Privacy Policy

VEDA-in DRIVES respects your privacy. Whether you are buying one of VEDA-in quality products, or just browsing the VEDA-in websites, VEDA-in wants to make you comfortable with our privacy policy and the security measures that we take to protect your personal data.

If you provide VEDA-in DRIVES with personal data or we collect personal data about you from other sources, VEDA-in DRIVES will treat it in accordance with this policy. VEDA-in DRIVES encourages you to read this privacy policy in full.

1. General principles for processing of personal data

In order to ensure that your personal data is processed correctly and with a suitable level of data protection, VEDA-in DRIVES has adopted the following processing principles:

VEDA-in DRIVES will always inform you of the collection and processing of your personal data unless we have a legitimate reason not to do so.

2. Types of personal data

We will collect and process your personal data in a number of ways when you engage with us via the various existing channels.

Some of the personal data is necessary to process in order for us to provide you with the services you have requested and some personal data you can choose to provide voluntarily. We will always let you know which personal data is necessary (e.g. via the use of an asterisk (*)) and the consequences of not providing such data to us, for instance that we will not be able to (fully) satisfy your request.

The personal data that we collect and process can generally be divided into the following categories:

As a general rule we will not process any special categories of personal data (special personal data) about you unless you have provided your explicit consent thereto or we are required to do in order to comply with applicable regulation.

3. Our purposes for processing your personal data and legal basis

We only process your personal data in order to pursue a legitimate purpose and generally we will only process your personal data if:

We process your personal data for the following purposes:

4. Cookies

We may use cookies on our websites or our applications. Please read more about the use of cookies in our cookie policy, which you can find in the footer of each website.

The purposes of processing of data collected by the use of cookies, are the following:

5. Use of your personal data throughout the VEDA-in DRIVES  

VEDA-in DRIVES is a global organization. As a general rule, the data controller with respect to the personal data processed about you will be the local VEDA-in DRIVES entity in which you are a customer, with whom you engage in contact or enter into an agreement with. However, in order to pursue the purposes listed above in section 3, we may share your personal data with other VEDA-in DRIVES entities either to carry out a task as instructed by the data controller (recipient acting as data processor) or to pursue a legitimate purpose of its own (recipient acting as individual data controller) provided that such making available or disclosure of your personal data is not restricted by law.

6. Disclosure, transfer and making available personal data to recipients

Our disclosure and transfer of your personal data to recipients (natural or legal persons, public authorities, agencies or another body, to which the personal data is disclosed) is kept to a minimum and is subject to the existence of an adequate level of data protection.

We may disclose or make personal data available to recipients under the following circumstances:

If the recipient of the personal data is located in a country outside the EU/EEA not ensuring an adequate level of data protection, we will only transfer your personal data to such recipient following execution of a written transfer agreement based on the EU Commissions Standard Contractual Clauses.

7. Automated individual decisions

We may use automated decision making based on your personal data. Automated decision making will only take place if the decision is:

In case we use automated decision making, we will ensure that suitable security measures are implemented.

Special personal data will in no event be subject to automated decision making unless you have provided your explicit consent or the processing is necessary for reasons of substantial public interest, on the basis of applicable law.

8. Your consent

As stated above some of our processing activities will be based on your consent. In such case, you will have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.

If you withdraw your consent, we will cease to process your personal data, unless and to the extent the continued processing or storage is permitted or required according to the applicable personal data legislation or other applicable laws and regulations.

Please note that the withdrawal of your consent will not affect the lawfulness of processing conducted prior to the withdrawal. Further, as a consequence of your withdrawal of your consent, we may not be able to satisfy your requests or provide you with our services.

Among other things you may provide your consent to VEDA-in DRIVES, in order to subscribe to receiving marketing information of new, relevant and upcoming VEDA-in DRIVES products, solutions and services as well as newsletters about e.g. fairs and product presentations.

9. Data Retention

We store your personal data as long as it is required to fulfill the underlying purpose, however, no longer than the applicable legal retention period.

As soon as the underlying purpose or lawful basis has disappeared personal data will be deleted.

10. Data Security

In order to safeguard your personal data, VEDA-in DRIVES has implemented appropriate technical and organizational measures to ensure a level of security appropriate to the risks represented by the processing and the nature of the personal data to be protected, having regard to the state of art and the costs of their implementation.

Following the evaluation of the risk, VEDA-in DRIVES has taken measures to protect personal data against accidental or unlawful destruction or accidental loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure or access, in particular where the processing involves the transmission of personal data over a network, and against all other unlawful forms of processing.

11. Training

In order to ensure that we always comply with applicable data protection legislation and the requirements laid down in the VEDA-in DRIVES BCRs and to ensure that our employees are familiar with such regulation, we have established an internal privacy training and education program that our employees across the world with permanent or regular access to personal data are obligated to complete.

12. Internal audits

VEDA-in DRIVES carries out regular audits of the ongoing processing of personal data to ensure that all VEDA-in DRIVES entities abide to the VEDA-in DRIVES BCRs and process personal data accordingly.

The audits cover all aspects including all IT systems, databases, security policies/standards, training programmes, privacy policies and manuals in place.

13. Your rights

You have the right to access to the data processed about you, subject to certain statutory exceptions. Furthermore, you can object to the collection and further processing of your personal data. In addition, you have the right to correct your personal data, if necessary. You may also choose to request us to restrict the processing.

We will delete or correct any information, which is inaccurate or out of date by reason of the time elapsed since it was collected or by reason of any other information in our possession.

If you provide us with a written request, we will also delete your personal data without undue delay, unless we have a legal basis to continue the processing, e.g. if the processing is necessary to establish, exercise or defeat a legal claim or necessary to the performance of a contract with you.

In order to make use of any of the rights mentioned above, please contact us via the points of contacts listed in section 17.

With regard to such requests, kindly provide us with relevant information to take care of your request, including your full name and email address so that we can identify you. We will respond to your request as soon as possible and within one month.

If you disagree with our processing of your personal data please be informed that you can lodge a complaint with your local data protection agency.

14. Complaints

If you have any complaints about the processing of personal data carried out by VEDA-in DRIVES, please feel free to contact us at any time.

You may also submit a complaint directly with your local VEDA-in DRIVES entity.

We will review and assess your complaint and if necessary we may contact you in order to obtain further information.
We strive at processing any complaint or objection within one month. If it is not possible to make a decision within one month, we will inform you grounds for the delay and of the time (not exceeding 2 months from receipt) at which the decision can be expected to be provided.

At any time before, during or after the complaint process described above, you may also raise a complaint/file a case with your local data protection agency, or other authorities within the jurisdiction of the relevant local VEDA-in DRIVES entity.

15. Links to other websites, etc.

Our websites may contain links to other websites or to integrated sites. We are not responsible for the contents of the websites of other companies (third-party websites) or for the practices of such companies regarding the collection of personal data. When you visit third-party websites, you should read the owners’ policies on the protection of personal data and other relevant policies.

16. Changes to this Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to amend this Privacy Policy in the future due to changes in applicable legislation in VEDA-in DRIVES’ processes. We will inform you of any such amendments.

17. Contact information

If you have a request or a question regarding the processing of your personal data or this privacy policy in general, please contact us info@vedaindrives.com .

Data Subject request

VEDA-in DRIVES is committed to complying with the Data Privacy regulations, which means that we will honor any requests regarding your personal information and changes to it.