Privacy policy of Anton Paar Southern Africa (Pty.) Ltd.
The protection of your personal data is of particular concern to us, and we value your privacy. This Data Privacy Policy explains how we collect, store, use, share, transfer, delete, and process information collected from or about you (“Personal Data”) by us, and any directly or indirectly controlled affiliate or subsidiary thereof (collectively, “Anton Paar Group” “we,” “our,” or “us”). As an international organisation, we have multiple legal entities in different jurisdictions that are responsible for the Personal Data they process, and we only process Personal Data on the basis of applicable laws and regulations.
We take careful precautions to protect your data from loss, manipulation, and unauthorized access. The precautions are in accordance with the current state of technology. In this statement on our Data Privacy Policy, we inform you about the most important aspects in the context of data processing on our website.
If we process personal data for another party under a contract or a mandate, the other party’s Data Privacy Policy will apply to the processing of your personal data.
The privacy policy for Anton Paar support activities can be found here.
The privacy policy for Anton Paar apps can be found here.
The General privacy policy of the Anton Paar Group can be found here.
1 | What is Personal Data
Personal data includes, but is not limited to, the following information about you:
- your marital status (like married, single, divorced).
- your national origin.
- your age.
- your language; birth; education.
- your financial history (like your income, third party payments made on your behalf and the like)
- your credit card number
- your identifying number (like an employee number, identity number or passport number).
- your e-mail address; physical address (like residential address, work address or your physical location); telephone number.
- your biometric information (like fingerprints, your signature or voice).
- your race; gender; sex; pregnancy; ethnic origin; social origin; colour; sexual orientation.
- your physical health; mental health; well-being; disability; religion; belief; conscience; culture.
- your medical history; criminal history; employment history.
- your personal views, preferences, and opinions.
- your confidential correspondence; and / or
- another’s views or opinions about you and your name also constitute your personal information.
- Personal data also includes special personal information, namely, your race, your ethnic origin, your trade union membership, your health information, your biometric information (like to verify your identity); and / or your criminal behaviour and alleged commission of an offence.
2 | Reasons we need to process your personal data
We will process your personal data for the following reasons:
- to provide you with products, goods, and services
- to market our products, goods, and services to you.
- to respond to your enquiries and complaints
- to comply with legislative, regulatory, risk and compliance requirements (including directives, sanctions, and rules), voluntary and involuntary codes of conduct and industry agreements or to fulfil reporting requirements and information requests.
- to conduct market and behavioural research, including scoring and analysis to determine if you qualify for products and services or to determine your credit or insurance risk.
- to develop, test and improve products and services for you.
- to process payment instruments.
- to enable us to deliver goods, documents, or notices to you.
- for security, identity verification and to check the accuracy of your personal information.
- to communicate with you and carry out your instructions and requests.
- for customer satisfaction surveys, promotional offerings.
- insurance and assurance underwriting and administration.
- to enable you to take part in and make use of value-added products and services.
- for any other related purposes.
3 | Storage of access data in server log files
You can visit our website without disclosing any personal information. We store only the access data in server log files such as the names of the files requested, the date and time of the query, the data volumes transferred, browser type, IP-address, and the requesting provider. These data are evaluated exclusively to ensure trouble-free operation of the site and to improve our offer, but do not allow any conclusions to be drawn about the person behind the user. In the case of concrete indications of unlawful use, we reserve the right to review the data retrospectively. Personal data refers to any information that identifies you or specifically relates to you.
4 | Cookies
Our website makes use of so-called cookies in order to recognize repeated use of our website by the same user/internet connection subscriber. Cookies are small text files that your internet browser downloads and stores on your computer. They are used to improve our website and services.
To a certain extent, however, these cookies also pass along information used to automatically recognize you. The information thereby obtained is used to improve our services and to enhance easier access to the website. You can find detailed information about the used cookies in the cookie settings.
5 | Contacting us
On our website we offer you the opportunity to contact us via our contact forms, via email, or via LiveChat (see section 8). For the purpose of processing your request and subsequent communication with you, the information you provide will be stored and forwarded to the persons responsible exclusively within the Anton Paar Group (see section 8). A comparison of the data collected with data which may be collected by other components of our site is also not made.
If you contact us via an email link (e.g. info[at]anton-paar.com), the date and time of the incoming mail, sender and recipient, and the subject of the email will be logged. These data are automatically deleted after two months. An evaluation of these data is only done to reconstruct and correct systemic deviations. The content of your email can only be viewed by the recipient.
6 | Data storage Webshop
We point out that for the purpose of a simpler shopping process in our webshop and for subsequent contract processing as a webshop operator, data of the connection owner are stored as part of cookies, as well as the buyer data you specified.
The data provided by you are required for the execution of the contract and for the performance of pre-contractual services and measures. Without this data we cannot conclude the contract with you. A transfer of data to third parties only takes place to the transport company commissioned by us for the delivery of the goods, to our tax consultant for the fulfillment of our tax obligations (see section 9), and for the hosting provider of the webshop.
Credit card data is never stored with us. Nevertheless, the protection of your payment-related information has the highest priority for transactions with credit card data. The entire payment process is for this reason handled by certified Payment Service Providers according to PCI-DSS standards, which have the best security systems and only forward the result of the transactions to us. This approach virtually eliminates the misuse of your data.
In the case of a contract, all data from the contractual relationship are stored in any case until the expiry of the tax retention period. In any case, the data: name, address, purchased goods, and date of purchase will be stored at least until the end of product liability.
7 | Newsletter
You have the opportunity to subscribe to our newsletter via our website. For this we need your name and your e-mail address as well as the declaration that you agree with the subscription to the newsletter. In case you have provided us your postal address, we may also send you postal newsletter mailings.
In order to provide you with targeted information, we also collect and process the information voluntarily provided by you.
You can cancel the subscription to the newsletter at any time clicking the unsubscribe link in the newsletter email footer. We will immediately delete your data in connection with the newsletter dispatch. Please note that we can cancel a newsletter subscription only as a whole and not partially for a product group.
8 | Passing on of data
Data is processed for the purposes of meeting legal requirements, fulfillment of contracts, the processing of customer inquiries concerning our products and services, the carrying out of trade fairs, seminars, and training measures, as well as for the processing of business routine in the Anton Paar Group. For the purpose of optimizing our website and ensuring its stability and security, we use a technical service provider to whom personal data of website visitors may be transmitted in connection with accessing our website, in particular IP addresses as well as technical communication and log data.
As personal data may be transmitted within the Anton Paar Group and associated companies (distribution partners, etc.), the companies associated with the Anton Paar Group are subject to this privacy policy or follow guidelines that offer just as much protection.
In case of legal obligations, your personal data may be transmitted to public authorities, law courts, investigative authorities or similar public institutions.
Contract partners of Anton Paar, such as distribution partners, tax consultants, or service providers such as transport companies for the delivery of goods or third-party software solutions (such as LiveChat), use the data transmitted by us or transmitted towards us only for the fulfillment of the respective defined purpose. A different use of the data is not permitted.
9 | How we secure your personal data
We will take appropriate and reasonable technical and organisational steps to protect your personal information according to industry best practices. Our security measures (including physical, technological, and procedural safeguards) will be appropriate and reasonable. This includes the following:
- keeping our systems secure (like monitoring access and usage);
- storing our records securely.
- controlling the access to our buildings, systems and/or records; and
- safely destroying or deleting records.
- Ensure compliance with international ISO security standards.
10 | How long do we retain your personal data?
We will retain your personal data for as long as:
- the law requires us to keep it.
- a contract between you and us requires us to keep it.
- you have consented for us keeping it.
- we are required to keep it to achieve the purposes listed in this Data Privacy Policy.
- we require it for statistical or research purposes.
- a code of conduct requires us to keep it; and / or
- we require it for our lawful business purposes.
11 | Your rights
You have the right to information, right of access, right to rectification, right to erasure, right to restriction of processing, right to data portability, and right to object.
Please contact us if you have questions concerning the collection, processing, or use of your personal data, and also if you have any questions, would like to correct the data, block or delete data, withdraw your consent, or file an objection to a certain kind of use of the data (see section 13).
Should you believe that the processing of your data violates data protection law, you have the right to register a complaint with the responsible regulatory authority. In Austria this is the Österreichische Datenschutzbehörde, Barichgasse 40-42, 1030 Vienna, www.dsb.gv.at. In South Africa you may direct any complaint to Information Regulator at PAIAComplaints[at]inforegulator.org.za.
12 | Responsible body and contact
