Privacy Policy GE FARM

Last Update: 3rd February 2020

Protecting the security and privacy of your personal data is important to J2 Innovations. A Siemens Company, 1550 Valley Vista Drive, Diamond Bar, CA 91765 (“Siemens”). Therefore Siemens operates Edge2Cloud (“App”) in compliance with applicable laws on data protection and data security.

Categories of personal data processed and purpose of the processing

When visiting and using the App, Siemens processes the following personal data about you:

Personal data that you actively provide to us within the App. i.e. information that you actively enter when registering for the app or creating a user account or when using contact and other forms offered within the App (for example, in order to contact Siemens with your enquiries and questions).

We process your personal data for the following purposes:

We only process your personal data if we are permitted by applicable law to do so. In particular, if you are based in the European Economic Area:

The legal basis for Siemens processing data about you is that such processing is necessary for the purposes of:

  1. Siemens exercising its rights and performing its obligations in connection with any contract we make with you (Article 6 (1) (b) General Data Protection Regulation),
  2. Compliance with Siemens’ legal obligations (Article 6 (1) (c) General Data Protection Regulation), and/or
  3. legitimate interests pursued by Siemens (Article 6 (1) (f) General Data Protection Regulation).

Generally the legitimate interest pursued by Siemens in relation to our use of your personal data is the efficient operation, management and support of the App, but we may disclose other legitimate interests for specific uses.

In some cases, we may ask if you consent to the relevant use of your personal data. In such cases, the legal basis for Siemens processing that personal data is that you have consented (Article 6 (1) (a) General Data Protection Regulation).

Transfer and disclosure of personal data

For the purposes mentioned above Siemens may transfer or disclose your personal data to:

If you are located within European Economic Area: please be aware that sometimes the recipients to whom Siemens transfers or discloses your personal data are located in countries in which applicable laws do not offer the same level of data protection as the laws of your home country.

In such cases and if required by applicable law, Siemens takes measures to implement appropriate and suitable safeguards for the protection of your personal data. In particular:

Retention periods

Unless indicated otherwise at the time of the collection of your personal data (e.g. within a form completed by you), we erase your personal data if the retention of that personal data is no longer necessary (i) for the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed, or (ii) to comply with legal obligations .

Your rights

The data protection law applicable to Siemens when processing your personal data may entitle you to specific rights in relation to your personal data. You can find out more about those rights by contacting dataprotection@siemens.com.

In particular and subject to the respective statutory requirements, if you are located in the European Economic Area, you are entitled to:

Data Privacy Contact

The Siemens Data Privacy Organization provides support with any data privacy related questions, comments, concerns or complaints or in case you wish to exercise any of your data privacy related rights. The Siemens Data Privacy Organization may be contacted at: dataprotection@siemens.com.

The Siemens Data Privacy Organization will always use best efforts to address and settle any requests or complaints you bring to its attention. Besides contacting the Siemens Data Privacy Organization, you always have the right to approach the competent data protection authority with your request or complaint.

Do Not Track

At this time our Internet sites do not recognize or respond to “Do Not Track” browser signals.

Children

This Application is not directed to children under the age of thirteen. We will not knowingly collect personal data via this Application from children under the age of thirteen without insisting that they seek prior parental consent if required by applicable law. We will only use or disclose personal data about a child to the extent permitted by law, to seek parental consent, pursuant to local law and regulations or to protect a child.

Security

To protect your personal data against accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, use, or alteration and against unauthorized disclosure or access, Siemens uses reasonable physical, technical and organizational security measures. Unfortunately, there is no complete assurance of security in transit or storage to any information that you transmit, no complete assurance that information will not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by a breach of any of our physical, technical, or organizational measures.

For US Residents only

There are special notices that may need to be given to, and rights that may be available to, residents of certain US states. Please click here for those notices.

We may update this Privacy Notice from time to time. The data of the latest update is indicated at the top of this Privacy Notice.

January 2019 SI BP This Acceptable Use Policy (“Policy”) sets out terms with which you must comply when using our Services.

  1. Definitions Capitalized terms shall have the meaning given to them in the terms governing the Services.

  2. No Illegal, Harmful, or Offensive Use of Your Content You shall not use, or encourage, promote, facilitate, or instruct others to use, the Services for any illegal, harmful, or offensive use. Your Content must not be illegal, harmful, or offensive. In particular, your use of the Services, Your Content and your use of Your Content shall not: (i) be in violation of any Laws or rights of others; (ii) be harmful to others, or Siemens’ operations or reputation, including by offering or disseminating fraudulent goods, services, schemes, or promotions, make-money-fast schemes, ponzi or pyramid schemes, phishing, farming, or other deceptive practices; (iii) enter, store or send hyperlinks, enable access to external websites or datafeeds, including embedded widgets or other means of access, in or as part of Your Content, for which you have no authorization or which are illegal; (iv) be defamatory, obscene, abusive, invasive of privacy, or otherwise objectionable; (v) subject Siemens or its business partners to liability.

  3. No violation of use restrictions You shall not: (i) copy, sell, resell, license, transfer, assign, sublicense, rent, lease, or otherwise make available the Services or the Platform in whole or in part to any Third Party (unless permitted otherwise by us or required by Laws); (ii) translate, disassemble, decompile, reverse engineer or otherwise modify, tamper with, repair or attempt to discover the source code of any software contained in the Services or the Platform (unless permitted otherwise by us or required by Laws); (iii) create derivative works of, or based on, any parts of the Services or the Platform; (iv) change or remove any notices or notations from the Services or the Platform that refer to intellectual property rights or brand names; and (v) imitate the “look and feel” of any of Siemens’ website or other user interface, nor the branding, color combinations, fonts, graphic designs, product icons or other elements associated with Siemens; and (vi) upload to the Platform any of Your Content that is subject to a license that, as a condition of use, access, and/or modification of such content, requires that any Siemens’ or Siemens’ business partners’ software or service provided by Siemens and interacting with or hosted alongside Your Content: (a) are disclosed or distributed in source code form; (b) are licensed to recipients for the purpose of making derivative works; (c) are licensed at no charge; (d) are not used for commercial purposes; or (e) are otherwise encumbered in any manner.

  4. No Abusive Use You shall not do any of the following: (i) use the Services in a way intended to avoid or work around any use limitations and restrictions placed on such Services, such as access and storage restrictions or to avoid incurring fees; (ii) access or use the Services for the purpose of conducting a performance test, building a competitive product or service or copying its features or user interface or use the Services in the operation of a business process outsourcing or other outsourcing or a time-sharing service; (iii) interfere with the proper functioning of any of Siemens' systems, including any overload of a system by mail bombing, news bombing, broadcast attacks, or flooding techniques; (iv) engage in any activity or modification or attempt to modify the Platform or the Services in such a way as to negatively impact on the performance of the Platform or the Services.

  5. No Security Violations You shall not use the Services in a way that results in, permits, assists or facilitates any action that constitutes a threat to the security of the Platform or the Services. You shall in particular: (i) before accessing the Services, during use, and when transferring Your Content, take all reasonable precautions against security attacks on your system, onsite hardware, software or services that you use to connect to and/or access the Platform, including appropriate measures to prevent viruses, trojan horses or other programs that may damage software; (ii) not interfere with or disrupt the integrity or performance of the Services or other equipment or networks connected to the Platform, and in particular not transmit any of Your Content containing viruses, trojan horses, or other programs that may damage software; (iii) not use the Services in a way that could damage, disable, overburden, impair or compromise any of Siemens' systems or their security or interfere with other Users of the Platform; (iv) not perform any penetration test of or on the Services or the Platform without obtaining our express prior written consent; and (v) not connect devices to the Services that do not comply with industry standard security policies (e.g., password protection, virus protection, update and patch level).

  6. Reporting If you become aware of any violation of this Policy, you will immediately notify us and provide us with assistance, as requested by us, to stop, mitigate or remedy the violation.