The International Power Invest AG (IPI AG) (its affiliate, associate, and subsidiary companies) is
committed to safeguarding the privacy of www.ipi.ag
users. Therefore, we ensure a responsible handling and protection of your Personal
Data.
We have created this policy to
provide you with clear and understandable information regarding our privacy
practices when you are accessing or using our website (www.ipi.ag) so that you can make informed choices
about the use of your Personal Data by IPI AG.
When accessing other services or
applications through our website, please read the specific privacy conditions
which may apply to them.
We use cookies on our website.
Insofar as those cookies are not strictly necessary for the provision of www.ipi.ag
services, we will ask you to consent to our use of cookies when you
first visit our website.
IPI AG reserves the right to update
this policy from time to time by publishing a new version online.
When this policy refers to IPI AG,
it means IPI AG as the controller of your data, namely the IPI AG subsidiary(s)
with which you had, have or will have a business relationship or that otherwise
decides which of your data is collected and how it is used). You may obtain a
list of IPI AG subsidiaries by visiting the link www.ipi.ag/en/ipi-companies_4.
1. PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT
IPI
AG collects Personal Data that
you provide to us directly when you request information about our services;
subscribe to our website services, email notifications and/or newsletters; make
an enquiry through our enquiry forms or carry out a transaction or place an
order through our website. This may include:
- Identification and contact
data such as name, surname, company, phone number, email, address
and country;
- Financial and transactional
data such as credit card details;
- Any information that you voluntarily share with us such as feedback, opinions or information provided via any of our enquiry forms.
IPI
AG also collects Personal Data
automatically when you visit our website. This may include:
- Device information such as IP
address, referring website, IPI AG pages your device visited and the time that
your device visited our website;
- Internet log information and
details, collected through our third parties such as Google Analytics, that
does not specifically identify you;
- Information collected by cookies (for further information please see the Cookie Policy).
We collect and process Personal
Data only if we have a lawful reason to do so IPI AG collects and processes
Personal Data only to the extent that either:
(i) a valid and informed consent was given; or
(ii) if it is required by IPI AG legitimate
business interests, such as entering into or performing contracts, processing
and receiving payments, carrying out contractual obligations and complying with
statutory or regulatory commitments.
3. CONSENT
Any consent given by you to the
collection and use of your Personal Data must be given freely and in response
to a clear information by IPI AG about the intended use of the data. You can withdraw
anytime such consent without undue complications. The date, content and
validity of such consent must always be documented.
IPI AG will use your Personal
Data for the following different purposes:
- To improve our website with the objective
of ensuring that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and
for your device.
- To send email and communicate with you via
email regarding our services and events which may be of interest to you if this
is in accordance with your marketing preferences.
- To analyze your use of our website for
trend monitoring and promotional purposes.
- To respond to enquiries and comments and
provide you with support via communication channels, such as customer or
contact center support.
- To keep our website safe and secure and
comply with our legal requirements and obligations.
- To perform or finalize any transaction or
order which you have placed on IPI AG companies’ websites.
- To set up and manage your user account.
- To share it with IPI AG companies so that
they may offer you their products or services.
- For any other new purpose for which we
notify you before collecting any Personal Data.
5. SHARE AND TRANSFER OF PERSONAL DATA
IPI AG shares and transfers your Personal
Data as described here and only in accordance with all privacy practices and
local privacy requirements. We may occasionally share non-personal, anonymized
and statistical data with third parties for our own business purposes.
The following are the parties with whom we
may share personal information and why:
1. To other IPI AG companies and those
companies in which IPI AG owns more than 50% of share capital where it is necessary to meet
the purpose for which you have submitted your Personal Data and in particular if necessary for the provision of services, account
administration, sales, marketing and support. We take steps to ensure that IPI
AG companies, including the ones located outside the EEA, follow our global
data privacy policy and applicable local law when handling personal data.
2. Occasionally, to third party contractors and providers
which perform certain functions on behalf of IPI AG, such as such as account creation, quality assurance testing,
technical support, email delivery and database management services, analyzing
data and processing credit card payments, direct marketing services,
and cloud hosting services. These parties only have access to such
information as necessary to perform their functions
and may not use it for any purpose other than to provide services to us.
3. Occasionally, to professional advisors, such as lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers, where necessary in the course of the professional services that they render to us.
4. For any reason if, at IPI AG's sole
discretion, IPI AG believes it is reasonable to do so, including to satisfy any
laws, regulations, or governmental or legal requests for such information; in
the event of a merger, sale, restructure, acquisition, joint venture or
assignment to disclose information that is necessary to identify, contact or
bring legal action against someone who may be violating our Business Principles
values or other terms and conditions; or to otherwise protect the IPI AG companies.
6. INTERNATIONAL TRANSFER OF PERSONAL DATA
- this is justified for business purposes;
and
- safeguards exist to ensure that Personal Data will continue to be protected at a
minimum with the same level of protection required in the jurisdiction of
origin.
7. RETENTION OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA
We will only retain your personal information for as
long as necessary to fulfil the purposes for which it was collected, including
for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting
requirements. Please keep in mind that in certain cases a
longer retention period may be required or permitted by law or to allow IPI AG
to pursue its business interests, conduct audits, comply with our legal
obligations, enforce our agreements or resolve any dispute.
To determine the appropriate retention period for
personal information, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the
personal information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or
disclosure of your personal information, the purposes for which we process your
personal information and whether we can achieve those purposes through other
means, and the applicable legal requirements.
In some circumstances, we may anonymize your personal
information (so that it can no longer be associated with you) in which case we
may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.
8. ORGANISATIONAL AND TECHNICAL SAFEGUARDS
IPI AG follows strict security procedures
in the storage and disclosure of information which you have given us in order
to prevent unauthorized access, loss or destruction of your Personal
Data. These may include:
- Physical safeguards, with locked doors,
alarms, security lighting or CCTV, controlled access to our facilities and
secure destruction of media containing your Personal Data;
- Technology safeguards, like the use of
anti-virus and endpoint protection software, and monitoring of our systems and
data centers to ensure that they comply with our security policies;
- Organizational safeguards, such like
implementing risk assessment procedures, policy training and awareness programs
on security and privacy, to make sure employees understand the importance and
means by which they must protect your Personal Data.
9. SPECIAL CATEGORIES OF PERSONAL DATA
IPI AG does not seek to collect sensitive Personal
Data (also known as special categories of data). If we do so we will always
collect the data in accordance with local data privacy requirements. If you
choose to provide us with unsolicited sensitive Personal Data, you will be
asked to consent to our processing of such data on a case-by-case basis by
using a specific express consent form.
10. CHILDREN’S PRIVACY
IPI AG does not knowingly collect or
solicit Personal
Data from anyone under the age of 16. If you are aged under 16, please speak to
your parent/guardian to get their permission before you provide any personal
information to IPI AG because without this consent, you are not allowed to
provide us with your Personal Data. If we learn that we
have collected data from a person aged under 16, we reserve the right to delete
such data with no prior notification or consent.
11. ACCESS AND CONTROL OF PERSONAL DATA
We are committed to ensure
that you can exercise your right of access and you can control your data.
IPI AG recognizes your
right to:
- Request access to the Personal
Data collected on you by IPI AG and the reason for IPI AG having such data;
- Obtain a copy of the Personal
Data held on you;
- Request the rectification, restriction or
erasure of inaccurate or incomplete Personal Data;
- Withdraw consent given to IPI
AG for the collection of your Personal Data at any time, including the right to
unsubscribe or to opt out of marketing communications and commercial
publications of IPI AG;
- Object to IPI AG legitimate
interests as the basis of our processing of your personal information that
impacts your rights.
All requests shall be
addressed via our contact [email protected] or by contacting us in writing as described
in the section “contact us”.
We may request specific
information from you to help us confirm your identity and process your request.
Applicable law may require or permit us to decline your request. If we decline
your request, we will tell you why, subject to legal restrictions. If you would
like to submit a complaint about our use of your personal information or
response to your requests regarding your personal information, you may contact
us by email-[email protected] or as described in the section “contact
us” or submit a complaint to the data protection regulator in your
jurisdiction.
12. DATA PROTECTION IMPACT ASSESSMENT
IPI AG conducts Personal Data Impact Assessments to identify risks that the processing of your Personal Data by IPI AG may cause to your privacy rights in order to eliminate or reduce such risks. Such prior Personal Data Impact Assessments will be part of any development of new services or business opportunities and acquisitions by IPI AG.
13. PRIVACY BREACH
IPI AG will inform you promptly of any privacy breach that has compromised your Personal Data and will report such incident to the relevant authorities as required by applicable laws.
14. CONTACT
If
you have questions or concerns about your privacy, please write to us:
- By email, using the email address [email protected] ;
- In writing, using the address as
described in the section “contact us” from www.ipi.ag/en/contacts.