ABB OEE Software

• Additional information you provide to us in the course of your use of the platform, register for an account and providing the service requested such as interests in ABB products, subscription preferences, personal preferences, webinars, profile information (cv), posts on Digital Channels, comments, opinions, images and videos, credit card and other payment information
• In case you would like to be provided with information about a specific personal data processing activity, you can request that by submitting a request at www
  abb
  com/privacy

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Why we use your personal data?
We may use your personal data and other information as described above for the following purposes:

• to understand your interests and preferences in relation to the ABB Digital Channels;
• to register an account, grant you access to and authenticate you on ABB's Digital Channels;
• to monitor access to Digital Channels or downloads;
• to subscribe and in the course of the subscription to follow comments, posts, articles, authors, webinars, news and updates about ABB products and services;
• in the course of creation of and publishing media and press releases, to create brochures, news, media assets (such as images, videos), newsletters etc
• ;
• in order to create articles that will be published on ABB’s internal and external Digital Channels;
• to provide you the possibility to create your profile on ABB Digital Channels for example to create posts, make comments, follow posts and discussions and sign-up for newsletters etc
• ;
• to allow you making posts, comments, upload content, participate quizzes and publishing opinions on ABB Digital Channels;
• in the course of sharing job adds on ABB's Digital Channels;
• to provide customer support and process, evaluate and respond to requests and inquiries;
• to collect your image and your personal data in the course of an event to show impressions of an event;
• to register and organize webinars
• We only collect the personal data from you that we need for the above purposes
  For statistical purposes, improvement of our services and testing of our IT systems we use as much as reasonably possible anonymized data
  This means that these data can no longer (in)directly identify you or single you out as an individual

We offer certain digital channels where you can post information on the site which will then be available to other visitors of the site
Examples are discussion forums and comments on blogs
When you post, basic information identifying you as the poster will be made available to other visitors together with your posted information
This information includes your name or alias, and where relevant, may include other information such as your country or the name of the company or organization you work for
You have control over this data in your user profile and can control what will be shown in your posts

We may also display statistical, reputational and other similar information related to your user account
Examples are the number of forum posts you have posted or a rating showing how useful other visitors have rated your posts
For details, please see the help pages for each service

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What happens if you do not provide us with the information we had asked you for or if you ask us to stop processing your information
Where it concerns processing operations related to ABB Digital Channels (as described above), ABB will not be able to adequately establish, conduct or terminate a business relationship with you or your company and generally perform the purposes described above without certain personal data
Although we cannot obligate you to share your personal data with us, please note that this then may have consequences which could affect the use of the platform in a negative manner, such as not being able to provide the requested service, take requested pre-contractual measures to enter into a contract with you or to establish and continue the business

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The legal basis we rely on
We use your personal data and other information related to you for the purposes described in this notice based on one of the following legal bases, as applicable:

• We may process your personal data for the fulfilment of contractual obligations resulting from contracts with you or your company, or as part of pre-contractual measures we take;
• In some cases, we rely on our legitimate interests to process your personal data insofar as this is not overridden by your own privacy interests
• Such interests may include:
• Better understand users’ behavior to further improve our offerings
• Purposes of ensuring network and information security (for example to prevent malicious use such as hacking and denial of service attacks)
• Offering a personalized service and communications
• Analytics and profiling for business intelligence