Privacy Policy
DATA CONTROLLER
SWU GmbH is responsible for the personal data that you share with us. When we say “SWU”, “us”, “our” or “we”, this is who we are referring to SWU GmbH. In accordance with regulations applicable to the processing of personal data, SWU GmbH is the “data controller”.
PERSONAL DATA
“Personal data” means any information or pieces of information that could identify you either directly (e.g. your name) or indirectly (e.g. through pseudonymized data such as a unique ID number). This means that personal data includes things like email usernames, user generated content, sex, age range, place of origin, user profile (journalist, consumer, etc.). It could also include unique numerical identifiers like your computer’s IP address or your mobile device’s MAC address, as well as cookies.
DATA COLLECTION AND USAGE
We might collect or receive data from you via our website. Sometimes you give this to us directly (e.g. when you contact us to ask a question), sometimes we collect it (e.g. using cookies to understand how you use our website) or sometimes we receive your data from other third parties.
WHO MAY ACCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA?
The persons having access to your personal data are authorized employees within SWU GmbH.
We may also disclose your personal data to third parties :
- If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with a legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms of use/sales or other terms and conditions you have agreed to; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of SWU, our customers, or employees.
- If we have your consent to do so
- Or if we are permitted to do so by law.
We do not offer or sell your personal data.
WHERE WE STORE YOUR PERSONAL DATA?
The data we collect from you is stored in Germany by SWU. For further information, please contact us as per the “Contact” section below.
HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR PERSONAL DATA?
We only keep your personal data for as long as we need it for the purpose for which we hold your personal data, to meet your needs, or to comply with our legal obligations.
We may retain some personal data to comply with our legal or regulatory obligations, as well as to allow us to manage our rights (for example to assert our claims in Courts) or for statistical or historical purposes.
When we no longer need to use your personal data, it is removed from our systems and records or anonymised so that you can no longer be identified from it.
IS YOUR PERSONAL DATA SECURE?
We are committed to keeping your personal data secure, and taking all reasonable precautions to do so. We contractually require that trusted third parties who handle your personal data for us do the same.
We always do our best to protect your personal data and once we have received your personal data, we use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access. As the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site. As such, any transmission is at your own risk.
YOUR RIGHT AND CHOICES
SWU respects your right to privacy: it is important that you are able to control your personal data.
To deal with your request, we may require proof of your identity.
CONTACT
If you have any questions or concerns about how we process and use your personal data, or would like to exercise any of your rights above, please contact us at contact@swu-gmbh.com
or by writing to us at:
SWU GmbH
Pannhauserstrasse 32
52072 Aachen, Germany