Part A
Privacy Policy
What personal data we collect on this website, why we collect it, and what you can do about it.
A1Who we are
TextilesInside is published by CowNect Media B.V., a private limited company registered in the Netherlands under Chamber of Commerce number 42072469, with its registered office at Kennemerstraatweg 115, 1814 GE Alkmaar, the Netherlands.
For the personal data described here, CowNect Media B.V. is the controller: we decide why and how it is used.
Contact for privacy matters: privacy@textilesinside.com
This policy is written to meet our obligations under European data protection law and the Dutch law implementing it, which is the law that applies to us. It covers TextilesInside.com only; our other title publishes its own policy.
A2How we approach personal data
- We collect personal data where we have a purpose and a legal basis for it, and this policy tells you both.
- We do not sell personal data, and we do not rent or trade our subscriber lists.
- We do not send commercial email to people who have not asked for it or who are not our customers.
- Where processing rests on your consent, you can withdraw it at any time, and it takes effect from that moment.
A3Who this website is for
TextilesInside is a business-to-business trade publication. We deal with people in their professional capacity, and our services are not directed at anyone under 16. If you are under 16, do not subscribe to our newsletters or submit forms here. If you believe a child has given us personal data, tell us and we will delete it.
A4What we collect, why, and on what basis
The “legal basis” column refers to Article 6 of the General Data Protection Regulation, which sets out the grounds on which personal data may lawfully be used.
| What we collect | When | Why | Legal basis | How long we keep it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Email address and any other details you enter | You subscribe to an e-newsletter | To send you the newsletter, and to keep a record that you asked for it | Consent, Art. 6(1)(a). Where you are already our customer, our legitimate interest in informing you about our own similar services, Art. 6(1)(f) | Until you unsubscribe, plus the period we need to show that your subscription was lawful |
| Your name, email address, company and message | You use a contact form or email us | To answer you, and to keep a record of what was discussed | Our legitimate interest in responding to and documenting enquiries, Art. 6(1)(f); or steps prior to a contract, Art. 6(1)(b) | For as long as the enquiry is live, and afterwards for as long as we may need it to deal with questions or claims arising from it |
| Your name, contact details, job title, employer, and the material you send us | You submit a contribution, expert profile or answer | To assess, edit, publish and archive your contribution, to credit you, and to stay in touch about it | Steps prior to a contract and performance of it, Art. 6(1)(b); our legitimate interest in maintaining a complete editorial archive, Art. 6(1)(f) | For as long as the contribution remains part of our archive, and afterwards for as long as we may need it to establish or defend a legal claim |
| Company details, contact person, logo and product information | You take out or update a listing, or advertise with us | To create, maintain and invoice the service | Performance of a contract, Art. 6(1)(b); legal obligation for our records, Art. 6(1)(c) | For the term of the agreement, and afterwards for the statutory retention period that applies to our administration |
| Account name, email address and a hashed password | You create an account | To give you access to the parts of this website that require one | Performance of a contract, Art. 6(1)(b) | Until the account is closed, plus a short period to handle reactivation and disputes |
| IP address, device and browser data, pages viewed, referring source | You visit the site, if you accepted statistics cookies | To understand how our content is read and how the site performs | Consent, Art. 6(1)(a), through the cookie banner | The retention period set in the analytics tool |
| IP address and server log data | Every visit | To keep the site available and to detect and stop abuse | Our legitimate interest in the security and continuity of our service, Art. 6(1)(f) | A short period, sufficient to investigate incidents |
| Your cookie choices | You respond to the banner | To apply your choice and to be able to show what you chose | Legal obligation and legitimate interest, Art. 6(1)(c) and (f) | The period for which consent remains valid |
| Business contact details of professionals in our sector | We obtain them from public sources, events or your employer | To reach the right people about editorial and commercial opportunities | Our legitimate interest in operating a trade publication, Art. 6(1)(f) | For as long as the contact remains relevant to our sector |
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Where we rely on legitimate interest, we have weighed our interest against your rights and concluded that our processing is proportionate and within what a professional reader would reasonably expect from a trade publication. You can ask us to explain that assessment, and you can object to it under section A12.
You are never obliged to give us personal data. The only consequence of not doing so is that we cannot do the thing it was needed for.
Aggregated and anonymised information
We compile aggregated statistics about our audience: readership numbers, industries, job functions, regions and content performance. Once aggregated, this information no longer identifies anyone and is no longer personal data. We use it freely, including in our media kit and in reporting to advertisers, and it is not covered by the rest of this policy.
A5What we do not do with your data
- We do not sell, rent or trade personal data.
- We do not take automated decisions that produce legal effects for you or similarly significantly affect you, and we do not build individual advertising profiles.
- We do not use personal data for purposes that are incompatible with those set out above.
A6Cookies and similar technologies
Cookies are small files placed on your device; this website also uses comparable techniques such as local storage and pixels. Where these are not strictly necessary, we place them only after you consent through the banner.
| Category | What it does | Consent needed |
|---|---|---|
| Functional | Delivers the pages, keeps the site secure, remembers your cookie choice, keeps you signed in | No, these are strictly necessary |
| Preferences | Remembers settings you chose | Yes |
| Statistics | Measures how the site is used and how readers arrive | Yes |
| Marketing | Measures the performance of campaigns and advertising | Yes |
You can change or withdraw your choice at any time through the cookie settings in the footer. Withdrawal does not affect processing that took place before it. You can also block or delete cookies in your browser; if you block functional cookies, parts of this website will stop working.
Our consent banner is provided by Complianz. You can review or change your choice at any time through the cookie settings link in the footer of this website, and our cookie policy lists the individual cookies this website places.
A7Analytics and third-party content
We use analytics software to see which articles are read and how readers find them. It runs only after you accept statistics cookies, and IP addresses are shortened before storage.
Pages on this website may contain content served by third parties, such as embedded video, advertising and social media elements. Those parties may set their own cookies and receive your IP address when the content loads. We place such content only within the cookie category you consented to, but what those parties do with the data is governed by their own policies, not by ours.
On this website, that software is Google Analytics 4, loaded through Google Tag Manager.
A8Who else is involved
We use service providers to run this website and our newsletters. They act on our instructions under a data processing agreement and may not use your data for their own purposes. They fall into these categories:
- hosting and technical infrastructure;
- email marketing and delivery;
- website analytics;
- consent management;
- customer relationship management and business software;
- professional advisers, including accountants and lawyers.
Beyond these, we disclose personal data only where the law requires it, or where it is necessary to establish, exercise or defend a legal claim.
If our business, or the title TextilesInside, is transferred to another party through a merger, acquisition or asset sale, personal data may transfer with it. We will note that on this page.
You can ask us which specific providers we use in a given category. Write to the address in section A1.
A9Transfers outside Europe
Some of our service providers process data in the United States. When personal data leaves the European Economic Area, we rely on one of the safeguards European law recognises for that purpose: the EU-US Data Privacy Framework where the recipient is certified under it, or the European Commission’s standard contractual clauses. You can ask us which safeguard applies to a specific transfer.
A10Security
This website is served over HTTPS. Access to systems holding personal data is limited to people who need it for their work, protected by individual accounts and, where the system supports it, two-factor authentication. Our hosting provider maintains backups and monitoring.
We take security measures appropriate to the risk, as the law requires. That is an obligation to take appropriate measures, not a guarantee of a result: no system connected to the internet is perfectly secure.
Email is a case of its own. Messages travel through servers we do not control. Treat email as an insecure medium and do not send confidential information by it.
A11Data breaches
If a personal data breach occurs, we assess the risk it poses. Where the breach is likely to result in a risk to your rights and freedoms, we notify the Dutch Data Protection Authority within 72 hours of becoming aware of it. Where it is likely to result in a high risk to you, we also inform you directly and without undue delay, and tell you what happened, what it means for you, and what we are doing about it.
A12Your rights
You have the right to ask us for access to your personal data, for rectification of data that is inaccurate or incomplete, and for erasure where we no longer have grounds to keep it. You may ask us to restrict processing while a dispute about accuracy or grounds is resolved, and you may ask us to send the data you gave us to another controller in a machine-readable format where that is technically feasible.
You may object to processing we base on legitimate interest. Where you object to direct marketing, we stop, without asking why. Where you object to other processing based on legitimate interest, we stop unless we have compelling legitimate grounds that override your interests, or we need the data for legal claims.
Where processing rests on consent, you may withdraw it at any time. Withdrawal does not affect processing that was lawful before it.
To make a request, email privacy@textilesinside.com. We will ask you to confirm your identity before we act, so that we do not disclose your data to someone else. We respond within one month; where a request is complex or where you have made several, we may extend that by two further months and will tell you within the first month if we do.
Requests are free. Where a request is manifestly unfounded or excessive, in particular where it is repetitive, we may charge a reasonable fee based on our administrative costs, or refuse to act, as Article 12(5) of the General Data Protection Regulation permits.
Some rights have limits. We may keep data where we need it to comply with a legal obligation, to maintain our editorial archive, or to establish, exercise or defend a legal claim.
Unsubscribing
Every newsletter contains an unsubscribe link. One click is enough and it takes effect immediately.
A13Complaints
If you are not satisfied with how we handled your data or your request, tell us first at privacy@textilesinside.com. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. Ours is the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens, Postbus 93374, 2509 AJ Den Haag, the Netherlands. If you live or work in another country in the European Economic Area, you may complain to the authority there.
A14Changes to this policy
We update this policy when our processing or the law changes. The version number and date at the top of this page tell you which version applies. Updating this page is the notice we give for ordinary changes; where a change materially affects you, we will say so by email or in our newsletter before it takes effect.
Part B
Terms of Use
The terms on which we make this website and its content available to you.
B1These terms
These terms govern your use of TextilesInside.com, operated by CowNect Media B.V. (“CowNect”, “we”, “us”). By using this website you accept them. If you do not accept them, stop using the website.
We may amend these terms at any time. The version in force is the one published on this page. If you continue to use the website after a change, you accept the amended version.
Separate written agreements govern advertising, listings and other commercial services. Where such an agreement conflicts with these terms, that agreement prevails for the services it covers, and these terms apply to everything it does not address.
Any general terms and conditions of your own are expressly rejected and do not apply, whether or not we have seen them, and regardless of any wording in your documents to the contrary.
B2Who this website is for
This website is a trade publication intended for use by businesses and by professionals acting in the course of their trade or profession, aged 16 or over. It is not intended for consumer use, and we make it available on that basis.
B3Editorial independence and commercial content
Our editorial selection is ours alone. Advertisers, listed companies and contributors do not determine what we publish, and we are under no obligation to publish, keep publishing, or continue to display anything.
Part of the content on this website is supplied or paid for by the companies it concerns: supplier news, case studies, listings, expert profiles and product announcements. Content of that kind is identified where it appears. We do not verify manufacturers’ technical claims, performance figures, certifications or availability, we publish that information as supplied, and publication is not an endorsement or a recommendation.
B4Technical information is not engineering advice
This website publishes technical articles about equipment and processes, including subjects bearing directly on safety, such as machinery guarding in spinning, weaving and nonwoven lines, fibre dust and its fire and explosion risks, the handling of dyes, solvents and finishing chemicals, and the flammability and chemical-safety properties of technical textiles.
That information is general and editorial. It is not engineering advice, not a risk assessment, not a design specification, and not a substitute for the manufacturer’s documentation, the applicable standards and regulations, or the judgement of a qualified professional who knows your installation.
Do not act on anything published here without independent professional verification for your own situation. All decisions about the specification, design, operation, protection, inspection and maintenance of an installation are yours and your advisers’, and you take them at your own risk.
B5Accuracy and availability
We compile this website with care, but we give no warranty that its content is accurate, complete, current or fit for any particular purpose. Specifications, prices, certifications and company details change, and third-party information reaches us as supplied.
We give no warranty of uninterrupted or error-free availability. We may change, suspend, restrict or discontinue any part of this website, including individual pages, listings, archives and services, at any time and without notice, and without liability to you.
B6Accounts
Where the website offers an account, you are responsible for the accuracy of the details you register, for keeping your credentials confidential, and for everything done through your account. Tell us promptly if you believe it has been compromised.
We may suspend or close an account at any time, in particular where it is used in breach of these terms, without being liable for any resulting loss.
B7Permitted and prohibited use
You may read, print and share individual articles for your own professional use, with attribution and a link to the source page.
You may not, without our prior written permission:
- copy, republish, syndicate or redistribute our content systematically or in substantial part, whether or not for commercial purposes;
- use automated means to access, scrape, harvest, index or copy this website or any part of it, other than search engine crawlers acting in accordance with our robots.txt;
- use any content from this website for text and data mining, or to develop, train, fine-tune, evaluate or ground machine learning or generative artificial intelligence systems. We expressly reserve our rights in this respect within the meaning of Article 4(3) of Directive (EU) 2019/790, and this reservation applies to the whole of this website and all of its content;
- extract or re-utilise the whole or a substantial part of Material Guide, Manufacturers Directory or any other database on this website, or repeatedly extract or re-utilise insubstantial parts of it;
- remove, obscure or alter any notice of authorship, source or ownership;
- interfere with the operation or security of the website, or attempt to access systems or data you are not entitled to;
- submit anything unlawful, defamatory, misleading, infringing or malicious;
- use our contact forms, expert service or published contact details to send advertising or unsolicited commercial messages.
We may take any measure we consider appropriate against use in breach of this section, including blocking access, without notice.
B8Material you submit to us
This section applies to everything you send us: articles, case studies, images, video, expert profiles and answers, listing content, and any other material, however submitted.
You retain ownership of your material. By submitting it you grant CowNect a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, transferable and sub-licensable licence to use, reproduce, edit, adapt, translate, publish, distribute, display and archive it, in whole or in part, on this website, in our newsletters, on our social media channels, in our other titles and in any promotional use of our own publications, in any medium now known or later developed.
To the extent permitted by law, you waive your right to be identified as the author on each use and your right to object to modifications of the material, on the understanding that we normally credit contributors and edit only for length, clarity, accuracy and house style.
You warrant that:
- the material is yours, or you hold all rights and permissions needed to grant this licence;
- it infringes no intellectual property, confidentiality or privacy right of any third party;
- every person shown in an image or video has consented to publication;
- factual and technical statements in it are accurate and not misleading;
- you have your employer’s authority to submit it.
You indemnify us against all claims, damages, costs and expenses, including reasonable legal costs, arising from a breach of these warranties.
We decide what to publish. We may decline a submission without giving reasons, edit it, publish it alongside other material, or remove it at any time. We pay nothing for contributions unless agreed otherwise in writing. Where you ask us to remove published material, we will consider it in good faith, but we are under no obligation to alter our editorial archive.
B9Our intellectual property
The design, structure, compilation, databases and editorial content of this website are owned by CowNect Media B.V. or licensed to us, and are protected by copyright and, in respect of our directories and guides, by database rights. The TextilesInside name and logo are our trade marks. Nothing on this website grants you any licence to use them.
Third-party trade marks, product names and logos belong to their owners and appear here for identification only.
B10Links to other websites
This website links to manufacturers, advertisers, associations and other third parties. We neither control nor monitor those websites and accept no responsibility for their content, products, services or handling of personal data. Once you leave TextilesInside.com, their terms and their privacy policy apply.
B11Liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, we exclude liability for:
- loss or damage arising from reliance on anything published on this website, including the technical content described in section B4;
- indirect and consequential loss of any kind, including loss of profit, turnover, production, savings, goodwill, contracts, business interruption, and loss or corruption of data;
- the unavailability of, interruption to, or errors in this website;
- the acts, omissions, products, services or content of third parties, including advertisers, listed companies, contributors and linked websites.
Where we are nevertheless liable, our total liability for all events arising from a single cause, and for all events arising in any period of twelve consecutive months, is limited to the amount you paid us in the twelve months preceding the event, and where you paid us nothing, to EUR 500. Where we carry insurance covering the loss and the insurer pays out, our liability is limited to the amount paid out.
Any claim against us lapses unless you notify us of it in writing, with reasons, within three months of becoming aware of the event, and in any case within twelve months of the event itself.
Nothing in these terms excludes or limits our liability for intent or deliberate recklessness on our part, for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, or for any other liability that cannot be excluded under Dutch law.
B12Indemnity
If you use this website in breach of these terms, or if material you submitted gives rise to a claim, you indemnify us against all claims, damages, fines, costs and expenses, including reasonable legal costs, that we incur as a result.
B13Force majeure
We are not liable for any failure or delay in making this website available where it results from circumstances beyond our reasonable control, including failures of hosting, connectivity or power, cyber attacks, defects in third-party software or services, government measures, and industrial action.
B14Notice and takedown
If you believe something on this website infringes your rights or is otherwise unlawful, email privacy@textilesinside.com with the exact URL, a description of the problem, and the basis on which you raise it. We assess every properly substantiated notice and act where the complaint is justified. Assessing a notice is not an admission of liability.
B15Governing law and jurisdiction
Dutch law governs these terms and any dispute arising from them or from the use of this website, to the exclusion of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods.
Disputes are submitted exclusively to the competent court in the district of Noord-Holland, the Netherlands, unless mandatory law gives you the right to bring your claim elsewhere.
If a provision of these terms is or becomes invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions stay in force, and the invalid provision is replaced by a valid one that comes as close as possible to its intended commercial effect.
We may transfer our rights and obligations under these terms to another party. You may not, without our written consent.
These terms are drawn up in English. Where a translation is provided, the English version prevails.
B16Contact
CowNect Media B.V.
Kennemerstraatweg 115
1814 GE Alkmaar
The Netherlands
Chamber of Commerce (KvK): 42072469
VAT number: NL869580930B01
Email: privacy@textilesinside.com
Telephone: +31 6 54 33 12 08
textilesinside.com is a title of CowNect Media B.V.
