Privacy Policy.

At Sonion A/S (“Sonion”/”we”/“our”/us”) data protection and confidentiality is a high priority. This Privacy Policy applies for our processing of personal data in connection with visits to our website and contact persons of suppliers and customers. The Privacy Policy sets out the guidelines for Sonion’s processing of your personal data and provides you with the information you have the right to receive according to applicable data protection legislation. Please read this Privacy Policy before submitting or sharing your personal data with us.

1. Data controller.

The data controller responsible for processing your personal data is:

Sonion A/S
Company registration no: 25141350
Betonvej 10
4000 Roskilde
Contact: https://www.sonion.com/contact/ or marketing@sonion.com

2. Types of personal data, purposes, legal basis, and deletion.

We process personal data on various persons that are in contact with Sonion. Below, you can see how we may process your personal data as a website visitor or as a contact person.

2.1 Website visitors.

The types of personal data we collect may include:

Your general and identification information (e.g., name, email and/or postal address, telephone number, age, and gender).
IP address, geographic location, your interests and preferences, the sites you visit and technical information, provided that a prior cookie consent has been obtained.
Communication with you.
Your personal data is collected in one or more of the following cases:
When you use our website, provided that a prior cookie consent has been obtained in order to collect data.
When you sign up for our newsletter
When you contact us via email, telephone, or letter.
The personal data may be collected and used for the following purposes:
To sign up and to receive newsletters.
Marketing.
Customer service and general communication.
Interest preferences and your knowledge of various subjects.
Improve products, services, and tools on our website.
Compliance with requirements according to applicable law.
For the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims.

Our legal bases for the processing of your personal data for the above purposes are:

Legitimate interest in being able to collect and administrate your personal data through cookies, for the purpose of supporting the functionality of the website in order to give you a better user experience, to improve our web site and compile statistics based on anal-yses (Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR).
Consent to collect, share and administrate your personal data through cookies for market-ing purposes, which is also based on you interests and your click behaviour (Article 6(1)(a) of the GDPR).
Legitimate in being able to process your personal data in order to provide newsletter (Arti-cle 6(1)(f) of the GDPR), provided that you have given a prior marketing consent in ac-cordance with Section 10 (1) of the Danish Marketing Practices Act.
Legitimate interest in being able to establish, exercise or defend legal claims (Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR).

If you signed up for our newsletter personal data will be stored until you withdraw the marketing consent. Personal data may also be stored as long as is necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, or longer if required under any contract, by applicable law or in order to establish, exercise or defend legal claims. If you have provided a cookie consent, we refer to the pop-up window of cookies in term of the retention periods in relation hereto.

2.2 Contact persons of suppliers and customers.

The types of personal data we collect may include:

Name, job title, work email address, correspondences, signature and work phone number.
Your personal data is collected in one or more of the following cases:
When you contact us via email, telephone, or letter.
When we enter into agreements with your company.
The personal data may be collected and used for the following purposes:
The administration of our business relations, including being able to communicate with you.
When sending conclusion of agreements.
In connection with invoicing and accounting.
For the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims.

Our legal bases for the processing of your personal data for the above purposes are:

Necessary for the performance of a contract between the company that you represent and Sonion (Article 6(1)(b) of the GDPR).
Legal obligations e.g., in relation to the Bookkeeping Act (Article 6(1)(c) of the GDPR).
Legitimate interest in being able to run our business and to be able to manage Sonion’s busi-ness relationship, including being able to communicate with you (Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR).
Legitimate interest in being able to establish, exercise or defend legal claims (Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR).

We will store your personal data as long as it is necessary in order to fulfill the contract and up to 3 years after providing the products / services or after termination of a contract. Bookkeeping mate-rial will be stored for 5 years from the closing of the relevant financial year.

3. Disclosure to data processors and transfer to other data controllers.

In order to pursue the above listed purposes, your personal data may be disclosed to third party data processors (service providers) providing relevant services under contract to us. Such service providers will only process the personal data in accordance with our instructions and pursuant to a data processing agreement, hereunder in order to provide hosting services, marketing services and analytic services.

Furthermore, we may transfer your personal data to relevant authorities, lawyers, accountants, and courts if we are legally obligated to cf. article 6 (1)(c), in order to pursue our legitimate interest in being able to establish, exercise or defend legal claims (Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR) or in order to fulfill the contract (Article 6(1)(b) of the GDPR). Your consent may also be provided to share personal data with third parties such as social media providers as part of the cookie pop-up ban-ner. Reference is further made to the pop-up window for cookies and the Cookie Policy below.

If your personal data is transferred to data controllers or data processors which are located in countries outside the EU/EEA, including group entities, not ensuring an adequate level of data protection, such transfer will be safeguarded by the EU Commission’s standard contractual clauses.

4. Security.

We and our service providers have implemented security measures to ensure that the procedures meet the required security standards. Accordingly, we strive to protect the quality and integrity of your personal data. This includes encryption of data, use of pseudonymization, firewalls, logging, audits and password procedures etc.

5. Rights.

You have the right to access the personal data we process about you, but with certain legislative exceptions e.g., if the personal data is comprised by the retention period in the Bookkeeping Act. Furthermore, you have the right to have your personal data rectified, erased, or blocked, but with certain legislative exceptions.

In certain situations, you have the right to have the data you have submitted to us, handed over in a machine-readable format and to have your data transmitted to another data controller.

Moreover, you have the right to object to the collection and further processing of your data, including processing that is based on our legitimate interest.

6. Contact and complaints.

If you want to exercise any of your rights, if you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy or the processing of your personal data, you may contact: marketing@sonion.com.

You may complain about the processing of your personal data to the Danish Supervisory Authority (Datatilsynet). Address: Carl Jacobsens Vej 25, 2500 Valby, phone: + 45 33 19 32 00, e-mail: dt@datatilsynet.dk or through their webpage www.datatilsynet.dk.

7. Changes to this Privacy policy.

We reserve the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy from time to time. The at all times, applicable Privacy Policy will be available on the website under About/Privacy Policy. In the event of significant changes, we will take the necessary measures to notify you in another way.

Last updated: September 2024

Cookie Policy.

1. Owner and contact information of this website.

Sonion A/S
Company registration no: 25141350
Betonvej 10
4000 Roskilde
Contact: https://www.sonion.com/contact/ or marketing@sonion.com

2. What are cookies?

Cookies are used in almost all websites today and are in many cases necessary to provide services on the website.

A cookie is a small script placed on the user’s computer or mobile device (e.g. PC, tablet, smartphone etc.). Cookies can, among other things, be used to compile statistics on user behaviour on the website and to optimise the content. A cookie is a passive file that cannot carry computer viruses or install malware.

Some cookies are placed by parties (so-called third parties) other than the one in the address bar (URL) of the browser. Such cookies may be cookies performing ordinary functions, but also analysis tools and embedded comments fields. This means, that cookies are stored from parties other than the owner of the website. Some cookies are only stored on the user’s device as long as the user has their browser open (session cookies). Other cookies are stored for a longer period of time (persistent cookies). When the user return to the website the session cookies will be placed again, while the persistent cookie is automatically renewed.

You may choose to disable cookies from your own web-browser, although this process does vary between different browsers. Please note that if you wish to block all cookies from your browser, this may affect your ability to access all sections of the Sonion website.

Information collected from cookies will only be used by Sonion to help improve the services provided to you. These may be used to improve the content, service, and support for visitors to the Website.

The Sonion website may contain links to other websites. Sonion is not responsible for the content of such websites and the collection of personal data when using these websites, including cookie usage. When accessing a new website, you should always read their relevant policies on personal data collection and cookies.

This website uses cookies. We use cookies to analyse our traffic and gain marketing insights. We share information about your use of our site with our analytics partners, Google Analytics and WhoIsVisiting, who may combine it with other information that you have provided to them or that they’ve collected from your use of their services.

The law states that we can store cookies on your device if they are strictly necessary for the operation of this site. For all other types of cookies we need your cookie consent.

3. Which cookies do we use, and how can you change or withdraw cookie consent?

In the Cookiebot’s Cookie Declaration below, you can see which cookies we are using at this moment. There, you can also change or withdraw your consent at any time.

If you do not see the Cookie Declaration (3.1), please try disabling any content-blocking extensions or add-ons your browser might be using.

Cookie declaration last updated on 8/27/24 by Cookiebot:

Necessary (8)

Necessary cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.

Name	Provider	Purpose	Maximum Storage Duration	Type
_grecaptcha	Google	This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website.	Persistent	HTML Local Storage
_GRECAPTCHA	Google	This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website.	180 days	HTTP Cookie
1.gif	Cookiebot	Used to count the number of sessions to the website, necessary for optimizing CMP product delivery.	Session	Pixel Tracker
CookieConsent	Cookiebot	Stores the user’s cookie consent state for the current domain	1 year	HTTP Cookie
rc::a	Google	This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website.	Persistent	HTML Local Storage
rc::b	Google	This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots.	Session	HTML Local Storage
rc::c	Google	This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots.	Session	HTML Local Storage
rc::f	Google	This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots.	Persistent	HTML Local Storage

Marketing (18)

Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third party advertisers.

Name	Provider	Purpose	Maximum Storage Duration	Type
#-#	YouTube	Used to track user’s interaction with embedded content.	Session	HTML Local Storage
iU5q-!O9@$	YouTube	Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen.	Session	HTML Local Storage
LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY	YouTube	Used to track user’s interaction with embedded content.	Session	HTTP Cookie
LogsDatabaseV2:V#\|\|LogsRequestsStore	YouTube	Used to track user’s interaction with embedded content.	Persistent	IndexedDB
NID	Google	Pending	6 months	HTTP Cookie
remote_sid	YouTube	Necessary for the implementation and functionality of YouTube video-content on the website.	Session	HTTP Cookie
ServiceWorkerLogsDatabase#SWHealthLog	YouTube	Necessary for the implementation and functionality of YouTube video-content on the website.	Persistent	IndexedDB
TESTCOOKIESENABLED	YouTube	Used to track user’s interaction with embedded content.	1 day	HTTP Cookie
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE	YouTube	Tries to estimate the users’ bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos.	180 days	HTTP Cookie
YSC	YouTube	Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen.	Session	HTTP Cookie
YtIdbMeta#databases	YouTube	Used to track user’s interaction with embedded content.	Persistent	IndexedDB
yt-remote-cast-available	YouTube	Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video	Session	HTML Local Storage
yt-remote-cast-installed	YouTube	Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video	Session	HTML Local Storage
yt-remote-connected-devices	YouTube	Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video	Persistent	HTML Local Storage
yt-remote-device-id	YouTube	Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video	Persistent	HTML Local Storage
yt-remote-fast-check-period	YouTube	Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video	Session	HTML Local Storage
yt-remote-session-app	YouTube	Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video	Session	HTML Local Storage
yt-remote-session-name	YouTube	Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video	Session	HTML Local Storage

4. How do you delete or disable cookies?

The procedure for deleting or disabling cookies on your device depends on the browser you are using. If you are using a PC, you can delete cookies by using the keyboard shortcut [CTRL]+[SHIFT]+[Delete]. If this procedure is not successful or if you are using a MAC computer, please click the link in the browser you are using:

5. Do you have any questions?

If you have any questions about cookies, please contact us: https://www.sonion.com/contact/ or marketing@sonion.com.