WEBSITE PRIVACY POLICY

We ask that you read this privacy notice carefully as it contains important information on who we are, how and why we collect, store, use and share personal information, your rights in relation to your personal information and on how to contact us in the event you have a complaint.


WHO WE ARE

Robert Bosch Limited and our UK Power Tools group comprising the entities listed in section 14 below, and trading as the brands known as Bosch and SIA ("we"/"Bosch"/"UK Power Tools group") collect, use and are responsible for, certain personal information about you ("personal data"). The entities listed at section 14 are data controllers under the General Data Protection Regulation 2016 ("GDPR"), the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 (and any replacement EU or UK legislation, and the UK's Data Protection Act 2018 ("data protection law").

This privacy policy applies outlines how Bosch will use, store and share your personal data, and supplements any other fair processing or privacy notices provided to you.

Please note that your use of our websites is subject to their respective terms of use.

This policy applies to any personal data we may collect about you when you:

•    use any of our Power Tools websites (as set out in section 14 below) including any of user community forums;
•    use any of our apps;
•    contact us or when we contact you, including via social media;
•    purchase goods or services from us;
•    carry out product testing for us;
•    provide services or goods to us (where, for example, you are a sole trader, partnership or where you are providing goods or services on behalf of your employer or contractor);
•    visit any of our premises;
•    participate in our training at your premises or ours; and
•    attend a trade show, conference, exhibition, or other event at which we have a presence or enter one of our online competitions.

This policy will therefore apply to you where you are a consumer or business customer or contact to the extent relevant to you, except where the policy indicates otherwise.

The details of the applicable data controller, depending on which member of our UK Power Tools companies you are dealing with, are set out at the end of this policy.

Our 'Group' refers to the constituent companies of Robert Bosch GmbH.


1.    BOSCH RESPECTS YOUR PRIVACY

The protection of your privacy in the processing of your personal data is an important concern which we pay special attention to during our business operations. We use ("process") your personal data collected during your visit to our website and when you provide your personal data to us in other ways, in a confidential manner and solely in accordance with the law.


2.    THE PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT AND USE

Information which you give us

We may collect your personal data when you provide it to us by filling in forms on our websites or our apps, or by corresponding with us by phone, face-to-face, email or otherwise. This includes information that you provide when you send an enquiry via our websites, through social media, which could include Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, register to receive a newsletter or other updates, register to use our apps, or to create an account with us. We may also collect your personal data when you contact our Service Hotline in order to obtain information about a product or service, to register your manufacturers guarantee or register an extended warranty for your product, order spare parts, request a repair or other service, test any of our products for us, enter any of our promotions or competitions (online or elsewhere) or order a product or spare part through our online shop. We may also collect information from you if you respond to surveys or market research.

The personal data which we collect about you may include your name, billing and delivery addresses, date of birth, gender, your email address, user name and password, contact telephone number, credit card details, occupation , industry sector, and details of any comments or feedback which you provide to us.

We may also collect and process records of any correspondence and communications with us and a record of transaction history and details of transactions conducted on our website or through our apps is kept by us together with details of the fulfillment of any order.

Social Sign In (login via social networks)

We offer you the opportunity to sign in to our Online Offers by social media sign-ins such as Facebook Connect and Twitter.

To register, you are forwarded to the respective social network's page where you can sign on with your data. This means that your account with the respective network is linked to our service. In doing so, information from your public profile, your email address and the identification tags of your network friends, as well as, if applicable, further data is transmitted to use through the social network.
In turn, the social network used for the registration receives your login status, browser information and your IP address. The social network's provider or its server may be located outside the EU or the EEA (e.g. in the United States of America).

If you do not wish data transfer taking place between us and the social network services, log in via our own log in services instead of social log in services.

Information collected through Bosch online Communities

We offer you the opportunity of becoming a member of one of our Bosch Power Tools communities (such as BOB or MyBosch communities). There, you can sign up, create a user profile and communicate with other members. The personal data which we collect from you is only used within the scope of the permission provided by you for the respective marketing, market research and service purposes. You can change your preferences at any time and where processing is based upon your consent (e.g. for direct marketing) you may withdraw this at any time.

Through an input mask in the respective community you are able to choose whether you want to show particular statements of your user profile to all members of the community or only to your 'community friends' or whether they should remain private.

All other data which is generated by you in the communities e.g. by creating comments or pictures, are automatically publicly accessible and will be linked to your user profile.

Additionally, for the professional power tools user, our websites may collect information from you when you submit a post to our Innovation, Chill-Out Zone, or Exhibitions & Events pages. Information which may include title, name, address, telephone, fax, email address is collected when you register with our Power Tools Learning Campus or when you create an account on our Bosch Power Tools Innovation Portal, the latter of which is subject to its own terms and conditions.

Power Tools Training

Where you participate in one of our e-learning modules, please refer to our online e-learning privacy policy.

Where you participate in training as part of your own employment which we provide face to face at one of our sites, or at your place of work, we may collect personal data either from you directly or from your employer. Some of your information e.g. results of any assessments which we undertake as part of the training, may also be shared with your employer.

Information we collect about you

We may collect:

•    information about your visits to our premises, including your image in CCTV footage (see 'CCTV' below);

•    information about your calls to our contact centre, including a recording of such call and information about your orders for goods and services (see further below);

•    information about you obtained at an exhibition, conference or trade show, including such events hosted by third parties (such as Bosch dealers) and those managed by third parties on our behalf. Your image may be captured in a photograph or video footage taken at our stand or elsewhere within the event for promotional purposes. The images may be used for promotional purposes such as social media channels and internal Bosch networks.

•    information about services and goods that you provide to us including, for example, in connection with accidents or incidents as part of the service delivery;

•    information about your buying habits and patterns when you purchase goods from us;

•    information provided to us about you from lead generation companies such as Barbour;

•    information about you when you send us a message on social media, which may include Facebook. We may receive your name, profile picture, attachments and any voice messages, together with your incoming message.

•    details of your visits to our websites or use of our apps including, but not limited to, Internet Protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the internet, MAC addresses, traffic data, location data, your login information, time-zone setting, browser type and version, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, weblogs, information collected by cookies and other communication data and the resources that you access. For more information please see our Cookies Policy.

•    We may also receive information about you if you use any other website we operate (other than those set out at section 15) or other services we provide.  In this case we will have informed you when we collected that personal data that it may be shared internally and combined with personal data already collected by us for the purposes set out in this policy, including helping us to build a profile of you to get to know you better, and so that we can personalise and enhance your customer experience with us.

Information we receive from other sources

We may receive personal information about you from other sources such as stockists of our products, from consumers who register their products with us and from third parties who work with us in connection with our websites and services. Third-party service providers may, without limitation, be appointed to provide technical support, process your transactions (see further below) and maintain your accounts or to run promotions or marketing campaigns. We may have access to any personal information provided to such vendors, service providers and third party e-commerce services.

We may receive information about you from other sources including when we use third party providers, such as Adyen N.V, to assist with financial verification checks when you are seeking to open a credit account with us and/or from third party vendors if we use customer lists from such third parties and from other third parties who work with us in connection with our goods or services. We also receive information from third party registers of suppliers where it is a condition of our contract with your employer (for example, to ensure that our supplier has appropriate insurance) when you are involved in the provision of goods or services to us.

Cookies

Our website uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience we can. We use the information within cookies to display re-marketing advertising on third party websites to consumers that do not complete an online purchase on one of our UK Power Tools websites. For more information please see our Cookies Policy.

Our customer contact centre

This is managed by a third party provider, Sitel, which records incoming and outgoing telephone calls for the purposes of training, monitoring and verifying your order. Please note that no calls in which you provide your payment details are recorded. Sitel also conduct satisfaction surveys on our behalf.

CCTV

Please note that CCTV is used across our UK sites and that your image may be captured by CCTV when you visit us. Some of our vehicles also use dashboard CCTV devices and your image may be captured when you come into contact with one of our vehicles.

Our Facebook fan page

We receive anonymised, aggregated data from Facebook (through its 'Insights' tool) about the kinds of individuals who visit our fan page. We have access to statistical analyses from Facebook which provides us with information on how our fan page is being used by individuals. This does not include your personal data, except where you message us directly. Please see section 3 ("How do we use your personal information?" and section 4 ("Social Media Analytics") for further detail on this use of your information.

Applying for a job with Bosch in the UK or Ireland

We may collect information from you and about you when you apply for one of our Power Tools vacancies which are advertised on our main Bosch in the UK website. Please refer to our Recruitment Privacy Notice for further information on how we use your personal data in our recruitment process.


3.    HOW DO WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?

We use information held about you in the following ways:

o    to carry out our obligations arising from any agreements entered into between you and us and to provide you with the information, products and services that you request from us including in setting up credit accounts. We, through our third party provider, Adyen N.V, use your financial or credit card information solely for the purposes of processing payments either made by you for our products and services, or due to you by agreement (e.g. refunds) and to discharge our legal and regulatory duties.

o    in the case of call recordings, to train staff, monitor staff performance and verify your order, for our legitimate business interests;

o    to allow you to participate in interactive features on our websites, our apps and in relation to our services, when you choose to do so;

o    to notify you about changes to our goods and services;

o    to provide customer support;

o    to analyse your spending and buying habits when purchasing goods from us to improve our own goods and services;

o    to manage the goods/services that you are delivering to Bosch or SIA, for example to sign you in when you visit our site;

o    to send you (i) a welcome email to verify your account when you create an account with us or register to use one our professional portals and (ii) other emails for the purposes of providing services to you, including in relation to account management or system maintenance;  

o    to build a profile of you, your preferences and your habits in order to personalise and enhance your customer experience;

o    to administer our websites and our apps and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes;

o    to safeguard our staff and other customers / users in respect of unlawful, disruptive or objectionable behaviour on our premises or on our website;

o    to enhance our websites and our apps, and the customer experience generally (e.g. through call recording) to ensure you receive a personalised and continuously improving customer service;

o    to improve our processes and procedures;

o    to allow you to participate in interactive features of our websites, when you choose to do so;

o    as part of our efforts to keep our sites and vehicles safe and secure and to improve our processes (for example, through the use of CCTV, dashboard CCTV and any other relevant image recording, and through incident reporting);

o    to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations and for the purposes of assisting with the prevention and detection of crime.

o    to measure, understand or monitor the effectiveness of advertising, promotions, marketing material and content and any joint initiatives with our affiliates, suppliers, partners, subcontractors and other selected third parties;

o    to deliver (whether directly or indirectly via third parties) effective and personalised marketing material and content,  e.g. about goods or services that may be of interest to you and to notify you about the launch of new goods, competitions, offers or other relevant news articles that you might find interesting. Your information may be shared within our UK Power Tools group, or sometimes within our wider Group for direct marketing purposes where there is a legal basis (such as your consent) for this under data protection law;

o    to work with trusted third parties, including media organisations, to enable these parties to create an audience profile to present general advertisements delivered through their own platforms (including television adverts), to those whom we wish to engage and/or those who are most likely to be interested in our products and services. We may provide your contact details (email address, post code and first line of your address) to our media partners for this purpose. Your details will only be used by the third parties to create an anonymised audience profile and your details will then be securely deleted by the third party provider once this profile has been created. The delivery of such adverts will be through the media or social media account that you have with those partners and therefore subject to the privacy policies of those organisations. You may be able to adjust your account settings with these third parties if you no longer wish to receive such advertising. You can contact us at the detail set out at Section 15 below if you do not wish your details to be shared with third parties in this way.  

o    to process your query and to offer you support, for example, when you send us a message or query about our products and services through our Facebook fan page, which we will then answer. We will forward the personal data which you provide to us to the appropriate Power Tools or other Bosch entity (see section 14) responsible for the processing of your query. The responsible Bosch entity may be located within EEA (see section 14). The messages which you send us on Facebook are also processed by Facebook as a data controller. For further information on how Facebook processes your personal data please refer to Facebook's own privacy policy.

We may use the personal data we collect about you on an anonymised basis to create statistics and anonymised information which we then share with third parties including ad networks, search engines and analytics providers.


4.    SOCIAL MEDIA ANALYTICS

Where you send us questions or messages through our Facebook fan page we use this data, in addition to assisting you with your query, in an aggregated form. This anonymised data is used by us in order to better understand how our fan page is used. We can analyse what groups of persons (e.g. end customers, private individuals and employees) use the communication channels offered on our fan page, in what countries and in what language. The processed personal data is deleted 180 days upon receipt of your message, at the latest.  

Statistical data provided to us by Facebook

Facebook grants us access to statistical analyses that provide information on the use of our fan page. The analyses to which we have access are not suited to individually analyse the browsing habits of any individual person. We merely have access to aggregated data (such as the number of visits, number of likes, number of followers, region of origin, age group, gender) that provide information on the use of our fan page.

For more information on the statistics provided by Facebook please visit https://en-gb.facebook.com/business/a/page/page-insights.

We process these data in order to publish content on our fan page addressing the appropriate target group and to better understand and optimise the use of our fan page.

Although we only have access to aggregated data as described above in order to provide us with such data, Facebook processes personal data which permits your identification (such as information that you liked a post on our page at a specific time) related to Settings.

Facebook allows us to adjust the following settings on our fan page and gives us access to the following data:

We can select the target group for which our Facebook fan page and our individual posts published on our fan page are intended. The settings are adjusted based on general parameters (e.g. age group, language, region, interests), which makes it possible to address specific groups with our contents. It is not possible to address or identify individual persons based on the adjustments of the settings Facebook allows us to make.

Other data processing by Facebook

Facebook also processes your personal data independently of us (other than as described above). We have no influence over this data processing by Facebook. For more information on what kinds of personal data Facebook processes and on what data protection rights you have against Facebook please see Facebook's privacy notice referred to above.  

5.    USING YOUR INFORMATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH DATA PROTECTION LAWS

Data protection laws require that we meet certain conditions before we are allowed to use your data in the manner described in this privacy policy.  We take our responsibilities under data protection laws extremely seriously, including meeting these conditions.  To use your personal data, we will rely on the following conditions, depending on the activities we are carrying out:

•    Compliance with legal obligations: As entities established under the laws of England and Wales, each of the companies in our UK Group is obliged to comply with UK laws and guidance provided by UK regulatory bodies. In particular, we will need to process your personal data to verify your identity, establish your age, verify your source of funds for anti-money laundering and fraud purposes, and to establish whether you have been barred from any stores which stock our products or from using our website due to objectionable behaviour. You will not be able to object to processing or ask for the deletion of your personal information insofar as it falls under this category.

•    Necessary for the entry into / performance of a contract: When you enter into a transaction with us, a contract between you and us will have been entered into. In order for us to fulfil our obligations under such contract (e.g. to allow you to purchase goods from us), we will need to collect and process your personal data. Failure to provide the requisite personal information on sign-up and financial information on entering into the transaction or objecting to this type of processing / exercising your deletion rights will unfortunately mean we cannot provide our goods / services to you.

•    Consent:  We may send you marketing messages by email, text message or telephone about us and our products and offers where you have not unsubscribed and where you have purchased products or other services from us. We may also send you information by post on the products and services which we provide which we believe may be of interest to you. We provide easy ways to stop our marketing, and you can opt out at any time.

If you are not a customer of ours but you have provided us with consent to use your details for marketing purposes, then we may also contact you about our products and services.     

If you have confirmed that you would like to hear from us about other the products and services of other companies in our UK Group or wider Group then we will use your details to contact you with marketing information about such products and services.

If you have confirmed that you would like to hear directly from other members of our UK Group or wider Group about such party’s products and services then we will share your details with such third party so they can contact you about their products and services.

In each of the situations above, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time and can object to processing of this nature. Where you consent to us sending you marketing information, we will treat this as lasting for 12 months unless we tell you otherwise at the time.

•    Legitimate interests:  To use your personal data for any other purpose described in this privacy policy, we will rely on a condition known as "legitimate interests".  It is in our legitimate interests to collect your personal data as it provides us with the information that we need to provide our services to you more effectively. We, and our trusted third parties, may build a profile of you so that we can provide you with information on our products and services which is tailored to your preferences.

This requires us to carry out a balancing test of our interests in using your personal data (for example, in order to provide you with the information, products and services that you request from us), against the interests you have as a citizen and the rights you have under data protection laws (for example, to not have your data sold to third party marketing companies without your knowledge, or not store your personal data in insecure or unstable countries or regions).  The outcome of this balancing test will determine whether we can use your personal data in the ways described in this privacy policy.  We will always act reasonably and give full and proper consideration to your interests in carrying out this balancing test.

We rely upon this legal basis when we process your personal data in response to a question from you through social media e.g. through our Facebook fan page and also when we use aggregated, anonymised data from our fan page. This is to ensure that the information we provide on this page is relevant to the visitors of our page and that the page attracts visitors who are or may be interested in our products.

6.    HOW LONG WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION FOR

When your data is no longer required for the purposes listed above, we will delete it within the periods set out below:

Marketing consents will be refreshed/deleted after 12 months (60 months for Commercial & Industrial projects) or can be withdrawn at any time (see section 5);

Marketing emails and other communications where possible will typically be deleted after 24 months, unless we are required for legal and regulatory purposes to retain such communications for a longer period;

Our Contact Centre retains call recordings for a maximum of six months;

CCTV recordings are usually deleted after 30 days;

Any other information will be retained for up to 6 years from the data of our last positive interaction with you, for legal and regulatory purposes. This data is archived where we have had no interaction with you for a period of 12 months. Some information, however, may be kept for longer where there is a regulatory requirement to do so e.g. some information relating to health and safety may need to be retained by us for up to 40 years.

7.    MARKETING

We want to keep you informed about all our products, promotions and news, and where you have indicated you are happy to receive marketing by email, SMS or phone we will keep in touch with the latest news. We may also send you relevant information on products and services which we think may be of interest to you - you can easily opt out of this at any time by contacting as indicated below.

If you are an existing customer, we will contact you by e-mail, SMS, post or phone with information about products and services similar to those which you have already purchased from us. We may also provide you with adverts (or offers) about our products and services through your media or social media account as explained  above.

If you have not made a purchase from us, and where we permit other companies in the UK Power Tools Group or wider Group to use your data, we (or they) will contact you with marketing if you have consented to this.

We may also send updates and marketing from the other companies in our UK Power Tools Group and the wider Group about their products, promotions and news to you on their behalf where you have consented to this.

If you prefer not to continue to receive promotional or marketing information from us or from the other companies in our Group, please use the unsubscribe function in the information we send you or alternatively write to our Data Security Officer using the contact details in section 16.

8.    WHO WE SHARE YOUR INFORMATION WITH

We may share your information with:

•    business partners, suppliers and sub-contractors for the performance of any contract we enter into with them or you; e.g. service providers who operate elements of our website service and process personal data on our behalf. These may include businesses who provide technology services such as hosting for our servers and email distribution, and business partners who provide delivery fulfilment services. We may also share your personal data with our supply and delivery partners, including electronic document interchange partners such as Nexmart, for the purpose of processing and fulfilling your order. Where such sharing occurs, this will be under contractual arrangements with us and carried out in accordance with the requirements of data protection law;

•    members of our UK Power Tools Group and third party suppliers and service providers for the purposes listed above under section 3 above, for example where we use a third party to provide services to enable us to deliver goods and/or services to you or where we share IT platforms or processes within our UK Power Tools Group;

•    third party suppliers and service providers such as Adyen N.V to the extent they assist our UK Power Tools Group with its legal / regulatory obligations;

•    credit reference companies for the purposes of carrying out credit checks;

Credit Safe Business Solutions Limited
Bryn House
Caerphilly Business Park
Caerphilly
CF83 3GG

Dun & Bradstreet Limited
Marlow International Parkway
Marlow
Bucks
SL7 1AJ

•    selected third parties so that they can contact you with details of the services that they provide, where you have expressly opted-in/consented to the disclosure of your personal data for these purposes;

•    analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement and optimisation of our websites and our apps;

•    with our regulators, law enforcement or fraud prevention agencies, as well as our advisors (including legal advisors and auditors), courts, any authorised bodies, for the purposes of investigating any actual or suspected criminal activity or other regulatory or legal matters;

We will disclose your personal information to third parties:

•    in the event of a merger, acquisition or other similar event, to a prospective buyer or otherwise of our business or assets, in which case we will disclose your personal data to such prospective buyer or otherwise of such business or assets;

•    if we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property or safety of members of our UK Power Tools Group, our customers, staff or others. This may include exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes staff and customer safety, crime prevention, fraud protection and credit risk reduction;

•    in assessing your request for goods or services, we may use your personal data for the purposes of the prevention and detection of fraud. One of the purposes for which we may disclose your address and postcode details is to check against the IMRG Security Alert or any other Fraud Prevention Scheme. At all times where we disclose your personal data it will remain secure.

9.    WHERE WE STORE YOUR PERSONAL DATA

The personal data that we collect from you is stored on secure information technology systems located in the European Economic Area ("EEA"), which are operated by us or on our behalf by third parties.
Some data processing in relation to web and email services and delivery of any products ordered by you is carried out on our behalf by a third party. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your personal data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy and data protection law.

To respond to any comments and or queries which you submit to us through this website, or through social media, we may need to share your personal information with our offices or service providers located outside the EEA.

Where we need to make a transfer of your personal data outside of the EEA, these transfers are subject to special rules under European and UK data protection law.

Except where the transfer of your personal data is to a country which has been assessed by the European Commission as providing an adequate level of protection for personal data, we ensure that additional appropriate mechanisms are in place to protect your personal data. Our standard practice is to use the data protection contract clauses that have been approved by the European Commission. To obtain a copy of those clauses, or for any further information about transfers of your personal data outside of the EEA, including how we secure an appropriate level of protection for personal data so transferred, please contact our Data Protection Officer whose details are provided at section 17.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal data transmitted to our websites; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your personal data, we will use strict procedures and security.

10.    PROTECTING YOUR INFORMATION

Our websites use up-to-date industry procedures to protect your personal information. We also protect the security of your data during transmission using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption software. We may vary this in the future if we feel you will benefit from greater security whilst using our websites.

We have implemented all necessary technical and organisational measures to ensure an appropriate level of security in our physical facilities to protect against the loss, misuse, alteration of or unintended unlawful destruction of information that we have collected from you via our websites or otherwise. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our websites, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential.  We ask you not to share a password with anyone.

Service providers

We involve external service providers with tasks such as sales and marketing services, contract management, payment handling, programming, data hosting and hotline services. We have chosen those service providers carefully and monitor them on a regular basis, especially regarding their diligent handling of and protection of the data that they store.

All service providers are obliged to maintain confidentiality and to be fully aware of, trained in, and compliant with, data protection law. Service providers may also be other Bosch Group companies.

11.    THIRD PARTY SERVICES

Bosch websites may contain links to third-party websites operated by providers that are not associated with us. After you click the link, we no longer have any influence over the collection, storage, or processing of any personal data transmitted by clicking the link (such as IP address or URL of the page that contains the link), as the behaviour of third parties is, by nature, beyond our control.

Please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.

12.    YOUR RIGHTS

You have a number of rights under data protection law in relation to the way we process your personal data, although these are not absolute and in some instances we may be unable to accept your request, in which case we will respond to you to explain why.  These are set out below.  You may contact us using the details on our website (or by contacting us directly – details below) to exercise any of these rights and we will respond to any request received from you within one month from the date of the request.

Right 1    
A right to access personal data held by us about you.

Right 2
A right to require us to rectify any inaccurate personal data held by us about you.

Right 3
A right to require us to erase personal data held by us about you.  This right will only apply where (for example): we no longer need to use the personal data to achieve the purpose we collected it for; or where you withdraw your consent if we are using your personal data based on your consent; or where you object to the way we process your data (in line with Right 6 below).

Right 4
In certain circumstances, a right to restrict our processing of personal data held by us about you.  This right will only apply where (for example): you dispute the accuracy of the personal data held by us; or where you would have the right to require us to erase the personal data but would prefer that our processing is restricted instead; or where we no longer need to use the personal data to achieve the purpose we collected it for, but we require the data for the purposes of dealing with legal claims.  

Right 5
In certain circumstances, a right to receive personal data, which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine readable format.  This right will only apply where the processing is based on consent or a contract (see above) and the processing is carried out by automated means. You also have the right to require us to transfer this personal data to another organisation, at your request.

Right 6
A right to object to our processing of personal data held by us about you where the processing of such data is necessary for the purposes of our legitimate interests, unless we are able to demonstrate, on balance, legitimate grounds for continuing to process personal data which override your rights or which are for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.

Right 7  
A right for you not to be subject to a decision based solely on an automated process, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affect you.

Right 8    
A right to withdraw your consent, where we are relying on it to use your personal data (for example, to provide you with marketing information about our services or products).

13.    UPDATING YOUR INFORMATION

If you believe your details are incorrect you can amend your details by contacting us at the address provided below.

14.    DETAILS OF THE DATA CONTROLLER

For the purpose of the data protection legislation, the data controller is:

•    where you are dealing with our main UK Power Tools business, and in particular, Power Tools sales, Robert Bosch Limited (SC013418) with its registered office at Broadwater Park, North Orbital Road, Denham, Uxbridge, England UB9 5HJ.

•    where you are dealing with our garden Power Tools business, Bosch Lawn and Garden Limited (03073491) with its registered office at Suffolk Works, Stowmarket, Suffolk IP14 1EY.

•    where you are dealing with our abrasives business, the data controllers include:

o    SIA Abrafoam Limited (02954615) with its registered office at Keys Road, Nix Hill Industrial Estate, Alfreton, Derby DE55 7FQ.

o    SIA Abrasives (GB) Limited (00931166) with its registered office at Sia Abrasives (GB) Limited, Ellistones Lane, Greetland, Halifax, West Yorkshire HX4 8NH.

o    SIA Fibral Limited (02310364) with its registered office at Ellistones Lane, Greetland, Halifax, West Yorkshire HX4 8NH.

15.    OUR WEBSITES

This policy applies to the following UK websites:
https://www.bosch-pt.com
https://www.bosch-garden.com
https://www.bosch-professional.co.uk
https://www.bosch-do-it.com
https://www.siaabrasives.com
https://www.allaboutdiy.com
https://www.mybosch.com
http://www.powertools-aftersalesservice.com/
and Bosch PT Extranet
together our "Power Tools websites."

16.    CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail.
This policy was last reviewed and updated in November 2018.

17.    CONTACT

To assert your rights and to notify data protection incidents please the following link: https://www.bkms-system.net/bosch-datenschutz.

For suggestions and complaints regarding the processing of your personal data we recommend that you contact our data protection officer:

Mr. Matthias Goebel
Group Data Protection Officer
Information Security and Privacy (C/ISP)
Robert Bosch GmbH
Postfach 30 02 20
70442 Stuttgart
GERMANY

Or email: DPO@bosch.com

Please address any questions, comments and requests regarding our data processing practices to us in this way in the first instance.

Please remember to include your name, address and postcode along with any correspondence reference you may have.

If you have any concerns regarding our processing of your personal data, or are not satisfied with our handling of any request by you in relation to your rights, you also have the right to make a complaint to the Information Commissioner's Office.  Their address is:

First Contact Team
Information Commissioner's Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
SK9 5AF

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