PIPL Privacy Addendum Privacy Statement Addendum for China Residents
Effective Date: November 16, 2023
This Addendum applies to residents of the in the People’s Republic of China (“China”, which, solely for the purposes herein, is exclusive of Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau). We are committed to processing and protecting your personal data under Chinese law, including the Personal Information Protection Law of the People’s Republic of China (PIPL).
LouwersHanique B.V. , a company with its principal place of business at Energieweg 3A, 5527 AH Hapert, Netherlands will process your personal data pursuant to this Statement as a personal data handler under PIPL, and can be contacted at the following email addresses: hrm@louwershanique.com or privacy@idexcorp.com.
1. Collection of Information
We collect the following information on our website:
a) Information We Collect Automatically:
When you access or use our Sites, we automatically collect the following information which is stored separate from other data that you may provide to us. We use this information to provide the Sites to you, deduce statistical and anonymous information about the users of the Sites and for the technical administration and the security of the Sites:
b) Information You Provide to Us:
We also collect information you provide directly to us. For example, when you visit the Sites, we collect information when you request to create an account, respond to a survey, participate in any interactive features of the Sites, sign up for a newsletter or provide general feedback. The types of information we may collect include your name, company name, title, street address, telephone number, email address and any other information you choose to provide. We collect this information for offering the function that you use respectively.
2. Use of Information
We may use information about you for various purposes, including:
We may also use your information to contact you about our own goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you do not want us to use your information in this way, please see the section of this Statement entitled “Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.”
3. Legal Basis for processing
We are entitled to process your personal data because one or more of the following legal bases applies:
4. International Data Transfers
To the extent permitted by PIPL, we may transfer your personal data outside of China to companies and/or branches within our group or to third parties as described in this Statement, and we will ensure the recipient is bound by applicable laws in its jurisdiction to provide a standard of protection for your personal data that is equivalent to that under this Statement.
5. Retention Periods
We delete or anonymise your personal data as soon as it is no longer required for the purpose for which we processed it.
In general, we store your personal data for the duration of the usage or the contractual relationship via the website plus a period of fifteen (15) days for IT security purposes.
In the event that you have given us your consent to process your data (e.g. for marketing purposes including the associated profiling), we will store your data until you revoke your consent or the processing purpose does not apply anymore.
For the retention period of cookies and other tracking, please refer to the details in our IDEX Cookie Notice, available here LouwersHnaique B.V. Cookie Notice.
After these periods have expired, the data will be erased unless this data is required for a longer period due to legal retention periods, alternative purposes or for criminal prosecution. Beyond these retention periods, we may retain the data for the purposes of legal defence and law enforcement for as long as is necessary for the preparation or execution of a possible legal dispute (usually up to four years, whereby the legal dispute itself may inhibit the course of this period). If data can be stored for these reasons, it will be blocked. The data will then no longer be available for further use.
6. Your Rights
The PIPL provides you with certain rights in relation to the processing of your personal data. Besides the rights listed below, you also have the right to request us to interpret this Statement for you.
All such requests to exercise these rights may be sent to hrm@louwershanique.com or privacy@idexcorp.com or to the other contact information listed below. Those rights include:
7. Obligation to Provide Personal Data
You are under no contractual or statutory obligation to provide personal data. However, if you do not provide the personal data we require to process your request (e.g. when you contact us with questions about our products), we may not be able to respond to such request.
8. Automated Decision-Making
No automated decision occurs on the Sites.
9. Changes to This PIPL Privacy Addendum
IDEX reserves the right to amend this PIPL Privacy Addendum at our discretion and at any time. When we make changes to this PIPL Privacy Addendum, we will post the updated addendum on the Website and update the addendum’s effective date. Your continued use of our Website following the posting of changes constitutes your acceptance of such changes.
10. Contact Information
If you have any question, concerns, complaints or suggestions, or would like to exercise your rights with respect to your information pursuant to the PIPL, or otherwise need to contact us, you must contact both us and our representative in China (when applicable) at the contact information below: