Privacy Policy

Protecting the security and privacy of your personal information is very important to ASSAB, whose China entities are listed below (hereinafter “we” and “us”):

(a) Dongguan

ASSAB Tooling (Dong Guan) Co., Ltd. (tax number 91441900724774482G), address: 3, Gongye North 1 Road, Dongguan Songshan Lake, High-tech Industrial Development Zone, Dongguan 523808, China.

ASSAB Tooling (Dong Guan) Co., Ltd., Changsha Branch (tax number 9143010005584215X0), address: Room 108, Block No. 3, Changsha Health Industrial Park, 1048 Zhongqing Road, Kaifu District, Changsha, Hunan, China.

ASSAB Tooling (Xiamen) Co., Ltd. (tax number 913502006120295760), address: Unit 707, Building 2, Xiamen Cross-border E-commerce Industrial Park, No.29 Changhong Road, Xiamen Area of China (Fujian) Pilot Free Trade Zone, China.

(b) Beijing

ASSAB Tooling (Beijing) Co. Ltd. (tax number 91110302600052808A), address: 10A Rong Jing Dong Jie, Beijing Business Development Area, Beijing 100176, China.

ASSAB Tooling Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. (tax number 913100006073350931), address: No 398 Shen Nan Road, Xinzhuang Industrial Zone, Shanghai 201108, China.

ASSAB Tooling Technology (Ningbo) Co. Ltd. (tax number 9133020675036994X7), address: No. 218 Longjiaoshan Road, Vehicle Part Industrial Park, Ningbo Economic & Technology Development Zone, Ningbo 315806, China.

ASSAB Tooling Technology (Shanghai) Co. Ltd., Wuhan Branch (tax number 91420114070516555L), address: Plant No. 17 Xing Guang Village Industrial Zone, Zha Shan Street Cai Dian District, Wuhan 430108, China.

ASSAB Tooling Technology (Chongqing) Co. Ltd. (tax number 915000007815613792), address: Plant C, Automotive Industrial Park, Northern New District, Chongqing 401120, China.

We observe the applicable legal regulations for the protection, proper handling and confidentiality of personal information, especially the Personal Information Protection Law (“PIPL”) and other relevant data protection laws in the People’s Republic of China (“China”).

Protecting the security and privacy of your personal information is very important to ASSAB Tooling Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., (hereinafter “we” and “us”). We observe the applicable legal regulations for the protection, proper handling and confidentiality of personal information, especially the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), the Personal Information Protection Law (“PIPL”) in the People’s Republic of China and other relevant data protection laws. In this privacy policy, the terms “personal data” and “personal information” are used interchangeably, depending on the applicable law.

This privacy policy explains the nature, scope and purpose of us collecting and using your personal information when you visit and use our website https://www.assab-china.com/china/en/.

Before you begin using our website, please make sure to carefully read and fully understand this Privacy Policy (hereinafter the “Policy”). In particular, you shall pay special attention to the provisions highlighted in bold and underlined, and ensure that you fully understand and agree to them before proceeding to use the website.

In this Policy, “you” refers to customers using this website and the customers’ employees or representatives. The customer shall be responsible for obtaining the consent of its employees or representatives regarding the processing of their personal information, including their consent to the customer sharing such personal information with us, and their consent to our processing of such personal information, as an independent personal information controller, for the purposes described in this Policy.

You shall be responsible for the collection of your employees or representatives’ personal information and obtaining their consents, including (a) providing adequate processing notices to all relevant personal information subjects in an appropriate manner in accordance with China personal information protection laws and this Policy; and (b) obtaining all necessary consents and authorisations to process the personal information of your employees or representatives in accordance with China personal information protection laws. You shall provide these information and documents to us upon request.

1 How we collect and use your personal information

Personal information refers to any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person recorded electronically or by other means (e.g. name, e-mail address or IP address), but does not include anonymised information.

When you use our website, we need to collect and use your personal information, including the following:

In order to fulfill the basic features of providing our products and services on the website to you, you must authorise us to collect and use the necessary information. If you refuse to provide the corresponding information, you will not be able to use our website in a proper manner;
In order to provide you with additional features of our products and services on the website, you may choose to consent or not to consent individually to the information that we collect and use. If you refuse to provide the information, you will not be able to use the additional features nor achieve the functional effects that we intend to achieve; however, it will not affect your use of our basic features.

2 How we collect and use your personal information

Contact Information

When you contact us by e-mail, phone or via our website, in order to assist you to fully understand your use of our website, we will collect the personal information you submit (e.g. your name, e-mail, mobile phone number, office phone number, your inquiry or order(s) and relevant documents) to process your inquiry or order(s), including but not limited to fulfillment of your order(s), complying with legal obligations and communication with you.

Business Information

We will collect and process your business information (including but not limited to name, company, job title, contact number, email address, business address, social media accounts (if any)) to ensure that you are able to perform your obligations under the relevant agreement(s). We may provide the business contact information to our affiliates and any other third parties located within or outside mainland China, if necessary.

Direct Marketing and Promotional Purposes

We will collect and process your name, email address, phone number and address, etc to contact you and provide you with relevant information regarding our products and services.You hereby declare and warrant that you will inform your employees or representatives who are the personal information subjects about this clause and obtain their separate consent for us to collect, process and share their business information in accordance with this clause

3 Cookies

Our website uses cookies that allow the website to recognize your browser when you visit the website again. Cookies are small text files that the browser stores on your device. This allows the website to be optimally adapted to your interests. If you do not want cookies to be stored on your computer, you can set up your browser to inform you when cookies are set so that you can decide whether to allow them on a case-by-case basis. You can also deactivate use of cookies in your browser. Please note that in this case, you will not be able to use all of the website functions to their full extent.

Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a Google Inc. (Google) web analysis service. Google Analytics uses cookies, which are text files stored on your computer to be able to analyze your use of the website. The information generated by the cookies about your use of this website is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. We only use Google Analytics with activated IP address anonymisation. This means that within the territory of China, Google truncates your IP address before it is transferred. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transferred to a Google server in the USA and truncated there. On behalf of the website operator, Google will use this information to evaluate your website use and compile reports on website activity and to provide the website operator other services related to website use and Internet use. The IP address transmitted by your browser during Google analytics will not be combined with other Google data. You can refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, but note that in this case, you will not be able to use all of the website functions to their fullest extent. You can also prevent Google from collecting and processing the data generated by the cookies based on your website use (including your IP address) by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en).

For more information on the terms of service and data protection, see:

http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html and https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=us.

For more information on the terms of service and data protection, see:
http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html and https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=us.

Baidu Analytics

Baidu collects, after user has given permission, certain types of usage information when you visit our website or use Baidu Products. When you use a Baidu Product, Baidu may send one or more cookies — a small text file containing a string of alphanumeric characters — to your computer that uniquely identifies your browser and let Baidu help you log in faster and enhance your navigation through the site. A cookie may also convey information to us about how you use the Baidu Product (e.g., the pages you view, the links you click, how frequently you access the Baidu Product, and other actions you take on the Baidu Product), and allow us to track your usage of the Baidu Product over time. We may collect log file information from your browser or mobile device each time you access the Baidu Product. Log file information may include anonymous information such as your web request, IP address, browser type, information about your mobile device, referring / exit pages and URLs, number of clicks and how you interact with links on the Baidu Product, domain names, landing pages, pages viewed, and other such information. We may also collect analytics data, or use third-party analytics tools, to help us measure traffic and usage trends for the Baidu Product and to understand more about the demographics of our users. These tools collect information sent by your browser or mobile device, including the pages you visit, your use of third-party applications, and other information that assists us in analyzing and improving the Baidu Product.

When you access a Baidu Product by or through a mobile device, Baidu may receive or collect and store a unique identification number associated with your device or the Baidu Product (including, for example, a unique device ID, Unique ID for Advertisers (“IDFA”), Google Ad ID, or Windows Advertising ID), MAC address, mobile carrier, device type, model and manufacturer, mobile device operating system brand and model, phone number, and, depending on your mobile device settings, your geographical location data, including GPS coordinates (e.g., latitude and longitude) or similar information regarding the location of your mobile device.

We may use the data collected through cookies, log file, device identifiers, location data and clear gifs information to: (a) remember information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you visit the site; (b) provide customised, personalized content and information, including targeted content and advertising; (c) provide and monitor the effectiveness of Baidu Products; (d) monitor aggregate metrics such as total number of visitors, traffic, usage, and demographic patterns on our website and Baidu Products; (e) diagnose or fix technology problems; and (f) otherwise to plan for and enhance Baidu Products.

4 How we store your personal information

Storage Period

We will store your personal information for the minimum time necessary to achieve the processing purpose as described in this Policy.

Unless explicitly indicated otherwise at the time of the collection of your personal information (e.g. in a declaration of consent), your personal information will be erased (or anonymized) if the retention of the personal information is no longer necessary to fulfill the purposes for which they were collected and if no statutory retention obligations (such as tax or commercial law) require us to further retain the personal information.

You may also delete some of your information under “review, correct and add information” or you can request for cancellation of account to delete all your information. Once you have deleted the relevant information or we have assisted you in deleting the relevant information, we will not be able to delete the corresponding information from our backup systems immediately, due to the applicable legal and security technical restrictions. We will store your personal information securely and restrict any further processing of it, until the backup data can be deleted or anonymised.

Security Measures

We will take and maintain appropriate technical, operational and organisational measures, these measures will at least comply with the statutory requirements of China personal information protection laws to ensure the safety of personal information.

5 How we share your personal information

We engage processors (service providers) to process personal information (within the scope of an IT support contract, for example) on behalf of us. These processors are contractually bound to comply with the China personal information protection regulations.

Without your consent, we will not transfer your personal information collected (based on your website use) to third parties, unless it is required to perform our duties or required by law/authorities. You acknowledge and consent that we will transfer your personal information to the following third parties for the specified purposes:

Mouseflow

Our website includes heatmap and tracking functions. These functions are offered by Mouseflow, Inc. Data is also transferred to Mouseflow. When you visit such websites or mobile applications, we may receive certain information about your behaviour including user activity, page content, click/touch, movement, scroll, and keystroke activity (in some cases). For more information, see Mouseflow’s privacy policy at https://mouseflow.com/privacy/.

6 International Transfer of Your Personal Information

Without your consent, we will not transfer your personal information out of China. Your personal information will be stored in our server located in Austria.

As we are part of a multinational corporation, personal information such as name, email address, phone number, address, etc. will be cross-border transferred to Europe, for the purposes of processing order, customer service, sales and marketing activities.

7 Personal Information Subjects’ Rights

Generally, personal information subjects have the right of access, the right to rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, information portability, and the right to object. If processing of your personal information is based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. The withdrawal of consent shall not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal. Finally, you are entitled to file a complaint with a supervisory authority.

For any questions related to data privacy and asserting the rights listed above, please contact the relevant personnel at webshop@assab.com.cn. We will respond to such requests in accordance with China personal information protection laws.

Assistance and Notification

You shall provide us with reasonable assistance to respond to personal information subjects’ requests, complaints or inquiries, or any requests or inquiries from government authorities. If you receive (i) a request or query from a personal information subject in relation to that person’s personal information and such request or query relates to our obligations under China personal information protection laws, or (ii) a complaint or request that relates to our obligations under China personal information protection laws, you shall promptly (without undue delay) notify us in writing and cooperate with us for the necessary action.

You shall provide reasonable assistance, information and cooperation upon our request, to ensure that we comply with our obligations under China personal information protection laws.

This Policy will be revised from time to time.