Who are we

We are BL Foods a wholesaler specialized in food. Our website address is: https://bl-foods.nl and we also have 2 offices in Europe.

What personal information we collect and why we collect it

Responses

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. An anonymous string, created from your email address (also called a hash) can be sent to the Gravatar service if you use it. The privacy policy page can be found here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment has been approved, your profile picture will be publicly visible in the context of your comment.

Purchase

If you buy something from our webshop, we save the contact information you entered for our own administration and to ship the purchase to you .

Media

If you are a registered user and upload images to the site, you should avoid uploading images containing EXIF ​​GPS location data. Visitors to the website can download the images from the website and view the location data.

Contact forms

Completed contact form details such as your IP address, device type, name, email address, website and message will be submitted to the Akismet service (owned by Automattic ) for the sole purpose of spam control. The actual submission data is stored in our site’s database and emailed directly to the owner of the form (i.e. the author of this site). This email contains the IP address, timestamp, name, email address, website, submitter message and any other fields that may be completed.

Cookies

When you leave a comment on our site, you can indicate whether your name, your e-mail address and website may be stored in a cookie. We do this for your convenience so that you do not have to re-enter this information for a new response. These cookies are valid for one year. When you visit our login page, we store a temporary cookie to check if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is deleted when you close your browser. Once you log in, we will store some cookies in connection with your login information and screen display options. Login cookies are valid for 2 days and screen options cookies last for 1 year. If you select “Remind me”, your login will be saved for 2 weeks. As soon as you log out of your account, login cookies will be deleted. When you edit or publish a message, an additional cookie is stored by your browser. This cookie contains no personal data and only contains the post ID of the article you have edited. This cookie expires after one day.

Embedded content from other websites

Messages on this site may contain embedded (embedded) content (eg videos, images, messages, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves exactly the same as if the visitor had visited this other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed third-party tracking and monitor your interaction with this embedded content, including the interaction with embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

We keep anonymous analyzes and store data for this, such as which page was visited and which button was clicked. We do this to monitor the effectiveness of our website and to improve the user experience. Cookies can also be stored here.

Who we share your data with

Automattic

We share entered data with Automattic because of the automated spam detection service. You can find their privacy terms here: https://automattic.com/privacy/

How long we keep your data

If you leave a comment or fill in a form, the entered data and metadata will be stored indefinitely. This is so that we can automatically recognize and approve any follow-up comments instead of keeping them in a queue.

For users who register on our website (= editors), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can view, edit or delete their personal information at any time (except the username itself). Website administrators can also see and edit this information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal information we hold about you, including any information you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include data that we are required to keep for administrative, legal or security purposes. You can submit this request by emailing us at the following email address: info@bl-foods.nl

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Additional information

How we protect your data

We do our utmost to protect all stored data so that it is not leaked to third parties. We do this by using a standard SSL certificate on our server, this ensures that the internet traffic between our visitors and our servers cannot be intercepted, because they are sent encrypted, you can recognize this by the green lock in the URL bar of your browser and the ‘https’ preposition in the site URL.

We also update our systems with the latest security updates, these updates help us close potential data leaks as soon as they are discovered.

In addition, we protect our server with a firewall against external attacks.