Privacy Statement

Louwers Mediagroep BV in Weert (NL)

and

Louwers Mediagroep BVBA in Oostkamp (B)

Louwers Mediagroep BV Schatbeurderlaan 6 6002 ED WEERT www.louwersmediagroep.nl Trade Register Roermond, Chamber of Commerce number 13032407

Louwers Mediagroep BVBA Kapellestraat 132/1 Building-G 8020 Oostkamp www.louwersmediagroep.be Company number 0466.871.886

Below you will find the official privacy statement of Louwers Mediagroep in Weert (NL) and Louwers Mediagroep in Oostkamp (B), hereinafter referred to as “Louwers”. This privacy statement is drawn up in accordance with the legal provisions such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Louwers attaches great importance to your privacy. Louwers processes personal data in accordance with the GDPR and other privacy laws and regulations.

Louwers can collect personal or company data in the following ways:

• Because Louwers has received the data from you: For example, you provide data to Louwers when you contact Louwers by email, phone, in writing or via a contact form on the website, when you enter into an agreement with Louwers, when you subscribe to Louwers or when you sign up for a newsletter.
• Because a third party has provided the data to Louwers: The company you work for may provide your data to Louwers because you are the contact person. If Louwers collects personal data in such a case, it only concerns contact details, such as name, email address and phone number.

It is also possible that Louwers receives personal or company data from a third party if the third party has provided it because you or your company has participated in a project and Louwers wishes to contact you or your company regarding writing an editorial article about the relevant project. If Louwers collects personal data in such a case, it only concerns contact details, such as name, email address and phone number.

• By gathering data that is published online, such as on a social media website or a website with company information: If Louwers collects personal data in such a case, it only concerns contact details, such as name, email address and phone number.

Louwers may process the following personal and company data, depending on the contact options you use and/or your contractual relationship with Louwers:

• Company name
• Contact details, such as first and last name, address, postcode, city, country, phone number and email address
• Login details for the account of the customer portal of Louwers
• Role within the company where you are employed
• Payment and invoice details
• Registration number at the Chamber of Commerce
• VAT number

If you wish to subscribe to a magazine from Louwers as a private individual, providing personal data is a contractual obligation. Without providing personal data, the subscription cannot be concluded and the magazine cannot be sent to you. Louwers does not process special personal data.

The various magazines of Louwers each have their own website and newsletter system. Louwers regularly sends newsletters by email. Newsletters are only sent to you if you have subscribed to them or if the newsletter relates to services/products that are the same or similar to the service/product you have already received from Louwers and you have not objected to the use of your email address for sending newsletters. If you no longer wish to receive newsletters, you can use the legally required unsubscribe link included in every newsletter from Louwers.

Louwers does not retain your data longer than necessary for the purposes for which the data is processed. If you have entered into an agreement with Louwers, Louwers will not retain your data for more than 5 years after the agreement has ended, unless it is necessary to comply with a legal retention obligation, as stated in laws and regulations such as those from the Tax Authorities.

The websites of Louwers use cookies. Cookies are small information files that can be automatically stored on or read from your device (including a PC, tablet or smartphone) when visiting a website. This happens via the web browser on the device.

Cookies are used on the websites of Louwers to:

• enable functionalities of the website and to protect the website (functional cookies);
• analyse the use of the website and based on that improve the website (analytical cookies).

Additionally, cookies are used on the websites of Louwers to track statistics, allowing Louwers to gain insight into the use of its website and its effectiveness. By using analytical cookies, Louwers processes data about the use of the website such as the number of visitors, the amount of time spent on certain web pages on the website, country location, the type of device used to access the website, performance statistics and similar data. If Louwers uses privacy-sensitive analytical cookies, they are only used if you have given consent.

Most cookies have an expiration date. This means that they automatically expire after a certain period and no longer register data from your site visit. You can also choose to manually delete the cookies before the expiration date has passed. For more information on this, you can consult your browser's manual.

If you have any questions, comments or complaints following this privacy statement or about how Louwers handles your personal data, or if you wish to exercise any of the aforementioned rights regarding your personal data, you can contact Louwers in the following ways:

For the Netherlands email: info@louwersmediagroep.nl tel: +31 495 45 00 95 For Belgium email: info@louwersmediagroep.be tel: + 32 50 36 81 70

If you invoke one or more of your rights regarding your personal data, Louwers may ask for additional information if Louwers doubts whether they are dealing with the correct person, and Louwers will inform you within 1 month of receiving the request about the outcome of the request.

If Louwers corrects, supplements or deletes your personal data at your request, or terminates or restricts the processing of the personal data, Louwers will inform you of this.

If you believe that the processing of your personal data by Louwers is not in accordance with this privacy statement and/or with the applicable laws and regulations, you can file a complaint with the Dutch Data Protection Authority or with a supervisory authority in the country where you reside or are established.