Privacy Policy
for customers, users of online services, suppliers, website visitors, applicants, and employees
of pdc Marketing + Information Technology AG.
With this privacy policy, we, pdc Marketing + Information Technology AG based in Wettingen, describe how we process your personal data when you interact with us as a customer, user, or supplier, apply for a position or work with us, visit our website, or otherwise communicate with us.
If you provide us with data about other individuals, such as your employees, coworkers, family members, or your customers, etc., we assume that you are authorized to do so, that this data is accurate, and that we may process it as described here. By transmitting data about third parties, you confirm this. Please also ensure that these third parties have been informed about this privacy policy.
The protection of your privacy is a matter of great importance to us. We will only process your data in ways that are permitted by Swiss data protection law.
1. Who is responsible for processing your personal data?
The pdc Marketing + Information Technology AG is responsible for the data processing described in this privacy policy, unless otherwise communicated in individual cases.
If you have questions about our handling of personal data or other data protection-related concerns, you can reach us at the following address:
pdc Marketing + Information Technology AG
Schwimmbadstrasse 45
5430 Wettingen
2. What personal data do we process for what purpose?
2.1 Customers and Suppliers
a) Customers: If you are a customer or supplier of ours, we process the data you provide about yourself or your employees or customers (name, address, email address), related correspondence (orders, order history, account manager, invoices, reminders, other contractual correspondence), and additional documentation arising in connection with the order (work products, meeting minutes, documentation of services, etc.) in order to fulfill the corresponding orders. As a customer, you may also receive our newsletter, which you can decline at any time.
b) Users of Online Services: When you use an online service provided by us, such as Odoo PDM (Digital Manager), xOnline, or xProduction, etc., we process the data you provide as well as the data generated in connection with the service (access time, IP address, etc.) in order to offer you the corresponding service.
2.2 Personal
a) Applicants: When you apply with us, we process the data you provide as well as any references obtained from individuals you have named, in order to assess your suitability for the position. If you are hired, this information will be included in your personnel file.
b) Employees: If you are employed with us, we process your data (all information you provide (including information about your dependents, e.g., for family allowances or emergency lists), information about your position (salary, job description, etc.), as well as any health data (e.g., medical certificates) and other data (e.g., your assignment data or performance data) in order to manage the employment relationship.
c) IT Monitoring: We use technologies to ensure the security of our IT systems. This also includes systems that monitor certain activities of employees. These data are generally processed only in an aggregated manner, but can be individually evaluated in case of suspicion or detection of misuse.
2.3 Website
a) Website visitors: When you visit our website, we process the associated access data (visited website, time of access, source/referral from which you arrived at the page, browser used, operating system used, IP address used) to enable the use of the website (establishing a connection), to ensure system security and stability, for the optimization of the internet offering, as well as for internal statistical purposes.
b) Contact form: If you contact us through the contact form or otherwise, we process your personal data to respond to your inquiry.
2.4 Other Purposes
The above-mentioned data may also be processed to comply with legal obligations and regulatory requirements, including communication with authorities and courts, as well as the enforcement and defense of legal claims.
3. Who do we disclose your personal data to?
We disclose information within the scope of our business activities and the purposes according to Section 2, as far as permitted and as it seems appropriate to us, to third parties, whether because they process it on our behalf or because they wish to use it for their own purposes. In addition to the entities already mentioned in Section 2, this particularly concerns the following third parties (collectively referred to as "Recipients"):
- Service providers (such as banks, insurance companies), including contractors (such as IT providers))
- Customers, dealers, suppliers, subcontractors, and other business partners,
- Certain data is also published on our website and is therefore accessible to everyone.
- Authorities or other third parties, when we are legally obligated to do so or when it is necessary to protect our interests, such as for abuse prevention or rights protection, as well as to other parties in potential or actual legal proceedings.
Furthermore, we only share personal data with third parties when it is necessary to achieve the purposes described in this privacy policy or for our business activities, when it is required by law or by a regulation, when it is necessary for the enforcement of our legal claims, or when you have given your consent. You can obtain further information about the disclosure of personal data from the contact point mentioned in section 1.
4. Are your personal data transferred abroad?
The recipients are generally located domestically. In certain cases, however, we may also disclose personal data to IT service providers and other recipients located abroad (notably in EU countries). When we transfer data to a country without adequate legal data protection, we ensure an appropriate level of protection as required by law through the use of relevant contracts (particularly based on the so-called Standard Contractual Clauses) or other legally prescribed measures, or we rely on legal exceptions such as your consent, the conclusion or performance of a contract, or the establishment, exercise, or enforcement of legal claims. You can obtain further information about the affected countries and implemented measures from the contact point mentioned in Section 1.
5. What rights do you have?
Individuals whose data we process have the right to request information about the data processed about them, as well as its correction or deletion.
As far as our processing is based on consent, affected individuals have the right to withdraw this consent at any time with effect for the future.
To exercise such rights, the affected individuals can contact the address mentioned above under item 1. We will process these requests in accordance with Swiss data protection law and may also refuse them or fulfill them only to a limited extent in accordance with legal regulations.
6. Cookies
On our website, we use cookies. These are small text files that are stored on your device.
We use such cookies to enable a better use of the website (e.g., storing the language preference). We also use cookies to create statistical evaluations of the use of our website.
Most browsers are set up to automatically accept cookies. You can disable them by turning off cookies in your browser's settings.
7. Changes to this Privacy Policy
There may be times when adjustments to this privacy policy are necessary, for example, if the law or the way we process personal data changes. In this case, we will inform you of the change in an appropriate manner (e.g., by posting on our website or sending you an email), and with this information, the new version will become binding.
Version August 2023
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