Privacy Policy

OUR POLICY ON USING PERSONAL DATA

published:12/20/2022,
last updated: 12/20/2022

This privacy policy is intended for our corporate customers, distributors and consumers. We, MARINE BIO CO., LTD. (“MARINE BIO”), take your privacy seriously. When we collect and use your personal data for various business purposes, we undertake to comply with applicable data protection laws including EU General Data Protection Regulation and the United Kingdom General Data Protection Regulation (collectively the “GDPR”). Below is our policy on how we collect, use and protect your personal data.

PERSON IN CHARGE (controller)

This privacy policy is issued by us, MARINE BIO. When we collect and use your personal data, we are the data controller in the meaning of GDPR and are responsible for protecting your rights with personal data.

PURPOSE AND LAWFUL BASIS (why and on what lawful ground we use your personal data)

We collect and use your personal data for the following purposes on the respective lawful basis in accordance with GDPR:

Categories of Personal Data Purposes Lawful Basis
  • Basic business contact information of our corporate customers and distributers (e.g., name, company, position, email, phone, office address)
  • Records of business communication in connection with our business operation (e.g., email logs, meeting logs, reports, audit interviews, event photos, interviews and face photos for our publicity magazines and other publicity materials)
  • To sell and deliver products
  • Necessary for the purpose of our legitimate interest as a manufacturer, namely providing you with expected products, services, and/or information
  • To provide products support
  • To facilitate business communications
  • To organize business events, conferences or exhibitions
  • To manage business contact data
  • Contact information of inquirers who are natural persons (e.g., name, email, phone, address)
  • Records of the communication in connection with inquiries from inquirers above(e.g., email logs)
  • To respond to your inquiries about our products
  • Necessary for the purpose of our legitimate interest as a manufacturer, namely providing you with expected information you need
  • To provide product support and send products samples
  • Your configuration and interaction with our websites
  • To detect and prevent fraudulent use of our websites
  • Necessary for the purpose of our legitimate interest as a website owner, namely maintaining the security of our websites
  • To analyze the usage of our websites
  • Users’ consent
  • To display advertisements of your likely interests
  • Users’ consent
SENSITIVE PERSONAL DATA

Where we collect and use sensitive categories of your personal data as defined in Articles 9 and 10 of GDPR, we will obtain your prior and explicit consent thereto, as may be necessary, unless we are required to do so in order to perform our statutory obligations or to protect vital interest of you or other persons in emergency.

RETENTION (how long we retain your personal data)

We will retain your personal data for the period shown in the below table.

Categories of personal data Retention Period
  • Basic business contact information of our current and prospect corporate customers, distributors and business partners (e.g., name, company, position, email, phone, office address)
  • 10 years after the termination of the contract or communication between you and MARINE BIO
  • Records of business communication in connection with our business operation (e.g., email logs, meeting logs, reports, audit interviews, event photos, interviews and face photos for our publicity magazines and other publicity materials)
  • Contact information of inquirers who are natural persons (e.g., name, email, phone, address)
  • 10 years after the completion of your inquiries
  • Records of the communication in connection with inquiries from inquirers above(e.g., email logs)
  • Configuration and interaction with our websites
  • The period set by cookies (maximum 1 year period)
DISCLOSURE (who we share your personal data with)

We disclose the following categories of your personal data in so far as may be necessary for the purposes above to the following entities:

Categories of your personal data Entities to be disclosed
  • basic business contact information of our current and prospect corporate customers, distributors and business partners (e.g., name, company, position, email, phone, office address)
  • records of business communication in connection with our business operation (e.g., email logs, meeting logs, reports, audit interviews, event photos, interviews and face photos for our publicity magazines and other publicity materials)
  • shipping partners
  • our other corporate customers and distributors
  • contact information of inquirers who are natural persons (e.g., name, email, phone, address)
  • records of the communication in connection with inquiries from inquirers above(e.g., email logs)
  • shipping partners
  • our corporate customers and distributors
  • your interaction with our websites
  • web analytics providers
  • ad-tech partners
  • social media partners

Where such service providers are “data processors” in the meaning of GDPR, we make sure that such data processors have in place appropriate data protection measures by virtue of data processing contracts signed between such processors and us in compliance with Article 28 of GDPR.

TRANSFER TO NON-EU COUNTRIES

We do not transfer your personal data to any entities located in any third countries outside of the European Economic Area (EEA), United Kingdom (UK) or Japan. In the event that we transfer your data to an entity located outside the EEA, UK or Japan, we protect your rights with personal data by virtue of a data transfer contract with the relevant recipient in accordance with the GDPR, which imposes on such recipients contractual obligations to ensure an adequate level of data protection equivalent to those laid down by the GDPR.

YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS

Provided that certain conditions are met, you have legal rights to request from us the following:

  • Access to your personal data and to certain supplementary information covered by this notice;
  • Correction of your personal data if inaccurate or incomplete;
  • Erasure of your personal data in certain circumstances;
  • Suspension of using your personal data in certain circumstances;
  • Stopping processing your personal data in certain circumstances; and
  • Obtaining your personal data in a structured, commonly used, and computer-readable format.

If you wish to exercise your right, please contact us.

COMPLAINT

You can lodge complaints about our way of processing your personal data with data protection supervisory authorities.

INQUIRY

We have appointed DataRep as our representative in the EEA and UK.
For further information and inquiries, please contact our representative by one of the following ways:

  • Email
    Please send an e-mail to <datarequest@datarep.com> with “MARINE BIO CO., LTD.” in the subject line.
  • Online form
    Please contact us via DataRep’s online web form at the following link.
    <https://www.datarep.com/data-request>
  • Postal Mail
    ▸ Please send your mail to the following addresses: Residents in EEA
    DataRep, 3rd and 4th floor, Altmarkt 10 B/D, Dresden, 01067, Germany
    ▸ Residents in UK
    DataRep, 107-111 Fleet Street, London, EC4A 2AB, United Kingdom
    The postal mail you send should be addressed to “DataRep” and not to “MARINE BIO CO., LTD.” In the letter of your inquiry, please specify that it is addressed to MARINE BIO CO., LTD.
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