XERIC PRIVACY POLICY FOR COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES
Updated on May 24, 2018
Xeric is committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors and service users. In compliance with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), this privacy policy provides information on how we collect, use and protect your personal information. This privacy policy applies to all external commercial activities by Xeric AB, www.xeric.se and its subsidiaries.
1.Responsibility for Personal Data (Controller)
The controller is Xeric AB:
Xeric AB, Birger Jarlsgatan 69, SE-113 56 Stockholm, Sweden
Phone +46 8 752 1900, Email info@xeric.se
Business id: 556881-0146
2.What information do we collect about you?
We collect basic information about you and your company including, but not limited to:
name
email address
company name
Industrial classification
postal address
phone number
web address
professional title
e-mail and chat correspondence
3.When do we collect your information?
We collect information from you when you:
Hand us a business card in a face-to-face meeting
Subscribe on our website
Contact us by email or phone
Register for an event
Respond to a survey
4.How do we use your information?
Personal data is collected and used within the limits defined by the applicable data protection legislation to take care of and develop customer relationships and for marketing purposes of services and products of Xeric and its main partners. We may use the information we collect from you in the following ways:
To send our newsletters, updates on our content, services and activities.
To Invite you to events we organize
To answer your inquiries promptly and provide services that meet your business requests
5.How do we protect your information?
Access to any personal information by Xeric will be restricted to designated individuals with a username and password. Access to this database will be given only to specifically appointed people. The individuals managing the personal data are bound to professional secrecy.
Xeric’s services may be provided using cloud resources and servers located in various countries around the world. Therefore, Xeric may transfer your personal data outside the country where you use our services, including to countries outside the EU and EEA.
Xeric is concerned with protecting your privacy and data, but we cannot ensure or warrant the absolute security of any information you transmit to Xeric or guarantee that your information stored by Xeric may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our industry standard physical, technical, or managerial safeguards. No method of transmission over the internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. Therefore, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
6.Cookies
Cookies are usually small text files, given ID tags that are stored in your computer's browser directory or program data subfolders. Cookies are created when you use your browser to visit a website that uses cookies to keep track of your movements within the site.
We use cookies of Google Analytics to gather information about our web users’ navigation behaviors to constantly improve our website functions for better user experience. Google's privacy policy is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/
You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. You do this through your browser settings. Different browsers have different navigation systems, look at your browser's Help Menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookies. If you would like to learn more how to manage, remove or stop installing cookies to your browsers, please visit: http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/
However, if you remove all the cookies, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.
7.Third-party Disclosure
We do not sell or trade any of your personal information to third-parties.
When you subscribe on our website, we ask for your consent on the registration page whether or not you agree to share your personal information. After your subscription is activated, you can still modify them.
We may release information when its release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others' rights, property or safety.
Xeric may share your personal data with carefully considered third parties for joint or independent direct marketing purposes. The sharing of your data for such purposes may, in principle, only happen when the planned purposes of the third party are in line with Xeric’s purposes described in this privacy policy. Only the minimum necessary amount of your personal data is shared with third parties.
Xeric may share your personal data as part of any merger, acquisition, sale of company assets, or transition of service to another provider. This also applies in the unlikely event of an insolvency, bankruptcy, or receivership in which your personal data would be transferred to another entity as a result of such a proceeding.
We use third-party platforms to carry out some of our services for you and you can find their privacy policies separately on their website:
MailChimp – which sends out our marketing emails
https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/
LinkedIn – which shares our news with users on LinkedIn via our company Page
https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy
Facebook – which shares our news with users on Facebook via our Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/legal/FB_Work_Privacy
WIX – which is hosting our website and handles sign-up of new subscriptions
https://www.wix.com/about/privacy
One.com – Which is our email service
https://www.one.com/en/info/privacy-policy
We may process data about your use of our website and services ("usage data"). The usage data may include your 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. The source of the usage data is obtained and stored in Google Analytics. Data related to our marketing emails including your open and click behaviors is collected and stored in MailChimp. This usage data may be processed for the purposes of analyzing the use of our website and services and seeking ways to optimize your experience.
8.Access to your information and correction
You have the right to request a copy of the information that we hold about you. If you would like a copy of some or all of your personal information, please email info@xeric.se or write to us at our address.
We want to make sure that your personal information is accurate and up to date. You may ask us to correct or remove information you think is inaccurate.
To update your personal information, you can:
Send us an email to info@xeric.se
To stop receiving any of our marketing emails, you can click “unsubscribe” at the bottom of the email received;
To remove your personal information completely from our website and customer relations database, please send an email to info@xeric.se
9.Changes to our privacy policy
We keep our privacy policy under regular review and we will place any updates on our web page and publish a link to the front page of our website.
Our Privacy Policy link includes the word 'Privacy' and can be easily found on our website’s menu under ‘About Us’.
10.Notification to a data breach
To be in line with GDPR, should a data breach occur, we will notify you via an email and place a notification on our website within 72 hours.
11.How to contact us
If you have any questions about this privacy policy or information we hold about you, you could contact us using the information below.
Xeric AB, Birger Jarlsgatan 69
SE-113 56 Stockholm
Sweden
Phone +46 8 752 1900,
Email info@xeric.se