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Privacy Policy
This privacy & cookie policy (hereinafter: the Privacy Policy) sets out the data processing activities carried out in connection with Digital Talent Hunters (DTH) by:
– Accent Group NV, with office at Beversesteenweg 576, 8800 Roeselare (VAT BE-0846.963.913);
– Accent Jobs for People NV, with office at Beversesteenweg 576, 8800 Roeselare (VAT 0455.069.956);
– Accent Construct NV, with office at Beversesteenweg 576, 8800 Roeselare (VAT BE-087.120.626)
– Nowjobs B.V., with office at Herculesplein 36, 3584 AA Utrecht (KvK 75396181);
– Gritt NV, with office at Rijnkaai 100 bus C14, 2000 Antwerpen (VAT BE-0661.737.265);
– Cohedron House B.V., with office at Herculesplein 88, 3584 AA Utrecht (KvK 83317074);
– Redmore Holding B.V., with office at Euclideslaan 2, 3584 BN Utrecht (KvK 70131945);
– House of Covebo B.V., with office at Ambachtsstraat 13, 3861 RH Nijkerk (KvK 63558939); and
– Continu Group B.V., with office at Flight Forum 40, 5657 DB Eindhoven (KvK 63798689).
The above listed entities (each individually a Group Company) are all part of the House of HR group, a leading European HR services group specialized in engineering & consulting and specialized talent solutions (which includes various companies active in personnel placement and human resources) (the House of HR Group). All companies within the House of HR Group are located within the European Economic Area.
More information with respect to the House of HR Group and its member companies can be found on https://www.houseofhr.com/companies or can be requested by e-mail to info@houseofhr.com
ARTICLE 1 – GENERAL
This Privacy Policy describes the processing of your personal data by the Group Companies as joint controllers in accordance with article 26 of the Regulation of the European Parliament and the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (GDPR). This means that the Group Companies jointly determine the purpose of and the means for processing your personal data. The Group Companies have entered into an agreement on joint controllership, which defines the specific duties, rights and responsibilities of each Group Company in respect of the joint data processing.
If you wish to know more about the individual processing activities of each Group Company, we invite you to consult their respective privacy statements at:
– Accent Group NV, Accent Jobs For People NV and Accent Construct NV: https://www.accentjobs.be/nl/privacybeleid/ ;
– Nowjobs B.V. : https://www.nowjobs.nl/nl/bedrijf/privacy-beleid ;
– Gritt NV: https://gritt.be/privacy-policy ;
– Cohedron House B.V.: https://cohedron.nl/privacyverklaring/ ;
– Redmore Holding B.V. : https://www.redmore.eu/privacy/ ;
– House of Covebo B.V.: https://www.covebo.nl/privacy-statement/ ;
– Continu Group B.V.: https://www.continu.be/service/privacy-statement .
The Group Companies are jointly responsible for compliance with applicable data protection legislation. The Group Companies aim to comply with the GDPR, with ‘the Law of 30 July 2018 concerning the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data, for the transposing, supplementing and implementing of the European Regulation 2016/679 of 27 April 2016 concerning the protection of personal data’, as well as with ‘the direct marketing provisions from Book XII of the Code of Economic Right concerning the ‘right of the electronic economy’ (to the extent applicable)’.
This Privacy Policy further sets forth your rights in relation to your personal data, which you may assert towards any Group Company. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Group Companies have designated Accent Group NV to act as your main point of contact, also for exercising your rights in relation to your personal data (for more information on exercising your rights, see article 7).
This Privacy Policy is addressed to the following data subjects: interested parties, website visitors, clients and their employees, suppliers and their employees, companies and their employees and applicants.
ARTICLE 2 – DATE OF THE LAST REVISION
Date of the last revision: 15 June 2023.
This Privacy Policy can regularly be revised or updated. To keep you informed of the latest change to our Privacy Policy, we will update the review date each time it is changed. The amended Privacy Policy will take effect on the date of the last revision. Revisions and updates will be released on the Website. We recommend you to consult it on a regular basis.
ARTICLE 3 – PROCESSING ACTIVITIES
The following personal data shall be gathered and processed for applicant management purposes:
– Identification data and contact details (e.g. name, surname, address, phone number)
– Personal characteristics
– Professional data
– Personal interests
– Images
The legal ground for processing your personal data is our legitimate interest, in particular our freedom of enterprise.
Personal data may be obtained through external public sources (e.g. LinkedIn, specialized recruitment platforms, databases or websites) or from your (ex-)employer and/or your (ex-) colleagues (e.g. in case of references).
The personal data shall be stored until 5 years after the end of the application procedure. Subject to your explicit consent for an extension of the retention period, we will store your personal data for an additional 5-year period.
ARTICLE 4 – DISCLOSURE TO THIRD PARTIES
The personal data processed pursuant to this Privacy Policy is shared amongst the Group Companies and can also be shared with other member companies of the House of HR Group, which may vary from time to time. All member companies of the House of HR Group are located within the European Economic Area. More information with respect to the House of HR Group and its member companies can be found on https://www.houseofhr.com/companies, or can be requested by e-mail to info@houseofhr.com.
If we share personal data with the other member companies within the House of HR Group, it will be in the framework of intra-group collaboration and/or intra-group services in order to improve, facilitate and simplify the activities and services of DTH and the respective member company (for instance ICT-services, accounting, analytics and statistics, debtor management, (possible) direct marketing, etc.).
We can also share your personal data to third party service providers who handle technical and operational support and to third party service providers (such as, but not limited to, lawyers, auditors, etc.) in general in so far as this is necessary for the professional services and/or contributes to the corporate governance structure and/or if they are obliged to do so based on a statutory provision or a judicial ruling.
ARTICLE 5 – TRANSFER TO THIRD COUNTRIES
We may transfer your personal data outside the European Economic Area in order to process the data in accordance with this Privacy Policy. In case data is transferred outside the European Economic Area, to a country not providing an adequate level of protection, we warrant to undertake all measures to protect your personal data including implementing contractual clauses that offer sufficient safeguards on data protection for the data to be transferred internationally. In practice, this will generally be achieved through standard contractual clauses with the recipient. More information on standard contractual clauses can be found here: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/international-dimension-data-protection/standard-contractual-clauses-scc_nl.
ARTICLE 6 – YOUR RIGHTS
You have rights concerning your personal data. Some of these rights have a specific scope, specific conditions or exceptions.
6.1. Right of access:
You have the right – at any time, free of charge – to take cognizance of the personal data that DTH is processing of you, as well as the right of asking information about the way of processing. You are also entitled to a copy of the data being processed.
6.2. Right to rectify, complete and restrict:
You always have the right to ask us to rectify, complete or delete all/part of your personal data if that data is incorrect.
You may also ask to restrict the processing of your personal data under specific circumstances.
6.3. Right to erasure (‘Right to be forgotten’)
This right allows you to have your personal data processed by DTH permanently deleted. This right may only be exercised under specific conditions.
6.4 Right to object:
You also have a right to object against the processing of your personal data on grounds relating to your particular situation.
In addition, you always have the right to oppose the use of personal data for purposes of direct marketing. In such a case, you do not have to give any reasons.
6.5. Right to data portability:
You have the right to obtain your personal data that are processed by us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable form and/or to transfer them to other controllers.
6.6. Right to withdraw consent:
In so far as the processing is based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw this consent.
6.7. Exercising your rights:
You may exercise your rights towards each Group Company participating to the joint controlling. However, in order to facilitate the exercise of your rights, the Group Companies have designated Accent Group NV as joint controller representative to manage and coordinate any requests in respect thereto. You can exercise your rights by contacting the data protection officer of Accent Group NV on the following e-mail address: joke.vancoppernolle@accentjobs.be. The Accent Group NV DPO is the lead DPO for this joint processing activity and will liaise, where necessary, with the DPO’s of the other Group Companies.
Please note that we are not always obliged to deal with your request to exercise your rights – your rights only apply in the cases and to the extent provided for by law.
If we have reasonable doubts about your identity, we may ask you to provide additional evidence.
6.8. Right to file a complaint:
You have the right to file a complaint with the supervisory authority:
• for Belgium, this is the Belgian Data Protection Authority, https://www.gegevensbeschermingsautoriteit.be/burger/acties/contact
• For the Netherlands, this is the Dutch Data Protection Authority, https://www.autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl/ ).
Prior to filing a complaint, we invite you to contact us in order to find a speedy solution for your issue by sending an e-mail to joke.vancoppernolle@accentjobs.be.
ARTICLE 7 – SECURITY AND CONFIDENTIALITY
We have developed security measures that are appropriate on the technical and organizational levels to prevent the destruction, loss, falsification, modification, unauthorized access or accidental disclosure to third parties of collected personal data as well as any other unauthorized processing of these data.
You must always observe the security rules, including by preventing any unauthorized access to your login and code. You are thus solely responsible for the use that is made as of the Website from your computer, IP address and from your identification data, as well as for the confidentiality thereof.
In order to be able to process your personal data, we grant access to your personal data to our employees and agents. We guarantee an identical level of protection by making contractual obligations that are opposable to these employees and agents. This means that our employees and agents are bound by confidentiality and that only those for whom it is necessary for the performance of their duties have access to your personal data.
ARTICLE 8 – COOKIES
8.1. What are cookies?
A “cookie” is a small file sent out by the server of DTH and installed on the hard disk of your computer. The information stored on these cookies can only be read by us and only during the duration of the visit to the Website.
8.2. Why do we use cookies?
Our Website uses cookies and similar technologies in order to distinguish your use preferences from those of other users of our Website. This helps us to offer you a better user experience when you visit our Website and allows us to optimize our Website.
This cookie policy gives you clear and complete information about the cookies that we use and their purpose.
8.3. The Website uses exclusively the following cookies:
[Google Analytics
Google Analytics is a web analytics service provided by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the collected data to track and monitor the use of our services. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the information collected to contextualise and personalise the advertisements of its own advertising network.
You may choose not to make your activity on the service available to Google Analytics by installing the ‘Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on’. The add-on prevents Google Analytics from sharing JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js and dc.js) information with Google Analytics about visiting activity.
For more information about Google’s privacy policy, please visit Google’s Privacy and Terms and Conditions webpage: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=nl.]
8.4. Your consent:
You can refuse or block cookies by changing the configuration parameters of your navigation system. Switching off cookies can mean that you can no longer make use of certain functionalities of the Website.
You can view and update your preferences at any time via the ‘Manage cookies’ tab at the bottom of the website.
Should you have further questions or comments regarding the processing of your personal data, don´t hesitate to contact us by e-mail info@houseofhr.com.
You can also find more information about cookies at: http://www.allaboutcookies.org/ . You can find more information about online behavioral advertising and online privacy here: http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/
ARTICLE 9 – LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES AND SOCIAL MEDIA
This Website can contain references to other websites and applications. We are not responsible for the processing of personal data via these websites and applications.
We can only advice you to check the privacy policies/statements and the terms and conditions of these websites and applications.
ARTICLE 10 – APPLICABLE LAW
This Privacy Policy is governed by, interpreted and executed in accordance with Belgian law, which is solely applicable.
ARTICLE 11 – CONTACT US
Where you can reach us at any time:
Digital Talent Hunters
Lambroekstraat 5A
1831 Diegem
Belgium
E-mail: info@houseofhr.com
