The Netherlands Benevolent Society

Patron: HRH Princess Beatrix of The Netherlands

150 Years of Dutch Helping Dutch
In The UK

Since 1874 the Koning Willem Fonds (KWF) has provided a lifeline for Dutch nationals in the United Kingdom. We offer vital assistance in times of need. Our mission is to support Dutch individuals facing challenges such as homelessness, illness, financial hardship, or unforeseen life events, ensuring no Dutch person in the UK stands alone.

How We Can Help You

How You Can Help Us

Privacy Policy

Thank you for visiting the Koning Willem Fonds (KWF) website and reviewing our privacy policy. 
We will collect no personal information about you when you visit our website, unless you choose to provide that information to us. If we collect that information, here is how we handle information about your visit to our website.
For our colophon, click here.

Cookies
If you review or download information, we may track the visit through the use of “cookies”. Cookies are pieces of information a web site transfers to an individual’s hard drive for record-keeping purposes.
The use of cookies is an industry standard, and you will find cookies at all major websites. Cookies help the KWF to tailor information to your preferences and to see which areas of the web site are frequented most.

KWF never uses cookies to retrieve information from your computer, that was not originally sent in a cookie. Most browsers are initially set to accept cookies. If you prefer, you can change your browser settings to refuse cookies. However, in so doing, you may not be able to fully utilize the website. By not disabling cookies in your browser you consent to accepting cookies from this website.

Information Collected and Stored Automatically
If you do nothing during your visit but browse through the website, read pages, or download information, we may gather and store certain information about your visit automatically.
This information does not identify you personally. During your visit, we may automatically collect and store only the following information about your visit:

  • the Internet domain (for example, “xxcompany.co.uk” if you use a private Internet access account, or “youruni.ac.uk” if you connect from a university’s domain;
  • the IP address of the computer, which you use to access our website (an IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to the computer, whenever and wherever you are surfing the web);
  • the type of browser and operating system used to access our site;
  • the date and time you access our site;
  • your geographical location;
  • the pages you visit; and
  • if you linked to and accessed our website from another website anywhere, the address of that website.

If You Send Us Personal Information
If you choose to provide us with personal information — as in an email, or by completing a form with your personal information and submitting it to us through our website — we use that information to respond to your message and to help us get you the information you have requested.
We treat emails the same way we treat letters, but we do not collect personal information for any other purpose than to respond to you.
We may share the information you give us with our trustees, or as otherwise required by English law. However we do not create individual profiles from the information you provide.
Whlist we are dealing with your request for information and or assistance you consent to us that your personal details may be registered in a digital format for the period of processing your enquiry and shared with third parties required to deal with your request for assistance.
If you have requested to have your personal data to be added to our mailinglist, your data will be kept until you resign from our mailinglist.

Children’s GDPR Privacy Code
KWF web pages and services do not purposely address anyone under the age of thirteen. However we may not knowingly collect personal identifiable information from children under 13. In the case we discover, that a child under 13 has provided KWF with personal information, we will immediately delete this information from our servers. If a parent or guardian has become aware, that their child has provided us with personal information, they need to contact KWF, so that we are able to take the necessary actions.

In case information for a child under 13 years of age is provided as part of a social service the KWF renders to applicants, the information will be used only in the context of the service requested and provided.
When the applicant’s request for assistance includes information concerning children under the of 13 is settled, all childrens’ data in connection with the case will be deleted from the server.

Children have the same rights as adults over their personal data. These include the rights to access their personal data; request rectification; object to processing and have their personal data erased.
An individual’s right to erasure is particularly relevant, if they gave their consent to processing when they were a child.

e-Data Collection, Scraping, Harvesting, Web Data Extraction
It is strictly forbidden to collect any (e)mail address published in this KWF website, whether the (e)mail address is obtained by:

  • using an handmatic and or automated means to extract electronic (e)mail addresses from the KWF website; each time the (e)mail address is or was obtained, a notice is herewith given that the operator of such activity will not give, sell, purvey and or transfer by any other means (e)mail addresses maintained by the KWF website to any other party for the purposes of initiating, compiling and or enabling others to initiate electronic (e)mail messages and or
  • using an automated means, that generates possible electronic (e)mail addresses by combining initials, names, letters, numbers, punctuation marks, ligatures, logo-grams, symbols and or tokens in any shape or form into numerous permutations to resemble (e)mail addresses.

In doing so the perpetrator may be subject to a prosecution in any jurisdiction having privacy and or anti-spam legislation, that prohibit or restrict the scraping and or harvesting, compiling and or use of (e)mail addresses illegally obtained from the KWF website.

Links to Other Websites
Our website may have links to other websites. Once you leave the KWF website and link to another site, you are subject to the privacy policies and colophon of the new site.

Changes to This Privacy Policy
KWF may update its Privacy Policy from time to time. KWF advises you, the user, to review this page periodically for any changes

Colophon, Notice and Disclaimers

This website is designed and maintained by Indigo Marmoset Ltd on behalf of The Koning Willem Fonds (KWF) in London, England. Most texts are prepared and or provided by the trustees, Indigo Marmoset Ltd or by others on request. For our privacy policy click here.

Copyrights
Indigo Marmoset Ltd and KWF hold the copyright to the design, lay-out, form and shape of all pages in this website designed at present or in the future in the widest sense of the word.

The copyright of additional design features, texts, images or icons, designed or provided by others than abspm or KWF trustees, used in these web pages, is acknowledged. Under copyright laws, no content of these pages may be copied, reproduced, transmitted or reproduced in any shape or form, in whole or part, electronically, mechanically or otherwise, without the prior explicit written permission from the KWF or Indigo Marmoset Ltd.

Brand Names
Any brand names and product names used in this website are trade marks, registered trademarks or trade names of their respective holder.
The KWF nor Indigo Marmoset Ltd are associated with any product or vendor, who might be mentioned in this site, other than the products and services explicitly mentioned as such by the KWF or Indigo Marmoset Ltd.

Disclaimer
The KWF and or abspm cannot be held liable for any damages users of the KWF web pages and or its link pages may have or perceived to have sustained as a result of any contents, explicit, in-explicit or implied, of these pages.
The design and all contents of websites linked to from this website is the sole responsibility of the proprietor of that site.

Viruses, Worms, Malware or Defects
The KWF provides the website to you “as is”.
The KWF or Indigo Marmoset Ltd do not warrant, that the web pages are without errors, viruses, worms, malware and or other defects of any kind.
The KWF and Indigo Marmoset Ltd have taken all reasonable care to ensure, that the pages contain no errors, viruses, worms, malware or any other defects.

You (“the User”) are advised to ensure, that you take all necessary precautions to protect your computer(s), you server(s), your cloud and your internal and or external network from infections or intrusions in any shape or form.
The KWF and Indigo Marmoset Ltd will not be and cannot be held liable for any claims, actions, demands, losses, damages and or costs, which the User may sustain or suffer, or perceived to have sustained and or suffered, as a result of having been connected to the KWF website.

Legal
Any legal action or proceedings arising between you, the User, the Koning Willem Fonds and or Indigo Marmoset Ltd in relation to this website shall be governed by English law in the English language and you, the User, submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.