Privacy Policy

RYOBI® Authorised Retailer Event

Privacy Statement

  1. Who are we?

For the purpose of applicable data protection laws, the data controller (in other words, the organisation that determines how and for what purposes your personal data is used) will be one of TTI group companies (in each case "we", "us", "our"), depending on the territory in which you are based.  For example, if you are a UK-based customer, then the controller of your personal data is Techtronic Industries UK Ltd, whose registered address is at Unit 3 Globeside Business Park, Fieldhouse Lane, Marlow SL7 1HZ, England.

We have included a list of territories and the relevant data controllers in section 11 of this privacy statement, below, but if you are not sure which data controller is relevant to you, please feel free to contact us at Privacy Web Form (onetrust.com). If you have any questions regarding this privacy statement or your rights under it please contact our Data Information Manager also at the address Privacy Web Form (onetrust.com).

 

We also recognise that it is important for you to understand how we use your personal information. This privacy statement describes the way we will process and use personal information about the delegates attend our RYOBI Authorised Retailer event ("Event") via our event platform accessible at https://www.ryobitools.eu/authorised-retailer/ ("Event Platform") and any other visitors to this website ("Event Website"). We aim to be transparent about our data practices regarding the personal data that we may collect, use, maintain and otherwise process. Please read this privacy statement carefully to understand our practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.

  

Neither this Event Website nor our Event Platform are intended for children and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children.

  1. What personal data do we collect about you?

Personal data, or personal information, means any information about a person from which that person can be identified or where the data allows an action to be taken in relation to that person, e.g. serving them an ad or offering them a discount. It does not include data that has been anonymised.

The personal data that we collect from or about you includes the following:

  • Name
  • Email address
  • Role and the organisation you work for
  • Telephone number
  • A password and account details (to login to your account to access our Event)
  • Technical information, including the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your device to the Internet, your login information, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, device types, operating system
  • Information about your visit to our Event Website and use of our Event Platform, including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL), clickstream to, through and from our site (including date and time), page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), methods used to browse the Event Website and access our Event Platform
  • The interactions you have made during the Event in our Event Platform, including information relating to what videos you have watched, whether you downloaded content, how many times you watched a particular video, any questions, comments or other contributions you submit to any live streaming content and other information about your interactions.
  • Your social media handle/user name details if you engage with us or our Event on social media. If you engage with one of our brands on social media (such as RYOBI Tools) the brand will be the data controller for the personal data that you provide to or say about them
  • Your geographical location (where you have given us permission to do so)
  • And any other information that you choose to give to us via this Event Website or Event Platform

We also collect, use and share aggregated data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated data could be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data in law as this data will not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. For example, we may aggregate data relating to the number of views each of our product lines receive to determine their popularity within our delegate community. However, if we combine or connect aggregated data with your personal data so that it can directly or indirectly identify you, we treat the combined data as personal data which will be used in accordance with this privacy statement.

  1. How do we collect personal data about you?

We may collect personal data in a variety of ways, but essentially it is when you give it to us, which includes when you:

  • Create an account to access our Event
  • Access this Event Website
  • Access and interact with the functionality of our Event Platform
  • Ask us to provide you with services and use our services
  • Sign up to our newsletter or to receive marketing communications from us
  • Fill in a survey
  • Engage with us on social media (for example by mentioning/tagging our Event or by contacting us directly)
  • Leave comments on our Event Website or interact with other functionality where you provide us with data on our Event Website
  • Where someone else has given it to us
  • When we combine personal data about you regarding the Event with personal data that we already process about you

To the extent that you provide us with information about someone else we ask you to confirm that you have obtained consent from that person to do this. Please also tell them about this privacy statement and give them our contact details if they have any queries. Please make sure you let us know if any of these individuals would like to speak to us directly, either about your purchase or about our use of their data.

  1. How do we use your personal data and what are our justifications for doing so?

How and why we use your personal data

What is our legal justification for processing your personal data

To provide you with the information and services that you request from us (i.e. to provide you with access to our Event and respond to any questions and comments that you might have about our Event or our products ).

We rely on our contractual arrangements with you as the lawful basis on which we collect and process your personal data in relation to your attendance at our Event.

Alternatively, in some scenarios, we rely on our legitimate interests as a business (for example, it is in our interests to measure delegate satisfaction and troubleshoot customer issues or deal with your specific queries on social media). Where we rely on our legitimate interests, we will always make sure that we balance these interests against your rights.

To measure how satisfied our Event delegates are.

We may use your personal data to tell you about relevant products/services and offers ("marketing").

 

In some cases, we may need to ask for your consent in order to be able to send you direct marketing messages. In some other cases, such as where our relationship with you is in your role as the representative of a business rather than as a consumer, we may rely on our legitimate interests to send you marketing materials.

You can ask us to stop sending you marketing messages by contacting us at any time at the contact details set out at part 1 of this privacystatement.

To find out more about the individuals that access our Event Website and Event Platform as a whole (and not to find out more about you as an individual) to ensure that the products and services that we offer are most likely to interest our retailers and our customers.

We have a legitimate interest to make sure that we are providing you with the information that we think is most relevant to you.

Where we rely on our legitimate interests, we will always make sure that we balance these interests against your rights.

To monitor the use of our Event Website and ensure that it is presented in the most effective and relevant manner for you and your device.

We may use cookies and other similar technologies (such as tags, pixels and beacons) to do this.

We have a legitimate interest to ensure that our Event Website works properly and that our products and services are high quality and efficient.

For information on how we use cookies, please see our cookie statement https://uk.ryobitools.eu/footer-links/cookie-policy/  e

To ensure that the personal and financial information that you provide to us is accurate

In some cases we will use your personal data because it's necessary for us to comply with a legal obligation (such as if we receive a legitimate request from a law enforcement agency). In other cases (such as the detection of fraud or ensuring security of the Event Website) we will rely on our legitimate interests as a business to use your personal data in this way. Where we rely on our legitimate interests, we will always make sure that we balance these interests against your rights.

To detect, investigate, report, and seek to prevent financial crime or other illegal activity

To manage risk for us, our delegates and our customers.

To fulfil our legal and compliance-related obligations

For administrative or business purposes, where you contact us for a particular reason other than those set out above, such as to report problems with our Event Website.

We have a legitimate interest to respond to your contact for the purposes of administering our business.

Where we rely on our legitimate interests, we will always make sure that we balance these interests against your rights.

We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If you wish to get an explanation as to how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original purpose, please contact us.

If we need to use your personal data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.

Please note that we may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law.

  1. How do we share your information?

In order for us to provide our services to you, we share your personal data with our trusted third-party service providers as detailed below. Whenever we share your personal data, we put safeguards in place which require these other organisations to keep your data safe and to ensure that they do not use your personal data for their own purposes unless permitted by applicable law.

  • To provide our Event Platform:

We work with a number of trusted service providers who carry out services on our behalf.

Like most businesses, we work with third party suppliers and service providers as part of the day to day operation of our business. Some of these trusted suppliers will process your personal data on our behalf and provide services to us such as website hosting, delivery fulfilment and taking payments on our behalf.

We will always make sure that we require them to meet agreed standards for the protection of your data and they will only ever be allowed to use the data in order to provide services to us and not for their own commercial purposes. If any of these trusted third-party suppliers is based outside of the UK or EEA (i.e. in a territory where local laws may not provide the same level of protection for your data), we will implement safeguards to ensure that your personal data is protected in accordance with our obligations under data protection law. 

  • Other professional services:

We may need to disclose your personal data to our insurers or our professional advisers such as lawyers and accountants. We work with other carefully selected third parties, such as our customer database hosting provider and advertising partners who assist us in providing you with a positive user experience.

  • Sharing data to prevent crime and otherwise comply with laws:

There may be scenarios where we are subject to a legal obligation to disclose or share your personal data, or we may be required to share your data with organisations such as law enforcement agencies, regulatory bodies or public authorities in order to prevent or detect crime.

  • International group data processing and group structure:

Our group companies share various operations and business processes. We may share your personal data with any member of our group in order to fulfil our contractual obligations to you, or because it is in our legitimate interests to do so.

We may also share your personal data if the structure of our group changes in the future, for example we may choose to sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business, or our assets, or we may seek to acquire other businesses or merge with them. During any such process, we may share your data with other parties. We will only do this if they agree to keep your data safe and private.

  1. Where we transfer and store personal data

We may transfer your personal data outside of the UK and the European Economic Area ("EEA").

We may also need to transfer your personal data outside the UK or EEA where we work with a supplier or third party who processes some of its personal data outside of the EEA.

These countries (including the USA) may not have the same data protection laws as the UK and the EEA and so your personal data may not be subject to the same protections. However, in such cases, we will make sure that any transfer of your personal data to countries outside of the UK or EEA is subject to appropriate safeguards. If you would like further information please contact us on the contact details set out at part 1 of this privacy statement.

  1. Security of your personal information

We have implemented various strategies, tools, controls, processes, policies and measures to keep your data secure and we keep these under close review.

  1. Retention of personal information

We will keep your personal data for limited periods of time and the applicable retention period will always be linked to our purposes for processing your personal data. This means that the retention periods will vary according to the type of personal information and the purpose for which we use it.

In some circumstances we will anonymise your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes, in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.

If you would like more information on our data retention practices, please contact us on the contact details set out at part 1 of this privacy statement.

  1. Your rights in your personal information

You have certain rights in respect of the personal information that we hold about you. Details of these rights are set out below. To exercise any of these rights, please contact us on the contact details set out at part 1 of this privacy statement.

You have the right:

  • to ask us not to use your personal data for direct marketing purposes;
  • to ask to see what personal data we hold about you and to find out about the way that we process the data (and in some circumstances, you can ask us to provide a copy to a third party);
  • to ask us to correct or update any personal data which is inaccurate;
  • to ask for personal data to be deleted in some (but not all) circumstances where there is no good reason for us to continue to use it;
  • to ask us to temporarily stop using your data if you don't believe that we have a right to use it, or to stop us from using your personal data where there is no good reason for us to continue to use it; and
  • not to be subject to decisions made solely on the basis of 'automated processing' (i.e. the right not to be subject to decisions made solely by algorithms or computers without input from a human) in certain circumstances. 

You also have the right to complain about our use of your personal data . If you are based within the EEA, you can contact your local Data Protection Supervisory Authority (a list of local Supervisory Authorities can be accessed here: http://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/article29/item-detail.cfm?item_id=612080).

If you are based in the UK you can contact the UK Information Commissioner at telephone number 0303 123 1113 or https://ico.org.uk/

We would always welcome the opportunity to talk to you about any concerns and put things right if we have made a mistake.  You can contact us using the details set out in section 1 of this privacy statement.

If you are based in Europe, we have elected the German supervisory authority (Der Bundesbeauftragte für den Datenschutz und die Informationsfreiheit) as our lead supervisory authority. This means that your local supervisory authority may liaise with the German supervisory authority in relation to your complaint where applicable, who may lead in processing your complaint.

  1. Changes to our privacy statement

We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement from time to time – for example, if we need to reflect changes to the way that we use your personal information. Any changes we make in the future will be posted on our Event Website and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail. You should check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our privacy policy.

This privacy statement was last updated on October 2021.

11.       Data Controllers and their contact details

Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy statement and personal data that we process about you are welcomed and should be addressed to the relevant "data controller" for your local territory, or (if you are based in Europe) you can also contact our European authorised representative, which is Techtronic Industries Central Europe GmbH (with registered office at Itterpark 2, D-40724, Hilden, Germany).  If you aren't sure which data controller is responsible for your data, please feel free to contact our team in the UK or contact us via our Privacy Web Form, the link to which is set out below.

  • by post: Data Information Manager, Techtronic Industries UK Ltd, Unit 3 Globeside Business Park, Fieldhouse Lane, Marlow SL7 1HZ, England;
  • Privacy Web Form (onetrust.com)

 

Territory

Data Controller

Registered address

Contact details

UK and Ireland

Techtronic Industries UK Limited

Unit 3 Globeside Business Park, Fieldhouse Lane, Marlow SL7 1HZ

Tel: 01628 894400

 

Email: Privacy Web Form (onetrust.com)

Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg

 

 

Techtronic Industries Central Europe GmbH

 

 

Itterpark 2                              D-40724 Hilden, Germany

 

Tel: +49 2103 960 0

Email: Privacy Web Form (onetrust.com)

Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Romania

Techtronic Industries Eastern Europe Spolka Z Ograniczona  Odpowiedzialnoscia

 

Komitetu Obrony Robotnikow 45A,

02-146 Warszawa

Polanad

Tel: +48 242 424 004

Email: Privacy Web Form (onetrust.com)

France

 

 

 

Techtronic Industries France S.A.S

 

Le Grand Roissy - Z.A. du Gué Building

35 rue de Guivry - 77990 Le

Mesnil Amelot,

France

Tel:+33160946970

Email: Privacy Web Form (onetrust.com)

Spain and Portugal

Techtronic Industries Iberia S.L.

 

Avenida Fuentemar, 20, 1º

28823 – Coslada (Madrid)

Spain

Tel: +34 91 627 9228

Email: Privacy Web Form (onetrust.com)

Italy

Techtronic Industries Italia s.r.l.

 

Techtronic Industries Italia Srl,

Via G. Matteotti, 62

20092 Cinisello Balsamo (MI)

Tel: 0039 02 2082959019

Email: Privacy Web Form (onetrust.com)

Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden

Techtronic Industries Nordics Aps

 

Stamholmen 147, 1                  2650 Hvidovre, Denmark

Tel: +45 43 56 55 55

Email: Privacy Web Form (onetrust.com)