Privacy policy

1. General

HLO Branding Agency observes the utmost care in compiling and maintaining the information provided on the website. However, HLO Branding Agency cannot guarantee that this information is always completely accurate, comprehensive and current. Adopted documents of the association, such as an annual report and the code of conduct, are legally valid. Other information provided on or via our website is therefore exclusively intended as general information and no further rights can be derived therefrom.

2. Links from and to other websites

This website provides links to external websites and providers. HLO Branding Agency is not liable for the use or the content of Internet sites to which reference is made, nor for providers linked to the website of HLO Branding Agency.

3. Copyright and intellectual property rights

The copyright of this website and all information thereon is vested in HLO Branding Agency or in third parties, who have made these (visual) materials available to HLO Branding Agency with their consent. Copying or disclosing visual materials derived from the website (and its components) electronically or otherwise without the prior authorisation of HLO Branding Agency, is not permitted.

4. Privacy statement

HLO Branding Agency attaches great value to the protection of your personal data. In this privacy statement, we provide information about how we handle personal data. We do the utmost to safeguard your privacy and therefore handle personal data with due care. HLO Branding Agency conforms to the applicable laws and regulations, including the General Data Protection Regulation (Algemene Verordening Gegevensbescherming, AVG), in all cases. This means that:
Your personal data are processed in accordance with the purpose for which they have been provided. This purpose and the type of personal data are incorporated in this privacy statement.
The use and/or processing of your personal data remains restricted exclusively to those data that are minimally required for the purpose for which they are provided and/or processed.
Suitable technical and/or organisational measures have been taken to guarantee the security of your personal data.
Personal data will not be passed on to other parties unless this is required to achieve the purpose for which they have been provided.
We are aware of your rights concerning your personal data, and it is our intention to inform you of these and to respect them.
Google Analytics will record your IP address when you visit our website. By this means, we measure how our website is used. Google Analytics uses cookies, and visitors to the website are asked to accept them.

For what purpose do we process your personal data?

HLO uses your personal data to provide you with the service for which we have collected the information. Further, we use the information to get to know you and other users of our website better. Our use may include investigations, statistics, and analyses in order to improve products, services, and technologies, as well as to show you marketing content and offers tailored to your interests. We send you this marketing material via electronic mail or other technologies (if you have requested to receive such material). You can read whether we use cookies on our website, and if so, which kind of cookies and for what purposes: Cookies
Your personal data are being processed by HLO Branding Agency for the following purposes:

To be able to participate in HLO Branding Agency’ activities.

To send out newsletters and invitations.

• To send specific professional e-mails, depending on the field.

We can request the following personal data from you for the above-mentioned purposes:

First name; Surname prefix(es); Surname; E-mail address; Telephone number; Job title and organisation.

Provision to third parties

In some cases, we may share the personal data that we process about you. For instance, we may share them with suppliers that we work with to assist our company as described above. We will share the information to the extent and to those necessary to enable us to provide you with your requested service.

Retention period

HLO Branding Agency will retain personal data not longer than required for the purpose for which they have been provided or than what is required by law. Participation in activities will be archived for use in agreed follow-up activities and for potential internal evaluation purposes. HLO Branding Agency will retain your data not longer than two years.

Security

We have taken suitable technical and organisational measures to safeguard your personal data from wrongful processing. As such, we have taken the following measures, for example:

All persons who can take cognisance of your data on behalf of HLO Branding Agency are obliged to keep these confidential.

• A username and password policy are in effect on all our systems.
• Backups are made of the personal data so as to restore them in the event of physical or technical incidents.
• Our employees have been informed about the importance of personal data protection.

In practice, it is not possible to provide 100% security, and therefore we cannot guarantee that the information is protected completely against anyone who will succeed in circumventing the security measures and gain access to the data. Thus, you provide your data information at your own responsibility.

As HLO Branding Agency, we are responsible for processing your personal data. If you wish to submit any questions you have as a result of reviewing our privacy statement or more general questions or wish to contact us, you can do so via creative@hlobranding.com. You can also contact us at this address if you want to inspect the data we retain about you or to have these data corrected or deleted.

Changes

We will update and change this Policy from time to time. HLO Branding reserves the right to update and change this Policy. In case of significant changes, we will inform you through this website or by email. You can find the version of this Policy in force at any time on our website. Revised: 03 February 2022.

Complaints

Please contact us if you have a complaint about the processing of your personal data. You always retain the right to submit a complaint to the Dutch Data Protection Agency (DPA); the supervisory authority for privacy.

Cookie

Our website uses cookies necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in or filling in forms. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will not then work. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information.

Cookies used:

PHPSESSID: not tracking, expires when the active session is closed
language: not tracking, remembers the selected language for a next visit. Expires in 1 month.
viewed_cookie_policy: remembers the cookie consent settings.

Leadinfo
We use a lead generation service provided by Leadinfo B.V., Rotterdam, The Netherlands, which recognizes visits of companies to our website based on IP-addresses and shows us related publicly available information, such as company names or addresses. In addition, Leadinfo places two first-party cookies for providing transparency on how our visitors use our website and the tool processes domains from provided form inputs (e.g. “leadinfo.com”) to correlate IP addresses with companies and to enhance its services. For additional information, please visit www.leadinfo.com. On this page: www.leadinfo.com/en/opt-out you have an opt-out option. In the event of an opt-out, your data will no longer be used by Leadinfo.


Set by Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics: _ga,_gcl_au,_gid.

How to prevent cookies from being placed? Disabling cookies only has an effect on the device on which you disable them. In case you use more than one device you will have to repeat the actions to disable cookies.
How to disable Cookies: Internet Explorer / Firefox / Safari / Chrome.

Cookie policy

This Cookie Policy explains how HLO Branding Agency (“HLO”, “We”, “Us”) use cookies on our Website.

Cookie policy for HLO

HLO makes an effort to offer a transparent website with the content that is the most relevant to you. In order to do this, we use technologies that can collect, process and sort information regarding how you and other visitors use hlobranding.com (“The Website”).

Noma’s use of cookies may include processing of your personal data, and we therefore recommend that you also read our privacy policy.

By using the Website you accept that HLO uses cookies as described below, unless you have opted out of cookies in your browser.

1. What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files, which the Website places on your computer’s hard drive, smartphone or other electronic device. Cookies contain information, which the Website can use, among other things, to make the communication between you and your web-browser more efficient.

When you visit the Website, you will automatically receive one or more cookies. Some cookies are placed by us, while other cookies are placed by third parties.

2. Why does HLO use cookies?

HLO uses different kinds of cookies to provide you with an optimal user-experience and service, when you use the Website. We also use cookies to collect a basis for optimising traffic on the Website and between other websites. See below for more information about the purposes of our use of cookies.

3. Third party cookies

It is not only HLO that can place cookies on your computer’s hard drive, smartphone or other electronic device, when you visit the Website. [Example: User-related statistics are collected via the cookie analytics.js. The cookie collects information about the location of your device based on the IP-address, what pages you visit on the Website, as well as how long you spend on them. This knowledge is used by Noma] in order to optimise the Website and to give you the best possible experience. We use systems from Google Analytics and Google User Content].

4. Other third party cookies

It is also possible to use other third party services on the Website, and these services may also use cookies. You can choose to block third party cookies in your browser – as mentioned below. There may be functions on the Website that you cannot use, if you choose to block third party cookies in your browser. You will receive an error message that states how you are able to change your settings for third party cookies, thus enabling you to complete the desired actions.

Leadinfo
We use a lead generation service provided by Leadinfo B.V., Rotterdam, The Netherlands, which recognizes visits of companies to our website based on IP-addresses and shows us related publicly available information, such as company names or addresses. In addition, Leadinfo places two first-party cookies for providing transparency on how our visitors use our website and the tool processes domains from provided form inputs (e.g. “leadinfo.com”) to correlate IP addresses with companies and to enhance its services. For additional information, please visit www.leadinfo.com. On this page: www.leadinfo.com/en/opt-out you have an opt-out option. In the event of an opt-out, your data will no longer be used by Leadinfo.

5. Temporary and Permanent cookies

There are basically two types of cookies, “temporary” cookies and “permanent” cookies. The temporary cookies are linked to the current visit to the Website and are deleted automatically, when you close your web browser. In contrast, permanent cookies will be stored on your equipment. Permanent cookies delete themselves after a certain period, but will be renewed every time you visit the Website.

6. How to avoid and delete cookies?

If you do not want HLO to place or read cookies on your equipment, you have the possibility of opting out of cookies in your browser, where you can choose which cookies that should be allowed, blocked or deleted. As user, you need to be aware that the Website might not function optimally if you delete or block cookies.

If you wish to remove the cookies that are already on your equipment, and you are using a PC and a newer browser, you can press CTRL + SHIFT + DELETE simultaneously. If this shortcut does not work, you can find the support pages for the most commonly used browsers here: Internet Explorer / Firefox / Safari / Chrome.

7. What cookies does HLO use and for what purposes?

Listed below are the cookies that we use on the Website as well as the purpose(s) for using the cookies:

Cookies used:

PHPSESSID: not tracking, expires when the active session is closed
language: not tracking, remembers the selected language for a next visit. Expires in 1 month.
viewed_cookie_policy: remembers the cookie consent settings.


Set by Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics: _ga,_gcl_au,_gid.

How to prevent cookies from being placed? Disabling cookies only has an effect on the device on which you disable them. In case you use more than one device you will have to repeat the actions to disable cookies.
How to disable Cookies: Internet Explorer / Firefox / Safari / Chrome.