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StrongPoint privacy statement

o Basic personal information such as name, address, telephone number, email and demographic information

o User and web traffic information such as login ID, username, and IP address

o Financial information such as invoice-related information o Content you have uploaded or provided such as photos, comments, articles and videos
o Statistics that show how the users use our software and consume content we offer
o Information provided through job applications
o For the purposes mentioned in the section “Why do we process personal data”, StrongPoint does not process sensitive personal data about you.

3. How is personal data collected
o In general, StrongPoint collects personal data directly from you

or other persons linked to our customers. If the customera you work for purchases StrongPoint products or services via a StrongPoint partner company, we may collect information about you from the partner company.

o We will also use cookies and other tracking technologies when you use StrongPoint websites and interact with us via email, in order to optimise your experience of StrongPoint, our products and our sites. Please see our cookie policy for more information.

o In some cases, we may also collect information about you from other sources. These sources may be third-party data aggregators, StrongPoint’s marketing partners, public sources or third-party social networks.

4. Why do we process personal data?

This StrongPoint Privacy Statement applies when StrongPoint and its subsidiaries process your personal data for various purposes when you interact with us, such as:

Buy and deliver

Detect, mitigate and prevent security threats and abuse, and perform maintenance and debugging

Marketing

Recruiting

5. What is the legal basis for processing your personal data?

We process data based on several legal grounds.

Agreement with you

We process your personal data on the basis of a legal binding contract with you. This will typically be when you apply for a job in StrongPoint or enter into a customer contract with us.

Your consent

StrongPoint might process your personal data based on consent. You will always be able to withdraw your consent, after you have given the consent.

Legitimate interest

StrongPoint has a legitimate interest when we process your data for security, support and improvement purposes, or when you act as customer contact/lead for our existing and potential customers, hereunder in customer support. Your personal data is processed from a business perspective in a manner that we believe does not conflict with your privacy rights or freedoms.

Further StrongPoint processes data based on legitimate interest if you are signing up for a webinar, downloading

reports or other content from our web pages, and using our StrongPoint communities. The legitimate interest is to provide you with correct content, hold webinars, do marketing and administrate your requests. Read more about how StrongPoint processes your personal data for marketing purposes based on legitimate interest and your rights when we process your personal data for such purposes under the section called “marketing” in this privacy statement.

6. How is your personal data shared?

Within the StrongPoint Group

As StrongPoint consists of many different subsidiaries, it is important for us that we provide the best possible overall experience for you. In order to maintain an overview and insight, StrongPoint may share your personal data across companies in the StrongPoint Group.

Outside of the StrongPoint Group

StrongPoint may also share your personal data with external third parties in the following contexts:

StrongPoint user communities

If you make a post, comment or similar on StrongPoint user communities or other forums on StrongPoint Sites, such information can be read and used by anyone with access to such forums. StrongPoint is not responsible for any information you submit on such forums or StrongPoint Sites.

Business partners

StrongPoint may share your personal information with our partners in the event this is legitimate from a business perspective and according to applicable privacy legislation.

Public authorities

The police and other authorities may request access to personal information from StrongPoint. In these cases, StrongPoint will only provide the data if there is a court order etc. to do so.

For further information regarding deletion, feel free to contact StrongPoint (see contact information in the last section of this statement).

details about you such as IP address, interests (where you have clicked, etc.), username and device. This is done through technologies like cookies and is called profiling. StrongPoint will also be able to combine this information with information about the customer relationship we may have with your company.

The purpose of the profiling is to deliver customized marketing to you, improve your user experience with our services / websites and deliver products that our customers are satisfied with. StrongPoint’s services are generally used as tools for work-related purposes, and your behaviour in these tools says little about your personal life. No sensitive data is processed. Your personal data is therefore processed from a business perspective in a way that we believe does not conflict with your freedoms and rights as an individual.

StrongPoint uses email as a tool to communicate marketing, however only if you have consented in accordance with national marketing legislation (if needed). If you have consented, you will always have the possibility to opt out as described below, or when you receive an email containing marketing.

Right to opt-out of marketing communications

You have the right to opt out of receiving marketing communications from StrongPoint and being subject to profiling. You can do this by either:

  1. Following the instructions for opt-out in the relevant marketing communication
  2. Changing preferences under the relevant edit account section if you have an account with StrongPoint
  3. Contacting us via e-mail at info@StrongPoint.com

You will also always have the option to opt into/out of cookies

on a particular web page, through our cookie banner.

Please note that even if you opt out from receiving marketing communications, you may still receive administrative communications from StrongPoint, such as order confirmations and notifications necessary to manage your account or the services provided to customers.

11. How to contact us

StrongPoint is a European corporation, with legal entities, business processes, management structures and technical systems that cross borders.

All major decisions regarding privacy in StrongPoint are made at a corporate level by the StrongPoint Executive Management supervised by the Data Protection Officer (DPO). The controller responsible for the processing of your personal data is:

StrongPoint Group and its subsidiaries
StrongPoint Head Office: Slynga 10, 2005 Raelingen, Norway Telephone number: +47 934 03 254

We value your opinion. If you have any comments or questions about our Privacy Statement, or any privacy concerns, including regarding a possible breach of your privacy, please send them to info@StrongPoint.com or directly to your local StrongPoint company.

We will handle your requests or complaints confidentially. Our representative will contact you to address your concerns and outline the options regarding how these may be resolved. We aim to ensure that complaints are resolved in a timely and appropriate manner.

Cookie policy

What are cookies?
StrongPoint uses digital tracking technologies to collect information about the movement on our websites and how visitors interact with us. We do this in order to measure the performance of our websites and provide interesting content.

To identify a visitor throughout the visit, and recognizing visitors at consecutive visits, our websites leave a small file called a cookie in the visitor’s internet browser.

Cookies uniquely identify a particular browser or device. By using cookies StrongPoint can distinguish one visitor from another and treat them individually.

Why does StrongPoint use cookies?
Anonymized statistics
Visiting website generates anonymized data that StrongPoint uses to improve StrongPoint websites. When using cookies in this manner we do not collect or process personal data. Instead, we use anonymized aggregated statistics to make better decisions.

More specific, the anonymized data describes the general activity and performance of StrongPoint websites. For instance, StrongPoint measures how many of our visitors read our cookie policy. If the statistics show that there are few readers, we will use this to assess whether to move the policy elsewhere on the website to make it more visible.

The anonymised data we collect includes:
Information about types of browser and device

From this anonymized data we can measure the popularity of our content and decide which direction we should further develop our websites, both in terms of technical evolvement and content.

The anonymous data is not shared with any third party except our subcontractors when placing and managing cookies including Google Analytics. The anonymous data is subject to security and privacy standards according to applicable data protection legislation.

Personal data
Depending on whether visitors grant us their permission – opt in/opt out according to the preferences on my profile pages – the use of cookies could also include processing of visitors personal data. More specific, with the permission of visitors, we could use visitors email addresses to tie their activities to their identity.

On this basis, StrongPoint could use personal data to register what the individual visitor is pursuing. These preferences are used to ensure that visitors are subject to relevant content on our websites. In short, to let StrongPoint personalise content.

The personal data we process in this regard includes:

o Email address, name and company
o Employers key information
o Likely interests based on registered movement on website and

subscription preferences.
Personal data is not shared with any third party except our subcontractors when placing and managing cookies including Salesforce and LinkedIn. All processing of personal data is subject to security and privacy standards according to applicable data protection legislation.

How can I avoid cookies?
By using the setting functionality in your browser visitors can block cookies. However, this will affect the performance of StrongPoint websites.
Visitors should go to the homepage of Microsoft Internet Explorer Google Chrome, Mozilla, Safari and Firefox to read up on how cookies can be managed in some of the most popular browsers

The most efficient way of managing these cookies is to turn to my profile pages where visitors can opt in and opt out to cookies that involve the processing of personal data.

On my profile pages, visitors may also edit their personal data, request deletion, determine whether they would like to sign up for StrongPoint newsletters or reach out to support or our privacy team with questions. In privacy matters, you can also reach out directly to info@StrongPoint.com.