Who we are
Our website address is: https://community.insurtechamsterdam.com.
Your privacy is very important to Stichting Insurtech Amsterdam. We provide various services through our website which in some cases will include the processing of sensitive information, such as personal data.
We believe that it is of the utmost importance that personal data is handled with care. We always will comply with the rules set out in the privacy legislation along with the changes required by the introduction of the new GDPR-legislation.
Use of personal data
When you use our services, you may provide certain information to us, that is deemed to be personal data. Depending on the services you require via our website, we may process the following personal data:
This means that we will:
Clearly specify the purposes for which we use personal data;
Purposes
We process the above data for one or more of the following purposes:
Transmission to third parties | We will not give your personal data to other companies or institutions, except when this it is necessary for providing our services or if we are legally obliged to do so. For example, it is possible that official organisations may request information from us during any fraud investigations.
Cookie policy
What are cookies? | Cookies are small text files that are sent together with the pages of this website and stored by your browser on the hard drive of your computer. When you visit the website again, the information contained in the stored cookie can be send back to our servers.
How do we use cookies? | We use cookies to record your use of the website, for example, which pages you visit, how often and for how long. Cookies are also used to remember your data if you have created a login. You can disable the use of cookies, however if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of the website.
We combine your personal data that comes from different sources to give you a better user experience. In addition, we also combine this information with the data that you have left on our website.
By combining your data, we can display personalised offers and personalised content that match your interests and purchase history on the various websites. In this way, we can provide better and more targeted offers.
Different types of cookies | We distinguish between functional and non-functional cookies. Functional cookies are necessary for the website to work properly. For example, they ensure that you can stay logged in to the website if you want this. In addition to functional cookies, Stichting Insurtech Amsterdam also uses non-functional cookies. These are cookies that are not necessary for the proper functioning of the website. The different cookies all have different purposes but all enable us to improve our services. For example, we use analytical cookies to offer you an optimal user experience. We receive information about which parts of the website are popular and where we can improve our website. In addition, we use tracking cookies to make you personalised offers.
Online privacy
We think it is important that you have control over your online privacy. That is why we would like to inform you about which cookies we use and for what purposes. We use the following types of cookies:
Technical cookies, these ensure that the website is working properly;
Statistics cookies, these gather anonymous data about the use of our website;
Preferences cookies, these help to remember your preferences, such as language settings;
Marketing cookies, these keep track of your surfing behaviour.
We use cookies from:
Protection and storage | We take appropriate security measures to limit misuse of and unauthorised access to your personal information. In doing this we ensure that only authorised people have access to your data. This access is protected and our security measures are checked regularly.
We do not store any data longer than is necessary. This means that we only store data as long as is necessary to provide the service you have requested. Exceptions are those kinds of data we need to store longer because the law requires us to do so.
Changes to this privacy statement | We may change this privacy statement from time to time. Changes will be published on our website. It is therefore advisable to consult this privacy statement regularly, so that you are aware of these changes.
Access to and correction of your data | If you have any questions or would like to know what personal data we have stored, please contact us. Our contact details are as below.
In addition, you have the following rights:
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.
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.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
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.
Who we share your data with
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Contact details
Stichting Insurtech Amsterdam
Piet Smitkade 194
3077 MJ Rotterdam
info@insurtechamsterdam.com