Privacy notice - Share your ideas with Grundfos
Which Personal Data is collected?
Grundfos collects the personal data email address, name and mobile number (hereinafter the “Personal Data”) that you provide to Grundfos when sharing your ideas with us on ideas@grundfos.com.
You may choose to provide additional personal data as part of your ideas. Please do not provide any health related or religious or other sensitive data in your email to us.
You are free to decide whether you want to provide your Personal Data to Grundfos. However, you are obliged to provide the Personal Data to share your ideas with us.
The purpose of collecting Personal Data
Grundfos may use the Personal Data for the purpose of contacting you about your ideas.
The legal basis for collecting Personal Data
The processing of your Personal Data is based on the understanding between you and Grundfos that you will submit your ideas to Grundfos, that Grundfos will review your idea, and that the processing of your Personal Data is necessary for the fulfilment of the purpose mentioned above. The processing of your Personal Data is thereby considered necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party or in order to take steps at the request of you prior to entering into a contract, which is Grundfos’ legal basis for processing your Personal Data (Article 6, para. 1, lit. b of the General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679)).
Your Personal Data may only be processed for different purposes if this is necessary to comply with legal or regulatory obligations (e.g. transfer to courts or criminal prosecution authorities), if you have consented to the respective processing, or if the processing is otherwise lawful under applicable law. If processing for a different purpose takes place we may provide you with additional information.
Details of the data controller and recipients of the Personal Data
Grundfos Holding A/S, Poul Due Jensens Vej 7, 8850 Bjerringbro, Denmark (“Grundfos”), email ideas@grundfos.com is the data controller and responsible for data security and the processing of your Personal Data according to the specific purposes mentioned above.
Authorised third parties may need to access or store Personal Data if required or permitted by applicable law (e.g. governmental authorities, courts, external advisers and similar third parties that are public bodies).
Retention period
Your Personal Data will be stored for processing for a maximum of three months unless we contact you before the expiry of such period to let you know that we will be using your ideas, in which case we may store your Personal Data as long as we agree with you at that time.
Some of your Personal Data may, however, be stored for accounting purposes or for defence of legal claims. This Personal Data will be stored until the expiration of the statutory limitation period.
How can you access your Personal Data?/Further rights
Under applicable law, you have various rights (under the conditions set out in applicable law).
Withdrawal of consent: If you have declared your consent for any Personal Data processing activities you can withdraw this consent at any time with future effect. Such a withdrawal will not affect the lawfulness of the processing prior to the consent withdrawal.
Right of access: You may have the right to obtain from us confirmation as to whether or not Personal Data concerning you is processed, and, where that is the case, to request access to this Personal Data. The access to information includes – inter alia – the purposes of the processing, the categories of Personal Data concerned, and the recipients or categories of recipients to whom the Personal Data has been or will be disclosed. However, this is not an absolute right and the interests of other individuals may restrict your right of access.
You may have the right to obtain a copy of the Personal Data undergoing processing. For further copies requested by you, we may charge a reasonable fee based on administrative costs.
Right to rectification: You may have the right to obtain from us the rectification of inaccurate Personal Data concerning you. Depending on the purposes of the processing, you may have the right to have incomplete Personal Data completed, including by means of providing a supplementary statement.
Right to erasure ("right to be forgotten"): Under certain circumstances, you may have the right to obtain from us the erasure of Personal Data concerning you and we may be obliged to erase such Personal Data.
Right to restriction of processing: Under certain circumstances, you may have the right to obtain from us restriction of processing your Personal Data. In this case, the respective data will be marked and may only be processed by us for certain purposes.
Right to object: Under certain circumstances, you may have the right to object the processing of your Personal Data by Grundfos, on grounds relating to your particular situation, at any time. Grundfos may be required to cease processing your personal data.
Right to data portability: Under certain circumstances, you may have the right to receive the Personal Data concerning you, which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and you may have the right to transmit that data to another entity without hindrance from us.
If you would like to know more or wish to exercise one or more of the rights listed above, you are welcome to contact Grundfos Holding A/S by sending an email to ideas@grundfos.com.
Filing of complaints
In case of complaints, you also have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority regarding the storing or processing of your Personal Data.
Changes to the Privacy Notice
We reserve the right to change or supplement this Privacy Notice at any time. To the extent the changes to the Privacy Notice are regarded as material and significant, you will be informed hereof, for example via email or on Grundfos’ company website.