Privacy statement

bruynzeel-sakura bv applies the following privacy policy with respect to the use of its website bruynzeel-sakura.com.

General

bruynzeel-sakura never uses information about visitors to its websites for the purpose of sending offers on products or services (direct marketing, e-mail spam, etc.). bruynzeel-sakura does not make information about visitors to its websites available to third parties.
When reference is made below to technical features of a request, click, display, search request or suchlike, this means: requested URL, IP address, time, HTTP referrer URL (sometimes including your search terms with a search engine), user-agent string, browser type, screen size and suchlike. We do not check (even if it were possible) who uses which IP address when and we do not therefore trace this data back to you personally.
bruynzeel-sakura records no special personal data, relating for example to religion or personal beliefs, race or ethnic origin, health, sexuality, criminal justice, political persuasion or membership of a trade union.

Web visits

Whenever you visit our websites, the technical features of your requests are updated in log files on our servers. This data is saved for a number of months, purely for the purpose of statistical analysis. We do not check (even if it were possible) who uses which IP address when and we do not therefore trace this data back to you personally.

Search requests

Whenever you use a search function on our websites, your search terms can be recorded, together with the technical features, in log files on our servers. This data is saved for a number of months, purely for the purpose of statistical analysis. We do not check (even if it were possible) who uses which IP address when and we therefore do not trace this data back to you personally.

Advertising displays and clicks

Advertising displays and clicks are registered by bruynzeel-sakura and by advertising networks in which bruynzeel-sakura participates.
When you click on an advertisement, the technical features of the click can be stored by bruynzeel-sakura in log files which are saved for a number of months in connection with financial accountability. We do not check (even if it were possible) who uses which IP address when and we do not therefore trace this data back to you personally.
bruynzeel-sakura participates in the following advertising networks, which create their own records and have their own privacy policy:

• Google Adwords content network
• M4N 
• Webgains 
• MDS Online Media

When displaying advertisements and web beacons, these parties can place cookies in and read cookies from your web browser. A web beacon is a small, invisible image that is integrated into a web page in order to register a query from this page. A cookie can be seen as a small file containing impersonal data, which is used to make connections between various queries from your browser. A cookie can be used by bruynzeel-sakura and the advertising network for example to store your preferences or user settings, to remain logged in to an interactive part of a website, or to tailor advertisements to your interests and preferences on the basis of your visit to bruynzeel-sakura websites and other websites on the Internet.
With the standard settings, most browsers accept cookies automatically, but you can usually refuse cookies or accept them selectively by changing your browser settings. If you disable cookies, it is possible that certain functions in our websites will be unavailable (especially log-in mechanisms). On the following websites, you can find information on commonly used browsers and how to modify the cookie settings in each:

• Internet Explorer (Microsoft) 
• Firefox (Mozilla) 
• Safari (Apple) 
• Google Chrome (Google) 

The Google advertising network uses a DoubleClick DART-cookie to tailor the advertisements to the interests and preferences on the basis of your visit to bruynzeel-sakura websites and other websites on the Internet. You can disable this cookie, after which you will possibly see advertisements that are less relevant to you.

Google Analytics

bruynzeel-sakura can make use of Google Analytics, a web analysis service that is offered by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics makes use of cookies to help bruynzeel-sakura analyse how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) is transferred to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google uses this information to monitor how you use the website, to draft reports on website activity for website operators and to offer other services relating to website activity and Internet use. Google is allowed to provide this information to third parties if Google is legally bound to do so, or insofar as these third parties process the information on behalf of Google. Google will not combine your IP address with other data at its disposal. You can refuse to use cookies, as indicated above. By making use of this website, you grant your permission for Google to process the information in the manner and for the purposes described above.

Newsletters

When you subscribe to or unsubscribe from one of our e-newsletters, the technical features of your update, together with you e-mail address, will be saved for a number of months. Your e-mail address will also be saved in the subscription list for the full duration of your subscription, purely for the purpose of sending the relevant newsletter. You are free to use an e-mail address for your subscription that cannot be traced to you personally. You can unsubscribe from any of our newsletters at any time, in a reasonable manner, as stated at the bottom of every edition of the newsletter in question. If you do not succeed in unsubscribing in this way, we will, as an exception, remove you from the subscription list on receipt of a written request to this effect.

Contact forms and e-mail

Whenever you complete and send a contact, application or information form on one of our websites, or send us an e-mail, we will save the data you send us, together with the technical features, as long as necessary or reasonable, depending on the nature of the form and your message, to fully answer, deal with and/or provide justification in connection with your message. Your message can also end up in our e-mail archives, where it can be stored for 7 years as a consequence of back-up procedures and the legal obligation to retain.

Participation in the interactive parts of our websites

Whenever you participate in interactive parts of our websites (such as a forum, membership site or electronic learning environment) for which you must register and log in, you are free to enter personal details in your profile, in your signature, in the messages you post, and suchlike. This information will be saved for an unlimited period, displayed in the relevant part of the website and made accessible by search engines. You yourself make this information public and it is your own responsibility. You are equally free to register using a fictitious name (pseudonym, nickname) and to fill in no - or invented – personal details and to only post anonymous messages. The data that you post will only be anonymised or removed by way of an exception, following receipt of a well-reasoned written request to this effect, with the substantiation of a reasonable interest.
If you register for bruynzeel-sakura activities or services (such as a learning package with access to an electronic learning environment, a training course or similar gathering) for which you are expected to provide truthful personal details, bruynzeel-sakura will only use this data for the purpose in question (including our business operations, communication related to the activity, the carrying out of the activity, invoicing and financial accountability, legal obligation to retain and suchlike).

Interviews and quotes
If you have been interviewed or quoted for one of our websites and you have a reasonable objection, in the course of time, to the continued publication of the text accompanied by your name, and your name is not actually relevant for the reader, we are, generally speaking, prepared to anonymise the interview or quote at your request and to replace your name with a fictitious one (stating "a fictitious name has been used at the request of the person involved"). Exceptions: abuse, obligations
If we feel that there is evidence of abuse or improper use of our facilities, then we may deny access to certain IP addresses and/or e-mail addresses for a certain or unlimited period. When this concerns forms of abuse whereby the interests of third parties are prejudiced, we may make the relevant data available to these third parties. In the case of abuse, we may make attempts to trace the data back to you personally, for example so that we can contact you, a parent, guardian, teacher, supervisor, manager, person with ultimate responsibility or suchlike, or to be able to report you or sue you.
bruynzeel-sakura releases data if required by the authorities.

Addressing a request to bruynzeel-sakura

When reference is made in this privacy policy to a written request to bruynzeel-sakura, you can submit this, in the first instance, via the contact form or by e-mail. In connection with many forms of abuse of online communication (including form spam and e-mail spam), however, we are unable to guarantee that such a request will reach us. Moreover, we have seen from experience that online requests are often incomplete or inaccurate and do not contain all of the data needed to process them. We therefore only feel bound to respond appropriately to an actual written request. That is to say: in the form of a proper letter, typed or written legibly on paper, stating the name and address of the sender, dated and signed, containing a clear request with all the necessary information, and delivered by post to the business address of bruynzeel-sakura.