Privacy & Cookie Statement

This Privacy and Cookie Statement applies to verenigingaegon.nl, the current website of Vereniging Aegon Americas (also branded as "Association Aegon Americas"). The website will shortly move to associationaegonamericas.com. During this transition, other domain names belonging to Vereniging Aegon Americas may redirect visitors to either the current or new website.

Protecting your privacy is important to Vereniging Aegon Americas, operating under the brand name Association Aegon Americas. We are committed to protecting and safeguarding your privacy when you use our website.

Controller for the processing of your personal data

Vereniging Aegon Americas, with its registered office at PO Box 202, 2501 CE The Hague, the Netherlands, is the controller for the processing of personal data within the scope of this privacy and cookie policy.

Contact us

If you have questions about this policy or the information we collect about you, please contact our secretariat.

Why do we use personal data?

Vereniging Aegon Americas uses the personal data that you provide through our website:

• to help ensure that the website operates correctly, tailor it more closely to visitors’ needs and make it easier to use;
• to compile anonymous, aggregated statistics that help us understand how visitors use the website and improve its structure; and
• to respond when you contact us with a question through our website or by email.

How is your personal data collected?

Our website uses cookies to collect the information described above. This information is retained for a maximum of 12 months. Cookies are small text files that are saved on your device when you visit our website.

Which cookies do we use?

Our website uses two types of cookies:

Necessary cookies

These cookies are essential for our website to work. They enable you to browse the website and use its features, and help us provide an enhanced user experience.

Analytical cookies

These cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our website by providing information about the areas visited, the time spent on the website, issues encountered and the overall experience of using the website.

For this purpose, Vereniging Aegon Americas uses Google Analytics. Vereniging Aegon Americas has taken the required legal and configuration measures to limit Google’s processing of analytical data. Neither Vereniging Aegon Americas nor Google can view your full IP address.

Necessary and analytical cookies may be placed on your device from the moment you visit our website.

Sharing your personal information with third parties

We work with carefully selected service providers that carry out certain functions on our behalf. We share only the personal information necessary for them to provide the relevant services, and we require them to keep that information safe and protected. Any third party with which we share information must act only on our instructions and may not use your personal information for its own purposes.

What are your rights regarding your personal data?

As a data subject, you have a number of rights, including:

• the right to request a copy of the personal data we hold about you. This is known as a subject access request. In most cases, this will be free of charge. In limited circumstances, such as repeated requests for further copies, we may charge an administration fee;
• the right to have inaccurate personal data corrected;
• the right to have out-of-date personal data deleted when there is no business need or legal requirement for us to retain it;
• the right to object to or restrict certain processing in limited circumstances, where we do not have legitimate grounds for processing your personal data;
• the right to object to your personal data being used to send you marketing material. We will generally send you marketing material only where you have consented to this or where we believe there is a legitimate reason to do so. You may withdraw your consent at any time;
• the right to have personal data that you provided to us transferred to another service provider in electronic form; and
• the right to ask for a decision to be made manually where it was made using automated means and adversely affects you.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact our secretariat. To process your request, we will require and process your name and contact details.

Who should I contact with questions about my personal data?

If you have questions about the personal data you have provided through our website, please contact our secretariat.

If you believe that we have not processed your personal data in accordance with our data protection obligations, you may file a complaint with us by contacting our secretariat. If you are not satisfied with our response, you may submit a complaint to the Dutch Data Protection Authority, the independent authority responsible for enforcing data protection legislation in the Netherlands.

Your browser’s cookie settings

If you have adjusted your browser settings so that websites are not permitted to place cookies on your device, our website may be unable to save the cookie that records whether you consented to the use of cookies. In that case, you may be asked to indicate your cookie preferences each time you visit our website. To avoid being asked on each visit, you will need to adjust your browser’s cookie settings.