Privacy statement

Your data is protected. Summa uses the personal data you provide to perform its statutory duties. We adhere to the guidelines of the General Data Protection Regulation.

Summa processes personal data and uses cookies for this website. In this privacy regulations We inform you about the purposes for which this personal data is processed, how you can exercise your privacy rights, and other information that may be relevant to you when using this website. We believe it is very important that your privacy is protected. To provide you with the best possible service, we need your personal data. We process your personal data carefully and in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.

This privacy statement explains how Summa uses and protects the information you provide to Summa. If you are asked to provide certain information by which you can be identified, you can assume that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.

Summa's privacy statement may change if new developments require this. The most up-to-date privacy statement can always be found on our website. Please consult this page regularly.

This privacy statement was last modified on July 19, 2022.

Below you'll find the purposes for which we process your personal data, and what these data are. The purposes are:

• maintaining contacts with (potential) students, (potential) employees, customers and interested parties;
• communication via social media;
• internal files (including for registration);
• improving our training and services;
• Periodically approach you for marketing purposes, by email, telephone or post.

To properly perform the above tasks, we process the following categories of personal data:

• personal details such as name, address, place of residence, telephone number, citizen service number and e-mail address;
• technical data, such as the IP address and click and surfing behaviour.

How do we obtain your personal data?

You provide us with personal data yourself.

Summa only provides personal data to other organizations when necessary to comply with a law or public task. Summa always assesses every request against the applicable laws.

We consider the protection of the information you provide to be very important. To prevent unauthorized access or dissemination, we have appropriate physical and electronic procedures in place to safeguard the information we collect online.

Summa never retains your personal data longer than legally permitted. Furthermore, we delete your personal data when it is no longer needed for the purposes described above.

This website uses cookies. These are small, simple text files that your computer, tablet, or mobile phone receives when you visit our website. Cookies are used, for example, to store personal settings so you don't have to re-enter them on subsequent visits.

Most internet browsers offer you the option to block cookies or to notify you before they are placed. Cookies can also be deleted, but only you can do this yourself, as they are stored on your computer. Consult your browser's manual for more information.

This website uses Cookiebot. This plugin provides an up-to-date overview of the cookies used on this website. As a visitor, you can indicate which cookie categories you allow. You can then visit this site with the cookies you selected.

We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors use this website. The information Google collects is anonymized as much as possible. Your IP address is not shared. The information is transferred to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google may provide this information to third parties if legally required to do so, or if third parties process the information on Google's behalf. We have no control over this.

This site uses Google Display, AdWords, Facebook, and Instagram, among other services, to display targeted and relevant advertisements. For this purpose, visits to the public pages of our website are anonymously recorded to enable us to display relevant advertisements, for example, through remarketing. These companies may send and store this information on servers in the United States. They may provide this information to third parties if legally required to do so, or if third parties process the information on their behalf. We have no control over this.

This site includes buttons to promote or share pages on social networks like Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube. These buttons are implemented by code provided by these social networks themselves. This code can place cookies. Please read the privacy policies of Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, AddThis, and YouTube (which may change periodically) to see how they handle your personal data collected with this code.

Our website may contain links to other websites. Please be aware that once you leave our website, we have no control over the website you have linked to. Therefore, we are in no way responsible for the security and privacy of any information you provide while visiting another website. Other websites are also not covered by this privacy statement. We encourage you to exercise caution when providing information and advise you to consult the privacy statement of the website in question.

Access, correction, deletion and objection

You can request Summa to correct or delete your personal data. You can also object to its use. The right of access allows you to submit a request to determine which personal data Summa processes. The right of correction allows you to correct and supplement incorrect or incomplete data. You can also request us to delete certain personal data. The right to object allows you to request that we stop processing your data.

You can submit a request as a data subject, authorized representative, or legal representative. We will then assess your request. Within eight weeks, we will send you an overview of your data as it is known to us. You can send the request, along with a copy of a valid ID, to the address below. You will receive a copy of your ID in return. If applicable, we require a copy of an authorization or document proving legal representation, such as a passport, marriage certificate, or court order.

Summa
attn Privacy officer
P.O. Box 6101
5600 HC Eindhoven

If you are dissatisfied with Summa's use of your personal data, you can file a complaint. This can be done, for example, if you believe Summa is not handling your personal data carefully, or if you are dissatisfied with our response. In that case, please use the complaint form on our website.You can also file your complaint with the Dutch Data Protection Authority.

We advise you to handle your personal data carefully and confidentially and not to share data publicly.

Summa has appointed an independent, internal supervisor. This Data Protection Officer ensures that the processing of personal data within Summa complies with the law. The officer is appointed by e-mail en phone (0402694000) available.