Privacy Policy
At Etergo, we handle your personal data with great care and do everything in our power to protect it. Our aim is that you always feel informed and empowered with respect to safeguarding your own privacy. Therefore, we like to inform you on why we collect personal data and how we handle that data.
About Etergo
We are an online shop selling sustainable mobility solutions, starting with the AppScooter (hereafter referred to as our ‘product’). All the options you have on our website, such as placing a pre-order, investing in us, becoming an influencer and signing up to receive news from us, are related hereto (the sale of the AppScooter and all related activities will hereafter be referred to as ‘services’).
While using our website and requesting any of the services we offer to you on our website, we collect personal data of you. We are the data controller with respect to this data, which means we determine the purpose of the processing of your personal data and are responsible for the correct handling of it.
How we collect and use data
Your personal data may be freely provided by you or collected automatically when using our website.
Usage data is collected automatically through this website (or third-party services employed in this website) and can include the IP addresses or domain names of the computers utilized by you, the URI addresses (Uniform Resource Identifier), the time of the request, the method utilized to submit the request to the server, the size of the file received in response, the numerical code indicating the status of the server's answer (successful outcome, error, etc.), the country of origin, the features of the browser and the operating system utilized by you, the various time details per visit (e.g., the time spent on each page) and the details about the path followed within our website with special reference to the sequence of pages visited, and other parameters about the device operating system and/or your IT environment. We collect usage data by using cookies (small piece of data stored in your device) and other tracking tools.
Personal data freely provided by you, is the data you fill in when requesting any of the services that we offer. Unless specified otherwise, all data we ask for is needed to provide you with the service requested by you. In cases where our website specifically states that providing data is not necessary, you are of course free not to do so.
We use your personal data only for the purpose you submitted it for.
What data we collect, for what purpose and for how long we store it
Data for the processing of your pre-order
If you place a pre-order on our website, we ask you to fill in the details of your pre-order (color, motor, maximum speed), email address, phone number, address and payment details in order to send you an order confirmation, to keep you up to date with respect to your order and to deliver your order to you. This data is necessary for us to enter into a pre-order agreement with you. We retain the data until the agreement with you has been fully performed.
Data in relation to your investment in us
We are very happy if you want to invest in us! We want to make investing in us as easy as possible for you. But we need you to fill in certain personal data. We ask you to fill in the country you want to invest from, if you want to invest as an individual or as a company and your date of birth in order to check whether we are legally entitled to accept your proposed investment. If you are an individual investor, we also ask you to upload an ID document, such as a passport, driver's license or ID card. We use it for an identity and background check in order to detect and prevent fraudulent or unlawful activities. Furthermore, you have to fill in your name, email address, phone number, investment amount, initials, and payment details for the processing of your investment and to contact you in relation to your investment. The data is processed because it is necessary to enter into an investment-agreement with you, we have a legal obligation to do so and we have a legitimate interest (e.g. fraud checks) and shall be processed and stored for no longer as required by the purpose they have been collected for.
Data to become an influencer
If you want to become an AppScooter influencer, we ask you to fill in your name, email address, city you live in, social platforms you work with and your profile name, theme and amount of followers on these platforms. We need this data to be able to assess and respond to your application and, if your application is successful, to enter into an agreement with you. The processing of this data is based on the legitimate interest that we are able to assess your application - before entering into an agreement with you - and, thereafter, the data is necessary for the performance of the agreement with you. We shall process and store the data for no longer as required by the purpose they have been collected for and, thus, the data will be retained until after your assessment or until the influencer-agreement with you has been fully performed.
Data for sharing relevant information with you
If you want to be kept up to date on all of the latest Etergo and AppScooter news, events and more, you can subscribe to our newsletter. We need you to fill in your email address to be able to send you such information by email. The use of your email address for this purpose, is always based on your prior explicit consent. You can unsubscribe or update your email preferences anytime you want. We retain your email address until you unsubscribed for all mailing lists.
Data about contacting us
You can contact us in different ways, for example by phone, by using the contact form on our website or by sending us a message through social media. If you use the contact form on our website, we ask you to fill in your question, the topic of your question, your email address, your name and your phone number. All this data is necessary for our legitimate interest to get back to you, by either email or phone. Whatever contacting channel you choose, we will only process the data that is necessary for us to get back to you through that specific channel and we will process and store your data for no longer than necessary for this purpose.
Data to improve our website and business
We want to continuously improve our website and business. To be able to do so, we use cookies to analyse usage of our website and services. We use various types of cookies for this purpose. By doing so, we collect usage data. We collect such data with your consent (if required by law) or because we have a legitimate interest to improve our website and business (depending on the type of cookie that is used). Consent can be withdrawn at anytime. The retention period of cookies is limited and differs per cookie.
Data for marketing purposes
We use cookies to conduct advertising and other marketing purposes (e.g. re-targeting, marketing research and providing you personalised content). We use various types of cookies for this purpose. By doing so, we collect usage data. We collect such data with your consent (if required by law) or because we have a legitimate interest to conduct advertising and other marketing purposes (depending on the type of cookie that is used). Consent can be withdrawn at anytime. The retention period of cookies is limited and differs per cookie.
Please read our Cookie Policy for more information about the cookies we use to improve our website and business and for marketing purposes.
Sharing data with third-party service providers
We make use of third-party service providers who perform necessary actions on our behalf. For example, we share your personal data with third party service providers for the purposes of hosting our website, processing your payment, monitoring and analyzing web traffic, advertising, user database management, remarketing and behavioral targeting, registration and authentication and managing contacts. We never share information without due contracts or for specific purposes that can be fulfilled in-house.
We store your personal data within the European Economic Area (EEA). In principle, your data will not be transferred outside the EEA. However, in the case of some of the non-European service providers that we engage, data processing outside the EEA cannot be excluded. If this is the case, we ensure that this is done in a safe and lawful manner that is fully compliant with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Data security
We do everything in our power to keep your personal data safe. We take appropriate security measures to prevent unauthorized access, disclosure, modification, or unauthorized destruction of the data. The data processing is carried out using computers and/or IT enabled tools, following organizational procedures and modes strictly related to the purposes indicated. In some cases, the data may be accessible to certain Etergo employees in charge, involved with company operations (administration, sales, marketing, legal, system administration, product development and servicing) or external parties (such as third-party technical service providers, mail carriers, hosting providers, IT companies, communications agencies) appointed by us, if necessary, as data processors.
Your rights
Your data stays your own and you may at any time choose what you want us to do with it. In particular, you have the right to do the following:
Withdraw your consent. You have the right to withdraw consent where you have previously given your consent to the processing of your data.
Object to processing of your data. You have the right to object to the processing of your data if the processing is carried out on a legal basis other than consent. Where your personal data is processed for a public interest, in the exercise of an official authority vested in us or for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by us, you may object to such processing by providing a ground related to your particular situation to justify the objection. When your data is processed for direct marketing purposes, you can object to that processing at any time without having to provide any justification.
Access your data. You have the right to learn if your data is being processed by us, obtain disclosure regarding certain aspects of the processing and obtain a copy of the data undergoing processing.
Verify and seek rectification. You have the right to verify the accuracy of your data and ask for it to be updated or corrected.
Restrict the processing of your data. You have the right, under certain circumstances, to restrict the processing of your data. In this case, we will not process your data for any purpose other than storing it.
Have your personal data deleted or otherwise removed. You have the right, under certain circumstances, to obtain the erasure of your data from us.
Receive your data and have it transferred to another controller. You have the right to receive your data in a structured, commonly used and machine readable format and, if technically feasible, to have it transmitted to another controller without any hindrance. This provision is applicable provided that the data is processed by automated means and that the processing is based on your consent, on a contract which you are part of or on pre-contractual obligations thereof.
Lodge a complaint. You have the right to bring a claim before the competent data protection authority.
Any requests to exercise your rights can be directed to us by email: [email protected]. These requests can be exercised free of charge and will be addressed by us as soon as possible and always within one month.
Changes to this privacy policy
We reserve the right to make changes to this privacy policy at any time by giving notice on this page and possibly within our website and/or - as far as technically and legally feasible - by sending a notice to you via any contact information available to us. It is strongly recommended to check this page often, referring to the date of the last modification listed at the bottom of this policy.
Should the changes affect processing activities performed on the basis of your consent, we shall collect new consent from you, where required.
Contact us
If you have any questions left regarding the processing of your personal data when using our website and services, please don’t hesitate to contact us.
You can reach us at [email protected] or at our office address:
Etergo B.V.
Attn. Legal Department (Privacy)
Koningin Wilhelminaplein 33
1062HJ Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Latest update: 10 September 2019