Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy provides information about our privacy practices regarding personal information that we might collect from you on or through this website (the “Site”) and in other situations and interactions with you and others. 

In this Privacy Policy, we describe the nature of the personal information that we collect or process on this Site, how we collect that information, and the purposes for which we use and process that information. 

The section of this Privacy Policy called Privacy Notice for California Consumers – California Privacy Rights describes our online and offline privacy practices applicable to California residents. If you are a California resident, you can review that notice by clicking here.  

The section of this Privacy Policy called EU & UK Privacy Notice describes the online and offline privacy practices of our subsidiaries in the European Union (“EU”) and the United Kingdom (“UK”). If you are an EU or UK resident, you can review that notice by clicking here.

This Privacy Policy is intended to apply to job applicants. We have separate privacy policies and notices that apply to our employees and personnel as well as former employees and personnel. 

UNLESS PROHIBITED BY LAW, BY USING OR ACCESSING THIS SITE, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THIS PRIVACY POLICY.  IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY, YOU MAY NOT ACCESS OR OTHERWISE USE THIS SITE. THIS PARAGRAPH DOES NOT APPLY TO THE EU & UK PRIVACY NOTICE.

When we talk about personal information in this Privacy Policy, we mean any information which relates to an identified or identifiable living individual. 

We collect personal information about individuals we interact with in our business, such as individuals at our customers, suppliers and service providers as well as job applicants and independent contractors. We collect personal information so that we can operate our business and supply our products and services. The following describes the types of personal information that we may collect, or have collected in the preceding 12 months, from you for our purposes and how we use that information.

Some of the categories above are considered “sensitive personal information” under the applicable privacy laws (e.g., California): 

• government identifier, including social security, driver’s license, state identification card, or passport number as described above;
• financial accounts numbers as necessary to pay for services rendered by suppliers and contractors as described above;
• precise geolocation as described above; 
• race or ethnic origin, as described above.

We only collect this information where permitted and in accordance with applicable law, and in certain instances only where you voluntarily provide such information.

We collect health information about individuals that visit our facilities or attend functions we host as necessary to safely operate those facilities and functions. We may ask visitors to our facilities to supply identification, which may include personal information such as government identification number. Visitors may be recorded on our electronic security systems. 

Where required by law or to satisfy the requirements of governmental entities with which we transact business, we may require persons that transact business with us or that visit our facilities to provide name, address, citizenship status, country of origin or nationality, or other personal information to allow us to perform required screenings.

Additional information about the personal information that we collect is described in the Privacy Notice for California Consumers – California Privacy Rights and the EU & UK Privacy Notice below.

We receive personal information from the following sources:

• directly from you, such as when you complete forms, contact us, or visit our facilities;
• from your devices, such as when you visit this Site; we or third parties we work with automatically collect certain information using technologies such as cookies, web beacons, clear GIF, pixels, tags, and other data collection tools. For more information, please see the our Cookie Policy below;
• from our facilities and other offline technologies. In some cases, we record customer service calls for quality assurance. We may also use Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) in our facilities for safety, security, fraud, loss prevention, and operational purposes;
• affiliates and subsidiaries;
• other sources, such as customers and prime contractors; internet websites; social media and similar digital sources; governmental entities and regulatory authorities; and service providers, suppliers, distributors and sales representatives that provide goods and services. With respect to job applicants, service providers include companies that perform background checks and credit checks or that administer assessments. 

We may also receive your personal information from third parties in connection with a business transition such as a merger, reorganization, acquisition, or purchase of all or a portion of business assets. In such transactions, personal information is generally one of the transferred business assets and we may receive your personal information as an asset in any such transaction.

If you are a job applicant and you provide us with any personal information about other individuals, such as your reference(s), it is your responsibility to make sure you have their permission to share this information with us.

Our Site uses information gathering technologies, such as cookies, pixels, tags, and similar technologies (collectively, “cookies”), to collect information as you navigate the Site. 

Cookies are small pieces of code or text files that help us collect certain information about your equipment, your browsing activities, and other details about your visit to the Site. Cookies help visitors navigate our Site more efficiently and perform certain functions on our Site. We may also use cookies to improve our Site and to deliver a better and more personalized service.  

Types of Cookies.  Cookies may be session cookies, which are temporary cookies that expire or are erased when you close your browser. Cookies may also be persistent cookies that have an expiration date and therefore stay in your browser until they expire or you delete them.  

We may use first party cookies on our Site, which are cookies placed by us to collect information about you or to personalize your experience on the Site. 

Other cookies available on our Site are placed by third parties. Those third parties will receive the information collected by third party cookies. We do not control these third parties or how they use information. Please refer to the relevant third party’s privacy policy or cookie policy for more information about how they may use that information. 

We differentiate between cookies that are essential for the technical features of the Site and optional analytics and advertising cookies.

Cookies Used on this Site and Cookie Settings

The following describes the specific cookies we may use on our Site and the purpose for which they are used.

When you first visit the Site, you will be given the choice to accept non-essential cookies. Essential cookies, which are necessary for the operation of the Site, will be used and are listed below; consent is not required for these. If you change your mind about cookies, you can update your preferences about non-essential cookies by clicking here.

Any choices concerning cookies are browser and/or device specific. If you clear your cookies from your browser on any of your devices, your choices will need to be reset.

We use personal information we collect for our business or commercial purposes, which include one or more of the following: 

• Providing our products and services to customers, including maintaining or servicing accounts; providing customer service; processing or fulfilling orders and transactions; verifying customer information; processing payments; 
• Advertising or marketing our products and services to customers; hosting or attending industry events and tradeshows;
• Human resources and recruitment, to manage all aspects of our relationships with job applicants and independent contractors, including paying for services, fees and expenses; performing screenings, checks and verifications, to the extent permitted by applicable law; providing access to facilities; and where appropriate for job applicants, for recruiting, evaluating applications, and checking references; 
• Legal compliance and protection, including investigating and responding to claims against us; pursuing legal rights and remedies; defending litigation and managing internal complaints or claims; responding to legal process; protecting against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity and prosecution of those responsible; complying with internal policies and procedures; complying with applicable laws and regulatory requirements (e.g., tax, health and safety); monitoring and ensuring compliance with applicable policies and procedures;
• Information technology and security, including detecting security incidents; debugging to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality; monitoring the use of IT resources; performing data analytics; securing our facilities;
• Auditing including auditing compliance and financial auditing; 
• Business administration, including engaging in strategic planning and project management; maintaining records related to business activities, budgeting and financial management; undertaking internal research for technology development and demonstration, including without limitation to developing and improving our products, services and our websites; undertaking activities to verify or maintain the quality or safety of a service or device that is owned, manufactured, manufactured for, or controlled by us, and to improve, upgrade or enhance the service or device; protecting the rights, safety, and property of the Company, our employees, and/or others;
• Acquisition and business transactions including evaluating or conducting a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding; other business reorganizations; and
• Other purposes as described to you when collecting your personal information.

We may provide your personal information to the following third parties: 

• affiliates and subsidiaries; 
• customers and third party business partners, as necessary in connection with business operations;
• service providers and suppliers (for example IT companies and others who we engage to provide us services or to whom we outsource work to); 
• distributors and sales representatives;
• professional advisors (such as our accountants or legal counsel); 
• government entities and regulatory authorities; and
• other disclosures with your consent.

We have centralized certain aspects of our data processing and administration in accordance with applicable laws in order to allow us to better manage our business. That centralization may result in our providing your personal information to our affiliates. For example, your personal information may be provided to managers or staff of our affiliates in other locations to enable those affiliates to provide us with support services. 

As we continue to develop our business, we may buy or sell businesses in transactions such as mergers, reorganizations, acquisitions, or the purchase of all or a portion of business assets. We or our assets may also be purchased in these types of transactions. Personal information is often transferred as part of these transactions.

We may be required to disclose personal information if we are compelled to do so by a court of law or requested to do so by a governmental entity, regulatory authority or stock exchange, or if we determine it is necessary to comply with the law or to protect or defend our rights or property in accordance with applicable laws. 

Please note that the types of third parties to whom we provide your personal information as set out above is non-exhaustive and there may be circumstances where we need to provide your personal information to other third parties in order to operate this Site and our business.  Where required by applicable law, we will notify you of any other circumstances where we would share your information on a case-by-case basis.

This Privacy Policy describes the nature of the personal information that we collect or process about job applicants, how we collect that information, and the purposes for which we use and process that information. If you are a job applicant, you can find information about the personal information of job applicants throughout this Privacy Policy, including without limitation in the following sections: Personal Information We Collect; How Personal Information Is Collected; Use of Personal Information; Disclosing Personal Information; How We Protect Your Information; How Long We Store Your Personal Information, as well as information contained in the sections called California Consumer Privacy Rights and EU & UK Privacy Notice. 

This Site is not intended for or directed to children under 16 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16 without parental consent. If we become aware that a child under the age of 16 has provided us with personal information, we will delete the information from our records.

Our Site may link to third party websites which are not operated by us. We do not monitor or control those third parties or their data collection practices, which may differ from the practices described in this Privacy Policy. When you use a link to go from our Site to another website or you interact with another website, this Privacy Policy no longer applies to personal information collected or used by that website or third party. You should check the relevant privacy policy and/or cookie notice of the third party for more information about how that third party collects and uses personal information.

We maintain appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, interference, destruction, alteration, and disclosure. For example, we have implemented data protections policies, information about you is stored on secured information systems, and physical access to our information systems is limited to authorized individuals.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Site. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Site.

We keep your personal information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, after which it is deleted from our systems. We retain your personal information for a period of time consistent with the original purpose of collection and in accordance with applicable laws. For example, we retain your personal information during the time in which you engage in a transaction with us and for a reasonable period of time afterward. We also may retain your information during the period of time needed for us to pursue our legitimate business interests, conduct audits, comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes and enforce our agreements. We will not retain your personal information for a longer period than is reasonably necessary to achieve the disclosed purpose.

We reserve the right to amend this Privacy Policy at our discretion and at any time. When we make changes to this Privacy Policy, we will post the updated information on the Site and update the date last updated, and provide any other notice required by applicable law. We recommend that you review our Privacy Policy each time you visit or use our Site to stay informed of our privacy practices. To the extent that our Privacy Policy changes in a material way, the version that was in place at the time that you submitted personal information to us will generally govern that information unless we receive your consent to the new Privacy Policy.

Pursuant to applicable data protection law, you may have certain rights with respect to your personal information. 

The sections of this Privacy Policy called Privacy Notice for California Consumers – California Privacy Rights and EU & UK Privacy Notice describe rights that are available to the individuals covered by those sections.

If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, or questions or concerns about our privacy policies and practices, please contact us through email at [email protected]. 

This Privacy Policy includes an “effective” and “last updated” date.  The effective date refers to the date that the current version took effect. The last updated date refers to the date that the current version was last substantively modified.

Effective Date: January 1, 2023

Last Updated Date: January 1, 2026

The sections of this Privacy Policy called Privacy Notice for California Consumers – California Privacy Rights and EU & UK Privacy Notice describe specific methods for contacting us to exercise rights and to obtain information, as more fully described in those sections.

Last Updated: January 1, 2026

This section called Privacy Notice for California Consumers – California Privacy Rights:

• is intended to meet the requirements of the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 and the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020, and applicable regulations (“California Privacy Laws”);
• supplements the information contained in our Privacy Policy above; and 
• applies solely to those individuals who reside in the State of California and whose personal information (as defined below) is collected by us, who are referred to in this Notice as “consumers” or “you“.

This Privacy Notice for California Consumers applies to ETS Lindgren Inc., which is referred to in this Privacy Notice for California Consumers as the “Company”, “we”, “us”.

We have a separate Privacy Notice applicable to our employees and personnel as well as former employees and personnel. Current and former employees and personnel who would like a copy of this separate Privacy Notice can contact us in the manner described in Contact Information above.

This section describes our current practices as well as our practices for the 12-month period prior to the date of this Privacy Notice for California Consumers.

Personal Information We Collect About California Consumers

When we talk about personal information in this Privacy Notice for California Consumers, we mean information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer, household, or device. 

Personal information does not include information that has been excluded from the scope of the California Privacy Laws, such as publicly available information from government records; information you make available to the public generally; information from widely distributed media; de-identified or aggregated information; and certain categories of information governed by other sector-specific privacy laws. 

Our Privacy Policy above describes the personal information we collect on or through this Site and in other situations and interactions with you in the section entitled Personal Information We Collect.

How We Collect Your Personal Information

Our Privacy Policy above describes how we collect personal information on or through this Site and in other situations and interactions with you in the section entitled How Personal Information Is Collected.

How We Use Your Personal Information

We use the personal information categories above for those purposes that we have described in the Privacy Policy above in the section entitled Use of Personal Information. We do not use or disclose sensitive personal information for purposes other than those specified in Cal. Civ. Code §1798.121 of the California Privacy Laws.

Disclosing Personal Information

We disclose the categories of personal information listed above as described in the Privacy Policy above under Disclosing Personal Information.

Sale of Personal Information and Sharing for Advertising Purposes

On occasion, we may provide to our strategic partners with contact information, such as name, title, physical or email address, and telephone number, of individuals at our customers, suppliers and other business-to-business contacts. That information may be used by strategic partners to market goods or services to those contacts. Our goods and services are only offered to business-to-business customers, and are not sold to individuals in a personal or household capacity. To opt out of the “sale” of your personal information as just described, please click the Notice of Right to Opt-Out of the Sale of Personal Information link below.

Where our site makes use of third-party advertising cookies or similar technologies, this activity generally qualifies as a “sale” or “share” of personal information under California privacy laws (in this context “sharing” means cross contextual behavioral advertising). However, we provide users the ability to direct the use of such cookies via our cookie preference manager banner such that we do not currently sell or share your personal information in this context.  To the extent you opt-in to the use of targeted advertising cookies:   

• The following categories of Personal Information are generally disclosed: direct identifiers, device information, and geolocation data. 
• These categories of Personal Information are disclosed for these purposes to the following types of third parties: social media platforms, third party cookies providers and networks.

How Long We Keep Personal Information

We retain the personal information categories above for the period of time that we have described in the Privacy Policy above in the section entitled How Long We Store Your Personal Information.

How We Protect Your Personal Information

We protect the personal information categories above using the methods that we have described in the Privacy Policy above in the section entitled How We Protect Your Personal Information.

California Consumer Privacy Rights

The California Privacy Laws provide consumers with rights regarding their personal information. This section describes your California Privacy Laws rights and explains how to exercise those rights. We will comply with your requests to exercise your rights, unless an exception under the California Privacy Laws applies. Please note that the Company may require the use of your personal information to administer your job applicant relationship with us. Therefore, in some instances, we may not be able to process your request.

Your Right to Know and Data Portability
You have the right to know what personal information we have collected about you, including the categories of personal information, the categories of sources from which the personal information is collected, the business or commercial purpose for collecting, selling, or sharing personal information, the categories of third parties to whom we disclose personal information, and the specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you. You generally have the right to receive this personal information in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format so you can transmit this personal information to another entity.

Your Right to Deletion
You have the right to request that we delete any of your personal information that we collect from you and retain. If required by law, we will delete your personal information after such request is made. We may also decide to delete your data if we believe that the data is incomplete or inaccurate, or that our continued use and storage are contrary to our obligations to other individuals or third parties. When we delete personal information, it will be removed from our active database, but it may remain in archives where it is not practical or possible to delete it. You should note that there are some situations in which we may decline to delete your personal information. For example, we retain the information that we collect to, among other things, detect security incidents, comply with our legal obligations, enforce any of our agreement, and protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity.

Your Right to Correct
You have the right to request that we correct inaccurate personal information that we maintain about you.

Online Tracking
Some web browsers incorporate a “Do Not Track” (DNT) or similar feature that signals to websites that a visitor does not want to have his/her online activity and behavior tracked. Not all browsers offer a DNT option and there is currently no industry consensus for how to recognize or respond to a DNT signal. We will endeavor to recognize commercially recognized opt out signals (e.g., Global Privacy Control). Recognition of this signal will only take place with respect to the device and/or browser that communicates the signal.

Non-Discrimination
You have the right not to receive discriminatory treatment by us for the exercise of the privacy rights provided by the California Privacy Laws. This includes the right not to be retaliated against for the exercise of your rights. 

Automated Decision-making
You have the right to opt-out of the use of automated decision-making technology when it is used for significant decisions concerning you or for extensive profiling. We do not currently use automated decision-making technology for these purposes.

Notice of Right to Opt-Out of the Sale of Personal Information
You have the right to direct us to stop selling your personal information. The section above entitled Sale of Personal Information and Sharing for Advertising Purposes describes the limited circumstances in which we sell personal information. You can exercise this right by clicking this link “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information,” which will take you to a form to complete to exercise your right to opt out. You can also exercise your right by submitting a request as described in the next section below. 

Right to Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information
You have the right to limit our use and disclosure of your sensitive personal information to only those purposes allowed under the CCPA. However, we only collect and process sensitive personal information for purposes that are exempt from this right.

How to Submit a Request
To exercise the rights described above, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us by either: 

• Emailing us at [email protected]
• Completing the webform available by clicking here 
• Calling this toll-free number: (833) 481-1247

In submitting a request to exercise your rights, please provide us with the State in which you reside, your name, a return email or phone number where we can contact you, or indicate we can reply to the email you send to us.  Please also identify which privacy rights you would like to exercise with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to your request. 

In responding to you, we will take steps to verify your identity before granting you access to your personal information or comply with your request as described in Verifying Requests below.

Only you, or someone legally authorized to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable consumer request related to your personal information. 

You may only make a verifiable consumer request for access or data portability twice within a 12-month period. 

Although we have a separate Privacy Notice applicable to our employees and personnel as well as former employees and personnel, those persons can use the instructions in this section to submit their requests.

Verifying Requests
We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm that the personal information relates to you. 

To help protect your privacy and maintain security, we will take steps to verify your identity before granting you access to your personal information or complying with your request. We may require you to provide us with information about you to verify your identity. If we cannot verify your identity, we may decline your request as permitted by the California Privacy Laws.

The type of information that we ask for varies depending on the type and sensitivity of the personal information that is the subject of the request and other factors required by the California Privacy Laws. If additional information is required to verify your request, we may contact you to provide us with that information before responding to your request for access or deletion. In addition, if you ask us to provide you with specific pieces of personal information, we will require you to sign a declaration under penalty of perjury that you are the consumer whose personal information is the subject of the request. 

We will only use personal information provided in a verifiable consumer request to verify the requestor’s identity or authority to make the request. 

Authorized Agents
You can designate an authorized agent to make a request to know, delete or correct your personal information on your behalf.  These requests should be sent to us in the same manner you would submit a request described above. That authorized agent must provide us with a copy of the signed written permission from you. We can deny a request from an authorized agent that does not submit proof that the agent is authorized by you to act on your behalf. We may also require you to verify your own identity directly with us (as described above) and confirm with us that you provided that permission.

Additional Information
To the extent permitted by applicable law, we may charge a reasonable fee to comply with your request. This Privacy Notice for California Consumers is available in alternative formats upon request.  Please contact us as described in the section called California Privacy Laws Notice Contact Information to request this Privacy Notice in an alternative format. We will respond to your request within the time period prescribed by applicable law. Please note that many of the above rights are subject to exceptions and limitations. Your rights and our responses will vary based on the circumstances of the request.

California Privacy Laws Notice Contact Information

If you have any questions or comments about this Notice, or questions or concerns about our privacy policies and practices, please contact us at:

Website: www.ets-lindgren.com
Email: [email protected]
Postal Address:
ETS Lindgren Inc.
1301 Arrow Point Dr.,
Cedar Park, TX 78613

Last Updated: January 1, 2026

This EU & UK Privacy Notice

• is intended to meet the requirements of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal information and on the free movement of such data (known as “EU GDPR”) and the retained EU law version of the General Data Protection Regulation ((EU) 2016/679), as incorporated into UK law by virtue of section 3 of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 and amended by the Data Protection, Privacy and Electronic Communications (Amendments etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (known as “UK GDPR”) (together “GDPR”); and  
• supplements the information contained in our Privacy Policy above. 

This EU & UK Privacy Notice applies to the processing of personal information ETS‑Lindgren Inc. with offices at 1301 Arrow Point Dr., Cedar Park, TX 78613, and ETS‑Lindgren’s subsidiaries located in the EU and UK, including ETS‑Lindgren Oy, with offices at Mekaanikontie 1, FI – 27510, Eura, Finland; and ETS‑Lindgren Limited, with registered offices at Richmond House, Walkern Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England, SG1 3QP.

These companies are referred to in this EU & UK Privacy Notice as “we” or “us”.  

The term “personal information” in this EU & UK Privacy Notice means “personal data” as defined under GDPR. This means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. Identifiable persons are also referred to as a data subject in this Notice. 

By “processing of personal data” we mean any operation or set of operations, carried out even without an electronic means support, related to data collection, record, organization, storage, consultation, elaboration, modification, selection, retrieval, alignment, use, combination, block, communication, disclosure, erasure and destruction, even if not recorded into a data base.

To the extent that any of these entities process your personal information as described in this EU & UK Privacy Notice, each will be considered a “data controller” of your personal information.

This EU & UK Privacy Notice describes our online and offline privacy practices with respect to personal information that we collect about residents of the EU and the United Kingdom through this Site (referred to in this EU & UK Privacy Notice as “you” or “your”), as well as personal information that we might collect or process in other situations or interactions with you.

This EU & UK Privacy Notice applies to job applicants, but does not apply to employment-related personal information collected from employees and independent contractors which are subject to separate notices.

Personal Information We Collect About EU and UK Residents

Our Privacy Notice above describes the personal information we collect in the section entitled Personal Information We Collect.

Purpose of Processing and Legal Basis

Our purposes in processing personal information are described in our Privacy Policy above in the section entitled Use of Personal Information. 

We rely on the following legal basis for processing the personal information:

• your consent;
• the processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party or to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract;
• the processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject;
• the processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by us or by a third party.

Where we process personal information to provide products and services, our legal basis for processing is that it is necessary for our legitimate interests (and those of our customers) to process personal information in this way to ensure we provide the products and services requested by our customers in an effective and efficient way.  

Where we process personal information for marketing purposes, it is in our legitimate interest to process personal information in this way (except where consent is required by local law in which case we will obtain consent). You have the right at any time to withdraw consent, free of charge, as well as to object to the commercial communications received by contacting us in the section of this Notice called EU & UK Notice Contact Information.

Where we process personal information for legal compliance and protection, information technology and security, auditing, business administration, or acquisition and business transactions, our legal basis for processing personal information is that it is in our legitimate interests (and those of our customers) to process personal information in the ways described to ensure that our business is secure and operates in an effective and efficient way.  

For the uses of personal information described in our Cookie Policy, we place non-essential cookies only with your consent. Essential cookies, which are necessary for the operation of the Site, are placed on the basis of our legitimate interests (where they involve your personal information). These cookies help ensure the Site functions properly and support service improvements.  

The processing of the personal information for legitimate interest purposes is carried out pursuant to Article 6, letter f) of the GDPR, for the pursuit of the data controller’s legitimate interest, which is adequately balanced with the data subjects’ rights and freedoms since the processing of the personal information is performed within the limits strictly necessary to perform the required economic activities and the other activities described above. The processing for the legitimate interest purposes is not mandatory and you can object to the data processing at any time as set out in this Privacy Notice.  In that case, no data processing will be carried out for the legitimate interest purposes, without prejudice to an overriding interest of the data controller in continuing the processing.

We may collect special categories of personal data about you, including details about your race or ethnicity and information about your health. In addition to the legal bases set out above, data protection law requires us to meet an additional processing condition when processing your special category personal data. Depending on the circumstances, we may rely on the following conditions in accordance with data protection law, your explicit consent; to prevent or detect unlawful acts; to protect the public; where it is necessary to comply with our legal obligations or to meet regulatory requirements.

Sources and Sharing of Personal Information About EU and UK Residents

We receive and collect personal information in the manner described in the Privacy Policy above under the in the section entitled How Personal Information Is Collected.  We may share or disclose your personal information to third parties in the manner described in our Privacy Policy above in the section entitled Disclosing Personal Information. 

Your Consent

Where our use or processing of personal information requires your consent, you can provide that consent at the time that we collect your personal information following the instructions provided, or by informing us by email, mail or phone using the contract details set out in this EU & UK Privacy Notice. Note that if you consent to additional uses of your personal information, we may use your personal information in the manner consistent with that consent.  You may withdraw your consent at any time, without affecting previous lawfulness of processing, by contacting us using the same details.

Data Transfers Outside the EU and/or the UK

Where permitted by applicable law, your personal information may be transferred outside the EU and the UK, for the purposes set out in the section entitled Use of Personal Information and as described in  the section called Disclosing Personal Information of our Privacy Policy.  More specifically, data may be transferred by our affiliates in the EU and UK to the following parties outside the EU and the UK: 

• ESCO Technologies Inc. (“ESCO”), with registered offices in 9900A Clayton Road – St. Louis, MO 63124 USA – email [email protected];
• ETS‑Lindgren Inc., at its US headquarters 1301 Arrow Point Dr., Cedar Park, TX 78613 – email [email protected].

The transfer of your personal information will be based on appropriate mechanisms in accordance with the applicable law, such as declarations made by regulators or governments (e.g. adequacy decisions/regulations), the Standard Contractual Clauses, or other valid and appropriate safeguards in place at the time of transfer. You have the right to obtain a copy of the relevant safeguard by contacting us in the manner described in the section called EU & UK Notice Contact Information.

How Long We Keep Personal Information

We retain personal information for the period of time that we have described in the Privacy Policy above in the section entitled How Long We Store Your Personal Information.  In addition, to determine the appropriate retention period for personal information, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal information, the purposes for which we process your personal information and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

How We Protect Your Personal Information

The processing of your personal information takes place according to the principles of correctness, lawfulness and transparency, through the use of tools and procedures designed for security and confidentiality. We protect your personal information using the methods that we have described in the Privacy Policy above in the section entitled How We Protect Your Personal Information.

Automated Decision Making

We do not envisage that any decisions that have a legal or similarly significant effect on you will be taken about you using purely automated means.  We will update this Privacy Policy and inform you if this position changes.

Opt Out of Unwanted Communications

To opt out of any future promotional or marketing communications or any other commercial communications from us, follow the instructions in the communication where this is an electronic message, or send a request to us at the contact information in the section of this Notice called EU & UK Notice Contact Information.

Rights of EU and UK Residents

This EU & UK Privacy Notice gives you transparency on how we process and handle your personal information. You may exercise the following rights granted to you under GDPR in relation to your personal information:

• The right of access. You are entitled at any time to obtain confirmation that we process personal information about you, to access and obtain copies of the personal information, and to receive information about our processing of personal information. Information will be provided within the time periods required by applicable law. 
• The right to rectification. You are entitled to have personal information corrected or rectified if it is inaccurate or incomplete. 
• The right to erasure or to be forgotten. You can request the deletion or removal of your personal information where appropriate. This includes, for example, where your personal information is no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which it was processed, or where you have withdrawn your consent. Your rights are subject to certain exceptions, such as where we are required to retain personal information by applicable law. If we have shared your personal information with others, we will let them know about the deletion where possible. 
• The right to restrict processing. You have the right to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances, such as where you contest the accuracy of the personal information while we investigate your concern. We can, however, continue to store your personal information. If we have shared your personal information with others, we will let them know about the restriction where possible.  
• The right to data portability. You have the right, where our processing is based on your consent, to receive your personal information from us in a commonly used electronic format to allow you to transfer your data to a third party. If you ask, we will transfer the personal information to another third party where it is technically feasible and lawful. 
• The right to object. You have the right to object to processing where we are relying on ours or a third party’s legitimate interest to do so or for the purpose of direct marketing.  
• The right to withdraw consent. You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time when processing relies upon consent without affecting previous lawfulness of processing.
• The right not to be subject to automated decision making.  You have rights in relation to automated decision making and profiling.

You can access these rights verbally or in writing using our contact information provided in the section below entitled EU & UK Notice Contact Information. Except in rare cases, we will respond to you within 1 calendar month from either: (i) the date that we have confirmed your identity; or (ii) where we do not need to do this because we already have this information, from the date we received your request. If your request is denied, we will inform you about the reasons for denial.

Please note that in order for you to assert these rights, we may need to verify your identity to confirm your right to access your personal information. This is a security measure to ensure that personal information is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. In order to verify your identity, we may need to gather more personal information from you than we currently have.

Enforcement

We are responsible for implementing this EU & UK Privacy Notice. Violations of the applicable data protection legislation in the EU and UK may lead to penalties and/or claims for damages.

If at any time you believe that your personal information has been processed in violation of this EU & UK Privacy Notice, or if you have any inquiries or complaints about the use or limitation of use of your personal information, you may contact us as described in the section called EU & UK Notice Contact Information.

If you have a complaint about our privacy practices, you have the right to lodge a complaint with your local Data Protection Authority. In the UK, the relevant Data Protection Authority is the Information Commissioner’s Office: https://ico.org.uk. We are committed to cooperating with Data Protection Authorities and to comply with dispute resolution procedures in cases of complaints. We are also committed to complying with any regulations or guidelines that Data Protection Authorities may issue from time to time in accordance with applicable data protection legislation. Where required by law, we will register and/or keep our registration updated as a data controller and/or processor in required jurisdictions.

EU and UK Notice Contact Information

If you have any questions or comments about this EU & UK Privacy Notice, or questions or concerns about our privacy policies and practices, please contact us at:

Website: www.ets-lindgren.com
Email: [email protected]
Postal Address:
ETS‑Lindgren Inc.
Attn: Data Privacy
1301 Arrow Point Dr.
Cedar Park, TX 78613