Privacy Policy
NLFORGOLD is accountable for the NLFORGOLD’s policies and practices, with respect to the management of personal information, and is the individual to whom complaints and inquires can be forwarded. This document declares the undertakings by NLFORGOLD in relation to its handling of Your Data.
Data Collection
NLFORGOLD undertakes to collect Your Data by means that are:
fair;
legal; and
transparent.
If you visit NLFORGOLD’s web-site, your web-browser automatically discloses, and NLFORGOLD’s web-server automatically logs, the following information: the date and time, the IP address from which you issued the request, the type of browser and operating system you are using, the URL of any page that referred you to the page, the URL you requested, and whether your request was successful. This data may or may not be sufficient to identify you.
Any additional data that you provide, e.g. in a web-form, may also be logged. This data may or may not be sufficient to identify you.
Any additional data that your web-browser automatically provides may also be logged. This will be the case, for example, if your browser has previously been requested to store data on your computer in ‘cookies’ and submits them each time you request a web-page within a particular domain (such as NLFORGOLD.nl.com). This data may or may not be sufficient to identify you.
If you disclose personal data to NLFORGOLD in conjunction with an identifier such as your name or your credit-card details, NLFORGOLD will collect Your Data. Moreover, any data that becomes available to NLFORGOLD through any of the means described in the preceding paragraphs may be able to be associated with that identifier, and hence become Your Data.
Subject to the qualifications immediately below, NLFORGOLD undertakes to collect Your Data from you and not from other parties. This undertaking is qualified as follows:
where NLFORGOLD reasonably considers that the protection of its financial interests requires that it gather YourData from other sources, or from additional sources. This applies in particular where NLFORGOLD has a lending exposure to you, and seeks information about your creditworthiness; where NLFORGOLD reasonably considers that its capability to deliver quality services to you will be materially enhanced by gathering YourData from other sources. This applies in particular to consumer profile data.
Where NLFORGOLD collects Your Data from sources other than you, it undertakes:
to do so only by legal means;
to do so only with your Consent; and
to declare to you what sources it uses, and under what circumstances.
NLFORGOLD undertakes to declare the purpose of collection in a manner which is clear and meaningful, and to avoid vague, highly inclusive statements such as ‘to support our operations’.
Data Security
NLFORGOLD undertakes to store Your Data in a manner that ensures security against unauthorised access, alteration or deletion, at a level commensurate with its sensitivity.
NLFORGOLD undertakes to store Your Data only in jurisdictions where data protections are at least equivalent to those required under the OECD Guidelines.
NLFORGOLD undertakes to transmit Your Data in a manner that ensures security against unauthorised access, alteration or deletion, at a level commensurate with its sensitivity.
NLFORGOLD undertakes to implement appropriate measures to ensure security of Your Data against inappropriate behaviour by NLFORGOLD’s staff-members and contractors. These include:
training for staff in relation to privacy;
access control, to limit access to Your Data to those staff and contractors who have legitimate reasons to access it;
particularly in the case of sensitive data, audit trails of accesses, including the identities of staff and contractors accessing the data;
reminders to staff and contractors from time to time about the importance of data privacy, and the consequences of inappropriate behaviour;
declaration of appropriately strong sanctions that are to be applied in the event of inappropriate behaviour
clear communication of policies and sanctions; and
processes to audit, to investigate and to impose sanctions.
Data Use
Use refers to the application of Your Data by any part of NLFORGOLD, or any staff-member or contractor of NLFORGOLD in the course of their work.
NLFORGOLD undertakes to use Your Data only for:
the purposes for which it was collected;
such other purposes as are subsequently agreed between NLFORGOLD and You;
such additional purposes as may be required by law. In these circumstances, NLFORGOLD will take any reasonable steps available to it to communicate to You that the use has occurred, unless it is precluded from doing so by law; and
such additional purposes as are authorised by law (in particular to protect NLFORGOLD’s interests, e.g. if it believes on reasonable grounds that You have failed to fulfil your undertakings to NLFORGOLD or have committed a breach of the criminal law).
NLFORGOLD undertakes to use YourData only if it has demonstrable relevance to the particular use to which it is being put.
NLFORGOLD undertakes to use YourData in such a manner as to take into account the possibility that it is not of sufficient quality for the purpose, e.g. because it is inaccurate, out-of-date, incomplete, or out-of-context.
Data Disclosure
Disclosure refers to making YourData available to any party other than NLFORGOLD and You. The term disclosure may include many different conditions of data transfer, including selling, renting, trading, sharing and giving.
NLFORGOLD undertakes to disclose Your Data only under the following circumstances:
in the course of business being conducted between You and NLFORGOLD, where disclosure is necessary to a contractor, such as a transport company. Where Your Data is disclosed in this way, NLFORGOLD undertakes to exercise control over NLFORGOLD’s contractors to ensure that their actions are compliant with these Terms;
in other circumstances that are directly implied by the purpose agreed between You and NLFORGOLD at the time of data collection or subsequently. Where Your Data is disclosed in this way, NLFORGOLD undertakes to exercise control over NLFORGOLD’s contractors to ensure that their actions are compliant with these Terms;
with your consent, or at your request;
where required by law, such as a provision of a statute, or a court order such as a search warrant or sub poena. In these circumstances, NLFORGOLD will take any reasonable steps available to it to communicate to You that the disclosure has occurred, unless it is precluded from doing so by law;
where permitted by law (e.g. the reporting of suspected breach of the criminal law to a law enforcement agency; and in an emergency, where NLFORGOLD believes on reasonable grounds that the disclosure of YourData will materially assist in the protection of the life of health of some person), provided that NLFORGOLD will apply due diligence to ensure that the exercise of the permission is justifiable.
In all cases, NLFORGOLD undertakes to disclose only such of Your Data as is necessary in the particular circumstances.
Data Retention and Destruction
Subject to the qualifications immediately below, NLFORGOLD undertakes:
to retain Your Data only as long as is consistent with its purpose; and
to destroy Your Data when its purpose has expired, and to do so in such a manner that Your Data is not subsequently capable of being recovered.
This undertaking is qualified as follows:
Your Data may be retained in NLFORGOLD’s logs, backups and audit trails within short-term retention cycles that are devised to protect the company’s operations. In such cases, Your Data will be destroyed in accordance with those cycles;
Your Data may be retained beyond the expiry of its purpose if that is required by law, such as a provision of a statute, or a court order such as a search warrant or sub poena, or a warning by a law enforcement agency that delivery of a court order is imminent. In these circumstances, NLFORGOLD:
will take any reasonable steps available to it to communicate to You that Your Data is being retained, unless it is precluded from doing so by law; and
will only retain Your Data while that provision is current, and will then destroy Your Data;
Your Data may be retained beyond the expiry of its purpose if it is authorised by law (in particular to protect NLFORGOLD’s interests, e.g. if it believes on reasonable grounds that You have failed to fulfil your undertakings to NLFORGOLD or have committed a breach of the criminal law). In these circumstances, NLFORGOLD will only retain Your Data while that situation is current, and will then destroy Your Data.
Access by You to Your Personal Data
NLFORGOLD undertakes to provide you with access to Your Data, subject to only such conditions and processes as are reasonable in the circumstances. In particular, NLFORGOLD undertakes to enable access:
conveniently;
without unreasonable delay; and
without cost.
NLFORGOLD undertakes to establish and operate identity authentication protections for access to Your Data that are appropriate to its sensitivity, but practical. This may involve some inconvenience; for example, relatively straightforward procedures may be involved in order to provide you with access through a channel that you have previously registered with NLFORGOLD (such as a particular email-address), but may impose more onerous procedures if you wish to use some other channel.
In the event that you dispute some aspect of Your Data, NLFORGOLD undertakes to take reasonable steps in relation to the amendment, supplementation or deletion of Your Data.
You undertake:
not to seek access for frivolous purposes, or unreasonably frequently;
to accept that deletion of some data may not be consistent with the provision of particular services by NLFORGOLD to you.
Information about Data-Handling Practices
NLFORGOLD undertakes to make information available to you about the manner in which NLFORGOLD handles your data:
in general terms, in a readily accessible manner; and
in more specific terms, on request.
Where Your Data is disclosed to a contractor, NLFORGOLD undertakes to make information available to you on request about the manner in which NLFORGOLD’s contractors handle your data.
NLFORGOLD undertakes to ensure that the information provided is meaningful, and addresses your concerns.
You undertake:
not to seek such information for frivolous purposes, or unreasonably frequently; and
to accept that the disclosure of excessive detail may harm the security of Your Data and NLFORGOLD’s business processes, and may harm NLFORGOLD’s commercial interests.
Handling of Enquiries, General Concerns and Complaints
If you have enquiries, general concerns, or complaints about these Terms, or about NLFORGOLD’s behaviour in relation to these Terms, you undertake:
to communicate them in the first instance:
to NLFORGOLD only;
in sufficient detail;
through a channel made available by NLFORGOLD for that purpose;
NLFORGOLD undertakes:
to provide one or more channels for communications to NLFORGOLD, which are convenient to users;
to promptly provide acknowledgement of the receipt of communications, including the provision of a copy of the communication, the date and time it was registered, and NLFORGOLD’s reference-code for the communication;
to promptly provide a response to the communication, in an appropriate and meaningful manner.
You further undertake to not pursue NLFORGOLD through any Regulator or the media:
until and unless NLFORGOLD has had a reasonable opportunity to respond to the initial communication; and
while NLFORGOLD and you remain are conducting a meaningful dialogue about the matter.
Enforcement
NLFORGOLD declares that its undertakings in these Terms are intended to create legal obligations, and that those obligations are intended to be enforceable under appropriate laws in appropriate jurisdictions. These include laws relating to data protection, privacy, fair trading, corporations and criminal laws.
You undertake to seek enforcement only in a jurisdiction that is relevant to the transactions that have taken place between You and NLFORGOLD, in particular the jurisdiction in which you live or in which you performed the relevant acts, and the jurisdiction in which NLFORGOLD is domiciled or performed the relevant acts.
Changes to These Privacy Undertakings
NLFORGOLD undertakes:
not to materially change these Terms in a manner that reduces the protections for Your Data;
to take all possible steps to prevent any company that acquires this company or any of its relevant assets from materially changing the Terms applicable to Your Data in a manner that reduces the protections for Your Data;
where it is considering making changes to these Terms, or creating more specific Terms relating to specific services, to consult with appropriate representative and advocacy organisations;
where it makes changes to these Terms, to ensure that the differences between successive versions are readily accessible;
to maintain all prior versions of these Terms in such a manner that they are dated, and readily accessible.
