Safran Vectronix Privacy Policy

Introduction

Vectronix is committed to safeguarding the privacy of any User of the Digital Platform.
Your access to and use of the Safran Vectronix AG (“Vectronix”, “we”, “us”, “our”) owned websites and pages as well as software tools and apps, the latter downloadable exclusively from Apple Store and Google Store (collectively also referred to as the “Digital Platform”) is subject to the following privacy policy (the “Privacy Policy”) and all applicable laws.

By using the Digital Platform, you (hereinafter generally referred to as („User“) agree that this Privacy Policy applies without limitation or qualification and that access is granted to you under the condition of your acceptance of all provisions of this Privacy Policy. Furthermore, the User consents to the collection and processing of Personal Data defined as follows: “Personal Data” means any information identifying or making identifiable, directly or indirectly, an individual, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data or an online identifier.

The Privacy Policy details amongst others Vectronix’ commitment to protect the User’s Personal Data and defines the scope for which Vectronix collects and uses such data. In any case, Vectronix will collect and process the User’s Personal Data in compliance with the provisions of the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection (“Data Protection Act”) as well as of the European General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and in accordance with the principles described below.

COLLECTION AND PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA

IF YOU ARE A USER OF THE DIGITAL PLATFORM

Personal Data that Vectronix collects and processes in connection with the Digital Platform includes not only what is actively collected while the User interacts with the Digital Platform, but also what the User voluntarily provides through access and use of the Digital Platform.
In order to improve navigation on the Digital Platform and our services, Vectronix uses the following types of cookies and technologies and collects certain Personal Data during your visit:

In order to improve navigation on its Site, Vectronix uses the following types of cookies and technologies in connection with the Site and collects certain data during your visit:

TLS encryption: We use HTTPS (the Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure stands for “secure hypertext transfer protocol”) to transmit data tap-proof on the internet.
This means that the complete transmission of all data from your browser to Vectronix’ server is secure and nobody can intercept it.
Vectronix has thus introduced an additional layer of security and complies with data protection by design according to art. 25 para. 1 GDPR. By using TLS (Transport Layer Security), an encryption protocol for secure data transmission on the internet, Vectronix can ensure the protection of Personal Data. The use of this data transmission security can be recognized by the small lock symbol at the top left of the browser, to the left of the internet address and the use of the https scheme (instead of http) as part of Vectronix’ internet address.
Cookie Hub Consent Manager: Vectronix uses Cookie Hub Consent Manager, which is a consent management tool, provided by CookieHub ehf with company number 6801211090 of Hafnargata 55, 230 Reykjanesbæ, Iceland. The CookieHub Consent Manager offers to Vectronix, among other things, the possibility to provide the User with a comprehensive and data protection-compliant cookie notice so that the User can decide which cookies to allow and which not. By using this software, data is sent from you to CookieHub and then may be stored, with appropriate technical and organizational security measures applied to it, on its servers in Netherlands. More information can be found on: https://www.cookiehub.com/privacy-policy.
Cookies: The Digital Platform uses cookies essential to make it workcorrectly and strictly necessary to enable the User to move around the Digital Platform and use its features.
Cookies are small text files that can be sent to the User’s browser for storage on the User’s hard drive or any device used for internet consultation. Cookies can make the use of the Digital Platform easier by saving the User’s status and preferences upon any visit. The cookies are refreshed every time the User enter any of the tools of the Digital Platform. Most browsers are initially set to accept cookies, but you may be able to change the settings to refuse cookies or to be alerted when cookies are being sent. The cookies are used to customize some information for the User’s convenience, such as “remembering” the language selected; and in some instances, to associate the User self with the User information, among others the own Personal Data. Although rejection of cookies will not interfere with the User’s ability to interact with most of the tools composing the Digital Platform, it may be needed to accept cookies in order to login and use certain interactive services.
Google Analytics: Vectronix uses Google Analytics, a analysis tracking tool, on the Digital Platform, in the version Google Analytics 4 (GA4) of the American company Google Inc., to analyze the use of the Digital Platform and adapt it to the needs of the Users based on the insights Vectronix has gained from these analyses. For the European area, this service is provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (“Google”).
Google Analytics uses cookies which will be stored on your end device, and which collect pseudonymous data on your use of the Digital Platform. Such data includes the number of visits to the Digital Platform, time spent on the Digital Platform and how you interact with the Digital Platform, for example when and which page you load, which links you have clicked, whether you have searched for something and what you have searched, downloaded specific content or subscribed to Vectronix newsletter. We can track your interactions (so-called events) with the Digital Platform by using tags that allow us to mark the interactions we want to track as a specific event. Whenever your interaction with the Digital Platform is marked as an event, a tag is fired, and the respective event data is sent to Google Analytics. Google Analytics further collects data about your geographic location (such as the city) based on your IP address and data about your end device (including the device model and screen resolution).
By default, GA4 data is stored for 14 months.
According to Google, no IP addresses are logged or stored in GA4. However, Google uses the IP addresses to derive location data and deletes them immediately afterwards. All IP addresses collected from users in the EU are therefore deleted before the data is stored in a data center or on a server.
Google Ads: Vectronix has integrated Google Ads (formerly known as Google AdWords), a service of Google Inc (1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351, USA; „Google“), on the Digital Platform. Google Ads is an internet advertising service that allows advertisers to place ads in Google’s search engine results as well as in the Google advertising network. Google Ads enables an advertiser to specify certain keywords in advance, by means of which an ad is only displayed in Google’s search engine results if the User uses the search engine to retrieve a keyword-relevant search result. In the Google advertising network, the ads are distributed to relevant websites using an automatic algorithm and taking into account the previously defined keywords.
As part of Google Ads, Vectronix uses what is known as conversion tracking. When the User clicks on an ad placed by Google, a cookie is set for conversion tracking. These cookies lose their validity after 30 days and are not used to personally identify the User. If the User visits certain pages of the Digital Platform and the cookie has not yet expired, Google and Vectronix can recognize that the User clicked on the ad and was redirected to these pages.
The information collected using the conversion cookie is used to generate conversion statistics for Ads customers who have opted for conversion tracking. Customers are told the total number of Users who clicked on their ad and were redirected to a page with a conversion tracking tag. However, they do not receive any information that can be used to personally identify Users.
If you do not wish to participate in tracking, you can object to this use by easily deactivating the Google Conversion Tracking cookie via your internet browser under user settings. You will then not be included in the conversion tracking statistics. You can find more information about Google AdWords and Google conversion tracking in Google’s privacy policy: https://www.google.de/policies/privacy/.
You can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and only allow cookies in individual cases, exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general and activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. If cookies are deactivated, the functionality of the Digital Platform may be restricted.
Google Tag Manager: Vectronix uses Google Tag Manager, a platform / code management tool, which does not collect itself any Personal Data, but causes the triggering of other tags, which may contain the User’s data. However, Google Tag Manager does not access this data.
This service is provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland and is operated on behalf of Vectronix and in accordance with Vectronix’ instructions.
Google Tag Manager is a service we use to embed other technologies and services such as Google Analytics on the Digital Platform. In this case, Google Tag Manager is merely used for managing and delivering the technologies embedded by it (via tags). This means that Google Tag Manager itself does not create any user profiles, does not store any cookies and does not conduct any independent analyses.
However, Google Tag Manager does collect your IP address, which may also be transferred to Google’s parent company, Google LLC in the USA, and to third countries not covered by an adequacy decision of the European Commission. The European Commission has adopted an adequacy decision in line with art. 45 para. 1 GDPR for the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, which serves as the basis for data transfers to certified companies and organizations in the US. Google LLC is a certified company under the EU-US as well as Swiss-U.S. Data Privacy Framework: https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/list.
In other cases, Google will use standard data protection clauses approved by the European Commission as per art. 46 para. 2(c) GDPR to ensure an adequate level of data protection.
Your personal data will be stored for this purpose for a period of 14 days. After this period, the data is deleted and only aggregated statistics are retained.
Vectronix uses Google Tag Manager based on your consent, art. 6 para. 1(a) GDPR. This legal basis also covers the processing of your personal data for the aforementioned purposes.
You can withdraw your consent with effect for the future at any time by making the corresponding changes to your Cookies Settings.
SEO: Vectronix uses the analysis tool Yoast SEO WordPress plug-in for the Digital Platform. The service provider is the Dutch company Yoast BV, Don Emanuelstraat 3, 6602 GX Wijchen, Netherlands. You can find out more about the data processed through the use of Yoast SEO WordPress plug-in in the privacy policy at https://yoast.com/privacy-policy/.
WordPress: Vectronix uses the WordPress.com content management system (CMS) for the Digital Platform. The service provider is the American company Automattic Inc, 60 29th Street #343, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA. This CMS is software that supports us in designing the Digital Platform and presenting content in an attractive and organized manner. The content can be text, audio and video. By using WordPress, your Personal Data may also be collected, stored and processed. Usually, mainly technical data such as operating system, browser, screen resolution or hosting provider are stored. However, Personal Data such as IP address, geographical data or contact details may also be processed. WordPress can also use cookies to collect data. This often includes data about your behavior on the Digital Platform. For example, it may record which subpages you particularly like to view, how long you spend on individual pages, when you leave a page (bounce rate) or which default settings (e.g. language selection) you have made. Based on this data, WordPress can also better adapt its own marketing measures to your interests and user behavior.
WordPress may also use technologies such as pixel tags (web beacons), for example to clearly identify you as a user and possibly offer interest-based advertising.
The data is stored on Automattic’s American servers and is generally deleted when it is no longer needed for our own purposes.
If you have consented to the use of WordPress, the legal basis for the corresponding data processing is this consent. According to art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR, this consent constitutes the legal basis for the processing of personal data, as may occur when WordPress is used.
WordPress or Automattic processes your data also in the USA. Automattic is an active participant in the EU-US as well as Swiss-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, which ensures the correct and secure transfer of Personal Data.
E-Mail plug-in: Vectronix uses an e-mail plug-in for the Digital Platform. Any information that the User shares via his/her e-mail address will be subject to each e-mail provider’s privacy policy.

SCOPE OF PERSONAL DATA PROCESSING

Vectronix may use the collected Personal Data of Users to build features that shall make Vectronix’ services more attractive and easier to be used. This may include better customer support and timely notice of new products and services. In case of User’s consent, Vectronix may share Personal Data with business partners and/or affiliates within the Safran Group offering services to the Users to improve the User’s experience. Such business partners and affiliates shall abide by the standards of the present Privacy Policy.

Vectronix may also share with abovementioned recipients aggregate anonymized data relating to the activity on the Digital Platform and use of the services, such as demographical and statistical information, for marketing, research, profiling and other purposes. Furthermore, Vectronix may need to disclose Personal Data in case of law enforcement or other government officials if appropriate for the User’s protection or in connection with an investigation of fraud, intellectual property infringement or other illegal activity or an activity that may expose Vectronix and/or the Users to legal liability.

From time to time, the Digital Platform may request information from Users via surveys or contests. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and the User therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose the requested information/data. The request may include contact Personal Data (such as name and address) and demographic Personal Data (such as zip code, age level). Contact Personal Data is used to notify winners and award prizes. Survey information/data is used to monitor the use and improve the User’s satisfaction.

STORAGE OF PERSONAL DATA

Vectronix stores the Users’ Personal Data on its servers located in Switzerland.
Our service providers, whose services we use under the conditions described under „COLLECTION AND PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA“, will store any Personal Data you provide under the conditions and at the locations specified in that section.

RETENTION AND REMOVAL OF PERSONAL DATA

Vectronix will keep the User’s Personal Data as long as necessary or reasonable to comply with the applicable laws, the User’s consent, a legitimate interest, or for as long as necessary for the legitimate purposes for which they were collected. Vectronix deletes the User’s Personal Data as soon as they are no longer required, or when the User deletes or requests deletion, and in any case by the end of the maximum retention period prescribed by law. In the event of a legitimate User’s consent, Vectronix will be allow to store and process the Personal Data up to User’s withdraw.
The User may assert any data protection right at any time, and therefore obtain information about the stored and processed Personal Data, as well as rectify, add to, object to the storage and processing, and demand the deletion. As far as a storage and processing is contractually or by law no more required, Vectronix will delete the User’s Personal Data. Vectronix will also remove the stored Personal Data at any time upon User’s request. Upon removal or deletion, the User will lose access to the parts of the Digital Platform for which the User must provide Personal Data to gain access.

ACCESS YOUR INFORMATION AND COMPLAINTS

ACCESSING, CORRECTING, UPDATING OF PERSONAL DATA AND COMPLAINTS

The User can at any time receive, access, correct, update or delete the User’s Personal Data and/or send to Vectronix complaints via e-mail to: vectronix@safrangroup.com

or via mail to:

Data Protection Officer
Safran Vectronix AG
Max-Schmidheiny-Strasse 202
9435 Heerbrugg
Switzerland

Vectronix reserves the right to correspond with the User electronically, especially by e-mail, and to store and process the communication data in its IT-systems.

MISCELLANEOUS

HOSTING

Vectronix uses the services provided by Hostpoint AG, Neue Jonastrasse 60, 8640 Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland (“Hostpoint”) for the hosting and operation of the Digital Platform.
Further information on Hostpoint and the Hostpoint privacy policy can be found here: https://www.hostpoint.ch/en/hostpoint/contact-gtc.html#datenschutz

LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES

The Privacy Policy only addresses the use, process and storage of Personal Data by Vectronix. The Digital Platform may contain links to other websites or external tools, software or apps.
Such other websites, external tools, software and apps are not controlled by Vectronix and therefore Users access to or use them exclusively at their own risk. Vectronix cannot, and does not, assume any responsibility or liability for such external content, nor endorses it.

GOVERNING LAW AND JURISDICTION

The Digital Platform shall be governed in all respects by the laws of Switzerland, without regard to choice of law provisions, with exclusion of the 1980 U.N. Convention on contracts for the international sale of goods.
The User hereby agrees that exclusive jurisdiction over and venue in any legal proceeding directly or indirectly arising out of or relating to the Digital Platform shall be in the ordinary courts at the place of business of Safran Vectronix AG, Switzerland.The Users accessing the Digital Platform from locations outside Switzerland do so on their own initiative and are responsible for compliance with applicable laws.

SECURITY

Vectronix takes every precaution to protect the Users’ Personal Data. Vectronix and its business partners and/or affiliates within the Safran Group processing such data have implemented technology and security features and strict policy guidelines to safeguard the privacy of your Personal Data from unauthorized access or improper use, and will continue to enhance the security procedures, as new technology standards become available. Vectronix checks the Digital Platform and its services regularly for vulnerabilities.

MINORS

The Digital Platform are not intended for minors. Vectronix does not knowingly collect Personal Data from minors, unless with the prior express consent of their legal representative(s).
In case Vectronix is notified or otherwise learns that Personal Data of a minor has been incorrectly collected, Vectronix will take all reasonable steps to delete such Personal Data.

AMENDMENTS TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

Vectronix may from time to time amend the Privacy Policy with or without notice to the Users. Therefore, the User shall regularly check for any changes or updates. Vectronix will not reduce the User’s rights under this Privacy Policy without explicit consent of the User self.

In case of amendments reducing the User’s rights, Vectronix reserves the right to send to such User the amendments via e-mail and in case required by law, to request the consent thereto.
By confirming (“yes” button) the agreement to the Privacy Policy, the User agrees as well to any modifications thereto.

Version updated 28/05/2025.