BEWI Invest (“BEWI”) is committed to protect and respect your privacy. We want you to feel safe when we process your personal data. This privacy statement explains how we ensure that your personal data are handled in compliance with applicable legislation.
We use your personal data to enable us to operate our business and meet our obligations and responsibilities to you, as well as applicable laws and directives and good industry practices. This privacy statement applies to you as a subscriber to our press releases, job applicant or contact person from one of our collaborative partners, customers, suppliers or investors. This privacy statement also applies to you if we process your personal data connected to a process of due diligence during a potential acquisition of a company performed by or on behalf of BEWI.
BEWI is the personal data controller for the processing of your personal data and is responsible for ensuring that the processing is carried out according to applicable legislation. Our contact details are at the end of this privacy statement.
IF YOU ARE A CONTACT PERSON FROM ONE OF OUR COLLABORATIVE PARTNERS, CUSTOMERS, SUPPLIERS, OR INVESTORS
BEWI processes your contact details, such as name, job title, email, phone number, and address, in order to effectively manage our contract and our business relationship with you or the company or organisation that you act on behalf of and where applicable, for the establishment and defence of legal claims. We process your personal data based on our and your employer’s (if applicable) legitimate interests for the performance and management of the contract or to safeguard our legal interests. To administrate the agreement, the data will be retained as long as the contract is in force and for one year after that or such longer period as required by law.
IF YOU APPLY FOR A JOB POSITION AT BEWI THROUGH OUR WEBSITE OR OTHERWISE
BEWI usually collects your personal data when you apply for a job with us. We may also collect your personal data from third parties during our recruitment process. We collect data:
We may also collect or receive information about you from other sources, such as
Processing is necessary prior to entering into an employment contract with you, e.g., for administering your application, managing the recruitment process, and assessing and confirming your suitability for employment.
We also need to process personal data to comply with our legal obligations under applicable legislation, such as labour law, and to respond to your request to exercise your rights under the GDPR.
Finally, processing is necessary for the purpose of our legitimate interests of the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims, such as the Discrimination Act.
If we employ you, any relevant personal data collected during your pre-employment period will become part of your personnel records and will be retained following our privacy statement for employees.
Suppose we do not employ you, and you have given us your consent to stay in our recruitment database. In that case, we will retain your personal data for a limited time to consider you for future employment opportunities based on your consent.
IF YOU SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PRESS RELEASES
BEWI will process your email address when you subscribe to receive our press releases. In this case, the processing of your personal data is based on your consent. You can unsubscribe from this mailing list at any time, in which case we will delete your email address from our systems.
MARKETING
We may market our business operations and invite you to events. We base this processing on a legitimate interest, as we assess that our interest in sending you general or segmented marketing overrides your interest in protecting your privacy.
FOR COMPANY TAKE-OVERS
We may process your personal data in connection with a potential acquisition of a company or a restructuring of BEWI. We base this processing on a legitimate interest, as we assess that our interest in enabling and evaluating an acquisition or a restructuring process overrides your interest in protecting your privacy. We will retain your personal data during the time of the evaluation of the potential acquisition or restructuring process and (i) in case the acquisition or restructuring is completed for ten years after that and (ii) in case the acquisition or restructuring is not completed, for one year after such decision; or, in both cases, such more extended period as required by law. If BEWI ceases to exist, e.g. by winding-up or bankruptcy, your personal data will be erased as long as they are not required to be retained for compliance with a legal obligation.
If BEWI is acquired by a company or split up in connection with a restructuring, the acquiring company will retain and process your personal data following this privacy statement if you are not given information stating otherwise in connection with the takeover.
WHEN YOU VISIT OUR WEBSITE
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WHERE DO YOUR PERSONAL DATA COME FROM?
The personal data we use about you are data you have provided us with. We may also collect data from other sources, such as suppliers and authorities.
FOR HOW LONG DO WE RETAIN YOUR PERSONAL DATA?
We retain your personal data only for as long as necessary for the purposes we initially gathered them following this privacy statement (please see “Our processing of your personal data”). When we no longer need to retain your data, we will remove them from our systems, databases and backups. We may also need to retain your personal data for other reasons, e.g., to comply with legal requirements, safeguard our legal interests, or any other significant public interest. The retention time depends on the context and cannot, in all cases, be specified in advance.
BEWI may disclose your personal data to a third party, such as IT providers and companies with which we have a business relationship, for the purpose of providing our services. We have concluded data protection agreements with these parties. We share your data with Cision AB for the distribution of press releases if you are a subscriber. Our newsletter is sent through MailChimp; you can read our newsletter privacy statement here.
In certain circumstances, we may also need to disclose data upon the request of authorities, the Oslo stock exchange, exchanges, or third parties in connection with legal obligations, court proceedings, or other similar processes based on our legitimate interests to prevent and detect criminal activity and to represent our interests during processes. We will not sell your personal data to anyone else.
WHERE DO WE PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA?
BEWI processes your personal data within the EU/EEA. Some of our partners may process personal data outside the EU/EEA, in which case we apply appropriate safeguards as EU law requires.
RIGHT TO WITHDRAW CONSENT
You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time when you have given your consent for a specific type of processing. If you withdraw your consent, we will stop processing your personal data for the purpose for which you had given your consent and will erase the processed personal data only based on consent.
RIGHT TO ACCESS
You have the right to obtain information about which personal data we hold about you and how we process these data. You also have the right to be provided with a copy of this information.
RIGHT TO RECTIFICATION AND ERASURE
You have the right to have inaccurate data corrected and completed. In certain circumstances, you also have the right to have your personal data erased, for example, if the data are no longer necessary for the purpose for which we originally collected them.
RIGHT TO OBJECT AND RIGHT TO RESTRICT PROCESSING
You have the right to object to your data being used for direct marketing purposes, where we are relying on the lawful basis of legitimate interest for the processing of the data. You also have the right to request the restriction of your personal data, e.g., if you consider that the data are inaccurate.
RIGHT TO DATA PORTABILITY
You have the right to obtain the personal data that you have provided us with when our lawful basis for processing is consent or for the performance of a contract. The data are provided in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format, and you also have the right to request that the data be transmitted to another data controller, where this is technically feasible.
COMPLAINTS
If you believe your personal data is being processed in breach of the applicable data protection legislation. In that case, you have the right to complain to our privacy officer via privacy@BEWI.com or with your local Data Protection Authority.
WE PROTECT YOUR PERSONAL DATA
We want you to feel confident about providing us with your personal data. BEWI has, therefore, taken appropriate security measures to protect your personal data against unauthorised access, alterations and erasure. Security breaches are reported via internal mechanisms and to the authorities when needed. Should a security breach occur that may materially impact you or your personal data, e.g. when there is a risk of fraud or identity theft, we will contact you to tell you what you can do to mitigate potential adverse effects of the breach.
BEWI has the right to change this Privacy Statement at any time. When we make changes that are not purely formatting or typographical error corrections, we will inform you clearly of them and what they mean for you before they become effective.
Do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions about this Privacy Statement, our processing of your personal data or if you wish to exercise your rights.
BEWI Invest
Att. the Responsible for privacy and GDPR
Dyre Halses Gate 1A,
N-7042 Trondheim, Norway
Dyre Halses Gate 1A
N-7042 TRONDHEIM
info@bewiinvest.no