1. General

In this privacy statement Honinggids provides information about the processing of personal data. Honinggids is located Nemelaerstraat 44, 5076 AR Haaren and registered at the Dutch Chamber of Commerce under number 66135508. You may contact Honinggids via email: info@honinggids.nl

Honinggids is controller of the personal data that Honinggids generates or gathers via its website (www.honinggids.nl ), its online services, e-mail, SMS, and apps.

This privacy statement applies to the visitors of the website of Honinggids, the users of the online services of Honinggids the clients of Honinggidsand all persons of whom Honinggids processes and uses personal data with the exception of the persons employed by Honinggids. This privacy statement applies in addition to any data processing agreements Honinggids concluded with its clients

  1. Personal data

The personal data Honinggids processes and uses are (a) personal data you have submitted or provided via the website Honinggids, online services of Honinggids, e-mail, SMS, apps or in another way directly or indirectly have provided (b) personal data that are generated by receiving electronic messages of Honinggids or your use the of the website of Honinggids, online services of Honinggids, apps or similar applications.

Examples of personal data that you submit or provide to us using the online services of Honinggids: e-mail address, full name (first and family name), address, postal code, location and telephone number.

Examples of personal data are generated are: IP-address, surf behavior and other data regarding your use of the website of Honinggids, online services of Honinggids, apps or similar applications.

  1. Use of personal data

Honinggids uses personal data for different purposes, which are described here under:

The personal data obtained or generated via the website of Honinggids, the online services of Honinggids, e-mail, SMS, apps:

  • to deliver online services;
  • to contact or keep contact with persons;
  • to send newsletters, mailings or other relevant information or invitations for events;
  • to inform persons about products and services of Honinggids;
  • to inform persons about new developments and to share knowledge;
  • to generate statistics on the use of the website and/or online services of Honinggids and/or to analyse and/or improve the website and/or online services of Honinggids
  1. Using third parties

Honinggids may use third parties if it is required to deliver services, to support its operations (e.g. ICT-providers or business partners) or to comply with legal obligations. The third parties used by Honinggids will only process the personal data on the request and instructions of Honinggids. Honinggidswill conclude a data processing agreement with those third parties.

  1. Transfer outside the EEU (European Economic Union)

Personal data will not be transferred outside the EEU.

  1. Cookies

The website and the online services of Honinggids use functional and analytical cookies. Cookies are small (text)files that are stored on your computer, tablet or smartphone when using a website.

The functional cookies are used to facilitate easy use and experience of the website and online services of Honinggids and to adapt the use to personal preferences. The analytical cookies are used to keep track with statistics of the use of the website and the online services of  Honinggids. Honinggids uses Google Analytics from Google, Inc. to this end. Honinggids has installed  Google Analytics cookies in a ‘privacy friendly’ mode, in line with the user manual of the Dutch Data Protection Authority (‘Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens’). This implies that the data collected by using Google Analytics are made anonymous as much as possible and that Google will never process the full IP, always masking the last octet of the IP-address.  Google will not use the collected data for its own purposes as Honinggids has not granted its permission to do so. Honinggids does not use other Google-services in combination with the Google Analytics-cookies. The collected data are stored by Google on servers in the USA. Honinggids has concluded a processing agreement with Google, Inc. For more information: read the privacy policy of  Google Analytics. If you do not want to accept Google Analytics cookies please click here. You can also switch off cookies in the settings of your browser and refuse all or only specific cookies. Please take into account that when you do not accept specific cookies, you might not be able to use specific functionalities of the website and/or the online services and this can limit the user friendliness of the website and/or the online services.

  1. Correction/ deletion personal data/complaints
    1. Every person has the right to have access and inspect in his/her personal data and to correct, add or block his/her personal data. If the person involved wants to use these rights, or if he/she has questions about this Privacy statement he/she may contact Honinggids via email: info@honinggids.nl
    2. Recipients of news letters may unsubscribe by sending an email to: info@honinggids.nl
    3. If you have a complaint about the way Honinggids processes your personal data you may contact Honinggids via email: info@honinggids.nl . Should that not lead to a solution you may contact the Dutch Data Protection Authority ‘Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens’ (www.autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl).
    4. To ensure that your request to access and inspect your personal data is done by you personally, we request you to submit a copy of your passport/identity card to us. Please make black your photo, the MRZ (machine readable zone, the part in your passport with the numbers down below), passport numbers and social security number (‘Burgerservicenummer’) (BSN). This to protect and shield your privacy.
    5. Honinggidsuses a number of techniques to ensure that the availability of your data is optimized constantly. To do so, we make daily copies of the data in our systems. The removal of data from these copies is technically and practically unfeasible. In line with the advice of the supervisory authorities Honinggids will keep track of your request to remove personal data. We will ensure that the data will be removed as soon as possible from the active systems. In the back-up copies however, the data will be kept. By installing a specific procedure we have ensured that your data will not be put back or used in the active systems. For archive records we employ the same method
  2. Storage period
    1. Honinggids stores personal data no longer than required for the abovementioned purposes or as long as needed to comply with the laws and regulations.
  3. Security
    1. Honinggids has applied suitable technical and organizational measures to protect personal data from loss or unlawful processing, e.g. encrypting personal data, the use of passwords, sending personal data via a secured connection and the use of physical security for locations and rooms where personal data are stored.
  4. How we contact you
    1. Sometimes Honinggids may contact you for various purposes. Despite the specific purpose, we will never ask you to send us personal data via email, text messages or a website. We will also not ask you to share login details with us.
    2. Should you doubt the authenticity of a message you received form us, please contact us via email: info@honinggids.nl
    3. We recommend you to manually type the hyperlink to a webpage that you receive via an email or another electronic communication source in address bar of your web browser.
  5. Changes in the Privacy statement
    1. Honinggids reserves the right to change this Privacy statement. Every change will be communicated on this page. Honinggids recommends to regularly check this page to see whether changes have been made.
    2. The current privacy statement had been updated on November 16, 2025