Privacy statement

Tunnel Engineering Consultants respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This Privacy policy will inform you as to how we look after your personal data when you visit our website (regardless of where you visit it from) or when you use our digital services and products and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

1. Important information and who we are

Tunnel Engineering Consultants V.O.F. (TEC) is a permanent partnership in the field of tunnel and underground works projects between two leading Dutch, internationally operating, engineering consultants Haskoning and Witteveen+Bos.

Tunnel Engineering Consultants V.O.F. (collectively referred to as “TEC”, “we”, “us” or “our” in this privacy policy) is the controller and responsible for this website and for your personal data that you provided to us. However, in some cases TEC is the data processor, for example for our digital products and/or services. If you have any questions about this privacy policy, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact us by sending an e-mail to [email protected].

Changes to the privacy policy and your duty to inform us of changes

We keep our privacy policy under regular review. This version was last updated on 1 July 202110 August 2023. It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.

Third party links

This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.

2. The data we collect about you

Personal data means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data).

We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:

  • Identity Data such as first name, last name, username or similar identifier (e.g. passwords), title employer and gender.
  • Contact Data includes billing address, delivery address, email address and telephone numbers.
  • Profile Data includes your username and password, purchases or orders made by you, your interests, preferences, feedback and survey responses.
  • Technical Data includes internet protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
  • Usage Data includes information about how you use our website, products and services.
  • Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences. We strive to provide you with choices regarding certain personal data uses, particularly around marketing and advertising. You will receive marketing communications from us if you have requested information from us or purchased digital products or services from us and you have not opted out of receiving that marketing communications.
  • Aggregated Data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated Data could be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data in law as this data will not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. For example, we may aggregate your Usage Data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific website feature. However, if we combine or connect Aggregated Data with your personal data so that it can directly or indirectly identify you, we treat the combined data as personal data which will be used in accordance with this privacy policy.

We do not collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health, and genetic and biometric data).

3. How is your personal data collected?

We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:

  • Direct interactions. You may give us your Identity Data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you:
    • subscribe to our service or publications;
    • request marketing to be sent to you;
    • give us feedback or contact us.
  • Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with our website, we will automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies and other similar technologies. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly. For more information about the cookies we use, please see our Cookie policy.
  • Third parties or publicly available sources. We will receive personal data about you from various third parties and public sources as set out below:
    • analytics providers, such as Google Analytics that can be based in or outside the EEA; 
    • advertising networks such as LinkedIn that can be based in or outside the EEA; and
    • search information providers such as Google that can be based in or outside the EEA.
    • Contact, Financial and Transaction Data from providers of technical, payment and delivery services. 

4. How we use your personal data

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

  • Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you.
  • Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
  • Where we need to comply with a legal obligation.
  • You gave us consent to process your personal data, which you can withdraw at any time by contacting us.

5. Purposes for which we will use your personal data

We have set out below, in a table format, a description of the ways we plan to use your personal data, and which of the legal bases we rely on to do so. We have also identified what our legitimate interests are where appropriate.

Note that we may process your personal data for more than one lawful ground depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data. Please contact us if you need details about the specific legal ground we are relying on to process your personal data where more than one ground has been set out in the table below.

Purpose/activity

Type of data

Lawful basis for processing
including basis of legitimate interest

To register you as a new customer


(a) Identity

(b) Contact 
Performance of a contract with you 

To process and deliver your order including:
(a) Manage payments, fees and charges
(b) Collect and recover money owed to us
(a) Identity
(b) Contact
(e) Marketing &
Communications
(a) Performance of a contract with you
(b) Necessary for our legitimate interests
(to recover debts due to us)

To manage our relationship with you which will include:
(a) Asking you to leave a review or take a survey
(a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Profile
(d) Marketing &
Communications
(a) Performance of a contract with you
(b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation
(c) Necessary for our legitimate interests /
(to keep our records updated and
to study how customers use our products/services)

To administer and protect our business and this website
(including troubleshooting, data analysis,
testing, system maintenance, support,
reporting and hosting of data)
(a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Technical
(a) Necessary for our legitimate interests
(for running our business, provision of administration and IT services,
network security, to prevent fraud and
in the context of a business reorganisation or
group restructuring exercise)
(b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation
 

To deliver relevant website content
and advertisements to you and measure or
understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you
(a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Profile
(d) Usage
(e) Marketing &
Communications
(f) Technical
Necessary for our legitimate interests
(to study how customers use our products/services,
to develop them, to grow our business and
to inform our marketing strategy)

To use data analytics to improve our website,
products/services, marketing,
customer relationships and experiences
(a) Technical
(b) Usage
Necessary for our legitimate interests
(to define types of customers for our products
and services, to keep our website updated
and relevant, to develop our business and
to inform our marketing strategy)

To make suggestions and recommendations to you
about goods or services that may be
of interest to you

  
(a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Technical
(d) Usage
(e) Profile
(f) Marketing &
Communications

  
Necessary for our legitimate interests
(to develop our products/services and
grow our business)
Opting out

You can ask us to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by following the opt-out links on any marketing message sent to you or by contacting us at any time.

Where you opt out of receiving marketing messages, this will not apply to personal data provided to us as a result of a product/service purchase, warranty registration, product/service experience or other transactions.

6. Disclosures of your personal data

We may share your personal data with the parties set out below for the purposes set out in the table 'Purposes for which we will use your personal data' above.

  • Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you.
  • Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
  • Where we need to comply with a legal obligation.
  • You gave us consent to process your personal data, which you can withdraw at any time by contacting us.
  • Internal Third Parties; other companies within Haskoning and Witteveen+Bos.
  • External Third Parties such as service providers acting as processors who provide IT and system administration services.

7. International transfers 

We share your personal data within TEC. This may involve transferring your data outside your country of residence. Whenever we transfer your personal data out of your country of residence, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring at least one of the following safeguards is implemented:

  • We will only transfer your personal data to countries that have been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data.

  • Where we use certain service providers, we may use specific contracts which give personal data the same protection it has in the EEA.

 

8. Data security

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions, and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.

9. Data retention

How long will you use my personal data?

We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for. We may retain your personal data for a longer period in the event of a complaint or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation in respect to our relationship with you.

To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or other requirements.

In some circumstances we will anonymise your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes, in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.

10. Your legal rights

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. You may have:

  • The right of access and the right to copy your personal data.
  • The right to withdraw your consent.
  • The right of rectification.
  • The right to data portability.
  • The right to erase your personal data.
  • The right to object.
  • The right to restrict processing.

You also have the right to make a complaint at any time to data protection authority of your country. We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the authorities, so please contact us in the first instance.

Who to contact for subject access rights?

If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us [email protected]. You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we could refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.

We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.

We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it could take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.