By navigating to the website or a sub-website of CraniumConnect and/or by making use of them, you accept the terms of this privacy policy. We reserve the right to share, remove or update this privacy policy at our own discretion, at any time, in accordance with the applicable legislation. Frequently check this page for amendments. By continuing to visit this website, you indicate that you accept any changes in the privacy policy. This privacy policy was updated last in June of 2018.
COLLECTING PERSONAL DATA
Who is permitted to collect personal data?
CraniumConnect may collect personal data through this website or authorize third parties to collect personal data through the website on behalf of us.
What is personal data?
CraniumConnect considers personal data to be any type of data that you can be personally identified with, directly or indirectly, or that can be used to contact you (such as your name, email address or billing details), as well as data pertaining to such information.
Which personal data is collected?
- If you decide to subscribe to one or more of our services, we may collect your name, gender, date of birth, VAT number, CoC number, address, postal and invoice address(es), phone number, email address, company data and/or bank account details;
- If you subscribe to one or more of our mailing lists, we may collect your name and email address;
- If you contact us via the contact form on our website, we may collect your name, phone number and email address;
- For purposes of security, we may collect your IP address, technical browser information and technical computer information.
With respect to such personal data, CraniumConnect will act as the data controller. The head office is located at Daalwijkdreef 47, 1103AD, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
In what ways is personal data being used by CraniumConnect?
CraniumConnect collects and/or uses your personal data to:
- Deal with orders for services placed via the website and to communicate with you about these orders (for instance order confirmations or the finalizing of a contract);
- Respond to requests for support or to offer other ways of customer service;
- Inform you about other services, promotions and/or events concerning CraniumConnect and associated companies;
- Investigate your opinion about our services and/or events or about potential new services and/or events;
- Analyze details and trends for the purpose of improving our services and/or events;
- Generate demographic insights and add more value to adverts for the publishers;
- Send you important notifications about the website, including updates of the terms and/or usage conditions;
- Protect the website, your interaction with it and data sent, against data breaches or use for malicious purposes.
By visiting or using the website with the cookie setting you selected, you accept collection and processing of your personal data for the abovementioned purposes, in accordance with the cookie settings you accepted and this privacy policy, which is implemented on the basis of: such approval; necessity to comply with the obligations in accordance with our contract with you; necessity to take steps, at your request, prior to entering into an agreement with you; need for the legitimate interests of CraniumConnect in the area of marketing our products and services, as well as their development and sales.
This website and services, provided by CraniumConnect are not targeted to children under the age of sixteen (16). If you are younger than sixteen (16) years old, you are not entitled to visit this website and/or procure our services and you should not provide any personal data to us.
Personal data provided by you is a requirement, necessary for the provision of services to you and is required to ensure that you can sign up with us for a membership or partnership. If you fail to provide the personal data requested, we reserve the right to reject your order or, when acknowledged, to not accept such an order and not provide any services to you (without being liable).
If you wish not to be tracked by Google Analytics, Google has developed a plugin for this too, that you can install in your browser. This plugin can be found via the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/.
COLLECTION OF NON-PERSONAL DATA
In addition to your personal data, CraniumConnect may also collect data which, in itself, will not identify you specifically. Or CraniumConnect may authorize third parties to do this on our behalf. This non-personal data is used to help us identify which services and/or events are considered most interesting by users and to improve the website and/or the content. Examples of non-personal data collected and used by CraniumConnect:
- If you purchase a service, attend an event or contact us via the contact form, in addition to personal data, CraniumConnect may also collect information about the service(s) you make use of, or the events you are attending;
- When you make use of our website, we may log your IP address (a number that your computer is identified with on the internet) for analyses, administrative, security and problem solving purposes and to study general traffic trends on the website. In the case of analyses, this IP address will be depersonalized;
- CraniumConnect makes use of cookies (small datasets that are stored on the computer) and other comparable technologies to collect information about your activities on the website to be able to analyze the functioning of the website, for marketing and security purposes. CraniumConnect may collect, for example, information about the website pages you visit, the search terms you use on the website and/or the services you purchase.
The information collected by cookies may be retrieved directly, by us or by a third party (service provider). This data is anonymous and not linked to any information that can identify you personally.
In certain jurisdictions cookies can only be set or used after approval. The fact that you use the website implies that you approve of such use. On the website, also an “opt-in” function will be displayed for the installation of the cookies.
Non-personal data may be collected or exposed for whatever purposes. In case non-personal data is linked to your personal data, such information will also be treated as personal data for the purposes of this privacy policy.
SHARING YOUR INFORMATION AND AGREEMENTS WITH THIRD PARTIES
From time to time, CraniumConnect may share your personal data, as collected from the website, with certain third parties that assist CraniumConnect in supplying services and/or events, in advert and/or marketing campaigns, website-analyses or enabling such third parties to collect personal data directly via the website. Such information may contain your name, address, email address and purchase details, making it possible for us to deliver the products and/or services, arrange contract-delivery, offer customer service or specify market communication. They have declared to treat such information confidentially and not use it to send adverts or other communications on behalf of anyone else than CraniumConnect.
CraniumConnect does not sell, let or lease its customer lists to third parties.
Co-Branding
CraniumConnect may enter into a so-called ‘co-branding’ relation with another company or another organization. Occasionally, CraniumConnect will communicate with users on behalf of that company and customers may be referred to a partner website to purchase a particular service, (be able to) attend an event or for more information about their services. In such cases both CraniumConnect and the partner may receive the personal data that you provide and you should consult the privacy policy of the ‘co-branding’ partner concerning the treatment of your personal data.
Links from the website to third party websites
The CraniumConnect website or websites may contain links to websites of third parties. CraniumConnect is not responsible for the content, the collection or the use of personal data by such websites. Consult the privacy policy of the website of the third party concerned to find out more about how your personal data is being used.
Links to the website from third party websites
CraniumConnect may use external (marketing) companies to publish adverts, content or links to or about the website, on third party websites. The (marketing) company or the website administrator of such a third party may collect information about people who visit the website on the basis of content, an advert or link. CraniumConnect is not responsible for the collection or the use of information by such (marketing) companies or third party websites. Consult the privacy policy of the party concerned to find out more about how your personal data is being used.
Merger or takeover; legal compliance
In case CraniumConnect merges with, or is taken over by another company, or in case the CraniumConnect assets are transferred, CraniumConnect may expose or transfer personal data and other information about the usage of the website, in connection with such a transaction. Be aware that courts may have the authority, in certain circumstances, to permit that personal data and other information about the usage of the website is shared with or transferred to third parties without your permission.
EXPOSURE of your PERSONAL DATA
CraniumConnect will not use or expose your personal data, except:
(1) as described in this privacy policy;
(2) after CraniumConnect has received your consent for specific use or exposure;
(3) if it is necessary to identify people, to contact them or to file a lawsuit against people or entities that may harm you, CraniumConnect and/or others;
(4) when CraniumConnect is forced to do so, in order to comply with the requirements of a court case or a request of the Administration (such as a court order, search warrant, subpoena, investigation request or statutory requirement).
SECURITY of the WEBSITE
CraniumConnect makes use of coding and authentication tools to ensure the security of the website you share with us. As soon as CraniumConnect receives your personal data via the website, we will do anything possible to protect its security (in our systems).
- We make use of, for example, a Cloud Based Website Application Firewall (Sucuri: https://sucuri.net/privacy) & a second (2nd) firewall (WordFence: https://www.wordfence.com/help/general-data-protection-regulation/) to safeguard against fraudulent traffic and to secure the website. Also a Secure Socket Layer (SSL) Certificate is used to secure the communication. Information about subscribers is stored on a separate server and processed by a third party (MailChimp https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/), CraniumConnect however, is the data controller.
Beware, 100% security cannot be guaranteed for any transmission via the internet. CraniumConnect strives to protect your personal data, but cannot guarantee the security of whatever information you send to or from the website, so this is done at your own risk. As a consequence, CraniumConnect declines any liability for theft, loss or interception of, or unauthorized access or damage to any data or communication. Unless this is the result of gross negligence on the part of CraniumConnect. By making use of the website, you acknowledge, understand and approve that such risks exist.
Remember that when you expose personally identifiable information or share personal sensitive details via public content on the website, this information may be collected and used by others. You are responsible for the personal data that you decide to share in the public content of the website.
THE LOCATION WHERE CRANIUMCONNECT STORES PERSONAL DATA
Your data, collected by CraniumConnect, may be transferred to and stored in a location outside the European Economic Area (‘EEA’), however, in compliance with the applicable legislation. By submitting your personal data you agree with the transmission, storage and processing thereof.
KEEPING your PERSONAL DATA
CraniumConnect will keep your personal data as long as necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy policy and to address claims and problems that may derive from your use of our services. While collecting or processing your personal data, CraniumConnect will only keep these as long as necessary for the purposes for which they are processed. When no longer required, your personal data will be completely removed or depersonalized, for example by merging it with other data, in order to use it in a non-identifiable manner for statistical analysis and company planning.
CraniumConnect may keep your personal data as long as you are subscribed to our services. You can unsubscribe from these services, after which the data will be stored for another 7 years at most, in order to comply with the statutory obligation to retain data (such as fiscal retention obligation).
CraniumConnect may remove your personal data in circumstances in which you did not unsubscribe, for example, when email cannot be delivered to your email address or if you do not open the emails sent to you.
YOUR RIGHTS
Although CraniumConnect is hoping that the information in this privacy policy has provided better understanding about the way in which we use your data and protect it, to provide better services, we understand if you choose not to receive information from CraniumConnect or our partners, after all.
As part of our focus on your privacy, CraniumConnect will always honor requests from customers who no longer wish to receive mail or email from CraniumConnect.
If you previously indicated that you want to receive promotion-mails from us, or currently receive promotion-mails from us in a different manner, you can unsubscribe by sending an email to info@craniumconnect.com. Within one month after unsubscribing you will no longer receive any marketing emails from CraniumConnect. You may receive some emails regarding your transactions, for example as a confirmation of the application for a subscription.
Since the processing of your personal data is within the scope of the GDPR, you, as a person, have rights that you can exercise with regard to the information about you that CraniumConnect may keep under certain circumstances. These rights are:
- Requesting Access to your personal data (better known as ‘Data Access Request’) and ask for certain data with regard to its processing;
- Request for rectification of your personal data;
- Request for erasure of your personal data;
- Request for limitation of the processing of your personal data;
- Objection against the processing of your personal data;
- Request for the transfer of your personal data to another party.
Whenever you feel that the data about you that CraniumConnect is processing, is inaccurate, you can ask for this data and have it corrected or removed. In addition, you have right to ask us to limit the processing of your personal data and to object to the processing of your personal data by CraniumConnect. You also have the right to receive and reuse personal data that CraniumConnect keeps of you, for your own purposes. In addition, you are entitled to view the information about you that CraniumConnect processes, by requesting us in accordance with the applicable legislation.
You can withdraw your permission for the processing of your personal data by CraniumConnect at any time.
CONTACT DATA
In case you have comments and/or questions about this privacy policy, or you feel that CraniumConnect did not comply with this privacy policy or some privacy law, please contact info@craniumconnect.com. If you wish to file a complaint about the way in which CraniumConnect has dealt with your personal data, you can contact us via info@craniumconnect.com. In addition, you can contact us via the contact form at the bottom of this page, with regard to the privacy policy. If our response is not satisfactory, you can contact the competent authority.
SUBSCRIBING TO our MAILING LIST
If you subscribe to our mailing list, we will send you emails with information about our latest news, offers, events and promotions.
This part of the privacy notice is intended to provide information about our organization and our practices with regard to the personal data of subscribers who wish to sign up to receive marketing emails from us.
Our email messages are not aimed at children. By subscribing, you confirm that you are sixteen (16) or older.
INTRODUCTION
When you subscribe to our mailing list, CraniumConnect will be the ‘data controller’ concerning your personal data. A data controller is responsible for determining the way in which and the purposes for which the personal data about you will be processed. We can process your personal data ourselves, or have it processed via third parties, acting as data processors on our behalf.
“Personal data” means: all information with regard to you, such as your name and contact data, but does not contain any data that you can no longer be identified with, such as depersonalized and collected data.
If you have any questions about this privacy notice, you can contact CraniumConnect via the details stated in the ‘Contact’ section below.
Which information about you may we process and for which purposes?
The General Data Protection Regulation of the EU (GDPR) specifies certain ‘legal foundations’, on the basis of which CraniumConnect may use your personal data if this processing falls within the GDPR. The personal data about you, collected by CraniumConnect and the purposes for which they will be used, as well as the legal basis for such processing will be set out in this section.
This website and services provided by CraniumConnect are not aimed at children below the age of sixteen (16). In case you are younger than sixteen (16) years old, you are not entitled to visit this website, nor to purchase services and you should not provide any personal data to us.
When you subscribe to receive emails from CraniumConnect (for example by ticking a box, clicking a link or filling in your email address in a destined and clearly indicated entry field and/or accepting the opt-in email), we will collect your email address and possibly your name. We will use your email address to send you emails with information about our latest events, promotions, news items, our services and other promotional material. To CraniumConnect your permission is the legal basis for the processing of your email address for this purpose. If you do not provide your email address, CraniumConnect cannot send you the emails you request.
CraniumConnect also collects information about the fact whether you open the emails sent by CraniumConnect, in order to evaluate the effectivity of our communication, as well as the effectivity of days and times of our communication. Our legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interest in evaluating the effectivity of our communication and/or our marketing strategy.
Other purposes
In addition to the abovementioned use, CraniumConnect may also process your information if legally required to do so, or if CraniumConnect reasonably believes that it is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with legal or regulatory procedures, a court order or other legal process.
CraniumConnect may also process personal data for proposes other than they were initially collected for, as far as permitted by applicable legislation with regard to data protection. Where this is the case, CraniumConnect will inform you about this further processing.
Whom does CraniumConnect share your data with?
CraniumConnect may share your personal data with a third party when this is legally required or in case CraniumConnect has another legitimate interest.
If you subscribe for email messages from CraniumConnect, your personal data will be collected by MailChimp and subsequently kept by MailChimp on a platform managed by MailChimp. MailChimp acts as a data processor on our behalf and processes your personal data in accordance with our instructions.
Otherwise, in general, CraniumConnect will not share your personal data with anyone, yet in limited circumstances, CraniumConnect may also share your personal data with:
- Professional advisors, including lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers, insofar this information is relevant to the execution of their services;
- Regulators and public authorities;
- IT service providers (such as suppliers of cloud services, IT consultants and ‘software-as-a-service’ providers);
- Each of our service providers, in case such information is relevant to the implementation of such services.
CraniumConnect may also share your personal data with third parties as part of a possible selling or restructuring of the company. Possibly CraniumConnect needs to share your personal data with a watchdog or otherwise, to comply with applicable legislation or a legal procedure, or if CraniumConnect reasonably believes that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with legal or regulatory procedures, a court order or other legal process.
Locations where your personal data may be processed.
When your personal data is collected, it is transferred to MailChimp (who processes the relevant data on our behalf) and kept within the U.S.A. MailChimp participates in the Framework Regulation EU-US, concerning the protection of privacy. The European Commission has declared that the Framework Regulation EU-US concerning the protection of privacy guarantees an adequate level of protection with regard to personal data.
If required by the GDPR, CraniumConnect will take adequate precautions (or CraniumConnect will require a processor to do so) in conformity with the standard contractual clauses, approved by the European Commission. If you wish to receive more information about this, you can send a request using the details in the ‘Contact’ section below.
The right to withdraw permission
As indicated above, CraniumConnect relies on your permission, as well as our legal basis, to send marketing messages to you by email. You have the right to withdraw your permission for this processing at any time.
To withdraw your permission, you can unsubscribe from CraniumConnect marketing communication in the following ways:
- Click the link ‘unsubscribe’ in the footer of any email message sent to you by CraniumConnect;
- Contact CraniumConnect via the contact form below or via info@craniumconnect.com.
As soon as CraniumConnect has received the notification that you have withdrawn your permission and has processed it (within a one (1) month period), CraniumConnect will no longer process your information for the purpose that you initially gave permission for, unless CraniumConnect now has an alternative legal basis to do so.
How long will CraniumConnect keep your data?
When CraniumConnect collects or processes your personal data, CraniumConnect will keep this data for as long as necessary for the purposes for which it was processed. When no longer required, your personal data will be completely removed or depersonalized, for example by merging it with other data, so that it can be used in a non-identifiable way, for statistical analysis and company planning.
CraniumConnect may keep your personal data as long as you are subscribed to our mailing list. You can unsubscribe from marketing communication at any time, as explained above.
CraniumConnect may also remove your personal data in circumstances in which you have not unsubscribed, for example if our emails cannot be delivered to your email address or if you do not open the emails you receive.
Accuracy of information
It is important that the personal data about you, kept by CraniumConnect is accurate and up to date. Please inform us if your personal data, kept by CraniumConnect, changes during your relationship with CraniumConnect.
Your rights with regard to your data
As the processing of your personal data falls within the scope of the GDPR, you, as a person have rights that you can exercise, with regard to the information about you that CraniumConnect may keep under certain circumstances. These rights are:
- Requesting Access to your personal data (better known as ‘Data Access Request’) and ask for certain data with regard to its processing;
- Request for rectification of your personal data;
- Request for erasure of your personal data;
- Request for limitation of the processing of your personal data;
- Objection against the processing of your personal data;
- Request for the transfer of your personal data to another party.
If you wish to exercise one (1) of these rights, you can contact CraniumConnect via the contact form below or via info@craniumconnect.com.
You also have the right to file a complaint at any time, to the data protection supervisory authority.
Fees
Normally you won’t have to pay any fees for accessing your personal data (or to exercise other rights). However, CraniumConnect may charge a reasonable fee if your request for access is obviously unjustified or disproportionate. In such circumstances CraniumConnect may also refuse to honor the request.
What we need from you
Possibly CraniumConnect needs to ask for specific information from you in order to help us to confirm your identity and to guarantee your right to access the data (or to exercise your other rights). This is another suitable safety measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to people who are not entitled to it.
Changes in this privacy notice and supplemental privacy notices
CraniumConnect may adjust this privacy notice, as well as the privacy policy, at any time. Furthermore, CraniumConnect may provide additional privacy notices containing information about our privacy practices for other scenarios.
If CraniumConnect plans to process your personal data for a purpose other than mentioned above, CraniumConnect will provide you with additional information about that purpose.
10. Contact
This privacy notice was written with conciseness and clarity in mind and is not intended as a complete report of all aspects of our collection and use of personal data. If you require more information, do not hesitate to contact us by means of the following contact data: info@craniumconnect.com.
You can also contact CraniumConnect by phone.
Cookie policy
When you visit our website, we will collect and process information about the way you use our websites (e.g. the pages you visit and the way you navigate across our website), for this reason we make use of cookies and other comparable technologies. This helps us to offer you a proper user experience when visiting our website and enables us to optimize our website.
A cookie is a small file consisting of letters and figures that is stored on a user’s device.
This cookie policy describes the cookies that are used on our website, as well as what they are used for.
Cookies can be removed at any time by checking your browser settings. If you adjust your browser settings such that all cookies (including essential cookies) are rejected, blocked or that some cookies are blocked, you may no longer have access to all or some of the website functions.
Please find below an overview of the types of cookies used by CraniumConnect.
We make use of the following cookies:
Category: Statistics (6)
Statistic cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites, by collecting and reporting information anonymously.
Cookie Name |
Provider |
Type |
Expiry |
Purpose |
| @@History/@@scroll|# | Twitter.com | HTML | Persistent | Shows scroll history |
| @@History/@@scroll|# | Youtube.com | HTML | Persistent | Shows scroll history |
| _ga | Craniumconnect.com | HTTP | 2 years | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. |
| _gali | Craniumconnect.com | HTTP | Session | In most cases, this cookie is used to determine unique visitors and it is updated with each page view. Additionally, this cookie is provided with a unique ID that Google Analytics uses to ensure both the validity and accessibility or the cookie as an extra security measure. |
| _gat | Craniumconnect.com | HTTP | Session | Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate. |
| _gid | Craniumconnect.com | HTTP | Session | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. |
Category: Marketing (4)
Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third-party advertisers.
Cookie Name |
Provider |
Type |
Expiry |
Purpose |
| GPS | Youtube.com | HTTP | Session | Registers a unique ID on mobile devices to enable tracking based on geographical GPS location. |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Youtube.com | HTTP | 179 days | Tries to estimate the users’ bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos. |
| YSC | Youtube.com | HTTP | Session | Tries to estimate the users’ bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos. |
| _AVESTA_ENVIRONMENT | Mailchimp.com | HTTP | Session | Manages list placement when signing up to list. |
