Privacy and cookie statements

Your privacy is of great importance to Globrands Consultancy Group B.V.; consequently, it complies with the Personal Data Protection Act and European Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC. Moreover, Globrands Consultancy Group B.V. has anticipated the General Data Protection Regulation, which will replace the aforementioned acts with effect from 25 May 2018. This privacy statement covers all the legislation jointly referred to as ‘Relevant Data Protection Legislation’.

Globrands Consultancy Group B.V. is responsible for processing personal data in the way described in this privacy statement and is, therefore, the ‘controller’ in the sense of the Relevant Data Protection Legislation.

Globrands
Archangelkade 30B
1013 BE Amsterdam
+31 (0)20 705 23 45

Globrands Consultancy Group processes your personal data because you use our services and/or because you provide us with this data. We process your data in order to implement our agreement and/or to fulfil a legal duty to align our services with your requirements as well as possible.

Globrands Consultancy Group does not keep your personal data for longer than is strictly necessary to realise the objectives for which your data has been collected. For each contract for services, we observe the following retention periods for the various categories of personal data we process.

Below, you can refer to an overview of the personal data we process, and the corresponding retention periods:

Company data

• Company name - indefinite period

• Visitor’s address - indefinite period

• Correspondence address - indefinite period

• Invoice address - indefinite period

• Email address (addresses) - indefinite period

• Bank account number - indefinite period

• Name details - indefinite period

• VAT number - indefinite period

• Chamber of Commerce number - indefinite period

Personal data

• First name - indefinite period

• Prefix - indefinite period

• Surname - indefinite period

• Telephone number (numbers) - indefinite period

• Email address (addresses) - indefinite period

Our website and/or service does not intend to collect data about visitors to our website who are younger than 16 years, unless they have their parents’ or guardians’ permission. However, we cannot check whether a visitor is older than 16.

We advise parents to involve themselves in the online activities of their children in order to prevent data about their children being collected without parental permission. If you are convinced that we have collected personal data concerning a minor without this permission, please contact us via info@verveagency.com and we will remove this data.

Globrands Consultancy Group processes your personal data for the following reasons:

• To conclude a payment

• To send our newsletter and/or advertising leaflet

• To be able to phone or email you if necessary to provide our services

• To inform you of changes to our services or products

• To offer you the opportunity to create an account

• To deliver goods and services to you

• Globrands Consultancy Group analyses behaviour on the website in order to improve the website and to align our offer of products and services with your preferences.

• Globrands Consultancy Group follows surfing behaviour across various websites in order to align our products and services with your requirements.

• Globrands Consultancy Group also processes personal data when we are legally required to do so, such as the data we require for our tax returns.

Globrands Consultancy Group does not sell your data to third parties and will only make it available if this is necessary for the implementation of our agreement with you or to comply with a legal requirement. We can use the services of the Processors to process your data, for example, to store your data or host the website. We conclude a processing agreement with these companies in order to ensure they treat your data with the same degree of security and confidentiality.

The Processors will only process your data in accordance with our instructions and never for their own purposes. At all times, Globrands Consultancy Group remains responsible for this processing. The Processors we make use of include:  Gripp, Frontapp, Google Suite, Forecast, Basecamp.

We are allowed to transfer data to organisations outside the European Union if one of our Processors is located outside the European Union. However, personal data will only be transferred to countries and organisations that offer an adequate level of protection; a level which meets the standards of the Relevant Data Protection Legislation.

Globrands Consultancy Group B.V. uses functional, analytical and tracking cookies. By agreeing to the cookie statement you grant your permission to all the services connected to Globrands Consultancy Group.

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small (text) file which your browser stores on your computer, when you visit our website. This information can be retransmitted to us upon your next visit. In this manner, our website can recognize you.

Why do we use cookies?

Globrands Consultancy Group uses functional, analytical and tracking cookies. Cookies ensure that the website is fast and that you can safely visit our website. The cookies also ensure that we can see how the website is used and how we can improve our website. Furthermore, cookies of ourselves or of third parties can be used to show you ads matching your interests. In this way, we achieve the best user experience.

These cookies are necessary to make the website work. Without these cookies preferences cannot be stored.

Globrands Consultancy Group uses the following cookies to effect the session with the server, to check whether a form really comes from the website, to remember your cookie status.

CookieConsent: 1 year
Stores the user's cookie consent state for the current domain

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This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website.

Analytical cookies are used to review the quality and effectiveness of our website. In this manner, we can see for instance how many visitors we get at the website and what pages they visit. This information is used by us to analyze and improve our website.

Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites to display ads that are relevant and engaging for individual users. They help us understand the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns and improve the user experience by delivering targeted advertising.

YouTube

Our website embeds important videos from YouTube in order to clarify what we do. When you view these videos, YouTube may place tracking cookies on your device. These cookies collect information about your interactions with the embedded content.

What Data is Collected:

YouTube tracking cookies may collect data such as:

- Your IP address

- The pages you visit on our website

- The time you spend watching the videos

- Your interactions with the video player (e.g., play, pause, etc.)

Purpose of Data Collection:

The data collected by YouTube tracking cookies is used to:

- Provide and improve video playback functionality

- Gather analytics on video performance

- Deliver personalized video recommendations

- Serve targeted advertisements

Your Consent:

By consenting to the use of YouTube tracking cookies, you allow us to enhance your viewing experience and support our content offerings. You can manage your cookie preferences through our cookie consent tool or directly in your browser settings.

Third-Party Data Sharing:

Please note that the data collected by YouTube is processed by Google LLC, located in the United States. For more information on how YouTube handles your data, please refer to [YouTube’s Privacy Policy](https://www.youtube.com/t/privacy).

Your Rights:

You have the right to:

- Withdraw your consent at any time

- Access, rectify, or delete the personal data collected

- Restrict or object to the processing of your data

For more details on how to exercise your rights, please see below.

YouTube statistics cookie

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Used to determine the optimal video quality based on the visitor's device and network settings.

YouTube marketing cookies

YSC: session

VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE: 179 days

TESTCOOKIESENABLED: session
Used to track user’s interaction with embedded content.

LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY: session
Used to track user’s interaction with embedded content.

NID: 182 days

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Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen.

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You have the right to view, correct or delete your personal data. You also have the right to withdraw your consent to the data processing or to object to Globrands Consultancy Group processing your personal data; furthermore, you have the right to data portability. This means that you can submit a request to us asking us to send a computer file, containing the personal information we hold on you, to another organisation specified by you.

By sending an email to: info@globrands.com you can submit a request to inspect, correct, remove, or transfer your personal data, as well as asking to have your consent withdrawn or objecting to the processing of your personal data.

Globrands also wants to draw your attention to the fact that you have the option of filing a complaint with the national supervisory authority (the Dutch Data Protection Authority) if - in your opinion - we are processing, or have processed, your personal data unlawfully. To do so, please use the following link.

Globrands Consultancy Group takes the protection of your data seriously and takes appropriate measures to prevent misuse, loss, unauthorised access, unwanted disclosure and unauthorised modification. If you feel that your data is not properly secured or there are indications of abuse, please contact us at info@globrands.com