This Privacy Policy (the “Privacy Policy” is for RTK Mapping (“RTK Mapping”, “we”, “us” or “our”), processes your personal data obtained through our website or otherwise when you come in contact with RTK Mapping.
We are responsible for the processing of your personal data as described in the Privacy Policy in the capacity of data controller. If you would like to know more about our processing of your personal data, you are welcome to contact us via our email address: d.cawsey@rtkmapping.com or by the contact details found at the bottom of this Privacy Policy.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we do, we will update the date at the top of the Privacy Policy. If we make material changes to how we use personal data, we will notify you of the change. We will always post the updated Privacy Policy on all the affected websites.
We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically to stay informed about our collection, use, and disclosure of personal data.
The Privacy Policy covers our processing of personal data relating to our provision of products and services as well as personal data obtained from your use of our websites.
The personal data we process relating to you is collected directly from you.
We only process your personal data to the extent permitted in accordance with applicable data protection legislation. This means that we need to have a legal basis for the purposes for our processing of your personal data, which in our context generally means one of the following legal bases.
Performance of a contract – the processing is necessary in order for us to provide you with our services or otherwise perform a contract between us (this applies if you conduct your business in a sole proprietorship), or to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract.
If you are acting on behalf of someone else, e.g., in the capacity of representative of a company (which usually is the case), our processing is carried out with reference to our legitimate interest balanced against your interests or fundamental rights or freedoms, where our legitimate interest is to conclude and perform the contract with the company you represent.
Performance of legal obligations – the processing is necessary in order to fulfil our legal obligations according to law or other statutes that we are subject to, or if we are subject to orders or decisions by courts or authorities, which require us to process your personal data.
Legitimate interests – the processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by us or by a third party, provided that they are not overridden by your interests or fundamental rights or freedoms (in which case the processing would not be allowed).
Consent – the processing is carried out with your prior consent, where we inter alia are responsible for clearly informing you of what processing you consent to and your right to withdraw your consent in relation to our continued processing.
Below, we explain more about the categories of personal data we process, for what purposes we process them and what legal bases we rely on when processing your personal data, including for how long we store your personal data.
What we do and why:The personal data that we process:To enable us to offer you our products and services we will process your personal data:
· When you place an order for any of our products, to be able to send you what you have ordered and to know where to send the invoice for the order;
· To carry out the financial transaction connected to your purchase;
· To protect you and us against fraud when transacting on our website and to ensure our websites and systems are secure; and
· To continuously be able to fulfil our contractual obligations in order to manage our relationship with you.
· Contact information, such as your name, your position at the company you represent, phone number and email address;
· Payment information, including invoice details, bank accounts and payment history; and
· Previous purchases, including previous purchases, payment and credit history and service contacts.
Our legal basis for processing:Performance of contract or legitimate interest; when it is necessary to process your personal data as part of entering into and performing a contract:
· between you and RTK Mapping, we base our processing on the contract; and/or
· between the legal entity you are a representative of and RTK Mapping, we base our processing on legitimate interest.
Legal obligation; when we process personal data in accordance with a legal obligation.
How we share and transfer your data:To fulfil our undertakings to customers or stakeholders, we may share personal data with third parties including our:
· RTK Mapping Suppliers, Business Partners; and
· IT-suppliers.
We will not transfer your personal data outside the EU/EEA within the scope of this processing activity.
How long we keep your data:We will keep your personal data as long as we have a contractual relationship with you or the company you represent, and for a period of two (2) years after such contract or relationship has ended or when we receive information that the company you represent has appointed a new representative.
Further, your personal data may be kept for some time after :
What we do and why:The personal data that we process:We process your personal data to be able to offer product support for products you or the company you represent have ordered from us.
If you contact us for service or support, we will use your personal data in order to properly respond to your requests and help you in an effective manner.
· Contact information, such as your name, your position at the company you represent, phone number and email address;
· Payment information, including invoice details, bank accounts and payment history; and
· Previous purchases, including previous purchases, payment and credit history and service contacts.
Our legal basis for processing:Performance of contract or legitimate interest; when it is necessary to process your personal data as part of entering into and performing a contract:
· between you and RTK Mapping, we base our processing on the contract; and/or
· between the legal entity you are a representative of and RTK Mapping, we base our processing on legitimate interest.
Legitimate interest; if you communicate with Handheld without any connection to an agreement with us, we will base our processing of your personal data on legitimate interest, where our legitimate interest is to respond to your requests and questions.
How we share and transfer your data:To fulfil our undertakings to customers or stakeholders, we may share personal data with third parties including our:
· RTK Mapping affiliates;
· Resellers and Business Partners; and
· IT-suppliers.
We will not transfer your personal data outside the EU/EEA within the scope of this processing activity.
How long we keep your data:We will keep your personal data as long as our communication is on-going and we provide you with service or support, and for a period of two (2) years after the agreement our communication is connected to has ended.
Where our processing is based on legitimate interest, we will keep your personal data for as long as our communications in the matter is on-going and we provide you with service or support, and for a period of one (1) year after.
What we do and why:The personal data that we process:Your personal data may be processed to help us to enhance, modify or personalise or otherwise improve our products and/or services and communications for the benefit or our customers.
This means that we might use information connected to your purchases of, or interest you have shown in, our products or services.
· Contact information, such as your name, your position at the company you represent, phone number and email address;
· Payment information, including invoice details, bank accounts and payment history; and
· Previous purchases, including previous purchases, payment and credit history and service contacts.
Our legal basis for processing:Legitimate interest; where our legitimate interest is to improve our products and services as well as to make our customer experience better.How we share and transfer your data:To fulfil our undertakings to customers or stakeholders, we may share personal data with third parties including our:
· RTK Mapping affiliates;
· Resellers and business partners;
· IT-suppliers; and
· Google Analytics, as a provider of analytic tools.
We will not transfer your personal data outside the EU/EEA within the scope of this processing activity.
How long we keep your data:We will keep your personal data as long as we have a contractual relationship or a business relation with you and for a period of two (2) years after.
What we do and why:The personal data that we process:We may process your personal data in our marketing channels to enable us to share relevant marketing content and information about our products with you. We may also send you newsletters and case studies, to give you a broader knowledge of our industry.
We use your information, including personal data to operate, provide, improve, and maintain our website, to prevent abuse and fraud, to personalise and display advertisements and other content for you.
We want our customers to be able to receive as relevant information as possible, however, you may always use the opt-out procedure if you no longer want to receive our communications, by clicking ’unsubscribe’ in the latest communication you received from us.
On an aggregated basis we use anonymised data to improve our marketing activities.
· Contact information, such as your name, your position at the company you represent, phone number and email address;
· Payment information, including invoice details, bank accounts and payment history;
· Previous purchases, including previous purchases, payment and credit history and service contacts; and
· Device information, including IP address, language settings, browser settings and operating system.
Our legal basis for processing:Legitimate interest; wherein it is our legitimate interest to be able to market ourselves and our services.
Consent; gathering of information through the use of cookies or other similar technologies is done on the basis of your consent, except where such use is strictly necessary to the foundational functions of the website. For more information on how we use cookies and other similar technologies, please see our Cookie Policy.
How we share and transfer your data:To enable marketing communication, we may share personal data with third parties including our;
· RTK Mapping affiliates;
· IT-suppliers;
· Google Ads, as a provider of digital marketing tools; and
· Google Analytics and as a provider of analytic tools.
When we share personal data with Google LLC, it is possible that personal data will be transferred to the USA.
You will find more information regarding how we transfer personal data under section 8 below.
How long we keep your data: We process and keep your information for a period of fourteen (14) months. You can opt-out of receiving the marketing messages at any time. A procedure for opt-out is included in every marketing message.
Personal data may also be transformed into aggregated data (thus anonymised), used to improve our marketing activities.
In addition to the processing purposes listed above, we may be required to process personal data for additional purposes. This might be to tell you about changes to our terms, conditions and policies or to share personal data with authorities, if we are required to do so by law or with your consent.
We may also be required to keep certain personal data for longer periods of time e.g., to be able to establish, exercise, and/or defend against legal claims. We will generally process such personal data for ten (10) years from creation or for the time necessary to fulfil the purpose in the relevant case. This processing of your personal data is based on our legitimate interest of establishing and/or defending legal claims.
Additionally, we may also be required to process personal data to comply with legal obligations e.g., relating to bookkeeping or tax legislation, or if we are ordered to process personal data (including disclosing it) by a competent court or government authority.
We use analytic tools and other third-party tracking technologies, such as Google Analytics, that enable, among other things, to collect information in the form of various usage and user metrics when you use our website. These tools will be used to improve the functions and user experience of our websites, as well as build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other websites. They are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device. For more information on how we use cookies and other similar technologies, please see our Cookie Policy at :
RTK Mapping is committed to safeguard your privacy and personal data and have taken measures to ensure that your personal data is handled in a safe way. .
Additionally, we will never store any personal data locally. Access to systems where personal data is stored is limited to our employees and service providers who require it in the course of their duties. Such parties are informed of the importance of maintaining security and confidentiality in relation to the personal data we process. We maintain appropriate safeguards and security standards to protect your personal data against unauthorised access, disclosure or misuse. We also monitor our systems to discover vulnerabilities.
We strive to always process your personal data within the EU or EEA. However, if a third country transfer is described in the tables under section 4 above, we will transfer your personal data, to service providers who, either themselves or by their sub-contractors, are located or have business activities in a country outside the EU or EEA. In such cases, we are responsible for ensuring that the transfer is made in accordance with applicable data protection legislation before it occurs, e.g., by ensuring that the country in which the recipient is located ensures an adequate level of data protection according to the European Commission, or by ensuring appropriate safeguards based on the use of standard contractual clauses that the European Commission has adopted and other appropriate measures to safeguard your rights and freedoms.
You may access a list of the countries that the European Commission has decided provide an adequate level of data protection at http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/international-transfers/adequacy/index_en.htm.
You may access the European Commission’s standard contractual clauses at https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/en/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32021D0914.
In this section we describe your rights as a data subject. You can exercise them by contacting us using the contact information at the end of this document. Please note that not all rights listed below are absolute and there are exemptions which can be valid. Your rights are the following:
You have the right upon request to get a copy of your personal data which we process and to get complementary information regarding our processing of your personal data.
You have the right to have your personal data rectified and/or complemented if they are wrong and/or incomplete.
You have the right to request that we erase your personal data without undue delay in the following circumstances: (i) the personal data is no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed; (ii) you withdraw your consent on which the processing is based (if applicable) and there is no other legal ground for the processing; (iii) you object to our processing of personal data, and we do not have any overriding legitimate grounds for the processing; (iv) the processed personal data is unlawfully processed; or (v) the processed personal data has to be erased for compliance with legal obligations.
You have the right to restrict the processing of your personal data in the following circumstances: (i) you contest the accuracy of the personal data during a period enabling us to verify the accuracy of such data; (ii) the processing is unlawful, and you oppose erasure of the personal data and request restriction instead; (iii) the personal data is no longer needed for the purposes of the processing, but are necessary for you for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims; or (iv) you have objected to the processing of the personal data, pending the verification whether our legitimate grounds for our processing override your interests, rights and freedoms.
If your personal data has been provided by you and our processing of your personal data is based on your consent or on the performance of a contract with you, you have the right to receive the personal data concerning you in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format in order to transmit these to another service provider where it would be technically feasible and can be carried out by automated means.
You have the general right to object to our processing of your personal data when it is based on our legitimate interest. If you object and we believe that we may still process your personal data, we must demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms, or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
You have the right to at any time object to processing which is done for the purpose of direct marketing. If you object to such processing, we will no longer process your data for such purposes.
In UK, the Information Commissioner's Office (https://ico.org.uk/) is the authority responsible for supervising the application of current data protection legislation. If you believe that we process your personal data in a wrongful manner, we encourage you to contact us so that we can review your concerns. However, you may file a complaint with the https://ico.org.uk/ for Privacy Protection at any time.
If you have any questions or suggestions about our Privacy Policy or how we process your personal data, do not hesitate to contact us at the following contact details:
RTK Mapping Ltd
Phone: +44(0)7414965056
E-mail: d.cawsey@rtkmapping.com
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