Privacy Statement

Privacy statement

Public Matters values and respects the privacy of visitors to its website. This privacy statement explains how Public Matters handles your personal data.

What data is collected?

When you visit the Public Matters website, you always remain anonymous. We have no way of seeing who has visited the website. When you visit the website, no personal data is collected or otherwise processed. Public Matters is, however, interested in general data about website visits, aimed at optimising the website’s functionality and user-friendliness and posting targeted information on it, in order to optimise our services and the use of the website. This data includes for instance the number of visitors, time and duration of visits, and which pages attract most visitors. Public Matters uses cookies and Google Analytics for this purpose. The information collected via Google Analytics is anonymised to the greatest extent possible. For instance, Public Matters receives no details of individual visits by individual visitors to the website. The data recorded includes the IP address (with the final 3 figures blanked out), the number of pages visited, the time and duration of the visit, location, the origin of the visit, the type of hardware and software used, visitor interaction and search history. Google does not use the collected data for its own purposes. The data obtained is stored by Google in servers located in the United States. Google has signed up to the EU-US Privacy Shield agreement with the U.S. Department of Commerce.

If you fill in your personal data (name, address, telephone number and email address) in the contact or application form, this data will be processed only to enable us to respond to your request for contact (concerning your question or application).

Data protection

Public Matters handles your data with care and treats it as confidential. Your personal data will not be disclosed to companies or institutions outside Public Matters.

Public Matters has put in place appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect your personal data from loss or any form of unlawful processing. The people who have access to your data on behalf of Public Matters are bound by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Retention period

Public Matters will not retain your data for any longer than is necessary for fulfilling the purpose for which it had to be processed.

The personal data of applicants will be destroyed at the first such request of the applicant and in any case within no more than four weeks after the application process ends, unless the personal data is retained with the unambiguous consent of the applicant for a year after the application procedure ends.

Links

The Public Matters website contains links to the websites of other organisations. Once you click on those links, you will leave our website and Public Matters’ privacy statement will no longer apply. Public Matters is not responsible for the content of any such websites, for protecting your privacy on those websites or for any services offered to you via those websites.

Rights 

Under the General Data Protection Regulation you have a number of rights. For instance, you are entitled to ask us for access to your personal data if it is recorded by Public Matters. You can also ask us to supplement, correct, erase or restrict your data.

Changes

Public Matters reserves the right to update, adapt or amend this privacy statement at any time whatsoever and for any reason whatsoever. It is therefore advisable to consult this privacy statement regularly, so that you are always up to date with the latest version.

Questions

If you have any questions and/or comments concerning the processing of your personal data on the Public Matters website, please feel free to contact Cees Westera on 070-3046499 or at cwestera@publicmatters.nl.