Which information is collected?

You can, in several ways, directly and indirectly provide information about yourself to us. For instance when you contact us regarding our products and services, register for our newsletter, visit our web-site or contact us in other ways such as meetings at exhibitions and fairs, direct meetings at your or our premises or through contact forms. We may also gather information from you from a third party, for instance mailing registers. Typical informations are for instance: Personal and contact such as company name, name, position, e-mail address, telephone number and company address.

Why do we need your personal information?

The primary purpose for us is to be able to provide and improve our services to you. There are several reason why we need to gather, manage and store your personal information. Some are of strictly legal purposes, in order to follow applicable legislation, for instance laws regarding book-keeping and accounting. In other cases we need to store your personal information in order to fulfill our agreements, to be able to provide you with what we have promised or to be able to provide our products and services to you.

SDT manages your personal information for the following reasons:

Purpose of information management / Legal ground for management (why is personal information management necessary)

⇨ For mailings containing offers or product marketing information / Legitimate interest

⇨ In order to fulfill order, delivery and invoicing / Fulfill agreements and commitments towards you

⇨ In order to fulfill purchases and payments / Fulfill agreements and commitments towards you

⇨ In order to fulfill applicable law, such as book-keeping and accounting / Follow applicable law

What does "Legitimate interest" mean?

When we use the legal term "Legitimate interest" it means that the our information processing of your personal information is necessary in order for us to fulfill our legitimate interest. For instance for us to be able to offer you products, solutions and services within industrial automation. It might also mean that we will follow up on your visit to our booth at a fair or after a delivery to you. Another legitimate interest is for us to keep and maintain our services as user friendly for you as possible. Our ambition is to give you relevant communication, different services and relevant and customized offers. For the legal base - legitimate interest - there is always a balancing of interests between our interest in processing your personal data and your interest in protecting them.

Sensitive personal data

SDT AB will not, except in exceptional cases, register sensitive personal data. Personal ID-numbers and equivalents are only registered if you are in contact with us as a private person and not as a company.

With whom might we share your personal data?

SDT AB will not sell your personal data and we will not share them with just anyone. I some cases though, we might share your personal data with selected partners. For instance with other people in the company you are working for. In some cases we will share your personal data in order to fulfill business transactions, orders, etc. For example, the delivery company might need your personal data in order to securely perform the delivery to you.

How do we store your personal data?

In order to carry out our commitment to you, delivering services and products, we store your personal data in our Business System, managing all business transactions (order, invoices, etc), in our Customer Relations Management System (CRM) and in our system for newsletters.

How long do we store your personal data?

We will store your personal data as long as necessary in order to fulfill the above purposes or as long as required by applicable law or authority decision. We will also perform reasonable actions to keep your personal data up-to-date, delete data out-of-date or delete other superfluous data.

Your rights

Regardless of what personal data we have store about you you are always in control over your own data. Therefore, according to applicable law, you have the following rights:

Right to access - You are entitled to require a listing from us of the personal data we have stored about you.

Right to correction - You are entitled to require to have faulty or incomplete personal data corrected and/or updated.

Right to be erased - You are entitled to require that we erase all your personal data so that the data is no longer available for the purpose it was stored. If there is a legal obligation for us to keep personal data this right is invalid.

Right to object to some personal data processing - You are always entitled to opt-out from our direct marketing, such as newsletters, which are based on our legitimate interest. You can always object to our processing of your personal data when we use our legitimate interest. If we want to continue processing your personal data, in such a case when you have objected, we need to show/prove interests that weigh higher than your interests, rights or freedoms. If you object to us processing your personal data for direct marketing purpose we will seize the processing for that specific purpose.

Right to limit the processing of personal data - You are entitled to require that we limit our processing of your personal data. Please note that you have the possibility to customize how - in what channels - you want us to contact you. For instance, not via e-mail or text-message only by phone and letters. You can also choose not to be contacted via newsletters. In such cases you should only contact us and ask us to customize/limit your profile, it is not necessary for you to object to our data processing as such.

A situation might occur where we deny a request if it is found illegal, ungrounded or unreasonable.

Should you have complaints?

In the case you have complaints regarding our processing of your personal data, you are entitled to file them at the respective country authority. In Sweden the responsible authority is "Datainspektionen" who is responsible for supervision of us and other companies who process personal data.

Contact information Datainspektionen: Phone: +46 (0)8-657 61 00, E-mail: [email protected]

What about cookies and similar?

We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your experience of our services. Some of our services require cookies to function properly.

Contact information SDT AB:

Should you have any questions regarding our processing of your personal data or should you want to use any of your rights regarding this please contact us at e-mail: [email protected]. Your case is in secure hands and we will get back to you promptly.

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