iMaster

JUNE 2019

Privacy Policy

Applicability: iMaster

At ABB, respecting your data privacy rights is a top priority. This notice explains why and how we collect personal data about you, how we process such data, and what rights you have regarding your personal data.

Who controls your data

ABB Asea Brown Boveri Ltd and its subsidiary companies are responsible for your personal data. For applicable data protection law, the controller of your data will be the ABB affiliate which is providing services or communicating to you. Each such entity is regarded as an independent controller of your personal data, and this notice applies to all such companies.

Controllers located outside of the European Union (EU) have appointed a representative for EU data privacy matters. For details about your controller’s EU representative, please submit a request at www.abb.com/privacy.

The personal data we collect about you and how we get it

We collect the following categories of personal data:

  • The contact information you share with us: first name, last name, business address, business email, business telephone number, business mobile number:
  • Employee number;
  • Login credentials;
  • Job/Position/Title;
  • Geolocation information.

What we use your data for

We use your personal data to:

  • enable ABB users to browse their Master Data via Mobile Phone straight from the source systems;
  • monitor access to systems and/or downloads;
  • manage IT resources, including infrastructure management and business continuity, develop and improve services or products through assessment and analysis of the information;
  • contact you to provide product support;
  • manage and administer your use of requested applications, products and services;
  • communicate with Business Partners about products, services and projects of ABB or Business Partners, e.g. by responding to inquiries or requests;

We only collect the personal data from you that we need for the above purposes. We may also anonymize your personal data, so it no longer identifies you and use it for various purposes, including the improvement of our services and testing our IT systems.

The legal basis on which we use your personal data

We use your personal data for the purposes described in this notice based on one of the following legal bases, as applicable:

  • We will rely on our legitimate interests to process your personal data within the scope of managing the app. Our legitimate interest to collect and use the personal data for this purpose is managing the iMaster app and improve it. You may obtain a copy of our assessment of why we may process your personal data for these interests by submitting a request at www.abb.com/privacy.

How we share your personal data

We only share your personal data with other ABB affiliates or third parties as necessary for the purposes described in this notice.

Where we share your personal data with a party outside of the EU, we always put safeguards in place to protect your personal data as described below.

Recipient name or – for non-EU countries – recipient categoryRecipient locationPurposeSafeguards in place to protect your personal data
ABB affiliates and subsidiariesSee the list of ABB subsidiariesThe purposes described in this privacy noticeEU Model Clauses
ABB business partners, distributors, and agentsEU and non-EUThe purposes described in this privacy noticeEU Model Clauses
Service providersEU and non-EUIT services, marketing agencies, payment processors, customer support providers working on ABB’s behalfEU Model Clauses and commercial contracts ensuring your data is only used to provide the services to ABB
Potential or actual acquirers of ABB businesses or assetsEU and non-EUFor the evaluation of the business or assets in question or for the purposes described in this privacy noticeEU Model Clauses and commercial contracts ensuring your data is only used to evaluate ABB’s business or assets or for the purposes described herein
Recipients as required by applicable law or legal process, to law enforcement or government authorities, etc.EU and non-EUWhere required by applicable law or a legitimate request by government authorities, or a valid legal requirementWe will ensure, to the extent possible, that adequate protection is provided for your data when it is transferred out of the EU in these circumstances

You may obtain a copy of the safeguards which we use to protect your personal data by submitting a request at www.abb.com/privacy.

How long we keep your personal data

iMaster application does not store any data as all of them are displayed live from the integrated source systems. The system only displays data stored in other sources systems. It is regulated by ABB policies and documentations related to sources systems. iMaster is automatically synchronized with source systems.

Your data privacy rights

Depending on the jurisdiction in which you are located and in which your personal data is processed, you may have the following rights:

Data privacy rightsWhat it means
The right of data accessYou have a right to obtain a copy of the personal data we hold about you, subject to certain exceptions.
The right of data rectificationYou always have a right to ask for immediate correction of inaccurate or incomplete personal data.
The right of data erasureYou have the right to request that personal data be erased when it is no longer needed, where applicable law obliges us to delete the data or the processing of it is unlawful. You may also ask us to erase personal data where you have withdrawn your consent or objected to the data processing. However, this is not a general right to data erasure – there are exceptions.
The right to restrict data processingYou have the right to restrict the processing of your personal data in specific circumstances. Where that is the case, we may still store your information, but not use it further.
The right to object to the data processingYou have the right to object to our processing of your personal data based on the legitimate interests, where your data privacy rights outweigh our reasoning for legitimate interests.

You may request to enforce your data privacy rights at www.abb.com/privacy. In certain circumstances, we may need to restrict the above rights to safeguard the public interest (e.g., the prevention or detection of crime) or our business interests (e.g., the maintenance of legal privilege).

Contact and further information

If you have any questions about how we use your personal data or wish to make a complaint about how we handle it, you may contact our Group Data Protection Officer at privacy@abb.com, or submit your complaint at www.abb.com/privacy. Should you not be satisfied with our response or believe we are processing your personal data against the law, you may also contact the Data Privacy Authority in your country of residence or work or where you believe an infringement of data privacy laws may have taken place.