Frauscher Sensor technology

Privacy Policy

Rev 14/07/2023

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1 Preamble and Scope

Preamble
The protection of your personal data is of particular interest for Frauscher Sensortechnik GmbH (hereinafter “we“, ”us“, “our”) and all of its affiliates (hereinafter together “Frauscher”, “Frauscher Group”). We therefore collect, store and process your personal data in accordance with applicable data protection regulations, in particular, the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), the California Online Privacy Protection Act (“CalOPPA”), the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) and California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”), the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (“CDPA”), the Colorado Privacy Act (“CPA”) and the New York Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security (“SHIELD”) Act. This Privacy Policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website frauscher.us (our “Website”) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.

Scope

This Privacy Policy applies to information we collect:

  • on this Website; and
  • in email, text, or other electronic messages between you and this Website.

 

This Privacy Policy does not apply to information collective by:

  • us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by Frauscher or any third party; or
  • any third party, including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from the Website. 


Please read this Privacy Policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy may change from time to time. Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates. 
 

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

It is our policy to post any changes we make to our Privacy Policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal data, we will notify you by email or through a notice on the Website home page. The date the Privacy Policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this Privacy Policy to check for any changes.
 

Children Under the Age of 16

Our Website is not intended for children under 16 years of age. No one under age 16 may provide any personal data to the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children under 16. If you are under 16, do not use or provide any information on this Website or through any of its features, register on the Website, make any purchases through the Website, use any of the interactive features of this Website, or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal data from a child under 16 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 16, please contact us at privacy@frauscher.com.

2 Personal data

“Personal data” means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (including but not limited to. name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, or IP address).

3 Controller

Controller (according to point 7 of Article 4 GDPR) of this website, for managing the data of our business partners as well as for applicant management is Frauscher Sensortechnik GmbH, Gewerbestrasse 1, 4774 St. Marienkirchen.

The storing entity of your personal data is in general Frauscher. We are entitled to assign external IT-service providers with the storage and processing of your personal data. In this case, we have concluded a data processing agreement with the service provider to ensure the privacy-compliant treatment of your personal data.

4 Data Collected

When visiting our website, we only collect the personal data that your browser automatically transmits to our server. We collect the data that is technically necessary for us to display our website and to ensure stability and security, especially the following:

  • IP-address
  • Date and time of the request
  • Time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
  • Content of request (specific website)
  • Access status/HTTP-status code
  • Data volume transmitted
  • Website, from which the request comes from (referrer-URL)
  • Browser
  • Operating system and its interface
  • Language and version of your browser software
  • Your internet service provider
     

The above-mentioned data is statistically evaluated with the purpose of furthering the enhancement of our Website's offerings and to make it more user-friendly, as well as to provide personalized and location-based content, to find and fix errors faster, and to control server capacity. This is also our legitimate interest according to point (f) of Article 6(1) GDPR. If there is a concrete indication of illegal use of our website, we will use these data for the purpose of prosecution.

The IP addresses of users are deleted or made anonymous after a year in general. In the case of anonymization, the IP addresses are changed in such a way that individual details about personal or factual circumstances can no longer be assigned to a specific or identifiable natural person.

 

4.1.1 Google Maps

This website uses Google Maps API on some pages to visually display geographic information. When using Google Maps, Google Inc. ("Google") also collects, processes and uses data about the use of Google Maps features by visitors to our website. For more information about Google’s data processing, please take a look at the privacy policy of Google: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.

In addition to the aforementioned log file data, this Website uses cookies stored on your device that allow this Website to recognize your browser on subsequent visits. Cookies are small text files that are assigned to the browser you use and stored on your device, and that provide certain information to the entity that sets the cookie (here us). Cookies cannot run programs or transmit malware to your device. They are used to make the internet offer more user-friendly and effective. If you do not agree with the storage of cookies on your device, you can set up your browser so that it informs you about the setting of cookies and allows you to adjust the settings individually. Additionally, you can disable the use of cookies in your browser. However, we point out that you may not be able to use all features of this website if you disable the use of cookies in your browser.

Our legitimate interest in the use of cookies according to point (f) of Article 6(1) GDPR is to make our website more user-friendly, effective and safer.

Here you can find out which cookies we use:

Cookies Explanation Duration
ga 
Analytics cookie by Google Analytics to differentiate users
2 years
gat 
Analysis cookie by Google Analytics for restricting request rates
1 day
gid 
Analytics cookie by Google Analytics to differentiate users
1 day
inlinecss-loaded 
cookie to speed up the load times of web pages by inlining CSS scripts
Session
PHPSESSID 
The PHPSESSID cookie is native to PHP and is used to establish a user session and to pass state data via a temporary cookie
Session
hjClosedSurveyInvites 
Hotjar cookie that is set once a visitor interacts with a Survey invitation modal pop-up. It is used to ensure that the same invite does not reappear if it has already been shown.
1 year 
hjDonePolls 
Hotjar cookie that is set once a visitor completes a poll using the Feedback Poll widget. It is used to ensure that the same poll does not reappear if it has already been filled in.
1 year 
hjMinimizedPolls 
Hotjar cookie that is set once a visitor minimizes a Feedback Poll widget. It is used to ensure that the widget stays minimized when the visitor navigates through your site.
1 year 
hjShownFeedbackMessage 
Hotjar cookie that is set when a visitor minimizes or completes Incoming Feedback. This is done so that the Incoming Feedback will load as minimized immediately if the visitor navigates to another page where it is set to show.
1 year 
hjid 
Hotjar cookie that is set when the customer first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the Hotjar User ID, unique to that site on the browser. This ensures that behavior in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID.
1 year 
hjRecordingLastActivity 
This should be found in Session storage (as opposed to cookies). This gets updated when a visitor recording starts and when data is sent through the WebSocket (the visitor performs an action that Hotjar records).
Session
hjTLDTest 
When the Hotjar script executes we try to determine the most generic cookie path we should use, instead of the page hostname. This is done so that cookies can be shared across subdomains (where applicable). To determine this, we try to store the _hjTLDTest cookie for different URL substring alternatives until it fails. After this check, the cookie is removed.
Session
hjUserAttributesHash 
User Attributes sent through the Hotjar Identify API are cached for the duration of the session in order to know when an attribute has changed and needs to be updated.
Session
hjCachedUserAttributes 
This cookie stores User Attributes which are sent through the Hotjar Identify API, whenever the user is not in the sample. These attributes will only be saved if the user interacts with a Hotjar Feedback tool.
Session
hjLocalStorageTest 
This cookie is used to check if the Hotjar Tracking Script can use local storage. If it can, a value of 1 is set in this cookie. The data stored in_hjLocalStorageTest has no expiration time, but it is deleted almost immediately after it is created.
<100ms
hjIncludedInSample 
This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the sample which is used to generate Funnels. This is a session cookie which is destroyed when the user leaves the site.
Session
hjFirstSeen
This is set to identify a new user’s first session. It stores a true/false value, indicating whether this was the first time Hotjar saw this user. It is used by Recording filters to identify new user sessions.
Session
hjIncludedInPageviewSample
This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the data sampling defined by the site's pageview limit.
30 minutes
hjIncludedInSessionSample
This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the data sampling defined by the site's daily session limit.
30 minutes
hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress 
This cookie is used to detect the first pageview session of a user. This is a True/False flag set by the cookie.
30 minutes

 

4.2.1 Hotjar

This Website uses Hotjar. The provider is Hotjar Ltd, Level 2, St Julians Business Centre, 3, Elia Zammit Street, St Julians STJ 3155, Malta, Europe (Website: https://www.hotjar.com).

Hotjar is a tool to analyse your user behaviour on our Website. We use Hotjar in order to better understand our users’ needs and to optimize this service and experience. Hotjar is a technology service that helps us better understand our users’ experience (e.g. how much time they spend on which pages, which links they choose to click, what users do and don’t like, etc.) and this enables us to build and maintain our service with user feedback.

Hotjar uses cookies and other technologies to collect data on our users’ behavior and their devices. This includes a device's IP address (processed during your session and stored in a de-identified form), device screen size, device type (unique device identifiers), browser information, geographic location (country only), and the preferred language used to display our Website. Hotjar stores this information on our behalf in a pseudonymized user profile. Hotjar is contractually forbidden to sell any of the data collected on our behalf.

Hotjar cookies remain on your end device until you delete them. You can set your browser to inform you when cookies are set and to allow cookies only in individual cases, to exclude the acceptance of cookies for specific cases or in general, and to activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. If you deactivate cookies, the functionality of this Website may be limited.

You may at any time object ("opt-out") to the collection, processing and recording of data generated by Hotjar by following the instructions at https://www.hotjar.com/privacy/do-not-track/. For more information about privacy, please visit https://www.hotjar.com/legal/policies/privacy/

 

4.2.2 Google Analytics

This Website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google. Google Analytics uses cookies. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this Website such as

  • browser-type/-version,
  • the operating system in use,
  • referrer-URL (the previously visited website),
  • time of the server request,
     

are usually transmitted to a Google server in the US and stored there. The IP address provided by your browser through Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google information. We have also added the code "anonymizeIP" to Google Analytics on this Website. This guarantees the masking of your IP address so that all data is collected anonymously. Only in exceptional cases the full IP address will be sent to a Google server in the US and be shortened there.

On our behalf, Google will use the information to evaluate your use of this Website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide other services related to website and internet usage to the Website operator. You can prevent the storage of cookies by changing your browser settings accordingly.

You can also prevent the transmission of data generated by the cookie (incl. your IP address) to Google and the processing of these data by Google, by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de. An opt-out cookie will be set which prevents the future collection of your personal data when you visit this Website. The opt-out cookie is only valid in this browser and only for our Website and is stored on your device. If you delete the cookies in this browser, you must set the opt-out cookie again.

We also reserve the right to use Google Analytics to analyze data from Double-Click and AdWords for statistical purposes. If you do not want this to happen, you can disable it through the Ads Preferences Manager (http://www.google.com/settings/ads/onweb/?hl=en).

For more information about Google Analytics’ privacy, see the Google Analytics Help Center (https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en).

Third-party information: Google Dublin, Google Ireland Ltd., Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, Fax: +353 (1) 436 1001. Terms of use: https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html as well as the privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.

 

4.2.3 Social Media

Our Website uses social media plugins (e.g., Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, XING, Youtube).

The plugins can usually be identified by the respective social media logos. To ensure data privacy on our Website, we only use these plugins together with the so-called "Shariff" solution. This application prevents these plugins from transferring data to the respective provider when visiting our Website.

When visiting our Website, these buttons are disabled by default. Only when you activate the respective plugin by clicking the corresponding button, a direct connection to the server of the provider is established. Once you activate the plugin, the respective provider receives the information that you have visited our Website together with your IP address. After activating the plugin, the respective provider is able to collect data, regardless of whether you interact with the button. If you are simultaneously logged into your respective social media account, the respective provider may assign the visit to our Website to your user account. The button will remain active until you disable it or delete your cookies.

If you are a member of a social media network and do not want to associate the information collected during visiting our Website with your stored membership information, you must log out of the social media network before activating the buttons. We have no influence on the extent of the data collected by the respective provider when activating the respective plugin. For further information on the purpose and scope of data collection, data processing and use of the data by the respective provider, as well as your rights in this regard and setting possibilities for the protection of your personal data, please take a look at the privacy policy of the respective provider.

 

4.2.3.1 Twitter

Our Website uses features of the service Twitter. These features are made available through Twitter Inc., 1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA. By using Twitter and the "Retweet" function, the websites you visit are linked to your Twitter account and shared with other users. This data is also transmitted to Twitter. We point out that we are not aware of the extent of the transmitted data and their use by Twitter. For more information, see the privacy policy of Twitter at https://twitter.com/privacy.

You can change your Twitter privacy settings in the account settings at https://twitter.com/account/settings.

 

4.2.3.2 LinkedIn

Our Website uses features of the LinkedIn network. The provider is the LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, CA 94043. Each time you visit a top-level or subpage of our Website that has LinkedIn features included, it will connect to LinkedIn servers. LinkedIn is informed that you have visited our Website together with your IP address. If you click LinkedIn's "Recommend Button" while logged in to LinkedIn, LinkedIn will be able to associate your visit to our Website with your LinkedIn user account. We point out that we are not aware of the extent of the transmitted data and their use by LinkedIn.

For more information, see the LinkedIn privacy statement at https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy.

 

4.2.3.3 Facebook

Our Website uses plugins of the social network Facebook, provided by Facebook Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA. You can recognize the Facebook plug-ins by the Facebook logo or the "Like-Button" ("Like") on our Website. An overview of the Facebook plugins can be found here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/.

When visiting our Website, the plugin establishes a direct connection between your browser and the Facebook server. Facebook receives the information that you have visited our Website with your IP address. If you click on the Facebook "Like" button while logged in to your Facebook account, you can link the contents of our Website to your Facebook profile. This allows Facebook to associate the visit of our Website with your user account. We point out that we are not aware of the content of the transmitted data and their use by Facebook. If you do not want Facebook to associate your visit to our website with your Facebook user account, please log out of your Facebook user account.

For more information, see the Facebook Privacy Policy at https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation.

 

4.2.3.4 XING

Our Website uses plugins of the network XING. The provider is the XING AG, Dammtorstraße 29-32, 20354 Hamburg, Germany. Each time you visit websites that contain XING plugins, it will connect to XING servers. As far as is reasonably known to us, XING does not store your personal data nor do they store your IP address or evaluate your usage behavior

Further information on data protection and the XING Share button can be found in XING's privacy policy at https://www.xing.com/app/share?op=data_protection.

 

4.2.3.5 Youtube

Our Website uses plugins from Google's website YouTube. The operator is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. If you visit websites equipped with a YouTube plugin, you will be connected to the servers of YouTube. Youtube receives the information that you have visited our Website. If you're logged into your YouTube account, YouTube will allow you to associate your surfing behavior directly with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.

For more information, see the YouTube Privacy Policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.

 

4.2.4 Walls.io

Our website is embedding social media plugins or widgets which are provided by Walls.io. When loading these widgets, your IP-address and cookie information is transferred to Walls.io. Walls.io is operated by Walls.io GmbH, based in Vienna, Austria.

 

4.2.5 Jentis

This website uses JENTIS®. The provider is JENTIS GmbH (Schönbrunner Straße 231, 1120 Vienna).

JENTIS ® is a tool that serves to analyse your user behaviour on our website. We use JENTIS® to better understand the needs of our users and to optimise the offer and experience on this website. This service provider, therefore, has access to web analytics data that is measured, stored and processed by the analytics tools in use and by JENTIS®.

Data is transmitted to JENTIS GmbH for the purpose of analysis, and JENTIS® also collects data on our behalf relating to the browser environment or the behaviour of the visitor. JENTIS GmbH only processes data that cannot be traced back to a person by JENTIS GmbH. IDs set by JENTIS® are merely random products and are used for anonymous recognition. Your IP address is shortened before storage in such a way that the reference to a person no longer exists.

For the electronic dispatch of information on products and services, news, information about the company, invitations to trade fairs or events by e-mail, the customer magazine or the white paper (hereinafter “information on products and services”), we ask interested parties for their express consent to this Privacy Policy, pursuant to the GDPR, CalOPPA, CCPA, CPRA, CDPA and CPA. .

We use the so-called double opt-in process. This means that after registering, we will send you an e-mail to the e-mail address provided at the time of registration, asking you to confirm that you wish to receive information on products and services by e-mail. If you do not confirm your registration within 72 hours, your information will be locked and automatically deleted after one month. We store your given personal data, the time of registration and of confirmation. The purpose of the process is to prove your registration and, if necessary, to clarify a possible misuse of your personal data.

After your confirmation, we will store your e-mail address for the purpose of providing you with information on products and services. The legal basis for sending the newsletter is your consent in accordance with point (a) of Article 6(1) GDPR. The legal basis for logging the application is our legitimate interest in accordance with point (f) of Article 6(1) GDPR to prove that the dispatch was made with your consent.

You can withdraw or object your consent to the dispatch of information on products and services at any time. You can withdraw or object your consent by clicking on the link provided in each e-mail or by sending a message to the contact details stated in the imprint.

There are various contact forms available on our Website which can be used to get into contact electronically, for downloading documents, such as the white paper, or to order documents by e-mail, such as the customer magazine. If a user uses a contact form, the data given in the user interface is transmitted to us and stored electronically. The transmission of this data is done in an encrypted form. The respective data can be seen directly in the user interface.

Prior to the processing of data, your consent is always obtained and reference is made to this Privacy Policy. Alternatively, you can contact us through the contact form or the e-mail addresses provided on our Website. In this case the user's personal data transmitted by e-mail will be stored. The data is used exclusively for processing the request.

The processing of the personal data from the user interface serves us only to process your contact request. In the case of contact via e-mail, this also includes our required legitimate interest in the processing of the data. The other personal data processed during the sending process serve to prevent misuse of the contact form and to ensure the security of our information technology systems.

If the data processing takes place to carry out pre-contractual measures, which occurs upon your request, or if you are already our customer, the data processing takes place for the execution of the contract, the legal basis for this data processing is point (b) of Article 6(1) GDPR. We process further personal data only if you consent to it (point (a) of Article 6(1) GDPR) or if we have a legitimate interest in the processing of your data (point (f) of Article 6(1) GDPR). Replying to your e-mail is such a legitimate interest.

In cooperation with business partners (such as customers and suppliers) we process your personal data for the following purposes:
 

  • Communicating with business partners about products, services, and projects, for example to process inquiries from the business partner;
  • Initiation, execution, and administration of ((pre-) contractual) business relationships as well as maintenance of business relations between Frauscher and its business partner, for example to handle the ordering of products and services, to collect payments, for bookkeeping, billing and collection, and to carry out deliveries, maintenance or repairs;
  • Carrying out customer surveys, marketing campaigns, market analyses, lotteries, competitions or similar actions and events;
  • To maintain and protect the safety and reliability of our products and services and our Website, to prevent and detect safety risks, fraudulent activity or other criminal or intentional acts;
  • Comply with legal requirements (such as tax and commercial retention requirements) and group internal policies; and
  • Settlement of litigation, enforcement of existing contracts and assertion, exercise and defense of legal claims.

 

For the above purposes, we may process the following categories of personal information:

  • Professional contact information, such as name, professional contact address, professional telephone number or e-mail address;
  • Payment information, such as information required to process payment transactions or fraud prevention, including credit card information and card verification numbers;
  • Information collected from publicly available sources, information databases or credit bureaus; and
  • Other personal data whose processing is necessary for the initiation, processing, and management of ((pre-) contractual) business relationships and the maintenance of business relationships or which are voluntarily provided by you, such as orders placed, order details, requests made or project details, correspondence or other cooperation data;
     

The processing of personal data is necessary to achieve the above-mentioned purposes, including the performance of a contractual relationship or a pre-contractual activity with the business partner. The legal basis for the processing of this data is point (b) of Article 6(1) GDPR, because this data is needed so that we can fulfill our (pre-) contractual obligations to you.

If the personal data are not provided or not available to the required extent or if we cannot collect these, the individual described purposes may not be fulfilled or the request(s) may not be processed. Please note that this would not be considered a contractual default on our part.

The hosting services we use are for the purpose of providing the following services: infrastructure and platform services, computing capacity, storage and database services, security and technical maintenance services we use to operate this Website.

In doing so, we or our hosting service provider processes inventory data, contact data, content data, contract data, usage data, metadata and communication data of customers, prospects and visitors to this Website based on our legitimate interests in the efficient and secure provision of our Website according to point (f) of Article 6(1) GDPR and Article 28 GDPR.

We publish vacancies on our Website. In order to process your application, we collect, process and use all data provided by you in the course of the application to the extent permitted by law, even if this involves data within the meaning of Article 9 GDPR (such as religious affiliation). When providing such information in your application, you give your express consent according to Article 9 GDPR.

If you apply online, your application data will be encrypted. If you submit your application by e-mail, this e-mail will be forwarded directly to the Human Resources Department unless it is addressed to the Human Resources Department anyway. Appropriate technical and organizational measures ensure that your personal data is treated confidentially within the legal provisions. Please note that the transmission of the data by e-mail is unencrypted and the data could possibly be taken note of by unauthorized persons and / or also be falsified. You are welcome to send us your documents by post, whereby it must also be noted that your data could possibly be taken note of by unauthorized persons and / or also be falsified.

As far as you apply for a specific job offer or apply spontaneously, we process this data for the duration of the application or selection process in our applicant's database. Seven months after completing the application or selection process, your personal data will be deleted, provided that they are not transferred to our database for potential employees and / or provided deletion does not conflict with any other legitimate interests of Frauscher. After two years at the latest, calculated from the completion of the application or selection process, all data collected about you will be deleted. During this time, we have the opportunity to find a suitable position for you.

If you have applied for a specific position and it should already be occupied, or if we also consider you to be better qualified in a different position, we will forward your application within the Frauscher Group accordingly. Please inform us if you disagree with this procedure.

You agree that your personal data will be transferred to the appointed processor CORE smart work GmbH, Fillstraße 1, 4942 Gurten, Austria, for the purpose of the electronic administration of your application. Furthermore, you agree that your personal data may in individual cases and, if required by the application, be transmitted to all companies in the Frauscher Group for the purpose of processing your application. Apart from that, your personal data will only be used within the Frauscher Group and will not be shared with third parties. The data are accessible to Human Resources personnel and submitted to chosen executives.

If Frauscher concludes a contract of employment with an applicant, the transferred data will be stored and processed as employee data in accordance with statutory provisions for the purpose of executing the employment relationship.

1.1.1 The whistleblower system is designed to guarantee the highest possible level of data protection for whistleblowers. The whistleblower system can be used anonymously without providing personal data. This means that, when submitting a report, the anonymity of the whistleblower can be fully preserved.

1.1.2 To ensure the security of the data provided by the whistleblower, data transmission takes place exclusively using SSL encryption. We do not use any tracking tools or third-party cookies on the website.

1.1.3 The whistleblower system uses special encryption methods to ensure that only the respective whistleblower and our responsible Compliance Officers have access to the report provided. This means that the data contained in the report is only disclosed to the respective Compliance Officer within our Company; it is not disclosed to third parties in any other way (except for possible disclosure to competent authorities or courts, and/or to auditors for the further pursuit of the facts on which the report is based). In particular, our processors cannot access data within the report.

1.1.4 Depending on the information you provide to us, we process the following personal data:

  • Identification data of the whistleblower and the accused person (e.g. name, personnel number)
  • (Private) contact information of the whistleblower (e.g. address, e-mail address, telephone number)
  • Function in the Company
  • Information about the facts of the case
  • Communication with the Compliance Officer
  • Information about follow-up measures (e.g. investigations)
  • Secondary technical data (IP address for access to the whistleblowing system)

Legal basis: Article 6 paragraph 1 letter c DSGVO - Fulfilment of a legal obligation, namely the provision of an internal whistleblowing system according to Article 8 in conjunction with Article 11 of the Austrian Whistleblower Protection Act ("HSchG"). 

You can also submit reports via our whistleblower system without revealing your identity. In this case, you remain anonymous.

1.2 Cookies

1.2.1 This website also uses cookies. These are small text files that can be placed on your device while visiting our website, which store certain information about you.

1.2.2 On this website, we only use the cookies that are technically necessary to ensure the proper functionality of the website and the whistleblower system. We may use technically necessary cookies without your consent. However, you can deactivate these cookies at any time via your browser settings.

Legal basis: Article 6 paragraph 1 letter f DSGVO - legitimate interest in the proper provision of the website and the whistleblower system.

The following technically necessary cookies are set on the website:

Cookie name

Purpose

Storage period

PHPSESSID

This cookie is necessary to manage your active session.

 Session

 

2. Recipients fo your personal data

2.1  For the above purposes, we may disclose your personal data to the following recipients:

  • For the technical hosting of the whistleblower system: RBS Responsible Business Solutions GmbH based in Vienna (no content data of the report is transmitted, only secondary technical data) as well as the technical sub-contractors A1 Telekom Austria AG and Wolf Rechtsanwälte GmbH & Co KG.
  • Where disclosure is required (i) by law or regulation or (ii) for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims, we may also disclose personal data to competent authorities, such as supervisory, regulatory or criminal authorities, courts or other third parties advising us in this regard (e.g. lawyers, forensic experts or auditors).

2.2 Your data will only be processed within the EEA. Therefore, it will not be transferred to a third country.

3. Storage period of your data

3.1 Log files (see point 3.3 above) are generally retained for a period of three (3) months. Beyond this period, log files are only stored to investigate irregularities or security incidents in our systems. For the storage period of cookies, see point 3.5 above.

3.2 In general, we will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purpose for which it was collected. Once a report has been verified, personal data contained therein will be deleted after the end of the legal retention period, unless investigations lead to disciplinary, legal or regulatory action.

3.3 Secondary technical data (IP address of the access to the whistleblower system) are processed exclusively inside the firewall of the processor and deleted after 24 hours.

5 Transmission and disclosure of data and data transfer

Use of Your Information

In general, we only use your personal data within the Frauscher Group. The companies belonging to the Frauscher Group can be found on our website: https://www.frauscher.com/en/markets/locations-partners.

  • We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal data:
  • To present our Website and its contents to you.
  • To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.
  • To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
  • To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.
  • To notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide though it.
  • In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
  • For any other purpose with your consent.

 

We may also use your information to contact you about our goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you do not want us to use your information in this way, please email: privacy@frauscher.com.

 

Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.

We may disclose personal data that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:

  • To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
  • To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Frauscher’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal data held by Frauscher about our Website users is among the assets transferred.
  • For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.

 

We may also disclose your personal data:

  • To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
  • To enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
  • If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Frauscher, our customers, or others.

 

Your data will not be sold to any third parties.

 

If and as far as we engage third parties for the execution of contracts (e.g., contractors, logistics service providers and other third parties we use to support our business), personal data will only be provided to that extent which is absolutely necessary for the corresponding service. We will require by way of contract that any such third-parties exercise the same level of privacy protection to any personal data that we share with them as set forth in this Privacy Policy, pursuant to the CPRA.

In the event that we outsource certain parts of the data processing ("processing on behalf of a controller (processor)", Article 28 GDPR), we contractually obligate the processor to use personal data only in accordance with data protection laws and ensuring the protection of the data subject's rights.

It is possible that recipients are located in countries outside the European Union and the United States of America ("Third Countries"), where the applicable law does not guarantee the same level of data protection as in your home country. In that case, a transmission will only take place if the Third Country has an adequacy decision of the European Commission, or appropriate guarantees have been agreed with the processor (e.g. EU standard contractual clauses have been concluded), the processor participates in an approved certification system (e.g. EU-US Privacy Shield), or binding internal data protection regulations according to Article 47 GDPR or an exemption according to Article 49 GDPR exists.

Any transfer of your personal data to third parties beyond the extent already described will only take place if this is necessary for the processing of your request, for the fulfillment of the contract or, more generally, for fulfilling our obligations or due to mandatory legal/regulatory requirements. For other purposes, your personal data will not be disclosed to third parties.

 

Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal data you provide to us. With regard to Tracking Technologies (e.g. cookies). If you are a visitor to our Website, you will be prompted to choose whether to accept or change the cookie settings. Alternatively, you can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent.  If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.

6 Legal Basis and Storage Periods

Data processing takes place on the legal basis of point (a) of Article 6(1) GDPR (consent) and / or point (b) (contract initiation / performance) and / or point (f) (legitimate interest).

The processed personal data are used for statistical evaluations as well as for the purpose of operation, safety, and optimization of this website (legitimate interest). Any further use of your personal data (e.g., shipping of product and service information) will only take place with your consent.

As far as no explicit storage period is specified when collecting your personal data (e.g. in the context of a declaration of consent), your personal data will only be retained to the extent necessary and proportionate to the reason it was collected, pursuant to the aforementioned provisions of the GDPR, CalOPPA, CCPA, CPRA, CDPA and CPA, and will be deleted (or anonymized), to the extent they are no longer required and provided that deletion or anonymization does not contradict any statutory storage requirements(e.g. trade and/or tax-related retention obligations), warranty obligation and/or security-related obligation.

7 How we protect your data

All personal data collected by us will be protected by appropriate technical and organizational measures, taking into account the state of the art, implementation costs and the nature, scope, circumstances and purposes of the processing and the likelihood and severity of the risk to individuals' rights and freedoms within the meaning of Article 32 GDPR against accidental or intentional manipulation, loss, destruction or against access by unauthorized persons or misuse. For example, your personal data is stored in a secure operating environment, not open to the public. As a principle your personal data is encrypted during transmission by Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology. This means that an approved encryption method is used for the communication between your terminal and the Frauscher servers or, if required, to the assigned processor, provided that your browser supports SSL.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal data transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of personal data is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website. Please note that we do not assume any liability for the disclosure of information due to errors in data transmission not caused by us or not attributable to us and / or due to unauthorized access by third parties.

All our employees and all third parties involved in the processing of data are obliged to comply with the applicable data protection rules and corresponding laws and the confidential handling of personal data.

8 Your Rights

In general, you have the right to information, access, correction, deletion, restriction, data portability and objection regarding your stored personal data pursuant to the GDPR, CalOPPA, CCPA, CPRA, CDPA and CPA. If the processing of your data takes place on the basis of your consent, you have the right to revoke the consent at any time, though without affecting the legality of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent until the revocation. If you believe that the processing of your personal data violates data protection laws or otherwise your data protection rights have been violated in any way, we ask you to contact us by using the contact details below. If clarification is not possible, you can file a complaint to the supervisory authority. In Austria the data protection authority (“Datenschutzbehörde”) is responsible.

To ensure an efficient response to such concerns, we may always request proof of your identity, such as by submitting an electronic ID card copy.

Accessing and Correcting Your Information

You may also send us an email at privacy@frauscher.com to request access to, correct or delete any personal data that you have provided to us. We cannot delete your personal data except by also deleting your user account. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.

9 Contact

For any questions regarding the processing of your data by Frauscher or any inquiries or information on this Privacy Policy, in particular for exercising your rights, you can contact us any time by e-mail or by letter:

Frauscher Sensortechnik GmbH
Gewerbestraße 1
4774 St. Marienkirchen
privacy@frauscher.com

10 References

Our Website contains links to other websites. Those references to websites of other internet users are provided as a service on whose content we have no influence. We assume no liability for this content. The content and accuracy of the information provided here is the sole responsibility of the respective provider of the linked website.

The privacy policies set forth in this Privacy Policy do not apply to those websites.

Please keep in mind that data transmission on the internet can generally be subject to security gaps. Full protection against access by third parties is not feasible.

We reserve the right to change our security and privacy practices to the extent required by technical developments and to adapt the terms of this Privacy Policy accordingly. Please, therefore, take note of the current version of our Privacy Policy.