This Policy provides an overview of how Aizoh Holding Limited, together with its subsidiaries (collectively hereinafter referred to as ” Aizoh”), collects your personal data, how it handles it, and how it protects your privacy.
Aizoh is a group of companies that act as joint controllers of your personal data. It means that the companies of the group jointly determine the purposes and means of personal data processing.
Aizoh data protection officer can be contacted at info[at]aizoh.com
Aizoh may collect your personal data that you provide to it, for example, when you contact Aizoh electronically or respond to an email from Aizoh. Aizoh may collect your business contact details when you exchange business cards with Aizoh representatives at meetings and events, or when you provide your cont acts to sign up for Aizoh events. When submitting your request/inquiry on Aizoh websites, you may be asked for information such as, but not limited to, your full name, email address, phone number, company you work for or own and/or country where you reside or work.
When contacting Aizoh through live chats on its websites, you may be asked for information such as, but not limited to, your name and email address. This is needed when we are not ready to answer you immediately and need more time to handle your request. When you give Aizoh your personal data in live chat, we assume that you consent to processing it by Aizoh. By using cookies, Aizoh may collect details of your visits to its websites such as, but not limited to, the pages you visited, the date, time and duration of your visit and/or your IP address as well as the browser you use and its version, your operating system and its version, your city and state.
It is Aizoh policy to collect only the minimum information required to handle and complete your request/inquiry or to reach other purposes for which Aizoh processes your personal data. If you believe Aizoh websites have collected excessive information about you, please contact Aizoh through the request/inquiry form to raise your concerns.
Aizoh does not intend to collect sensitive information through its websites unless it is legally required to do so. Examples of sensitive information include race or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, physical or mental health, genetic data, biometric data, sexual life or sexual orientation, and criminal records. Aizoh asks that you do not provide sensitive data of such nature when using its websites. When you submit your request/inquiry on Aizoh websites, Aizoh uses your data on the basis of your consent. In other cases, when you voluntarily exchange business contact details with Aizoh, Aizoh sends you information or marketing communications on the basis of its legitimate interests in maintaining a business relationship with you or companies you work for or represent and/or on the basis of your consent (when it is technically possible to collect your freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous consent). Cookies are used on the basis of your consent and/or Aizoh legitimate interest described below.
Aizoh may use your data to interact with you and/or respond to your requests/inquiries, to negotiate, perform or facilitate a contract with you or related to you, to send you invitations to events it organizes, to share with you information you might be interested in and/or to inform you about its services. Aizoh may also use your personal data to comply with law, regulations, public authority requests or court orders. These are examples of purposes for which Aizoh may use personal data you provide to it:
Aizoh websites do not collect or compile personally identifying information for sale to third parties for consumer marketing purposes.
Cookies are small text files that may be placed and stored on your computer/device allowing internet access when you visit Aizoh websites.
Aizoh uses cookies to collect your IP address and browsing information. Aizoh websites also remember your system and preferences. Cookies are placed on your computer/device only if you consent to it, unless cookies are necessary for strictly technical functionality of Aizoh websites.
In order to record and analyze how visitors use Aizoh websites as well as to improve visitors’ experience, Aizoh collects details of your visits by using Google Analytics. Google Analytics places and uses cookies that allow Aizoh to track website traffic and users’ interaction with Aizoh websites.
Aizoh may use cookies to record your consents on its websites (e.g., the consent to the use of cookies)
Aizoh uses a third-party provider Drift to enable and support live chats on its websites. Cookies in these chats allow Aizoh to see the pages you visit, the browser you use and its version, your operating system and its version, your IP address as well as your city and state. This technology helps Aizoh compile analytics to improve its websites and their functionality.
Aizoh uses cookies on the basis of its legitimate interest in ensuring the technical functionality of its websites. When Aizoh uses cookies to remember your choices or for analytics, the legal basis for the use is your consent. You can opt-out from analytics by disabling cookies through your browser settings
Please note that if you disable or refuse cookies, Aizoh websites or their parts may become inaccessible, not function properly or you may not be able to use some of the interactive features of Aizoh websites.
Aizoh may disclose your personal data to (1) its employees who are in contact with you or who are responsible for marketing, (2) other companies of Aizoh (some of them are located outside the European Union), (3) third-party service providers.
Statistical data about Aizoh websites’ visitors may be accessed by (1) Aizoh employees in marketing and/or IT departments who are responsible for analysing such data and for improving Aizoh websites, (2) other companies of Aizoh (some of them are located outside the European Union), (3) third-party service providers.
Aizoh is a multinational group of companies. For this reason, your personal data may be transferred to and stored outside the country where you are located. This includes countries outside the European Economic Area with no adequate level of personal data protection (third countries).
As some of the countries where our offices are situated are not yet recognized by the European Commission as countries with an adequate level of personal data protection, these offices have access to personal data on the basis of instruments that cover the European Union requirements for the transfer of personal data to data controllers/processors outside the European Union (Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the European Commission). You may ask Aizoh to inspect copies of these clauses by contacting its data protection officer.
Aizoh will retain your personal information in its systems only for as long as Aizoh needs it, given the purposes for which it was collected, or as required to do so by law.
Under your local laws and the European Union legislation, you may exercise the following rights by submitting your request/inquiry on Aizoh websites:
In some cases, you may also have a right (1) to request restriction on processing of your personal data or (2) to object to processing of your personal data.
There are cases when Aizoh can retain copies of the personal data you requested it to erase. They concern the necessity to protect legitimate interests of Aizoh or third parties, comply with governmental orders, resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems, or enforce any agreement you have formed with Aizoh