privacy policy

Privacy declaration

25-07-2023

In this privacy statement we explain what www.dezwartehond.nl does with information that we learn about you. If you have any questions, or want to know exactly what we keep track of you, please contact De Zwarte Hond.

Newsletter
You can subscribe to our newsletter via this site. For this we use your e-mail address, IP address and possibly name and address details. Your e-mail address will only be added to the list of subscribers with your permission. You can cancel this subscription at any time, each newsletter contains an unsubscribe link. This data is kept for up to three months after you cancel the subscription. We use Mailchimp for sending newsletters.

Provision to other companies or institutions
We will not, under any circumstances, provide your personal data to other companies or institutions, except if this is necessary for the functioning of our site or if we are legally obliged to do so.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Cookies
Cookies are small files where we can store information. This site uses functional and analytical cookies. Functional cookies are necessary for the functioning of the site. Analytical cookies provide us with information about the use of the site.

Analytical Cookies
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service offered by Google. Google Analytics uses cookies to help us analyze how visitors use the site. The information generated by cookies about your use of the website is transferred anonymously to Google’s servers. We use this information about your website activities to permanently analyze and improve the user experience of our services.

You can disable the placing of cookies via your browser, but it is possible that certain functionalities of this site no longer work properly.

Hotjar
We use Hotjar in order to better understand our users’ needs and to optimize this service and experience. Hotjar is a technology service that helps us better understand our users’ experience (e.g. how much time they spend on which pages, which links they choose to click, what users do and don’t like, etc.) and this enables us to build and maintain our service with user feedback. Hotjar uses cookies and other technologies to collect data on our users’ behavior and their devices. This includes a device’s IP address (processed during your session and stored in a de-identified form), device screen size, device type (unique device identifiers), browser information, geographic location (country only), and the preferred language used to display our website. Hotjar stores this information on our behalf in a pseudonymized user profile. Hotjar is contractually forbidden to sell any of the data collected on our behalf. 

For further details, please see the ‘about Hotjar’ section of Hotjar’s support site.

Security
Security of personal data is of great importance to us. To protect your privacy, we take the following measures:

– Access to personal data is protected with a username and password
– We use secured connections (Secure Sockets Layer or SSL) that protects all information between you and our website when you enter personal data.

Changes to this privacy statement
When our website changes, we may also have to change the privacy statement. Therefore, always check the date and check regularly for new versions. We will do our best to announce changes separately.

Access, change and delete your data
If you have questions or want to know what personal information we have about you, you can contact us. See the contact details below.

You have the following rights:
– get an explanation of what personal data we have and what we do with it
– insight into the exact personal data we have
– to have errors corrected
– the removal of outdated personal data
– withdrawal of permission
– object to a specific use

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

To file a complaint
If you feel that we are not helping you in the right way, you have the right to file a complaint with the supervisory authority, the Dutch Data Protection Authority.

Contact details
info@dezwartehond.nl