Data privacy notice
Status: January 2022听
We (meaning the specific company identified on this page as being the operator of this website) believe that protecting the security and privacy of your personal data is important.听This Privacy Notice explains how we collect, store, use, disclose and transfer (hereinafter 鈥減rocess鈥) your personal data. The personal data that we collect about you depends on the context of your interactions with us, the products. services and features that you use, your location, and applicable law.
Categories of personal data processed, and purpose of the processing听
When visiting our websites or using our applications, or online services (each an 鈥Online Offering鈥), we process information which you have actively and voluntarily provided about yourself, or which has been generated by us in connection with your use of the Online Offerings, and includes the following categories of personal data:
- Your contact information, including name, e-mail address, telephone number;
- Further personal data that you provide by filling in forms in our Online Offerings;
- Information submitted as part of a support request, survey or comment or forum post; and
- Information on your interaction with the Online Offering, including your device and user identifier, information on your operating system, sites and services accessed during your visit, the date and time of each visitor request.
We process your personal data for the following purposes:听
- To provide the Online Offering鈥檚 services and functions which includes creating and administering your online account, updating, securing, and troubleshooting, providing support, as well as improving and developing our Online Offerings;
- To bill your use of the Online Offering;
- To verify your identity;
- To answer and fulfill your requests or instructions;
- To process your order or to provide you with access to specific information or offers;
- To contact you with information and offers concerning our products and services, to send you further marketing information or to contact you in the context of customer satisfaction surveys as explained in Section 3; and
- As reasonably necessary to enforce the Online Offering鈥檚 terms, to establish or preserve a legal claim or defense, to prevent fraud or other illegal activities, including attacks on our information technology systems.
Online Offerings provided by your organization
Our Online Offerings may be provided to you for your use by the organization to which you belong, such as our enterprise customers. If your organization provides you with access to an Online Offering, our processing of personal data provided by or collected from you or your organization in connection with the Online Offering鈥檚 content is performed under the direction of your organization and is subject to a data processing agreement between your organization and us. In such instance, your organization is responsible for any personal data contained in such content and you should direct any questions about how personal data contained in such content is used to your organization.
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Links to other websites
This Privacy Notice applies only to Online Offerings that link to this Privacy Notice and not to other websites or applications of our affiliates that have their own Privacy Notice or which are operated by third parties. This Privacy Notice also does not apply in situations where we only process information on behalf of our Business Partners, e.g., when we act as a web hosting or cloud provider.听 We may provide links to other websites and applications which we believe may be of interest to you. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other websites or applications.
Categories of personal data processed, and purpose of the processing听
In the context of the business relationship with us, we may process the following categories of personal data of consumers and contact persons at (prospective) customers, suppliers, vendors and partners (each a 鈥Business Partner鈥):听
- Contact information, such as full name, job position, work address, work telephone number, work mobile phone number, work fax number and work email address;
- Payment data, such as data necessary for processing payments and fraud prevention, including credit/debit card numbers, security code numbers and other related billing information;
- Further information necessarily processed in a project or contractual relationship with us or voluntarily provided by the Business Partner, such as personal data relating to orders placed, payments made, requests, and project milestones;
- Personal data collected from publicly available resources, integrity data bases and credit agencies; and
- If legally required for Business Partner compliance screenings: date of birth, ID numbers, identity cards and information about relevant and significant litigation or other legal proceedings against Business Partners.
We may process the personal data for the following purposes:
- Communicating with Business Partners about our products, services and projects, e.g. by responding to inquiries or requests or providing you with information about purchased products;
- Planning, performing and managing the (contractual) relationship with Business Partners; 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;
- Administrating and performing market analysis, sweepstakes, contests, or other customer activities or events;
- Contacting you with information and offers concerning our products and services, sending you further marketing messages and conducting customer satisfaction surveys as explained in Section 3;
- Maintaining and protecting the security of our products, services and websites, preventing and detecting security threats, fraud or other criminal or malicious activities;
- Ensuring compliance with legal obligations (such as record keeping obligations), export control and customs, Business Partner compliance screening obligations (to prevent white-collar or money laundering crimes), and our policies or industry standards; and
- Solving disputes, enforce our contractual agreements and to establish, exercise or defend legal claims.
Where and as permitted under applicable law, we may process your contact information for direct marketing purposes (e.g. trade show invitations, newsletters with further information and offers concerning our products and services) and to carry out customer satisfactions surveys, in each case also by e-mail. You may object to the processing of your contact data for these purposes at any time by writing to听contact(at)siemens-energy.com听or by using the opt-out mechanism provided in the respective communication you received.
We may transfer your personal data to:
- other affiliated companies or third parties - e.g. sales partners or suppliers - in connection with your use of the Online Offerings or our business relationship with you;
- third parties which provide IT services to us and which process such data only for the purpose of such services (e.g., hosting or IT maintenance and support services); and
- third parties in connection with complying with legal obligations or establishing, exercising or defending rights or claims (e.g., for court and arbitration proceedings, to law enforcement authorities and regulators, to attorneys and consultants).
Personal data published by you on Online Offerings (such as chat rooms or forums) may be globally accessible to other registered user of the respective Online Offering.听听
Unless indicated otherwise at the time of the collection of your personal data (e.g. within a form completed by you), we erase your personal data if the retention of that personal data is no longer necessary (i) for the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed, or (ii) to comply with legal obligations (such as retention obligations under tax or commercial laws).
The data protection laws in the jurisdiction in which you reside may entitle you to specific rights in relation to your personal data.
In particular, and subject to the legal requirements, you may be entitled to
- Obtain from us confirmation as to whether or not personal data concerning you are being processed, and where that is the case, access to the personal data;
- Obtain from us the correction of inaccurate personal data concerning you;
- Obtain from us the erasure of your personal data;
- Obtain from us restriction of processing regarding your personal data;
- Data portability concerning personal data, which you actively provided; and;
- Object, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to further processing of personal data concerning you.
To protect your personal data against accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, use, or alteration and against unauthorized disclosure or access, we use adequate physical, technical and organizational security measures.
Our Data Privacy Organization provides support with any data privacy related questions, comments, concerns or complaints or in case you wish to exercise any of your data privacy related rights. The Data Privacy Organization may be contacted at:听dataprotection(at)siemens-energy.com.
The Data Privacy Organization will always use reasonable efforts to address and settle any requests or complaints you bring to its attention. Besides contacting the Data Privacy Organization, you always have the right to approach the competent data protection authority with your request or complaint.听
This section applies and provides you with further information if your personal data is processed by one of our companies located in the European Economic Area.听
Data Controller
The specific company identified on this page as being the operator of this website is the data controller in the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation for the processing activities described in this Privacy Notice.
In the course of our business relationship with you, we may share Business Partner contact information with affiliated 德州扑克在线听companies. We and these 德州扑克在线听companies are jointly responsible for the proper protection of your personal data (Art. 26 General Data Protection Regulation). To allow you to effectively exercise your data subject rights in the context of this joint controllership, we entered into an agreement with these 德州扑克在线听companies granting you the right to centrally exercise your data subject rights under section 6 of this Privacy Notice against 德州扑克在线 AG, Germany.
To exercise your rights, you may reach out to:听dataprotection(at)siemens-energy.com
Legal basis of the processing
The General Data Protection Regulation requires us to provide you with information on the legal basis of the processing of your personal data.
The legal basis for our processing data about you is that such processing is necessary for the purposes of
- exercising our rights and performing our obligations under any contract we make with you (Article 6 (1) (b) General Data Protection Regulation) (鈥Contract Performance鈥);
- Compliance with our legal obligations (Article 6 (1) (c) General Data Protection Regulation) (鈥Compliance with Legal Obligations鈥); and/or
- 路听听听听听听 Legitimate interests pursued by us (Article 6 (1) (f) General Data Protection Regulation) (鈥Legitimate Interest鈥). Generally, the legitimate interest pursued by us in relation to our use of your personal data is the efficient performance or management of (i) your use of the Online Offerings, and/or (ii) our business relationship with you. Where the below table states that we rely on our legitimate interests for a given purpose, we are of the opinion that its legitimate interests is not overridden by your interests and rights or freedoms, given (i) the regular reviews and related documentation of the processing activities described herein, (ii) the protection of your personal data by our data privacy processes, including our听, (iii) the transparency we provide on the processing activity, and (iv) the rights you have in relation to the processing activity. If you wish to obtain further information on this balancing test approach, please contact our Data Privacy Organization at:听dataprotection(at)siemens-energy.com.
In some cases, we may ask if you consent to the relevant use of your personal data. In such cases, the legal basis for us processing that data about you may (in addition or instead) be that you have consented (Article 6 (1) (a) General Data Protection Regulation) (鈥Consent鈥).
International data transfers
In the event that we transfer your personal data outside the European Economic Area, we ensure that your data is protected in a manner which is consistent with the General Data Protection Regulation.听 Therefore, and if required by applicable law, we take the following measures:
- We share your personal data with affiliated companies outside the European Economic Area only if they have implemented our Binding Corporate Rules (鈥濨CR鈥) for the protection of personal data. Further information about the BCR can be found听.
- We transfer personal data to external recipients outside the European Economic Area only if the recipient has (i) entered into听听with us, (ii) implemented听Binding Corporate Rules听in its organization. You may request further information about the safeguards implemented in relation to specific transfers by contacting 听dataprotection.energy(at)siemens-energy.com.
Your competent data protection authority
In case of data privacy related concerns and requests, we encourage you to contact our Data Privacy Organization at 听dataprotection.energy(at)siemens-energy.com.听 Besides contacting the Data Privacy Organization, you always have the right to approach the competent data protection authority with your request or complaint.听
A list and contact details of local data protection authorities is available听.
Following you find country specific information required by applicable law in addition to the global data privacy notice:
Republic of South Africa听(Protection of Personal Information Act, 2013 (鈥淧OPI鈥)
For users located in South Africa, please take note of the following:
1. In terms of section 1 of the Protection of Personal Information Act, 2013 (鈥淧OPI鈥), 鈥減ersonal information鈥 includes 鈥渋nformation relating to an identifiable, living, natural person, and where it is applicable, an identifiable, existing, juristic person.鈥
2. The corresponding legal grounds and conditions for lawful processing of personal data in South Africa are contained in Sections 8 to 25 of POPI and relate to 鈥淎ccountability鈥; 鈥淧rocessing limitation鈥; 鈥淧urpose specification鈥; 鈥淔urther processing limitation鈥; 鈥淚nformation quality鈥; 鈥淥penness鈥; 鈥淪ecurity safeguards鈥 and 鈥淒ata subject participation鈥.
3. In terms of section 69 of POPI, the processing of personal information of a data subject for the purposes of direct marketing by means of any form of electronic communication, including automatic calling machines, facsimile machines, sms鈥檚 or e-mail is prohibited unless the data subject has provided consent to the processing, or is, subject to further conditions, an existing customer of the responsible party.
4. For purposes of a Data Subject exercising its rights further enquiries and the exercise of its rights in relation to access, objection to, and complaints in respect of the processing of personal data, the contact particulars of the Information Regulator of South Africa, are as follows:听
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JD House, 27 Stiemens Street
Braamfontein
Johannesburg
2001
PO Box 31533
Braamfontein
Johannesburg
2017
Complaints:听complaints.IR@justice.gov.za
General enquiries:听inforeg@justice.gov.za
Turkey
For users located in Turkey, please take note of the following:
PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION LAW (KVKK)
Our Company's Lighting Liability:
Our company must inform the personal data owners during the collection of personal data in accordance with Article 10 of the KVKK. In this context, you can also access the clarification texts regarding the protection and processing of personal data of your听,听听and听听here. We recommend that you visit this page regularly to check for any updates that may have been made.
For your data privacy complaints:
德州扑克在线 Turkey Data Privacy Officer can be contacted at听kvkk.tr@siemens-energy.com听or 德州扑克在线 Enerji Sanayi ve Ticaret A.艦. You can reach us by filling the听.
K陌艦陌SEL VER陌LER陌N KORUNMASI KANUNU (KVKK)
艦irketimizin Ayd谋nlatma Y眉k眉ml眉l眉臒眉:
艦irketimiz KVKK madde 10鈥檃 uygun olarak, ki艧isel verilerin toplanmas谋 s谋ras谋nda ki艧isel veri sahiplerini ayd谋nlatmal谋d谋r. Bu kapsamda听,听听ve听, ki艧isel verilerinin korunmas谋 ve i艧lenmesine ili艧kin ayd谋nlatma metinlerine buradan da ula艧abilirsiniz. Yap谋lm谋艧 olabilecek g眉ncellemeleri kontrol etmek i莽in bu sayfay谋 d眉zenli olarak ziyaret etmenizi 枚neririz.
Veri gizlili臒i ile ilgili 艧ikayetleriniz i莽in:
kvkk.tr@siemens-energy.com听adresinden 德州扑克在线 Enerji T眉rkiye Veri Gizlili臒i Sorumlusu ile irtibata ge莽ilebilir ya da 德州扑克在线 Enerji Sanayi ve Ticaret A.艦.听鈥檔u doldurarak ula艧abilirsiniz.
If you are a U.S. resident, then please take note of the following:
Do Not Track
At this time our Online Offerings do not recognize or respond to 鈥淒o Not Track鈥 browser signals.听 For more information on 鈥淒o Not Track鈥, please visit your browser鈥檚 support page.
Usage by Children
This Online Offering is not directed to children under the age of thirteen. We will not knowingly collect personal data from children under the age of thirteen without insisting that they seek prior parental consent if required by applicable law. We will only use or disclose personal data about a child to the extent permitted by law, to seek parental consent, pursuant to local law and regulations or to protect a child.
State Rights
Depending on the US state in which you reside, you may have special rights with respect to your personal data.听 For information regarding any of those rights,听please click听.听听