Cookie Policy

With this Cookie Policy, we, Waterland Private Equity Investments B.V. together with our subsidiaries (hereinafter jointly: “Waterland“, “we” or “us“), would like to inform you about the use of Cookies [or similar storage technologies], (hereinafter “Cookies“) on our website https://www.waterlandpe.com/. This Cookie Policy supplements our Privacy Policy, which you can access at here.

I. What are Cookies?
We use a technology called Cookies for our website. Cookies are small text files that are sent to your browser by our web server during your visit to our website and stored on your end device for later retrieval. This means that Cookies are assigned and stored on your hard disk on the browser you are using by means of a characteristic character string. Cookies cannot execute programs or transfer viruses to your computer and therefore cannot cause any damage. They serve to make the offering of websites more user-friendly and effective overall, i.e. more pleasant for you.

Cookies may contain data that make it possible to recognize the device used. In other cases, in contrast, Cookies only contain information on certain settings that are not personally identifiable. However, Cookies cannot identify a user directly.

Before being accessed for the first time and before Cookies are set or read, we provide information about the details of the Cookies in the form of a Cookie Consent Banner, i.e. information about the Cookies used.

We may use “strictly necessary” Cookies without your consent, but the use of all other Cookies requires your consent, which you can also give in the Cookie consent banner and revoke at any time.

The legal basis for Cookies that are absolutely necessary to provide you with the expressly requested service is Section 25 (2) No. 2 TDDDG in conjunction with our legitimate interest, Art. 6 (1) lit. f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest lies in the technically smooth provision of our website and the services offered through it.

The legal basis for the use of the aforementioned Cookies as well as the data processing of your personal data and, if applicable, the transfer of this data to third parties, is your consent under Art. 6 (1) lit. a), Art. 7 GDPR (for Germany in conjunction with Sec. 25 (1) TDDDG – Telecommunication and Digital Services Data Protection Act). You can give your consent in the Cookie settings and revoke it at any time with effect for the future without giving reasons.

II. Which Cookies do we use? Purposes, storage duration and legal basis

III. Deactivating Cookies

By using the settings in your browser, you can decide yourself whether Cookies may be set and retrieved. For example, you can completely deactivate the storage of Cookies in your browser, restrict it to certain websites or configure your browser so that it automatically notifies you as soon as a Cookie is to be set and asks you for feedback. In this respect, you can block or delete individual Cookies.

This applies to both necessary Cookies and all other Cookies.

For technical reasons, however, deactivating all Cookies, especially performance Cookies, may result in some functions of our website being impaired and no longer being fully displayed or available.

IV. Revocation of the Cookie consent
You may also use the Cookie Consent Banner, which you can access via a separate link in our footer , to revoke your Cookie consent at any time. We will then no longer use the Cookies based on your consent.

The withdrawal of consent shall not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.

We store any consent given for up to one (1) year for verification, documentation and legal defense purposes . The legal basis for this is our legitimate interest, Art. 6 (1) lit. f) GDPR in conjunction with Art. 7 (1), Art. 5 (2) GDPR. Our interest is the proper documentation as well as the defense against or assertion of legal claims.

V. Data Transfer to Third Countries
Cookies that are not necessary to provide you with the services on our website will only be used with your consent. When using Google Tag Manager, your data may also be transferred to companies in countries outside the European Union and the European Economic Area where an adequate level of data protection is not guaranteed and your rights under European data protection law may not be enforced or may not be enforced in an equivalent manner. It is also possible that government authorities in these countries may access your data to a different and broader extent than is permitted within the European Union. Your data may be significantly less protected there. Some of these consent-based Cookies are offered by companies that process data in the USA.

On 10 July 2023, the EU Commission adopted its adequacy decision for the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework pursuant to Art. 45 (1), (3) GDPR. This decision sets out that the USA guarantee an adequate level of protection for personal data transferred from the EU to US companies that have also joined the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework.

All US companies that have joined the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework can be found in the official Data Privacy Framework list. Google has been certified under the Data Privacy Framework. Further information as well as questions and answers on the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework can be found on the website of the EU Commission.

The legal basis specifically for the aforementioned data transfer to third countries is your consent pursuant to Art. 49 (1) lit. a), Art. 6 (1) lit. a), Art. 7 GDPR. By consenting to the use of Google Tag Manager, you also expressly consent to the transfer of data to countries such as the USA.