Privacy Policy for the VIVARES Portal and App

 

As of May 2022

 

Preamble

At LEDVANCE, data privacy is our top priority. The careful handling of your personal data is important to us. That is why we handle your data confidentially, in strict compliance with the applicable data protection provisions.

Below, we would like to explain to you which data we use, at what point in time, and for what purpose. Our objective is to make you aware of our App’s functionality and how we ensure the protection of your personal data, which is of utmost importance to us. We will not use your personal data unless we have your consent or legal permission.

 

VIVARES ZB is a light management system. The Portal and App is used for the planning, commissioning, and maintenance of the VIVARES ZB system. The App can be used to control lights, sensors, and push-button couplers using the VIVARES App and the VIVARES Portal.

Users, especially installation technicians and owners, will log on to the Portal or App by entering their usernames and passwords. You can then store rooms, light sources, and devices in the Portal or App by configuring the relevant scenes and time settings.

The following personal data of the logged-on users will be processed upon provision of the Portal and App:

·        First name

·        Last name

·        Email address

·        Phone number

·        Company

·        IP address

·        Date and time of access

·        Start and end of session

·        Details of the devices used

 

 


 

Contents

 

I.       Name and address of the data controller responsible for data processing. 3

II.      Name and address of the data protection officer 3

III.         Data processing in the VIVARES Portal and App. 3

a.      Scope of the processing of personal data. 3

b.      Purpose of personal data processing. 4

c.      Legal basis for the processing of personal data. 4

d.      Storage period. 4

e.      Right to withdrawal and erasure. 4

IV.         Telemetry data and authorisations. 4

a.      Description and scope of data processing. 4

b.      Purpose of data processing. 5

c.      Legal basis for data processing. 5

d.      Storage duration/Right to objection and erasure. 5

e.      Right to objection and erasure. 5

V.      Hosting. 5

VI.         Rights of the data subject 6

a.      Right of access. 6

b.      Right to rectification. 6

c.      Right to erasure or restriction and objection. 6

d.      Right to notification. 6

e.      Right to data portability. 6

f.       Right to object 6

g.      Right to withdraw data protection consent 7

h.      Automated individual decision-making including profiling. 7

i.       Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. 7

 


 

 

      I.          Name and address of the data controller responsible for data processing

The data controller responsible for data processing as defined in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other national data protection laws of the member states, as well as other data protection regulations, is:

LEDVANCE GmbH

Parkring 29-33

85748 Garching

Germany

+49 89 780673-100

contact@ledvance.com

www.ledvance.de

 

   II.           Name and address of the data protection officer

Contact details of the data protection officer:

 

Mr. Matthias Lindner

bDSB LEDVANCE

c/o intersoft consulting services AG

Beim Strohhause 17

20097 Hamburg

E-Mail:privacy@ledvance.com

 

 III.           Data processing in the VIVARES Portal and App

This page will inform you about the data processing of the VIVARES Portal and App for Android and iOS ("App"). The Portal and App is provided by LEDVANCE GmbH, Parkring 29-33, 85748 Garching, Germany ("LEDVANCE", "we", or "us").

 

a.    Scope of the processing of personal data

VIVARES ZB is a light management system. The Portal and App is used for the planning, commissioning, and maintenance of the VIVARES ZB system. The Portal and App can be used to control lights, sensors, and push-button couplers using the VIVARES App and the VIVARES Portal.

 

The following personal data will be processed upon provision of the Portal and App:

·        First name

·        Last name

·        Email address

·        Phone number

·        Company

·        IP address

·        Date and time of access

·        Start and end of session

·        Details of the devices used

Users will log on to the Portal and App by entering their usernames and passwords. You can then store rooms, light sources, and devices in the Portal and App by configuring the relevant scenes and time settings.

b.    Purpose of personal data processing

The purpose of the processing of personal data is to offer our customers a light management system.

c.     Legal basis for the processing of personal data

The legal basis for the processing of your personal data is Art. 6(1)(1)(a) GDPR.

d.    Storage period

Personal data shall be stored for as long as it is necessary to fulfil the purposes described in this Privacy Policy or as required by law, e.g., for tax and accounting purposes.

e.    Right to withdrawal and erasure

You are entitled to withdraw your data protection consent at any time. The withdrawal of the consent shall not affect the legality of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent until the withdrawal.

In order to do so, please send an email to: contact@ledvance.com.

IV.          Telemetry data and authorisations

a.    Description and scope of data processing

We collect telemetry data in our App for error reporting. To do this, we use the Firebase Analytics tool by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA, and its representative in the European Union, Google Ireland Ltd, Gordon House, Barrow Street, D04 E5W5, Dublin, Ireland (hereinafter referred to as: Google), in particular, Crashlytics.

The use of Firebase Analytics can result in data transmission to US servers. To ensure adequate safeguards for the protection of the transfer and processing of personal data outside the EU, data are transferred to and processed by Google on the basis of appropriate safeguards in accordance with Art. 46 et seq. GDPR, in particular through the conclusion of the so-called standard data protection clauses set out in Art. 46(2)(c) GDPR. You can find more information here: https://firebase.google.com/terms/data-processing-terms

To ensure the Portal’s and App's functionality, the following authorizations are requested or the hardware components of the end device are used:

·        Camera

·        Local area network

·        External memory

b.    Purpose of data processing

The purpose of the processing is to ensure the Portal and App's functionality and to generate error reports in the event of errors.

c.     Legal basis for data processing

The legal basis for the processing of your personal data is Art. 6(1)(1)(f) GDPR. We have a legitimate interest in providing a functional Portal and App and continuous improvement in the event of malfunctions.

Pursuant to Art. 6 (1)(1)(a) GDPR, consent shall be obtained for the authorizations.

d.    Storage duration/Right to objection and erasure

Personal data shall be stored for as long as it is necessary to fulfil the purposes described in this Privacy Policy or as required by law, e.g., for tax and accounting purposes.

e.    Right to objection and erasure

The user is entitled to object to the processing of data. Whether or not the objection is successful, shall be determined through the balancing of interests.

In order to do so, please send an email to: contact@ledvance.com.

   V.          Hosting

The Portal and App is partly hosted on our own servers and partly on the servers of a service provider commissioned by us.

Our service provider is Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052-6399, USA, and its representative in the European Union: Microsoft Ireland Operations, Ltd., One Microsoft Place, South County Business Park, Leopardstown, Dublin 18, D18 P52).

The servers automatically collect and save information in so-called server log files, which are automatically transferred via the App. The following information is stored:

·        Time of the server query

·        IP address

The servers are located in Europe.

These data will not be merged with other data sources. They will be processed in accordance with Art. 6(1)(1)(f) GDPR. We have a legitimate interest in the storage of the server log files to ensure an optimised service provided free of technical errors.

We have concluded a Data Processing Agreement with the respective data processor, which is binding for the service provider who undertakes to protect the user data and refrain from passing them on to third parties. Further information on our provider's privacy statement can be found here: https://privacy.microsoft.com/de-de/privacystatement

VI.          Rights of the data subject

Where your personal data are processed, you are deemed a data subject within the meaning of the GDPR and you have the following rights vis-à-vis the controller:

a.    Right of access

If your personal data are processed, you have the right to receive information from the controller about the personal data that are stored about you (Art. 15 GDPR).

b.   Right to rectification

If inaccurate personal data are processed, you have the right to rectification (Art. 16 GDPR).

c.    Right to erasure or restriction and objection

If the legal requirements allow, you can request the erasure or restriction of processing, and object to the processing (Art. 17, 18, and 21 GDPR).

d.   Right to notification

If you have asserted your right to have the data rectified or erased or its processing restricted by the controller, the latter shall, in accordance with Art. 19 GDPR, inform all recipients to whom your personal data were disclosed about such rectification or erasure of data or restriction of processing, unless this proves impossible or involves disproportionate effort.

e.    Right to data portability

If you have consented to the data processing or if there is a Data Processing Agreement in place, and the data processing is performed with the aid of automated processes, you may have a right to data portability (Art. 20 GDPR).

f.     Right to object

Pursuant to Art. 21 GDPR, you have the right to object, on grounds relating to your particular situation, at any time to the processing of your personal data based on Art. 6(1)(1)(e) or (f) GDPR, including profiling based on these provisions.

g.    Right to withdraw data protection consent

If you have consented, by means of a corresponding declaration, to the processing by the controller, you can withdraw this consent at any time with future effect. Withdrawing your consent will not affect the legality of any data processing that took place before the withdrawal.

h.   Automated individual decision-making including profiling

Pursuant to Art. 22 GDPR, you have the right not to be subject to decision-making or profiling based exclusively on automated processing that can have a legal effect against you or significantly impair you in a similar manner.

i.     Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority

The data subject also has the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority (Art. 77 GDPR). 

 

This Privacy Policy has been created with the assistance of DataGuard.