This Privacy Policy (referred to as the “Policy”) describes how Secure Thingz and its parent company IAR Systems Group AB process personal data when you visit Secure Thingz website www.securethingz.com/ and use our services.
We safeguard your personal integrity. It is therefore important for us to protect your personal data and ensure that our processing of your personal data is correct and lawful.
This Policy describes what information we collect, what we do with it, who we share it with, how long we store it and what rights and obligations you have. It will help you to understand what kind of personal data we collect and how it is used when you are using our website and services, as well as your rights as a data subject.
We ask that you read this Policy carefully and familiarize yourself with its content, since it applies to all use of our website and services.
Secure Thingz Ltd.
Reg. no 09193626
Hudson House, Maris Lane
Trumpington, Cambridge
CB2 9FF, United Kingdom
Phone: +44 1223 751777
Contact e-mail for questions about this policy: info@securethingz.com
We collect your personal data when you communicate with us, when you download software, when you send a request for quotation, when you register for user accounts, when you register licenses, when you sign up for newsletters and other marketing communications and when the company that you represent enters into a business relationship with us. We also collect your personal data based on your web activity, including how you use our website and services.
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Legal basis Legitimate interest: Our processing is based on our legitimate interest of being able to establish, maintain and develop business relationships with you. For technical data, our processing is also based on our legitimate interest of being able to audit, evaluate and improve our website. |
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Time for storage We store your personal data as long as it is deemed necessary for us to maintain the business relationship with you and to provide our products and services to the company you represent. |
Users of our website and services (referred to as “you” and “your”) can provide personal data to us when visiting our website and when using our services. You can do this in your capacity of a private individual or as representative of a company. We act as the data controller of personal data obtained and is therefore obligated to ensure that the processing is executed in accordance with this Policy and applicable data protection legislation.
The following applies, where applicable, to the processing of personal data for establishing business relationships:
The following applies to the processing of personal data of subscribers of our email marketing:
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Legal basis Consent: Our processing is based on the consent you give when you submit your email address to us. |
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Time for storage We will store your personal data for marketing purposes until you request that the marketing ends. |
If you have subscribed for our email newsletters and other marketing communications, created a user account or been in contact with us in your capacity as company contact, we will occasionally use your personal data for marketing communication with you. This processing is based on our legitimate interest of being able to market our products and services.
You are entitled to object to the processing of your personal data for marketing communication. You also have the right to object to the marketing communications measures in itself free of charge and you may opt-out from any marketing communication at any time by following the unsubscribe instructions included in our marketing communications. If you choose to opt-out from further communications, we will make a note of this in our business systems.
The personal data that we collect will be shared with a few third parties in order for us to provide our services. These are the types of third parties with whom we may share your personal data:
When we share data with third parties, we will ensure that your personal data is only processed in accordance with our instructions and this Policy. The processing and sharing of your personal data in accordance with above is necessary for our legitimate interest of providing our services or to fulfil any contract we have entered into with your company or to comply with mandatory law.
We process your personal data inside and outside the EU/EEA where our IT-systems are located. Your personal data may be also shared with data processors who, either themselves or through hired sub-contractors, are established in or stores the data in a country outside of the EU/EEA. In the event we process your personal data outside the EU/EEA, we will take all reasonable legal, organizational and technical measures needed to ensure that the level of protection is the same as in the EU/EEA, for example by ensuring that the country in which the recipient is located ensures an adequate level of data protection according to the European Commission or by use of standard contractual clauses in the agreements with the data processors.
We have taken a number of security measures to ensure that the personal data is kept secure. For example, access to areas where personal data is stored is limited to our employees and service providers who require it in the course of their duties and who are informed of the importance of maintaining the security and confidentiality of the personal data we keep. We maintain appropriate safeguards and security standards to protect your personal data against unauthorized access, disclosure or misuse, through the use of firewalls and passwords that only authorized members of our staff possess. We also monitor our systems to discover vulnerabilities in order to protect your personal data.
As part of applicate data protection legislations, you may exercise your rights by contacting us on the address or email listed in the beginning of this policy.
Right of access
You have the right to request access what personal data we process about you. The information will then be provided in the form of a register extract which specifies the personal data processed by us. If you make your request electronically, the information will be provided in a commonly used electronic format, unless you have requested otherwise.
Right of rectification
You have the right to have incorrect information about you rectified without undue delay. You also have the right to amend incomplete information.
Right to erasure
You may request that we erase your personal data without undue delay in the following circumstances:
We may deny your request if we are prevented from erasing your personal data by requirements set out in applicable laws and regulations (e.g. in relation to accounting and tax legislation) or if they are needed for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims. If we cannot meet your request, we will instead restrict the personal data so they cannot be used for another purpose than the purpose preventing the erasure.
Right to restriction
You have the right to restrict the processing of your personal data in the following circumstances:
Right to object
You have the general right to object to our processing of your personal data when it is based on our legitimate interest. If you object and we believe that we may still process your personal data, we must demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms, or for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims.
Right to data portability
If your personal data has been provided by you electronically in a structured format and our processing of your personal data is based on your consent or on the performance of a contract with you, you have the right to receive the personal data concerning you in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format in order to transmit these to another service provider where it would be technically feasible and can be carried out by automated means.
Right to file a complaint
You may at any time file a complaint at the competent supervisory authority in your country if you believe that our processing is performed in breach of applicable data protection legislation. Please note that you are also always welcome to contact us in such event.
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For more information on how we use cookies, please see our cookie policy.
This website may be linked to other websites, which are not under our control. These websites should have their own privacy policies. Visitors should ensure that they read and understand how their personal information may be collected, used and disclosed by the linked web sites as we are not responsible for and should not be held liable for any procedures, policies or activities of any websites linked to securethingz.com.
We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time due to changed or updated legislation and/or business standards. All changes to this Privacy Policy are posted on this page and we encourage you to review our Privacy Policy regularly to stay informed.
This policy was last updated June 2018.