Privacy Policy
Version 1.0 · October 2026
1. Who is responsible for your data
Green Control B.V., trading as GreenControl Agro Academy ("we", "us"), is the controller of your personal data. Kortenhoefsedijk 118a, 1241 LV Kortenhoef, the Netherlands. KvK 90399153. Email: info@greencontrolacademy.com.
2. What data we collect
- Contact details you give us in forms, by email or in messengers: name, email address, phone number, messenger username, company name, country.
- Order and billing details: Plan purchased, company name, address, VAT number, invoice and payment status. We do not receive or store full card details.
- Participant details that a Customer gives us when it registers employees or students: name, email address and, where relevant, job title.
- Learning platform data: your account, course progress, completed modules, certificates and messages in the course chat.
- Session data: your name, image, voice and questions when you take part in an online Q&A session or consultation.
- Marketing preferences: whether you want to receive our news by email.
- Technical data: IP address, browser type and, if you agree, cookie data (article 8).
3. Why we use your data and on what legal basis
| Purpose | Data | Legal basis (GDPR art. 6) |
| Answering your request or question | Contact details | Steps at your request before a contract; legitimate interest in answering business enquiries |
| Selling and providing the Course, Q&A sessions, consultations and certificates | Order, platform and session data | Performance of the contract |
| Registering Participants of a business Customer and providing their training: access, progress, support and certificates | Participant details | Legitimate interest of the Customer and the Academy in performing the contract with the Customer |
| Recording group Q&A sessions so that participants of the same Course can watch them later | Session data | Legitimate interest; see "Recordings of Q&A sessions" below |
| Recording an individual consultation | Session data | Your consent, asked before the recording starts |
| Invoicing, accounting and tax | Order and billing details | Legal obligation |
| Sending news and practical tips by email | Contact details, marketing preferences | Your consent, which you can withdraw at any time |
| Website statistics | Cookie data | Your consent |
| Security of the website and Platform, and preventing misuse of accounts | Technical data, platform data | Legitimate interest |
| Improving our courses | Course progress, feedback | Legitimate interest |
We do not use automated decision-making or profiling with legal effects.
Recordings of Q&A sessions. Group Q&A sessions are recorded. A recording can show the names, images and voices of participants who speak or switch on their camera, and their chat messages. Only participants of the same Course can watch it on the Platform, during their access period, and it is deleted no later than 12 months after the session. You can send your question in advance and ask us to read it out without your name, keep your camera and microphone off, or object to being recorded by writing to info@greencontrolacademy.com; we will then remove or blur your contribution where possible.
Participants registered by a business Customer receive a link to this Privacy Policy with their invitation to the Platform.
4. Who we share your data with
We never sell your data. We share it only with the parties below, and only as far as needed.
| Party | What for | Role |
| Tilda | Website and contact forms | Processor on our behalf |
| LearnWorlds | Online learning platform, accounts, course emails, order confirmation | Processor on our behalf |
| Stripe | Online payments | Processor for the payment; independent controller for its own legal duties, such as fraud prevention and anti-money laundering checks |
| Google Workspace (email and document storage) and, with your consent, Google Analytics (website statistics) | Processor on our behalf | |
| Our email newsletter service | Sending news and tips to subscribers who gave consent, and handling unsubscribes | Processor on our behalf |
| YouTube and Vimeo | Videos embedded on our website, loaded only after your consent | Independent controllers |
| WhatsApp and Telegram | Messages, if you choose to contact us there | Independent controllers under their own privacy terms |
| Our bank and accountant | Bank transfers, accounting and tax | Independent controllers |
| Instructors and consultants of the Academy, such as Ard van Klaveren | Holding Q&A sessions and consultations | Act on our instructions and are bound by confidentiality |
| Authorities | Only when the law requires it | Independent controllers |
With processors we have, or accept, data processing agreements as required by article 28 GDPR.
5. Data outside the European Economic Area
Some providers, such as Google and Stripe, may process data outside the European Economic Area, for example in the United States. In that case the transfer is based on an adequacy decision of the European Commission (including the EU–US Data Privacy Framework) or on Standard Contractual Clauses. You can ask us for more information.
6. How long we keep your data
| Data | Retention period |
| Requests from people who did not buy | Up to 2 years after our last contact |
| Customer and Participant accounts, course progress | During the access period and up to 2 years after |
| Recordings of group Q&A sessions | During the access period of the participants of that session, and no longer than 12 months after the session |
| Recordings of individual consultations | As agreed when consent was given, and no longer than the access period |
| Records of issued certificates | Up to 10 years, so that a certificate can be verified |
| Invoices and accounting records | 7 years, as required by Dutch tax law |
| Newsletter subscription | Until you unsubscribe |
| Cookie data | As stated in the cookie settings |
7. Your rights
You have the right to access, correct or delete your data, to restrict or object to processing, to data portability, and to withdraw your consent at any time. Send your request to info@greencontrolacademy.com; we respond within one month.
You also have the right to file a complaint with the Dutch Data Protection Authority (Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens), www.autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl.
8. Cookies
- Necessary cookies make the website and the Platform work, for example to keep you logged in, to process a payment securely and to remember your cookie choice. They do not require consent.
- Statistics cookies (Google Analytics) help us understand how visitors use the website. We use them only after you give consent.
- Embedded videos from YouTube or Vimeo may place their own cookies. They are loaded only after you give consent.
- We currently do not use advertising cookies or pixels. If we start using them, we will ask for your consent first and update this policy.
You can change your choice at any time via the "Cookie settings" link at the bottom of the website.
9. Security
We take appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect your data. Access is limited to people who need it for their work.
10. Changes
We may update this Privacy Policy. The latest version is always available on our website with its version date.
Questions? Email info@greencontrolacademy.com or message us on WhatsApp.
