Privacy policy
Purpose of this Policy
This Privacy Policy informs you of the way personal data is collected, when you sign up for our services, when our services are used and when you browse our website. It also reminds you of your rights in terms of data protection and how to exercise them. This Privacy Policy may be supplemented with additional elements when you sign up for one of our services.
HSB Labs is responsible for your personal data in its capacity as a data controller.
Collection of personal data
We collect several types of personal data about you:
• Data you send us, notably when you request information, register for a newsletter, apply for a position or sign up for any other service.
• Data generated by your use of the Website and our Services, including cookies
This data is mainly:
• Contact data, such as names, e-mail addresses, postal addresses, professions and telephone numbers
• Data on log-ins to the Website, such as user names and passwords
• Data sent as part of a job application
Cookie management
Some of our web pages use “cookies”. Cookies, or connection witnesses, are small text files that can be read by an internet server of the HSB Labs domain, which places the cookie on your hard drive.
A cookie is a small text file that can be used to collect, for example, information on user activity on a website.
Use of personal data
Depending on our relations, HSB Labs will use your personal data to:
• Manage the customer relationship
• Manage orders and provide technical support
• Respond to your requests
• Follow your job applications
• Improve and develop new products and services
• Tell you about our company and products
• Facilitate and improve browsing on the Website
• Comply with our legal obligations, resolve any disputes, and ensure that our contracts our respected
When the processing of personal data depends on your consent, you have the right to withdraw this consent at any time.
Sharing data
HSB Labs may be required to provide public authorities with certain data when asked to or may be required to do so as part of its legal and regulatory obligations. In such cases, only data that is precisely requested is sent.
HSB Labs may send your personal data to its commercial partners, technical service providers or group subsidiaries, whose involvement is strictly required for fulfilling one of the mentioned purposes. HSB Labs ensures that these third parties process your data so as to ensure its integrity, confidentiality and security.
Your data shall not be transferred for purposes other than those stipulated in this policy, except with your express authorization, which you can later withdraw at any time.
Data retention
HSB Labs undertakes to store your collected data in a form that helps us identify you for a duration that shall not last longer than is required for the purposes for which this data is collected and processed.
This data can also be stored with the aim of respecting a legal obligation or showing proof of a right or contract.
Data security
HSB Labs applies appropriate technical and organizational techniques regarding the nature of data and the risks that processing of it can carry, so that the security and confidentiality of your personal data can be preserved, and notably so it can be prevented from being viewed or utilised by unauthorized third parties.
These measures may include practices such as limited access to data among staff members of departments authorized to gain access to it due to their work purposes, contractual guarantees in the event of resorting to an external service provider, impact studies on privacy, regular examinations of our practices and policies of respect for people’s privacy and/or security measures that are material or computerized (secured access, authentication procedure, back-up copies, antivirus software, firewalls, etc.)
Modifications to this policy
HSB Labs may modify its data protection policy. We will ensure that you are informed of these modifications, notably through a special notice on our website.