Hexagon privacy notice
Effective from 11 March 2024
Hexagon AB, its subsidiaries and controlled joint ventures (“Hexagon” or “we” or “us”) respect your privacy. This privacy notice explains how we collect, store, use, disclose, retain and transfer (hereinafter “process”) your personal data and inform you about your rights. The personal data that we collect about you depends on the context of your interactions with us, the products, services and features that you use, and your location. Our privacy notice is designed to make it easier for you to locate the information most relevant to you.
We may change this privacy notice by posting the revised version on this website and indicating the effective date of the revised privacy notice.
We may provide links to other websites and applications which we believe may be of interest to you. Unless stated otherwise in this privacy notice we do not control and are not responsible for the processing on third-party websites. We encourage you to carefully read the privacy notices of any website you visit.
To learn more about the Manufacturing Intelligence division's privacy notice, click here.
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PROCESSING IN THE CONTEXT OF THE BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP
We may process your personal data in the context of the business relationship, for the purposes of
- entering into and terminating a contractual relationship with you or your company;
- exercising our rights and performing our contractual obligations, e.g., licensing of software products, provision of services, invoicing, responding to your service requests, enabling you to access white papers, videos, webinars and other website content, and exercising or defending legal claims;
- maintaining and protecting the security of our products, solutions, services and websites, preventing and detecting security threats;
- detecting and combating fraud or other criminal or malicious activities, e.g., protecting and enforcing our intellectual property rights;
- ensuring compliance with legal obligations (such as record keeping obligations), compliance due diligence (such as export transaction screening), and our policies or industry standards.
We may obtain personal data from you which you have actively provided by filling in our webforms or by using our online products and services, or which has been generated by us in connection with such use, or collected from third parties or public domain (e.g., integrity background and restricted party checks) and includes the following categories of personal data:
- Contact information and further personal data related to the business relationship that you provide by filling in our webforms, such as full name, job position, address, telephone number, mobile phone number, fax number and email address;
- Biographical information, which may include details of your social media presence, your education degrees, previous professional experiences, skills, and other relevant information you provide to us on our recruitment platforms by filling in our webforms or by submitting it in a free-style form;
- Payment data, such as data necessary for processing payments and fraud prevention, including credit/debit card numbers, security code numbers and other related billing information;
- Content information about you or provided by you, such as content of your support request, or comment or forum post;
- Further information related to the business relationship observed by us, such as personal data relating to orders placed, payments and requests made, your interests, preferences, information about how you use our products and services; and
- Personal data collected from publicly available resources, integrity data bases and credit agencies.
The legal basis for processing your personal data are:
- Contract Performance: entering into and terminating a contractual relationship with you and exercising our rights and performing our obligations under any contract with you;
- Legitimate interest of Hexagon and/or your company after balancing them with your rights and freedoms: entering into and terminating a contractual relationship with your company and exercising our rights and performing our obligations under any contract with your company; maintaining and protecting the security of our products, solutions, services and websites; preventing and detecting security threats, fraud or other criminal or malicious activities;
- Legitimate interest of Hexagon after balancing them with your rights and freedoms: identify unauthorised use and users of software, and otherwise to protect and enforce intellectual property rights, export screening;
- Compliance with our legal obligations: compliance due diligence, record retention;
- Consent: information actively and voluntarily provided by you in a free-style form or as comment or forum post.
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PROCESSING IN THE CONTEXT OF MARKETING AND CUSTOMER’S SURVEYS
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PROCESSING IN THE CONTEXT OF VISITING HEXAGON WEBSITES
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PROCESSING IN THE CONTEXT OF VISITING HEXAGON SOCIAL MEDIA PAGES
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SECURITY
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TRANSFER OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA
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RETENTION PERIODS
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YOUR RIGHTS
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OBJECTIONS AND COMPLAINTS, PRIVACY TEAM CONTACT
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IDENTITY OF THE CONTROLLER
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FOR CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS ONLY