Privacy policy

In general, WIKA Instrumentation Corporation (Thailand) Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "WIKA" or "we") acts according to data avoidance and minimisation principles. This means, we try to collect, process and use as few personal information as possible.

So that you can feel fine with respect to the handling of your personal data, we make it transparent to you what happens to the accumulated data and what security measures are taken on our part. We will also let you know what your legal rights are in connection with the treatment of these data.

1. Automatically generated data
Our website can generally be visited without entering any personal data. We just collect the data supplied by your internet service provider. This includes the name of your provider, your IP address, the type of browser you use and your operating system as well as visited websites incl. any search terms and the websites from which you visit our website. In these cases, data is processed anonymously, which makes it impossible for us to relate the data to your person (= identification). An evaluation is only carried out for statistical purposes. The personal data provided by you are generally used only within the WIKA Group.

2. Personal data and consent
Insofar as it is required for the establishment, execution or termination of a contractual relationship or quasi agreement with customers, we will collect, process and use your personal data. Furthermore, we will only save personal data if the website visitor enters it explicitly and voluntarily. This might be the case, for example, if a website visitor wants to get registered for certain parts of the website. The information submitted in this case will only be used according to its purpose and observing the valid legal requirements; any use beyond the above mentioned requires your consent.A consent may be revoked any time in writing by sending the request to our data protection contact.

Your contact person for data protection issues at WIKA Instrumentation Corporation (Thailand) Co., Ltd. is:

Responsible:  WIKA Instrumentation Corporation (Thailand) Co., Ltd.
E-mail: datenschutz@wika.com
Postal address:

WIKA Instrumentation Corporation (Thailand) Co., Ltd.
850/8 Ladkrabang Road, Ladkrabang
Bangkok 10520

 

3. Forwarding personal data
Data are generally collected, processed and used by us, in particular, if we guarantee it. In certain cases, however, your data is also collected, processed and used by other companies of the WIKA Group (affiliate companies) or by service providers having a business relationship with us. In the last-mentioned cases, however, we will see to it that the relevant legal data protection requirements and the obligations resulting from this data protection notice will be complied with. Any further access to your information by third parties is not intended by us. In particular, we will not sell your information or use it in any similar way. We will comply with our duty of notification as required by law or authorities; in these cases, we will forward the relevant information to the public authorities.

4. Security principles
To protect the information about employees/customers/suppliers stored in our company against accidental or deliberate manipulations, loss, destruction or access by unauthorised parties, we have taken the corresponding technical and organisational measures. The security level is constantly being checked in cooperation with security experts and adapted to new security standards.

5. Newsletter
If you have subscribed to the WIKA newsletter, you may easily unsubscribe any time. To do so, go to this Subscribe / Unsubscribe page and enter the saved e-mail address under "Unsubscribe from newsletter" at the bottom of the page. After clicking the "Unsubscribe" button, the data is immediately deleted.

6. Links to other websites
Our website also includes - clearly marked - links to the websites of other companies. Provided there are links to websites of other owners, the contents of such websites is not under our control. Therefore, we shall not be responsible or liable for any of these contents. The providers or owners of the linked-to websites are solely liable for the contents. The linked-to pages were checked for any possible infringements or noticeable violations of the law at the moment of establishing the link. There was not any noticeable illegal contents at the moment of linking. A continuous control of the contents of the linked-to websites, however, is not reasonable without any specific evidence of a violation of the law. As soon as such violations of the law become evident, we will remove such links promptly.

7. Right to information and deletion
On your request, WIKA will inform you as soon as possible in writing which information that can be related to you is saved in our company. Nevertheless, if we have saved incorrect information in spite of a careful handling of your data, we will correct this information on your request. Your data is also deleted on request. Please do not hesitate to contact the data protection contact for any inquiry or request. This person is also available to you for any further questions regarding the processing of your personal data or if you have any comments or complaints that help us to further improve our data protection.

Your contact person for data protection issues at WIKA Instrumentation Corporation (Thailand) Co., Ltd. is: 

Responsible:  WIKA Instrumentation Corporation (Thailand) Co., Ltd.
E-mail: datenschutz@wika.com
Postal address:

WIKA Instrumentation Corporation (Thailand) Co., Ltd.
850/8 Ladkrabang Road, Ladkrabang
Bangkok 10520

 

8. Cookies
Our websites utilise cookies in several places. They serve to make our service more user-friendly, effective and safe. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and saved by your browser (locally on your hard drive). Cookies allow us to analyse how users use our website. Thus we are able to tailor the content of the site to the requirements of the user. Cookies also make it possible to measure the effectiveness of a particular advert and show us where best to place it depending, for example, on the topics the user is interested in. Most of the cookies we use are "session cookies". These are automatically deleted after your visit. Most web browsers accept cookies automatically. However, if you would prefer not to send this information you can usually change the settings on your browser. You will still be able to use our website without limitation (except in the case of configurators).

9. LinkedIn – Insight tag
This website uses analysis and conversion tracking technology from LinkedIn Inc. (“LinkedIn”), LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland. With the above-mentioned technology from LinkedIn, more relevant, interest-based advertising is displayed. The legal basis for the processing is our legitimate interest in customer-oriented marketing Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) EU GDPR.

We also receive aggregated and anonymous reports from LinkedIn on ad activities and information about how you interact with our website. However, LinkedIn is able to associate the visit to our page with your LinkedIn user account.

We have no control over the information that LinkedIn collects through this, nor the extent of the information collected by LinkedIn. We also have no knowledge of the content of the data submitted to LinkedIn.

Further information on LinkedIn's privacy policy can be found here:
https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy#choices-oblig

You may object to the analysis of your usage behaviour by LinkedIn and the display of interest-based recommendations (“opt-out”); click on “Decline on LinkedIn” (for LinkedIn members) or “Decline” (for other users) at https://www.linkedin.com/psettings/guest-controls/retargeting-opt-out.

Last update November 26, 2018