At FREUND, we respect your right to privacy and we understand you need to be in control of your personal information.
Consent
When submitting your information to FREUND in the form of a business card, email, etc, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.
Collection of Personal Information
“Personal information” includes, but is not limited to, name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address. We adopted this Privacy Policy to inform you how FREUND collects, stores and uses your Personal Information submitted via the site. Certain features on our website may require users to register or to provide Personal Information in order to request or receive services or information, download marketing materials or manuals, or to subscribe to newsletters. Such Personal Information is not shared, rented, swapped, sold, or otherwise disclosed to third parties, except to the extent necessary to provide services or information requested by you. We will also share your Personal Information with third parties if this is legally permissible and/or required by law (e.g. Article 6 Paragraph 1 GDPR). We may share your personal information with other FREUND affiliates worldwide.
Mailing Lists
If you provide your e-mail address we may contact you periodically with newsletters and information about new services. Any e-mail sent by us provides the option to be removed from the e-mail mailing list. If you wish to be removed from the mailing list, you may do so by contacting us directly.
Financial Information
We do not retain any financial information pertaining to the users of this website. If financial information is given to FREUND at any time (such as credit card information), FREUND will not retain or redistribute this information beyond the specific transaction.
Links
Our site includes links to other websites whose privacy policies we don’t control. Once you leave our servers (you can check where you are by checking the URL in the location bar on your browser), use of any information you provide is governed by the privacy policy of the operator of the site you are visiting. That policy may differ from ours. If you can’t find the privacy policy of any of these sites via a link from the site’s homepage, you should contact the site directly for more information we are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites.
Cookies
We use cookies to allow site users to move from one page to the next without having to re-enter information. We do not use cookies to track user sessions, and we do not use or share information transferred through cookies with third parties for marketing or other purposes. If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accept cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser. When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices, Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed. You may refuse the use of cookies by adjusting the browser privacy settings, however, please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of FREUND website.
Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). The Google Analytics uses cookies and the information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website provider. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however, as mentioned above please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of FREUND website.
Security
To ensure the confidentiality of your information, FREUND has adopted industry standard. It is, however, your personal responsibility to ensure that the computer you are using is sufficiently secured and protected against malicious software.
Children
We do not solicit personal information from children.
How to Update or Delete your Personal Information
You can help us maintain the accuracy of your Personal Information by notifying us when you change your address, title, phone number, or e-mail address. If at any time you wish to update your information, contact us by e-mail at: contact@freundglobal.com. Please include your old and new contact information so that we can make the appropriate corrections. Also, you have the right to oppose the use of your personal data at any time. To delete your Personal Information, please contact us by email at contact@freundglobal.com.
Sale of Business
Although we will not share, rent, swap, sell, or otherwise disclose the Personal Information we collect, all the information may be transferred to a third party as part of a merger or the sale of the substantially all the assets of the business to which the information pertains.
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
We are a Data Controller of your information for the purpose of the GDPR. If you are a citizen of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights under the GDPR. If you wish to be informed what Personal Information we hold about you and if you want it to be removed from our systems, please contact us. In certain circumstances, you have the following data protection rights:
- The right to access, update or to delete the information we have on you.
- The right of rectification.
- The right to object.
- The right of restriction.
- The right to data portability.
- The right to withdraw consent.
The legal basis for collecting and using the Personal Information described in this Privacy Policy depends on the Personal Information we collect and the specific context in which we collect the information:
- We need to perform a contract with you
- You have given us permission to do so
- Processing your personal information is in our legitimate interests
- We need to comply with the law
We will retain your Personal Information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our policies.
Updates and Effective Date
From time to time, FREUND may revise this Privacy Policy. Any such changes to this Privacy Policy will be promptly communicated on this page. Your new visit will then be subject to the new Privacy Policy. The effective date of this Privacy Policy is February 1, 2019.