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DATA PROTECTION NOTICE

This Data Protection Notice explains to you how and for which purposes SWISS KRONO processes your Personal Data and which rights and options you have in this respect. It applies to all Personal Data that you provide to SWISS KRONO or which is derived from your contractual relationship or other interaction with SWISS KRONO. Furthermore, we inform you in the Cookie Policy  on each SWISS KRONO website about how we collect and use your data by implementing cookies or other web-tracking or analytics technologies on our websites.

WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR PERSONAL DATA?

We, SWISS KRONO sp z o.o. Serbska 56 street, 68-200 Żary / Poland shall be the responsible controller for any Personal Data you provide to us with within the context of you using our website https://www.swisskrono.pl. In case you go to other SWISS KRONO websites, the responsible controller shall be the respective website operator mentioned in the imprint.

Apart from that, the responsible controller for your Personal Data is the respective SWISS KRONO affiliate with which you have a business relationship or the SWISS KRONO company which is explicitly stated in a communication with you.

WHICH CATEGORIES OF PERSONAL DATA DO WE COLLECT?

We collect and process in particular the following categories of Personal Data:

  • Contact information, such as full name, work address, work telephone number, work mobile phone number, work fax number and work email address, mobile identification number and the IP address of your computer when you use our websites.
  • Payment data, such as, e.g., data necessary for processing payments and for fraud prevention, including credit/debit card numbers, security code numbers and other related billing information.
  • Further business information necessarily processed in a contract or other contractual relationship with SWISS KRONO or voluntarily provided by you, such as orders placed, purchases, services and other business activities, product feedback and any other information you provide to us within the context of a business relationship or is derived therefrom.
  • Information about your preferences and interests obtained by the web-tracking or analytics technologies identified in our Cookie Policy, in particular when using our Internet sites and downloadable contents (e.g. when registering for the download of software, e-books, whitepapers), or other online services we offer to you. This is how we collect information about, e.g., which contents you download from our website and which contents you click or view in which manner.
  • Information collected from publicly available sources, data bases and credit reference agencies.
  • In as far as we are required by law, we collect information for compliance purposes, such as, e.g., information about legal disputes or other court proceedings that you or another person with whom you have a business relationship are involved in as well as information about interactions with you which may be relevant for antitrust purposes.
FOR WHICH PURPOSES DO WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA?

We will process your Personal Data exclusively for the following purposes ("Permitted Purposes"):

  • Initiating, performing and administering your contractual relationship (or the contractual relationship of your organization) with SWISS KRONO e.g. by performing transactions and orders of products or services, processing payments, performing accounting, auditing, billing and collection activities, arranging shipments and deliveries, facilitating repairs and providing support services or providing you with other services or performances you may have ordered or requested.
  • Maintaining and protecting the security of our products, services and websites or other systems, preventing and detecting security threats, fraud or other criminal or illegal activities.
  • General compliance purposes, in particular to ensure the compliance with our legal and regulatory obligations and requirements, such as, e.g., compliance screenings or record-keeping obligations (e.g. based on competition law, export legislation, trade sanctions and embargo regulations or for the prevention of white-collar crime and money laundering). This may include the following measures: Comparing your contact or identity data against applicable sanctioned-party lists and to confirm your identity in case of a potential match, recording your cooperation with third parties which may be relevant for antitrust purposes, notices to or examination by competent supervisory, law enforcement or other competent authorities.
  • Informing you, where permitted in accordance with applicable laws, within an existing business relationship about similar or related products or services of SWISS KRONO.
  • Solving disputes, enforcing our contractual agreements and to establish, enforce or defend legal claims or
  • Ensuring compliance with legal obligations, e.g. to keep sales records for tax purposes or to send notices and other disclosures as required by law.

In as far as you have expressly given us your consent, we may processes your Personal Data also for the following purposes:

  • Communicating with you through the communication channels you have agreed to in order to keep you up to date on the latest announcements, offers and other information about SWISS KRONO's products, technologies and services (including marketing-related newsletters) as well as events and projects of SWISS KRONO;
  • Administrating and performing customer surveys, marketing campaigns, market analyses, sweepstakes, contests or other promotional activities or events or
  • Profiling and automated processing: We are collecting information about your preferences on the basis of your activities when using our websites, products, downloadable content (e.g. when registering for the download of software, e-books, whitepapers), or other services we offer to you online. On the basis of this information (e.g. which contents are downloaded, clicked or viewed how often and for how long), we create a user profile to personalize and foster the quality of our communication and interaction with you (for example, by way of newsletter tracking or website analytics). The logic behind our profiling activities is to identify topics which may be useful or otherwise of interest for you and to inform you about such topics in a more customized way. The algorithms we use apply this logic and automatically deliver the suitable content or information to you.

Please note: Under Article 21, para. 2 of the European General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") you have the right to object to the processing of your Personal Data for marketing purposes, including the profiling described above. Please refer to " Your rights" below for a detailed explanation of your rights and how to may exercise them.

We shall communicate with you (e.g. via email or telephone call) for marketing purposes only after you have explicitly opted in, in as far as required by law. At all times, you have the possibility to withdraw your consent if you do not want to receive further marketing-related information from us.

We will not use your Personal Data for taking any automated decisions affecting you or creating profiles in another manner than described above.

The legal bases for processing of your Personal Data are specified in GDPR, Article 6. Depending on which of the Permitted Purposes described above we process your Personal Data for, the processing is either necessary for the performance of a contract or other business agreement with SWISS KRONO or for compliance with our legal obligations or for purposes of legitimate interests pursued by SWISS KRONO or a third party, unless your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms prevail and contradict such processing. In addition, the processing may be based on your explicit consent where you have given that to us.

Special data protection information for the users of our website - for more information click here

HOW DO WE COLLECT AND USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA?

We will collect your Personal Data directly from you in the context of our interaction, e.g. when you visit our website, communicate with us in relation to our products and services, submit an order, register to receive our newsletter or participate in our customer surveys. We do not obtain Personal Data from third parties.

In as far as you have expressly given your consent, we may also obtain your Personal Data from third parties for marketing purposes. In such cases, you will be informed about this in accordance with applicable law.

WHERE DO WE PROCESS PERSONAL DATA?

SWISS KRONO is a globally active enterprise. In the context of our business activities, we may transfer your Personal Data also to recipients in countries outside of the European Economic Area (third countries), where the level of data protection is not the same as in your home country. When doing so, we will respect applicable data protection requirements and take appropriate safeguards to ensure the security and integrity of your Personal Data, in particular by entering into the EU Standard Contractual Clauses, which you may retrieve from here:

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:039:0005:0018:EN:PDF

You may contact us anytime using the contact details below if you would like further information on such safeguards.

HOW DO WE PROTECT YOUR PERSONAL DATA?

We implement physical, electronic and procedural safeguards in accordance with the technical state of the art and legal data protection requirements to protect your Personal Data. These safeguards include implementing specific technologies and procedures designed to protect your privacy, such as secure servers, firewalls and SSL encryption. We will at all times act in accordance with applicable laws and regulations regarding the confidentiality and security of Personal Data.

Special data protection information for the users of our website

TO WHOM WILL WE TRANSFER YOUR PERSONAL DATA?

We may transfer your Personal Data as follows:

  • to our affiliates within SWISS KRONO worldwide if and to the extent required for the Permitted Purposes described above and legally admissible. In such cases, these entities will then use the Personal Data only for the same Permitted Purposes and under the same conditions as outlined above.
  • to service providers (so-called data processors) within or outside of SWISS KRONO, domestically or abroad (e.g. shared service centres or Cloud providers), commissioned by us to process Personal Data for the Permitted Purposes on our behalf and in accordance with our instructions only. SWISS KRONO will retain control over and will remain responsible for your Personal Data and will take appropriate safeguards as required by applicable law to ensure the integrity and security of your Personal Data when commissioning such service providers.
  • to courts, law enforcement authorities or other competent authorities or attorneys if legally permitted and necessary to comply with a legal obligation or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
  • to credit reference agencies and other companies for use in credit decisions, for fraud prevention and to collect debts.

Apart from that, we will only transfer your Personal Data when you instruct us to or give us permission, when we are required by law or a judicial or administrative order to do so, or when we suspect fraudulent or criminal activities.

HOW LONG DO WE STORE PERSONAL DATA?

We will store your Personal Data as long as required to provide the services, products or information you have ordered or requested and to perform and administer our business relationship with you. If you have told us not to communicate with you, we will hold this information as long as required to comply with your request. In addition, we are required by law to keep certain Personal Data for certain retention periods (e.g. due to retention obligations under commercial or tax law). Your Personal Data will be promptly deleted when it is no longer required for these purposes.

YOUR RIGHTS

Under certain legal conditions, you may request access to, correction of, deletion of or restriction of processing of your Personal Data. You may also object to processing or request data portability. In particular, you have the right to request a copy of the Personal Data that we store about you. If you make such requests repeatedly, we may charge you for this. Please refer to GDPR, Articles 15-22 for details on your data protection rights.

In case you have given us your consent for the processing of your Personal Data, you may withdraw your consent at any time with future effect, i.e. the withdrawal of the consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing based on the consent before its withdrawal. In case consent is withdrawn, we may only further process the Personal Data where there is another legal ground for the processing or where we are required by law to do so.

For any of the above requests, please send a brief description of your Personal Data concerned stating your name, customer number or other SWISS KRONO identification number as well as your date of birth as proof of identity to the contact details below. We may require additional proof of identity to protect your Personal Data against unauthorized access. We will carefully consider your request and may discuss with you how it can best be fulfilled.

If you have concerns about how we process your Personal Data or wish to lodge a complaint, you can contact us at the contact details below to have the matter investigated. In case you are not satisfied with our response or believe that we are processing your Personal Data not in accordance with the applicable law, you can complain to the competent data protection supervisory authority in your country.

ARE YOU REQUIRED TO PROVIDE PERSONAL DATA?

In general, you provide us with your personal data on a voluntary basis. There are basically no detrimental effects on you if you do not consent or do not provide your Personal Data. However, there are circumstances in which SWISS KRONO cannot take action without certain of your Personal Data, for example because this Personal Data is required to process your orders, provide you with access to a web offering or newsletter or to carry out a legally required compliance screening. In these cases, it will unfortunately not be possible for SWISS KRONO to provide you with what you requested without the relevant Personal Data.

WHAT IF I'M UNDER 16?

In case you are under 16, you need your parent/guardian's permission prior to providing us with any of your Personal Data. Persons under the age of 16 are not permitted to provide us with their Personal Data without such consent.

CHANGES TO THIS NOTICE

This Data Privacy Notice was last updated in May 2018. We may possibly make changes to or amend this notice if required to reflect any changes to the way of processing data or changing legal requirements. So please check back from time to time or when you provide us with Personal Data if there have been any changes. Any amendments to the Data Privacy Notice will become effective from the date they are posted on our website.

HOW TO CONTACT US

In case you have any questions or want to assert your rights, please contact us at: [email protected]