Privacy Statement & Cookie Policy

BRIKKS B.V., with its registered office and principal place of business at Apollolaan 151, 1077 AR in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, respects your privacy and therefore considers it extremely important that your personal data is processed carefully and appropriately. When processing your personal data, BRIKKS B.V. complies with applicable data protection laws and regulations, including the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and related laws and regulations.

 

This privacy statement describes how we handle your personal information. We encourage you to read this privacy statement carefully.

 

Use of personal information

When you use our services as a client, contractor, (potential) customer, supplier, tenant or landlord of real estate or in any other relationship with BRIKKS B.V., or when you visit our website, we collect personal data from you. BRIKKS B.V. will not use this personal information for any purpose other than that for which it was collected unless you have given your express prior consent.

 

Use of cookies

The BRIKKS B.V. website uses cookies to collect information and improve our service. A cookie is a simple small file that is sent along with pages from this website and is stored by your browser on your computer’s hard drive. For example, it saves you having to enter your login details the next time you visit, and we can combine different web page requests and analyse user behaviour, among other things. You can refuse the use of these cookies, but this will reduce the functionality and user-friendliness of the website.

 

For more general information about cookies, please see ‘All About Cookies’.

 

What information do we collect?

When you use the services of BRIKKS B.V., we collect the following personal data from you:

  • Contact details (name and address, telephone number, e-mail address)
  • identity details (when entering into an agreement)
  • payment details
  • browsing behaviour on our website
  • IP address.

We also receive personal information from third parties or request it ourselves from third parties:

  • Tenant information provided by landlords.
  • Data obtained from the Chamber of Commerce’s register of companies and the Land Registry.

In a few cases we also collect specific personal data:

  • BRIKKS B.V. only processes special data if this is necessary to verify your identity in accordance with the Wwft (“Wet ter voorkoming van witwassen en financieren van terrorisme”) (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (Prevention) Act).

 

Why do we collect and use this information?

We generally process personal information collected for the following purposes:

  • To perform the contract, we have with you.
  • For administrative purposes.
  • To verify your identity.
  • To comply with legal obligations under the Wwft.
  • To establish and maintain contacts and relationships with customers, contractors, (potential) customers, suppliers, tenants, or landlords.
  • For marketing and business purposes.
  • to optimise and secure our website.

 

What is our legal basis for processing?

To process your personal data, BRIKKS B.V. needs a legal basis. We process your personal data based on one or more of the following legal bases:

  • For the performance of the agreement – We use your personal data to take the necessary steps to enter and perform the agreement we have entered with you.
  • A legitimate interest of BRIKKS B.V., unless the interests of the data subject or third party outweigh the legitimate interest of BRIKKS B.V. – For example, to establish and maintain contacts and relationships with customers, contractors, (potential) customers, suppliers, tenants, or landlords. Also to improve our products and services, to protect our business interests, to promote IT management and to prevent and combat fraud.
  • Consent given by you – With your prior consent, we are entitled to use your personal information for certain marketing purposes. You may withdraw your consent at any time.
  • Legal obligation – In certain cases, we are required by law to process personal data. For example, providing data for the implementation of tax law or collecting identity data to comply with the Wwft.

 

How do we protect your personal information?

We take appropriate technical and organisational measures on an ongoing basis to ensure that the personal information we collect is adequately protected from unauthorised use. These measures include the following:

  • Systems that process personal information are password-protected and only authorised individuals have access to the systems. The basic principle is that only those persons who need access to the systems to perform their work are granted access to these systems.
  • BRIKKS B.V. uses modern techniques to secure the personal data collected.
  • The electronic transmission of personal data is always encrypted via a secure connection.
  • When personal data is transferred to third parties, BRIKKS B.V. enters into processing agreements and/or agreements with co-responsible parties, which describe how the security of the personal data provided is to be handled.
  • All employees of BRIKKS B.V. receive annual training in the protection of the personal data collected.

 

How long do we keep your personal details?

We will never keep your personal data longer than is necessary for the purpose for which we collected the personal data, for the performance of our obligations to you under an agreement with you, to comply with legal retention periods, or in the event of a dispute with another party.

 

Once the retention period has expired, BRIKKS B.V. will destroy the collected data in an appropriate manner.

 

Transfer of personal data to third parties within or outside the EEA

BRIKKS B.V. may engage third parties, such as contractors/suppliers, to process personal data collected by BRIKKS B.V. on our behalf as processors. In such cases, we remain responsible for the processing of this personal data and enter into processor agreements with these third parties. It is also possible that responsibility for the processing of personal data lies with a third party, in which case a third party is also responsible. In this case, agreements will be entered into with the co-responsible parties.

 

It may be necessary for BRIKKS B.V. to transfer your personal data to customers, contractors, (potential) customers, suppliers, tenants or landlords of real estate or other relationships outside the European Economic Area (‘EEA’). In this case, BRIKKS B.V. will only transfer your data to countries outside the EEA if the European Commission has decided that the country in question provides an adequate level of protection.

 

What are your rights?

You have several rights to control your personal data. BRIKKS B.V. respects these rights, which are described below. You can exercise your rights by sending an e-mail to info@brikks.nl. We will respond to your request within 4 weeks. Before we can comply with your request, we are obliged to verify your identity.

Right of access

You have the right to obtain a copy of the personal data we hold about you, the purposes for which we hold it and the retention periods we apply. You may submit a request for access to us at any time.

Right of erasure

You have the right at any time to withdraw your consent to the processing of your personal data or to object to the use of your personal data. If you withdraw your consent, BRIKKS B.V. will stop processing your personal data immediately upon receipt of your request.

Right to rectification and integration

It is important that the personal data we process about you is accurate and up to date. To ensure this, you have the right at any time to ask us to supplement, correct or delete your personal data. In this case, BRIKKS B.V. is obliged to take all reasonable measures to correct or supplement your personal data.

Right to data portability

You have the right to transfer the personal data we have collected from you to another party. You can request this personal data from us, after which you are free to transfer this data to third parties.

Right to restrict processing

You have the right to restrict the processing of your personal data if the data BRIKKS B.V. processes about you are incorrect, if the processing is unlawful, if the data is no longer needed or if you object to the use of your personal data.

Right to object

You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes. In this case, BRIKKS B.V. will immediately stop processing your personal data for this purpose. You also have the right to object to the processing by BRIKKS B.V. based on ‘legitimate interest’. In this case, BRIKKS B.V. must prove that the legitimate grounds for its processing outweigh your rights and freedoms.

Right to lodge a complaint with the Dutch Data Protection Authority

BRIKKS B.V. is committed to always protecting your privacy. However, if you have any complaints about the way BRIKKS B.V. handles your privacy, you can first contact BRIKKS B.V. at info@brikks.nl. If this does not lead to the desired result, you can always contact the Personal Data Protection Authority (‘AP’). The contact details of the AP can be found on its website: www.autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl.

 

Suspected data breach

If you suspect a data breach, please contact us immediately at info@brikks.nl. We will investigate the breach and, if necessary, notify the AP immediately.

 

Other matters

BRIKKS B.V. reserves the right to amend or supplement this privacy statement at any time. Changes will be published on this website (www.brikks.nl). We therefore advise you to consult this Privacy Statement regularly.

 

This Privacy Statement & Cookie Policy is valid from 1 April 2024 and was last amended on 1 April 2024.