Lynk & Co cares about your personal integrity and wants you to feel safe when submitting personal data to us. It is important for us to be transparent in how we treat your personal data and provide you with information in an understandable manner.
In this policy, we provide information regarding how we treat your personal data when registering an account on our website.
We work continuously with privacy matters, this may lead to updates in our policy. You are always welcome to contact us if you have any questions or comments.
LYNK & CO International AB (”Lynk & Co”), Theres Svenssons gata 15, 417 55 Gothenburg, Sweden, with organisational number 559151-7569, is responsible for controlling the personal data that is collected and treated by Lynk & Co.
LYNK & CO has also appointed a Data Protection Officer (“DPO”) with the responsibility to, within Lynk & Co, be up to date on the General Data Protection Regulation. You can reach the DPO on the following address and number:
Lynk & Co Data Protection Officer, Business Technologies, Theres Svenssons gata 15, 417 55 Gothenburg, Sweden, e-mail address dpo@lynkco.com or +46729888580
We collect your e-mail address and phone number that you submit to us when signing up for our newsletter and other updates. We will also collect your IP address as a result of you visiting our website.
Once you have provided personal data to us, we use the information purposes and on legal grounds set out below:
A.
Purpose: For you to benefit from our latest news, business information and special offers; we will use your e-mail address, phone number, IP address and country of residence to send our newsletter by e-mail and SMS.
Our legal ground for the purpose: Your consent. Our use of your personal data is necessary for us to fulfil our undertaking in providing you with offers that might be of interest to you.
B.
Purpose: In order for you to complete your participation in competitions and events.
Our legal ground for the purpose: Our legitimate interest in giving us the opportunity to administer or follow up competitions, questions or information about winner(s).
C.
Purpose: To make updates and improvements to services and products as well as the technical functionality of our systems.
Our legal ground for the purpose: Our legitimate interest in being able to make updates to the technology that allows you to visit our website, use our mobile applications or to understand how you experience us so that we can improve.
D.
Purpose: To prevent abuse of our services.
Our legal ground for the purpose: To provide secure services that can prevent unauthorized access or unlawful use of our services.
E.
Purpose: To register persons who asks not to receive any marketing from us.
Our legal ground for the purpose: Upon an individual’s request.
We only share your personal information when this is a legal requirement or otherwise permitted by law. In some cases, we may use a supplier or other third party to help us with our marketing or our IT systems. In such cases, we have entered into agreements with a third party that ensures that there are measures to protect your data. When we share your information, the information will be used for the same purpose as we initially collected it.
We minimize the transfer of personal data to a non-EU / EEA country and in cases, such as where system support and maintenance occurs, this is subjected to highly demanding requirements and agreements.
We also share your personal data with some companies that are independent personal data managers, which means that they control how the information is to be treated, such as authorities.
We treat information about you to provide the best service and store your data as long as is necessary to meet the purposes for which the information was originally collected. The data can also be stored for the time required by applicable law. We have ongoing routines that ensure that we do not store unnecessary data about you and we minimize storage time as much as possible.
Information collected after consent:
If you visit Lynk & Co's web page or other sites where it is applicable, we will ask for your consent before registering your personal data. The information collected from you with your consent, will be stored as long as the information is relevant but deletes historical information continuously 5 years from the date the information was collected. You can always revoke your consent and the information will be deleted as soon as possible and within 6 months from your request to Lynk & Co.
We ensure that your personal data is handled in accordance with specific security measures to protect against unauthorized access. At Lynk & Co, the personal data is only used when needed and only by the people who need it to provide you with relevant service.
To gain access to your personal data, please send a request through the Lynk & Co registry extract. When receiving a request, we may ask for additional information to ensure that we provide the information to the correct person. When placing a request for a registry extract, the form must be signed in writing by you and sent to us either through ordinary mail or scanned and attached to an email to us. You are also always entitled to request that your personal information be corrected.
You may request the deletion of your personal data to the extent that complies with applicable law and in accordance with agreements entered into with you. We will of course always do our best to accommodate your request for deletion.
You are also entitled to object to our treatment (for example, if any of the data collected is incorrect). In some cases, if the personal data is required to be kept to comply with applicable legislation, Lynk & Co cannot meet your request for deletion.
Your personal data will not be processed for direct marketing or profiling if you oppose such processing. You are also entitled to withdraw a given consent at any time and to refuse any kind of marketing.
If, in your view, we have processed your personal data incorrectly you can always contact us. For enforcement of breaches in Sweden, the Datainspektionen is responsible for data protection law enforcement and a person who considers that there is an incorrect handling of personal data can put forward complaints to the Datainspektionen.
Our goal is to always provide you with simple and accurate information about how we use your personal data. Your personal integrity is important to us and we constantly work with improvements to ensure that you can feel safe when you provide your personal data. If you have questions about how we use your personal data, please contact our Data Protection Officer at dpo@lynkco.com You can also call us at +46729888580