Privacy Policy

TUV Rheinland India Pvt. Ltd.

We, TUV Rheinland India Pvt. Ltd. (“TRI”) appreciate your interest in our products and services. TRI recognizes the importance of your privacy and want you to know about our privacy policy governing your visit on TRI’s websites. This privacy policy describes all information that may be collected by TRI through the special services provided on its websites. Furthermore, this privacy policy also describes TRI’s use of that information and informs you on how to opt out of certain uses of information. By accessing TRI’s websites and the use of the services provided, you consent to the collection and use of certain personal information as further described in this online privacy policy.

Collection and Use of Information

TRI collects personal information and non-personal information including aggregate information. Personal information is any such information that identifies an individual, or that is directly associated with a specific individual, and may include name, address, telephone number, email address, or any other information that can be directly linked to that individual. Non-personal Information may be information about you that cannot itself identify you individually.

Except as provided for in this privacy policy, TRI will never sell or disclose information that will identify you personally or that will enable other parties to contact you directly without your consent, except for TRI’s use of information collected through this website in the following circumstances.

TRI may, without giving notice, share personal information with its affiliates and with other third parties that provide services on behalf of TRI for the sole purpose of providing you with valuable information and/or services. In addition, TRI may share personal information with third parties that provide marketing and other services on behalf of TRI. TRI may also share personal information with non-affiliated parties with whom TRI may have entered into joint marketing agreements. However, any third party will not be authorized to sell, rent, trade, or otherwise exploit your personal information.

TRI may disclose personal information: (a) to conform with the law, to respond to claims, or comply with legal process served on TRI; (b) to enforce and/or apply company policies or agreements; (c) to protect and defend its rights or property, the website, it’s employees, visitors, or the public; or (d) in the event of belief of an emergency involving immediate danger of death or serious physical injury to any person which may require disclosure of communications or which would justify disclosure of records without delay.

Non-personal and aggregate information will be used only to improve the design of this website and may be shared with marketing and advertising agencies for this purpose. Any such information may be gathered through cookies, pixel tags, click-stream information and the like.

A cookie is a small text file stored in your computer’s memory or on your hard disk for a pre-defined period of time. TRI uses cookies to identify specific machines in order to collect aggregate information on how visitors are experiencing this website. This information will help to better adapt this website to suit personal requirements. While cookies allow a computer to be identified, they do not permit any reference to a specific individual. For information on cookie settings of your internet browser, please refer to your browser’s manual.

A pixel tag is a tiny graphic contained on a webpage, any document, or in an e-mail. It allows the site owner or a third party to monitor website visits and appears being invisible to visitors since pixel tags typically are extremely small. TRI may include pixel tags on this website to better monitor the effectiveness of the website or for any other legitimate purposes.

Click-stream information may include non-personal information like time and source of an individual visit, the browser type used for such visit, the preceding page view, and any other non-personal information. The evaluation of click-stream information will help better understanding how visitors experience this website, to identify favored content, and the like. TRI will collect click-stream information of every visit on this website to better monitor the effectiveness of the website or for any other legitimate purposes.

When visiting this website, TRI will also identify your computer by its IP address which will be logged. IP addresses will be collected mainly, amongst other legal purposes, for market research, for purposes of system administration and to report aggregate information.

Protection of Information

TRI uses reasonable care to store and maintain personal information and to protect it from alteration, misuse, loss or destruction. This includes storing personal information on servers protected by a firewall and by ensuring that all transmissions to third parties use secure transmission technology. Unfortunately, no transmission of data over the internet can be guaranteed to be absolutely secure. Therefore, even though TRI endeavors to protect personal information, security of any information you transmit to TRI, or that you may receive from TRI, cannot be guaranteed.

Internal access to personal information will be limited to individuals who need access to personal information in order to provide products and/or services or to maintain or services those products and/or services. Individuals having access to personal information are limited in number and committed to TRI’s privacy and security policies.

Updating Information

You may update or correct the personal information we have collected at any time; in order for us to update our records simply send us an e-mail with your updated information to info@ind.tuv.com / marketing@ind.tuv.com .

Information by e-Mail

In the event you provide your e-mail address we will include you in our mailing list. If you are currently on such list and if you would prefer to be removed and not to receive further information from us, simply send us an e-mail to info@ind.tuv.com / marketing@ind.tuv.com and we will remove you from such list.

Unsubscribe

In the event that you prefer TRI to make no further use of your personal information which you may have provided, please contact us at info@ind.tuv.com / marketing@ind.tuv.com .

Protection of Children´s Online Privacy

This website is designed for the general audience. It is not our intent to collect any information, including personal information from persons under age eighteen, or to attract audience under age eighteen. TRI does not knowingly collect or will maintain any personal information from persons under age eighteen. To better protect the privacy of children under age eighteen, it is recommended for parents to supervise their children while exploring online contents.

Amendments

TRI reserves the right to amend or supplement this privacy policy at any time and without prior notice. Amendments will take effect immediately after implementation. Your continued access to this website will be considered as acceptance of any such amendment or supplement. Therefore, you are encouraged you to review our online privacy whenever you visit this website for the most current version.

Contact Information

In the event that you may have any questions regarding TRI and this privacy policy you may send us an e-mail at info@ind.tuv.com / marketing@ind.tuv.com .

Website tracking

This website uses webtrekk technology (www.webtrekk.com) to collect visitor behavior data. This data is collected anonymously to be used for marketing and optimization purposes. All visitor data is saved using an anonymous user ID and can be aggregated to a usage profile. Cookies may be used for this purpose, but only to collect and save data in anonymous form. The collected data will not be used to identify a visitor personally and is not aggregated with any personal data. The collection and storage of data may be revoked at any time with respect to subsequent services.

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