PRIVACY POLICY

Privacy Policy of NKK Switches Co., Ltd.

valid from 25. May 2018

This Privacy Statement describes the ways in which we, NKK SWITCHES Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “NKK SWITCHES”), collect, hold and use information about individual persons who visit this website.

BY USING THIS WEBSITE, YOU CONSENT TO THE COLLECTION AND USE OF INFORMATION AS SET FORTH IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY. YOU ALSO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT NKK SWITCHES MAY PERIODICALLY CHANGE, MODIFY, ADD OR REMOVE OR OTHERWISE UPDATE THIS PRIVACY POLICY AT ITS DISCRETION, WITHOUT PRIOR NOTIFICATION.

Responsible for this website acc. Art. 4 Par. 7 EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is NKK SWITCHES Co, Ltd., representative office: Mergenthalerallee 10-12, 65760 Eschborn, Germany, contact@nkkswitches.eu (see the imprint).

If you have any questions or comments about this Data Privacy Policy (e.g. to review and update your personal data), open our contact form or send us an E-mail to: privacy@nkkswitches.eu.

Information about the collection of personal data

The term "Personal Data" as used in this Privacy Policy refers to information such as your name, mailing address, E-mail address, or consumer behavior that can be used to identify you.

When you contact us by E-mail or via our contact form, we will save the information you have provided in order to answer your questions. Upon your request we delete the data, after which the storage is no longer required, or limit processing if legal storage requirements exist.

In case we rely on contracted service providers for individual functions of our offer or if you accepted that we use your data for advertising purposes, we will inform you in detail below about the respective transactions. In doing so, we also name the specified criteria for the storage duration.

Your rights

You have the following rights with respect to the personal data concerning you:

- Right to information,
- Right to rectification or deletion,
- Right to restriction of processing,
- Right to object to the processing,
- Right to data portability.

You also have the right to complain to a data protection supervisory authority about the processing of your personal data through us.

Any information, requests for information or objections regarding data processing should be directed by E-mail to: privacy@nkkswitches.eu.

Collection of personal data on visiting our website

We collect personal data only when you choose to provide them to us by registering, completing forms, sending E-mails, ordering prod-ucts or services, making inquiries, or sending requests for materials. For this purpose, our website offers you the opportunity to register. The data to be submitted when registering are visible in the entry area of the registration form. They include your name, title, name and type of your organization, postal address, E-mail address, telephone.

We use data provided by users of our website only to respond to their queries or information requests, provide desired products or services, inform them by mail about NKK SWITCHES products and services, process contracts, improve our website according to usage patterns, and for technical administration or other purposes to which they have agreed.

We will not disclose your personal data to third parties for advertising or marketing purposes or for any other purposes without permission.

If data are transmitted lawfully and to the extent necessary to selected service providers who help us run our website and/or process your orders and inquiries and/or who support us in maintaining our commercial relationship with you in any other way, these providers are required to exclusively use the received information for the respective services on behalf of and as instructed by NKK SWITCHES and in accordance with legal requirements.

In the case of the merely informational use of the website, i.e. if you do not register or otherwise provide us with information, we will only collect the personal data that your browser transmits to our server. If you wish to view our website, we collect the following information that is technically necessary for us to display our website and to provide stability and security (the legal basis is Art. 6 Par. 1 Sentence 1 lit. f GDPR):

- IP-address,
- Date and time of the request,
- Time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT),
- Content of the request (concrete page),
- Access status / HTTP-status code,
- Each transmitted amount of data,
- Website, the request comes from,
- Browser,
- Operating system and its interface,
- Language and version of the browser software.

If you are registered on our website with an E-mail address and have explicitly agreed to receive our newsletter, these E-mail newsletters will inform you about our products and services that we believe might interest you. You may revoke at any time your consent. You may do so either by logging into your account and unsubscribe or by sending a message to: contact@nkkswitches.eu with the reference “unsubscribe from newsletter”.

Cookies

In addition to the aforementioned data, cookies are stored on your computer when you use our website. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your hard disk and assigned to the browser you are using, and that provide certain information to the body that sets the cookie (here, through us). Cookies cannot run programs or transmit viruses to your computer. They serve to make the Internet more userfriendly and more effective.

This website uses the following types of cookies, the scope and operation of which are explained below:

- Persistent cookies.

Persistent cookies are automatically deleted after a specific period of time, which can vary depending on the cookie. You can delete the cookies in the security settings of your browser at any time.

You can configure your browser setting according to your wishes and e.g. decline the acceptance of thirdparty cookies or all cookies. Please be aware that in that case you may not be able to use all features of this website.

We use cookies to identify you for followup visits if you have an ac-count with us. Otherwise, you would have to log in again for each visit.

Data security

We maintain current technical measures to ensure data security, in particular to protect your personal data against data transfer risks and thirdparty knowledge. These are adapted according to the current state of technology. We would nevertheless like to point out that a complete data security on the internet, in particular when sending sensitive data by E-mail , cannot be guaranteed.

Links to other websites

This website contains links to other websites. NKK SWITCHES is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of other websites.

If you are logged in to your social networks account (e.g. Facebook) while visiting our website, the provider of the social network may collect and hold data on your visit to our website. If you do not wish such allocation, we advise to log out from your social networks account before visiting our website.

Please inform yourself about the provider’s policy regarding the collec-tion and use of your personal data.