Last update: December 16, 2023
Dutch Type Library is committed to providing quality services to you and this policy outlines our ongoing obligations to you in respect of how we manage your Personal Information. The security and confidentiality of your Personal Information is very important to us. Below you will find information about how we process your data and the measures taken to protect your privacy as a user of this website. The following topics are discussed in this document:
1. Legal Validity
2. Data Encryption
3. Cookies
4. Personal Information
5. Order Processing
6. Rights
7. Disclaimer
8. Contact
1. Legal Validity
This data-protection declaration is to be regarded as part of the offering on our website. If parts or individual formulations of this text do not, or no longer fully correspond to the current legal situation, the remaining parts of the text remain unaffected in terms of content and validity. Unless otherwise stated below, the provision of your personal data is neither legally nor contractually obligated nor required for the use of this website.
1.1 You are not obliged to provide your Personal Information. However, every time this website is accessed, user data is transferred to us or our web hosts/IT service providers by your webbrowser and stored in server-log files. This stored data includes, for example, the date and time of the request, your IP address, the amount of data transferred, and the provider making the request.
2. Data Encryption
To protect the confidentiality of your Personal Information, we use the current state of data transmission when transmitting your information, i.e., encryption methods corresponding to the technology (ssl) via https.
3. Cookies
Cookies are text files placed on website-visitors’ computers or mobile devices to collect standard Internet log information and visitor behavior information. This allows websites, for example, to recognize devices and use of websites, but also when the user returns at a later time. In general, websites may automatically collect information about visitors through cookies or similar technology. Although we try to completely remove the cookies on the main pages of this website, that is with the exception of the dtl online boutiques, they may sometimes contain traces of some old statistical cookies for internal analysis of traffic on our server and by Google and Alexa for that goal. Our online boutiques uses cookies to remember the contents of your shopping carts. Cookies can be deleted from the browser cache at any time by the user.
3.1 We do not use cookies in any way to personalize content and ads or to provide social-media features. We also do not share information about your use of our website with social media, advertising, and analytics companies –or any other third party who may combine this information with other information provided to them or collected through your use of their services.
4. Personal Information
Personal Information is all data relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. An identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier, or to one or more special features, or expressions identifying physical, physiological, genetic, economic, cultural, or social identity of that natural person.
4.1 On our website we offer the option to register by providing Personal Information. The registration serves to better serve you as a user, for example to carry out pre-contractual measures. The processing of Personal Information may take place with or without the assistance of it systems and includes the following activities: collection, recording, organization, storage, adaptation or modification, reading, retrieval, use, disclosure by transmission, distribution or any other form of provision, comparison or linking, limitation, removal, or destruction. All data collected here will be treated strictly confidential within our area of responsibility in accordance with the provisions of the European General Data Protection Regulation (gdpr).
4.2 We process the Personal Information that you provide to us via our website, for example via our contact form, exclusively for correspondence with you and only for the purpose for which you made the data available to us. Your Personal Information transmitted to us via our website will only be retained until the purpose for which it was entrusted to us has been fulfilled and storage is necessary. To the extent that commercial, tax, or administrative retention periods must be observed, the retention period for certain data may be up to 6 or 10 years.
4.3 We will take reasonable steps to make sure that your Personal Information is accurate, complete, and up-to-date. If you find that the information we have is not up to date or is inaccurate, please advise us as soon as practicable so we can update our records and ensure we can continue to provide quality services to you.
5. Order Processing
We collect and process your Personal Information as part of an ordering process in our online boutiques, so that you can select and order the fonts, software, and printed publications offered, as well as arrange their payment and delivery. This information includes data such as surname, first name, date of birth, delivery and billing address, e-mail address, and information about your chosen payment method. The data collected here is always encrypted and transmitted to us and, if necessary for the process, to service providers who are contractually bound to us, such as transport and/or payment-service providers.
5.1 We use the services of ShopFactory / Santu Pty Ltd. for the processing of dtl boutique orders. This includes the use of the PayPal Check-Out payment service, including for the processing of credit cards. When selecting and using payment via PayPal, the data required for payment processing will be transmitted to PayPal in order to fulfill the contract with you with the selected payment method. When selecting and using payment via ideal, the data required for payment processing will be transmitted to the bank in question in order to fulfill the contract with you.
6. Rights
If you have given your consent for the processing of your Personal Information, you have the right to object to processing at any time for the future. If you no longer agree to the processing or storage of your Personal Information or if your data is incorrect, you have the right to correct, restrict, or delete processing. Upon your request or revocation, we will make the necessary corrections insofar as this is possible under applicable law.
7. Disclaimer
All information on this website has been checked with great care. However, we do not guarantee that the content of our own website is correct, complete and current at all times. Material changes to this data protection declaration can be updated online here, if applicable. Moreover, we occasionally refer to third-party websites. Although we carefully select these third parties, we cannot accept liability for the accuracy or completeness of the content or data security of third-party websites. This data-protection agreement also does not apply to linked third-party websites.
8. Contact
The person responsible for data processing is:
Dr. Frank E. Blokland
Zwaenenstede 49
5221 kc ’s-Hertogenbosch
The Netherlands
+31 (0)73 614 95 36
blokland[at]dutchtypelibrary.com