Privacy Statement

We at TESTEX AG, Schweizer Textilprüfinstitut (Gotthardstrasse 61, 8002 Zürich, Schweiz) take data protection very seriously. The following Declaration gives you information about the collection and storage of personal data on our website, and ways in which such data may come to be used. TESTEX AG, Schweizer Textilprüfinstitut (hereinafter referred to as ‘TESTEX’) is the responsible party as understood by data protection legislation, and is responsible for processing your data. This Declaration applies to all services and activities offered and carried out by us in connection with our website www.testex.com. It applies in the same way to mobile terminal devices, as well as to online offerings and postings that have been adapted to different platforms.

Personal data

Personal data are all items of information that relate to an identified or identifiable natural person. Personal data form the basis for identifying or contacting a data subject. These include for example your name, address, e-mail address, telephone number and the IP address assigned to you by your internet service provider. Information that does not form a basis for identifying you (anonymous data) does not fall in the category of personal data.

Automatically transmitted data relating to online use

When you visit our website, your internet automatically sends us, for technical reasons, certain details relating to your use of the site, along with what are known as ‘server log files’. The following information, for example, will be communicated to us:

• Date and time of access
• URL address of the referring website
• File you have accessed
• Quantity of data transmitted
• Host name of the computer making contact (IP address)
• Your browser type and version
• Your operating system.

This information is only used by us for purposes connected with the technical administration of our website, for protecting ourselves against illicit actions in connection with the site and in some cases for purposes of statistical evaluation. We reserve the right to scrutinise these records subsequently, if we have concrete grounds to justify the supposition that illicit actions have taken place.

Data collected and processed from your statements

Fundamentally you can use our website without letting us have any further personal data. Personal data will only be collected and stored if you have given us a separate declaration of consent. Unless stated otherwise, these data will only be used for dealing with your specific request.

Contact via form to send inquiries regarding products and other services

On our website, you have the possibility to send inquiries via a form. The following data is collected for this purpose:

Salutation (Optional)
Your name
Company
Adress (incl. Country)
Role (Optional)
Phone number (Optional)
E-mail address
Personal message (Optional)
Date and time
IP-address

The data will be used exclusively for the management of inquiries for TESTEX AG and is stored in TESTEX AG’s customer database (Microsoft Dynamics 365).
Microsoft Dynamics 365 is provided by Microsoft Ireland Operations Limited, One Microsoft Place, South County Business Park, Leopardstown, Dublin 18, Ireland. For more information about how Microsoft Dynamics 365 works, see the Microsoft Privacy Statement, available at https://privacy.microsoft.com/....

In our Subscription Center, we offer you the possibility to take out subscriptions (e.g. for receiving invitation to our events), as well as to view your existing subscriptions and the given consents and to adjust them at any time.

Newsletter

You have the option of subscribing to a free newsletter on our website. When you subscribe, the data from the input screen is sent to us and processed:

Salutation
Your name
The company you’re working for
Your e-mail address
Job Title (Optional)
Country / Region
Your preferred language
Date and time of your registration
IP-address

During the subscription process, we obtain your consent to your data being processed and refer-ence this privacy policy.

No data will be disclosed to or used by third parties. We process your data in connection with the newsletter in order to send news about industry related topics, updates and product announcements that we think are interesting for you. We also process and use the given email address for sending you personalised offers in connection with the newsletter. IP-addresses are processed for protec-tion of and reaction to the misuse of the newsletter.

If a link in the newsletter takes you to our website, you also permit us to process and use your IP address, as well as geodata, web beacons and similar technologies, in order to verify whether the offers have met your requirements.

Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR forms the legal basis for data processing following the user’s subscription to the newsletter if the user has given consent.

SSL encryption

In order to ensure the security of your data during transmission, we use the most up-to-date encryption techniques (like SSL for example) based on HTTPS.

Cookies

Some of our webpages make use of cookies, which serve the purpose of making our website more user-friendly, effective and secure. Cookies are small text files which are deposited on your terminal device and stored by your browser. Most of the cookies we use are ‘session cookies’. These are automatically deleted at the end of your visit. Other cookies remain on your terminal device until you delete them. These cookies make it possible for us to recognise your browser the next time you visit us. You can adjust the settings of your browser in such a way that you will be informed about the placement of cookies, and allow them only in individual cases, or you can decline to accept them in specific cases or decline them altogether. You can also activate the automatic deletion of cookies when you close your browser. When cookies are disabled, you may not be able to use the full functionality of our website. Further information about cookies may be found here: http://www.allaboutcookies.org.

Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of the Google company (Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA). Google Analytics uses cookies for the purpose. These form the basis for analysis of your use of our site.

The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website will be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. We use Google Analytics with the extension ‘anonymizeIp()’, so that the IP addresses transmitted to Google will be abbreviated before further processing takes place, to exclude any direct reference to your personal identity (this is known as ‘IP masking’). Google will make use of this information to evaluate your visit to the website, to compile reports about activities on our site and to provide further services associated with website and internet use. Google may also pass on this information to third parties, in so far as this is required by statute or in case the data is to be processed by a third party on Google’s behalf. On no account will Google combine your IP address with other data in its possession.

You can prevent the installation of the cookie for Google Analytics by adjusting your browser software accordingly; but we beg to inform you that in this case you may not be able to make use of all the functions of our website to the full extent. You can prevent the collection and storage of data for Google Analytics at any time, with effect for the future, by using Google’s opt-out browser plug-in (https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de). Please be aware that you will have to opt out more than once if you make a practice of deleting the cookies on your browser, or if you access our website with a different browser. Further information about Google Analytics may be found here: http://www.google.com/intl/de/analytics/learn/privacy.html

Google Tag Manager

Google Tag Manager is another Google product, which makes it possible for us to manage website tags by way of an interface. The Tag Manager is a cookie-free domain, and does not register any personal data. The tool serves for the activation of other tags, which in their turn may then register data in certain circumstances. Google Tag Manager does not access these data itself. If a deactivation is carried out at domain or cookie level, this remains in force for all tracking tags that have been implemented by Google Tag Manager. If you would rather not be sent advertising based on your interests, you can disable the use of cookies by Google for these purposes by going to https://www.google.com/settings/ads/plugin.

Use of YouTube plug-ins

YouTube videos are embedded on some of our webpages. The operator of the plug-ins in this case is YouTube LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. If you visit a page which has a YouTube plug-in, it sets up a link to the YouTube servers. As a result, YouTube learns what pages you are visiting. If you are logged in to your YouTube account, YouTube can associate your surfing practices with you personally. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account before you visit our site.

When a YouTube video starts, the provider places cookies on your computer which collect indications of user behaviour.

If you have disabled the storage of cookies for the Google AdWords program, you will be able to watch YouTube videos without worrying about cookies of this kind. YouTube does however also store non-personal use information on other cookies. If you want to prevent this, you need to block the storage of cookies in your browser settings.

Further information about data protection on YouTube may found in the data protection declaration of the provider at: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/.

Youku

Youku videos are embedded on some of our webpages. Links are integrated through what are referred to as iframes or HTML5 video tags. When opening these elements, personal data can be passed on to the operators of these platforms. These operators use and save the data of individuals playing back the video for their own purposes. This happens even if you yourself do not have a profile on the respective platform. The individual data-processing operations and their scope differ depending on the operator of the respective platform and are not always easy for us to verify. For details of the collecting and saving of your personal data, as well as the nature, scope and purpose of its use by the operator of the respective platform, please refer to the privacy notices of the respective operator. You can view the privacy notice for the Chinese platform YouKu, which is operated by Youku Tudou Inc. SinoSteel Plaza, 11th floor, 8 Haidian Street, Haidian District, Beijing, 100080 China, written in Chinese at https://h5.m.youku.com/app/flsm.html.

Microsoft Dynamics 365

On our Website we use cookies or tracking pixels from Microsoft Dynamics 365, which is provided by Microsoft Ireland Operations Limited, One Microsoft Place, South County Business Park, Leopardstown, Dublin 18, Ireland. Microsoft Ireland Operations Limited is certified under the EU-US Privacy Shield. Microsoft Dynamics uses the following cookies:

• Long-term behavioral analysis cookie: This allows Dynamics 365 to evaluate marketing leads based on their interaction with a specific Website. The cookie does not contain any personal information, but it does uniquely identify a specific browser for a specific computer, and Dynamics 365 Marketing may use it to relate this ID to an actual contact in the Dynamics 365 Marketing database. The cookie will remain active for two years.
• Short-Term Single Visit Cookie: Dynamics 365 Marketing uses this cookie to group together a visitor's pages loaded by the same script within the configured time period. It considers these elements as a single "visit" to the site.

For more information about how Microsoft Dynamics 365 works, see the Microsoft Privacy Statement, available at https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement.

Children

Personal data of children under thirteen years of age are not registered by us to the best of our knowledge. We urge parents and guardians to monitor internet use by their children, and to support us in the implementation of our privacy policy by telling their children never to give away personal data via an online service. If you have grounds for supposing that a child under the age of thirteen has provided us with personal data by way of our services section, we would request you please to let us know, and we will delete the data from our databases.

Data security

We take all statutory precautions to protect your personal data against loss, destruction, falsification, manipulation and unauthorised access. You should however be aware that no internet transfer of data can ever be 100% secure or immune from error. We would ask you please to bear this in mind when using this website. E-mail communications that you send to us are not encrypted. So please do not send us any confidential or sensitive data by this communication channel.

Links to other websites

This Privacy Statement only applies to our own website. Our website may however include links to external websites not bound by the content of this Declaration. If you use a link to leave our website, you would be recommended to pay careful attention to the data protection policy of any website you visit.

Changes to our terms and conditions of data protection

We hereby reserve the right to modify this Privacy Statement on occasion, in order to comply at all times with current legal requirements, or in order to incorporate changes in our services in the context of the Declaration, e.g. if new services are introduced. When you visit us again thereafter, your visit will be subject to the terms of the Privacy Statement in the new version.

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Your rights

You have the right to obtain information from us at any time, free of charge, about the personal data we hold for you, to correct them if they are wrong, to block them or to delete them. To do this, please contact us by post or by e-mail, using the contact details given below:

TESTEX AG, Schweizer Textilprüfinstitut
Dr. Gilles Ritter
Gotthardstrasse 61
8002 Zürich
Schweiz
E-mail: dataprivacy@testex.com

Status as at 12.10.2022 | Version 1.1