Legal information UniversalAutomation.org AISBL

1 - Website editor

2 - Hosting

3 - Credits

4 - Disclaimer

5 - Consent

6 - Personal data

• are collected in a fair and lawful manner,
• is collected for specific, explicit and legitimate purposes, and will not be processed subsequently in a manner incompatible with these purposes,
• are adequate, relevant and not excessive in relation to the purposes for which they are collected and their subsequent processing
• are accurate and complete,
• are kept in a form which permits identification of the data subjects for no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which they are collected and processed.

7 - Intellectual property

UniversalAutomation.org Privacy notice

1 - Who is in charge of data processing?

2 - What types of personal information do we process?

• Contact information, such as your name, job title, postal address, including your home address, where you have provided this to us, business address, telephone number, mobile phone number, fax number and 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 business information necessarily processed in a committee or participation relationship with UniversalAutomation.org or voluntarily provided by you, such as instructions given, payments made, requests and projects;
• Your password for the UniversalAutomation.org website or other password protected platforms or services, where you have one;
• Information collected from publicly available resources;
• Special categories of personal data. In connection with the registration for and provision of access to an event or seminar, we may ask for information about your health for the purpose of identifying and being considerate of any disabilities or special dietary requirements you may have. Any use of such information is based on your consent. If you do not provide any such information about disabilities or special dietary requirements, we will not be able to take any respective precautions;
• Other personal data regarding your preferences where it is relevant to the standardization services that we provide. From time to time, it may include personal data about your membership of a professional or trade association or union, health personal data, details of dietary preferences when relevant to events to which we invite you and details of any criminal record you may have.

3 - How do we collect your personal data?

• When you or your organization seek technical documents or brochures;
• When you or your organization browse, make an enquiry or otherwise interact on our website;
• When you attend a seminar or another UniversalAutomation.org event or sign up to receive personal data from us; or
• When you or your organization offer to provide or provide services to us. In some circumstances, we collect personal data about you from a third-party source. For example, we may collect personal data from your organization, other organizations with whom you have dealings, government agencies, an information or service provider or from a publicly available record.

4 - Are you required to provide personal data?

5 - For which purposes will we us your personal data?

• Providing services or things you may have requested, including on-line, technology services or solutions as instructed or requested by you or your organization;
• Managing and administering your or your organization’s business relationship with UniversalAutomation.org, including processing payments, accounting, auditing, billing and collection, support services;
• Compliance with our legal obligations (such as record keeping obligations), compliance screening or recording obligations (e.g. under antitrust laws, export laws, trade sanction and embargo laws, for anti-money laundering, financial and credit check and fraud and crime prevention and detection purposes), which may include automated checks of your contact data or other information you provide about your identity against applicable sanctioned-party lists and contacting you to confirm your identity in case of a potential match or recording interaction with you which may be relevant for compliance purposes;
• To analyze and improve our services and communications to you;
• Protecting the security of and managing access to our premises, IT and communication systems, online platforms, websites and other systems, preventing and detecting security threats, fraud or other criminal or malicious activities;
• For insurance purposes;
• For monitoring and assessing compliance with our policies and standards;
• To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations and requests anywhere in the world, including reporting to and/or being audited by national and international regulatory bodies;
• To comply with court orders and exercises and/or defend our legal rights; and For any purpose related and/or ancillary to any of the above or any other purpose for which your personal data was provided to us. Where you have expressly given us your consent, we may process your personal data also for the following purposes:
• Communicating with you through the channels you have approved to keep you up to date on the latest technology and marketing developments, announcements, and other information about UniversalAutomation.org services, products and technologies (including newsletters and other information) as well as UniversalAutomation.org events and projects;
• Customer surveys, marketing campaigns, market analysis, contests or other promotional activities or events; or
• Collecting information about your preferences to create a user profile to personalize and foster the quality of our communication and interaction with you (for example, by way of newsletter tracking or website analytics). With regard to marketing-related communication, we will – where legally required – only provide you with such information after you have opted in and provide you the opportunity to opt out anytime if you do not want to receive further marketing-related communication from us. We will not use your personal data for taking any automated decisions affecting you or creating profiles other than described above. Depending on for which of the above Permitted Purposes we use your personal data, we may process your personal data on one or more of the following legal grounds:
• Because processing is necessary for the performance of your instructions or other contract with you or your organization;
• To comply with our legal obligations (e.g. to keep records for tax purposes); or
• Because processing is necessary for purposes of our legitimate interest or those of any third-party recipients that receive your personal data, provided that such interests are not overridden by your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms. In addition, the processing may be based on your consent where you have expressly given that to us.

6 - Personal data about other people which you provide to us

7 - Transfering your personal data abroad

8 - How long do we keep your personal information?

9 - Who do we share personal information with and where is it processed?

• with competent authorities, based on a good faith belief that disclosure is necessary to respond to a judicial process, a valid official inquiry, or if otherwise required by law;
• to defend our legal rights, or to protect the rights or safety of any person or entity;
• as instructed by you;
• with third parties in the context of reorganization of operations.

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10 - How do we secure personal information?

11 - How to exercise your choices and rights about your personal information?

12 - Updates to this privacy policy