The purpose of our processing of your data when you are a supplier or business partner is to be able to manage the ongoing trading or cooperation relationship, including contract management, and to ensure effective communication with you.
If you are a direct party to the contract (e.g. if you are a one-man business), our legal basis for processing your data is that we can perform a contract with you as a supplier or partner, cf. Article 6(1)(b) of the General Data Protection Regulation. In other cases, we process your personal data on the basis of our legitimate interest in safeguarding our rights and obligations under the agreements etc. that we have entered into with the company you are employed by, cf. Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation.
In addition, we process your information to:
ensure quality and control our supply chain, including to ensure respect for fundamental rights and the fight against crime.
Our legal basis for this processing is to pursue our legitimate interest in the above purposes, cf. Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation. In this context, we register our correspondence with you for documentation to fulfill the purposes.
The information we process
We may process the following information about you as a supplier or partner:
We store your information for as long as we have a business relationship and for a period after the end of the business relationship to comply with applicable legislation, including bookkeeping legislation in the countries in which we operate. However, the information may be processed and stored longer in anonymized form.