Privacy Statement

This Privacy Statement describes the type of personal details collected by Vion N.V. and/or its subsidiaries (“Vion”), for which purposes this is done and how the personal details are used, consulted, disclosed or otherwise processed and protected. More information on Vion can be found at https://www.vionfoodgroup.com/about-vion.

In this Privacy Statement, “personal details” is understood to mean all information or pieces of information on the basis of which you can be identified, including but not limited to your name, address, e-mail address and telephone number.

Applicability

This Privacy Statement applies to all personal details collected by Vion during interactions between you and Vion in connection with the services it offers, including but not limited to all offline and online data collections of all personal details. This Privacy Statement forms a part of the Terms of Use of the Vion website.

Your consent

Vion will only collect, use, consult, disclose or otherwise process personal details in accordance with the applicable legislation and regulations. Personal details will be processed in accordance with our privacy policy. We will explicitly request your permission to process the personal details provided by you to Vion. If you give us permission to process your personal details, you also declare that all of the personal details you have provided are correct.

Children

The Vion website and those of its affiliated companies are built for use by adults. If you are younger than 16 years of age, you must discuss the terms of this Privacy Statement with a parent/guardian and obtain their permission as well as make sure that you understand and accept its contents. If we discover that we have processed the personal details of a minor without the permission of a parent/guardian when this permission was required, these personal details will be deleted as soon as possible. We may use your personal details to carry out an age check.

Personal details that we may collect on you

During your interactions with Vion, we may request or receive certain details from you, including but not limited to:
Your name;
Your postal address;
Your telephone number;
Your e-mail address;
Your IP address;
Your gender;
Your use of and activities on the Vion website;

Other data relating to your online activities on our website, including but not limited to traffic data and location data.

We may also collect personal details through the use of cookies or similar technologies, including but not limited to:
Your IP address;
Your cookie ID;
Your web browser;
Your location;
The web pages that you visit on the Vion website.

In addition, we may request or receive the above information if you provide it by filling out forms on our website for the purpose of:
(1) receiving information;
(2) taking part in a competition or promotion organised by us or by one of our affiliated companies;
(3) reporting a problem with our website;
(4) taking part in surveys that we use for research purposes;

Data-processing purposes

Your details are processed for the following purposes:

• to ensure that the content of our website is presented as effectively as possible for you and your computer;
• to provide you with information, products or services that you request from us or in which we think you may be interested and in respect of which you have given your consent to be approached for this purpose;
• fulfilling our obligations arising from agreements between you and us;
• allowing you to make use of interactive elements of our services at any time you choose;
• keeping you informed about changes to/in our services.

If you fill in a contact form on the Vion website or send us an e-mail, the data you send to us will be retained for as long as the nature of the contact form or content of your e-mail requires to fully answer or deal with the same.

Disclosure of your personal details

Your details may be disclosed or made available to (or used on behalf of) Vion or third parties in the following circumstances:

• to answer your questions/respond to a request for information;
• if we sell or buy a company or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal details to the prospective seller or buyer of the company or assets in question;
• if (parts of) Vion or almost all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case the personal details of customers processed by Vion form part of the assets being transferred;
• if we are obliged to disclose or share your personal details in order to comply with a legal obligation;
• to comply with our Terms of Use and other agreements or to protect the rights, property or safety of Vion, our customers or third parties. This includes but is not limited to the exchange of information with other companies, organisations and (enforcement) authorities in order to prevent fraud or misuse and to limit credit risks.

Uploading material onto our website

If you post unsolicited ideas, information and/or materials in the form of but not limited to text, images, sounds or software (“Material”) on this website or upload, e-mail or otherwise send such Material to Vion, Vion is fully within its rights to use, copy, distribute and/or commercially exploit this Material free of charge and without limits, and Vion is not bound by any confidentiality obligation in relation to this Material. Vion has the right to disclose your identity to third parties that claim that the material you have posted on or uploaded to our website infringes any right vested in these third parties, such as intellectual property rights or the right to privacy.

Your rights

Once you have provided us with your personal details, you have the right to request Vion to rectify or delete such personal details or to restrict the processing of your personal details. You also have the right to object to the processing of your personal details and you have the right to data portability. You may at any time object to the use of your personal details for direct marketing purposes. You may also request to view your personal details at any time. To do this, you may contact receptie.boxtel@vionfood.com stating you name, company name (if applicable) and address. By submitting a data inspection request, you declare that you have the right to view the personal details to which you are requesting access.

At any time you choose, you may withdraw your consent to Vion for processing of your personal details. Withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of details already processed based on your consent prior to their withdrawal. Should you have a complaint about the processing of personal details by Vion, you have the right to submit this complaint to the supervisory authority, namely the Dutch Data Protection Authority.

Security of personal details

We take every reasonable precaution to secure and protect the personal details you provide to us. We demand the same of third parties that process or handle personal details for us.

Linked sites

Our websites may contain links to and from other websites in our partner network, advertisers, affiliated companies and other third parties. If you follow a link to one of these websites, you should be aware that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we accept no responsibility or liability whatsoever for these policies. Please read the respective policy before providing personal details to these websites.

Changes to our Privacy Statement

We reserve the right to make adjustments to this Privacy Statement. Any changes that we make to our Privacy Statement will be published on this website.

Contact

Please feel free to contact us with any questions or comments you may have, or to request information. Please send these to receptie.boxtel@vionfood.com stating your name, company name and address. If your question needs to be answered by a member of staff that works for Vion or one of our suppliers outside the EEA, it is possible that the data we collect on you may have to be sent to and stored at a location outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”) .