We at Ant-machines.com (hereinafter referred to as Ant-machines.com, our, us, we etc.) are sensitive to the concerns that our site visitors may have regarding the confidentiality, security and use of their personal information. Ant-machines.com is committed to protecting your personal information and would like to reassure you of our position on this matter.
Please take some time to read through this policy and understand our position on privacy before you provide us with any personal information.
Personal Information We May Collect
Some of this information is essential for us to be able to respond to your requests and, as such, is indicated by mandatory fields. Mandatory information requirements are clearly identified and are denoted by an asterisk (*). When submitting a form, you will also be prompted if any mandatory data has not been completed. You have the option of not identifying yourself or dealing with us using a pseudonym.
You may be asked to provide Ant-machines.com with personal information when you:
- Email us with queries, comments, suggestions, or other information;
- Use our contact form to communicate your queries, comments, suggestions, or other information;
- Request for partnerships and collaborations;
- Subscribe to our newsletter;
When you engage in the activities described above, you are authorising us to collect, store, use, and disclose such information and content in accordance with this policy.
In no case will Ant-machines.com collect sensitive information revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, or details of health, disability, or sexual activity or orientation.
Non-Personal Information We May Collect
Ant-machines.com may also collect non-personal information, such as your IP address or your browsing patterns, by using cookies on its websites. The use of cookies is an industry standard and you’ll find most major websites use them. One way to prevent the use of cookies is to activate the facility available in most web browsers that enables the user to deny or accept cookies.
How We Use Your Information
If we hold personal information about you that was collected for a particular purpose, we will not use or disclose it for another purpose unless: (a) you consent; (b) you would reasonably expect us to use or disclose it for that other purpose; or (c) it is required or authorised by law or a court/tribunal order.
Ant-machines.com generally uses personal information, and you consent to us using your personal information, to:
- Help Ant-machines.com manage and enhance its services and websites;
- Communicate with you;
- Send you ongoing information and promotional material about opportunities, services, and products (relating to our business or a third party business) in which Ant-machines.com believes you may be interested.
We may also share your personal information with our Related Websites and/or Partners.
The information and feedback you provide through our websites may be used to identify ways of improving the websites and how we can make them more effective for your use.
Unsubscribing From Notifications
At the time we collect information from you, you may be asked to “opt in” to consent to us using or disclosing your personal information, other than in accordance with this policy or any applicable law. You may contact us at the address below to “opt out” or unsubscribe from any future communications. Ant-machines.com will use reasonable endeavours to comply as quickly as possible with that request.
If you receive communications purporting to be connected with us or our website that you believe have been sent to you other than in accordance with this policy, or in breach of any law, please contact us. We are dedicated to upholding your digital rights and ensuring the confidentiality of your personal information in accordance with the highest standards of data protection.
Disclosure Of Your Personal Information
You consent to Ant-machines.com disclosing your personal information to the authorised personnel of Ant-machines.com and to:
- Our Related Websites/Companies;
- Our Partners;
- Third parties which we engage with in Joint Activities;
- Related Companies/Companies
You acknowledge and agree that we may collect and share personal information about you with related corporate bodies and affiliated websites and businesses (Related Companies) so we can provide you with the products and services you request and bring you information about products and services we offer. We will inform our Related Companies that information shared with them must be collected, used, disclosed, and stored in accordance with this policy.
In some cases, we contract with other companies or individuals to work with us or provide goods or services for us (Partners), including business partners, distributors, suppliers, and advertisers. Examples of the goods and services our Partners may provide are electronic communications, data storage, deliveries, direct marketing services, market research, advertising, public relations, legal advice, accounting, and audits.
We provide our Partners only with such information about you as they need to provide their goods or perform their services, and we impose strict requirements of security and confidentiality on them in how they handle your personal information. We make it clear that our Partners are not permitted to use your personal information other than as permitted under this policy. You hereby consent to the disclosure of your personal information to such Related Companies and Partners.
Access And Correction Of Personal Information
Ant-machines.com will take reasonable steps to ensure your personal information is accurate, up to date, and complete.
Security
Ant-machines.com will take reasonable steps to protect your personal information from misuse, interference, loss, unauthorised access, modification, or disclosure. Any personal information that we receive is securely stored and access is restricted to authorised personnel of Ant-machines.com, its Related Companies and Partners, as described above.
We have implemented appropriate and reasonable technical and organisational security measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we process. However, despite our safeguards and efforts to secure your information, no electronic transmission over the Internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, so we cannot promise or guarantee that hackers, cybercriminals, or other unauthorised third parties will not be able to defeat our security and improperly collect, access, steal, or modify your information. Although we will do our best to protect your personal information, the transmission of personal information to and from our website is at your own risk. You should only access the website within a secure environment.
Please contact us immediately at the address listed below if you become aware of any unauthorised use of your personal information.
Third-Party Websites
You may follow links on our websites to other third-party websites (Other Sites). We encourage you to always read the privacy policies on those Other Sites as they may also collect your personal information. Ant-machines.com is not responsible for the information on, and the contents of, those Other Sites or their practices or policies.
Terms of Keeping of Personal Information
We will only keep your personal information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy policy unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting, or other legal requirements).
When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymise such information, or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.
Cookies Policy
We may use cookies and similar tracking technologies (like web beacons and pixels) to gather information when you interact with our website. Some online tracking technologies help us maintain the security of our website, prevent crashes, fix bugs, save your preferences, and assist with basic site functions.
We also permit third parties and service providers to use online tracking technologies on our website for analytics and advertising, including to help manage and display advertisements, to tailor advertisements to your interests, or to send abandoned shopping cart reminders (depending on your communication preferences). The third parties and service providers use their technology to provide advertising about products and services tailored to your interests which may appear either on our website or on other websites.
To the extent these online tracking technologies are deemed to be a ‘sale’/’sharing’ (which includes targeted advertising, as defined under the applicable laws) under applicable US state laws, you can opt out of these online tracking technologies by submitting a request as described below under the section “If you are located in the USA, this section applies to you.”
Do-not-track Features
Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems and mobile applications include a Do-Not-Track (‘DNT’) feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. At this stage, no uniform technology standard for recognising and implementing DNT signals has been finalised. As such, we do not currently respond to DNT browser signals or any other mechanism that automatically communicates your choice not to be tracked online. If a standard for online tracking is adopted that we must follow in the future, we will inform you about that practice in a revised version of this privacy policy.
California law requires us to let you know how we respond to web browser DNT signals. Because there currently is not an industry or legal standard for recognising or honouring DNT signals, we do not respond to them at this time.
Policy Updates
We may update this privacy policy from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated ‘Revised’ date at the top of this privacy policy. If we make material changes to this privacy policy, we may notify you either by prominently posting a notice of such changes or by directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to review this privacy policy frequently to be informed of how we are protecting your information.
Contact Us
If you:
- Have any questions or comments on this policy;
- Would like to access or correct your personal information;
- Would like to know how we received your personal information;
Please contact us at info@ant-machines.com or contact us by post to:
ANT Maschinen GmbH
Auf dem Brümmer 6a
Dortmund 44149, Germany
If you are a resident in the European Economic Area or Switzerland, we are the ‘data controller’ of your personal information. We have appointed ANT Maschinen GmbH to be our representative in the EEA and Switzerland. You can contact them directly regarding our processing of your information, by email at info@ant-machines.com, by visiting https://ant-machines.com/contacts/, or by post to:
ANT Maschinen GmbH
Auf dem Brümmer 6a
Dortmund 44149, Germany
If you are a resident in the United Kingdom, we are the ‘data controller’ of your personal information. We have appointed ANT Machines Ltd to be our representative in the UK. You can contact them directly regarding our processing of your information, by email at info@ant-machines.com, by visiting https://ant-machines.com/contacts/, or by post to:
ANT Machines Ltd
Innovation Hub, Port Of Tyne
South Shields, England, NE34 9PY
If you are located in the EU, EEA or UK, this section applies to you.
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and UK GDPR require us to explain the valid legal bases we rely on in order to process your personal information. As such, we may rely on the following legal bases to process your personal information:
- Consent. We may process your information if you have given us permission (i.e. consent) to use your personal information for a specific purpose. You can withdraw your consent at any time.
- Legitimate Interests. We may process your information when we believe it is reasonably necessary to achieve our legitimate business interests and those interests do not outweigh your interests and fundamental rights and freedoms. For example, we may process your personal information for some of the purposes described in order to:
- Send users information about special offers and discounts on our products and services;
- Understand how our users use our products and services so we can improve user experience.
- Legal Obligations. We may process your information where we believe it is necessary for compliance with our legal obligations, such as to cooperate with a law enforcement body or regulatory agency, exercise or defend our legal rights, or disclose your information as evidence in litigation in which we are involved.
- Vital Interests. We may process your information where we believe it is necessary to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of a third party, such as situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person.
In legal terms, we are generally the ‘data controller’ under European data protection laws of the personal information described in this privacy policy since we determine the means and/or purposes of the data processing we perform.
If you are located in Canada, this section applies to you.
We may process your information if you have given us specific permission (i.e. express consent) to use your personal information for a specific purpose, or in situations where your permission can be inferred (i.e. implied consent). You can withdraw your consent at any time.
In some exceptional cases, we may be legally permitted under applicable law to process your information without your consent, including, for example:
- If collection is clearly in the interests of an individual and consent cannot be obtained in a timely way;
- For investigations and fraud detection and prevention;
- For business transactions provided certain conditions are met;
- If it is contained in a witness statement and the collection is necessary to assess, process, or settle an insurance claim;
- For identifying injured, ill, or deceased persons and communicating with next of kin;
- If we have reasonable grounds to believe an individual has been, is, or may be a victim of financial abuse;
- If it is reasonable to expect collection and use with consent would compromise the availability or the accuracy of the information and the collection is reasonable for purposes related to investigating a breach of an agreement or a contravention of the laws of Canada or a province;
- If disclosure is required to comply with a subpoena, warrant, court order, or rules of the court relating to the production of records;
- If it was produced by an individual in the course of their employment, business, or profession and the collection is consistent with the purposes for which the information was produced;
- If the collection is solely for journalistic, artistic, or literary purposes;
- If the information is publicly available and is specified by the regulations.
If you are located in the USA, this section applies to you.
If you are a resident of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Montana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, or Virginia, you may have the right to request access to and receive details about the personal information we maintain about you and how we have processed it, correct inaccuracies, get a copy of, or delete your personal information. You may also have the right to withdraw your consent to our processing of your personal information. These rights may be limited in some circumstances by applicable law. More information is provided below.
Categories of Personal Information We Collect
We have collected the following categories of personal information in the past twelve (12) months:
- Identifiers (contact details, such as real name, alias, postal address, telephone or mobile contact number; unique personal identifier; online identifier; Internet Protocol address; email address; account name);
- Internet or other similar network activity (online behaviour, interest data, interactions with our websites, applications, systems, and advertisements);
- Personal information as defined in the California Customer Records statute (name, contact information, employment).
We are not collecting, and never have collected, the following categories of personal information
- Protected classification characteristics under state or federal law (gender, age, date of birth, race and ethnicity, national origin, marital status, and other demographic data);
- Commercial information (transaction information, purchase history, financial details, and payment information);
- Biometric information (fingerprints and voiceprints);
- Geolocation data;
- Audio, electronic, sensory, or similar information (images and audio, video, or call recordings created in connection with our business activities);
- Education Information (student records and directory information);
- Inferences drawn from collected personal information (inferences drawn from any of the collected personal information listed above to create a profile or summary about, for example, an individual’s preferences and characteristics);
- Sensitive personal information (information revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, details of health, disability, gender, sexual activity, or orientation).
Your Rights
You have rights under certain US state data protection laws. These rights include:
- Right to know whether or not we are processing your personal data;
- Right to access your personal data;
- Right to correct inaccuracies in your personal data;
- Right to request the deletion of your personal data;
- Right to obtain a copy of the personal data you previously shared with us;
- Right to non-discrimination for exercising your rights;
- Right to opt out of the processing of your personal data if it is used for targeted advertising (or sharing as defined under California’s privacy law), the sale of personal data, or profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects (‘profiling’).
Depending upon the state where you live, you may also have the following rights:
- Right to obtain a list of the categories of third parties to which we have disclosed personal data (as permitted by applicable law, including California’s and Delaware’s privacy law);
- Right to obtain a list of specific third parties to which we have disclosed personal data (as permitted by applicable law, including Oregon’s privacy law);
- Right to limit the use and disclosure of sensitive personal data (as permitted by applicable law, including California’s privacy law);
- Right to opt out of the collection of sensitive data and personal data collected through the operation of a voice or facial recognition feature (as permitted by applicable law, including Florida’s privacy law).
How to Exercise Your Rights
To exercise these rights, you can contact us in writing by using the contact details provided in the section above titled “Contact Us”.
Under certain US state data protection laws, you can designate an authorised agent to make a request on your behalf. We may deny a request from an authorised agent that does not submit proof that they have been validly authorised to act on your behalf in accordance with applicable laws.
Request Verification
Upon receiving your request, we will need to verify your identity to determine you are the same person about whom we have the information in our system. We will only use personal information provided in your request to verify your identity or authority to make the request. However, if we cannot verify your identity from the information already maintained by us, we may request that you provide additional information for the purposes of verifying your identity and for security or fraud-prevention purposes.
If you submit the request through an authorised agent, we may need to collect additional information to verify your identity before processing your request and the agent will need to provide written and signed permission from you to submit such a request on your behalf.
Appeals
Under certain US state data protection laws, if we decline to take action regarding your request, you may appeal our decision by emailing us at info@ant-machines.com. We will inform you in writing of any action taken or not taken in response to the appeal, including a written explanation of the reasons for the decisions. If your appeal is denied, you may submit a complaint to your state attorney general.
California 'Shine The Light' Law
California Civil Code Section 1798.83, also known as the ‘Shine The Light’ law, permits our users who are California residents to request and obtain from us, once a year and free of charge, information about categories of personal information (if any) we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes and the names and addresses of all third parties with which we shared personal information in the immediately preceding calendar year. If you are a California resident and would like to make such a request, please submit your request in writing to us by using the contact details provided in the section above titled “Contact Us.”
