PRIVACY REGULATIONS

GENERAL DATA PROTECTION REGULATIONS AND CONSENT TO USE OF DATA BY FILTROX

FILTROX AG (hereinafter referred to as FILTROX) is aware that it is important for you to know what happens to your data. We thank you for your trust and respect your privacy. Generally, our website can be used without providing personal information. This always takes place on a voluntary basis. We collect personal data (for example, name, e-mail address, company) on our pages only via a contact form. Personal information requested on this website is solely for your personal support. We pay strict attention to the legal provisions when processing your personal data.

1. CONSENT OF THE USE OF DATA

By agreeing to the following data protection regulations, you consent to the collection, processing and use of your personal information, which you have voluntarily entered in one of the registration forms on our website.

Personal data are to be understood as all individual details about personal and factual circumstances of a specific or identifiable natural person. This includes, for example, the surname, first name, address, date of birth, e-mail address, telephone number and IP address.

2. REJECTION OF CONSENT

The consent to the collection, processing, storage and use of your personal data collected on the website can be revoked in accordance with these data protection regulations at any time with effect for the future by e-mail to info@filtrox.ch

3. YOUR RIGHTS

3.1. At any time you have the right to free information about your stored personal data, their origin, recipients and the purpose of data processing. Also, you also have the right to correct, block or delete this data. You can contact us at any time at the address given in the masthead or by e-mail to info@filtrox.ch.

3.2. You have the right to refuse the use of certain cookies (see 5.3.) or web tracking (see 5.2.).

4. SCOPE OF THE DATA PROTECTION REGULATIONS/RESPONSIBLE BODY

4.1. The operator of this website is FILTROX. FILTROX denotes both the company headquartered in Switzerland, as well as the other FILTROX branches, e.g., in France, Spain, Great Britain, etc.

4.2. This website may contain links to or from other websites. Please note that these websites have their own data protection regulations and we cannot be held liable or responsible for their content and policies.

5. DATA COLLECTION

It is possible that we collect and process on the website the following data about you:

5.1. Forms: Information that you voluntarily provide us by filling out forms on the website. This includes information that you provide at the time of signing up for inquiries or application support (e.g. titel, Salutation, First name, Surname, Job title, Company, Company address, Email-address, Phone number, Industry).

5.2. Web tracking: This means, details during your visits to this site are traked by using Google Analytics. Important note: the tracked information do not allow you to be personally identified. The provider is Google Inc., CA 94043, USA. Google Analytics evalutaes statistical data in anonymous form. These data are subject to Google’s data protection regulations and are forwarded to Google and stored on its servers in the United States. The data are processed by Google on our behalf to evaluate e.g. your use of the website, provide reports on website activity, and to provide other services related to Internet usage. Google will not link your IP address to other data stored by Google.

Google collects such information, typically collected as “traffic” data, automatically and stores it whenever interacting with this website. These are, for example, the IP address and host name of your computer, browser information, and the domain name of the reference site each time you visit the site. In addition, insights into the visitor’s presence and behaviour on the website can be gained, as well as demographic characteristics such as age, gender or interests of the site visitors. These data come from interest-based advertising from Google and third-party visitor data. However, none of these data contain any information that could personally identify you. They serve to analyse and improve this website in order to make it as user-friendly as possible for our customers.

Deactivating Google Analytics

You can prevent the collection of your data by Google Analytics by clicking on the following link. An opt-out cookie prevents the collection of your data on future visits to this website: Deactivating Google Analytics

5.3. Cookies: FILTROX uses cookies only to compile statistics related to the website and to optimise it. A cookie is a small text file that is sent from a web server to your computer. Cookies do not harm your computer and do not contain viruses. They are used to store user behaviour and other information (IP address, browser, browser language, etc.), which, however, do not personally identify the website user. We use cookies only to compile statistics related to the website and to optimise it. To explain, Google Analytics evaluates statistical data in anonymous form. If you do not want to use cookies, than disable this feature on your browser. But please note, that disabling cookies may limit the functionality of this website.

Note:

To prevent Google from collecting your cookie-generated and web-related information (including your IP address) and processing Google’s data, download and install the browser plug-in available at the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en

5.4. Server log files: The provider of the pages automatically collects and stores information in so-called server log files, which your browser transmits to us accordingly. These are for example browser type and version, operating system used, referrer URL, host name of the accessing computer and time of the server request.

These data cannot be assigned to specific persons and are not merged with other data sources. We reserve the right to check this data retrospectively, if we become aware of specific indications for illegal use.

6. DATA PROCESSING

We process or use personal data solely for the purpose of user and customer care, to the extent described below.

6.1. In order to register for application support or an inquiry, we require the following mandatory information.

• Salutation
• First name and surname
• Company
• E-Mail
• Industry

7. USE OF THE DATA

We use stored information about you in the following ways:

7.1. To provide information, products or services that you request from us or for which we believe you may be interested.

7.2. To ensure to present the content on this website in a manner that is most effective for you and your computer.

7.3. To fulfil our obligations under contracts concluded between you and us.

7.4. To enable your use of interactive services, if you so desire.

7.5. To notify you about changes in our services.

7.6. For tests and improvements on the systems through which our services are provided.

7.7. To prevent misuse or non-compliant use of our services.

7.8. If you are an existing customer, we will contact you by electronic means (such as e-mail) only with information about goods and services similar to those you have already purchased.

7.9. We contact new customers by electronic means only after your prior consent.

8. LOCATION OF YOUR DATA STORAGE

8.1. We store the data you enter at our headquarters in Switzerland, or at our provider in Switzerland. If necessary, we transfer the data to FILTROX branches inside or outside the EU.

8.2. We store all data you provide us on our secure servers.

8.3. We have technical and organisational security procedures to safeguard the security of your personal information. So, we protect your session data and personal data against unauthorised or unlawful processing and/or accidental loss, alteration, disclosure or access. However, you should always be aware that the transmission of information via the Internet and other electronic means carries certain security risks and that we cannot guarantee the security of information transmitted in this way.

8.4. If there are no statutory storage obligations, the deletion of personal data takes place in particular: if a claim for deletion has been asserted, if the data is no longer required to fulfil the pursued purpose or if the storage is inadmissible for other legal reasons.

9. DATA DISTRIBUTION TO THIRD PARTIES

9.1. There will be no transfer of data to third parties, unless there is a legal obligation (for example, law enforcement measures).

9.2. We may share your personal information with our affiliates within and outside the EU and Switzerland.

In addition, we may disclose your personal information to third parties in the following cases:

9.3. To service providers who manage our website, for example our Internet Service Provider. In the same way, such third parties are required to ensure the same level of security at all times to protect your personal information. For this reason, we select these service providers carefully. They are, of course, bound by FILTROX’s instructions and are regularly inspected. The service providers do not pass on this data to third parties. Data processing by service providers takes place exclusively within the EU and in Switzerland.

10. DATA SECURITY

We maintain current technical measures to ensure data security, in particular to protect personal data against dangers in data transmissions and knowledge by third parties. In order to prevent unauthorised access by third parties to personal data, the connection is encrypted using SSL technology. Thus, we use state of the art safety precautions.

Dataprotection Officer :

FILTROX AG, Moosmühlestrasse 6, 9001 St.Gallen, info@filtrox.ch

May 2018