Privacy Policy

1. Who are we?

This website is run by Twee op Reis, a travel and photography project by Twan and Yanthe, based in the Netherlands. For questions about this policy or your data, you can reach us at contact@twee-op-reis.nl.

2. What data do we collect?

Through this website we only collect data that you actively provide yourself:

• Contact form: your name, email address and message, and — if you choose to provide them — your phone number, company or brand, and the type of enquiry.

We do not collect special categories of personal data, and this website is not intended for persons under the age of 16.

3. What do we use your data for?

• Responding to your request or message and getting in touch with you.
• Carrying out our photography services and any assignment we agree on together.
• Improving our website and services.

The legal basis for this is your consent (you provide the data yourself), the preparation or performance of an agreement, and our legitimate interest in providing our services. We never sell your data to third parties.

4. Who do we share data with?

To run this website we use trusted service providers:

• Hosting: the website runs on the secure cloud infrastructure of Vercel.
• Email: messages sent through the contact form are delivered via our mailbox at Strato.

These parties only process data on our behalf and may not use it for their own purposes.

5. Cookies and local storage

This website does not use tracking or advertising cookies. We only use functional storage that is needed for the site to work: your language preference (NL/EN) is stored in your browser’s local storage. No consent is required for this.

6. How long do we keep your data?

We do not keep your data longer than necessary for the purpose you provided it for. Messages and requests are kept for as long as needed to follow up on your enquiry and provide our services. Would you like us to delete your data sooner? Send us an email and we’ll take care of it.

If we carry out a paid assignment together, we keep the related invoice and administrative data for 7 years, as required by Dutch tax law.

7. Security

We take appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect your data, including encrypted connections (HTTPS) and limited access to stored data.

8. Your rights

Under the GDPR you have the following rights:

• Access: request which data we hold about you.
• Rectification: have incorrect data corrected.
• Erasure: have your data deleted (the ‘right to be forgotten’).
• Restriction, portability and objection to processing.
• Withdraw previously given consent at any time.

To exercise these rights, email us at contact@twee-op-reis.nl; we respond within 30 days. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Dutch Data Protection Authority (autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl).

9. Portrait rights (photography)

As photographers, we regularly take pictures in which people are recognisable, both during assignments and while travelling. In the Netherlands, the use of someone’s image is governed by portrait rights rather than data protection law. We handle such images with care and only publish them where we are reasonably entitled to do so.

Do you appear in a photo on this website and would you prefer it to be removed? Send us an email at contact@twee-op-reis.nl and we’ll take care of it.

10. Changes

We may update this privacy policy if our website or services change. The most recent version is always available on this page.