This notice explains how Alisios Consulting B.V. handles personal data when you visit this website, contact us or work with us. It covers our work in engineering consulting, AI consulting and training, and the Alisios Careers programme.
1. Controller and contact
Alisios Consulting B.V., Nieuwstraat 49, 4331 JK Middelburg, Netherlands, is the controller for the processing described here. Contact [email protected] or +31 6 1924 1851. Registration details: KvK 42065811; BTW NL869550378B01.
2. Information involved
Depending on how you contact us, this may include your name, company, email address, telephone number, the service you are interested in and the content of your message. For the Careers programme it also includes the professional background you choose to share, such as roles, countries and questions. During an engagement it includes the information you or your organisation give us to carry out the agreed work, such as business contact details of your colleagues. Hosting of the website may process technical request information, such as an IP address and browser information.
Please do not send confidential client or project records, identity documents, medical information or other sensitive personal data through the general enquiry route. If such information is needed for an engagement, we will agree a suitable way to exchange it first.
3. Purposes and legal bases
We use personal data only for the purposes below, and only on the legal basis that fits each interaction.
| Purpose | Legal basis and limits |
|---|---|
| Answering enquiries and communication | Steps you request before a contract, or our legitimate interest in answering professional enquiries and maintaining business relationships. |
| Careers assessment and programme | Steps you request before a Careers advisory agreement and, once agreed, performance of that agreement. An assessment is not a job-placement guarantee. |
| Delivering engineering consulting, AI consulting and training | Performance of an agreement with an individual, or our legitimate interest where the contact represents a business client. Use is limited to the information needed for the agreed work. |
| Accounting, tax and legal administration | Our legal obligations and, where appropriate, our legitimate interest in managing records and defending legal claims. |
| Security of our website and email | Our legitimate interest in protecting our systems and the information entrusted to us. |
| Optional marketing or talent-database inclusion | Only with your separate, specific consent, and only if we introduce these activities. Sending an enquiry does not give this consent. (except business prospecting as described in the Business prospecting section) |
4. Retention
We keep personal data only for as long as the purpose requires:
- Enquiries that do not lead to an engagement: deleted within 12 months after the last contact.
- Careers assessment material: deleted within 12 months after the assessment or programme ends, unless you ask for earlier deletion or we agree a different period with you.
- Engagement records: kept during the engagement and for up to five years afterwards, to handle questions and legal claims.
- Invoices and accounting records: kept for the period required by Dutch law, which is generally seven years.
- Website hosting logs: kept by the hosting provider under its own retention settings.
Deleted data may remain in routine backups until they are overwritten. Where processing relies on consent, withdrawing it affects future processing only.
5. Service providers and external channels
- Hosting: this website is hosted through ChatGPT Sites, which uses Cloudflare-based hosting infrastructure. The hosting provider may process technical request data to deliver and protect the site.
- Email: messages sent by email involve your email provider and our business email provider.
- Automated email assistant: an automated assistant reviews incoming emails sent to [email protected]. It only supports the handling of messages addressed to us and does not take decisions about you. Please do not put confidential project documents, identity numbers or sensitive information in a first email: we agree a suitable channel with you before documents are exchanged.
- WhatsApp: an optional contact channel. Opening WhatsApp is governed by its own service and privacy terms.
Professional advisers, such as our accountant, and public authorities may receive information where necessary for an agreed service, a legal obligation or a legal claim. We do not sell personal data and we do not share it for advertising.
6. Transfers and security
Some of the providers above may process information outside the European Economic Area. Where this happens, the transfer should rest on a recognised safeguard, such as an adequacy decision, the EU–US Data Privacy Framework or standard contractual clauses. Ask us for information about the safeguards that apply to your data.
We use secure connections and limit access to enquiry and engagement information to the people who need it. No system is completely secure; if a breach affects your personal data, we will act as the law requires.
Business prospecting
Where we write first to an organisation to propose our services, we use that organisation's generic business contact details published on its own website or another public professional source, and, where relevant, a name and job title published in the same way. We do this on the basis of our legitimate interest (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). First contact is sent only to a generic company address or company contact form. We keep these details for up to 12 months without engagement. If you object, we will stop and keep only a minimal suppression record so that we do not contact you again. You may object at any time: reply "remove me" or write to [email protected]. This is in addition to the rights set out above.
7. Your GDPR / AVG rights
Subject to the conditions and exceptions in the GDPR / AVG, you may request access, correction, erasure, restriction or portability of your personal data, and object to processing based on legitimate interests. Where consent is the basis, you can withdraw it without affecting the lawfulness of earlier processing.
Send a request to [email protected]. We may need proportionate information to establish your identity. The usual response period is one month; where a lawful extension is needed, you will be informed within that first month. You may complain to the Dutch Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens, or another competent supervisory authority. Contacting us first does not remove that right.
8. Providing data and decision-making
Providing enquiry or assessment information is voluntary. Without the information needed to understand a request, we may not be able to respond or to assess fit. The website itself does not score applications, make eligibility decisions or process online payments, and we do not take decisions about you based solely on automated processing.
9. Cookies, media and external services
This site’s own pages do not set cookies and do not use analytics, advertising trackers, tracking pixels or embedded third-party contact widgets. Fonts, images and videos are served from the site itself. The enquiry form keeps its draft in the current page only; it does not save what you enter in browser storage or submit it to a web server. It prepares an email for you to review and send in your email app. Careers enquiries also open an email draft to [email protected]; this site does not direct visitors to an external application form.
Our hosting provider may use technical or security cookies and request logs that are necessary to deliver and protect the site. External services you open deliberately, such as WhatsApp, operate under their own notices and may use cookies.
10. Changes to this notice
We update this notice when our processing changes and show the date of the current version at the top. This version is dated 13 November 2026.