At Akkuro, we are committed to protecting your personal data with the highest standards of security, transparency, and care. We only collect the information necessary to improve your experience—and never share it without your consent.

Last updated: January 21, 2025

This is the Privacy Policy ("Privacy") of Akkuro by Topicus B.V., located at Singel 25, 7411 HW in Deventer, and registered with the Chamber of Commerce under registration number 63423715. At Akkuro, we are committed to protecting your privacy. In processing your personal data, we fully comply with the applicable privacy laws and regulations, including the General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR").

Below, you can find detailed information about the personal data we collect, how we use it, the reasons for processing it, and your rights regarding your data.

What personal data is collected

When using Akkuro.com, we processes the following personal data for the following purposes: 

• When you contact us via the contact form on our website or request a demonstration of the Akkuro platform: we process your name, your (e-mail) address, and any other (personal) details that you share with us, including your comments (request, question or complaint). We do this in order to be able to facilitate the provision of our services, to take note of your comments, to contact you and to keep you informed of the progress of the handling of your request.
• If you register for a newsletter or an events we process your name and e-mail address and any other (personal) details that you share with us. We do this to inform you about the developments within Akkuro and about our services. If you no longer wish to receive this information, you can unsubscribe via a link in the relevant newsletter email.
• If you request to download a white paper we process your name and e-mail address and any other (personal) details that you share with us. We do this to verify that it is a valid download.

We cannot fulfill your requests without having the above information. 

In the context of our legitimate interest (being able to improve our website and in the context of compliance with laws and regulations) we process the following data: 

• When visiting our website: we process the unique identification and statistics regarding pages viewed, traffic to and from the website, the time of your visit, the referring URL, any keywords you use, the operating system you use, the web browser you used, specifications about the device or device you use. This information helps us to measure the interest in our website, and promotes the user-friendliness of the website through the use of cookies.
• Following complaints or reports: we process the information about (alleged) infringements of intellectual property rights and/or other unlawful actions. In addition, we may proceed to provide (personal) data to third parties, such as beneficiaries, supervisors, tax authorities, judiciary, police and other investigative bodies, if Akkuro is obliged to do so on the grounds of legislation and regulations or so on the basis of this statement.

Cookies

We use the cookies in our cookie statement for the purposes stated therein. You can determine your own cookie settings and adjust them at any time. Disabling (certain) cookies can lead to our website no longer working optimally. 

Please note: withdrawing your consent with regard to the placing of certain cookies, does not affect the legality of the previous processing of your data, when that consent was still applicable.

Cookies for the integration of social media

Our website includes buttons to promote or share web pages on social media platforms. These buttons work using pieces of code that come from these platforms. Cookies are placed by means of this code, so that these parties can recognize you on their own pages. In doing so, they collect data about the page you share. We actively ensure that these third-party integrations comply with the GDPR. If any integration fails to meet these requirements, we will remove it to ensure ongoing compliance.

Please refer to the relevant privacy statements (which can change regularly) to read what these companies do with your (personal) data that they process via these cookies.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy

Third parties

Your personal data will not be shared with other parties apart from the purposes mentioned above, with the exception certain third parties engaged by Akkuro listed under disclosure purposes. 

Third parties engaged by Akkuro must comply with strict security requirements and have committed themselves to Akkuro not to use the data for purposes other than those mentioned above. Therefore, they are not allowed to use the data for their own purposes.

Disclosure purposes

We will not provide your personal data to third parties without your consent, unless the following cases apply:

• We provide your personal data to sub processors which may process personal data under the responsibility of Akkuro. We will ensure that it contractually guaranteed that these sub processors will never process data outside the scope of this Privacy Policy, and that technical and organizational measures are taken to safeguard your personal data against unintentional loss or destruction or damage of this personal data.
• We may provide your personal data to any third parties of which you have explicitly stated that it is permitted for these parties to process your personal data, and/or in so far this information cannot be traced back to you.
• We may provide your personal data to third parties in case we are obligated to do so under applicable law and/or regulations.

Storage period

The storage period will be no longer than 6 months after your personal data has been processed. If you have registered for our newsletters your personal data will be saved for 1 year for that purpose specifically. Before this period expires, we will contact you to confirm whether you consent to keeping your data for another year. 

You may withdraw your consent at any time, and any personal data will be deleted immediately. Please contact the Data Protection Officer (DPO).

For details on the  storage periods of the cookies, we refer to our cookie statement.

Security

The security of your personal data meets the requirements set in the applicable legislation and regulations. 

The website is protected with an encrypted connection (256-bit SSL - shown by the lock symbol in the browser) to ensure security between the computer of the visitor and the servers of Akkuro.

Request, modify, limit or delete your personal data

You have the right to access and correct your personal data. You also have the right, in certain cases, to request Akkuro to have your personal data removed or to limit its processing. Finally, you can object to the processing referred to above, insofar as this relates to your specific situation.

By objecting, you have the right to file a complaint in connection with the processing of your personal data by Akkuro. You can file this complaint with Akkuro itself or with the Dutch Data Protection Authority.

The objection and/or request will be assessed in accordance with the requirements set in the GDPR. Further questions regarding this Privacy Policy can also be submitted to this contact point.

The Data Protection Officer (DPO) of Akkuro, operating through Topicus, can be contacted via FG@topicus.nl. 

Please note that we amend this Privacy Policy from time to time. You will always find the most recent version on our website.