13 Celsiusstraat 6003 DG Weert Netherlands
VDL Groep welcomes you to this website and appreciates your interest in our company and our products and services. VDL Groep attaches great importance to your privacy. Therefore, we consider it important to inform you about how we handle your personal data. This privacy policy applies to all personal data that visitors to the VDL Groep B.V. website or its subsidiaries leave behind. For transparency, we have described in this privacy policy what we do with this data.
The personal data processed by VDL via the website often include your contact details such as a name and email address, a search query you enter, or a question you ask in the contact form. Additionally, through the functions ‘Vacancies, Working at VDL, Internships & Education, and Contact,’ you can search for vacancies, and these searches can also be stored and linked to, for example, your IP address, as well as the information uploaded or filled in by a website visitor on the website. Of course, we also process uploaded CVs and motivation letters.
Additionally, information can be automatically stored about you as a visitor to this website, such as your IP address and your clicking behavior. We often retrieve this information directly from your visit using so-called cookies. You can find more information about this in the cookie policy.
We would like to inform you that even if you visit the website as a business customer, we consider this data to be (indirect) personal data and therefore we protect your privacy.
Information you provide to VDL Groep via the website is processed by us for general business purposes such as providing information about certain products and services. With the stored personal data, we can then contact you.
Your data may also be used for sending digital newsletters, provided you have given your explicit consent for this. We regard this form of contact as VDL's legitimate interest.
In addition, the website is also intended as an application channel, and vacancies are also displayed through the website. These processing activities are also considered VDL's legitimate interests, as well as necessary for the exercise of (the preparation of) an employment contract.
Processing activities include at least the sending of personal data within VDL Groep. This website serves as a central hub, and personal data is forwarded to the relevant entity that you wish to contact as a business customer or applicant. Of course, this personal data is only shared if there is a necessary reason for doing so and only with recipients for whom the personal data is relevant. There may be instances where your data is shared with foreign VDL entities.
If VDL considers that you are using the website unlawfully, this may be a reason to forward your personal data to a (legal) third party recipient.
On our website, you will find buttons in several places that provide access to social media channels. If you use these social media buttons, the privacy statement of the respective social media applies, and they will store your personal data accordingly. VDL has no influence over, and takes no responsibility for, the use of social media buttons on the VDL website.
VDL Groep does not retain your data longer than strictly necessary. For the purposes described above, a retention period of 6 months is reasonable. Additionally, VDL may retain anonymized data for statistical and research purposes. For personal data received in connection with a job application or the process leading up to it, VDL will not keep this information longer than 4 weeks after the closure of the respective procedure. If VDL has requested and obtained your consent, VDL may retain these application details for up to one year.
Because we process your personal data, you have the right to:
If you wish to make use of (any of) these options, you can contact: AVG@vdl.nl. For all requests and your rights, VDL will weigh interests accordingly and accommodate your request as much as possible. If for any reason you wish to withdraw your consent, we are obliged to comply.
All personal data you leave on this website is provided voluntarily. However, it goes without saying that we are unable to contact you, provide information, or conduct an application process if we do not have the correct personal data.
If you have any questions or comments about our processing of your personal data, we kindly ask you to contact us via AVG@vdl.nl. We will do our utmost to assist you. If you wish to respond to this privacy policy or if VDL Groep is not acting in accordance with this privacy policy in your opinion, we ask you to get in touch with VDL Groep via AVG@vdl.nl. If we cannot resolve the issue, you always have the option to file a complaint with the Authority for Personal Data.
This privacy policy was last amended on 25 May 2018 and applies to VDL Groep B.V., (Postbus 8811, 5605 LV Eindhoven, Netherlands). If VDL chooses to change this privacy policy, we will make it known on this page.
To optimize the service, limited "cookies" are placed on your computer via the website. These are small data files stored on your computer. The cookies are used, among other things, to keep track of visitors' interactions with the website. This uses the program Google Analytics, a web analysis service from Google Inc.
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