Internet and some other information such as the pages on our site that you visit. This is used to monitor the performance of the website and improve the experience of visitors to the website. Our website may also download “cookies” to your device – this is described in our separate cookie policy. As described further in the cookie policy, you can change the way in which we use cookies by changing your cookie preferences.
- If you interact with us through social media services, we may be able to access certain information about such interaction, such as whether you have interacted with us through multiple social networks. We make reasonable efforts to ensure that the social media providers have permission from you to allow us to access certain information about you. Please note that we are not responsible for the manner in which social media service providers handle your personal information that they may collect from you, as this is their responsibility. For instance, our website may use plugins of social media networks such as Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, and Google+. If you use one of these plugins, these plugins are able to establish a direct connection between your browser and the sites of the respective social media networks. As this transfer takes place directly between your browser and the respective network, Hypertek Systems does not have any access, knowledge or control over any data sent or the use of this data within the respective social media networks. If you make use of a social media network and make content available to such networks, this is not covered by this privacy policy. Instead, the terms of use and privacy policies of the respective operators of those social media networks shall apply to any such content. We encourage you to read the privacy policies and terms and conditions of your social media service providers to understand how they handle your personal information.
- Our website may contain links to websites of third parties who are not affiliated to Hypertek Systems. If you access such third party websites by clicking on such links, we are not responsible for the way in which such third parties process your personal information that they collect.
- We may make web-based platforms available to our partners and suppliers and such platforms may collect your personal information if you use such platforms. This privacy policy applies to such personal information collected during the registration process and/or the use of such platforms.
- If you exchange emails, telephone conversations or other electronic communications with our employees and other staff members, our information technology systems may record details of those conversations, sometimes including their content.
- Some of our premises have closed circuit TV systems and other security and access management systems which may record you and certain information about your visit if you visit our premises, for security and safety purposes.
Other information.
We may also collect some information from other sources. For example.
- If we have a business relationship with the organisation that you represent, your colleagues or other business contacts may give us information about you such as your contact details or details of your role in the relationship.
- We sometimes collect information from third party data providers or publicly available sources for anti-money-laundering, export control, credit rating background checking and similar purposes, and to protect our business and comply with our legal and regulatory obligations.
How will we use your personal information?
We may collect, store and use your personal information for the following purposes.
- to operate, manage, develop and promote our business (including our products and services) and, in particular, our relationship with the organisation you represent (if any) and related transactions including, for example.
- marketing purposes (when we have either gathered prior opt-in consent and/or have a legitimate interest to send you communications which we believe to be relevant and of use to you).
- warranty processes.
- product compliance processes.
- accounting and billing / payment purposes (including to offer financing solutions to customers, together with our finance partners).
- to operate, administer and improve our website and premises and other aspects of the way in which we conduct our operations.
- to offer you the services of our online shops based on the terms and conditions of the dedicated web-shop.
- to provide you with services or information that you may have requested.
- to keep you informed and updated on relevant products or services you may be interested in.
- to enable you to take part in our online assessments and surveys.
- to manage and maintain the relationship with investors.
- to operate recruiting activities.
- to protect our business from fraud, money-laundering, breach of confidence, theft of proprietary materials and other financial or business crimes.
- to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations and bring and defend legal claims and assert legal rights.
- if the purpose is directly connected with an assigned purpose previously made known to you.
We may from time to time review your information held in our systems – including the contents of and other information related to your email and other communications with us – for compliance and business-protection purposes as described above. This may include reviews for the purposes of disclosure of information relevant to litigation and/or reviews of records relevant to internal or external regulatory or criminal investigations. To the extent permitted by applicable law, these reviews will be conducted in a reasonable and proportionate way and approved at an appropriate level of management. They may ultimately involve disclosure of your information to governmental agencies and litigation counterparties as described below. Your emails and other communications may also occasionally be accessed by persons other than the member of staff with whom they are exchanged for ordinary business management purposes (for example, where necessary when a staff member is out of the office or has left Hypertek Systems).
We will only process your personal information as necessary so that we can pursue the purposes described above and where we have a legal basis for such processing. Where our lawful basis for processing is that such processing is necessary to pursue our legitimate interests, we will only process your personal information where we have concluded that our processing does not prejudice you or your privacy in a way that would override our legitimate interest. In exceptional circumstances we may also be required by law to disclose or otherwise process your personal information.
Disclosure and international transfer of your personal information
We may disclose your personal information, where reasonably necessary for the various purposes set out above.
- to your colleagues within the organisation that you represent.
- to the other members of the Hypertek Systems B.V.
- to your colleagues within the organisation that you represent.
- to service providers who host our web services or other information technology systems or otherwise hold or process your information on our behalf, under conditions of confidentiality and security required by law.
- business partners, channel partners, service partner, agents, suppliers and sub-contractors for the performance of any contract we enter into with them or you.
- • to a person who takes over our business and assets, or relevant parts of them.
- in exceptional circumstances.
- to competent regulatory, prosecuting and other governmental agencies, or litigation counterparties, in any country or territory.
- where we are required by law to disclose.
These disclosures may involve transferring your personal information overseas. If you are dealing with us within the European Economic Area, you should be aware that this may include transfers to countries outside the European Economic Area, which have not been determined by the European Commission to have an adequate level of data protection. In those cases, where we transfer your personal information to other members of the Hypertek Systems B.V. or our service providers, we will ensure that our arrangements with them are governed by relevant legal mechanisms and safeguards including data transfer agreements, designed to ensure that your personal information is protected, on terms approved for this purpose by the European Commission.
How long do we keep your information?
We will delete your personal information when we no longer need such personal information, for instance where.
i. it is no longer necessary for us to retain your personal information to fulfil the purposes for which we had collected it.
ii. we believe that your personal information that we hold is inaccurate.
iii. in certain cases where you have informed us that you no longer consent to our processing of your personal information.
Sometimes, however.
a. there are legal or regulatory requirements which may require us to retain your personal information for a specified period, and in such cases we will retain your personal information for such specified period.
b. we may need to retain your personal information for certain longer periods for product liability purposes or in relation to legal disputes, and in such cases we will retain it for such longer periods to the extent required.
Note that we may retain some limited information about you even when we know that you have left the organisation that you represent, so that we can maintain a continuous relationship with you if and when we are in contact with you again, representing a different organisation.
What are your rights?
You have the following rights (subject to applicable local laws) in relation to the personal information that we hold about you.
- to access your personal information, and some related information, under relevant data protection law.
- to require any inaccurate personal information to be corrected or deleted.
- to object to our use of your personal information for direct marketing purposes at any time and you may have the right to object to our processing of some or all of your personal information (and require them to be deleted) in some other circumstances.
- to require us to delete your personal information in certain circumstances.
- to require us to restrict or block the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances (when processing is restricted, we can still store your personal information, but may not use it further).
- to obtain from us your personal information, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format in certain circumstances. Further, you may have the right to require us to transmit your personal information directly to another person (for instance a new provider) where it is technically feasible to do so.
- where we are processing your personal information based on your consent to such processing, to withdraw your consent at any time.
Further information and advice about your rights can be obtained from the data protection regulator in your country.
If you wish to exercise any of these rights (subject to applicable local laws), please use the link in the “Contact Us” section below and complete the form provided.
Sensitive Information
We request you not send to or share with us any sensitive personal information (e.g. information related to racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religion or other beliefs, health, genetic, or biometric data, criminal background or trade union membership).
Personal Information of Children
Hypertek Systems B.V. respects the privacy of children and does not knowingly collect, use or disclose personal information of children under 16 years of age without verifiable consent from a parent or guardian.
If Hypertek Systems B.V. becomes aware that the information submitted to or collected by Hypertek Systems B.V. is personal information of children without first receiving verifiable consent from a parent or guardian, Hypertek Systems B.V. will take prompt steps to delete such personal information.
If a parent or guardian wishes to raise a concern regarding personal information pertaining to a child, please email our Data Protection Office at info@hypertek.nl
Automated Decision Making
We may use technology which tracks your use of our website and your interactions with us and which helps us to build a profile of your preferred products and information requests. If we do this, what this means for you is that you are more likely to receive offers and information that are tailored to your specific preferences, based on your previous profile activity.
If we use automated decision making in respect of any specific service or product and such automated decision making produces legal effects concerning data subjects or similarly significantly affects them, we will provide information required by applicable laws in respect of such automated decision making.
Contact us
If you have complaints about our processing of your personal information, please email info@hypertek.nl. You can also lodge a complaint about our processing of your personal information with the body regulating data protection in your country.
Changes to this policy
This privacy policy is valid from the time of its publication on the Hypertek Systems B.V. websites, and all previous versions of this privacy policy become invalid as of such time. Any changes we make to this privacy statement in the future will be posted to our website and also available if you Contact us. Please check back frequently to see any changes.
I. Ownership of Rights and Limitation of Use
All contents on this Website or the Subsites and all copyrights, trademarks and any other intellectual property rights related to these contents are owned by Hypertek Systems B.V. or the owner of such contents. Except to the extent expressly permitted by applicable law, no contents on this Website or the Subsites may be used, copied, modified, translated, distributed or otherwise utilized without the prior permission of Hypertek Systems B.V. or the owner of the contents. Hypertek Systems B.V. reserves the right to add, delete, or modify these Terms or the contents of this Website or the Subsites at any time without notice.
II. Disclaimers of Warranties
The contents on this Website or the Subsites are provided “AS IS” without warranties of any kind, either express or implied (including, but not limited to, any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, or non-infringement of third parties’ rights). The Hypertek Systems B.V. does not warrant that the contents are error-free. The Hypertek Systems B.V. will use reasonable efforts to place accurate and up-to-date information on this Website but makes no warranty of its accuracy, completeness and/or timeliness.
III. Disclaimer of Links
Except for this Website and the Subsites, the Hypertek Systems B.V. does not operate or maintain contents on websites that are directly or indirectly linked from this Website or the Subsites (the “Linked Sites”). Any reference to a Linked Site or to a specific third party’s product or service on the Website, the Subsites, or a Linked Site, is not a recommendation by the Hypertek Systems B.V. The Hypertek Systems B.V. disclaims liabilities for access to and use of Linked Sites.
IV. Limitation of Liability
The Hypertek Systems B.V. is not liable for direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, punitive, or other damages (including, but not limited to, economic losses, lost profits, lost revenues, or lost data) arising out of the access to or inability to access to this Website, the Subsites or the Linked Sites, even if advised of the possibility of such damages.
V. Transmitted Materials
Any materials, information, or ideas that you transmit to or post to the Website or the Subsites (“Transmitted Material”) is deemed non-confidential and non-proprietary and the Hypertek Systems B.V. has no obligations including without limitation confidentiality obligations in connection with the Transmitted Material.
VI. Linking to the Website
Permission is granted to link to the Website if you comply with the following linking policy: your site must not slander or damage the Hypertek Systems B.V. or contain inappropriate content; you may not create a frame around Hypertek Systems B.V. content or create any impression by any other method that the content does not belong to the Hypertek Systems B.V.; you must use our name correctly: This permission terminates automatically if you breach any terms or conditions of these Terms or any applicable terms of use on the Subsites. Upon termination, you must remove any link. Please place your link in with the following way.
VII. Disclaimer on Hypertek Systems B.V.’s Official Social Media Accounts
The Hypertek Systems B.V. as a leading company of the IT distribution, promotes dialogue with various stakeholders by leveraging what Social Media has to offer as a global communication platform through the Internet.
Hypertek Systems B.V.
Copyright © 2023 Hypertek Systems B.V. All rights reserved.
Definition Of ‘Cookies’
Cookies are small pieces of text dropped on your browser when you visit a website, email, advertisement, or other online service that store information.
Pixels (also known as web beacons), are pieces of code embedded in a website, email, application, advertisement, or other online service that sends information about your use to a server. There are various types of pixels, including image pixels (which are small graphic images) and JavaScript pixels (which contain JavaScript code). When you access a location that contains a pixel, the pixel may drop or read cookies on your browser. We also use other technologies, such as software development kits, for similar purposes.
In this Cookie Statement, we hereafter refer to all of these technologies as “cookies.”
Types Of Cookies
We use cookies to provide, protect, and improve our products and services, such as by personalizing content, understanding user behavior, and providing a safer experience. We also use cookies to provide you with personalized advertisements, including on third-party websites and applications, and to determine the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns. We describe below the various types of cookies we use and the purposes they perform. Please note that the specific cookies we may use vary depending on the specific websites and services you use.
- Essential cookies
These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with our websites and services and to enable essential features, such as providing shopping cart or product application functionality. If you disable these cookies, we will not be able to fulfill your requests.
- Performance and functionality cookies:
These cookies collect information about how you use our websites and services and allow us to remember the choices you make while browsing. The information these cookies collect allows us to optimize our websites and make them easier for you to use, and it does not personally identify you. If you disable or opt out of these cookies, you may not be able to use certain features of our websites, applications, and services, and it may reduce the support or information that we can provide you.
- Analytics and customization cookies:
These cookies collect information we use in aggregate form to help us understand how our websites, applications and services are being used and how effective our marketing campaigns are, and to help us customize our websites. If you disable or opt out of these cookies, you may not be able to use certain features of our websites, applications and services, and it may reduce the support or information that we can provide you.
- Advertising cookies:
These cookies collect information about your browsing or shopping history and are used to make advertising messages more relevant to you. They perform functions like.
Cookies Placed By Third Parties
You may also encounter cookies on our websites, applications and services that are placed by third parties. For example, when you buy our products online, our e-commerce vendor may use cookies and other technologies. We may also allow third parties to place cookies on our websites to track information about your online activities and/or across third-party sites or online services, including to send you targeted advertisements based on that information, which may include the remarketing of our products and services that you have viewed on our websites and on third-party websites.
This Cookie Statement does not apply to the cookies, applications, technologies, or websites that are owned and/or operated by third parties, or such third parties’ practices, even if they use or access our technology to store or collect information. To understand how third parties use cookies, please review their privacy and cookie policies.
Controlling And Opting Out Of Cookies
To update your settings, please visit Cookie Preferences.
In addition, your browser or device may offer settings that allow you to choose whether browser cookies are set and to delete them. For more information about these controls and to exercise your cookie preferences, visit your browser or device’s help material. If you choose to reject cookies, as noted above, you may not be able to use certain features of our websites and services.
Please note that your opt-out generally will only apply to the specific browser or device from which you opt-out, and may reset if you delete your browser cookies or change your settings.
Do Not Track
Some browsers include the ability to transmit “Do Not Track” signals. We do not process or respond to “Do Not Track” signals. Instead, we adhere to the standards described in our Privacy Statement and this Cookie Statement.
Hypertek Systems B.V. and data privacy
Hypertek Systems B.V. and its subsidiaries (“Hypertek Systems”) are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
This privacy policy sets out the basis on which we will process any personal information that we may collect about you as a visitor to our website or premises or a contact at one of our customers or potential customers, suppliers or potential suppliers or other business partners or in any other cases where we specifically state that this policy will apply.
This privacy policy also sets out how we protect your privacy and your rights in respect of our use of your personal information.
Hypertek Systems may have a privacy policy or statement specific to particular local laws, products or services in which case such policy or statement shall supersede or supplement this privacy policy.
What personal information do we collect?
We may collect and process the following personal information about you.
Personal information that you give us.
- This is information about you that you give to us by filling in forms on our website (or other forms that we ask you to complete), giving us a business card (or similar) or corresponding with us by telephone, post, email or otherwise. It may include, for example, your name, address, email address and telephone number; information about your business relationship with Hypertek Systems; and information about your professional role, background and interests.
Personal information that our website and other systems collect about you.
- If you visit our website it will automatically collect some information about you and your visit, including the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your device to the Internet and some other information such as the pages on our site that you visit. This is used to monitor the performance of the website and improve the experience of visitors to the website. Our website may also download “cookies” to your device – this is described in our separate cookie policy. As described further in the cookie policy, you can change the way in which we use cookies by changing your cookie preferences.
- If you interact with us through social media services, we may be able to access certain information about such interaction, such as whether you have interacted with us through multiple social networks. We make reasonable efforts to ensure that the social media providers have permission from you to allow us to access certain information about you. Please note that we are not responsible for the manner in which social media service providers handle your personal information that they may collect from you, as this is their responsibility. For instance, our website may use plugins of social media networks such as Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, and Google+. If you use one of these plugins, these plugins are able to establish a direct connection between your browser and the sites of the respective social media networks. As this transfer takes place directly between your browser and the respective network, Hypertek Systems does not have any access, knowledge or control over any data sent or the use of this data within the respective social media networks. If you make use of a social media network and make content available to such networks, this is not covered by this privacy policy. Instead, the terms of use and privacy policies of the respective operators of those social media networks shall apply to any such content. We encourage you to read the privacy policies and terms and conditions of your social media service providers to understand how they handle your personal information.
- Our website may contain links to websites of third parties who are not affiliated to Hypertek Systems. If you access such third party websites by clicking on such links, we are not responsible for the way in which such third parties process your personal information that they collect.
- We may make web-based platforms available to our partners and suppliers and such platforms may collect your personal information if you use such platforms. This privacy policy applies to such personal information collected during the registration process and/or the use of such platforms.
- If you exchange emails, telephone conversations or other electronic communications with our employees and other staff members, our information technology systems may record details of those conversations, sometimes including their content.
- Some of our premises have closed circuit TV systems and other security and access management systems which may record you and certain information about your visit if you visit our premises, for security and safety purposes.
Other information.
We may also collect some information from other sources. For example.
- If we have a business relationship with the organisation that you represent, your colleagues or other business contacts may give us information about you such as your contact details or details of your role in the relationship.
- We sometimes collect information from third party data providers or publicly available sources for anti-money-laundering, export control, credit rating background checking and similar purposes, and to protect our business and comply with our legal and regulatory obligations.
How will we use your personal information?
We may collect, store and use your personal information for the following purposes.
- to operate, manage, develop and promote our business (including our products and services) and, in particular, our relationship with the organisation you represent (if any) and related transactions including, for example.
- marketing purposes (when we have either gathered prior opt-in consent and/or have a legitimate interest to send you communications which we believe to be relevant and of use to you).
- warranty processes.
- product compliance processes.
- accounting and billing / payment purposes (including to offer financing solutions to customers, together with our finance partners).
- to operate, administer and improve our website and premises and other aspects of the way in which we conduct our operations.
- to offer you the services of our online shops based on the terms and conditions of the dedicated web-shop.
- to provide you with services or information that you may have requested.
- to keep you informed and updated on relevant products or services you may be interested in.
- to enable you to take part in our online assessments and surveys.
- to manage and maintain the relationship with investors.
- to operate recruiting activities.
- to protect our business from fraud, money-laundering, breach of confidence, theft of proprietary materials and other financial or business crimes.
- to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations and bring and defend legal claims and assert legal rights.
- if the purpose is directly connected with an assigned purpose previously made known to you.
We may from time to time review your information held in our systems – including the contents of and other information related to your email and other communications with us – for compliance and business-protection purposes as described above. This may include reviews for the purposes of disclosure of information relevant to litigation and/or reviews of records relevant to internal or external regulatory or criminal investigations. To the extent permitted by applicable law, these reviews will be conducted in a reasonable and proportionate way and approved at an appropriate level of management. They may ultimately involve disclosure of your information to governmental agencies and litigation counterparties as described below. Your emails and other communications may also occasionally be accessed by persons other than the member of staff with whom they are exchanged for ordinary business management purposes (for example, where necessary when a staff member is out of the office or has left Hypertek Systems).
We will only process your personal information as necessary so that we can pursue the purposes described above and where we have a legal basis for such processing. Where our lawful basis for processing is that such processing is necessary to pursue our legitimate interests, we will only process your personal information where we have concluded that our processing does not prejudice you or your privacy in a way that would override our legitimate interest. In exceptional circumstances we may also be required by law to disclose or otherwise process your personal information.
Disclosure and international transfer of your personal information
We may disclose your personal information, where reasonably necessary for the various purposes set out above.
- to your colleagues within the organisation that you represent.
- to the other members of the Hypertek Systems B.V.
- to your colleagues within the organisation that you represent.
- to service providers who host our web services or other information technology systems or otherwise hold or process your information on our behalf, under conditions of confidentiality and security required by law.
- business partners, channel partners, service partner, agents, suppliers and sub-contractors for the performance of any contract we enter into with them or you.
- • to a person who takes over our business and assets, or relevant parts of them.
- in exceptional circumstances.
- to competent regulatory, prosecuting and other governmental agencies, or litigation counterparties, in any country or territory.
- where we are required by law to disclose.
These disclosures may involve transferring your personal information overseas. If you are dealing with us within the European Economic Area, you should be aware that this may include transfers to countries outside the European Economic Area, which have not been determined by the European Commission to have an adequate level of data protection. In those cases, where we transfer your personal information to other members of the Hypertek Systems B.V. or our service providers, we will ensure that our arrangements with them are governed by relevant legal mechanisms and safeguards including data transfer agreements, designed to ensure that your personal information is protected, on terms approved for this purpose by the European Commission.
How long do we keep your information?
We will delete your personal information when we no longer need such personal information, for instance where.
i. it is no longer necessary for us to retain your personal information to fulfil the purposes for which we had collected it.
ii. we believe that your personal information that we hold is inaccurate.
iii. in certain cases where you have informed us that you no longer consent to our processing of your personal information.
Sometimes, however.
a. there are legal or regulatory requirements which may require us to retain your personal information for a specified period, and in such cases we will retain your personal information for such specified period.
b. we may need to retain your personal information for certain longer periods for product liability purposes or in relation to legal disputes, and in such cases we will retain it for such longer periods to the extent required.
Note that we may retain some limited information about you even when we know that you have left the organisation that you represent, so that we can maintain a continuous relationship with you if and when we are in contact with you again, representing a different organisation.
What are your rights?
You have the following rights (subject to applicable local laws) in relation to the personal information that we hold about you.
- to access your personal information, and some related information, under relevant data protection law.
- to require any inaccurate personal information to be corrected or deleted.
- to object to our use of your personal information for direct marketing purposes at any time and you may have the right to object to our processing of some or all of your personal information (and require them to be deleted) in some other circumstances.
- to require us to delete your personal information in certain circumstances.
- to require us to restrict or block the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances (when processing is restricted, we can still store your personal information, but may not use it further).
- to obtain from us your personal information, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format in certain circumstances. Further, you may have the right to require us to transmit your personal information directly to another person (for instance a new provider) where it is technically feasible to do so.
- where we are processing your personal information based on your consent to such processing, to withdraw your consent at any time.
Further information and advice about your rights can be obtained from the data protection regulator in your country.
If you wish to exercise any of these rights (subject to applicable local laws), please use the link in the “Contact Us” section below and complete the form provided.
Sensitive Information
We request you not send to or share with us any sensitive personal information (e.g. information related to racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religion or other beliefs, health, genetic, or biometric data, criminal background or trade union membership).
Personal Information of Children
Hypertek Systems B.V. respects the privacy of children and does not knowingly collect, use or disclose personal information of children under 16 years of age without verifiable consent from a parent or guardian.
If Hypertek Systems B.V. becomes aware that the information submitted to or collected by Hypertek Systems B.V. is personal information of children without first receiving verifiable consent from a parent or guardian, Hypertek Systems B.V. will take prompt steps to delete such personal information.
If a parent or guardian wishes to raise a concern regarding personal information pertaining to a child, please email our Data Protection Office at info@hypertek.nl
Automated Decision Making
We may use technology which tracks your use of our website and your interactions with us and which helps us to build a profile of your preferred products and information requests. If we do this, what this means for you is that you are more likely to receive offers and information that are tailored to your specific preferences, based on your previous profile activity.
If we use automated decision making in respect of any specific service or product and such automated decision making produces legal effects concerning data subjects or similarly significantly affects them, we will provide information required by applicable laws in respect of such automated decision making.
Contact us
If you have complaints about our processing of your personal information, please email info@hypertek.nl. You can also lodge a complaint about our processing of your personal information with the body regulating data protection in your country.
Changes to this policy
This privacy policy is valid from the time of its publication on the Hypertek Systems B.V. websites, and all previous versions of this privacy policy become invalid as of such time. Any changes we make to this privacy statement in the future will be posted to our website and also available if you Contact us. Please check back frequently to see any changes.