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Privacy Policy

About this Privacy Policy

NEC BIO B.V. ("NEC BIO" or, as appropriate, in the context, "we", "us" or "our") is committed to respecting and protecting the personal data of individuals and is always working to further enhance and strengthen data protection from a full range of perspectives.

This privacy policy ("Policy") informs you how we collect, use, share, retain and dispose personal data received in connection with your use of any of this Website and the services, features or content we offer ("Services"). It also informs you about your rights and choices with respect to your personal data, and how you can contact us to inquire about our data protection practices.

The Policy explains our general practices and may be supplemented by additional privacy statements, terms or notices provided to you.

For the purposes of this Policy, references to "you" or "your" in this Policy are references to individuals who use the Website.

We may occasionally update this Policy. We encourage you to periodically review the Policy to be informed of how we process your personal data.

Data Controller and Data Protection Contact Point

For the purpose of this Policy


NEC BIO B.V.

Marathon 2, 1213 PH Hilversum, The Netherlands


is responsible for the processing of your personal data as Data Controller.

Personal data we collect about you

We collect personal data about you from different sources:

When visiting our Website you have the option to provide us with personal data relating to you, request quotes, services, support, downloads, trials, whitepapers, training or information; place, orders for products or services or register for events; participate in surveys or other promotional activities online or in any other venue; provide a testimonial; subscribe to NEC newsletters, marketing and promotional emails or other materials; interact with us on third party social networks (subject to that third party’s terms of use and privacy policies);and contact us.

Additionally, when you use our Services we automatically collect certain information about you and your internet usage. The specific categories of personal data concerned and the sources from which we obtain them are linked to the way you interact with our Website and Services.

The categories of personal data that we collect directly from you depends on how you interact with usand the Services may include:

  • Profile Data: including information collected progressively when you visit our site including your referral website, pages you visit, actions you take, patterns of page visits and information from forms you fill in;

  • Technical Data: includes information collected when you access our Website, your internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform and other technology on the devices you are using;

  • Usage Data: information about how you use our Website;

We will never collect any special categories of personal data about you through our Website (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health, genetic and biometric data, or any information about criminal convictions and offences.

We also may obtain personal data about you from our group companies and from other third parties, including:

  • Service providers that help us determine a location based on your IP address in order to customize certain products to your location;

  • Partners with which we offer co-branded services or engage in joint marketing activities or for targeted advertising purposes;

  • We may also supplement personal data we collect with personal data obtained from other parties, including our Business Partners and other third parties to create customised profiles about you;

  • Publicly-available sources and data suppliers from which we obtain data to validate or supplement the information we hold. We will ensure that this processing is proportionate to the purposes set out therein.

Our Service may automatically collect personal data about how you and your device interact with the Service, including:

  • Computer, device and connection information, such as IP address, browser type and version, operating system, platform and other software installed on your device, unique device identifier and other technical identifiers, error reports and performance data;

  • Usage data, such as the features you used, the settings you selected, your URL click stream data, including date and time stamp and referring and exit pages, and pages you visited on the Service;

  • For location-aware Services, your location, such as where you are located on the event floor.

We collect this data through our servers and the use of cookies and other technologies. You can control cookies through your browser’s settings and other tools. However, if you block certain cookies, you may not be able to register, login, or access certain parts or make full use of the Service. For more details, please see NEC Bio Cookie Policy as stated below.

https://www.nec-bio.com/en_DD/cookie-policy/index.html

For more information about use of cookies and other similar tracking technologies, including how to opt out of targeted advertising please selecting the Privacy Preference Center or can contact us at
privacy@emea.nec.com.

Aggregated Data

We collect, use and share aggregated data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated data may be derived from your personal data but is not legally considered personal data because it does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. For example, we may aggregate your Usage Data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific website feature. However, if we combine or connect Aggregated Data with your personal data so that it can directly or indirectly identify you, we treat the combined data as personal data which will be used in accordance with this Policy.

How we use your personal data.-Purposes

Depending on how you interact with us and Services, we use your personal data to:

  • Deliver the products, solutions, services and support or carry out the transactions you have requested;

  • Provide, activate and manage your access to and use of the service;

  • Process and fulfil a request, order, download or other transaction;

  • Provide technical, product and other support and to help keep the Service working, safe and secure;

  • Facilitate communications from Business Partners;

  • Customize, analyse and improve our products, solutions, services (including the content and advertisements on our website to identify usage trends or determine the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns), technologies, communications and relationship with you;

  • Better understand our customers and online users, including profiling based on interests and interactions with our site;

  • Personalize content and implement your preferences;

  • Enforce our conditions of sale, website terms and separate contracts (if applicable) with you;

  • Prevent fraud and other prohibited or illegal activities;

  • Protect the security or integrity of our websites, our businesses, and our products or services;

  • Perform other functions or serve other purposes, as disclosed to you at the point of collection, or as required or permitted by law;

  • Respond to your requests, inquiries, comments and concerns;

  • Enhance and improve the Service and our other products and services and to develop new products, services and benefits;

  • Deliver targeted advertisements, promotional messages, notices and other information related to the Service and your interests;

  • Provide you with promotional messages and other information about products, events and services of ours, our affiliates and third parties, such as exhibitors, sponsors and media partners;

  • Invite you to participate in user testing and surveys as well as sweepstakes, competitions and similar promotions;

  • Identify usage trends and develop data analysis, including for purposes of research, audit, reporting and other business operations, including determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and evaluating our business performance;

  • Comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.

Legal Basis of processing personal data

Our legal basis for collecting and using your personal data as described in this Policy will depend on the personal data concerned and the specific context in which we collect it. In general, we collect and process your personal data on one or more of the following basis:

  • Your consent, for example where we have obtained your consent to process your personal data for certain activities. If we do so, we will provide you with full details of the Personal Data that we would like to process and the reason, so that you can carefully consider whether you wish to consent. You are free to withdraw your consent at any time by contacting privacy@emea.nec.com. If you withdraw your consent, it will not affect the lawfulness of any processing based on your consent before you withdrew it. Where applicable, we may ask for your consent to processing at the point where you provide your personal data.

  • To comply with a contractual obligation. We will advise you upon collection whether the provision of your personal data is mandatory and of the possible consequences if you do not provide us with your information.

  • For compliance with NEC Bio’s legal obligations where other laws require the processing of your personal data or where we need your personal information to protect your vital interests or those of another person.

  • NEC Bio’s legitimate interests which include the provision of this website and/or relevant products and services, and/or the carrying out of marketing and profiling activities, we only rely on our legitimate interests to process your personal data when these interests are not overridden by your rights and interests.

Sharing your personal data

To respond to your inquires, process orders, to keep you informed about your order status, or to share knowledge about an issue or to be able to propose suitable jobs within NEC Group, we may share information you provide through this website with one or more of our affiliates throughout the world. We also share information provided by our website, or generated by your use of our website (or both), with service providers that have been retained to perform services on our behalf .Please note that some affiliates and third parties may be located in countries outside of the EEA that do not have data protection laws that are equivalent to those of your country.

However, we take adequate measures to ensure that your personal data will at all times be protected in accordance with applicable regulations. A copy of the relevant mechanism can be obtained for your review upon request to us using the contact point above.

Occasionally, we may be required by law enforcement or judicial authorities to disclose your personal data to the applicable law enforcement authorities. We will disclose your personal information if required by law, upon receipt of a court order or subpoena, to cooperate with a law enforcement investigation or if we otherwise believe disclosure is necessary to exercise, establish or defend our legal rights. We reserve the right to report to law enforcement authorities any activities that we, in good faith, believe to be unlawful.

Retention of your personal data

We retain your personal data only so long as it is required for purposes for which it was collected, whilst keeping it as up-to-date as possible and making sure that irrelevant or excessive data is deleted or made anonymous as soon as reasonably practicable. For more information, please consult NEC Group Retention Policy.

Data Subject Rights

You have the following rights in relation to your personal data.  Please note that these rights are not absolute and in certain cases are subject to conditions as specified in applicable law:

Access: you have the right to request information about how we process your personal data and to obtain a copy of that personal data;
Rectification: you have the right to request the rectification of inaccurate personal data about you and for any incomplete personal data about you to be completed;
Objection: you have the right to object to the processing of your personal data, which is based on our legitimate interests (as described above);
Erasure: you have the right to request the erasure of your personal data;
Automated decision-making: you have the right not to have a decision made about you that is based solely on automated processing if that decision produces legal or similarly significant effects concerning you. Please note that none of the Personal Data collected about you will be used as part of any automated decision making or to build a profile of you;
Restriction: you have the right to ask us to restrict our processing of your personal data so that we no longer process that information until the restriction is lifted;
Portability: you have the right to receive your personal data, which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine readable format and to have that information transmitted to another organization in certain circumstances.


To exercise these rights, please contact us at
privacy@emea.nec.com.

In addition to the above, you have the right to lodge a complaint about our handling of your personal data with the relevant national supervisory data protection authorities.

Data Security

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.

Links to NON-NEC Bio Websites

Our Website may provide links other websites for your convenience and information. These websites operate independently from our website and are not under our control, if you access those links, you will leave NEC Bio Website. These sites may have their own privacy statements or terms of use, which we strongly suggest you review if you visit any linked websites. NEC Bio is not responsible for the content of partner’s sites, as well as any products or services that they offer.