Imprint

The GUANGDONG SWITEK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. appreciate your visit on our website and your interest in our company and its products and services.
GUANGDONG SWITEK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.("we") is the URL https://www.switekautomation.com. You will find information web presence of the GUANGDONG SWITEK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. here. This data privacy statement applies for anywebsites operated by SWITEK or its associated companies, as long as they fall within the scope of the General Data Protection Regulation(GDPR). Web pages to which our external links lead are not included in this scope.
The protection of your personal data throughout the business process is of great concern to us;the information is therefore processed in accordance with national data protection and data security laws. With the help of this data privacy statement, we want to inform you about the type and scope of the collected personal data, as well as its purpose.
Please direct any questions regarding this data privacy statement to:

Of course, we're constantly striving to implement any required technical and organisational measures needed to guarantee the security of your data at our company, as well as protect your personal data from access by unauthorised third parties.

We process personal data such as name, address, telephone number or e-mail address, which we receive from you within the scope of our business relationship (contact form on our website, incoming e-mails, applications, sales calls, event registration, trade fair contacts, calls, orders, supply and framework agreements) and data about your company(e.g. sector, legal structure, VAT/UID number and company register data).
Moreover, additional data required for order processing and contract implementation can also be saved (order data, advertising and sales data), documentation data such as meeting minutes, image data (e.g. injection-moulded parts to be produced or handled, injection moulds products, etc.), drawings (e.g. injection moulds, hall layouts), data to comply with leagal and regulatory requirements such as billing data and information stemming from the use of our website (e.g. cookies).
We process your personal data for the following purpose and based on the following legal foundations:

The personal data you provide to us is usded exclusively to fulfil your wished or demands. Usually, this means processing an order you placed with us or providing a reply to your inquiry, or providing you with special information and offers for advertising purposes within the scope permitted by law. your personal data will not be sold. For in-house management purposes, it many be necessary for us to transfer your personal data to affiliated companies or subsidiaries of the SWITEK Company (https://www.switekautomation.com). Your personal data will not be transferred or otherwise forwarded to other external persons, unless doing so is needed to procss your order or provide a service within the scope of performance of an order (such as when contracting external processors) or if you have expressly given your consent to do so. Moreover, all receipents (e.g. the respective external processor) are bound by contract to handle your data in a confidential manner. This is done only to deliver a service to you.

Your data will be processed for the duration of the business relationship (from initiation, processing to termination of an order) as well as in accordance with the statutory retention and documentation obligations (see above).

With regard to storing and deleting data, we naturally comply with the statutory periods of limitation, which, for example, may be up to 30 years in certain cases under civil law provisions. For example, if you use our contact form to send an inquiry or voice a concern, and share your information with us, that information will be used solely to respond to your inquiries or address your concerns. The data provided by you in the contact form will be stored by us only for as long as it takes to provide a reply or fulfil your request.

Moreover, we process your data only as long as there is a legal obligation to do so or as long as there is a legitimate interest (see above), especially if we need data to enforce or defend against legal claims.

In the scope of the business relationship, you must provide the personal data required for the commencement and execution of the business relationship as well as personal data which we are legally obligated to collect(e.g. name, comany, VAT number / UID number, title, address, data of birth, telephone number, etc.) If you do not provide us with this data, we will generally not be able to conclude the contaract or will have to reject the execution of the contract, or be unable to complete an existing contract and consequently be forced to terminate it. However, you are not obligated to give your consent to the processing of data that it not relevant for the fulfilment of the contract or is not required from a legal and/or regulatory perspective(such as your agreement to receive newsletters).

You retain control of all personal information you provide to us. You have the right at any time:

1. to request information from us to whether and what personal information we have stored about you and to obtain copies of such data,
2. to request the correction, addition, or deletion of your personal information which has been processed in correctly or not in conformity with the law,
3. to demand from us that we limited the processing of your personal information,
4. in certain circumstances, to object to the processing of your personal data to revoke any consent previously given for processing,
5. to request data that you had submitted to us in a portable format ("data portability").

To assert any of the aforementioned rights, please send a relevant message to the following e-mail address: support@switek.biz.

We use cookies on our website, Cookies are small files that your browser automatically creates and that are stored on your device (laptop, tablet, smart phone, etc.) when you visit our website. Cookies do not harm your device and they do not contain viruses, Trojans or other malicious software. Each cookie stores information which resulted from the connection of the specific device used on our website.

We use cookies to design the user-friendliness of our website in a way most pleasant for you. So for example, we use so-called session cookies to recognize that you have already visited individual pages on our website. This allows us to create an appropriately dynamic display of individual pages on our website. In addition, cookies help us determine from which country you ae accessing our website, so we can display country-specific content for you. These cookies are automatically deleted after you leave our webiste (the duration of cookie granting/processing is therefore the time of your visit to the website, the "session").

The use of these:

1. strictly required cookies and
2. functional cookies on our website is possible without your consent because of our legitimate interest in providing a technically flawless website (Article 6 paragraph 1 letter f of the GDPR).

For this reason, these cookies cannot be individually deactivated or activated.

Most browsers accept cookies automatically. However, you can set your browser such that tno cookies are stored on your device or you can set a notice that always appears before a new cookie is stored there. Youc an also deactivated cookies which had already been saved in your browser settings. However, disabling or not accepting or not accepting cookies at all may prevent you from using all the features of our website and therefore you possibly may not be able to properly use the wesite. In addition, you can deactivate the receipt of cookies here http://www.youronlinechoices.eu. In this deactivation process, your computer will ask for an ID tag for the "deactivation cookie" that prevents data from being associated with your computer. Please note that this deactivation process delete the cookie ID associated with your computer, but not the cookie itself. The cookie must remain on your computer so that we can detect the deactivaton of the user. For users of ultiple computers or browsers, this means that you must disable the receipt of cookies on each computer or for each browser. Even if users change computers or delete cookies from their computer, they must repeat the deactivation process. The SWITEK Company cooperates with various providers of social networks. Within the scope of this cooperation, your brwser is automatically connected to the selected service provider (e.g. facebook) when using the respective service. In the process, your IP address, cookies and other information will for eample be transmitted to the respective service provider if you have prevously visited its website. This data transmission is inhibited by us as much as possible and only takes plece when you interact with the social network. If you are logged in to the corresponding platform of the social network, it can allocate your visit to our website to your user account.

Moreover, we use plug-ins (for example, the Facebook icon) of various platforms by clicking on the respective icon, you agree to communication with the respective platform and the transmission of information (e.g.IP address) to the respective service provider. For further information on the respective use of data, please refer to the data privacy statement of the selected service provider.

You can find Facebook's data privacy statement here:
www.facebook.com/legal/terms/customaudience and here:
www.facebook.com/legal/terms/businesstools

Log files, search engines and forms collect data when using our web pages. Furthermore, the Google Analytics Web analytics tool is used. The IP address provided by your browser within the scope of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data. You can prevent the storage of cookies by making the appropriate settings in your browser software. Furthermore, you can prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) by Google and prevent processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following link:
http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.
All other personal information such as your name, address, telephone number or e-mail address will not be recorded unless you provide this information voluntarily, e.g. in the context of an information inquiry.

The mobile applications WIBA Events, WIBA Assist,WiBa QuickLook and Wiba Connect, available for Android and iOS, don't store any personal data.