This Privacy Notice shall serve as information how Sika processes your personal data when using Sika Digital Applications.
Sika is committed to ensuring the security and protection of your personal information and adheres to applicable data privacy regulations. Please be aware that depending on your country of origin, different privacy requirements may be applicable to you. For more information about your local data privacy requirements, please consult your local Sika legal entity via the following link Sika Data Privacy Portal.
Purpose of Sika AnchorFix® Web Application
The Sika AnchorFix® calculation software web application is a calculation tool to assist structural engineers, planners and specifiers to make the necessary calculations and select the anchors re-quired for the applications as follows:
• Anchor design with threaded rods and reinforcing bar;
• Post installed reinforcing bar connection design.
The Software will calculate anchor solutions according to the National (in the US and Canada) guide-lines and European guidelines in Europe.
Data Capture
According to the implemented scope, the following personal data of users will be stored and pro-cessed on Sika AnchorFix® Web Application platform:
- First name, last name, email address, language, city and country
We use your data for authentication as well as for user profile to retrieve user project and activities on the application.
We may further use your personal data to provide you with content and services related to the use and functionalities of our app, including webinars, events, and other relevant features. This helps us ensure you have access to the latest information, updates, and opportunities that enhance your experience with our app.
Data Access
Access to the system is granted based on the need-to-know principle. This means that only author-ized Sika employees and/or third-party service providers, who require access to the data to per-form their job functions and have a legitimate and necessary purpose are allowed such access.
Authorized Sika employees and/or third-party service providers may have access to your personal data to perform tasks essential to providing, maintaining, and supporting the services provided by the respective application. These tasks may include but are not limited to: resolving users` inquires and carrying out service-related activities, providing technical and operational support for users, maintaining and optimizing the functionalities of the application, fulfilling contractual or legal obliga-tions.
We do not disclose your personal data to third parties unless you have explicitly consented to such disclosure or we are legally obliged or entitled to disclose data due to local legal requirements and/or official governmental court orders or we have legitimate interest to do so, such in case of maintenance and support. In those cases, technical security measures are in place to ensure that the data is transferred in a secure manner (e.g. encryption).
All our third-party service providers are also required to take appropriate security measures to pro-tect your personal data. We will only permit them to process your personal data for specified pur-poses and in accordance with our instructions.
Your personal data is stored in the data centers located in the EU.
Legal basis
The legal basis for processing your personal data is your consent, which you can retrieve anytime by contacting us via below provided channels.
Retention period
In case you stop using the App and become inactive for two years, you will receive a notification asking you to log-in in the App. If you do not log-in in the App within 30 days as of receipt of this notification, your data will be deleted.
You can be an active user of the App and still request deletion of your personal data or exercise your other rights under the link provided below.
Responsible
To know more about how Sika Group is handling personal data and how to exercise your data priva-cy rights, please revert to our Sika Data Privacy Portal. If you have any question, please contact your Sika local point of contact or send an email to privacy@ch.sika.com.
YOUR RIGHTS:
Please be aware that the privacy rights listed below are in line with the EU-GDPR and might apply in countries outside of the EU as well. However, these rights are not absolute in all coun-tries where Sika operates. To exercise your rights, please note that your eligibility may depend on your country of origin, some or all of these rights may not apply to you, or you may be enti-tled to different rights. For more information about your local data privacy requirements or to exercise your rights, please consult your local Sika legal entity via the following link: Sika Data Privacy Portal.
(a) Right of access:
You may have the right to obtain from us confirmation as to whether or not personal data concern-ing you is processed, and, where that is the case, to request access to your personal data. This ac-cess information includes – inter alia – provision of the information about the purposes of the pro-cessing, the categories of personal data concerned, and the recipients or categories of recipients to whom the personal data have been or will be disclosed.
However, this is not an absolute right, and the interests of other individuals may restrict your right of access.
You may have the right to obtain a copy of the personal data undergoing processing.
Your requests are generally free of charge. We may charge a reasonable fee based on administra-tive costs in case your request is manifestly unfounded or excessive, in particular because of its repetitive character.
(b) Right to rectification:
You may have the right to obtain from us the rectification of inaccurate personal data concerning you. Depending on the purposes of the processing, you may have the right to have incomplete personal data completed, including by means of providing a supplementary statement.
(c) Right to erasure ("right to be forgotten"):
Under certain circumstances, you may have the right to obtain from us the erasure of personal data concerning you and we may be obliged to erase such personal data.
(d) Right to restriction of processing:
Under certain circumstances, you may have the right to obtain from us restriction of processing your personal data. In this case, the respective data will be marked and may only be processed by us for certain purposes.
(e) Right to data portability:
Under certain circumstances, you may have the right to receive the personal data concerning you, which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and you may have the right to transmit those data to another entity without hindrance from us.
(f) Right to object:
Under certain circumstances, you may have the right to object, on grounds relating to your particu-lar situation, to the processing of your personal data by us and we can be required to no longer process your personal data.
Moreover, if your personal data is processed for direct marketing purposes, you have the right to object at any time to the processing of personal data concerning you for such marketing, which includes profiling to the extent that it is related to such direct marketing. In this case your personal data will no longer be processed for such purposes by us.
We may be required to update or change our Privacy Notice from time to time. If this is the case and there are any significant changes in the way we process your personal data, we will notify you accordingly.