PRIVACY STATEMENT

Last modified: 01.04.2025

  • 1. This statement explains Toyota Tsusho Europe SA, its Branches, and subsidiaries (hereafter “the Company”, “we”, “us” or “our”) best practices for collecting and processing the personal data we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit our Website or other digital communication or forms on the Website that link to or refer to this Statement. This Statement also describes how and why personal data is processed, your rights in relation to this and who you can contact for any question, inquiry, or complaint.
  • 2. It is the Company’s social responsibility to appropriately handle and securely manage the personal data that is provided by our employees and third parties. Moreover, it is the Company’s belief that this concept forms the basis for establishing a trustworthy relationship.
  • 3. In order to protect the privacy of personal data, the Company adheres to all laws and regulations related to general data protection.
  • 4. The Website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins, services, social networks, or applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow the third party to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites, and we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.

What Personal Data do we collect?

  • 1. Personal data that we could reasonably use to directly or indirectly identify you, this personal data may include: your name, age, date of birth, gender, e-mail address, telephone number, home address, country of residence, employment and educational background, preferred language, your IP address, job title, function, company coordinates, user name or other similar identifier we may use to contact you online or offline.
  • 2. Non-personal data that does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity or directly relate to an identified individual, such as demographic information, statistics, or aggregated information. Statistical or aggregated data does not directly identify a specific person, but we may derive non-personal statistical or aggregated data from personal data.
  • 3. Technical information, including your IP address, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, or operating system and platform.
  • 4. Non-personal details about your Website interactions, including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), clickstream information to, though, and from our Website (including date and time), products viewed or searched for; page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), or methods used to browse away from the page.

In any case we will only collect personal data within the minimum scope to allow us to execute the Company’s Legitimate Interest, especially when it is related to children’s privacy.

How do we collect Personal Data?

We collect personal data given by you in hand, via e-mail, via the Company website or publicly available media. This personal data may be collected directly from you, or automatically collected when you visit and interact with Website or collected from third-party sources and platforms.

How do we process Personal Data we collect?

We always process your personal data in accordance with the applicable laws.

We process your Personal Data for the purposes of our legitimate interests in business, commercial and administrative scope. We pre-defined our legitimate interest as following:

  • Presenting and maintaining our Website and providing information regarding our products and services and making our activity grow.
  • A past, present or future employment relationship.
  • Developing and maintaining a supplier-customer relationship.
  • Supporting network and system security.
  • Company administration.
  • Fulfilling obligations requested by competent authorities.
  • Replying to official audits.
  • Complying with and fulfilling legal obligations.
  • Responding to inquiries, requests, suggestions, or complaints.
  • Treating job applications, including CV, cover letter and attachments which you may send us.
  • Informing about job opportunities.

Whenever the processing of personal data doesn’t serve our legitimate interest set above or specific purpose, we will ask your prior written consent for that processing.

How long do we retain Personal Data?

We store your personal data for as long as needed for the purposes we collected it or as long as required by law or until expiry of any statute of limitation.

Please be informed that Personal Data collected from your job application through Website (e.g. your CV and attachments) will be anyway kept maximum for 1 (one) year and afterwards deleted.

When deciding how long to keep your Personal Data, we consider:

  • How long we have had a relationship with you.
  • Whether we are subject to any legal obligations.
  • Whether we have taken any legal positions.

Rather than delete your data, we might de-identify it by removing identifying details.

Your Rights in relation to your Personal Data

We provide you with a variety of ways for you to control the personal data we store about you, including choices of how to change or delete the personal data. So we would like to inform you that you have the following rights.

  • Right to access, review and change your personal data, including right to obtain confirmation and certain information from us about personal data’s processing.
  • Right to request rectification of your personal data.
  • Right to request erasure of your personal data (“Right to Be Forgotten”).
  • Right to restrict the processing of your personal data under certain circumstances (including, but not limited when you contest the accuracy of personal data, or you believe processing is unlawful, or you need the personal data for establishment, exercise of defense of legal claims with no longer need to process it by us).
  • Right to object to personal data processing under certain circumstances and (or) under certain legal grounds (including, but not limited: for direct marketing purposes, for scientific or historical research or statistical purposes unless the processing is necessary for us to perform a task in public interest).
  • Right to receive a copy of personal data we have about you in a commonly used and machine-readable format and store it for further personal use, unless providing a copy adversely affects the rights and freedoms of others.
  • Right to transmit your personal data directly to another controller if technically possible.
  • Right to lodge a complaint should you consider that the processing of your personal data violates the laws. You can contact to Data Protection Control Manager: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
  • Whenever the processing of your personal data is based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent to the processing of your personal data at any time by sending an e-mail at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.m or by making a written statement and sending it to our address. Consent withdrawal does not affect the legality of processing performed by us on the basis of consent prior to consent withdrawal.

If you'd like to exercise any of the above choices, contact us as set below in contact information.

We may not accommodate a request to change or delete your personal data if we believe the change or deletion would violate any law or legal requirement or negatively impact the Data’s accuracy.

Disclosure of your Personal Data

We may disclose your personal data to any member of our corporate group, which means our subsidiaries, our affiliates, our ultimate holding company, and its subsidiaries, for the purposes listed in here.

Security Measures we implement to protect Personal Data

In order to protect Personal Data against any data breach (including any loss, misuse, unauthorized access, use, alteration or disclosure) we implement physical, electronic and administrative countermeasures like physical access protection, firewalls, anti-virus software, passwords, encryption, and administrative controls.

If we ask data processing to a third party or transfer personal data to a third party, we endeavor to obtain sufficient guarantees from the data processor or receiving party and conclude a Data Protection Agreement, Data Transfer Agreement, Standard Contractual Clauses or obtain other guarantees.

We provide education and training to relevant staff from time to time to ensure awareness and compliance with Data Protection obligations.

Children’s online privacy

We do not direct our Website to minors, and we do not knowingly collect personal data from children under 16 years old. If we learn we have mistakenly or unintentionally collected or received personal data from a child without appropriate consent, we will delete it. If you believe we mistakenly or unintentionally collected any information from or about a child, please contact us at as set below in contact information.

Privacy and data protection contact information

If you have any question, remark or complaint regarding this Privacy Statement, your rights regarding the processing of your personal data, please contact:

Toyota Tsusho Europe SA
Belgicastraat 13, 1930 Zaventem, Belgium
E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Changes to this Privacy Statement

By engaging with our Website, you accept and consent to the practices described in this statement. We may revise this privacy statement from time to time and will immediately publish any such revision on our website. Your continued engagement with our Website after any such revisions indicates that you accept and consent to them, so please check the statement periodically for updates.