Privacy notice
ASSA ABLOY is committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy notice describes how ASSA ABLOY processes and uses the personal data that we receive from you in connection with this website and how you can contact us if you have additional questions regarding our processing of your personal data.
1. What personal data will ASSA ABLOY process?
1.1 ASSA ABLOY collects and stores personal data (for example name, address, email address and telephone number) that you or your employer submit to us.
1.2 ASSA ABLOY also collects and stores personal data (for example name, email, role, industry and country) that you submit when becoming a member or starting a subscription to our newsletter.
2. How and why will ASSA ABLOY use your personal data?
2.1 When you visit our website, we process your personal data in order to administrate and improve this website, for our internal records and for statistical analysis about the use of the website. To the extent that ASSA ABLOY uses the personal data to improve this website or for analyzing statistics, the basis for collection of data is ASSA ABLOY’s legitimate interest to conduct such improvements and analysis. Since no sensitive personal data will be processed and the processing is limited, ASSA ABLOY has concluded that its legitimate interest to conduct the improvements and analysis takes precedence over your privacy interest.
2.2 The processing of your personal data such as email address, name or profession when you become a member is carried out on the basis to fulfil our obligations according to the contract with you. We process this information in order to administrate your membership, send you newsletters and perform marketing surveys according to the terms of the membership, After submitting such personal data you will receive a link to confirm your membership.
2.3 The processing of your personal data such as email address, name or profession when you subscribe to our newsletter is based on our legitimate interest. We process this information in order to send you newsletters and to perform marketing surveys. Our legitimate interests are to provide you with information that you have requested and to use the results of these surveys to improve ASSA ABLOY products and services. After submitting such personal data you will receive a link to confirm your subscription.
2.4 When you communicate with us via mail, contact forms or our channels on social media, we process your personal data based on our legitimate interest. Our legitimate interest in processing your personal information is to offer you customer service, communicate and interact with you and answer your questions.
2.5 If you are an employee with one of our suppliers, we may process your personal data in accordance with the agreement with the supplier for the purposes of administrating invoices, payments and the contractual relationship, handling deliveries as well as contact and communication. When processing your personal data as an employee, we do this based on our legitimate interest to be able to administrate the agreement and fulfill our obligations to our suppliers (your employer).
If applicable, we process personal data about you who are employed by a supplier for accounting purposes, such as billing or payment. We carry out this processing based on legal obligations under the Accounting Act.
2.6 You have no legal or contractual obligation to provide us with personal data. However, if you do not provide us with certain data we will not be able to provide you with certain services, assistance or correspondence.
3. Transfer of personal data
3.1 We and our suppliers and partners, as a rule, only process your personal data within the EU / EEA. If your personal data is processed outside the EU / EEA, we transfer either to a country approved by the Commission which ensures an adequate level of protection or by adapting appropriate safeguards, in the form of standard contractual clauses, binding corporate rules or Privacy Shield, which ensures that your rights are protected. If you want a copy of the protective measures we have taken or information about the transfers you can contact us.
3.2 The personal data that is collected and stored is exclusively used by companies within the ASSA ABLOY group, except in the following cases where we may submit the data to third parties:
- When required by law;
- To a buyer or a potential future buyer of our business, and/or;
- To the following service providers appointed by ASSA ABLOY that provide services connected to this website or its functions, but only to the extent it is necessary in order to provide these services, these have the role of processors:
BuddyPress, owned by Automattic, Inc. BuddyPress is an open source social networking software package that help us manage membership functionality.
MailChimp, a trading name of its operator, Rocket Science Group LLC. MailChimp is an email marketing service that help us manage and send our newsletter.
We also transfer your personal information to recipients who are not processors. If you are employed by one one of our suppliers, we will transfer your personal data to recipients who are independent controllers for their processing, such as public authorities.
3.3 ASSA ABLOY will take measures to protect all personal data transferred to such third parties, or that has been transferred to other countries, in accordance with applicable data protection laws and this policy.
4. For how long will ASSA ABLOY store your personal data?
4.1 We will never process your personal data for a longer period than permitted by applicable law, regulation, guidelines or government decisions. However, in order to comply with legal requirements, contractual obligations or because we are entitled to do so in accordance with a legitimate interest, we may save your personal information for an extended period of time in accordance with what is stated below. Your personal information processed to fulfil our contractual obligation to you is processed until the membership is terminated (which can be done manually or automatically due to inactivity for a period of 24 months). Your personal information processed based on our legitimate interest when you subscribed to our newsletter is saved as long as the purpose remains and/or until you unsubscribe to the mailings. Your personal information processed based on our legitimate interest when you visit our website or communicate with us is saved as long as the purpose remains. Personal data that we process for the purpose of fulfilling our agreement with the supplier to whom you are employee of is as a principle rule processed during the period of time it is necessary for us to administrate the contractual relationship, exercise our rights and fulfill our commitments towards the supplier to whom you are an employee of. If your employment is terminated with the supplier or in relation to us, we will cease to process your personal data as soon as we have received such information from the supplier. Any information relating to payment and where processing is required according to the Accounting Act is handled in accordance with legal requirements for seven (7) years. Statistics which has been anonymized may be saved thereafter.
5. Information and access rights
5.1 In accordance with current data protection laws, you have the right to access information about what personal data we are processing about you and the right to request a rectification of your personal data.
Under certain circumstances, you may also request us to delete or restrict your personal data or object to further processing. You also have the right under certain circumstances to obtain the personal data that relates to you as provided to us in a structured, widely used and machine-readable format and may transfer them to another controller.
You are also entitled to object to the processing of your personal data for direct marketing at any time.
5.2 ASSA ABLOY AB, Reg. no 556059-3575 is responsible for the processing of your personal data, and requests to exercise your rights as stated above shall be addressed to ASSA ABLOY AB, Attn: ASSA ABLOY DPM, Box 703 40, SE-107 23 Stockholm or gc.privacy@assaabloy.com.
5.3 If you have a complaint regarding the processing of your personal data by ASSA ABLOY you are entitled to report such dissatisfaction to the supervisory authority for the personal data processing of ASSA ABLOY, the Swedish Data Protection Authority (sw. Datainspektionen).
6. Cookies
6.1 A ‘cookie’ is a small text file containing information which is stored on your computer. Cookies are only used for technical reasons and to facilitate your use of a website. One type of cookie will save a file permanently on your computer. It can thereafter be used to customise this website based on the user’s choices and interests. Another common type of cookie is the “session cookie”. When you visit a website, session cookies are sent between your computer and the server to collect information. Session cookies are not saved once you close your web browser. For more information about how cookies work, please be referred to www.allaboutcookies.org.
6.2 The cookies that ASSA ABLOY use on this website are:
| Cookie | Purpose | Stored information | Retention | Sharing |
| __atuvc (futurelab.assaabloy.com) | This cookie is created by AddThis.com, a social sharing service run by Clearspring Technologies Inc. The cookie is used to make sure the user sees the correct updated count if they share a page. | Share count cache | 2 years | No sharing |
| __atuvs (futurelab.assaabloy.com) | This cookie is created by AddThis.com, a social sharing service run by Clearspring Technologies Inc. The cookie is used to make sure the user sees the correct updated count if they share a page. | Share count cache | 2 years | No sharing |
| cookies-accepted (futurelab.assaabloy.com) | This cookie is used to determine if Cookies are accepted by the visitor. | A string “yes” or “no” | 7 hours | No sharing |
| bp-activity-oldestpage (futurelab.assaabloy.com) | This cookie is used by the website to set session preferences. No personal data is stored. | A number “1” | One session | No sharing |
| bb-user-settings (futurelab.assaabloy.com) |
bb-user-settings-$UID and bb-user-settings-time-$UID are bbPress/Buddypress cookies that store the user’s settings | An encrypted string. | 1 day | No sharing |
| bb_install_language (futurelab.assaabloy.com) |
BuddyPress/bbPress installation language | A string | 1 day | No sharing |
| bp-message (futurelab.assaabloy.com) |
bp-message and bp-message-type are BuddyPress cookies. They contain a feedback (error/success) message to be displayed after the page reloads. | An encrypted string. | 1 day | No sharing |
| bp-wizard-step (futurelab.assaabloy.com) |
Stores the step of the BuddyPress wizard | An integer. | 1 day | No sharing |
| bp_completed_create_steps (futurelab.assaabloy.com) |
Working in harmony with bp_new_group_id this records the completed steps for creation of a new buddyPress group | An integer | 1 day | No sharing |
| bp_messages_ (futurelab.assaabloy.com) |
bp_messages_send_to, bp_messages_subject and bp_messages_content are BuddyPress cookies for messages | An encrypted string. | 1 day | No sharing |
| bp_new_group_id (futurelab.assaabloy.com) |
Contains the ID of a buddyPress group | An integer. | 1 day | No sharing |
| wordpress_test_cookie (futurelab.assaabloy.com) | This cookie tests the visitors browser to see if it supports WordPress Login. | A string “WP+Cookie+check” | 1 year | No sharing |
| wp-settings- (futurelab.assaabloy.com) |
WordPress sets a few wp-settings-[UID] cookies. The number on the end is your individual user ID from the users database table. This is used to customize your view of admin interface, and possibly also the main site interface. | An encrypted string. | 1 hour | No sharing |
| wp-settings-time-
(futurelab.assaabloy.com) |
WordPress also sets a few wp-settings-{time}-[UID] cookies. The number on the end is your individual user ID from the users database table. This is used to customize your view of admin interface, and possibly also the main site interface. | Timestamp | 1 hour | No sharing |
| comment_author_ (futurelab.assaabloy.com) |
This is purely a convenience, so that the visitor won’t need to re-type all their information again when they want to leave another comment. | An encrypted string. | 1 year | No sharing |
| comment_author_email (futurelab.assaabloy.com)
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Similar to comment_author_ | An encrypted string. | 1 year | No sharing |
| comment_author_url (futurelab.assaabloy.com)
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Similar to comment_author_ | An encrypted string. | 1 year | No sharing |
| _ga (.assaabloy.com) | Google Analytics cookie used to distinguish users. | An encrypted hash string. | 2 years | No sharing |
| _gid (.assaabloy.com) | Google Analytics cookie used to distinguish users. | An encrypted hash string. | 24 hours | No sharing |
| _gat_* (.assaabloy.com) | Google Analytics cookie used to throttle request rate. | An encrypted hash string. | 2 years | No sharing |
| __utma (.assaabloy.com) | Google Analytics cookie used to distinguish users and sessions. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utma cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. | An encrypted hash string. | 2 years | No sharing |
| __utmt (.assaabloy.com) | Google Analytics cookie used to throttle request rate. | An encrypted hash string. | 10 minutes | No sharing |
| __utmb (.assaabloy.com) | Google Analytics cookie used to determine new sessions/visits. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utmb cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. | An encrypted hash string. | 30 minutes | No sharing |
| __utmz (.assaabloy.com) | Google Analytics cookie stores the traffic source or campaign that explains how the user reached your site. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. | An encrypted hash string. | 6 months | No sharing |
| __utmv (assaabloy.com) | Google Analytics cookie used to store visitor-level custom variable data. This cookie is created when a developer uses the _setCustomVar method with a visitor level custom variable. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. | An encrypted hash string. | 2 years | No sharing |
6.3 We are continuously working to improve futurelab.assaabloy.com. In order to do this we use Google Analytics to analyse our users behaviour on an anonymous and aggregated level.
6.4 We also allow our web analysis tool, Google Analytics, to place and manage cookies on this website. The following cookies are placed by Google Analytics to log data about visits and visitors of this website. The statistics are used to improve the user experience of this website:
| Name | Description | Lifespan |
| _ga | Distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. | 2 years |
| _gaexp | Determine a user’s inclusion in an A/B experiment via Google Optimize and the expiry of experiments a user has been included in. | 90 days |
| _gid | Distinguish users. | 24 hours |
| _gat | Throttle the request rate – limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. | 1 min. |
6.5 If you do not wish to accept cookies you can change your web browser’s settings to automatically deny the storage of cookies or to inform you when a website wants to store cookies on your computer. Previously stored cookies can also be deleted through the web browser. More information can be found through your web browser’s support pages. Please note that certain areas and functions on this website require cookies and may not function if cookies are deleted or declined.6.6 For more information regarding the cookies used on this website please contact us at cookies@assaabloy.com
7. Social media
On our website, we have embedded content from social media channels YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. This may result in cookies outside our control being set by these websites, so-called third-party cookies.Embedded content from the following third-party services may set cookies in your browser. Follow the links below to read more about how these services use cookies.
LinkedIn: Privacy Policy
Facebook: Data Use Policy
Twitter: Privacy Policy
YouTube: Google Privacy and Terms
Privacy Notice version 1.2, May 24 2018