Privacy policy

Privacy Policy in the TK Development Group regarding customers, suppliers, business partners etc.

1. Data responsibility

1.2 Data protection

The purpose of TK Development’s Privacy Policy is to explain how we collect, process, protect and store personal data. 

It is our ambition to minimise the processing of your personal data as much as possible and to establish as high a degree of transparency as possible with regard to the data processed.

In this policy, we will explain what personal data of yours we process, how the processing takes place and what rights you may exercise in this connection. 

Please feel free to contact us if you have questions or other queries relating to the processing of your personal data. Our contact details are included in the last section of this policy. 

The processing of your personal data takes place in compliance with the principles and as prescribed in the rules of the General Data Protection Regulation in force from time to time, including as implemented and supplemented in the data protection legislation.

2. Processing operations

We only collect, process and store the personal data that are necessary for the agreed purpose. In addition, we may be obliged by legislation to collect and store certain data, or it may be necessary to collect the data with a view to performing a contract or meeting another legal obligation.

2.1 Processing of customer data

We collect, process and store personal data in connection with the cooperation with our customers. We only collect the personal data that are necessary for the agreed purpose and we only ask our customers to share personal data if absolutely necessary for the purpose.

What data do we collect?

General personal data, including details concerning name, address, telephone number and email address for personal customers as well as name, title, telephone number and email of any contact persons with the customer. In addition, we collect information about our personal customers, e.g. in the form of a copy of their passport, national health insurance card or driving licence.

Purpose of and basis for collecting the data

We process general personal data with the purpose of performing the contract with our customers, including supplying the agreed services and invoicing them.

Companies in the TK Development Group are subject to the rules in the Danish Act on Measures to Prevent Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism (the Danish Anti-Money Laundering Act). Therefore, we process data appearing from passports, national health insurance cards and/or driving licences, e.g. civil registration number (CPR), in compliance with the customer-knowledge procedures of the Danish Anti-Money Laundering Act to the extent necessary in order for TK Development to meet the legal obligations to which TK Development is subject.

2.2 Suppliers and business partners

We collect, process and store personal data about our supplies and business partners, including personal data about persons employed with suppliers and business partners.

What data do we collect?

We only process general data, including contact details.

Purpose of and basis for collecting the data

We process the data for use in our contract management and to receive goods and services from our suppliers and, where relevant, to deliver the agreed goods and services to our customers. Our basis is to perform the contract to which the data subject is a party. If the data subject is not a party to the contract, our basis for processing the data is an objective requirement for being able to perform the contract with a supplier or business partner.

2.3 Visitors at www.tk-development.dk

2.3.1 Use of cookies

When you use TK Development’s website, your default settings are registered, and in certain cases also your movements on the website, in a cookie. A cookie is a small text file, the purpose of which is to remember previous interactions. A cookie is a passive file and cannot collect data on your computer, spread computer viruses or other harmful programs. 

Among other things, TK Development uses cookies to improve the website functionalities and to facilitate your access to the website. You will need to accept our use of cookies to gain access to TK Development’s full website www.tk-development.dk. Please note that none of our cookies contain personal data about you or anyone else. 

For further information, please see http://www.tk.dk/default.aspx?id=5424.

2.4 Subscribers to company announcements and other news (mailing lists)

We collect, process and store personal data about persons on our mailing list with regard to company announcements and other news.

What data do we collect?

We only process general data, including contact details. In connection with the collection of data, you consent to our processing and storing of such data.

Purpose of and basis for collecting the data

We process the data in order to be able to send company announcements and other news to you. The basis is your consent. You may withdraw your consent to such processing at any time. If you do so, you will no longer receive company announcements and other news from us.

2.5 Applicants for jobs with TK Development

When you apply for a job with TK Development, the data you have provided to TK Development in connection with your application will be processed. Such data will typically be general personal data such as name, address, telephone number and email address, information about educational background and information about present and previous employments.

In connection with the recruitment process for certain jobs, we may ask the candidates to take a personality test.

We use this information to assess whether we wish to offer you a job, and to communicate with you in connection with the recruitment process. Your data are i.a. stored in our HR system. Only relevant managers, the HR department and IT administrators have access to your data.

If you are offered a job, we will store your data in compliance with our Privacy Policy for employees, which is available on TK Development’s intranet.

Applications from candidates who are not offered a job will be erased 6 months, at the latest, after we have turned down your application.

In certain cases, we may disclose your personal data if required according to a court ruling or applicable legislation.

3. Security

The Company protects your personal data and has adopted internal rules on data security, which include instructions and measures to protect your personal data against unauthorised disclosure and unauthorised access.

The Company has established procedures for granting access rights to those of our employees who process sensitive personal data. The actual access is controlled through logging and supervision.

To prevent data loss, our data are regularly backed up.

In several cases, the Company uses external suppliers, e.g. IT suppliers, payment solutions etc. with whom we share personal data. We have concluded data processing agreements with these suppliers. This way, we ensure a high level of protection of your personal data.

4. Disclosure of personal data

We only disclose personal data when we have a legitimate basis for doing so.

4.1 Third parties i.a. comprise:

  • Group companies
  • IT suppliers
  • Accountants and auditors in connection with audit engagements and/or consulting
  • Lawyers in connection with consulting
  • Public authorities

4.2 Any disclosure of personal data must be based on professional requirements and generally be necessary in order to safeguard a legitimate interest on your or the Company’s part. Disclosure for purposes that are incompatible with the purposes on which the Company’s processing is based may not take place.

4.3 In certain cases, the Company may be obliged to disclose personal data according to legislation or a decision made by a public authority. We only disclose personal data when we are obliged to do so.

4.4 Irrespective of whether we disclose your personal data to business partners domiciled within or outside the EU, we make sure that their level of protection of personal data matches the requirements we have established in this policy according to applicable legislation. Among other things, we make requirements on the processing of data, on the data security and on the fulfilment of the rights you have i.a. with regard to objecting to profiling and to lodging a complaint with the Danish Data Protection Agency (Datatilsynet).

4.5 We are aware of applicable requirements regarding data processing agreements and ensure that the necessary agreements are constantly in place to safeguard your rights.

5. Period for processing of personal data

We store your personal data until there is no longer any purpose thereof and the Company no longer has any legitimate basis for or legitimate interest in continuing to store the data. The storage period is determined according to the obligations to which TK Development is subject pursuant to other legislation and other public authorities and to secure documentation.

6. Rights

You have a number of rights according to the General Data Protection Regulation.

These rights are:

  • You have a right of access to the personal data we process about you.
  • You have a right to have the personal data we have registered about you rectified and updated.
  • You have a right to have the personal data we have registered about you erased. If you wish to have your personal data erased, we erase all data which we are not required to store according to other legislation.
  • If the processing of personal data is based on your consent, you have a right to withdraw the consent, which means that the processing will subsequently cease, unless we are required to process the personal data under other legislation.
  • You have a right to data portability to a third party.

Your access to exercising the above rights may, however, be limited by the consideration for the protection of other persons’ privacy, of trade secrets and intellectual property rights.

You may submit a written request to TK Development, requesting either a transcript of your personal data, an updating of your personal data or the erasure of your personal data. The request must be signed by you and include your name, address, telephone number, email address and identify the company in the group you have dealt with, including state any project or other purpose of the processing of your data, e.g. mailing list, job applicant etc.).

Within 1 month after receiving your request for a transcript, we will forward the transcript to your postal address.

If you request a rectification and/or erasure of your personal data, we will examine whether the conditions are met and in such case effect the rectification or erasure as soon as possible.

7. Amendment of the Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy will regularly be reviewed and updated based on a concrete assessment. The Privacy Policy was last updated on 25 May 2018.

8. Contact

TK Development can be contacted as per the contact details below with regard to the personal data of which the Company is the controller:

TK Development

Vestre Havnepromenade 7, 3.

DK-9000 Aalborg

Telephone: +45 88961010

Email:

9. Complaints

If you wish to complain about our processing of personal data, you may send an email specifying your complaint to . We will then consider your complaint and contact you.

You may also lodge a complaint with the Danish Data Protection Agency in connection with your rights and about the Company’s processing of your personal data. See the website of the Danish Data Protection Agency for further information on how to lodge a complaint with the Danish Data Protection Agency www.datatilsynet.dk.

Last updated on 25 May 2018.