Privacy Policy of WWW.SHPSWISS.COM
This Website collects some Personal Data from its Users.
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Owner and Data Controller
Swiss High Purity AG
Gewerbestrasse, 5 6330 Cham (Zugo)
Switzerland
Registration n.: CHE-114.742.769
OWNER CONTACT EMAIL: info@shpswiss.com
Types of Data collected
Among the types of Personal Data that this Website collects, by itself or through third parties, there are: Cookies; Usage Data; first name; last name; phone number; company name; email address; various types of Data; answers to questions; clicks; keypress events; motion sensor events; mouse movements; scroll position; touch events.
Complete details on each type of Personal
Data collected are provided in the dedicated
sections of this privacy policy or by
specific explanation texts displayed prior
to the Data collection.
Personal Data may be freely provided by the
User, or, in case of Usage Data, collected
automatically when using this Website.
Unless specified otherwise, all Data
requested by this Website is mandatory and
failure to provide this Data may make it
impossible for this Website to provide its
services. In cases where this Website
specifically states that some Data is not
mandatory, Users are free not to communicate
this Data without consequences to the
availability or the functioning of the
Service.
Users who are uncertain about which Personal
Data is mandatory are welcome to contact the
Owner.
Any use of Cookies – or of other tracking
tools – by this Website or by the owners of
third-party services used by this Website
serves the purpose of providing the Service
required by the User, in addition to any
other purposes described in the present
document and in the Cookie Policy, if
available.
Users are responsible for any third-party Personal Data obtained, published or shared through this Website and confirm that they have the third party's consent to provide the Data to the Owner.
Mode and place of processing the Data
Methods of processing
The Owner takes appropriate security
measures to prevent unauthorized access,
disclosure, modification, or unauthorized
destruction of the Data.
The Data processing is carried out using
computers and/or IT enabled tools, following
organizational procedures and modes strictly
related to the purposes indicated. In
addition to the Owner, in some cases, the
Data may be accessible to certain types of
persons in charge, involved with the
operation of this Website (administration,
sales, marketing, legal, system
administration) or external parties (such as
third-party technical service providers,
mail carriers, hosting providers, IT
companies, communications agencies)
appointed, if necessary, as Data Processors
by the Owner. The updated list of these
parties may be requested from the Owner at
any time.
Legal basis of processing
The Owner may process Personal Data relating to Users if one of the following applies:
- Users have given their consent for one or more specific purposes. Note: Under some legislations the Owner may be allowed to process Personal Data until the User objects to such processing (“opt-out”), without having to rely on consent or any other of the following legal bases. This, however, does not apply, whenever the processing of Personal Data is subject to European data protection law;
- provision of Data is necessary for the performance of an agreement with the User and/or for any pre-contractual obligations thereof;
- processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the Owner is subject;
- processing is related to a task that is carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the Owner;
- processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the Owner or by a third party.
In any case, the Owner will gladly help to clarify the specific legal basis that applies to the processing, and in particular whether the provision of Personal Data is a statutory or contractual requirement, or a requirement necessary to enter into a contract.
Place
The Data is processed at the Owner's
operating offices and in any other places
where the parties involved in the processing
are located.
Depending on the User's location, data
transfers may involve transferring the
User's Data to a country other than their
own. To find out more about the place of
processing of such transferred Data, Users
can check the section containing details
about the processing of Personal Data.
Users are also entitled to learn about the
legal basis of Data transfers to a country
outside the European Union or to any
international organization governed by
public international law or set up by two or
more countries, such as the UN, and about
the security measures taken by the Owner to
safeguard their Data.
If any
such transfer takes place, Users can find
out more by checking the relevant sections
of this document or inquire with the Owner
using the information provided in the
contact section.
Retention time
Personal Data shall be processed and stored for as long as required by the purpose they have been collected for.
Therefore:
- Personal Data collected for purposes related to the performance of a contract between the Owner and the User shall be retained until such contract has been fully performed.
- Personal Data collected for the purposes of the Owner’s legitimate interests shall be retained as long as needed to fulfill such purposes. Users may find specific information regarding the legitimate interests pursued by the Owner within the relevant sections of this document or by contacting the Owner.
The Owner may be allowed to retain Personal
Data for a longer period whenever the User
has given consent to such processing, as
long as such consent is not withdrawn.
Furthermore, the Owner may be obliged to
retain Personal Data for a longer period
whenever required to do so for the
performance of a legal obligation or upon
order of an authority.
Once the
retention period expires, Personal Data
shall be deleted. Therefore, the right of
access, the right to erasure, the right to
rectification and the right to data
portability cannot be enforced after
expiration of the retention period.
The purposes of processing
The Data concerning the User is collected to allow the Owner to provide its Service, comply with its legal obligations, respond to enforcement requests, protect its rights and interests (or those of its Users or third parties), detect any malicious or fraudulent activity, as well as the following: Analytics, Contacting the User, Displaying content from external platforms and SPAM protection.
For specific information about the Personal Data used for each purpose, the User may refer to the section “Detailed information on the processing of Personal Data”.
Detailed information on the processing of Personal Data
Personal Data is collected for the following purposes and using the following services:
Analytics
The services contained in this section enable the Owner to monitor and analyze web traffic and can be used to keep track of User behavior.
Google Analytics with anonymized IP (Google Ireland Limited)
Google Analytics is a web analysis service
provided by Google Ireland Limited
(“Google”). Google utilizes the Data
collected to track and examine the use of
this Website, to prepare reports on its
activities and share them with other Google
services.
Google may use the Data collected to
contextualize and personalize the ads of its
own advertising network.
This integration of Google Analytics
anonymizes your IP address. It works by
shortening Users' IP addresses within member
states of the European Union or in other
contracting states to the Agreement on the
European Economic Area. Only in exceptional
cases will the complete IP address be sent
to a Google server and shortened within the
US.
Personal Data processed: Cookies; Usage Data.
Place of processing: Ireland – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.
Contacting the User
Contact form (this Website)
By filling in the contact form with their Data, the User authorizes this Website to use these details to reply to requests for information, quotes or any other kind of request as indicated by the form’s header.
Personal Data processed: company name; email address; first name; last name; phone number; various types of Data.
Displaying content from external platforms
This type of service allows you to view
content hosted on external platforms
directly from the pages of this Website and
interact with them.
This type of service might still collect web
traffic data for the pages where the service
is installed, even when Users do not use it.
Font Awesome (Fonticons, Inc. )
Font Awesome is a typeface visualization service provided by Fonticons, Inc. that allows this Website to incorporate content of this kind on its pages.
Personal Data processed: Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
Google Fonts (Google Ireland Limited)
Google Fonts is a typeface visualization service provided by Google Ireland Limited that allows this Website to incorporate content of this kind on its pages.
Personal Data processed: Usage Data; various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.
Place of processing: Ireland – Privacy Policy.
SPAM protection
This type of service analyzes the traffic of this Website, potentially containing Users' Personal Data, with the purpose of filtering it from parts of traffic, messages and content that are recognized as SPAM.
Google reCAPTCHA (Google Ireland Limited)
Google reCAPTCHA is a SPAM protection
service provided by Google Ireland Limited.
The use of reCAPTCHA is subject to the
Google privacy
policy and terms
of use.
Personal Data processed: answers to questions; clicks; keypress events; motion sensor events; mouse movements; scroll position; touch events; Tracker; Usage Data.
Place of processing: Ireland – Privacy Policy.
The rights of Users
Users may exercise certain rights regarding their Data processed by the Owner.
In particular, Users have the right to do the following:
- WITHDRAW THEIR CONSENT AT ANY TIME. Users have the right to withdraw consent where they have previously given their consent to the processing of their Personal Data.
- OBJECT TO PROCESSING OF THEIR DATA. Users have the right to object to the processing of their Data if the processing is carried out on a legal basis other than consent. Further details are provided in the dedicated section below.
- ACCESS THEIR DATA. Users have the right to learn if Data is being processed by the Owner, obtain disclosure regarding certain aspects of the processing and obtain a copy of the Data undergoing processing.
- VERIFY AND SEEK RECTIFICATION. Users have the right to verify the accuracy of their Data and ask for it to be updated or corrected.
- RESTRICT THE PROCESSING OF THEIR DATA. Users have the right, under certain circumstances, to restrict the processing of their Data. In this case, the Owner will not process their Data for any purpose other than storing it.
- HAVE THEIR PERSONAL DATA DELETED OR OTHERWISE REMOVED. Users have the right, under certain circumstances, to obtain the erasure of their Data from the Owner.
- RECEIVE THEIR DATA AND HAVE IT TRANSFERRED TO ANOTHER CONTROLLER. Users have the right to receive their Data in a structured, commonly used and machine readable format and, if technically feasible, to have it transmitted to another controller without any hindrance. This provision is applicable provided that the Data is processed by automated means and that the processing is based on the User's consent, on a contract which the User is part of or on pre-contractual obligations thereof.
- LODGE A COMPLAINT. Users have the right to bring a claim before their competent data protection authority.
Details about the right to object to processing
Where Personal Data is processed for a public interest, in the exercise of an official authority vested in the Owner or for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the Owner, Users may object to such processing by providing a ground related to their particular situation to justify the objection.
Users must know that, however, should their Personal Data be processed for direct marketing purposes, they can object to that processing at any time without providing any justification. To learn, whether the Owner is processing Personal Data for direct marketing purposes, Users may refer to the relevant sections of this document.
How to exercise these rights
Any requests to exercise User rights can be directed to the Owner through the contact details provided in this document. These requests can be exercised free of charge and will be addressed by the Owner as early as possible and always within one month.
Cookie Policy
This Website uses Trackers. To learn more, the User may consult the Cookie Policy.
Additional information about Data collection and processing
Legal action
The User's Personal Data may be used for
legal purposes by the Owner in Court or in
the stages leading to possible legal action
arising from improper use of this Website or
the related Services.
The User declares to be aware that the Owner
may be required to reveal personal data upon
request of public authorities.
Additional information about User's Personal Data
In addition to the information contained in this privacy policy, this Website may provide the User with additional and contextual information concerning particular Services or the collection and processing of Personal Data upon request.
System logs and maintenance
For operation and maintenance purposes, this Website and any third-party services may collect files that record interaction with this Website (System logs) use other Personal Data (such as the IP Address) for this purpose.
Information not contained in this policy
More details concerning the collection or processing of Personal Data may be requested from the Owner at any time. Please see the contact information at the beginning of this document.
How “Do Not Track” requests are handled
This Website does not support “Do Not Track”
requests.
To determine whether any of the third-party
services it uses honor the “Do Not Track”
requests, please read their privacy
policies.
Changes to this privacy policy
The Owner reserves the right to make changes
to this privacy policy at any time by
notifying its Users on this page and
possibly within this Website and/or - as far
as technically and legally feasible -
sending a notice to Users via any contact
information available to the Owner. It is
strongly recommended to check this page
often, referring to the date of the last
modification listed at the bottom.
Should
the changes affect processing activities
performed on the basis of the User’s
consent, the Owner shall collect new consent
from the User, where required.
Definitions and legal references
Personal Data (or Data)
Any information that directly, indirectly, or in connection with other information — including a personal identification number — allows for the identification or identifiability of a natural person.
Usage Data
Information collected automatically through this Website (or third-party services employed in this Website), which can include: the IP addresses or domain names of the computers utilized by the Users who use this Website, the URI addresses (Uniform Resource Identifier), the time of the request, the method utilized to submit the request to the server, the size of the file received in response, the numerical code indicating the status of the server's answer (successful outcome, error, etc.), the country of origin, the features of the browser and the operating system utilized by the User, the various time details per visit (e.g., the time spent on each page within the Application) and the details about the path followed within the Application with special reference to the sequence of pages visited, and other parameters about the device operating system and/or the User's IT environment.
User
The individual using this Website who, unless otherwise specified, coincides with the Data Subject.
Data Subject
The natural person to whom the Personal Data refers.
Data Processor (or Data Supervisor)
The natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which processes Personal Data on behalf of the Controller, as described in this privacy policy.
Data Controller (or Owner)
The natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of Personal Data, including the security measures concerning the operation and use of this Website. The Data Controller, unless otherwise specified, is the Owner of this Website.
This Website (or this Application)
The means by which the Personal Data of the User is collected and processed.
Service
The service provided by this Website as described in the relative terms (if available) and on this site/application.
European Union (or EU)
Unless otherwise specified, all references made within this document to the European Union include all current member states to the European Union and the European Economic Area.
Cookie
Cookies are Trackers consisting of small sets of data stored in the User's browser.
Tracker
Tracker indicates any technology - e.g Cookies, unique identifiers, web beacons, embedded scripts, e-tags and fingerprinting - that enables the tracking of Users, for example by accessing or storing information on the User’s device.
Legal information
This privacy statement has been prepared based on provisions of multiple legislations, including Art. 13/14 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation).
This privacy policy relates solely to this Website, if not stated otherwise within this document.
Latest update: December 09, 2021
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