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Privacy policy and cookies

It is important for Amina Charging AS (hereinafter “Amina Charging”, “we” or “us”) that you, as a user of our services, understand how we process your personal data. This privacy policy describes how we collect and process your personal data, and what rights you have pursuant to Norwegian data protection regulations, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Norwegian Personal Data Act (hereinafter the “prevailing data protection legislation”).

Personal data

Personal data means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person, e.g. name, location, phone number, e-mail address, IP address, or a combination of these that make it possible to identify the person to whom the personal data belongs.

Any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data is considered as processing of personal data, such as collection, recording, organization, storage and disclosure, or a combination of these.

Amina Charging acts as the data controller for any processing of personal data in connection with providing you with information and offering you services on our website www.aminacharging.com (hereinafter the “Services”), as well as personal data we process for the purposes listed below. This role entails primarily that Amina Charging is responsible and must comply with the duties set forth in the prevailing data protection legislation.

When, why and what type of data do we collect?

In general, we collect and process your personal data to be able to provide you with relevant information related to our Services or to fulfil or be able to enter into a contract with you, including as required by legal obligations. When you use our webpage, subscribe to our newsletter, fill out voluntary forms issued by us, or apply for a position with us, we may process the following personal data:

  • IP address, and information regarding your visit;
  • Any comments left in the contact form as a visitor;
  • Contact information (such as name, phone number and e-mail);
  • Workplace, including position and name of company;
  • Any communication with us;
  • Any information regarding personal preferences that you choose to share with us; and
  • Any information that you choose to share with us regarding Amina products you have purchased.

We collect and process this personal data to be able to fulfil contractual obligations with you (ref. GDPR art. 6(1) letter b), on the basis of your explicit consent (ref. GDPR art. 6(1) letter a), to uphold our legitimate interest in fulfilling our contractual obligations with the company you act on behalf of, to uphold our legitimate interest in providing you with the best experience possible in relation to our webpage information and provided Services, and to uphold our legitimate interest in processing any legal claims (ref. GDPR art. 6(1) letter f), as well as for compliance with our legal obligations (ref. GDPR art. 6(1) letter c).

In general, we do not process any special categories of personal data about you, such as sexual orientation or health data. Further, we only process your personal data to the extent that is necessary for the performance of our Services or any other contractual obligations, including as required by legal obligations, for pursuing our legitimate interests or to the extent you have consented to any processing.

Below we have listed all the specific ways to collect personal data from you and what categories of personal data we typically process, as well as the legal bases for such processing.

Website

We collect certain information from your computer or internet connection when you visit our website and use our digital services, such as your IP-address, date and time of your visit, duration of your visit, content of your request (such as the specific site/page you visit on our website), the website you were referred from, your internet service provider, your browser type and version, as well as your operating system.

We collect this information to uphold our legitimate interests in being able to display our website to you, measuring and improving the performance of our digital channels, as well as marketing our products and services (ref. GDPR art. 6(1) letter f).

Please see further information on our use of cookies below, including which cookies will require your explicit consent (ref. GDPR art. 6(1) letter a).

Contact form

If you contact us with questions or requests, either by filling out our contact form or by other means, you provide us with information about yourself and/or your company. Upon doing so, we collect the information provided by you, such as name, company name, e-mail address, phone number, position within the company, your location, as well as any other information that you enter into the form.

We collect this information to be able to carry out our contract with you or the company you act on behalf of (ref. GDPR art. 6(1) letter b or f) or to uphold the legitimate interest we have in replying to your requests or questions (ref. GDPR art. 6(1) letter f).

Newsletter and other marketing activities

If you subscribe to our newsletter, we collect your e-mail address. If you are an existing customer or user of Amina Charging, we may also send you necessary information even though you do not expressly subscribe to our newsletter.

The legal basis for sending such e-mails to our existing customer relations or users is to uphold our legitimate interest in following up our customers by providing relevant news and relevant information about our services and products (ref. GDPR art. 6(1) letter f, see also the Norwegian Marketing Act art. 15(3)). If you are not an existing customer or user, the legal basis for sending such e-mails would be your explicit consent (ref. GDPR art. 6(1) letter a).

Anyone receiving the information items above can easily opt out using the link included in our e-mails.

Applying for a position with us

When the personal data has been collected from the data subject:

You are welcome to apply for a position with us. If you send us a job application, either directly or through a supplier, we may process the following personal data about you:

  • Basic information: e.g. name, date of birth and nationality;
  • Contact information: e.g. your address, e-mail and phone number;
  • Qualifications: e.g. your CV, application, diplomas and transcripts of records, language knowledge, courses, certifications and any other information you provide us with in your application or interviews with us;
  • Background information: e.g. information provided to us by your references, which we either collect through official sources or through references you provide us with; and
  • Our assessments: i.e. assessments and comments we make in relation to our internal assessment of your application.

We will process personal data about you on the basis of GDPR art. 6(1) letter a) and/or letter b), specifically on the basis of your express consent to extended storage of your application and/or to be able to enter into a potential employment agreement with you.  We will delete the information related to your application as soon as it is no longer relevant for this purpose.

When the personal data has not been obtained from the data subject:

We may collect data in recruitment processes from third parties, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, or other public sources. This is referred to as “sourcing”, and is performed manually by our employees, or automatically through applicable services. In some cases, current employees may recommend potential recruitment candidates. In these cases, the potential recruitment candidate will be informed that we are processing your personal data (ref. GDPR art. 14), as well as the purpose of the processing. We may process the following personal data about you that has been obtained through a third party:

  • Basic information: e.g. name, date of birth and nationality;
  • Contact information: e.g. your address, e-mail and phone number;
  • Qualifications: e.g. your CV, application, diplomas and transcripts of records, language knowledge, courses, certifications and any other information you provide us with in your application or interviews with us;
  • Background information: e.g. information provided to us by your references, which we either collect through official sources or through references you provide us with; and
  • Our assessments: i.e. assessments and comments we make in relation to our internal assessment of your application.

We collect this information on the basis of GDPR art. 6(1) letter b) and/or letter f), specifically to be able to enter into a potential employment agreement with you and/or to uphold our legitimate interest in facilitating and administrating recruitment to our company. We will delete the information related to your application as soon as it is no longer relevant for this purpose.

Visits to our social media pages

When you visit our social media pages, such as our Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram pages, the social media providers will collect and process your personal data and use cookies. For information on how these providers use your personal data, we recommend that you read their privacy policies.

Do we share your personal data with third parties?

We will not share your personal data with others unless you either give us your consent to do so (ref. GDRP art. 6(1) letter a), or if we have legal basis to share your data, e.g. if it is necessary to provide you with a contractual service (ref. GDPR art. 6(1) letter b), if we are required by law to disclose your personal data (ref. GDPR art. 6(1) letter c), or it can be justified on the basis of our legitimate interest in doing so (ref. GDPR art. 6(1) letter f).

We use the recruitment service Teamtailor to handle recruitment and help us in the hiring process. Teamtailor has access to your personal data to the extent that is necessary for the recruitment process, or to the extent that you have provided the personal data yourself through the service. Further, we use HubSpot as part of our customer relationship management. Information we receive when you sign up for our newsletter or use the contact form on our page, is saved in HubSpot’s systems. We use Google Analytics for statistical purposes. Please see further information on our use of Google Analytics below under “Cookies”.

When we use third party sub-contractors or service providers in order to provide our services, we will take appropriate legal precautions and corresponding technical and organizational measures in order to ensure that your personal data is protected in accordance with applicable data protection law. Our service providers may be based in locations all over the world. This means that your personal data may be transferred outside of the EU/EEA. If that is the case, we will implement appropriate security measures in accordance with chapter five of the GDPR, in order to sufficiently protect your personal data, such as agreements including EU standard contractual clauses (SCC).

How do we protect your personal data?

Both our data processors and we have implemented appropriate technical and organizational measures to ensure a sufficient level of security when processing your personal data and to prevent loss or unlawful processing (ref. GDPR art. 32). Such measures are, for example, internal routines, data processing agreements and IT-security procedures to verify access rights. We will also carry out data protection impact assessments when it is likely that processing your data may result in a high risk with respect to your rights and freedoms in relation to your personal data.

Cookies

Cookies are small text files that are saved on your hard drive and associated to your browser, and that provide us with information. They serve to make our web-services more user-friendly and efficient. We use cookies and similar technology to store your website preferences, combat fraud and illegal activity, analyze our services, improve our website, store your preferences, show you advertisements and other marketing ads, and to fulfil other legitimate purposes. For these purposes, we use necessary, functional and analytic cookies. Some of those cookies are persistent, which means that they will be stored on your electronic device when you leave our website for a restricted period of time. For session cookies, those are deleted as soon as you leave our websites.

We use necessary cookies in order to uphold our legitimate interest in providing you with a functional webpage (ref. GDPR art. 6(1) letter f). For all other cookies we ask for your explicit consent (ref. GDPR art. 6(1) letter a).  You may, at any time, change or withdraw your consents to the use of cookies that are not necessary by changing your browser settings.

In this link you will find a list of active cookies used on our website, and their purpose.

We also use Google Analytics for statistical purposes (ref. GDPR art. 6(1) letter f). Google Analytics sets cookies to evaluate your use of the website and create reports on website activity for us. These reports include information on number of visitors, which sites they visit, how long a visit lasts, and so on. This information can be provided to third parties when Google Analytics is required to do so, or to the extent that third parties process data. Google Analytics can process personal data on our behalf only on documented instructions from Amina Charging, and in accordance with a data processing agreement between Amina Charging and Google. Check out Google Analytics’ privacy policy for more information.

The statistics on users and user traffic is usually applied in aggregated form, so that the statistics will not contain any information that can be tied directly to you as an identifiable person.

What are your rights?

You have several rights under the applicable data protection regulations. We have provided a list of the rights you can exercise in your relationship with us as a data controller below. If you wish to exercise your rights, please contact us and we will respond to your inquiry as soon as possible, but no later than a month after the receipt of your enquiry.

  • Access: You have a general right of access to the personal data we have registered about you.
  • Rectification and erasure: You have a general right to request that we should rectify any incorrect personal data about you and erase personal data about you. Please note that personal data that is essential to the customer relationship with us cannot be deleted, unless you also explicitly request termination of the customer relationship with us.
  • Restriction: You have a general right to ask us to stop (“freeze”) the processing of your personal data, e.g. where you are of the opinion that we process personal data about you illegally and you do not wish us to erase these data pursuant to our routines for such erasure until the matter has been clarified.
  • Data portability: You have a general right to request transfer of your personal data in a common, machine-readable format.
  • Objection: You have a general right to object to our processing of personal data about you if this is justified by special circumstances on your part.
  • Right to appeal: If you do not agree with the way in which we process your personal data, you may submit an appeal to the Norwegian Data Protection Authority (in Nw.: Datatilsynet). We ask that you contact us beforehand, so that we may clarify any misunderstandings.
  • Withdraw your consent: If our processing of personal data is based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.

Your personal data will not be stored for longer than needed for the purposes mentioned in this Privacy Policy. This means that when our customer relationship with you is terminated, we will erase your personal data as soon as our purpose with processing such data is no longer relevant, unless we are compelled by law or have other legal basis to store this data any longer.

How long does a cookie last and how is it deleted?

How long cookies are stored on your device can vary. The storage time is calculated from the last time you visited the website. Cookies are either deleted automatically after use, or when the duration expires. You can turn off and/or delete cookies yourself in your browser. At nettvett.no you can see how to do this for most browsers.

 

 

 

 

Concerning children’s personal data

Amina Charging does not wish to collect or in other ways process personal data concerning children under 15 years old. If children under 15 years old have, for some reason, provided us with their personal data, we will erase the personal data as soon as we are made aware of the situation.

Do we keep this policy up to date?

Yes. We may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time. You will be notified if we make any significant changes. The most up-to-date version of our privacy policy is available on our website.

How can you contact us?

Please contact us if you have any questions or comments or if you wish to exercise your rights: contact@aminacharging.com.