The Fr. Sauter AG (also «we», «us») collects and processes personal data that concern you but also other individuals («third parties»). We use the word «data» here interchangeably with «personal data».
«Personal data» means data relating to identified or identifiable individuals. «Processing» means any operation that is performed on personal data, such as collection, storage, use, alteration, disclosure and erasure.
In this Privacy Notice, we describe what we do with your data when you use https://www.sauter-controls.com/, our other websites or apps (collectively «website»), obtain services or products from us, interact with us in relation to a contract, communicate with us, are a shareholder / investor of ours or otherwise deal with us. In addition, we may inform you about the processing of your data separately (e.g. in forms, terms and conditions or additional privacy notices).
If you disclose data about other persons (e.g. family members, work colleagues) to us, we assume that you are authorized to do so and that the relevant data is accurate. When you share data about others with us, you confirm that. Please make sure that these individuals have been informed about this Privacy Notice.
This Privacy Notice is aligned with the Swiss Data Protection Act («DPA»), the Ordinances associated and the EU General Data Protection Regulation («GDPR»). However, the application of these laws depends on each individual case.
The Fr. Sauter AG, Im Surinam 55 CH-4058 Basel (the «Fr. Sauter AG») is the controller for the processing’s under this Privacy Notice, unless we tell you otherwise in an individual case.
You may contact us for data protection concerns and to exercise your rights as follows:
Fr. Sauter AG
Im Surinam 55
CH-4058 Basel
Tel.: +41 61 695 55 55
Email: sauter.datenschutz@ch.sauter-bc.com
Sometimes we may be joint controllers with other entities also part of the Sauter Group. In these cases, you can also contact us using the contact details above if you have a data protection concern and to exercise your rights.
We process various categories of data about you. The main categories of data are the following:
Other data: This may include the following data: Data collected in connection with administrative or legal proceedings (e.g. actions, evidence, etc.), data collected on the basis of health protection (e.g. as part of protection concepts), photographs, videos or sound recordings that we produce or receive from third parties and in which you are recognizable (e.g. at events, through security cameras, etc.), access data or rights (e.g. visitor list, when you enter certain buildings or which access rights you have), participation in events or campaigns, when you use our infrastructure and systems as well as data in connection with your status as a shareholder or investor of ours (e.g. information for various registers, the exercise of your rights and the holding of events such as general meetings).
To the extent necessary and depending on the situation and processing purpose, we base the processing of your data on the following legal basis:
In relation to our contracts, the website, our services and products, our legal obligations or otherwise to protect our legitimate interests and the other purposes set out in Section 5, we may disclose your personal data to third parties, in particular to the following categories of recipients:
All these categories of recipient may in turn involve third parties, so that your data may also become accessible to them. We can restrict processing by certain third parties (e.g. IT providers), but not by other third parties (e.g. authorities, banks, etc.).
We also allow certain third parties to collect personal data from you on our website and at events organized by us (e.g. media photographers, providers of tools that we have embedded on our website, etc.). Insofar as we are not decisively involved in these data collections, these third parties are solely responsible for them. If you have any concerns or wish to assert your data protection rights, please contact these third parties directly. See Section 12 for the website.
We process and store personal data mainly in Switzerland and the European Economic Area (EEA). However, we may occasionally disclose data to service providers and other recipients (see Section 7) that are located or process data outside of this area, generally in any country in the world.
If a recipient is located in a country without adequate statutory data protection, we require that the recipient undertakes to comply with Swiss and EEA data protection standards (for this purpose, we use the revised European Commission’s standard contractual clauses, which can be accessed here: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dec_impl/2021/914/oj?), unless the recipient is subject to a legally accepted set of rules to ensure data protection and unless we cannot rely on an exception. An exception may apply for example in the event of legal proceedings abroad, but also in cases of overriding public interest or if the performance of a contract requires disclosure, if you have consented or if the data has been made generally available by you and you have not objected to the processing.
Please note that data exchanged via the internet is often routed through third countries. Your data may therefore be sent abroad even if the sender and recipient are in the same country.
We process your data for as long as our processing purposes, the legal retention periods and our legitimate interests in processing for documentation and evidence purposes require or storage is technically required (e.g. in the case of backups or document management systems). If there are no legal or contractual obligations to the contrary, we will delete or anonymize your data after the storage or processing period has expired as part of our normal processes.
If no legal retention requirements exist in individual cases, we generally process data for the duration of the business relationship or contract term and then, depending on the applicable legal basis, for a further five, ten or more years. This corresponds to the period during which we can assert legal claims against third parties or third parties can assert legal claims against us. Ongoing or anticipated legal proceedings may result in processing beyond this period. See Section 12.2 for more information on the storage period of cookies.
We take appropriate security measures to protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of your personal data, to protect it against unauthorized or unlawful processing and to protect it against the risks of loss, accidental loss or alteration, unauthorized disclosure or access. However, security risks cannot be completely eliminated in general – a certain residual risk is unavoidable.
Applicable data protection laws grant you the right to object to the processing of your data in some circumstances, in particular for direct marketing purposes, for profiling carried out for direct marketing purposes and for other legitimate interests in processing.
To help you control the processing of your personal data, you also have the following rights in connection with our data processing, depending on the applicable data protection law:
If you wish to exercise any of the above rights against us, please contact us in writing, by using the contact form, at our premises or, unless otherwise stated or agreed, by e-mail; you will find our contact details in Section 2. In order for us to rule out any misuse, we must identify you (e.g. by means of a copy of your ID card, if this is not possible by less extensive means).
You also have these rights in relation to other parties that cooperate with us as separate controllers – please contact them directly if you wish to exercise your rights in relation to their processing. You will find information on our key partners and service providers in Section 7 and additional information in Section 12.
Please note that conditions, exceptions or restrictions apply to these rights under applicable data protection law (for example to protect third parties or trade secrets). We will inform you accordingly where applicable.
If you do not agree with the way we handle your rights or with our data protection practices, please let us, our Data Protection Officer or our Data Protection Representative (Section 2) know. If you are located in the EEA, the United Kingdom or in Switzerland, you also have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent data protection supervisory authority in your country. You can find a list of authorities in the EEA here: https://edpb.europa.eu/about-edpb/board/members_en. You can reach the UK supervisory authority here: https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/. You can also contact the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner: https://www.edoeb.admin.ch/edoeb/en/home/the-fdpic/contact.html.
On our website (incl. apps, newsletters and other digital offers), we use various technologies, with which we and third parties engaged by us can recognize you during your use and, under certain circumstances, track you over several visits.
We use our own tools and sometimes third-party services, in particular to improve the functionality or content of our website (e.g. integration of videos or maps) and to compile statistics.
A cookie is a small text file with an identifier (a sequence of letters and numbers) that is transmitted between the server and your system. This allows us and the third-party providers we engage or cooperate with to recognize visitors to our website and track them across multiple visits and across different websites. Cookies enable recognition of a specific device or browser and do not necessarily contain information that personally identifies a user. However, personal data that we or third-party providers contracted by us store from you (e.g. if you have a user account with us or these providers) may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies and thus possibly to your person.
In addition to cookies, there are other similar techniques such as pixel tags, fingerprints and social media plug-ins. Pixel tags are small, usually invisible images or a program code that are loaded by a server and provide the server operator with certain information (e.g. access to a website). Fingerprints consist of information collected during your visit to the website about the configuration of your terminal device or browser, which makes it possible to distinguish your terminal device from other devices. Social media plug-ins are small pieces of software that establish a connection between your visit to our website and a third-party social media platform. The social media plug-in tells the third-party provider that you have visited our website and may transmit cookies to the third-party provider that it has previously placed on your web browser. For more information about how these third-party providers use your personal data collected via their social media plug-ins, please refer to their respective privacy notices.
The cookies and similar technologies we use on our websites serve the following purposes (similar technologies are included in each case):
Details about our third-party providers and advertising partners can be found in privacy settings, which is available on our website. In the privacy settings, you also have the option to disable certain categories of cookies by making the appropriate settings.
Some of the third-party vendors we use may be located outside of Switzerland. For information on the disclosure of data abroad, please refer to Section 8.
If you consent to the use of cookies, you accept that your data may be transferred to a country that does not have an adequate level of data protection and accept the risk that your data may be exposed to access by foreign authorities in the country of the recipient, who may not adhere to adequate data protection regulations in doing so. You may revoke your consent to cookies at any time, as explained in Section 12.3.
The specific types of cookies used on our website and the purposes they serve, as well as their expiration dates, are described in the privacy settings on our website.
We currently use offers from the following service providers and advertising contractors (to the extent that they use data or cookies from you for advertising purposes):
You can manage your preferences regarding the use of cookies and similar techniques on our website by accessing the privacy settings, which are available on our website.
Browsers can automatically accept or reject cookies, but allow you to change these settings. You can also disable or delete cookies that you have previously accepted. Note that all settings are lost if you delete all cookies, including the setting that you do not want to accept cookies, as this in turn requires that an opt-out cookie has been set. The settings must be made separately for each browser you use. You can find out how to manage cookies in your browser in the help menu of your browser.
If you choose to decline cookies and similar technologies, you can still use our website, but your access to some features and areas of our website may be limited.
We may operate pages and other online presences («fan pages», «channels», «profiles», etc.) on social networks and other platforms operated by third parties and process the data about you described in Section 3 and below. We receive this data from you and the platforms when you come into contact with us via our online presence (e.g. when you communicate with us, comment on our content or visit our presence). At the same time, the platforms’ providers may analyze your use of our online presence (e.g. how you interact with us, how you use our online presence, what you view, comment on, or «like») and process this data along with other data they have about you (e.g. information about your age and gender and other demographic information). In this way, they create profiles about you and statistics about the use of our online presences. They use this data and profiles to display our or other advertisements and other personalized content on the platform and to drive behavior on the platform, but also for market and user research and to provide us and other parties with information about you and the use of our online presence. To the extent that we are jointly responsible with the provider for certain types of processing, we will enter into a corresponding contract with the provider. You can find out about the main content of this contract from the provider. They also process this data for their own purposes, in particular for marketing and market research purposes (e.g. to personalize advertising) and to manage their platforms (e.g. to decide what content to show you), and act as separate controllers for this purpose.
We are entitled, but not obliged, to review content before or after it is published on our online presences, to delete content without notice and, if necessary, to report it to the provider of the relevant platform. In the event of violations of decency and conduct rules, we may also notify the provider of the platform on which the user account in question is located for blocking or deletion.
For further information on processing by the platform providers, please refer to the data protection notices of the respective platforms. There you can also find out in which countries your data is processed, what rights of access and deletion you have and how you can exercise these or obtain further information. We currently use the following platforms:
This Privacy Notice is not part of a contract with you. We can change this Privacy Notice at any time. The version published on this website is the current version.
Last updated: 22.04.2024
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