Privacy & Cookie Statement

1. Personal Information Collected

BearingPoint Caribbean collects personal data of users:

• through registration forms;
• when you send us an employment application;
• every time you sign up for an electronic newsletter;
• when you register for an event;
• when you submit a request for proposal or for information;
• when you request the authorization of downloading a document;
• when you enter an online competition; and/or
• when you send us a message via an email reply mechanism provided on the BearingPoint Caribbean websites. 

2. Lawful reasons for processing personal data

BearingPoint Caribbean may rely on the following lawful reasons when we collect and use personal data to operate our business and provide our products and services: 

• Contract – We may process personal data in order to perform our contractual obligations.
• Consent – We may rely on your freely given consent at the time you provided your personal data to us. 
• Legitimate interests – We may rely on legitimate interests based on our evaluation that the processing is fair, reasonable and balanced. These include:
  • Delivering services to our clients – To deliver the professional services our clients have engaged us to provide. 
  • Direct marketing – To deliver timely market insights and specialty knowledge we believe is welcomed by our business clients, subscribers and individuals who have interacted with us.
• Legal obligations and public interests – We may process personal data in order to meet regulatory and public interest obligations or mandates. 

3. Use of Personal Data

BearingPoint Caribbean processes personal data collected via the BearingPoint Caribbean websites for the purposes of:

• providing the services that you request from us;
• contacting you about your inquiries and requests;
• recruitment;
• proposing/inviting to participate in BearingPoint Caribbean’s online communities;
• proposing/inviting to informational events and conferences;
• providing you with information about products and services;
• delivering customized content that may be of interest to you;
• statistical and marketing analyses of our users’ needs and preferences to improve customer experience; and/or
• monitoring for security purposes, to detect and prevent cyber attacks. 

4. Retention Period of Personal Data

4.1     BearingPoint Caribbean retains personal data to provide services, stay in contact users and to comply with applicable laws, regulations and professional obligations that BearingPoint Caribbean is subject to.

4.2     BearingPoint Caribbean retains personal data for seven years. Unless a different time frame applies because of business need or specific legal, regulatory or contractual requirements in such a case BearingPoint Caribbean will retain personal data in accordance with these uses.

4.3     BearingPoint Caribbean will dispose of personal data in a secure manner when we no longer need it.

5. Data We Gather Automatically and How We Use It

5.1     When you visit one of the BearingPoint Caribbean websites, we collect data automatically about those visits.

5.2     In particular, your browser automatically sends us certain internet-related data, such as the Internet Protocol (IP) address of the computer you are using.

5.3     We also collect data using cookies to better understand how visitors use the BearingPoint Caribbean websites, to identify problems with our servers, prepare aggregate demographic information and other information regarding the use of the BearingPoint Caribbean websites, and to improve the functions of the BearingPoint Caribbean websites. Cookies do not collect any data that enables you to be identified as an individual.

6. Use of Cookies

6.1     Cookies are small text files that websites often store on computer hard drives of visitors to their sites. They are widely used to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide data to the owners of the site.

6.2     A cookie contains a unique number, which is used to recognize your computer when a user of your computer returns to a website that it visited previously. We use cookies to enhance the online experience of our visitors, for statistical purposes and to better understand how our sites are used. Cookies may tell us, for example, whether you have visited our sites before or whether you are a new visitor.

6.3     The cookies that are used on our website can be categorized according to their functionality:

• Functional cookies are essential to enable you to navigate our website and to ensure that our website functions properly.
• Analytical cookies are used to collect data about your use on our website and enable us to improve the way it works.
• Social Media cookies are used to enable you to share our pages. These cookies may also be used for advertising purposes.
• Advertising cookies are used to follow your browsing behavior to provide you with targeted advertising.

6.4     You have the right to choose whether or not to accept cookies. You can exercise this right by amending or setting the controls on your browser to reflect your cookie preferences. However, please note that if you choose to refuse cookies you may not be able to use the full functionality of the BearingPoint Caribbean websites.

6.5     The “help” portion of the toolbar on most Internet browsers will tell you how to change your browser cookie settings, including how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, and how to disable cookies altogether. For further data about cookies and how to control their use, please visit the following third-party educational resources: www.allaboutcookies.org.

7. Data We Share

We will only disclose personal data to other companies within our group of companies, business partners, government bodies and law enforcement agencies, successors in title to our business and suppliers we engage to process data on our behalf. In these circumstances we will share your personal data for purposes such as our legitimate business purposes and to comply with legal obligations.

8. Links to Other Sites

8.1     This Privacy Statement applies only to data collected by a BearingPoint Caribbean website.

8.2     BearingPoint Caribbean websites contain links to other websites that are not owned or administered by BearingPoint Caribbean. Please be aware that BearingPoint Caribbean is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other third-party websites. We encourage you to read the privacy statements of every website you visit.

9. Security

9.1     BearingPoint Caribbean has put appropriate technical and organizational security policies and procedures in place to protect personal data (including sensitive personal data) from unauthorized disclosure, loss, misuse, alteration or destruction.

9.2     BearingPoint Caribbean aims to ensure that access to your personal data is limited only to those who need to access it. Those individuals who have access to the data are required to maintain the confidentiality of such information.

9.3     BearingPoint Caribbean may apply pseudonymization, de-identification and anonymization techniques in efforts to further protect personal data.

9.4     If you have access to parts of the BearingPoint Caribbean websites or use BearingPoint Caribbean services, you remain responsible for keeping your user ID and password confidential.

9.5     Please be aware that the transmission of data via the Internet is not completely secure. Whilst we do our best to try to protect the security of your personal data, we cannot ensure or guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. 

10. Access, Correction, and Deletion

10.1     BearingPoint Caribbean wants to make sure that any data we hold on you is up to date and correct. You can request information about:

• your personal data held by us as a controller;
• the purpose of the storage; and
• other information about how and why we process your personal data.

10.2     Furthermore, and within applicable the legal framework, you have the right to:

• request for your personal data to be amended or rectified where it is inaccurate;
• restrict our processing of your personal data; and
• request deletion of your personal data.

10.3     If you have any requests concerning the personal data BearingPoint Caribbean holds about you, to obtain a copy or any queries with regard to these processes, please contact us at the contact listed below:

BearingPoint Caribbean
P.F.F. Diaz
Data Protection Officer
Kaya Flamboyan 7
Willemstad, Curaçao
e-mail: privacy@bearingpointcaribbean.com

11. International Transfers

Given that the internet is a global environment, using the internet to collect and process personal data necessarily involves the transmission of data on an international basis. We may transfer personal data to BearingPoint Caribbean servers situated outside Curaçao and to reputable third-party organizations situated inside or outside Curaçao, when we have a business reason to engage these organizations. Each organization is required to safeguard personal data in accordance with our contractual obligations and data protection legislation.

12. Changes to the Privacy Statement

We reserve the right to amend this Privacy Statement at any time without advance notice in order to address future developments of BearingPoint Caribbean, the website or changes in industry or legal trends. We will post the revised Statement on the website or announce the change on the home page of the website. You can determine when the Privacy Statement was revised by referring to the “Last Updated” date on the top of this Statement. Any changes will become effective upon the posting of the revised Privacy Statement on the website. If you do not agree with the terms of this Privacy Statement, in whole or part, you can choose to not use the website.

13. Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about how we process personal data, please contact us at privacy@bearingpointcaribbean.com

(*) Being Nobilo Tres B.V. and her direct and indirect subsidiaries.