Privacy notice
Hire Local NL (hirelocal.nl) is a free directory of independent freelancers in the Netherlands. It's in beta. Here's what happens with the information you share.
Who we are
Hire Local NL is created and owned by Alexandra Ciuca, through ALCIVE Studio (KVK 87540991), the Netherlands, and run as part of The Freelance Besties. Questions about your data: hello@hirelocal.nl.
What we collect and why
When you add your business, we collect:
- Business details: business name, logo or profile picture, category, description, keywords, city, province, how you work, languages, website, Instagram and LinkedIn. These will be shown publicly on Hire Local NL once your listing is approved.
- Your name and email: only to check your submission and contact you about your listing. These are never shown publicly.
- Your KVK number: only to check that your business is registered and meets the criteria. It's never shown publicly.
We only list businesses added by their own owner, with their consent. You can withdraw that consent at any time.
Social media features (optional)
If you tick "Feature me on social media", we may feature your business in posts on the Hire Local NL and The Freelance Besties Instagram and LinkedIn accounts, and tag you. If you also upload a photo of yourself, we may use it in those posts. This is completely optional and doesn't affect your listing.
You can withdraw this consent at any time. We'll then stop using your details and photo in new posts, and delete posts that feature you on request. Photos you upload are deleted when you withdraw consent or when your listing is removed.
If you recommend a freelancer
You can also recommend a freelancer you love. We collect their business name, what they do, their city, where to find them online (their public website or Instagram), why you recommend them, and your own name and email.
We never publish recommendations. We use them for one thing only: to contact the freelancer once, through the public channel you gave us, to tell them about Hire Local NL and that they were recommended. They decide for themselves whether to add their business. If they say no, or don't reply within 30 days, we delete the recommendation.
Your email is only used to let you know if they join.
If you were recommended
If we contacted you because someone recommended you, we got your business name and public website or Instagram from that person. We don't list you unless you add your business yourself. You can ask us at any time to delete the recommendation or to tell you what we have.
Other forms
If you flag a listing, ask to change or remove your listing, or join the makers waitlist, we store what you enter in that form. Your email is only used to reply to you, or (for the waitlist) to email you once when makers can join.
Where your data is stored
Submissions are stored in this website's own secure database. Only the Hire Local NL admin can see private details such as your name, email and KVK number; they are never shown on the public site.
Cookies
We only use cookies that are strictly necessary for the website to work. We don't use tracking or advertising cookies.
How long we keep it
- Live listings stay until you ask us to change or remove them.
- Rejected submissions, and the private details that come with them, are deleted within 30 days.
- If you ask us to remove your listing, we do so within 7 days.
- Recommendations are deleted once the freelancer has joined, declined, or not replied within 30 days.
We never sell or share your data, and we don't use your email for marketing.
Your rights
You can ask to see, correct or delete your information at any time by emailing hello@hirelocal.nl.
You can also withdraw your consent, which removes your listing. If you're unhappy with how we handle your data, you can complain to the Dutch data protection authority, the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens.