Privacy policy.

Last updated: 16. June 2024

As soon as you visit our website beyond-the-mat-with-anais.com or contact us, we receive information about you. In this privacy statement we explain what we do with that information. We always handle your information with care and store it securely. If you have any questions or want to know what information we have on you, please contact us. We may amend this privacy statement if necessary.

This website is hosted by Squarespace.

Anaïs Hellwig is responsible for the website beyond-the-mat-with-anais.com and therefore the responsible person for the use of your personal data as described in this privacy statement. 

  1. How does this Privacy Policy apply?

    This privacy statement applies to all personal data that we process and to all domains related to us. This concerns the personal data of everyone who has ever had contact with us or visited our website, such as visitors, customers and business contacts. Personal data is all data that can be traced back to you as an individual, such as your name, telephone number, IP address, customer number or surfing behavior.

  2. Personal information we collect

    We collect various personal information regarding you or your device. This includes the following:

    • Information you provide when you fill webforms, specifically email address, first name and last name.

    • The emails and other communications that you send us directly via em-mail or using the contact form.

    • Information from your use of this website, including:

      • Information about your browser, network and device

      • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

      • Web pages you view while on this website

      • Your IP address

  3. How we collect personal information

    We obtain personal information from various sources. We do this in three main ways:

    • You provide some of it directly (such as by submitting information in a webform) with your consent.

    • We record some of it automatically when you use this website (including with technologies like cookies).

    We’ve described this in more detail below.

    a. Personal information you provide

    When you submit information to this website via webform, we collect the data requested in the webform in order to track and respond to your submissions. We share this information with Squarespace, our online store hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us.

    b. Personal information obtained from your use of this website

    When you use this website, Squarespace, the host of this website, collects information about your activity on and interaction with it, such as your IP address(es), your device and browser type, the web page you visited before coming to our sites, what pages on our sites you visit and for how long and identifiers associated with your devices. If you’ve given us permission through your device settings, they may collect your location information in our mobile apps.

    Squarespace uses this in anonymous, aggregated or pseudonymized form which does not identify you directly. Squarespace uses this data to evaluate, provide, protect or improve their services (including by developing new products and services).

    Some of this information is collected automatically using cookies and similar technologies when you use this website. You can read more about our use of cookies on this page. Some of this information is similarly collected automatically through your browser or from your device.

  4. Cookie policy

    This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses.

    These functional and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you.

    These analytics and performance cookies are used on this website, as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.

  5. How we use your personal information

    We use the personal information we obtain about you for the following purposes:

    • Communicating with you. We may send you marketing emails, which you can unsubscribe from by clicking the link at the bottom of the email. We share your contact information with Squarespace, our email marketing provider, so they can send these emails on our behalf.

    • To manage your requests: To attend and manage your requests to us.

    • Improving Squarespace's services and platform. Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.

    • Anaytics. We share information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

    • Enforcement. Enforce our Terms of Service and other legal terms and policies.

    • Protection. Protect our and others’ interests, rights and property (e.g., to protect our users from abuse).

    • Complying with law. Comply with applicable legal requirements, such as tax and other government regulations and industry standards, contracts or law enforcement requests.

We process your personal information for the above purposes when:

  • Consent. You have consented to the use of your personal information in a particular way. When you consent, you can change your mind at any time.

  • Legitimate interests. We have a legitimate interest in using your personal information, but we won't process your information if your interests, or your fundamental rights and freedoms, override ours. In particular, we have a legitimate interest in the following cases:

    • To analyze and improve the safety and security of Squarespace's business- they do this as it is necessary to pursue our legitimate interests in ensuring Squarespace is secure, such as by implementing and enhancing security measures and protections and protecting against fraud, spam and abuse.

    • To anonymize and subsequently use anonymized information.

  • Protecting you and others. To protect your vital interests, or those of others. 

  • Others’ legitimate interests. Where necessary for the purposes of a third party’s legitimate interests for the website to function properly and securely and analyzing the usage of the so we can understand trends and improve our services.

6. How we share your personal information

We share personal information in the following ways:

  • With Squarespace as host of this website.

  • Third parties to provide services, such as marketing emails with ZohoMail.

7. Your rights and choices

Because we use your personal data, you have various rights. We have listed these rights for you below. 

  • Right to information. We must explain to you in an understandable and clear manner what we do with your data and what control you have over it. That is why we explain in detail in this privacy statement what data we collect from you and how we handle your data. 

  • Right to access. You may always ask us to view the data we hold about you.

  • Right to correction. You may ask us to have your data corrected if it is incorrect or incomplete. 

  • Right to object. You may object to the processing of your data if you do not agree with the way we handle your personal data. This right applies to the data we use for direct marketing. You can indicate to us that you no longer wish to receive e-mails from us. This also applies to personalized recommendations on our website. 

  • Right to data portability. If you are a customer of ours or if you have given permission for the use of your data, you may ask us to send you the digital data we have about you. This way you can transfer that data to another organisation if you wish. 

  • Right to restriction. You may ask to limit the use of your data. This means that in certain cases we may only store your data but not use it. 

  • Right to be forgotten. You may ask us to delete all data we have about you. We will then delete all data that can be traced back to you. In some cases we cannot or may not yet delete your data. For example, we have to keep some data for 7 years for the tax authorities. 

  • Right to submit a complaint. You may submit a complaint about the way in which we handle your data. If you have a complaint, we will be happy to resolve it for you. To do so, please contact  us. You may also submit your complaint to the Dutch Data Protection Authority. Of course we hope that it does not come to that, but if it's necessary you can also go to court. In that case, the court in the place of residence of A. Hellwig is the one which will handle your complaint. 

 8. How you can submit a request or complaint

You can submit your request or complaint to us by sending a mail to anaishwpro@gmail.com or via the contact form. We process every request or complaint within 30 days. If you submit multiple applications or complaints or if you submit a complex requerst or complaint, this may take more time. In that case, we will contact you within 60 days at the latest. We may ask you to identify yourself. In that case, we will ask you to submit certain information to ensure that you are the correct person whose personal data is.

9. How we protect your personal information

The security of your personal data is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

10. How we retain your personal information

We keep your personal data for as long as we are required to do so by law and for as long as necessary for the purpose for which we use your data. For example, as long as you are a customer with us, we store your data according to the statutory retention period of seven years. After that, we only keep your data for statistical purposes and to handle any complaints or legal matters. If you want to know more about how long we store specific data about you, please contact us. 

11. Data transfers

Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the Company's operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that this information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of Your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from Your jurisdiction.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.

12. Links to Other Websites

This website may contain links to other websites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, You will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

13. Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update Our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our website, prior to the change becoming effective and update the "Last updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

14. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, You can contact us:

By email: anaishwpro@gmail.com

By visiting this page on our website: http://www.beyondthematwithanaïs/contact