Coöperatie Koninklijke Cosun U.A., including its group companies (“Cosun”), considers the privacy and data protection of customers and visitors accessing information via the website to be of great importance. Therefore, Cosun has taken the necessary organizational and technical protective measures to safeguard your personal data and complies with the requirements of data protection legislation.
All data collected by Cosun to provide you with our products or services is processed in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), which has been in effect across the EU since May 25, 2018.
Through this Privacy Policy, we want to ensure that you are clear about which personal data Cosun processes, and what happens to that data. This Privacy Policy applies to all processing of your personal data by or on behalf of Cosun and informs you about our privacy practices as well as the technical and organizational security measures related to the personal data we may collect when you use the Cosun websites or during other interactions with Cosun. We may occasionally adjust this Privacy Policy. Any changes will be published on this website, so please check it regularly for the latest version of our Privacy Policy.
What personal data do we collect?
While using the Cosun websites, we may collect various types of personal data about you. This data may be provided by you, for example, when you subscribe to our messaging service, respond to a job vacancy on the website, or contact us for other reasons. Data generated by your use of the website may also be collected automatically. The personal data we may collect includes: your name, title, gender, date of birth, nationality, country of residence, contact details (such as your address, (mobile) phone number, email address, fax number, administrative and/or financial details, interests or preferences you may provide, business details (such as your position, employer, or client, or contract details), and information about your visit to the website (such as IP address, provider, browser type, pages visited on the website, and time of visit). We may also obtain certain personal data from you using cookies. Cookies are text files that the browser 'remembers' and stores on your computer at the request of the website. The cookie, acting as a memory aid, allows the website to remember certain information so that it does not need to be entered again.
Why do we collect your personal data?
We primarily collect your personal data for the normal operations of Cosun. As a cooperative, we maintain contact with our members and purchase their products. Additionally, we may use your personal data for the sale of our products and for the execution of our services, including the financial processing thereof. We may also use your data to inform you and maintain our relationship with you. Your data is also used for internal visit analyses to further optimize the website. Your personal data may also be required for our internal administration, HR purposes, accounting checks, and to comply with legal obligations. Your personal data will only be used for the aforementioned and described purposes, or for purposes that are compatible with them. Cosun collects your personal data either based on your consent, because the data is necessary for entering into an agreement, because Cosun has a legitimate interest as described in this Privacy Policy, or because Cosun is legally required to do so.
Who has access to your personal data?
Your data is only used to the extent necessary and only by employees or other personnel designated by Cosun for or on behalf of Cosun. This also includes staff of all group companies or external parties if these parties process data on behalf of Cosun for purposes defined by Cosun. Cosun requires these external parties to implement the same strict security measures that Cosun has implemented to protect your personal data. In the event of the transfer of your personal data outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”), the legal requirements for such data transfers will be met. Except for providing access to the parties mentioned above, Cosun will not provide your personal data to third parties unless it is necessary to comply with legal obligations.
How do we protect your personal data?
Cosun continuously takes appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect your personal data from unlawful access, loss, deletion, disclosure, and misuse, and to maintain the accuracy and integrity of your personal data. These measures are regularly evaluated and updated as necessary.
How long do we retain your personal data?
Cosun retains your personal data only as long as necessary for the purposes mentioned in this Privacy Policy. If Cosun processes personal data based on your consent, you can withdraw that consent at any time. For example, personal data you provide to subscribe to our messaging service will be deleted once you unsubscribe. Data provided to us for the purpose of obtaining information from us (e.g., a request for our annual report or other material) will be used once to fulfill your request. For statistical purposes, Cosun may retain your personal data longer than strictly necessary, but in such cases, Cosun will take additional technical and organizational measures to ensure the principle of minimal data processing.
How can you exercise your rights?
If you have questions about the processing of your personal data by Cosun or if you wish to view, delete, correct, modify, object to the processing, or invoke your right to restriction regarding the personal data processed by Cosun, you can contact Cosun using the contact details below. Cosun will generally respond to your request within one month.
If you have subscribed to our messaging service but no longer wish to receive emails from us, you can unsubscribe via the link in the relevant email.
If you have a complaint about the processing of personal data by or on behalf of Cosun, you can file a complaint with the Dutch Data Protection Authority.
Links to other websites
Our website contains links to both group company websites and non-Cosun websites. Websites of group companies may have other, specific privacy conditions. In addition, external non-Cosun websites may have different privacy policies. It is your responsibility to be aware of and check these policies before providing information to these websites. Cosun is not responsible for the privacy policies on external websites.
Changes and Contact
If Cosun makes changes to the privacy and information protection policy, you should be informed about this. Any changes will be made known on this page. If we update this policy, we will highlight these changes via hyperlinks.
Contact: Coöperatie Koninklijke Cosun U.A., P.O. Box 3411, 4800 MG Breda, Email: GDPR@cosun.com
Version: April 2018