General remarks
SVT APAC Pte. Ltd. takes the privacy of your information seriously. This Privacy Policy applies to the svt-apac.com website (the “Website”) and governs data collection, processing and usage in compliance with the Personal Data Protection Act 2012 (No. 26 of 2012) of Singapore (“PDPA”). By using the Website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
The following remarks give a simple overview on what happens to your personal data if you visit this website. Personal data are any data with which you can be personally identified. You can infer detailed information on the topic of data protection from our Privacy Policy below.
SVT APAC Pte. Ltd. is a corporation registered in the Republic of Singapore with company number 202136560N and a registered office at Singapore.
Our data protection officer can be contacted at dpo[at]svt-apac.com .
How do we record your data?
Your data are, firstly, collected by you informing us of it. This may, for example, concern data that you enter on a contact form.
Other data may be automatically recorded or recorded after your consent by our IT systems or the IT systems we use. These are mainly technical data (for instance Internet browser, operating system or time when the page was accessed). Such data are recorded automatically as soon as you enter this website.
Recording of data on this website
Cookies
Our websites use cookies. A cookie is a small piece of information that is placed on your computer when you visit certain websites. The cookies placed by the servers hosting our websites are readable only by us, and cookies cannot access, read or modify any other data on an electric device, nor does it capture any data which allows us to identify you individually. All web-browsers offer the option to refuse any cookie, and if you refuse our cookie then we do not gather any information on that visitor.
Should you wish to disable the cookies associated with these browsers, you may do so by changing the setting on your browser. However, you may not be able to enter certain part(s) of our websites.
Insofar as cookies are used by third-party companies or for analysis purposes, you will be separately notified about this within the framework of this Privacy Policy and, if necessary, queried about consent.
Our website uses the cookie consent technology from Borlabs Cookie to obtain your consent for storing cookies in your browser and documenting this in accordance with data protection legislation. The provider of this technology is Borlabs – Benjamin A. Bornschein, Georg-Wilhelm-Str. 17, 21107 Hamburg (hereinafter Borlabs). If you access our website, a Borlabs cookie is stored in your browser. This cookie records your granted consents or withdrawal of these consents are stored. These data are not passed on to the provider of the Borlabs cookie.
The collected data are stored until you request us to erase them, you erase the Borlabs cookie yourself, or the purpose for storing the data lapses. This does not affect mandatory statutory retention periods. You can find details on data processing of the Borlabs cookie at https://de.borlabs.io/kb/welche-daten-speichert-borlabs-cookie/
Description and scope of data processing
Contact form and email contact
On our website we offer our users the possibility of registering by providing personal information, in order to receive additional information, such as product brochures, SVT representations, etc. These data are entered in an online form and transferred to us and stored. The data are not passed on to third parties outside of SVT Group. The following data are collected during the registration process:
– Name
– Telephone no.
– Email address
– Company
This data is processed insofar as your request relates to the performance of a contract or is necessary for the implementation of pre-contractual measures. In all other cases, the processing is based on our legitimate interests in the effective handling of the requests addressed to us or your consent.
The data you entered in the registration form will remain with us until you request us to delete it, revoke your consent to store it, or the reason for storing the data no longer applies (e.g. when the processing of your request is completed). Mandatory legal provisions – in particular retention periods – remain unaffected.
If you contact us by email, telephone or telefax, we will store and process your inquiry, including all personal data involved with this (name, inquiry) for the purposes of processing your request. We shall not pass on these data without your consent.
SSL or TLS encryption
For security reasons, and in order to protect the transmission of confidential contents such as inquiries that you transmit to us in our capacity as website operator, this site uses SSL or TLS encryption. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the fact that your browser’s address bar changes from “http://” to “https://” and by the lock symbol shown in your browser’s browser line.
If the SSL or TLS encryption is enabled, the data that you transmit to us cannot be read by any third parties.
Disclosure of Personal Information
SVT APAC Pte. Ltd. does not sell, rent, lease, or release your Personal Information to third parties outside of SVT Group. We will disclose or share your Personal Information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that any such action is necessary to
Your personal data will also be processed in EU (Germany). Inquiry and customer data is transferred in connection with the performance of a contract, the response to an inquiry or phone call to our main office SVT GmbH, Schwelm, Germany.
This means, that customer data is processed to a location outside your country and outside Asia, in the EU and also transferred there.
How long do we keep hold of your information?
We retain your information for as long as it is necessary to fulfil the purpose for which it was collected, for the legal or business purposes of SVT, or as required by applicable laws. We will usually keep your Customer Data for up to 10 years to ensure that any contractual disputes can be addressed.
Rights of the person concerned
You shall be entitled at any time to receive information free of charge regarding the origin, recipient and purpose of your stored personal data. You are also entitled to order that these data be rectified or erased. If you have given your consent to data processing, you may withdraw this consent at any time with regard to any future processing. Under certain circumstances, you shall also have the right to request restriction of the processing of your personal data. Withdrawal of your consent to the data processing
Many data processing procedures are only possible with your explicit consent. You may withdraw previously-granted consent at any time.
Please send the revocation to the data protection officer of SVT APAC Pte. Ltd. by email to dpo[at]svt-apac.com
Accessing, updating and not using your personal information.
Subject to the exceptions set out in section 21(2) of the PDPA, you have the right to request a copy of the information we hold about you. You may ask us to correct information and you may also ask us to remove information that is inaccurate.
You may at any time notify us of your intention to stop the collection, use, processing or disclosure of your personal information by contacting us.
Links to Other Websites
Our Website may contain links to other websites. This Privacy Policy only applies to this website so when you link to other websites you should read their own privacy policies.