Privacy policy & Terms and conditions

PRIVACY POLICY

Purpose Path respects the privacy of its website visitors, in particular their rights regarding the automatic processing of personal data. We have therefore formulated and implemented a policy on complete transparency with our customers regarding the processing of personal data, its purpose(s) and the possibilities to exercise your legal rights in the best possible way.

If you require any additional information about the protection of personal data, please visit the website of the Dutch Data Protection Authority (Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens): https://autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl/nl.

Until you accept the use of cookies and other tracking devices, we will not place any non-anonymised analytical cookies and / or tracking cookies on your computer, mobile phone or tablet.

With the continued visit of this website you accept these terms of use and you accept the use of cookies and other tracking systems, unless we have provided for another method of accepting cookies on our website.

The current available version of this privacy policy is the only version that applies while visiting our website until a new version replaces the current version.

Article 1 – Definitions

  1. Website (hereinafter: “Website”) www.purposepath.nl.
  2. Party responsible for processing personal data (hereinafter: “the controller”): Purpose Path, established at Treslonglaan 84, 2548 RP Den Haag, The Netherlands, Chamber of Commerce number: 75801329   .

Article 2 – Access to the website

Access to and use of the website are strictly personal. You will refrain from using the data and information of this website for your own commercial, political or advertising purposes, as well as for any commercial offers, in particular unsolicited electronic offers.

Article 3 – Website content 

All brands, images, texts, comments, illustrations (animated) images, video images, sounds and all the technical applications that can be used to operate this website and more generally all the components used on this website, are protected by the laws on intellectual property. Any reproduction, repetition, use or modification, by any means whatsoever, of all or just part of it, including technical applications, without the prior written permission of the controller, is strictly prohibited. The fact that the controller may not take immediate action against any infringement, can not be considered as a tacit consent, nor of a waiver of any right to prosecute the infringing party.

Article 4 – Management of the website

For the purpose of proper management of the site, the controller may at any time:

  • suspend, interrupt, reduce or decline the access to the website for a particular category of visitors
  • delete all information that may disrupt the functioning of the website or conflicts with national or international laws or is contrary to internet etiquette
  • make the website temporarily unavailable in order to perform updates

Article 5 – Responsibilities

  1. The controller is not liable for any failure, disturbances, difficulties or interruptions in the functioning of the website, causing the (temporary) inaccessibility of the website or of any of its functionalities. You, yourself, are responsible for the way you seek connection to our website. You need to take all appropriate steps to protect your equipment and data against hazards such as virus attacks on the Internet. Furthermore, you are responsible for which websites you visit and what information you seek.
  2. The controller is not liable for any legal proceedings taken against you:
  • because of the use of the website or services accessible via the Internet
  • for violating the terms of this privacy policy
  1. The controller is not liable for any damages that incur to you or third parties or your equipment, as a result of your connection to or use of the website and you will refrain from any subsequent (legal) action against the controller.
  2. If the controller is involved in a dispute because of your (ab)use of this website, he is entitled to (re)claim all subsequent damages from you.

Article 6 – Collection of data

  1. Your personal data will be collected by (an) external processor(s).
  2. Personal data means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’).
  3. 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 factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person.
  4. The personal data that are collected on the website are used mainly by the collector in order to maintain a (commercial) relationship with you and if applicable in order to process your orders. They are recorded in an (electronic) register.

Article 7 – Your rights regarding information

  1. Pursuant to Article 13 paragraph 2 sub b GDPR each data subject has the right to information on and access to, and rectification, erasure and restriction of processing of his personal data, as well as the right to object to the processing and the right to data portability.
  2. You can exercise these rights by contacting us at hello@purposepath.nl.
  3. Each request must be accompanied by a copy of a valid ID, on which you put your signature and state the address where we can contact you.
  4. Within one month of the submitted request, you will receive an answer from us.
  5. Depending on the complexity and the number of the requests this period may be extended to two months.

Article 8 – Legal obligations

  1. In case of infringement of any law or regulation, of which a visitor is suspected and for which the authorities require the personal data collected by the collector, they will be provided to them after an explicit and reasoned request of those authorities, after which these personal data do not fall anymore under the protection of the provisions of this Privacy policy.
  2. If any information is necessary in order to obtain access to certain features of the website, the controller will indicate the mandatory nature of this information when requesting these data.

Article 9 – Collected data and commercial offers

  1. You may receive commercial offers from the collector. If you do not wish to receive them (anymore), please send us an email to the following address: hello@purposepath.nl.
  2. Your personal data will not be used by our partners for commercial purposes.
  3. If you encounter any personal data from other data subjects while visiting our website, you are to refrain from collection, any unauthorized use or any other act that constitutes an infringement of the privacy of the data subject(s) in question. The collector is not responsible in these circumstances.

Article 10 – Data retention

The collected data are used and retained for the duration determined by law.

Article 11 – Cookies

  1. A cookie is a small text file placed on the hard drive of your electronic device upon visiting our website. A cookie contains data so you can be recognized as a visitor when you are visiting our website. It enables us to adjust to your needs and it facilitates you to log in on our website. When you visit our website, we inform you about the use of cookies. By continuing to use our website you accept its use, unless we ask permission by other means. Your consent is valid for a period of thirteen months.
  2. We use the following types of cookies on our website:

– Functional cookies: like session and login cookies to collect session and login information.

– Anonymised Analytic cookies: to obtain information regarding the visits to our website, like numbers of visitors, popular pages and topics. In this way we can adjust our communication and information to the needs of our visitors. We can not see who visits our sites or from which personal device the visit has taken place.

– Non-anonymised Analytic cookies: to obtain information regarding the visits to our website, like the number of visitors, popular pages and topics. In this way we can adjust our communication and information to the needs of our visitors.

– Tracking Cookies: like advertising cookies that are intended to show relevant advertisements. By using these cookies we may deduce your personal interests. Thus (other) organisations may show you targeted advertisements when you visit their website. Tracking cookies make profiling possible and treat categories of people differently when targeting advertisements. Tracking cookies usually process personal data.

  1. Specifically, we use the following cookies on our website:

Anonymised Google Analytics (analytical cookie)

Google Analytics (analytical cookie)

Adobe (analytical cookie)

Facebook (tracking cookie)

Google Adwords (tracking cookie)

  1. When you visit our website, cookies from the controller and / or third parties may be installed on your equipment.
  2. For more information about using, managing and deleting cookies for each electronic device, we invite you to consult the following link:  https://autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl/nl/onderwerpen/internet-telefoon-tv-en-post / cookies # faq

Article 12 – Imagery and products offered

You cannot derive any rights from the imagery that accompanies any offered product on our website.

Article 13 – Applicable Law

These conditions are governed by Dutch law. The court in the district where the collector has its place of business has the sole jurisdiction if any dispute regarding these conditions may arise, save when a legal exception applies.

Article 14 – Contact

For questions, product information or information about the website itself, please contact: Letizia Luijs, letizia@purposepath.nl.

GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS 

Definitions

  1. Purpose Path: Purpose Path, established in Den Haag, Chamber of Commerce no. 75801329.
  2. Customer: the person with whom Purpose Path has entered into an agreement.
  3. Parties: Purpose Path and customer together.
  4. Consumer: a customer who is an individual acting for private purposes.

Applicability

  1. These terms and conditions will apply to all quotations, offers, activities, orders, agreements and deliveries of services or products by or on behalf of Purpose Path.
  2. Parties can only deviate from these conditions if they have explicitly agreed upon in writing.
  3. The parties expressly exclude the applicability of supplementary and/or deviating general terms and conditions of the customer or of third parties.

Offers and quotations

  1. Offers and quotations from Purpose Path are without engagement, unless expressly stated otherwise.
  2. An offer or quotation is valid for a maximum period of 1 month from its date, unless another acceptance period is stated in the offer or quotation.
  3. If the customer does not accept an offer or quotation within the applicable time frame, the offer or quotation will lapse.
  4. Offers and quotations do not apply to repeated orders, unless the parties have agreed upon this explicitly and in writing.

Acceptance

  1. Upon acceptance of a quotation or offer without engagement, Purpose Path reserves the right to withdraw the quotation or offer within 3 days after receipt of the acceptance, without any obligations towards the customer.
  2. Verbal acceptance of the customer only commits Purpose Path after the customer has confirmed this in writing (or electronically).

Prices

  1. All prices used by Purpose Path are in euros, are exclusive of VAT and exclusive of any other costs such as administration costs, levies and travel-, shipping- or transport expenses, unless expressly stated otherwise or agreed otherwise.
  2. Purpose Path is entitled to adjust all prices for its products or services, shown in its shop, on its website or otherwise, at any time.
  3. The price with regard to services is determined by Purpose Path on the basis of the actual working hours.
  4. The price is calculated according to the usual hourly rates of Purpose Path, valid for the period in which he carries out the work, unless a different hourly rate has been agreed.
  5. If the parties have agreed on a total amount for a service provided by Purpose Path, this is always a target price, unless the parties have explicitly agreed upon in writing on a fixed price, which can not be deviated from.
  6. Purpose Path is entitled to deviate up to 10% of the target price.
  7. If the target price exceeds 10%, Purpose Path must let the customer know in due time why a higher price is justified.
  8. If the target price exceeds 10%, the customer has the right to cancel the part of the order that exceeds the target price by 10%.
  9. Purpose Path has the right to adjust prices annually Purpose Path.
  10. Purpose Path will communicate price adjustments to the customer prior to the moment the price increase becomes effective.
  11. The consumer has the right to terminate the contract with Purpose Path if he does not agree with the price increase.

Consequences of late payment

  1. If the customer does not pay within the agreed term, Purpose Path is entitled to charge an interest of 1% per month from the day the customer is in default, whereby a part of a month is counted for a whole month.
  2. When the customer is in default, he is also due to extrajudicial collection costs and may be obliged to pay any compensation to Purpose Path.
  3. The collection costs are calculated on the basis of the Reimbursement for extrajudicial collection costs.
  4. If the customer does not pay on time, Purpose Path may suspend its obligations until the customer has met his payment obligation.
  5. In the event of liquidation, bankruptcy, attachment or suspension of payment on behalf of the customer, the claims of Purpose Path on the customer are immediately due and payable.
  6. If the customer refuses to cooperate with the performance of the agreement by Purpose Path, he is still obliged to pay the agreed price to Purpose Path.

Suspension of obligations by the customer

The customer waives the right to suspend the fulfillment of any obligation arising from this agreement.

Settlement 

The customer waives his right to settle any debt to Purpose Path with any claim on Purpose Path.

Insurance

  1. The customer undertakes to insure and keep insured the following items adequately against fire, explosion and water damage as well as theft:
    • goods delivered that are necessary for the execution of the underlying agreement
    • goods being property of Purpose Path that are present at the premises of the customer
    • goods that have been delivered under retention of title
  2. At the first request of Purpose Path, the customer provides the policy for these insurances for inspection.

Guarantee

When parties have entered into an agreement with services included, these services only contain best-effort obligations for Purpose Path, not obligations of results.

Performance of the agreement

  1. Purpose Path executes the agreement to the best of its knowledge and ability and in accordance with the requirements of good workmanship.
  2. Purpose Path has the right to have the agreed services (partially) performed by third parties.
  3. The execution of the agreement takes place in mutual consultation and after written agreement and payment of the possibly agreed advance by the customer.
  4. It is the responsibility of the customer that Purpose Path can start the implementation of the agreement on time.
  5. If the customer has not ensured that Purpose Path can start the implementation of the agreement in time, the resulting additional costs and/or extra hours will be charged to the customer.

Duty to inform by the customer

  1. The customer shall make available to Purpose Path all information, data and documents relevant to the correct execution of the agreement to in time and in the desired format and manner.
  2. The customer guarantees the correctness, completeness and reliability of the information, data and documents made available, even if they originate from third parties, unless otherwise ensuing from the nature of the agreement.
  3. If and insofar as the customer requests this, Purpose Path will return the relevant documents.
  4. If the customer does not timely and properly provides the information, data or documents reasonably required by Purpose Path and the execution of the agreement is delayed because of this, the resulting additional costs and extra hours will be charged to the customer.

Duration of the agreement

  1. The agreement between Purpose Path and the customer is entered into for an indefinite period of time, unless it results otherwise from the nature of the agreement or the parties have expressly agreed otherwise in writing.
  2. If a fixed-term contract has been entered into, it will be tacitly converted into an open-ended contract at the end of the term, unless 1 of the parties terminates the contract with due observance of a notice period of 2 month(s), or if a consumer terminates the agreement with due observance of a notice period of 1 month / the agreement ends at the end of the fixed term.
  3. If the parties have agreed upon a term for the completion of certain activities, this is never a strict deadline, unless specified explicitly otherwise in writing. If this term is exceeded, the customer must give Purpose Path a written reasonable term to terminate the activities, before it may either terminate the contract or claim damages.

Cancellation of the contract for an indefinite period of time

  1. The customer can terminate an agreement that has been concluded for an indefinite period at any time with due observance of a notice period of 2 months.
  2. A consumer has the right to terminate an agreement for an indefinite period with due observance of a notice period of 1 month.

Confidentiality

  1. The client keeps any information he receives (in whatever form) from Purpose Path confidential.
  2. The same applies to all other information concerning Purpose Path of which he knows or can reasonably suspect that it is secret or confidential, or of which it can expect that its disclosure may cause damage to Purpose Path.
  3. The customer takes all necessary measures to ensure that he keeps the information referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 secret.
  4. The obligation of secrecy described in this article does not apply to information:
    • which was already made public before the customer heard this information or which later became public without being the result of a violation of the customer’s duty to confidentiality
    • which is made public by the customer due to a legal obligation
  5. The confidentiality obligation described in this article applies for the duration of the underlying agreement and for a period of 3 years after the end thereof.

Penalties

  1. If the customer violates the articles of these general terms and conditions about secrecy or intellectual property, then he forfeits on behalf of Purpose Path an immediately due and payable fine of € 1000 if the customer is a consumer and € 5000 if the customer is a company,for each violation and in addition an amount of 5% of the aforementioned amount for each day that this violation continues.
  2. No actual damage, prior notice of default or legal proceedings are required in forfeiting the fine referred to in the first paragraph of this article.
  3. The forfeiture of the fine referred to in the first paragraph of this article shall not affect the other rights of Purpose Path including its right to claim compensation in addition to the fine.

Indemnity

The customer indemnifies Purpose Path against all third-party claims that are related to the products and/or services supplied by Purpose Path.

Complaints

  1. The customer must examine a product or service provided by Purpose Path as soon as possible for possible shortcomings.
  2. If a delivered product or service does not comply with what the customer could reasonably expect from the agreement, the customer must inform Purpose Path of this as soon as possible, but in any case within 1 months after discovery of the shortcomings.
  3. Consumers must inform Purpose Path of this within two months after detection of the shortcomings.
  4. The customer gives a detailed description as possible of the shortcomings, so that Purpose Path is able to respond adequately.
  5. The customer must demonstrate that the complaint relates to an agreement between the parties.
  6. If a complaint relates to ongoing work, this can in any case not lead to Purpose Path being forced to perform other work than has been agreed.
  7. If the customer is dissatisfied with the services provided by Purpose Path, the customer will inform Purpose Path of this as soon as possible and parties will try to come to a satisfying solution together.
  8. If the route followed in paragraph 1 does not lead to a satisfactory solution, the customer can submit a complaint to ZZP Nederland.

Giving notice

  1. The customer must provide any notice of default to Purpose Path in writing.
  2. It is the responsibility of the customer that a notice of default actually reaches Purpose Path (in time).

Joint and several Client liabilities

If Purpose Path enters into an agreement with several customers, each of them shall be jointly and severally liable for the full amounts due to Purpose Path under that agreement.

Liability of Purpose Path

  1. Purpose Path is only liable for any damage the customer suffers if and insofar as this damage is caused by intent or gross negligence.
  2. If Purpose Path is liable for any damage, it is only liable for direct damages that results from or is related to the execution of an agreement.
  3. Purpose Path is never liable for indirect damages, such as consequential loss, lost profit, lost savings or damage to third parties.
  4. If Purpose Path is liable, its liability is limited to the amount paid by a closed (professional) liability insurance and in the absence of (full) payment by an insurance company of the damages the amount of the liability is limited to the (part of the) invoice to which the liability relates.
  5. All images, photos, colors, drawings, descriptions on the website or in a catalog are only indicative and are only approximate and can not lead to any compensation and/or (partial) dissolution of the agreement and/or suspension of any obligation.

Expiry period

Every right of the customer to compensation from Purpose Path shall, in any case, expire within 12 months after the event from which the liability arises directly or indirectly. This does not exclude the provisions in article 6:89 of the Dutch Civil Code.

Dissolution

  1. The customer has the right to dissolve the agreement if Purpose Path imputably fails in the fulfillment of his obligations, unless this shortcoming does not justify termination due to its special nature or because it is of minor significance.
  2. If the fulfillment of the obligations by Purpose Path is not permanent or temporarily impossible, dissolution can only take place after Purpose Path is in default.
  3. Purpose Path has the right to dissolve the agreement with the customer, if the customer does not fully or timely fulfill his obligations under the agreement, or if circumstances give Purpose Path good grounds to fear that the customer will not be able to fulfill his obligations properly.

Force majeure

  1. In addition to the provisions of article 6:75 Dutch Civil Code, a shortcoming of Purpose Path in the fulfillment of any obligation to the customer cannot be attributed to Purpose Path in any situation independent of the will of Purpose Path, when the fulfillment of its obligations towards the customer is prevented in whole or in part or when the fulfillment of its obligations cannot reasonably be required from Purpose Path .
  2. The force majeure situation referred to in paragraph 1 is also applicable – but not limited to: state of emergency (such as civil war, insurrection, riots, natural disasters, etc.); defaults and force majeure of suppliers, deliverymen or other third parties; unexpected disturbances of power, electricity, internet, computer or telecoms; computer viruses, strikes, government measures, unforeseen transport problems, bad weather conditions and work stoppages.
  3. If a situation of force majeure arises as a result of which Purpose Path cannot fulfill one or more obligations towards the customer, these obligations will be suspended until Purpose Path can comply with it.
  4. From the moment that a force majeure situation has lasted at least 30 calendar days, both parties may dissolve the agreement in writing in whole or in part.
  5. Purpose Path does not owe any (damage) compensation in a situation of force majeure, even if it has obtained any advantages as a result of the force majeure situation.

Modification of the agreement

If, after the conclusion of the agreement and before its implementation, it appears necessary to change or supplement its contents, the parties shall timely and in mutual consultation adjust the agreement accordingly.

Changes in the general terms and conditions

  1. Purpose Path is entitled to amend or supplement these general terms and conditions.
  2. Changes of minor importance can be made at any time.
  3. Major changes in content will be discussed by Purpose Path with the customer in advance as much as possible.
  4. Consumers are entitled to cancel the agreement in the event of a substantial change to the general terms and conditions.

Transfer of rights

  1. The customer can not transfer its rights deferring from an agreement with Purpose Path to third parties without the prior written consent of Purpose Path .
  2. This provision applies as a clause with a property law effect as referred to in Section 3:83 (2) Dutch Civil Code.

Consequences of nullity or annullability

  1. If one or more provisions of these general terms and conditions prove null or annullable, this will not affect the other provisions of these terms and conditions.
  2. A provision that is null or annullable shall, in that case, be replaced by a provision that comes closest to what Purpose Path had in mind when drafting the conditions on that issue.

Applicable law and competent court

  1. Dutch law is exclusively applicable to all agreements between the parties.
  2. The Dutch court in the district where Purpose Path is established is exclusively competent in case of any disputes between parties, unless the law prescribes otherwise.

Drawn up on 01 september 2019.