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Privacy Protection Policy

Contus Ekonomi AB

Last updated: 2022-07-22

We at Contus Ekonomi AB protect you and your personal privacy. It is important to us that you feel safe when you provide us with your information. We therefore process your personal data in an open manner with your privacy in focus.
In this privacy protection policy, which applies to everyone who in any way uses Contus Ekonomi AB’s services or products and/or otherwise has contact with us, we explain, among other things, how and why we process your personal data and what rights you have according to current personal data legislation .

Unless otherwise specifically stated, it is Contus Ekonomi AB, org.nr 556893-7626, Krossgatan 25, 162 50 Vällingby, that is responsible for the processing of your personal data. You are always welcome to contact us with questions regarding this policy or for other data protection issues. For questions about data protection or if you want to use your rights according to above, you can reach us most easily by e-mail: privacy@contus.lt.

1. What is personal data?

A personal data is all information that can be directly or indirectly attributed to a physical living person. Examples of this range from personal or social security numbers to email addresses, but also encrypted information can constitute personal data if it can be linked to natural persons.

2. What is considered to be a processing of personal data?

The term “processing” is broad and includes most things that can be done with personal data. Everything from collection and storage to modification, use or deletion constitutes “processing.

3. When do we collect personal data about you?
Data that you yourself provide to us
We collect and process personal data that you provide to us, e.g. in connection with your visiting our website, purchasing a certain product or service, signing up for our newsletter, contacting us or using our digital channels.

Data collected when you use our services
When you use our services, we record information about your use. This information includes statistical information about which pages you visit and how you behave on the website, but may also include operating system, browser version, IP addresses, cookies and unique identification files. Statistical data is anonymized, and it is not possible to identify a concrete physical living person from these.

Data from other sources
We collect personal data from other sources, e.g. partners and other suppliers to ensure that we always have updated information about you. For example. address information We also collect your information in cases where your employer has signed an agreement with us about, for example, payroll accounting and when they have provided us with your personal data, for example so that communication regarding the agreement is to take place with you or that the service is to be delivered to you on behalf of your employer.
4. Why do we process your personal data?
In order for us to be able to provide services and goods to you, we must process your personal data.
We mainly process your data to:

  • Administer and provide our goods and services
  • Handle customer service matters and other requests
  • Provide information and promote goods and services that you may be interested in
  • Improve our services and goods, for example by researching and evaluating customer satisfaction or the market.

5. What legal basis do we have for processing your personal data?
In order to be allowed to process personal data, there must be a legal basis for this. Contus Ekonomi AB processes personal data for the following purposes and on the following grounds:

For what purposes do we process your personal data? What legal basis do we have for the processing? Which categories of personal data are processed? How long are your data saved?
Handle requests, e.g. questions about our services/products. Legitimate interest. • Identity data, e.g. name
• Contact information, such as telephone number and e-mail
• Customer interactions e.g. journal entries and dispatches
As long as it is necessary to handle your request and two years thereafter.
Manage the customer relationship, e.g. register your details in our customer register, send notifications, communicate with you about the customer relationship, etc. Completion of agreements and in some cases a balancing of interests if the agreement to provide you with a service was entered into with a legal entity. • Identity data, e.g. name and social security number
•  Work title and rigt to sign for the company
• Contact details, such as address, telephone number and e-mail
As long as you or your employer have a customer relationship with us and two years thereafter.
Compliance with the KYC (Know You Customer) duty, which all accounting companies are required to comply with. Legal duty to collect information about decision makers and main shareholders in legal entities. • Identity data, e.g. name and personal data
• Copy of your ID document.
•Address and citizenship.
• Contact details, such as address, telephone number and e-mail
•Size of shareholding.
As long as you or your employer have a customer relationship with us and five years thereafter.
To market our and our partners’ or group companies’ goods and services in order to provide relevant information and offers. Legitimate interest. • Identity data, e.g. name
• Contact details, such as address,
telephone number and e-mail
• Customer segments, e.g. information about which customer segment you belong to
• Geographic information
• IP address, device information, log information
Two years after you were last active with us, for example by purchasing an item or contacting our customer service.

7. With whom may we share your data?
We may share your personal data with companies and suppliers who provide services for us, e.g. to manage mailings, communicate offers, provide IT systems and carry out customer analyses. These companies may only process your personal data according to our instructions and may not use your data for their own purposes. We may also share the personal data that is necessary to determine, enforce and exercise Contus Ekonomi AB’s legal interests, for example with debt collection companies.

We may also share your personal data if it follows from Swedish law or authority regulation, for example if we have to disclose information to the Swedish Tax Agency for accounting reasons.

8. Where is your data processed?
As a starting point, your personal data is processed within the EU. In the event that we use a service provider that transfers your personal data to countries outside the EU and EEA, we will take measures to protect your personal data in accordance with applicable legal requirements, for example by requiring guarantees that the provider protects the data in accordance with applicable
data protection rules. If you want to know more about the protective measures we have taken, you can contact us.

9. Your rights

Correction and access to your personal data
As a registered user, you have the right to request the correction of incorrect information or change the personal data you have provided at any time. You also have the right to see what personal data we have registered about you. You do this by requesting a so-called register extract.

Revoke consent with future effect
If we process your personal data on the legal basis of consent, you have the right to withdraw your continued consent to future processing at any time

Resist treatment
You have the right to object to processing that we carry out based on a balancing of interests.
You can unsubscribe from advertising and communications at any time. You can unsubscribe by clicking on a link in the current mailing or contact us (see contact details above).

Deletion
Under certain circumstances, you have the right to have your personal data deleted. However, this does not apply if, for example, we are obliged by law to preserve the data.

Restriction of processing
You may also have the right to request that the processing of your personal data be restricted. If you request that the processing of your data be restricted, however, it may mean that we cannot fulfill our possible obligations towards you during the time the processing is restricted.

10. Special about cookies

When you visit our website, we use “cookies”. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your hard drive via your browser. They store special information, e.g. your default language settings or page settings, which your browser can return to us the next time you visit our website, depending on the lifetime of the cookie Our websites use two different types of cookies, those that are necessary for technical and security reasons, as well as optional cookies.

You can of course use our websites without any cookies being activated at all, including cookies for technical reasons. In your browser, you can limit or deactivate the use of cookies at any time. However, this may have a negative impact on the functionality and user-friendliness of our web pages.

Why do you use cookies?

We use cookies:

• ensure that the website functions properly;
• for monitoring website traffic.

What types of cookies do you use?

Strictly mandatory cookies

These cookies are necessary for the website to enable the user to navigate and use the website’s features, such as remembering information entered in forms when the user moves from one page to another during a browsing session. Without strictly mandatory cookies, it would be impossible to provide certain website services and the website would not function as smoothly as it should. These cookies do not collect information for marketing purposes and do not remember where you have been on the Internet, and they last from one browsing session to several hours. Obligatory cookies do not collect personal information and are stored in the cookies section of your computer.

analytical cookies

Analytical cookies collect information about website usage and help improve website performance. Analytical cookies can, for example, show which pages are visited the most, help log problems with the website and show whether the advertising displayed on the website is effective. Analytical cookies do not collect personal user information and all information collected by these cookies is aggregated and anonymous.

How can I manage cookies?

Strictly mandatory cookies are a condition of using our website. If you refuse this type of cookie, we cannot predict how our website will function when you visit it. However, you can disable Google Analytics cookies by installing the cookie management tool, which you can find here http://tools.google.com/ dlpage/ gaoptout .

Please note that by deleting cookies or disabling the use of cookies in the future, you may not be able to access certain parts or features of our website. Changing your cookie settings will affect other websites you visit.


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