Introduction

PrecisionBiotics Group Ltd. is part of Novozymes One Health, the Human Health Unit of one of the world’s leading biotech companies, the Novozymes Group.

Novozymes A/S, Krogshoejvej 36, DK-2880 Bagsvaerd, Denmark (“we” or “us”), is responsible for the processing of your personal information provided to or collected by us in connection with your use of the Website or any other interaction you have with us, including the Webshop.

We are committed to protecting your personal information and the following describes how we collect, process, and store your personal information in accordance with applicable laws, including EU General Data protection Regulation no. 679/2016 (GDPR) and the UK Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR).

What information do we collect and why?

• Name, e-mail address and other identification or personal details (contact information, marketing preferences, feedback on the use of our product when voluntarily provided by you, e.g., in connection with sign-up for our newsletter or in connection with other interactions with us, e.g., using the chat or other communication functions, entering into competitions, online surveys or product related queries.
• Name, billing address, shipping address, phone number, purchases and purchase history, payment information (including credit card numbers), IP address and e-mail address when you make a purchase or attempt to make a purchase through the Website.
• User behavior tracking through the use of cookies or other technologies.
• Information voluntarily provided by you through social media log-in.
• Information received from The Hut, which operates our Webshop in UK .As part of this solution, we will receive information from The Hut relating to your purchases of our products and feedback. This may include your name, address and email address and other information such as the category of item purchased or event to which it relates. This information will be by used by us to indicate your likely interests so we can provide a more relevant service to you.
• Information received from WooCommerce, which operates for our Republic of Ireland online business. As part of this solution, we will receive information relating to your purchases of our products. This may include your name, address and email address and other information such as the category of item purchased which it relates.

You should note that where you share any of your activity on third-party social media platforms, you will then be subject to the privacy and cookie policies governing the respective platforms.

You are not obliged to provide us with your personal information. However, if you do not, we might not be able to carry out the services you have requested of us.

How do we use your information?

We use the information collected from you to provide quotations, make telephone contact and to email you marketing information which we believe may be of interest to you or your business. In you making initial contact, you consent to our maintaining a marketing dialogue with you until you either opt out (which you can do at any stage) or we decide to desist in promoting our services.

Some personal data may be collected about you from the forms and surveys you complete, from records of our correspondence and details of your visits to our website, including but not limited to personally identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. We may from time to time use such information to identify its visitors. We may also collect statistics about the behaviour of visitors to its website.

We may also use aggregate information and statistics for the purposes of monitoring website usage in order to help us develop our website and our services and may provide such aggregate information to third parties. These statistics will not include information that can be used to identify any individual.

The Website uses cookies, which is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Our website uses cookies to help us identify and track visitors and their website access preferences. Find our more information about cookies in the “Cookie Policy“

We use social marketing and social media insights using third party cookies such as: Facebook and Google. Details as per “Cookie Policy“.

Website visitors who do not wish to have all categories of cookies placed on their computers may either set their preferences accordingly through the cookie consent functionality provided on the Website or set their browsers to refuse cookies before using the Website.

PrecisionBiotics Webshop – UK

Our on-site ecommerce store is run for us currently by The Hut Group for our UK business You can find their details in the Terms and Conditions on the store section on the site.

Whereas The Hut Group operate the store, is the merchant of record responsible for the sale of goods to you. We remain responsible for the processing of your personal information as a data controller. In that context, The Hut Group is merely the data processor acting in accordance with our instructions, facilitating also the services provided by other data processers, e.g., for third party payment processing.

The Hut Group (as data processor) will have access to your data in order to fulfil the transaction, process your purchase, and send you the goods you have purchased and otherwise dealing with customer queries and other store related matters. They will not use your data for any other purposes.

Novozymes will otherwise collect, use and share your data that relates to your use of the webshop, as further described in this Policy.

PrecisionBiotics Ireland

Our on-site ecommerce platform is run for us using WooCommerce for our Republic of Ireland business.

We remain responsible for the processing of your personal information as a data controller. In that context, WooCommerce is merely the data processor acting in accordance with our instructions, facilitating also the services provided by other data processers, e.g., for third party payment processing and dispatching product that you have purchased.

WooCommerce (as data processor) will have access to your data in order to fulfil the transaction, process your purchase. They will not use your data for any other purposes.

Novozymes will otherwise collect, use and share your data that relates to your use of the webshop, as further described in this Policy.

Legal basis for processing any personal data

• To provide you with requested services and orders.
• To meet our contractual obligations to customers and clients and to also respond to business, marketing and Careline enquiries.
• Legitimate interests pursued by us and/or its customers or clients with respect to improvement and customization of the website, the services offered, and the products marketed.
• Legitimate interests pursued by us in promoting the marketing and information offered by us and/or marketing the services and/or products offered by us.
• Legitimate interests in or legal obligation to ensure business administration, record keeping and compliance.
• Your consent, when you opt in to receive marketing or to participate in online surveys ,competitions and receive newsletters.
• Personal data that you provide to us voluntarily is processed by us based on the legal basis of consent per the GDPR Article 6. Consent can be withdrawn at any time should you change your mind.

Consent

If our processing of your personal information is based on consent, then you may at any time withdraw your consent by emailing Novozymes’ Data Protection Representative at dataprotection@precisionbiotics.com or writing to us – see last section for full contact details.

Disclosure and transfers of data

We may on occasions pass your Personal Information to third parties exclusively to process work on our behalf or to other affiliates in the Novozymes group if required to fulfil requests submitted by you. We require these parties to agree to process this information based on our instructions and requirements consistent with this Privacy Notice and relevant data protection laws.

We may disclose your Personal Information to meet legal obligations, regulations, or valid governmental requests.

In some cases, we will be transferring personal data to countries outside the EU/EEA, in connection with our business. Such transfers will only take place for the specific purposes mentioned above under the section “What information do we collect and why?”.

We will ensure that appropriate safeguards are in place for such transfer. You may obtain a copy of the contract/agreement template by contacting us. See contact details below under “Data Protection Queries.

How long do we keep your personal information?

Your personal information will be retained for as long as it is relevant to fulfil the purpose for which it has been registered. In considering how long we keep your personal data, we will take into account its relevance to our business and to legal and regulatory obligations, which apply to us. We have implemented technical and organizational measures to keep it safe.

Your rights as a data subject

If we process your personal data, then you have the following rights:

• Right of access – you have the right to request a copy of the information that we hold about you.
• Right of rectification – you have a right to correct data that we hold about you that is inaccurate or incomplete.
• Right to be forgotten – in certain circumstances you can ask for the data we hold about you to be erased from our records.
• Right to restriction of processing – where certain conditions apply you have a right to restrict the processing.
• Right of portability – you have the right to have the data we hold about you transferred to another organisation.
• Right to object – you have the right to object to certain types of processing such as direct marketing.
• Right to object to automated processing, including profiling – you also have the right not to be subject to the legal effects of automated processing or profiling.

In the event that we refuse your request under rights of access, we will provide you with a reason as to why, which you have the right to legally challenge.

At your request, we can confirm what information we hold about you and how it is processed.

You can request the following information:

• Identity and the contact details of the person or organisation (Novozymes) that has determined how and why to process your data.
• Contact details of the data protection representative, where applicable.
• The purpose of the processing as well as the legal basis for processing.
• If the processing is based on our legitimate interests o, information about those interests.
• The categories of personal data collected, stored and processed.
• Recipient(s) or categories of recipients that the data is/will be disclosed to.
• How long the data will be stored.
• Details of your rights to correct, erase, restrict or object to such processing.
• Information about your right to withdraw consent at any time.
• How to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority (Data Protection Regulator).
• Whether the provision of personal data is a statutory or contractual requirement, or a requirement necessary to enter a contract, as well as whether you are obliged to provide the personal data and the possible consequences of failing to provide such data.
• The source of personal data if it wasn’t collected directly from you.
• Any details and information of automated decision making, such as profiling, and any meaningful information about the logic involved, as well as the significance and expected consequences of such processing.

To access what personal data is held, identification will be required. This is to protect you against the risk that your personal information is shared with anyone else than you.

All requests should be made to Novozymes’ designated data protection representative. Please see contact details below.

Data Protection Queries, Requests and Complaints

Queries and requests:

If you have questions, comments or wish to enforce your data protection rights, you may contact Novozymes’ designated Data Protection Representative at dataprotection@precisionbiotics.com or by phoning +353-21-2066012 or writing to us at the address further below.

Complaints:

In the event that you wish to make a complaint about how your personal data is being processed by Novozymes or Novozymes’ business partners, you have the right to complain to Novozymes’ designated Data Protection Representative.

Novozymes;
Novozymes A/S (Precision Biotics is part of Novozymes),
Krogshoejvej 36,
DK-2880 Bagsvaerd,
Denmark.
Att.: Legal.

Email: dataprotection@precisionbiotics.com
Telephone: +353-21-2066012
Website: www.novozymes.com/en

If you do not get a response within 30 days, you can complain to the Data Protection Regulator.

The details for each of these contacts are:

Information Commissioners Office;
Wycliffe House,
Water Ln,
Wilmslow, UK.
SK9 5AF.

Telephone: LoCall 0303 123 1113
Email: icocasework@ico.org.uk

Office of Data Protection Commission;
21 Fitzwilliam Square South,
Dublin 3,
D02 RD28.

Telephone: LoCall 1800 437 737

Novozymes may make revisions to this Privacy Policy. The version date of the current Privacy Policy will be outlined at the bottom of this policy. We recommend users to make themselves informed to any changes by revisiting the website and reviewing the policy periodically.

Novozymes, February 2022.

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