General

VDL Group welcomes you to this website and appreciates your interest in our company and our products and services. VDL Group places great importance on your privacy. Therefore, we believe it is important to inform you how we handle your personal data. This privacy policy applies to all personal data that visitors to the VDL Group B.V. website or its subsidiaries leave behind. For transparency, we have described in this privacy policy what we do with this data.

Types of personal data

The personal data processed by VDL via the website often includes your contact information such as a name and email address, a search query you enter, or a question you ask in the online form. Additionally, through the functions ‘Vacancies, Working at VDL, Internship & training, and Contact,’ you can search for job openings, and these search queries may also be stored and linked to, for example, your IP address, as well as the information a website visitor uploads or fills out on the website. Of course, we also process uploaded resumes and cover letters.

Additionally, information may 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 visit the website as a business customer, we consider this data as (indirect) personal data and therefore protect your privacy.

Purpose of processing personal data

Information you provide through 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 then 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 also serves as a recruitment channel, and job vacancies are also displayed through the website. These processing activities are also considered VDL's legitimate interest, as well as necessary for the exercise of (the preparation of) an employment contract.

Receiving parties

The processing activities include, at a minimum, the transmission of personal data within VDL Group. This website serves as a central point, and personal data are transmitted to the relevant 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 it and only with recipients for whom the data are relevant. It may happen that your data are shared with foreign VDL entities.

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

On our website, there are several places where buttons are found 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 keep your data longer than absolutely 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 retain this information longer than 4 weeks after the closure of the relevant procedure. If VDL has requested and obtained your consent, VDL may retain these application data for a maximum of two years.

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 for restriction and objection to the processing of personal data;
• Request 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 will accommodate your request as much as possible. If you wish to withdraw your consent for any reason, we are obliged to comply.

All personal data you provide on this website are given voluntarily. However, it goes without saying that we are unable to contact you, provide information, and carry out a job application procedure if we do not have the correct personal data.

Changes and notifications about your privacy

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 you believe VDL Group is not acting in accordance with this privacy policy, we ask you to contact VDL Group via AVG@vdl.nl. If we are unable to resolve the issue, you always have the option to submit a complaint to the Dutch Data Protection Authority.

This privacy policy was last updated on May 25, 2018, and applies to VDL Groep B.V., (PO Box 8811, 5605 LV Eindhoven, Netherlands). If VDL chooses to modify this privacy policy, we will inform you on this page.

Cookies

To optimize the service, a limited number 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' interactions with the website. This is done using the program Google Analytics, a web analytics service from Google Inc.

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

Cookies, or similar techniques, that we use

VDL Group uses functional and analytical cookies. A cookie is a small text file that is stored in your browser during your first visit to this website. This allows your device to be recognized during a visit and subsequent visits.  

Analytical cookies

Cookie name: ga / gat / gid / ga_D50L55P2D5
Purpose: With these cookies from Google Analytics, we measure how the website is used and where visitors have come from. This information is used to optimize the website.
We have not permitted Google to use the obtained information for other purposes, such as other Google services. The information is accessible to Google and will be shared with third parties if Google is legally obliged to do so. We have no influence over this.
Storage period: ga: 26 months / gat and gid: 1 day / ga_D50L55P2D5: 10 minutes

During your first visit to our website, we already informed you about these cookies and asked for your consent to place them. You can opt out of cookies by configuring your internet browser to no longer store cookies. Additionally, you can also delete all previously stored information through your browser settings.