Privacy Policy

This privacy statement applies to the processing of personal data of visitors to (mobile) websites and recipients of online mailings of N.V. NOM, Investment and Development Company for the Northern Netherlands ("NOM"). NOM considers the protection of your privacy important and will handle the personal data you provide with care. NOM complies with applicable privacy laws and regulations, including the General Data Protection Regulation. For questions, please contact privacy@nom.nl .

This privacy statement does not apply to (mobile) Internet sites of third parties that may be visited via a (mobile) Internet site of NOM via hyperlinks.

Basis and purpose of data processing
When visiting the site, participating in (online) research or e-mail traffic, you leave behind data about yourself. These data are used exclusively to process your request or response. Such data will not be collected or used to identify you, unless required to communicate with you.

Information about visits to the NOM website are only used to improve our services to you, including contacting you in response to the interests revealed by your surfing behavior, to support technical decisions and statistical processing.

In addition, NOM processes data when legally required to do so.

By providing your phone number, you give NOM permission to contact you by phone in response to interests revealed from your browsing behavior.

Cookies
A cookie is a quantity of data that a server sends to the browser with the intention of storing it and sending it back to the server during a subsequent visit. This allows the server to recognize the browser again and keep track of what the user, or web browser, has done in the past. During a visit to this site, cookies may be placed on your system.

Furthermore, Google Analytics is used and it uses cookies to track browsing and search behavior on our website. NOM has taken measures in line with the manual of the Personal Data Authority regarding the privacy-friendly setting of Google Analytics. This includes masking the last octet of the IP address and turning off 'data sharing'. Furthermore, a processing agreement has been concluded with Google. NOM also uses Google Search Console and Google Data Studio in combination with the Google Analytics cookies. More information about these cookies can be found on Google's website.

If you do not want cookies to be placed on your system you should set "disable cookies" in your browser. If you accept the cookies then they can remain in your computer for five years, unless you delete the cookies in the meantime. Disabling cookies only affects the computer and browser on which you perform this operation. If you use multiple computers and/or browsers, you should repeat this operation as often as necessary. Consult the help function of your browser if necessary.

What are your rights?
You have the right to see all personal data that NOM has collected about you and you can make a request to NOM to that effect. You also have the right to request NOM to correct the data collected about you if it appears that the data in NOM's possession are incorrect and/or incomplete. In addition, you have the right to no longer be contacted by NOM with information about NOM. If NOM processes your personal data on the basis of consent you have given, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time. For all such cases, please contact privacy@nom.nl.

Complaint
If you have a complaint about NOM's processing of your personal data, you have the right to file a complaint about it with the Personal Data Authority.

Retention period
NOM will not retain your personal data for longer than is strictly necessary to realize the purposes for which NOM collects your personal data. Your personal data will be retained for no longer than two years, unless NOM is required or entitled to retain the personal data for longer under laws and regulations.

Provision of personal data to third parties
NOM will only provide your personal data to third parties if this is necessary for one of the aforementioned processing purposes or to comply with a statutory obligation. Data can also be shared with contractors engaged by NOM, such as ICT service providers. NOM has concluded processing agreements with parties who process personal data on behalf of NOM and NOM has agreed with those processors a minimum level of security and confidentiality of personal data which is at least equal to the level that NOM itself uses.

NOM does not, in principle, transfer your personal data to countries outside the European Union. However, for sending its online mailings, including newsletters, NOM uses the services of a third party, namely Sharpspring, based in the United States. Sharpspring participates in and is certified under the Privacy Shield. In addition to this Privacy Statement, NOM's receipt of online mailings is also subject to Sharpspring's Privacy Statement. By signing up to receive online mailings from NOM, you give NOM permission to share your personal information with Sharspring.

Security
NOM has taken appropriate organizational and technical measures to prevent the misuse, loss, unauthorized access, unwanted disclosure and unauthorized modification of your personal data. In the unlikely event of insufficient security or misuse, please contact privacy@nom.nl.

Changes
NOM reserves the right to make changes to this Privacy Statement. For that reason, it is recommended that you consult this Privacy Statement regularly so that you are aware of any changes. This Privacy Statement was last amended on March 5, 2019.

Contact details

N.V. NOM, Investment and Development Company for the Northern Netherlands
Paterswoldseweg 810
9728 BM Groningen
Telephone: 050 521 44 44
E-mail: info@nom.nl