Privacy statement

This is the privacy statement of Blaeu. You can contact us at:

Blaeu Privacy Response Team B.V.
Registered address (Chamber of Commerce; not a visiting address): Halfrond 73, 3071 PP Rotterdam, The Netherlands
team@blaeu.com

For meetings, see our visiting addresses.

We process the following personal data

Client contact and case information

• To provide advisory and expert-witness services, we collect clients' names, contact details, and information relevant to their matters.
• We do this to perform a contract (if the person is the client) or because we have a legitimate interest in doing so (if the person represents the client).
• We retain this data for the duration of the matter plus seven years.
• We may share this data with courts and others, such as lawyers of the other party, to perform our engagement with the client.

Supplier information

• To manage our business relationships, we collect company names, contact person details, and financial information of suppliers and service providers.
• We do this to perform the contract with our suppliers.
• We retain this data for the duration of the business relationship plus seven years.

Financial information

• To process payments and comply with tax laws, we collect bank details and payment information.
• We do this to perform the contract with our client (sending invoices) and legal obligation (preparing and submitting tax statements).
• We retain this data for seven years after the year an invoice is sent.
• We share some financial information with our tax consultant and with tax authorities.

Enquiries and correspondence

• When you email us about a possible assignment, we keep your name, contact details, and the correspondence.
• We do this to take steps at your request before a contract, or because we have a legitimate interest in answering business correspondence.
• If no assignment follows, we delete this data one year after the last contact.

Endorsements on this website

• The homepage quotes two people by name and role.
• We publish these endorsements with their consent. They can withdraw it at any time, and we then remove the endorsement.

Service providers

• We use service providers that process personal data on our behalf: Soverin for email (the Netherlands), statichost.eu for website hosting and server logs (EU), and Microsoft OneDrive for file storage.
• Soverin and statichost.eu keep data in the EU. Microsoft is a US company; where data leaves the EEA, the transfer relies on the EU-US Data Privacy Framework and standard contractual clauses.

We primarily collect data directly from you.

Your rights

Under the GDPR, you have the rights to access, rectify, erase (in certain circumstances), restrict processing of, and transfer your data, as well as to object to processing based on legitimate interests and withdraw consent (where applicable). Blaeu does not engage in solely automated decision-making or profiling. To exercise these rights, contact us using the details above. You can also lodge a complaint with the Dutch Data Protection Authority (Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens).

If there is an inconsistency between the Dutch and English-language version of this statement, the Dutch version takes precedence.