© VDL Groep 2026
VDL Groep welcomes you to this website and appreciates your interest in our company, products and services. VDL Groep places great importance on your privacy. We therefore consider it important to explain how we handle your personal data. This privacy policy applies to all personal data provided by visitors to the websites of VDL Groep B.V. or its subsidiaries. For transparency, this privacy policy explains how we use this data.
The personal data processed by VDL through the website often includes your contact details, such as your name and email address. It may also include a search query you enter or a question you submit through the form. You can also search for vacancies using the ‘Vacancies, Working at VDL, Internships & education and Contact’ functions. These search queries may also be stored and linked to your IP address, for example. This also applies to information that a website visitor uploads or enters on the website. Naturally, we also process uploaded CVs and cover letters.
We may also automatically store information about you as a visitor to this website, such as your IP address and click behaviour. We often collect this information directly during your visit through so-called cookies. For more information, please see the cookie statement.
We would like to point out that this also applies when you visit the website as a business customer. We consider these data to be (indirect) personal data and therefore safeguard your privacy.
VDL Groep processes the data you provide through the website for general business purposes. This includes providing information about specific products and services. We may use the stored personal data to contact you.
Your data may also be used to send digital newsletters, provided you have given your explicit consent. We consider this contact to be VDL’s legitimate interest.
In addition, the website serves as an application channel and displays job vacancies. These processing activities are also considered VDL’s legitimate interest and are necessary for entering into or preparing an employment contract.
The processing activities include, in any event, sending personal data within VDL Groep. This website serves as a central point, and personal data is forwarded to the relevant entity that you, as a business customer or applicant, wish to contact. Personal data is only shared where there is a necessary reason to do so, and solely with recipients for whom the data is relevant. Your data may be shared with VDL entities abroad.
If VDL believes that you are using the website unlawfully, it may share your personal data with a legal third party.
Our website contains buttons in several places that provide access to social media channels. If you use these social media buttons, the privacy statement of the relevant social media platform applies. The platform may then store your personal data. VDL has no control over, and accepts no responsibility for, the use of social media buttons on the VDL website.
VDL Groep does not retain your data for longer than strictly necessary. For the purposes described above, a retention period of six months is reasonable. VDL may also retain anonymised data for statistical and research purposes. For personal data received as part of, or in preparation for, a job application, VDL will retain this information for no longer than four weeks after the relevant procedure has closed. If VDL has requested and obtained your consent, it may retain these application details for a maximum of one year.
Because we process your personal data, you have the right to:
If you wish to use one of these options, please contact: AVG@vdl.nl. For all requests and your rights, VDL will weigh the relevant interests. We will fulfil your request as far as possible. If you wish to withdraw your consent for any reason, we are obliged to comply with this.
All personal data you provide on this website is submitted voluntarily. However, we can only contact you, provide information and conduct an application process if we have the correct personal data.
If you have any questions or comments about how we process your personal data, please contact us at AVG@vdl.nl. We will do our utmost to help you. If you wish to comment on this privacy policy, or believe that VDL Groep is not complying with it, please contact VDL Groep at AVG@vdl.nl. If we cannot resolve the matter together, you can always report it to the Dutch Data Protection Authority.
This privacy policy was last updated on 25 May 2018. It applies to VDL Groep B.V. (Postbus 8811, 5605 LV Eindhoven, The Netherlands). If VDL decides to amend this privacy policy, we will publish the changes on this page.
To optimise our services, limited use is made of so-called ‘cookies’ on your computer via the website. These are small information files stored on your computer. Cookies are used, among other things, to track visitors’ interaction with the website. Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google Inc., is used for this purpose.
You can manage cookie placement through your browser settings. Most browsers can be configured to reject cookies or notify you when you receive one. For instructions on adjusting your browser settings, please contact your browser provider. Managing cookies through your browser will not affect unrestricted use of this website, but it may affect your use of other websites.