Privacy Policy
SCHOELLER-BLECKMANN OILFIELD EQUIPMENT Aktiengesellschaft (SBO) takes the protection of your personal data very seriously and abides strictly by the rules of data protection. Where we purchase third party data services in the ordinary course of business, we take care that we make use of services providers only, who meet the requirements of integrity and confidentiality as provided for by law. On 25 May 2018, Regulation (EU) No 2016/679 (EU-General Data Protection Regulation) has entered into effect which forms the basis for SBO’s protection of natural persons in the processing of personal data.
This privacy policy summarizes how SBO assures the protection of your personal data, which categories of data are collected, and for what purpose(s). It applies to the processing of personal data by SBO and of SBO’s group companies making reference to this privacy policy.
Which personal data do we gather and for what purposes?
SBO gathers information required for initiation and execution of contracts and orders with our suppliers and customers and contact data for initiation and maintenance of business relationships to suppliers, customers and other business partners. In some cases, those personal data are processed for (direct) marketing purposes also. In addition, we entertain an Investor Relations Information Service (IRIS), which has been established for the purposes of reporting and disclosure of information to the capital market and members of the capital market and our shareholders. The information we gather derives from the following sources:
- Information you provide to us: We store and process personal data you give us in direct communication with you, electronically or in any other way. The data we process contains, in particular, contact details (name, address, telephone number, e-mail, company and function), contact and event history and e-mail content.
- E-Mail Communication: We store and process personal data you provide to us in our e-mail communication with you and keep record of this data for the aforementioned purposes. The data we process contains, in particular, contact details (name, address, telephone number, e-mail, company and function), and contact and event history.
- Organic information: For the purposes of job processing, we store and process data such as products and order specifications as well as job status and history, which we put into relation with your personal data.
- Information from other sources: We store and process personal data we receive from common business partners and others for the aforementioned purposes, including personal data we take from press releases and public media. The data we process contains, in particular, contact details (name, address, telephone number, e-mail, company and function).
Depending on the case, we process personal data based on consent, for the performance of a contract to which you are party or in order to take steps prior to entering into a contract with us, or for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject. Otherwise, where we deem necessary for the purposes of ‘legitimate interests’, in particular, to maintain personal contact with you and for the purposes of capital market communication. Upon your handing over of business cards or vCards, we deem given your consent for the processing of those contact data for respective purposes to the extent in line with general customs in the world of business.
In certain cases, provision of your personal data is a statutory or contractual requirement, or a requirement necessary for entering into a contract. Where you are obliged to provide personal data, will inform you of the possible consequences of failure to provide such data, if not obvious from the circumstances.
In addition, what personal data is gathered when using SBO’s website(s) and for what purposes?
SBO maintains its website(s) to furnish its stakeholders and the general public with information on the company. Visitors get free online access to press releases and publications by SBO, to information about products and services and other information of the company. You may register to receive newsletters about new publications and to request certain documents. When you enter your personal data into one of our forms, you consent to the processing of such data for respective purposes. You are entitled to withdraw consent in line with what is set out below.
Data are collected on an automated basis only in connection with trackers and cookies. In general, those do not contain personal data. For more information on trackers and cookies click here.
Please note that SBO’s website(s) are managed by each SBO group company individually; for further information on the content of the website www.sbo.at please contact the Investor Relations (IR) department of SBO at investor.relations@sbo.co.at.
Who has access to your personal data and to whom is it disclosed?
We take care that access to personal data within SBO is restricted to only those persons, who need to have access based on their tasks and responsibilities.
In general, we do not disclose, or transfer personal data to third parties or countries, unless upon your request. What we may do, from time to time, however, is to transfer personal data within SBO – including the SBO group – as requested by the specific task. Any transfer is made only to the extent necessary for the fulfilment of the purpose(s) identified above and provided that applicable legislation on the protection and processing of your personal data is not infringed by such transfer.
How long do we keep your personal data?
We do not process or store your personal data longer than necessary for the given purposes and implement technical and organizational measures for the observance of limitation periods within SBO. In general, limitation periods conform to the duration of the business relationship with you, or the period we have legitimate interests to maintain contact with you.
You can ask at any moment to obtain confirmation as to whether or not personal data concerning you is still being processed and your personal data to be erased, in particular, if your personal data are no longer required in relation to the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed.
How do we protect and safeguard your personal data?
SBO has implemented technical and organizational measures to restrict access to your personal data to only those persons, who need to have access based on their tasks and responsibilities. Employees having access to your personal data are familiar with the data protection provisions relevant to their work. Your personal data are processed on a database implemented in a secure server environment. Security assessments are made insofar as necessary to detect the existence of a potential security risk.
Should – despite technical and organizational measures – a data breach occur, we have notification procedures in place and will do our best to mitigate the risks of such data breach.
How can you verify, modify or erase your personal data?
Processing of your personal data by SBO comes along with a number of rights you are entitled to with respect to such data. Please note that you do not have direct access to those data. Verification, modification or erasure requested can be exercised via e-mail to the contact set out in section “contact information” below.
As ‘data subject’, you are entitled to request, at any time, confirmation as to whether personal data concerning you are being processed, and, where that is the case, access to those data including information on the purposes of their processing, the categories of the data concerned, the recipients or categories of recipients, where possible the envisaged period for which they will be stored or the criteria used to determine that period, and their source.
We are more than happy to rectify, upon your request, any of your personal data that turns out to be inaccurate or incomplete, a request you are also entitled to. Insofar as technically feasible, you may ask to have your personal data transmitted in electronic form. On the other hand, you may, with only very few limitations, request erasure of your personal data and, where the processing is based on consent, withdraw your consent for the same outcome. In many cases, you will be interested to request restriction of processing, rather than erasure of your personal data, in which cases they are processed further with your consent only. Should the processing be legitimate for other purposes, and we therefore refuse erasure, we will furnish you with respective notice.
What can you do against processing of your personal data by SBO if SBO claims ‘legitimate interests” as legal ground for the processing?
Where we process your personal data based on ‘legitimate interests’, rather than on consent, for the performance of a contract, or on a legal obligation, you have the right to object to the processing at any time, and request restriction of processing, until decision as regards lawfulness of processing has been made by us. Please make sure that your request outlines the grounds relating to your particular situation, supporting your interest in not having processed your personal data, or a short note should the processing have been made for direct marketing purposes.
Should the handling of your request not be satisfactory to you, you may lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority responsible as regards data protection. The same applies in cases where you consider that the processing of your personal data infringes applicable data protection rules and regulations.
Contact information
If you have questions in connection with the processing of your personal data by SBO, please contact the person within SBO you are in contact with on a regular basis, or otherwise the Group Compliance Management at
Schoeller-Bleckmann Oilfield Equipment AG
Group Compliance Management
Hauptstrasse 2
2630 Ternitz
Austria
Tel.: +43 2630 315-0
E-Mail: compliance@sbo.co.at
Group Compliance Management
Hauptstrasse 2
2630 Ternitz
Austria
Tel.: +43 2630 315-0
E-Mail: compliance@sbo.co.at
Any request as regards verification, modification or erasure will be answered by SBO without undue delay within one month of receipt of the request in the form of an e-mail. Please contact the Group Compliance Management should your request not have been answered within this period.
