AMS PRIVACY & COOKIES POLICY

Last Updated: 19/01/2021

At AMS, we respect your need for online privacy and protect any Personal Information that you may share with us, in an appropriate manner and in compliance with applicable laws and regulations, including the General Data Protection Regulations (“GDPR”). Our practice with respect to use of your Personal Information is as set forth below in this Privacy & Cookies Policy.

LEGAL DISCLAIMER

This Privacy & Cookies Policy (“Policy”) sets out the basis on which AMS Sustainable Development Solutions FZE (“AMS” or “We / Us”) collects personal data from you and how it will be processed by Us when you use our website at http://www.ams.global (“Website”) or any of our services, or where We enter into any other business relationship with you. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.

By accessing AMS’s Website, you are agreeing to this Policy. Please note that the Policy may change from time to time at our sole discretion. The new version will be posted on our Website with the effective date of the amended version and you are encouraged to review it regularly.

DEFINITIONS

Personal Data is any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘Data Subject’); an identifiable natural personal is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural, or social identity of that natural person (voice, photo, etc.)

Data Subject is a living individual to whom personal data relates.

Consent of the Data Subject means any freely given, specific, informed, and unambiguous indication of the Data Subject’s wishes.

Data Controller means the natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data.

WHO WE ARE

For the purpose of this Policy and in compliance with GDPR, AMS is a "Data Controller" of the personal information.

HOW WE COLLECT YOUR DATA

We collect personal information from you when you give us your contracts via web forms on the Website, when you get in contract with us via email or when you otherwise correspond with us (e.g. by standard mail to our company address, social networks pages, telephone calls, personal contact, business meetings and other similar situations).

CATEGORIES OF DATA COLLECTED

Personal Data: Information and documentation relating to your identity, location, family, employment background and financial details. Information may also be obtained from sources available in the public domain.

We may use your Personal Data to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information that may be of interest to you. You may opt out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from us by following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in any email we send.

Usage Data: We may also collect information how the Website is accessed and used. This Usage Data may include information such as your computer's Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

INFORMATION THAT WE COLLECT

The following non-exhaustive list includes the types of personal data that we may collect about you and, in some circumstances, your spouse, civil partner, partner or dependents:
  • Full name,
  • Address and contact details;
  • Date of birth;
  • Gender;
  • Nationality;
  • Marital (or relationship) status;
  • Passport, ID number;
  • Details of bank account
  • Job title, company's name;
  • Other information contained in your Resume;
  • Insurance Number;
  • Tax Identification Number;
  • We will keep a record of our correspondence with you;
  • Details of your visits to the Website including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data, and the resources that you access;
  • We may also ask you to complete surveys that We use for research purposes, although you do not have to respond to them.

PURPOSE OF PROCESSING YOUR DATA

AMS will process your data for the following purposes:

  • In assessment of potential vendors;
  • In the performance of the contract We have entered into with you;
  • For vendors' performance evaluation;
  • For employment purposes;
  • To provide you with news and general information about our services and events unless you have opted not to receive such information;
  • Where we need to comply with a legal obligation;
  • To provide and maintain our Website;
  • To notify you about changes to our Website;
  • To provide customer support;
  • To gather analysis or valuable information so that we can improve our Website;
  • To detect, prevent and address technical issues.

Your personal data is not further processed in a manner that is incompatible with foregoing purposes without your specific consent.

CONSEQUENCES OF NON-PROVISION OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA

AMS would not be able to continue with its contractual / employment agreement with you.

RECIPIENTS OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We won't disclose any of your personal information to third persons, unless with consent, such as to the following:

  • Professional advisors (lawyers, accountants, financial advisors, etc.);
  • Other financial institutions (banks, insurance companies);
  • Tax authorities and regulators for reporting purposes.

We may need to share some of your personal data with partners, who will provide us with marketing automation services. Our partners will not have any impact on the purposes of processing your data and shall process your data only in line with the instructions from Us.

On our website there are follow buttons to our social media accounts: to LinkedIn, Facebook, and YouTube. Please note that LinkedIn, Facebook, and YouTube have their own privacy rules. We have no impact on how they process your personal information, therefore we take no liability for how they manage your personal data. Please check their privacy notice for more information.

We may disclose your personal information in some cases to governmental agencies or entities, regulatory authorities or other persons in line with any applicable law, regulations, court order or official request. For example, your data may be shared with these entities where AMS would be expected to cooperate in the event of a criminal investigation.

WHERE AND HOW DO WE KEEP YOUR DATA?

Taking into account the state of the art, we have implemented appropriate technical and organizational measures to reduce the risks of loss, unauthorized access, disclosures of data and other unauthorized alteration of personal data. We make sure that your Personal Data are processed only by employees, who we are authorized and are familiar with applicable personal data protection rules.

We store your data in the form of:

  • Database
  • Excel files
  • Email based (office 365)
on our server located in Microsoft Office 365 Cloud Storage Systems.

Your data is not encrypted.

Further details can be obtained from AMS IT Department, mail to

ams-it@ams.global

WHAT IS THE RETENTION PERIOD?

6 to 12 months, subject to the type of data and its purpose of use. Please find out more from AMS IT Department, mail to ams-it@ams.global.

When we no longer need to use your Personal Data and they are not needed for any legal or regulatory obligations, we will erase any existing copy or use any anonymization technique in order to irreversibly prevent identification so that we can't identify you.

In case you withdraw your consent for processing your data, they will be erased without any undue delay there will be other legal ground for processing (e.g. for compliance with a legal obligation, exercise of legal claims).

YOUR RIGHTS

  • The right to access, update or to delete the information We have on you.
  • The right of rectification. You have the right to have your information rectified if that information is inaccurate or incomplete.
  • The right to object. You have the right to object to our processing of your Personal Data.
  • The right of restriction. You have the right to request that we restrict processing of your Personal Data.
  • The right to data portability. You have the right to be provided with a copy of your Personal Data in a structured, machine-readable and commonly used format.
  • The right to withdraw consent. You also have the right to withdraw your consent at any time where We relied on your consent to process your Personal Data.

Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests.

If you wish demand erasure of your data or just the restriction of their use, withdraw your consent to process data, you can do so in writing free of charge, but such withdrawal may affect the way in which we deal with you and/or any related entities.

For any further information, or if you wish to access, rectify, block or erase your personal data, withdraw your consent please contact AMS IT Department, mail to ams-it@ams.global .

COMPLAINTS

If you wish to make a complaint, please contact AMS IT Department, mail to ams-it@ams.global or, if you prefer to complain to a higher authority, please contact your local data protection commissioner.

WHAT ABOUT COOKIES?

Cookies are small pieces of data that are transferred to your computer’s hard drive through your Web browser from our Web Server. A cookie cannot read data from your hard disk or read cookie files that may have been created from other sites. The AMS Website utilizes cookies as a means of providing personalization features to our visitors. For example, we utilize cookies to remember settings (background music selections, wallpapers preferences, etc.) that you may have made at our website.

You can choose whether to accept cookies by changing the settings of your browser. Typically, by accessing the browser’s help feature you can obtain information on how to prevent your browser from accepting all cookies or to notify you when a cookie is being sent. If you choose not to accept these cookies, your experience at our website and other websites may be diminished and some features may not work as intended.