Privacy Policy

Pole to Pole & your privacy:

Pole to Pole respects your privacy and your desire to understand how your information will be handled and used. This Policy explains how we collect, use and store your information. Using your information in a way that you are comfortable with and keeping your information secure. Pole to Pole will ensure that all information protection and customer legislation are met when handling any of your personal information up to International GDPR standards.

References in this Privacy Policy to “we”, “us” and “Pole to Pole” are to Pole to Pole B.V. (KVK 24266461), registered office Weg en Bos 22, 2661 DH, Bergschenhoek, The Netherlands.

What information do we collect and how do we use it?

We collect and use information about you to ensure that we can continue to provide you with our best service. You provide us with your information directly when you make a purchase directly or through our website, register for our newsletter or when you register at one of our international trade fairs.

Information collected when you make a purchase

When you make a purchase online, we will collect necessary information about you to ensure we can fulfil your appreciated order.

Payment: We have chosen not to provide a online payment tool on our website so that we don’t need any valuable private information such as credit cards. All orders are payed by invoice through bank transfers.

When you place an order with us for products or services that will be delivered, collected or provided at a later date, we will need to take additional contact details and delivery information from you so that we may complete your order. We may use third party couriers to deliver your order and will need to share your contact information with them for this purpose.

Managing your marketing preferences

At any point that you interact with us, you may be given the opportunity to opt-in to receive Pole to Pole marketing communications. Pole to Pole will only send you marketing communications where you have consented to receive them and using your preferred channels of communication. To ensure that you are still happy to hear from us, you can updated your marketing preferences, you can opt-out of receiving marketing communications at any time:

If you do nothing, we will assume that you are happy for Pole to Pole to continue to send you marketing communications in the same way. If you have opted-in to receive marketing communications from us in a different please feel free to inform us.

Shopping online

When you visit PoletoPole.nl, we collect information about your device to ensure we can continue to drive innovation and improve usability to benefit your online shopping experience. Information can be collected through your IP address or through cookies placed on your device. Some cookies are needed for the proper functioning of the website. Examples of where these cookies are used include: to store how many items are in your shopping bag, to determine anonymously when you are signed in, to determine which currency we should use based on your preferred delivery location when displaying prices to you, and to allow you to move back and forth between browser screens (UserReplay). Other cookies are used for analytics purposes such as Adtrack, Affiliate, and Google Analytics, which help us understand how and when you first visited our site, the frequency of your visits and the duration of time spent on our site.

When you make a purchase on PoletoPole.nl, we will collect information about you to ensure we can fulfil your order or chosen service (including your name, contact details and delivery address). In order to register an online account, we will ask you for your name and contact details. You will also be asked to create a password.

How can you manage the information we hold about you?

As part of our commitment to customer service, where you have provided your consent, we personalise your experience, by only sending marketing communications about the most up to date products, services and events that we believe you will be interested in. You have always been able to opt-out of these communications but now it is easier than ever to manage your preferences:

Contact our customer Service team by email at info@poletopole.nl (quoting “Security and Privacy Enquiry”). You can also unsubscribe from individual email marketing communications via the “Unsubscribe” link at the bottom of each of our email marketing communications.

It can take up to four weeks for your preferences to be registered on our system, so you may still receive communications from us during this period.

Should you wish to know more about what information we hold about you including making changes to, or requesting the deletion of, information that we hold about you, you are also entitled by law to make a Data Subject Request. You can make such a request by emailing us at info@poletopole.nl (quoting “Data Subject Request”). Please note that we may need to exclude certain information as part of your request, e.g. in order to protect the privacy of other individuals or if we are permitted to exclude the information for legal or other reasons.

How do we keep your information secure?

We make sure that we have information security measures in place to keep your information secure. Where we ask third parties to work on our behalf, before sharing information we always make sure that they have sufficient information security measures in place.

We will not share your information with any third parties who might wish to market their goods and services to you.

How long will Pole to Pole keep my information?

Pole to Pole is committed to keeping your personal information only for so long as is necessary or where we have a legitimate interest to continue doing so. Where Pole to Pole no longer requires information to be in a format where you can be identified personally, e.g. where we keep information for analytical and research purposes or transaction information, we will remove any personal details about you.

Contact us

When you contact Pole to Pole through any channel (including by phone, post, email or social media), we will collect information about you in order to respond to your query, request or feedback.

How will I know if this privacy policy changes?

If we specifically change the way in which we use your personal information or if we need to notify you about a change to the information that we hold about you, we will specifically contact you.

Any future changes to our Privacy Policy will be updated online at PoletoPole.nl with the last date of update displayed as below. We encourage you to check this site periodically to learn about the information that we collect, use and share.

The Pole to Pole Privacy Policy was last updated in May 2018.

Security Policy

Security of our website is of utmost importance to us. Our site uses software to provide high level encryption technology. Although we use advanced security measures to protect your information against loss, misuse and alteration, as is the case with all computer networks linked to the internet, we cannot make absolute guarantees over the security of the information you provide over the internet and as such we cannot be held responsible for it.

Where you have chosen to create a password to access certain parts of our website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone.

Country	Surcharge
Netherlands	0%
Belgium	5%
Luxembourg	10%
Germany	10%
France	10%
Austria	10%
Denmark	15%
Italy	15%
Portugal	15%
Spain	15%
Slovakia	15%
Czech Republic	15%
Finland	20%
Sweden	20%
Hungary	20%
Poland	20%
Slovenia	20%
Bulgaria	30%
Greece	30%
Romania	30%
Estonia	30%
Latvia	30%
Lithuania	30%
Croatia	40%
Cyprus	40%
Malta	40%