Legal Notices
This Privacy Statement was last revised on January 4, 2024.
1. Introduction
This Privacy Notices to Business Contacts (“Notice”) describes the steps IDEX Health & Science LLC, 600 Park Court, Rohnert Park, CA 94928 United States (“Company”), part of IDEX Corporation (“ IDEX”), takes to protect the Personal Data that we Process about Business Contacts. The Company is committed to the protection of the Personal Data that we process about you in line with the data protection principles set out in the applicable Data Protection Law. This Notice informs you how we Process your Personal Data if you are one of our Business Contacts.
This Notice may be amended from time to time. The Company will post any change to this Notice a reasonable period of time in advance of the effective date of the change.
2. Definitions
The following terms are used within this Notice and are defined as follows:
Term | Definition |
Business Contacts | All Consumers, Corporate Partners or employees of a Corporate Partner or any other person which IDEX contacts or interacts with in the context of establishing, developing, maintaining, servicing or otherwise furthering the business relationship. |
Consent | Any freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous indication of the Data Subject’s wishes by which he/she, by a statement or by a clear affirmative action, signifies agreement to the specific processing of his/her Personal Data. It has to be a clear affirmative act (“Opt-In”). Silence or inactivity are not sufficient. Consent may be withdrawn at any time with effect for the future. |
Consumer | A person that buys goods or services mainly for personal purposes. |
Corporate Partner | Persons or organizations that buy goods or services from IDEX mainly for their own business purposes, or other business partners with which we have a contractual or commercial relationship, like subcontractors and sup-pliers; this includes existing as well as prospective Corporate Partners. |
Data Controller | Persons or organizations that buy goods or services from IDEX mainly for their own business purposes, or other business partners with which we have a contractual or commercial relationship, like subcontractors and sup-pliers; this includes existing as well as prospective Corporate Partners. |
Data Processing | Any operation, or set of operations, which is performed on Personal Data or on sets of Personal Data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organization, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction. |
Data Processor | A natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body, which processes Personal Data on behalf of the Data Controller (Article 28 GDPR). |
Data Protection Procedures | Any local BU internal policies/procedures supplementing this Policy. |
Data Protection Law | All applicable state, local and federal/national laws related to data protection including, but not limited to, GDPR. |
Data Protection Officer (“DPO”) | The person which is appointed by the Company (only where required by law) to protect the Data Subjects’ rights and to act as the point of contact between the Company and you in order to ensure that the Company complies with all applicable Data Protection Law. |
Data Subject | Any person to whom the respective Personal Data refers. |
Personal Data | Any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (Article 4 GDPR). |
3. Identity and Contact Details of the Data Controller
The Company is responsible for Processing your Personal Data and is the Data Controller.
If you have any questions about this Notice, please contact us at
IDEX Health & Science LLC
600 Park Court
Rohnert Park, CA 94928
IHSCustomer-Data-Manager@idexcorp.com
4. Categories and Sources of Personal Data Processed
The Company Process different categories of Personal Data of our Business Contacts. These may include:
Most of the Personal Data we Process, you have provided directly to us. Other Personal Data may be provided by your employer, our Corporate Partners or other instances involved in the initiation of your business relationship and/or the execution of contracts with our Corporate Partners. In addition, we may process Personal Data which we permissibly obtain from publicly accessible sources (such as LinkedIn) or that are legitimately transmitted to us by third parties (such as credit agencies).
5. Purposes of Data Processing
The Company Processes Personal Data of Business Contacts for various business purposes in connection with your business relationship with the Company or our Corporate Partner:
6. Legal Bases for Processing Personal Data
The Company Processes Personal Data relating to its Business Contacts based on multiple different legal bases:
7. Your Rights
The GDPR provides you with rights relating to the Processing of your Personal Data. These rights include:
Object to the Processing of your Personal Data in certain circumstances.
This right may apply where the Processing of your Personal Data is based on the legitimate interests of Company, as described in Annex 1, or where decisions about you are based solely on automated processing, including profiling.
Notwithstanding, you have the right to object at any time to Processing of your Personal Data for direct marketing purposes.
These rights are not absolute and are subject to various conditions under Data Protection Law and any other applicable laws and regulations.
You may exercise these rights by contacting your Privacy Lead (see Section 3). You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a Supervisory Authority.
8. Data Sharing and International Data Transfers: Intra-Group; External Third Parties and External Distributors
Intra-group transfers
As a member of a multinational enterprise operating under a decentralized management structure, the Company may share Employee Personal Data with IDEX affiliates / BUs listed here, for the purposes set out in this Notice. Please note that the Company only shares Employee Personal Data with those listed companies where this is covered by a lawful basis for such Processing.
These transfers are protected by the obligations set out in intra-group agreements that we have entered into between the various IDEX legal entities. International transfers within the IDEX are governed by EU Commission-approved Standard Contractual Clauses for Data Controllers and, where relevant, for Data Processors. You may receive a copy of these Standard Contractual Clauses used in our intra-group agreements by contacting the Privacy Lead (see Section 3).
External Third Parties
The Company may share Personal Data with external vendors whom we engage to perform services or functions on our behalf and under our instructions. Where applicable, their Processing of your data will be subject to the GDPR requirements. The Company will also ensure that its con-tracts with these parties ensure they only Process Personal Data in accordance with our instructions and in order to provide the agreed services and protect the integrity and confidentiality of the Personal Data entrusted to them, in line with the GDPR requirements.
For the purposes set out in this Notice, we may also disclose your Personal Data to our IT service providers, auditors, lawyers, consultants, law enforcement, courts and tribunals and other public authorities, such as tax and social security bodies. Some of these recipients are themselves responsible to determine the purposes and means of the Processing and for the lawfulness of the Processing on their end. Where necessary, we will ensure that appropriate contractual measures are in place to ensure the protection of your Personal Data.
Some of the vendors we engage to Process your Personal Data are located outside the European Economic Area. We will ensure that these transfers are either:
External Distributors
The Company may share Personal Data of Business Contacts to our trusted Corporate Partners, such as External Distributors, if you are using our website services and submit your information together with an inquiry regarding our products via a contact form. The Personal Data is limited to information submitted by you (e.g. contact information and product specifications) and will be solely disclosed for the purposes of processing your request, e.g. we might forward your request to the distributor who is responsible for your respective geographic area.
9. Retention of Personal Data
The Company will keep and Process your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or for legal obligations. Such legal obligations may arise particularly under tax and commercial law. If your data is no longer necessary for the fulfilment of contractual or legal obligations it will be deleted; unless they are needed to secure, assert or enforce legal claims. In this case, we will retain them in accordance with the regular limitation period. During this period, this data is blocked and is no longer available for any other use.
10. Statutory/Contractual Requirements
You may choose to not provide us with your Personal Data and/or provide incomplete Personal Data. However, please be aware that, in certain cases, we may not be able to engage in, or continue a business relationship with you, as your Personal Data is required for administrative purposes and/or to fulfill statutory requirements.
11. Automated Decision-Making and Profiling
Your Personal Data will not be used for automated decision-making and / or profiling.