Internet privacy statement

Date of most recent revision: 08 February 2006

This website is operated by PricewaterhouseCoopers BV of Amsterdam for the joint benefit of PricewaterhouseCoopers Accountants NV, PricewaterhouseCoopers Belastingadviseurs NV and PricewaterhouseCoopers Advisory NV, hereinafter to be referred to as 'PwC'.

Data processing

When you use the PwC website, you may act on your own initiative to provide certain personal data or information about yourself. PwC processes this data:

• to make this website available to its users as well as for purposes of registration with regard to certain parts of the website;
• to make it possible to send you further information on PwC services by post or e-mail and to improve the services offered by PwC both on the website and elsewhere;
• to enable you to be sent reference material, marketing material or other publications from PwC, either by post or e-mail;

As a rule, PwC collects no more information from you than necessary for the completion of a request from you. Any cases where you are asked for compulsory information are explicitly indicated on the relevant web page.

Personal information is provided to PwC by you on a voluntary basis. The procedure to unsubscribe or to have your name deleted from a mailing list, for example, will be indicated in a special message to you or by means of information on the relevant page of the website. You may also contact the webmaster of the site with regard to this matter via E-mail Webmaster.

Because PwC may also use its website as a recruitment tool, you may send a curriculum vitae to one of our staff during a visit to the website. The information that you provide in this connection will be used by PwC exclusively for the following purposes:

• recruitment and selection purposes within PwC;
• communication purposes, for example to schedule an appointment should PwC wish to invite you to an interview;
• in the event your application is subjected to processing in order to assess your suitability for a position that is or may become vacant.

PwC will not ask for demographic information, such as gender and profession, but you will have the opportunity to give such information in an on-line application.

E-mail

E-mail messages can also be sent via the website. The messages sent in this way contain your user name and email address, as well as any additional information that you include in the message. If you submit any request or comments to us by e-mail, PwC may process the aforementioned data in order, for example, to contact you or to answer your e-mail.

Particular personal details

PwC does not request any particular personal details via the website unless required by law for the recruitment of employees. Particular personal details include information about race or ethnic group, political preference, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, physical or mental health, sexual preferences, or criminal record. We dissuade you from furnishing this type of particular personal data. Should you, however, supply such information for whatever reason, we assume that you explicitly grant PwC permission to process this information. Furthermore, you are requested on the web page where you can enter the particular personal details to consent to such processing by clicking a button.

Publications

Although most publications are offered in the form of downloads, it is also possible to request PwC publications online, by phone or by fax (order form). We ask you to provide the order details in order to facilitate shipment and payment.

Direct marketing

Excepting, for example, mailing lists, which you can define yourself and in which you can indicate the specific marketing materials, other publications and/or information that you wish to receive from PwC, PwC can utilise the personal data that it obtains via its website to support its direct marketing activities. If you do not wish to receive any information about (new) services provided by PwC which may be sent unsolicited, you can indicate this wish when submitting your personal information or responding to an e-mail that you receive from PwC. PwC will then block the processing of your personal data for direct-marketing purposes.

Third parties

Your personal information will be treated confidentially by PwC and not used for other purposes or given to third parties unless:

• PwC is legally required to do so;
• you explicitly request it;
• this is necessary to send you publications, marketing materials, reference materials or other information;
• you register for conferences or events organised by third parties;
• these third parties are other PwC entities.

The PwC website is not used to gather or to compile personal information in order to disseminate it externally, to use it for sales activities and/or to deliver mailings on behalf of third parties.

Transfer to other PricewaterhouseCoopers entities

Personal data collected by PwC may be forwarded to other PricewaterhouseCoopers entities that are part of the worldwide PricewaterhouseCoopers organisation. These entities may, however, only use the information for the purpose for which it was provided to PwC. A visitor who enters data on the PricewaterhouseCoopers website correspondingly gives PwC explicit permission to send the information collected on the website to other countries, if so required to meet the visitor's voluntary request.

Whenever information is entered on the PwC website, we assume that you give PwC explicit permission to share the information with other PwC entities that are part of the worldwide PricewaterhouseCoopers organisation. Furthermore, you are requested on the corresponding web pages where you can enter personal information to consent to such use by clicking a button.

External links

PwC has included links to websites of third parties. If you go to another site via such a link, you should be aware that the PwC privacy policy no longer applies there. It is possible that these third parties or other parties on these websites will collect data about you. PwC is not responsible for the content of these websites or for the actions of these third or other parties. We advise you to read through the privacy policy of these websites before providing personal or other data.

Retention of data

PwC will not retain your personal data any longer than is necessary for the realisation of the purposes set out above with regard to the processing of your personal data unless this data is required for compliance with a statutory retention obligation or (if longer) until epiry of the retention period required by applicable conduct and professional practice.

Access to the website

We have opted not to require you to register as a visitor to the PwC website. However, you may be invited to register in order to receive a personal user ID and a personal password enabling you, for example, to access certain portions of the site or to access certain transaction data, confidential corporate data or proprietary data.

Rights

You have the right to have access to the personal information that PwC processes concerning you. To change or add to any of your personal data, you are required to repeat the authorisation or registration process. PwC makes every reasonable effort to make its website as accessible as possible in order to enable you to identify and correct any inaccuracies. At your request, PwC will, if possible, remove your personal information from current operational systems.
PwC accepts its responsibility of carefully storing any personal data held by it after it has been supplied by you and checked for accuracy. PwC does not, however, accept any responsibility for the currency of content once personal data has been supplied. If possible, PwC shall update this data based on new information that we have received from you, the authorised visitor, once PwC has been made aware that certain personal information collected on the website is no longer accurate.

Security

PwC has implemented generally accepted technological procedures and security policies to prevent personal data from being lost, misused, destroyed or inadvertently changed. All employees of PwC must comply with the security regulations that apply to the entire organisation. Personal information is only accessible to authorised PwC employees, and these employees are required to guarantee the confidentiality of this information.

Questions

Questions about your transactions on this website, about the access to and accuracy of information that you have forwarded to PwC through the website or requests to remove outdated information can be addressed to webmaster (or sent by regular mail to: PricewaterhouseCoopers B.V., attn. Business Development, Marketing Communications, PO Box 90351, 1066 JR Amsterdam) . Requests to inspect, supplement and/or amend must be accompanied by a copy of proof of identity. Should you not wish to receive any marketing material from PwC, you can notify us of this fact by means of the above-stated regular or e-mail addresses.

If you have previously signed up for newsletters via email and you no longer wish to receive them, you should cancel this subscription separately through the respective site section.

Should you have any questions about this internet privacy policy, please contact the Office of General Councel (or send them by regular mail to: PricewaterhouseCoopers B.V., attn. Corporate Group (OGC), PO Box 90351, 1066 JR Amsterdam)

Changes

PwC reserves the right to change or update this internet privacy policy at any time. The date of the most recent update is indicated that the beginning of this privacy statement. To keep you informed, any changes to this internet privacy policy will be indicated for at least two weeks in a prominent location on our website at www.pwc.nl aangegeven.