Lantech European Union Data Privacy Statement
Effective Date: April, 2017
Lantech is a US company, headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky. Lantech is expanding globally and has legal entities, business functions, and systems in the European Union, specifically in the Netherlands. This Privacy Policy is valid for customer’s contract jurisdiction within EU member countries. This EU Data Privacy Statement relates to our use of any personal information you provide to us. We process personal data collected during visits to our website in accordance with the legal provisions valid for the EU countries in which our customers are located and in which our websites/servers are maintained.
Lantech appreciates your interest in its products and your visit to this website. Lantech is committed to respecting and protecting customer´s personal and other sensitive data. All personal data collected under this statement are collected only for the purpose of fulfilling business requirements and contractual services.
- Data Collection
- Data Storage and Retention
- Lantech Use of Personal Information & Data
- Website Log-in and Profile Data
- EU individuals have the right to limit the use and disclosure of their personal data as explained in the notices they receive at the point at which personal information is collected.
- Lantech typically does not transfer non-HR personal information to third parties. However, if personal information is transferred by Lantech to any third party, Lantech will require the third party to provide at least the same level of privacy protection as is required by the Privacy Shield Principles, as well as agree to process personal information only for limited and specified purposes consistent with the consent of the data subject.
- To the extent provided by the Privacy Shield Principles, Lantech remains responsible and liable under the Privacy Shield Principles if the third-party processes personal information on Lantech’s behalf in a manner inconsistent with the Privacy Shield Principles, unless Lantech is able to prove that it is not responsible for the event giving rise to the damage.
- If you access a third party website by hyperlink from Lantech’s website, please review the third party’s privacy policy and practices, including cookie notification and consent. Lantech does not control third party websites and cannot guarantee that such third parties adhere to the Privacy Shield Principles.
- You may bring a complaint directly to our attention regarding any concern, complaints, and/or disputes regarding the use and disclosure of your Personal Information. Within 45 days, Lantech will investigate and respond to you. Within this same time period, we will make our best effort to address your request and resolve your complaint or dispute.
- For any complaints that cannot be resolved, Lantech will cooperate with applicable EU data protection authorities (“DPAs”) and will comply with the information and guidance provided to us by a panel of DPAs. If an individual submits a complaint to the DPA in the EU, the US Department of Commerce is committed to receive, review, and undertake best efforts to facilitate resolution of the complaint and respond to the DPA within 90 days.
- Please contact us by one of the methods provided in Section 6, below, for relevant DPA contact information.
- If we or the DPAs are unable to resolve your complaint, you may choose to engage in binding arbitration through the Privacy Shield Panel.
- For purposes of this EU Data Privacy Statement, Lantech is subject to the investigatory and enforcement powers of the US Federal Trade Commission.
- Lantech may be required to disclose personal information in response to lawful requests received from public authorities, including requests based on national security or law enforcement requirements.
Lantech may collect data generated by the use of, collected by, or stored in its machinery and equipment as well as data entered through any other system interfaces, including the use of the Lantech website or the use of any mobile device application.
Lantech may collect from its employees, contractors, suppliers, and customers, certain personal data which is information that can be used to identify, locate or contact you. This information may include your name and contact details, information regarding the purchase, invoicing, and handling of any machinery or product, and credit card information. It also includes other data or related information, such as consumer preferences or website access data, which link to your personal identity. In order to optimize our further notifications to you and continually improve our products and services (including registration) we may ask you for information about your personal or professional interests, demographic background, and experiences with our products and services, as well as more detailed information pertaining to our contact with you.
We may also use your IP address for some of our website services. Information on the “cookies” that we use and their features can be found in “Cookies and Similar Collection Technologies,” Section 5 of Lantech’s General Privacy Policy, accessible by separate link from our website.
Personal data does not include information that is not identified or identifiable to a natural person, or information that has been stripped of all identifiers such that an individual cannot be identified or re-identified.
Customer data may be stored on Lantech’s servers based in the US or in the Netherlands. We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as is necessary for the relevant product or service, or as long as is set out in any relevant contract you have with Lantech or separate data retention schedule. Unless and until a customer requests removal of Lantech ’s access to and use of personal data, Lantech will store the data, provided such data storage is in compliance with all applicable federal, state, provincial and local laws and regulations, including, but not limited to, as applicable, laws of non-EU jurisdictions. Lantech will have the right, but not the obligation, to store the data indefinitely, or to delete the data at any time upon expiration of the above-stated retention periods, provided such data storage is in compliance with all applicable federal, state, provincial, and local laws and regulations, including, but not limited to, as applicable, laws of non-EU jurisdictions. Customer acknowledges and agrees that certain messaging data, once deleted from the server(s) cannot be retrieved or re-created.
If you wish to cancel your registration with our website, you may do so by following the “unsubscribe” instructions on the relevant website. If you change your profile to opt-out of receiving communications, your record may stay on the system so we can ensure that we do not contact you in the future.
Lantech takes reasonable steps to ensure that personal data or information is accurate, complete, current and reliable for its intended use.
Lantech is entitled to access your personal customer data set to provide the contractually defined service(s). Lantech may also disclose customer data to outside parties when we have a good faith belief that disclosure is reasonably necessary to (a) protect the safety of any person from death or serious bodily injury; (b) prevent fraud or abuse against us or our users; (c) protect our property rights; (d) defend Lantech and its affiliates or personnel from any legal proceedings arising out of customer data; or (e) as otherwise required by applicable law or as requested, subject to subpoena or court order, by law enforcement.
Upon request and within 30 days, Lantech will grant you reasonable access to personal information you have provided directly through application or contract, or which Lantech has collected in accordance with its data collection protocols. In addition, Lantech will take reasonable steps to permit you to correct, amend, or delete information that is demonstrated to be inaccurate or incomplete.
Lantech may share your personal information within our company and affiliates and transfer it to countries where we do business, including outside of the European Union and Netherlands. Other countries, such as the United States, have privacy laws that are different from privacy laws in your country and the EU. Regardless of location, Lantech will handle your personal information as described in this Privacy Statement.
Lantech will collect and access personal information and data from EU individuals under the EU-US Privacy Shield Framework. The Framework, which sets forth defined Privacy Shield Principles, was designed by the US Department of Commerce and the European Commission to provide companies on both sides of the Atlantic with a mechanism to comply with EU data protection requirements when transferring personal data from the European Union to the United States in support of transatlantic commerce.
Lantech adheres to the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework regarding the collection, use, and retention of personal data, as described in this Policy, received from employees, suppliers, and customers located in the European Union member countries. Lantech will comply with the Privacy Shield Principles with respect to all personal data received from the European Union.
To learn more about the Privacy Shield program, and to view the certification requirements, please visit www.privacyshield.gov.
Lantech is currently completing its request for certification in the Privacy Shield Program. Once Lantech has completed its certification process, it will be listed on the Department of Commerce website, identified above. The definitions, policies, and procedures described in Lantech’s EU Privacy Policy apply to personal data transferred pursuant to Lantech’s forthcoming Privacy Shield certification. Those protections may meet, or exceed, what is required by the Privacy Shield Principles. What follows in this section of is a description of how Lantech complies with the specific Privacy Shield Principles not covered in Lantech’s General Privacy Policy.
If there is any conflict between the policies covered in other sections of this Privacy Statement or the policies covered in Lantech’s General Privacy Policy and the Privacy Shield Principles, the Privacy Shield Principles shall govern.
If you have a complaint about Lantech’s compliance with the Privacy Shield Principles, please visit www.privacyshield.gov/article?id=How-to-Submit-a-Complaint.
Specifically, you have the following rights:
Please contact us if you have any questions or comments about Lantech’s EU Data Privacy Policy. You can reach us online at Kellyw@Lantech.com. You can reach us via mail directed to:
Chief Privacy Officer
Lantech
11000 Bluegrass Parkway
Louisville, KY 40299
Phone: +1-502-815-9109