General

VDL Groep welcomes you to this website and appreciates your interest in our company and our products and services. VDL Groep places great importance on your privacy. Therefore, we find it essential to inform you 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 outlined in this privacy policy what we do with this data.

Types of personal data

The personal data processed by VDL through the website often include your contact details such as a name and email address, a search query you enter, or a question you pose in the contact form. Additionally, you can use the functions ‘Vacancies, Working at VDL, Internship & Training, and Contact’ to search for job openings, and these searches may also be stored and linked to, for example, your IP address, as well as the information uploaded or entered by a website visitor. Of course, we also process uploaded CVs and cover 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 statement.

We would like to point out that even if you access the website as a business customer, we consider these data as (indirect) personal data and therefore protect your privacy.

Purpose of data processing

Data you provide via the website to VDL Groep is processed by us for general business purposes such as providing information about certain products and services. With the stored personal data, we can contact you.
Your data may also be used for sending digital newsletters, provided that you have given your explicit consent for this. We consider this form of contact to be VDL’s legitimate interest.

Additionally, the website is also intended as an application channel, and job vacancies are displayed through the website. These processing activities are also considered VDL’s legitimate interests, as well as necessary for the performance of (the preparation of) an employment contract.

Receiving parties

Processing activities include, in any case, the sending of personal data within VDL Group. This website serves as a central point, and personal data is forwarded to the respective entity you wish to contact as a business customer or applicant. Of course, these personal data are only shared if there is a necessary reason for this and only with recipients for whom the personal data are relevant. It may happen that your data is shared with foreign VDL entities.

If VDL believes that you are using the website unlawfully, this is a reason to send your personal data to a (legal) third party recipient.

On our website, there are several buttons 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 further store your personal data. VDL has no influence on, and accepts no responsibility for, the use of social media buttons on the VDL website.

Retention period

VDL Groep does not store 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 the context of an application or prior to an application, VDL will not keep this information longer than 4 weeks after the relevant procedure has closed. If VDL has asked for and obtained your consent, VDL may retain these application data for a maximum of one year.

Your rights

Because we process your personal data, you have the right to:

• Submit a request to access your personal data;
• Submit a request to correct or delete certain data if the personal data are irrelevant or incorrect;
• Submit a request to restrict and oppose the processing of personal data;
• Submit a request for data portability;
• Withdraw your consent.

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 and try to comply with your request as much as possible. If you wish to withdraw your consent for any reason, we are obliged to respond accordingly.

All personal data you leave on this website are provided voluntarily. However, it goes without saying that we are unable to contact you, provide information, or carry out a recruitment process if we do not have the correct personal data.

Changes and notifications about your privacy

If you have any questions or comments about how we handle your personal data, please contact us at AVG@vdl.nl. We will do our utmost to assist you. If you wish to respond to this privacy policy or believe that VDL Group is not acting in accordance with this privacy policy, we ask you to contact VDL Group via AVG@vdl.nl. If we cannot resolve the issue, you always have the option to report a concern to the Dutch Data Protection Authority.

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 decides to change this privacy policy, we will notify you on this page.

Cookies

To optimize the service, limited amounts of so-called ‘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 track visitors' interaction with the website. This is done using the Google Analytics program, a web analysis service from Google Inc.  

You can regulate the placement of cookies via your browser settings. Most browsers can be configured to refuse cookies or to notify you when you receive a cookie. For instructions regarding adjusting your browser settings, please refer to your browser's provider. Managing cookies through your browser does not affect your unlimited use of the website, but it may impact the use of other websites.