Privacy Statement

1. Introduction

At Fischer Connectors SA, we take great care to respect your privacy and confidentiality. For this reason, we have adopted this policy.

 

This policy applies where we, Fischer Connectors SA, Chemin du Glapin 20, 1162 St-Prex (Switzerland) are acting as a data controller with respect to the personal data of our websites’ https://fischerconnectors.com/en/ and or any related sites, pages and platforms we use to communicate with you (“our Website”).

 

We use cookies on our Website. Insofar as those cookies are not strictly necessary for the provision of our Website and services, we will ask you to consent to our use of cookies when you first visit our Website. Please refer to our Cookies Policy for more information to learn how we are using cookies. You can manage your preferences relating to the use of cookies on our websites by visiting the Cookie Settings.

 

In this policy, “we”, “us” and “our” refer to Conextivity Group SA and its subsidiaries, including Fischer Connectors SA.

 

 

2. How we use your personal data

In this Section 2 we have set out:

1. 1. 1. the general categories of personal data that we may process;
      2. in the case of personal data that we did not obtain directly from you, the source and specific categories of that data;
      3. the purposes for which we may process personal data; and
      4. the legal bases of the processing.

 

2.1 Usage Data

We may process data about your use of our Website and services. The usage data may include your geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views and Website navigation paths, as well as information about the timing, frequency and pattern of your service use. The source of the usage data is our analytics tracking system Google Analytics. This usage data may be processed for the purposes of analyzing the use of the Website and services. The legal basis for this processing is your consent and our legitimate interests, namely monitoring and improving our Website and services.

 

We may disclose to our advertising and social media providers insofar as is reasonably necessary to measure the success of and improve our advertising and social media efforts. This personal data may include IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views and Website navigation paths, as well as information about the timing, frequency and pattern of your service use. These advertising providers include Facebook, Google, LinkedIn and YouTube. The legal basis for this processing and provision is consent. You may learn how to opt-out of this at any point by visiting our Cookies Policy.

 

This data may also be processed for the purposes of providing online services on our Website. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely improving and enabling our Website and services.

 

Data described under this section 2.1 constitutes “Usage data”.

 

2.2 Other Data

We may process your account data (“Account data“) that you provide to create an account on our websites. The account data may include email, password, salutation, first name, last name, company, country, address and city. The source of the account data is you. The account data may be processed for the purposes of operating our websites, providing our services, ensuring the security of our websites and services, maintaining back-ups of our databases and communicating with you. The legal basis for this processing is consent.

 

We may process information contained in any enquiry you submit to us regarding services, namely download whitepapers and job applications and using our contact or meet us form (“Enquiry data“). The Enquiry data may include your message, salutation, first name, last name, email, phone number, company, country, CV, CV cover letter, discussion topics, date and time preference.  The Enquiry data may be processed for the purpose of supplying the services mentioned above and keeping proper records of those transactions.  The legal basis for this processing is consent and legitimate interest.

 

We may process information that you provide to us for the purpose of subscribing to our email notifications and/or newsletter or for other enquiries (“Notification data“). The Notification data may include your salutation, first name, last name, email, company, phone number, city, state/region, postal code, and country. The Notification data may be processed for the purposes of sending you the relevant notifications and/or newsletters. We may also use Notification data to answer your queries and requests. The legal basis for this processing is consent.

 

We may process information contained in or relating to any communication that you send to us namely via web forms, live chat or by email (“Correspondence data“). The Correspondence data may include the communication content and metadata associated with the communication. Our Website will generate the metadata associated with communications made using the Website’s forms. The Correspondence data may be processed for the purposes of communicating with you and record-keeping. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely, among other things, the proper administration of our Website and business and communications with users.

 

In addition to the specific purposes for which we may process your personal data set out in this section 2, we may also process any of your personal data where such processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person.

 

Please do not supply any other person’s personal data to us, unless we ask you to do so.

 

 

3. Providing your personal data to others

We may disclose your personal data to any member of our group of companies (this means Conextivity Group SA and all its subsidiaries ) insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes, and on the legal bases, set out in this policy. Information about our group of companies can be found at https://fischerconnectors.com/en/about-us/locations/.

 

We may disclose your personal data to our international distributors and agents’ network insofar as reasonably necessary for processing your enquiry. Information about our distribution network can be found at https://fischerconnectors.com/en/about-us/locations/.

 

We may disclose your Enquiry data to one or more of those selected third party distributors of goods and services identified on our Website for the purpose of enabling them to contact you so that they can offer, market and sell to you relevant goods and/or services. Each such third party will act as a data controller in relation to the Enquiry data that we supply to it; and upon contacting you, each such third party will supply to you a copy of its own privacy policy, which will govern that third party’s use of your personal data.

 

We may disclose Usage data to our newsletter, advertising, analytics and social media providers. These advertising providers include Campaign Monitor, Meta, Google LLC, Microsoft, YouTube. The legal basis for this processing and provision is consent. You may learn how to opt-out of this at any point by visiting our Cookies Policy.

 

In addition to the specific disclosures of personal data set out in this section 3, we may disclose your personal data where such disclosure is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person.

 

 

4. Cross border data transfer of your personal data

In this section 4, we provide information about the circumstances in which your personal data may be transferred to countries outside Switzerland and the European Economic Area (EEA).

 

We and our other group companies have offices, facilities, a distribution and partner network all over the world.  Transfers to each of these countries will be protected by appropriate safeguards, namely the use of standard data protection clauses adopted or approved by the European Commission and the use of binding corporate rules.

 

The hosting facilities for our Website are situated in Switzerland. The European Commission has issued an “adequacy decision” with respect to the data protection laws of this country.

 

Our Analytics Provider, Google, is situated in the United States of America. The European Commission has issued an “adequacy decision” with respect to the General Data Protection Regulation. Transfers to the United States of America will be protected by appropriate safeguards, namely the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (“DPF”) of which Google is a signatory. Information on the framework can be found here: https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/s/

 

Our Advertising and Social Media providers, listed in section 3, are also located in the United States of America. Such transfers to the United States of America will be protected by appropriate safeguards, namely the DPF of which all our advertising and social media providers are signatories. Information on the framework can be found here: https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/s/

 

Our Newsletter provider, listed in section 3, are also located in the United States of America. Transfers to this provider will be protected by appropriate safeguards, namely the use of standard data protection clauses adopted or approved by the European Commission and the use of binding corporate rules.

 

5. Retaining and deleting personal data

This section 5 sets out our data retention policies and procedure, which are designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations in relation to the retention and deletion of personal data.

 

Personal data that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.

 

We will retain your personal data for a minimum of time.

 

In such cases, we will determine the period of retention based on the following criteria:

1. 1. 1. the period of retention of Usage Data will be determined based on user requests for deletion or the data is no longer required. Such data is kept for as long as specified in our cookie banner.
      2. the period of retention for Account  Data will be determined based on user requests for deletion or the data is no longer required.
      3. the period of retention for Enquiry Data will be determined based on user requests for deletion or the data is no longer required. Such data usually is kept for six months.
      4. the period of retention for Notification Data will be determined based on user requests for deletion. Such data usually is kept for 10 years.
      5. the period of retention for Correspondence Data will be determined based on user requests for deletion or the data is no longer required and the correspondence has been completed. Such data usually is kept for 10 years.

 

Notwithstanding the other provisions of this section 5, we may retain your personal data where such retention is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person.

 

 

6. Amendments

We may update this policy by publishing a new version on our Website, at any time, without prior notice. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are aware with any changes to this policy.

 

 

7. Your rights

In this section 7, we have summarized the rights that you have under data protection law. Some of the rights are complex, and not all of the details have been included in our summaries. Accordingly, you should read the relevant laws and guidance from the regulatory authorities for a full explanation of these rights.

 

Your principal rights under data protection law are:

1. 1. 1. the right to access;
      2. the right to rectification;
      3. the right to erasure;
      4. the right to restrict processing;
      5. the right to object to processing;
      6. the right to data portability;
      7. the right to complain to a supervisory authority; and
      8. the right to withdraw consent.

 

7.1 Right to access

You have the right to confirmation as to whether or not we process your personal data and, where we do, access to the personal data, together with certain additional information. That additional information includes details of the purposes of the processing, the categories of personal data concerned and the recipients of the personal data. Providing the rights and freedoms of others are not affected, we will supply to you a copy of your personal data.

 

7.2 Right to rectification

You have the right to have any inaccurate personal data about you rectified and, taking into account the purposes of the processing, to have any incomplete personal data about you completed.

 

7.3 Right to erasure

In some circumstances you have the right to the erasure of your personal data without undue delay. Those circumstances include: the personal data are no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed; you withdraw consent to consent-based processing; you object to the processing under certain rules of applicable data protection law; the processing is for direct marketing purposes; and the personal data have been unlawfully processed. However, there are exclusions of the right to erasure. The general exclusions include where processing is necessary: for compliance with a legal obligation; or for the exercise or defense of legal claims.

 

7.4 Right to restrict processing

In some circumstances you have the right to restrict the processing of your personal data. Those circumstances are: you contest the accuracy of the personal data; processing is unlawful but you oppose erasure; we no longer need the personal data for the purposes of our processing, but you require personal data for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims; and you have objected to processing, pending the verification of that objection. Where processing has been restricted on this basis, we may continue to store your personal data. However, we will only otherwise process it: with your consent; for the exercise or defense of legal claims; for the protection of the rights of another natural or legal person; or for reasons of important public interest.

 

7.5 Right to object to processing

You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data on grounds relating to your particular situation, but only to the extent that the legal basis for the processing is that the processing is necessary for: the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of any official authority vested in us; or the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by us or by a third party. If you make such an objection, we will cease to process the personal information unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing is for the exercise or defense of legal claims.

 

7.6 Right to data portability

You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes (including profiling for direct marketing purposes). If you make such an objection, we will cease to process your personal data for this purpose.

 

To the extent that the legal basis for our processing of your personal data is:

1. 1. 1. consent; or
      2. that the processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are party or in order to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract, and such processing is carried out by automated means ;

you have the right to receive your personal data from us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. However, this right does not apply where it would adversely affect the rights and freedoms of others.

 

7.7 Right to complain to a supervisory authority

If you consider that our processing of your personal information infringes data protection laws, you have a legal right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority responsible for data protection. You may do so in the EU member state of your habitual residence, Switzerland, your place of work or the place of the alleged infringement.

 

7.8 Right to withdraw consent

To the extent that the legal basis for our processing of your personal information is consent, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time.

You may exercise any of your rights listed in this section 7 in relation to your personal data by email or written notice to us using the contact details listed in section 10 below. We may require a proof of identity.

 

 

8. California Consumer Privacy Act

This Privacy Policy outlines information we collect in the paragraphs above.  We do not sell personal information to third parties. We sometimes share information with a limited group of business partners, in particular to follow up on specific inquiries and as outlined in point three above: “ Providing your personal data to others.”

 

You, as resident of California, USA have the right to request access to the personal information we have collected about you, as well as to request that we delete such data and/or that we do not sell (including share, as applicable) your personal data.  To exercise your rights related to the CCPA, you may call us at 800-551-0121 or send an email to mail@fischerconnectors.com.

 

When required, we will respond to a verified request within 45 days, unless it is reasonably necessary for us to extend our response time.

 

We may deny your deletion request in order to complete transactions for which we collected the personal information, provide a good or service that you requested, take actions reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform our contract with you. We may also deny a deletion request in order to comply with a legal obligation.

 

 

9. Security

Your personal data is protected from unauthorized processing by appropriate technical and organizational measures. Such measures include,   among other things, appropriate data collection, storage and processing practices, and security measures to protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure or destruction of personal information, usernames, passwords, transaction information and data stored on our Website.

 

The HTTPS protocol is used for all https://fischerconnectors.com/ content.

 

We strictly control access to our premises and files. Our hardware is configured to prevent unauthorized access.

 

 

10. Contact detail

Please contact us for more details:

 

Fischer Connectors SA
Chemin du Glapin 20
CH 1162 St Prex
Switzerland
Tel: + 41 21 800 95 95

 

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area, you may contact our representative:

 

FC Portugal Unipessoal Lda
Rua do Paúl de Cima Amarante
União de Freguesias de Aboadela
Sanche, 4600-500 Aboadela
Portugal

 

Email: privacy@fischerconnectors.ch

 

 

St-Prex, Fischer Connectors SA – V 1.1, 16.07.2024