Privacy Statement
Quantitas Solutions B.V., located at Marconistraat 16, 3029AK Rotterdam, the Netherlands (hereafter: “Quantitas Solutions” or “we”), believes that the protection of personal data is essential, so we treat your data with the greatest possible care. The purpose of this privacy statement is to inform you of how we deal with your personal data.
1. Who is responsible for processing your data?
In this privacy statement, Quantitas Solutions describes how, as the party responsible for processing, it deals with your personal data when you utilize our services, such as the intermediation between data suppliers and AI companies or the use of this website.
2. What is personal data?
Information about an identified or identifiable natural person is considered to be ‘personal data’. The certification of specific information as personal data depends in part on whether Quantitas Solutions is in the possession of legal resources which can reasonably be assumed to be used by Quantitas Solutions to identify an individual.
3. The personal data we process
We process your personal data because you have provided the data to us yourself when entering into an agreement with us, or when you use this website.
When you use the services offered by Quantitas Solutions, such as the intermediation between data suppliers and AI companies, or have other contact with us, we will use the following personal data to provide services, depending on the specific manner in which you use the services:
- Data necessary to facilitate the intermediation between data suppliers and AI companies, such as your (business) contact details, name, function and signature;
- Data necessary for financial administration, such as your name and function and other legally required information;
- Data you provide to us via the online form on our website, such as your name, e-mailadress and information you provide in the open text field.
4. Processing: grounds and justified interests
Personal data is processed based on the following legal grounds:
- Consent;
- Implementation of an agreement with you;
- Legal obligations;
- Performing a task in the general interest;
- Justified interest of Quantitas Solutions or a third party.
Justified interests include: (cyber) security, (crime) prevention, IT management, research and analysis of one’s own products or services, operations, legal affairs and internal administration.
5. Purposes for processing personal data
We take great care when processing personal data. We only use those data necessary for the provision of our services. Quantitas Solutions processes your personal data for the purposes listed below. The number behind each purpose corresponds to the legal grounds listed in Article 4 of this Privacy Statement.
A) Purposes for the provision of our services
- Quantitas Solutions’ administration for financial and fiscal obligations, including the (collective) invoicing for our services [grounds 2 or 3];
- Communicating with and informing you, and providing services [grounds 2 or 5];
B) General purposes
- Building and maintaining the customer relationship [grounds 2 or 5];
- Offering customer service, including pertaining to the offering of services and the processing of complaints and requests [grounds 2 or 5];
- Processing personal data to provide management information [ground 5];
- Conducting market research, including measuring customer satisfaction, in order to improve our operations, brands, services and products [ground 5];
- The continued development and improvement of new and existing products and services [ground 5];
- Compliance with legal obligations, dispute resolution and enforcement of our rights and agreements [grounds 2, 3 or 5];
- Analyzing our first party cookies on our website. We do this to ensure that our communications correspond as much as possible to your personal preferences [ground 5];
6. No processing of data of persons under the age of 16
We do not intend to collect data on persons under the age of 16. We recommend that parents be involved in their children’s (online) activities, in order to prevent Quantitas Solutions from unintentionally processing their personal data.
7. Sharing data with third parties
Quantitas Solutions will share your personal data with third parties in certain cases for the reasons explained below. The number behind each purpose corresponds to the legal grounds listed in Article 4 of this Privacy Statement:
- if we are legally obligated or authorized to provide personal data to third parties [ground 3];
- if we suspect a violation of the rights of third parties, criminal acts or misuse, we may provide personal data to third parties who have a justified interest, or to bodies that serve the general interest. These may include enforcement authorities, such as the Public Prosecutor’s Office or supervisory bodies [grounds 3, 4 or 5];
- Quantitas Solutions may also share your data with third parties in the context of implementing an agreement with you, or due to justified business interests such as maintaining a central administration or customer service unit, or analyzing our services provided to you [grounds 2 or 5];
- with parties that assist Quantitas Solutions in providing its services and which are not data processors (such as accountants and (legal) consultants) [ground 2 or 5];
- for business purposes, such as the sale of business activities or shares or a reorganization [ground 5];
Quantitas Solutions also uses the services of third parties that act as ‘processors’, such as hosting- and service providers. If these third parties are indicated as ‘processors’ in accordance with applicable data protection law, then Quantitas Solutions will make written agreements with these parties. These services providers will only process personal data in accordance with the instructions and guidance provided by Quantitas Solutions.
Personal data sent to a recipient abroad will only be sent to a recipient in a country that the European Commission has determined offers a suitable level of protection for personal data. If personal data are sent to a recipient in a country that does not offer suitable protection for personal data, then Quantitas Solutions will ensure that the legally required guarantees are implemented. If you wish to receive further information about the transfer of your personal data to countries outside the European Economic Area, please contact us (see Article 12).
8. Storing your data
We will store your personal data for as long as necessary or permitted within the limitations of the purposes listed in this Privacy Statement and in accordance with applicable legislation. The criteria used to determine this storage period include:
- The duration of the period in which we have a current relationship with you and provide services to you (for example: as long as you continue to use our services);
- Whether we are subject to a legal obligation, such as special laws that require us to store our transactions for a specific period before deleting them; or
- Whether storage is desirable due to our legal position with regard to issues such as expiration terms, disputes or investigations by law enforcement bodies.
9. Studying visits to the website
When you visit our website, we may use first party cookies, web beacons and similar technologies to store information with the purpose of analyzing website traffic. In other words, we will only use this information for the performance of non-invasive analytical purposes. Our website may contain links to other websites. We bear no liability for how these websites deal with your personal data. Please consult the privacy statement of the relevant website for more information.
10. Your rights, including the right to object
You have the right to know which of your personal data we process and to whom we have provided your data. If you have granted permission for the processing of your personal data, you also have the right to revoke that permission. If you would like to view, correct, edit, limit, delete any of your personal data processed by us, or object to the processing of your personal data, or if you would like to receive an electronic copy of your personal data to send it on to another company (in as much as the applicable legislation permits you to transfer such data), please feel free to contact us via the contact details listed under Article 12. Please describe which personal data your request concerns as clearly as possible. We will reply to your request as quickly as possible, and no later than the legally stipulated reply period. Finally, you also have the right to submit a complaint to the Supervisory Authority.
You may only exercise your rights within the limits granted by law. In order to ensure that you have submitted the request yourself, we may ask that you include proof of your identification along with your request. We will only ask this if necessary to identify you, this is, only when we are not able to verify your identity by asking verification questions based on information we have about you. When we ask proof of your identification, we ask that you also make unreadable the passport photo, the machine readable zone (the row of numbers at the bottom of the passport), the passport number and your Social Security Number (in Dutch: BSN). We will destroy the copy of your proof of identification immediately after we have verified your identity.
11. Security and protecting data
Quantitas Solutions uses suitable security measures to prevent misuse, loss, unauthorized access, unintentional publication and unauthorized changes as much as possible. Quantitas Solutions has taken both technical and organizational measures to secure your personal data, such as the use of encryption techniques. These security measures are reviewed regularly in the light of new threats.
12. Contact
If you have any questions and/or comments regarding this Privacy Statement, please contact Quantitas Solutions via: info@quantitassolutions.com.
13. Amendment
We reserve the right to change the manner in which we process personal data and the composition or quantity of data we process. We therefore reserve the right to amend this Privacy Statement as needed. We will inform you of such changes if necessary.
This Privacy Statement was last revised on 27 May 2022.