Privacy Policy

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This Privacy Policy was last updated on November 2nd, 2022.

General Information

Data protection has a high priority for Simplexity. We comply with the data protection legislation of the countries in which we do business to the best of our abilities. Internal data protection measures ensure that consistent data protection standards apply at Simplexity. Our employees are obligated to comply with statutory and internal data protection regulations and to treating your data as confidential.

CCPA Notice

The California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA) is the State of California’s new data privacy law that grants California consumers broad rights to control their “personal information.” Although Simplexity does not deal with consumers, the CCPA does require that we inform our job applications about what type of personal information we collect during the application process and during the course of your employment. To that end, please find more information below:

If you are California resident, this serves as notice under the California Consumer Privacy Act that we collect the following categories of personal information from applicants: We do not collect any information from you, except what you willingly share with us, e.g. your curriculum vitae or cover letter.

Your Data

1. Users of our website, integrated online services and portals

As users of our website, integrated online services and portals, we process the personal data that you actively and voluntarily provide us with, for example, by contacting us or registering to use services offered by us.

Such data may include your name, your contact details (usually business details), such as your mailing address, e-mail address and phone number, your access data for using services on our website that are subject to registration, as well as information about your request, your contracts with us, projects, and your interests.

We might collect and process technical connection data sent to us by the device being used by you (such as your IP address, browser type, data and time of your query) and set cookies.

Information on the processing of the personal data of children: To protect children, Simplexity has decided not to process data from persons under the age of 18 ("children"). Visitors under the age of 18 should therefore not make their data available to Simplexity, in other words, not use the areas in which personal data such as name and address are required.

2. Business Partners

Business partners are all parties with whom Simplexity maintains an active business relationship or with whom it is initiating such a relationship. In particular, contact persons at customers, prospective customers, suppliers, sales partners and service providers are affected by the processing of personal data.

We process personal data that we receive from you through use of one or more of the following channels:

  • Business relationships
  • Visits to trade fairs, attendance of events
  • Use of our website, integrated online services and portals

Such data may include your name, your business contact details, such as your mailing address, e-mail address and phone number, payment information, information about your request, your contracts with us, your projects and your interests.

3. Applicants

In the context of applications, we collect and process your personal data such as:

  • Your name and your contact data (e.g. address, email address, phone number etc.)
  • Personal data you provide in your CV (e.g. date of birth, photo, nationality, education, qualifications, degrees, work experiences, etc.)

4. Purpose for processing the data

We process your personal data in accordance with the applicable data protection law in particular to:

  • Deal with your queries, orders, applications, etc.
  • Manage and perform business relationships
  • Prepare, conclude and/or implement contracts
  • Enable you to use our website, integrated online services and portals
  • Plan and stage events
  • Administrate and perform direct marketing activities and to carry out customer satisfaction surveys
  • Analyze and optimize the usage of our website and online services
  • Evaluate business relevant purposes (e.g. expected purchase behavior, interest evaluation)
  • Ensure the security and safety of our website through appropriate technical and organizational measures
  • Protect our applications and products against security risks and criminal activities
  • Carry out obliged sanction list screenings within a legally compliant framework
  • Enable the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims

5. Legal basis

We process your personal data based on one or more of the following legal grounds: To perform a contract with you; To comply with legal obligations; To safeguard Simplexity’s legitimate interests. Simplexity has legitimate interests in processing your data for the following purposes:

  • To manage, perform and improve the website, integrated online services and portals
  • To initiate, manage and perform business relationships
  • To comply with industry and other standards that Simplexity has voluntarily subjected itself
  • To protect Simplexity’s products, facilities, rights and interests
  • To establish, exercise or defend legal claims

Where and as permitted under applicable law, Simplexity may process your personal data for direct marketing purposes (e.g. newsletters) as well as to carry out customer satisfaction surveys. You may revoke your consent or object to the processing of your personal data any time without having to state a reason.amework.

6. Duration of storage

Your personal data is retained only for as long as it is required for the specified purposes, unless there are more extensive statutory or contractual retention obligations (such as retention obligations under commercial and tax law).

Your Rights

1. Right of data subjects

You have the right to demand that Simplexity provides you with access to and information on the personal data it has stored concerning you. You also have the right to demand rectification and erasure of data or restriction to processing of it, as well as the right to demand that the stored data be transferred to you or a third party named by you in a suitable form.

You may object to the processing of your personal data for purposes of direct advertising. If we process your personal data to protect Simplexity’s legitimate interests, you may object to this processing for reasons based on your specific situation. We will then stop processing your data unless it is predominantly used to serve interests worthy of protection on our part.

2. Withdrawal of consent

The declarations of consent you give us are voluntary and you can withdraw your consent at any time with future effect by contacting [email protected]. Consent cannot be withdrawn retroactively since, once data has been processed, processing of it cannot be undone.

Others

If you use the below mentioned services, you will access the website via a frame. We have no influence on the scope of your personal data being processed and the handling of your data by the mentioned service providers, which result from access to the website. The mentioned service providers are themselves legally responsible for this. You can find more information on how your personal data is handled here: YouTube (videos)

The social media link embedded on our websites (YouTube, LinkedIn, etc.) are not integrated via so-called plug-ins. When you visit our website, no direct link to social media servers will be established. When you click a social media button, you will be transferred to the selected social media service. Simplexity accepts no responsibility for the content of other providers’ websites.