Privacy Notice

a. Personal Data actively provided by you:

If you create a user account on our Website, you will be asked to provide the following personal data about you: Name, postal address, email address, selected password. Sika Limited processes such personal data for the purpose of providing our services to you. Providing such personal data is voluntary. However, without providing such personal data, you will not be able to create a user account. The legal basis for the processing of such personal data is the contract on the use of the Website concluded with you (Art. 6 (1) lit. b GDPR).

If you register for the newsletter and consent to the receipt of newsletters and the processing of your email address for this purpose, you will be asked to provide your email address. We will use your email address for regularly sending you newsletters. Providing your email address is voluntary. However, without providing your email address you will not receive newsletters. The legal basis for the processing of your personal data for sending newsletters is consent (Art. 6 (1) lit. a GDPR).

b. Other passively collected information:

In addition to the personal data that you actively provide, the Website may automatically collect, process and store certain information on a pseudonymous basis from you:

• Device and usage information – that may include (i) information specific to the used device to access the Website (including, but not limited to, model, operating system, IP address, language, carrier and similar information) and (ii) information about the use of features, functions, or notifications on the device, to recognize you and to analyze trends;
• Website analytics – such as how often a user uses the Website, aggregated usage, performance data. We use Website analytics to allow us to better understand the functionality and use of our Website. The legal basis for this purpose are our legitimate interests (Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR) which are the following: to monitor and maintain the performance of the Website and to analyze trends, usage and activities in connection with our Website.  

We also use cookies on the Website. For more information about cookies, please read our Cookie Notice available under the Cookie Preference Center at the bottom of our website page

Sika does not sell any personal data.

a. Transfer to service providers

Sika Limited may engage external service providers, who act as a data processor of Sika Limited, to provide certain services to Sika Limited such as website service providers, marketing service providers or IT support service providers. When providing such services, the external service providers may have access to and/or may process your personal data.Those external service providers will be subject to contractual obligations to implement appropriate technical and organizational security measures to safeguard the personal data and to process the personal data only as instructed.

b. Other recipients

Some of our colleagues administering the Website and providing IT services may be employees of our group companies. When administering the Website our colleagues may have access to and/or may process your personal data. The respective transfer of your personal data is based on our legitimate interests. Our legitimate interests are the transmission of personal data within the group of companies for internal administrative and support purposes. The access is limited to colleagues with a need to know.

Sika Limited may also transfer your personal data to law enforcement agencies, governmental authorities, legal counsel and external consultants in compliance with applicable data protection law. The legal basis for such processing is compliance with a legal obligation to which the Sika Limited is subject to or are legitimate interests, such as exercise or defense of legal claims.

The updated list of data processors and third parties that we share data with is available upon request to the Company at the contact details below specified.

c. International transfers of Personal Data

The personal data that we collect or receive about you may be transferred to and processed by recipients which are located inside or outside the European Economic Area ("EEA") and which do not provide for an adequate level of data protection. The countries that are recognized to provide for an adequate level of data protection from an EU law perspective are Andorra, Argentina, Canada, Switzerland, Faeroe Islands, Guernsey, the State of Israel, Isle of Man, Jersey, New Zealand and the Eastern Republic of Uruguay. Recipients in the US may partially be certified under the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield and thereby deemed to provide for an adequate level of data protection from an EU law perspective. To the extent your personal data are transferred to countries that do not provide for an adequate level of data protection from an EU law perspective, we will base the respective transfer on appropriate safeguards, such as standard data protection clauses adopted by the European Commission. You can ask for a copy of such appropriate safeguards by contacting us as set out in Sec. 5 (Contact us) below. The access is limited to recipients with a need to know.

D. Links to social media profiles

On our website we refer with hyperlinks to social media profiles in social networks. When you actively click on a link to such a profile, your browser establishes a direct connection with servers of the respective social media network, whereby the provider obtains knowledge of your visit. If you are simultaneously logged in to the respective social network, the provider can assign the visit to the profile to your user account. In this context, personal data may be processed in the USA. For more information on the processing of personal data, please refer to the privacy policy of the respective social media network. The purpose of linking our website to social media profiles is to increase the visibility of our website. Clicking on a social media link takes place on the basis of your voluntary decision in accordance with Art. 6 (1)(a) GDPR. The legal basis for any data transfer to the USA is also your voluntarily given consentaccording to Art. 49. (1)(a) GDPR.

If you have declared your consent for any personal data processing activities, you can withdraw this consent at any time with future effect. Such a withdrawal will not affect the lawfulness of the processing prior to the consent withdrawal.

Pursuant to applicable data protection law you may have the right to: request access to your personal data, request rectification of your personal data; request erasure of your personal data, request restriction of processing of your personal data; request data portability, and object to the processing of your personal data. Please note that these aforementioned rights might be limited under the applicable national data protection law. For further information on these rights please refer to Appendix Your Rights. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent data protection supervisory authority. To exercise your rights please contact us as stated in section (5.) below or use the specific web-form “Exercise Your Rights” available on the Company’s Website

Your personal data will be retained as long as necessary to provide you with the services requested. When Sika Limited no longer needs to use your personal data to comply with contractual or statutory obligations, we will remove it from our systems and records and/or take steps to properly anonymize it so that you can no longer be identified from it, unless we need to keep your information, including personal data, to comply with legal or regulatory obligations to which Sika Limited is subject, e.g. statutory retention periods.

If you have concerns or questions regarding this Website Data Processing Notice, please contact us as follows:
Sika Limited, Watchmead, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, AL7 1BQ, privacy@uk.sika.com, 01707 394444.

The contact details of our data protection officer are as follows: privacy@uk.sika.com

You may have the right to obtain from us confirmation as to whether or not personal data concerning you is processed, and, where that is the case, to request access to the personal data. The access information includes – inter alia – the purposes of the processing, the categories of personal data concerned, and the recipients or categories of recipients to whom the personal data have been or will be disclosed. However, this is not an absolute right and the interests of other individuals may restrict your right of access.

You may have the right to obtain a copy of the personal data undergoing processing. For further copies requested by you, we may charge a reasonable fee based on administrative costs.

You may have the right to obtain from us the rectification of inaccurate personal data concerning you. Depending on the purposes of the processing, you may have the right to have incomplete personal data completed, including by means of providing a supplementary statement.

Under certain circumstances, you may have the right to obtain from us the erasure of personal data concerning you and we may be obliged to erase such personal data.

Under certain circumstances, you may have the right to obtain from us restriction of processing your personal data. In this case, the respective data will be marked and may only be processed by us for certain purposes.

Under certain circumstances, you may have the right to receive the personal data concerning you, which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and you may have the right to transmit those data to another entity without hindrance from us.

Under certain circumstances, you may have the right to object, on grounds relating to your particular situation, or where personal data are processed for direct marketing purposes at any time to the processing of your personal data by us and we can be required to no longer process your personal data.

Moreover, if your personal data is processed for direct marketing purposes, you have the right to object at any time to the processing of personal data concerning you for such marketing, which includes profiling to the extent that it is related to such direct marketing. In this case your personal data will no longer be processed for such purposes by us

We deploy links to the various social media channels on our website to promote our business and advertise our products.

 Depending on the social media channel and services used, we might have access to personal data you provided, such as personal information available at your social media profile. However, we do not collect or store such data, but use only data in aggregated form (e.g. number of followers, number of likes, comments or shares) for statistical and analytical purposes.

Sika uses Meta services, for which the provider is:

Meta Platforms Ireland Limited

4 Grand Canal Square

Grand Canal Harbour

Dublin 2 Ireland

 To find out more about Meta Privacy Policy, which applies to most services and products offered by Meta, including Facebook and Instagram, please visit:

https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy

https://privacycenter.instagram.com/policy
 

For the administration of the Sika Facebook Page, Sika is jointly responsible with Facebook for the processing of personal data. In this context we might use “Facebook Insights” function to obtain anonymous statistical data on visitors to our fun page. The statistics are performed using cookies which are stored by Facebook on the visitor’s device. Information on which of the joint controllers meet the obligations under the GDPR with regard to the processing of page insights can be found in the Facebook’s Page Insight Controller Addendum available under the link below. Please, note that the Addendum applies to anyone administratingFacebook Page within the European Economic Area:

https://facebook.com/legal/terms/page_controller_addendum

The so-called "Meta pixel" function is applicable when using the “Facebook
Insights”. Meta pixel enables Facebook to assign the Facebook visitors to
certain groups for the display of specific advertisements and to recognize them in this way. This ensures that these users are only shown ads that are
appropriate to their interests.

For more information about Meta pixel and how it works, visit https://www.facebook.com/business/help/651294705016616.

You can opt out of your Facebook pixel data collection and use of it to display specific ads under the Settings section of your Facebook account. Information about these settings can be found at https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=ads (login required).

If not indicated otherwise, our processing of your personal data is based on our legitimate interest (Art.6 (1), f) GDPR) to provide you an answer to your messages or inquiries and to analyze the reach and usage of social media channels which enable us to optimize our presence on respective channels.

We may include external services on our Facebook website, such as Sprinklr.

Facebook’s processing of your data:

Your personal Facebook settings at https://www.facebook.com/settings provide information about your information and allow you to correct or submit it. To object to Facebook's processing or restrict data processing, visit: https://www.facebook.com/help/contact/1994830130782319. 

We use your Facebook account name when you want to contact us through our Facebook page. You may voluntarily provide other personal information. The data processing for the purpose of contacting us and answering your inquiry is the consent you have voluntarily given. All personal data collected in connection with your inquiry will be deleted after your request has been processed, unless the storage is necessary for the documentation of other processes (e.g. subsequent conclusion of contract).

Sika uses LinkedIn service, for which the provider is:

• LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Plaza, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland for users with their residence in the European Union, European Economic Area and Switzerland or
• LinkedIn is LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court Mountain View, CA 94043, United States for users with their residence outside the European Union, European Economic Area and Switzerland.

LinkedIn uses advertising cookies, which you can deactivate using the following link: https://www.linkedin.com/psettings/guest-controls/retargeting-opt-out

To find out more about LinkedIn Privacy Policy, please visit: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy

We use the LinkedIn Insight Tag on our website. The provider is LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland (hereinafter 'LinkedIn'). The purpose of the LinkedIn Insight Tag is to create anonymised reports on website audiences and ad performance. We also use retargeting features to display targeted advertising on other websites. For this purpose, LinkedIn sets a cookie in your web browser, which, among others, collects the following data: IP address, device and browser characteristics and page events (e.g. page views). The information collected by LinkedIn may be transferred to and stored on servers in the USA. The legal basis for the processing of personal data is your voluntarily given consent according to Art.6 (1)(a) GDPR. The legal basis for the transfer of data to the USA is also your voluntarily given consent according to Art. 49 (1)(a) GDPR. The collected information is anonymised within seven days and deleted after 90 days.

If you do not agree with the tracking and retargeting by the LinkedIn Insight Tag, you can obtaining an opt-out cookie via this link:
https://www.linkedin.com/psettings/guest-controls/retargeting-opt-out.

Please note that when you delete your browser cookies, the opt-out cookie will also be deleted. You will then have to visit the LinkedIn opt-out page again to reset the cookie. For more information on how LinkedIn handles personal data, please refer to the privacy policy at: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy

Sika uses X services, for which the provider is:

• X International Unlimited Company, One Cumberland Place, Fenian Street Dublin 2, D02 AX07, Ireland, for users with their residence in the European Union, EFTA States, or the United Kingdom or
• X, Inc. 1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, for users with their residence in the United States or any other country outside of the European Union, EFTA States, or the United Kingdom.

 To find out more about X Privacy Policy, please visit: Privacy

Sika uses YouTube services, for which the provider is:

• Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, for users with their residence in the European Economic Area or Switzerland or
• Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA, 94043, USA

To find out more about YouTube Privacy Policy, please visit:

https://policies.google.com/privacy