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All product and service specifications are subject to change at any time without prior notice. AutoForm Engineering also reserves the right to change any information in this website at any time and without prior notice.
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AutoForm Engineering explicitly emphasizes that AutoForm Engineering has absolutely no influence on the presentation and/or the content of any hyperlinked page. Therefore, AutoForm Engineering explicitly and completely disassociates itself from all contents of any and all hyperlinked pages.
– Information in accordance with Art. 13, 14 and 21 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) –
With this Privacy Policy AutoForm Engineering GmbH (hereafter: “AutoForm” or “we”) would like to give you an overview of the processing of your personal data by AutoForm and your rights under data protection law. This Privacy Policy applies to all websites of AutoForm (www.autoform.com, careers.autoform.com, videos.autoform.com, servicecenter.autoform.com, helpdesk.autoform.com, rt.autoform.de, files.autoform.com, autoform.webex.com, ssl.autoform.com, www.easystampings.com).
AutoForm is committed to protecting the security and privacy of your personal data in accordance with applicable laws on data protection and in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
AutoForm may change this Privacy Policy by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are satisfied with any changes.
This Privacy Policy is effective from May 25, 2018.
Controller of the processing of personal data is: AutoForm Engineering GmbH Unterdorfstrasse 12 8808 Pfäffikon SZ Switzerland
Our representative in the European Union according to Art. 27 GDPR is: AutoForm Engineering Deutschland GmbH Joseph-von-Fraunhofer-Straße 13a 44227 Dortmund Germany E-mail: privacy@autoform.de
We process personal data provided by you or through cookies and automatically allocated access data.
For further information, see section II. – “Processing of personal data”.
We process your personal data in accordance with the provisions of the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other applicable law for various purposes. In principle, the following can be considered as the purposes of the processing: the processing for the initiation of contractual relationships and the performance of contracts (Art. 6 (1) lit. b GDPR), for the protection of legitimate interests (Article 6 (1) lit. f DSGVO), based on your consent (Article 6 (1) lit. a GDPR) and/ or statutory provisions (Art. 6 (1) lit. c GDPR).
We process data only as long as it is necessary in relation to the initial specified, explicit and legitimate purpose.
Additionally, we are subject to various statutory filing and documentation obligations. The deadlines for storage and documentation can be up to ten years.
In light of possible legal claims, the processing period is also determined by statutory time limitations, which can be up to ten years.
There is no legal or contractual obligation to provide us with personal data. We only ask you to provide us with the data necessary for our services. Without this personal data, we cannot offer you our services.
In some cases we share your personal data with affiliated companies as third party controllers (see Article 4 No. 7 GDPR). These are the following controllers:
We use processors (see Article 4 No. 8 GDPR) that process personal data on our behalf. These include the following processors:
In cases specified under section II. – “Processing of personal data” we may transmit your personal data to the following entities in their respective third countries:
In all cases mentioned above we have implemented appropriate safeguards (standard contractual clauses in accordance with Art. 46 (2) lit. c GDPR) to ensure the safety of your personal data. You can request a copy of these safeguards from the contact provided in section 1. – “Who is responsible for the processing of personal data and whom you can approach”.
The European Commission has released an adequacy decision according to Art. 45 GDPR regarding Switzerland, attesting Switzerland an adequate level of data protection.
On this website, we do not use automated decision-making.
Every data subject has the right of access (Art. 15 GDPR), the right to rectification (Art. 16 GDPR), the right to erasure (Art. 17 GDPR), the right to restriction of processing (Art. 18 GDPR) and the right to data portability (Art. 20 GDPR). To exercise those rights, you can contact us under the contact information given in section 1. – “Who is responsible for the processing of personal data and whom you can approach”.
As far as the personal data is processed for the purpose of our legitimate interest according to Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR, you have the right to object according to Art. 21 GDPR. You can find further information regarding your right to object at the end of this Privacy Policy.
In addition, if you are of the opinion that the processing of your personal data is unlawful, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority (Art. 77 GDPR). This right to complain is without any prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy.
A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyze web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not.
You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of our website.
We process the following categories of personal data through the use of cookies:
Processing of personal data through the use of cookies is based on Article 6 (1) lit. f GDPR. Purpose and our legitimate interest are improved functionality of our websites.
While visiting our websites, the following specific data is stored during every retrieval:
The processing of personal data is based on Article 6 (1) lit. f GDPR. Purpose and our legitimate interest are administration and improved functionality of our website as well as preventing security issues.
We use the open source software Matomo to analyze surfing behavior and anonymized statistical evaluation of the use of the website. The web analysis is performed without cookies and your IP address is anonymized (IP masking with 2 bytes), so that an assignment to individual users is not possible. By anonymizing the IP address, the interest of users in their personal data protection is sufficiently taken into account.
The information obtained through the analysis about the use of the website is transmitted exclusively to our servers and summarized in pseudonymous usage profiles. The data collected is not passed on to third parties.
The processing of personal data through Matomo is based on Article 6 (1) lit. f GDPR. Purpose and our legitimate interest are analysis of the use of our websites as well as improved functionality.
For more information on Matomo’s terms of use and data protection regulations, please see: https://matomo.org/privacy/.
You have the option to prevent actions you take here from being analyzed and linked. This will protect your privacy, but also prevent us from learning from your actions and improving usability for you and other users.
You can object to the Matomo analysis. You can use the following opt-out for this. If you later change your mind, you can always return to this page and change your settings.
You can use contact forms provided on our websites to get in touch with us. If you do so, we process the following categories of personal data:
Your personal data is transmitted to the respective local subsidiary, representative or sales partner of AutoForm who then processes your inquiry.
The processing of personal data is based on Article 6 (1) lit. f GDPR. Purpose and our legitimate interest are customer care and answering your inquiry.
As an AutoForm customer you can request software certificates through special contact forms. If you do so, we process your master data (name, address, country, e-mail address, phone number).
Your personal Data will be transmitted to the respective local subsidiary of AutoForm who then processes your inquiry.
The processing of personal data is based on Article 6 (1) lit. b, f GDPR. Purpose and our legitimate interest are customer care as well as fulfilment of contract.
We also operate various customer support tools (e.g. a video portal with explanatory video clips for our customers). They can be accessed after registration. Upon registration we process the following categories of personal data:
The processing of personal data is based on Article 6 (1) lit. f GDPR. Purpose and our legitimate interest are customer care and prevention of unauthorized use of the customer support tools.
You can use our EasyBlank Cloud Service directly from your browser to calculate blank shapes from 3D geometry files of sheet metal stamped parts. When you use the application, we process your IP-address. When requesting a report of the results, you can enter your name, email address and/ or phone number, which we then process.
The processing of personal data is based on Article 6 (1) lit. b, f GDPR. Purpose and our legitimate interest are improved functionality of the application, customer care and delivery of the reports to the user.
We generally do not process personal data through our software products. But in case of unauthorized use or use of computer files generated with an unlicensed version of our products we may process communications and utilization data.
The processing of personal data is based on Article 6 (1) lit. f GDPR. Purpose and our legitimate interest are to monitor compliance with the licensing terms of AutoForm software products and the prevention as well as prosecution of infringements.
We process your requests for information, correction, deletion, restriction of processing of personal data and data portability pursuant to the GDPR. In doing so we process the following personal data:
The processing of personal data is based on Article 6 (1) lit. c GDPR. Purpose is an effective affected rights management.
Information about your right to object in accordance with Art. 21 General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
You have the right to object, on grounds relating to your particular situation, at any time to processing of personal data concerning you on the basis of Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR (processing of personal Data based on a balancing of interests); this includes profiling based on those provisions (Art. 4 No. 4 GDPR).
Should you decide to object the processing, we will stop to process personal data concerning you, unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms or the processing serves the purpose of establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
You also have the right to object at any time to processing of personal data concerning you for the purpose of advertising; this also applies to profiling insofar as it is associated with advertising.
Should you decide to object to the processing for advertising purposes, we will stop to process personal data concerning you for these purposes.
The objection is not subject to any form. Ideally, it should be lodged at the bodies mentioned in section 1. – “Who is responsible for the processing of personal data and whom you can approach”.
“AutoForm” and other trademarks listed hereinafter or trade names contained in the Software or related documents are trademarks or registered trademarks of AutoForm Engineering GmbH, Switzerland. Third party trademarks, trade names, product names and logos may be the trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. All rights to copies of the Software remain with AutoForm Engineering GmbH. The Software is copyrighted and protected by the laws of Switzerland and other countries and by international treaty provisions. You are not allowed to remove, alter or destroy any proprietary, trademark or copyright markings or notices placed upon or contained with the Software. AutoForm Engineering GmbH may make changes to its Software, or to items referenced therein, at any time and without notice. Except as otherwise expressly provided, AutoForm Engineering GmbH is not obligated to support or update the Software and does not grant any express or implied right under its patents, copyrights, trademarks, or other intellectual property rights.
This product may practice one or more of the following patents owned by or available to AutoForm Engineering GmbH, Switzerland: European patents 1623287, 1665103, 1741012, 1903409, 2442194, 2463792, 2463793, 2520992, 3654225, US patents 7542889, 7870792, 7885722, 7894929, 8140306, 8271118, 8280708, 8463583, 8478572, 8560103, 9342070, RE47557 and JP patents 4633625, 4852420, 5188803, 5499126. Other European, other US, other JP, and other CN patents pending.
Tradmarks and registered trademarks by AutoForm Engineering GmbH, Switzerland: “AutoForm”, “AutoFormingWorld”, “AutoForm-Explorer”, “BlankWizard”, “CostCalculator”, “DieAdviser”, “DieDesigner”, “DieWizard”, “EasyBlank”, “EasyQuote”, “EasyStamping”, “EasyTooling”, “FormFit”, “Forming Reality”, “FormingWizard”, “FormingWorld”, “Logopress”, “Logopress3”, “ProcessExplorer”, “ProcessDesigner”, “Sigma”, “SolidReporter”, “TriboForm” and “TubeXpert”.
Software piracy is the unauthorized possession, use, copying or distribution of copyrighted software. When you purchase software, you are not purchasing the software itself but rather a license to use it. The license defines how you are allowed to use the software. If you are using, copying, downloading, sharing, selling, or installing multiple copies of software onto personal or work computers, and you are not authorized to do so under the terms and conditions of an existing official license agreement, you are committing software piracy. To report suspected piracy of AutoForm products, please contact AutoForm at piracy@autoform.com.
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