Young Global Living, Short Stay Citizens B.V. sister company, acknowledges that processing personal data correctly is of great importance. Personal data are processed securely and with great due care. We adhere to the Global Data Protection Regulation and the Dutch Data Protection Act.
In this privacy policy, we explain which personal data we collect, how we use it, and the purpose of processing this data from you when you visit our website. We encourage you to read this privacy policy carefully.
Young Global Living’s CTO, Silvio Merucci, is the data controller and we are responsible for your personal data (referred to as “we”, “us” or “our” in this privacy notice).
Website to which this policy applies: www.shortstaycitizens.com
Young Global Living does not collect sensitive data and only collects the following data:
By using our service, you will provide us with your data, when you book an accommodation for a coliving space for example. That data can be personal data: data that can be directly or indirectly traced back to you. We only store and process personal data that you provided us with.
You directly provide Our Company with most of the data we collect. We collect data and process data when you:
Our Company may also receive your data indirectly from the following sources:
Young Global Living will process your personal data for the following purposes:
We may transfer your personal data that we collected, internationally, to coliving operators who are located outside of The Netherlands, in case the booking is for an international coliving operator.
Young Global Living securely stores your data on our protected and secured backend.
We will not disclose your personal data to third parties, except for your contact information, which is disclosed to the coliving operator in case you booked an accommodation of the aforementioned coliving operator.
We may use subcontractors, in which subcontractors may have access and/or process personal data on behalf of us. With subcontractors, we enter into data processing agreements, in which we stipulate that the subcontractor has to implement sufficient organisational and technical measures to avoid unlawful processing and that the subcontractor is only allowed to access and/or process the personal data in accordance with the agreed-upon purpose.
Your data may be shared to third parties that support our processes:
We require all third parties to whom we transfer your data to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We only allow such third parties to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being (accidentally) lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. We limit access to your personal data to our employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know such data. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.
Our website is secured with an SSL certificate, to secure the communication between your device and our web server.
Young Global Living will only retain your personal data for as long as needed to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including to satisfy any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.
By the Dutch law, we have to keep basic information about our customers (including Contact, Identity, Financial and Transaction Data) for five years after they cease being customers for tax purposes.
We may anonymise your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research, accounting or statistical purposes in which case we may use this data indefinitely without further notice to you.
In some circumstances you can ask us to delete your data: see below for further information.
Young Global Living would like to send you information about services of ours that we think you might like, as well as those of our partner companies. For example, agencies and coliving operator companies.
If you have agreed to receive marketing, you may always opt-out at a later date.
You have the right at any time to stop Young Global Living from contacting you for marketing purposes or giving your data to other members of the Young Global Living Group.
If you no longer wish to be contacted for marketing purposes, please opt-out when you receive a newsletter or contact us below.
What are cookies?
Cookies are text files placed on your computer to collect standard Internet log information and visitor behaviour information. When you visit our websites, we may collect information from you automatically through cookies or similar technology.
Our Company uses cookies in a range of ways to improve your experience on our website, including:
We use the following types of cookies:
You can set your browser not to accept cookies and your preference. However, in a few cases, some of our website features may not function as a result.
We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:
The right to access – You have the right to request Young Global Living for copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.
The right to rectification – You have the right to request that Young Global Living correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request us to complete the information you believe is incomplete.
The right to erasure – You have the right to request that Young Global Living erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that Young Global Living restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to Young Global Living processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to data portability – You have the right to request that Young Global Living transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us, our contact information is below.
The Young Global Living website contains links to other websites. This privacy policy does not cover third-party websites that are linked on our website. We cannot guarantee that these third parties will process your personal data correctly. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of these third-party websites, prior to using those websites.
Young Global Living keeps its privacy policy under regular review and places any updates on this web page.
We are entitled to change this privacy policy at any moment. We encourage you to read this privacy policy on a regular basis, to ensure you took notice of the most recent version.
This privacy policy was last updated on the 22nd of October 2020.
If you have any questions about Young Global Living’s privacy policy, the data we hold on you, or you would like to exercise one of your data protection rights, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Full name of legal entity: Short Stay Citizens B.V.
Email address:
Call us: +31(0)107670574
Postal address:
Westerstraat 46, 3rd floor
3016 DH Rotterdam
The Netherlands
Should you wish to report a complaint or if you feel that Young Global Living has not addressed your concern in a satisfactory manner, you may contact the Dutch Data Protection Authority (Dutch DPA) or the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens in Dutch.
Telephone number:
(+31) – (0)70 – 888 85 00
Fax: (+31) – (0)70 – 888 85 01
Address:
Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens
PO Box 93374
2509 AJ The Hague
The Netherlands
12) We may transfer your personal data that we collected, internationally, to short stay providers who are located outside of The Netherlands, in case the booking is for an international short stay provider.
12) How do we secure your data?
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being (accidentally) lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. We limit access to your personal data to our employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know such data. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.
Our website is secured with an SSL certificate, to secure the communication between your device and our web server.
13) Data retention
Short Stay Citizens will only retain your personal data for as long as needed to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including to satisfy any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.
By the Dutch law, we have to keep basic information about our customers (including Contact, Identity, Financial and Transaction Data) for five years after they cease being customers for tax purposes.
We may anonymise your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research, accounting or statistical purposes in which case we may use this data indefinitely without further notice to you.
In some circumstances you can ask us to delete your data: see below for further information.