Privacy Policy
CEMS HOLDING and Your Personal Data
CEMS HOLDING, a.s. is committed to protecting the personal data of its customers, partners, suppliers, and website visitors as effectively as possible, utilizing state-of-the-art technologies to ensure the continuous improvement of the services offered.
The term “personal data” includes all information that enables or facilitates the identification of an individual. CEMS HOLDING declares and guarantees strict compliance with data protection laws and other relevant legislation.
The public websites of CEMS HOLDING are accessible on the internet without the need to enter any personal data. In some cases, however, we or our partners need to obtain certain information to provide you with appropriate and complete services. In such instances, we will request additional data from you.
If you choose to provide this data (such as name, address, email address), you will be informed how the data will be used before it is submitted. During registration, we will obtain your consent for the collection, storage, processing, and transfer of personal data to third parties.
CEMS HOLDING and the Use of Data for Specific Purposes
In general, we will use personal data that you provide voluntarily (for example, when registering on one of our websites, during telephone communication with us, and during other activities, provided you grant us permission), or your data obtained by legal means for use for a specific purpose, to respond to your inquiries, provide you with offers or information, process your orders with CEMS HOLDING, or fulfill our obligations related to the provision of services and perform service tasks. Within the framework of an existing customer relationship, it is also possible to
- transfer personal data to third parties (subcontractors of CEMS HOLDING) as part of the provision of services,
- use the personal data you provide for our needs or for the needs of third parties on our behalf as part of the aforementioned activities (especially marketing and public opinion surveys).
- In any case, we will respect your personal declaration of intent if you do not wish to provide us with personal data for the purpose of maintaining a customer relationship (especially for public opinion survey purposes).
CEMS HOLDING will not sell your personal data to any third party nor use it in any other way, with the exception of affiliated companies and partners for the purpose of providing services.
Any collected or stored personal data, or personal data provided by CEMS HOLDING, will be used exclusively for the purposes notified to you in advance. Exceptions to this rule include cases where collection, storage, and processing take place for the purpose of:
- protecting legal claims,
- protection against litigation,
- preparation, negotiation, and execution of business transactions,
- processing an order from an authority or court, or due to legislative measures,
- or in cases where the purpose is directly linked to the assigned purpose previously notified to you.
CEMS HOLDING will store your personal data for the period
- that may be required to fulfill obligations and provide services within a contractual framework,
- that may be required to comply with statutory archiving periods,
- that may be required in connection with product liability,
- that may be required for the purpose of settling disputes and enforcing agreed contracts,
- during which your registration with CEMS HOLDING is active and you have not requested its cancellation.
CEMS HOLDING and Technologies Used (Cookies, Web Beacons)
We collect information about visitors to our website for the purpose of further improving our services and our online offers. This allows CEMS HOLDING to better meet client requirements. We perform this activity in a completely anonymous manner to prevent any identification of individuals.
When collecting this anonymous information, we also use so-called cookies. Cookies are data files stored by a web browser. Cookies help us offer you specially tailored offers. You can refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings in your browser. If you do so, you may not be able to use all the functions of this website. CEMS HOLDING accepts no responsibility for such actions.
Google Analytics (a web analysis service of Google Inc. (“Google”), an independent company performing measurement and analysis of website visitor data), uses cookies and programs that are part of the websites and collects non-personal data on our behalf regarding visitors to our websites. Both cookies and embedded programs provide us only with non-personal statistical information about visits to our websites, the duration of page views, the paths users took through the websites, data on visitors’ screen settings, and other general data. CEMS HOLDING uses this type of information, which is primarily statistical in nature, to improve services provided to customers.
Information about website usage (including IP address) generated by Google using cookies will be transferred to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information to evaluate website usage, compile reports on website activity for website operators, and provide other services related to website activity and internet usage.
Google may also transfer this anonymized information to third parties if required by law or if these third parties process this information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You can refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings in your browser. If you do so, you may not be able to use all the functions of this website. CEMS HOLDING bears no responsibility for such actions.
CEMS HOLDING and the Use and Acquisition of Information Related to Social Media Environments
CEMS HOLDING uses social media environments, such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Google+, for the purpose of using and obtaining information. Websites and blogs operated directly by CEMS HOLDING are subject to data protection regulations.
These plug-ins from other platforms can be recognized by the logo and the corresponding text styling of the given platform. If you use one of these plug-ins to select one of our websites, it may create a direct link between the browser you are using and the respective websites of the given social network.
Since this transfer always takes place between the browser and the given network, CEMS HOLDING has no access to the data sent nor any information about it. This is standard in situations where you select the relevant website and are interested in a service or the transfer of information about CEMS HOLDING.
If you were simultaneously logged into one of these platforms or later log into the given social network, the plug-ins will be able to automatically associate the information with your account. For this reason, this information will be assigned to an individual. The same procedure also applies to the use of plug-ins (for example, the Like button) or adding comments.
If you click to activate, for example, a button expressing consent (such as the Like button on Facebook®) or add comments, the following data, for example, may generally be transferred depending on the social network operator:
- IP address
- Browser and operating system information
- Screen resolution
- Installed browser plug-ins, such as Adobe Flash Player
- Previously visited address if you navigated to the current page via a link (referrer)
- URL of the current page
CEMS HOLDING has no control over this data in the respective social networks. If you personally use any of the aforementioned social networks and make content available to participants in these networks or platforms, then content that includes, for example, images, information, contact information, your personal opinion, and other types of personal data is not subject to this declaration by CEMS HOLDING. The terms of use and privacy policies of the corresponding operators apply to all such content.
All content you publish in social media environments is publicly accessible within CEMS HOLDING and also outside CEMS HOLDING.
When obtaining information (data mining and profiling), CEMS HOLDING will regularly analyze social media environments to obtain information for marketing purposes based on existing contacts for data improvement and new contacts for data acquisition. This activity takes place automatically. In this way, CEMS HOLDING may obtain personal data or information from publicly accessible sources for which consent already exists from the past or for which direct consent for data collection and storage has not been granted by you.
CEMS HOLDING takes data protection and personal rights seriously; in such cases, it will inform you of the origin and category of the collected data before using such data or information and will request your consent for collection, storage, and processing. You may revoke the consent granted to CEMS HOLDING at any time without giving a reason.
CEMS HOLDING and Data Protection Technologies
New technologies offer users greater control over personal data. CEMS HOLDING makes every effort to provide appropriate protection options wherever the nature of the stored data requires it.
CEMS HOLDING and Security
CEMS HOLDING implements technical and organizational security measures to protect your personal data from accidental and unlawful changes, deletion, loss, as well as from unauthorized access or disclosure.
CEMS HOLDING and Licensing, Trademark, and Copyright Rights
CEMS HOLDING respects its own licensing, trademark, and copyright rights, registered trademarks, patents, and property, as well as the rights of customers, suppliers, partners, and any unknown third parties.
CEMS HOLDING reserves the right to use personal data to express and enforce the aforementioned rights in the event of their violation or a mere reason to assume that a violation has occurred, which would subsequently confirm that an actual violation of the rights or property of CEMS HOLDING or its customers, suppliers, partners, or any unknown third parties has taken place.
CEMS HOLDING also reserves the right to disclose personal data in such cases if required as part of an official request for information, the initiation of legal proceedings, and to ensure compliance with legal processes or a judgment or lawsuit.
Legal Agreements:
No Liability for Content
The CEMS HOLDING website occasionally contains hyperlinks or cookies from other websites or information and offers from third parties. CEMS HOLDING endeavors to carefully select these websites or information and offers mediated via hyperlinks and cookies. However, CEMS HOLDING cannot ensure that a third party will comply with comparable aspects of personal data protection and security or legal requirements at the same level as CEMS HOLDING. CEMS HOLDING accepts no responsibility for these websites or the information and offers they contain.
No Advisory Services
The information on CEMS HOLDING websites does not constitute individual advice. For advisory requests, please contact our staff in person or by telephone.
Use of the Website
The content and layout of CEMS HOLDING websites are protected intellectual property. Reproduction of content in any form requires the express written consent of CEMS HOLDING.
Questions Related to the Privacy Policy
If you have questions or suggestions regarding these explanatory notes, please contact a CEMS HOLDING employee or use the personal data contact form provided here.
Through this contact form, you can ask us any questions or provide any details, whether as part of information about your personal data at CEMS HOLDING or a request for correction, blocking, and deletion of personal data, or your objection to its use.
The associated collection, storage, and processing of your personal data in the contact form or our mail systems is carried out exclusively in response to your request for information, your questions related to personal data protection, or your requests for correction, blocking, deletion, or objection. In this context, your data is processed exclusively by CEMS HOLDING.
Validity of this Privacy Policy Statement
This Privacy Policy statement becomes effective upon publication on the CEMS HOLDING website. All previously published versions are invalid at the time of publication.