Privacy Statement for Western Europe IP Club Tech Sessions

Privacy Statement for Europe IP Club Tech Sessions

HUAWEI Europe IP Club Tech Sessions (hereinafter referred to as “The Sessions”) is a series of event which will be held monthly online by Huawei Technologies Dusseldorf GmbH, a company duly incorporated and exists under the laws of Germany, and its registered office located at Hansaallee 205, 40549 Düsseldorf (hereinafter referred to as "we", "us" or "our"). The sessions are aiming to engage the technical circle from partners and customers with specific scenario solution topics. The online platform will be Click Meeting (hereinafter the “Platform”)

We take your privacy seriously, and take all appropriate security measures to protect it in accordance with the industry's well-established safety standards.

Table of Contents

1. How do we process your personal data and what is the legal basis?

2. How do we retain your personal data?

3. How do we share your personal data?

4. What are your rights and choices?

5. How to contact us

6. Update to this statement




1. How do we process your personal data and what is the legal basis?

Personal data means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (Definitions, Art. 4 GDPR).

1) Event Registration and notification: in order to generate a personal account and approve the registration through email for the Participants:

  • registered as a participant and enjoy the related exciting topics in the Sessions, your Email, Telephone (optional), First Name, Last Name, Country, Company, Relations with Huawei, and Industry will be processed. This processing is based on performance of contract.

2) Viewing of Webcast: in order to enable your access to the online webcast and make it suitable for your device, your IP address and Device type (PC/Mobile) will be processed, based on performance of contract. Without such data, the webcasts cannot be properly presented on your screen.

3) Live Interactions: to make every Participant feel engaged, the Platform additionally offers Live Interaction area for Participants to share views during the webcast in an anonymized way. For this purpose, we need to process your personal account, and the content you submitted for discussion. The processing is necessary for the Live Interaction services and based on performance of contract. You can choose not to use such services by not submitting any of your comments.

4) Improvement of the Event: in order to better infer the preference of Participants, verify and improve the quality of webcast contents accordingly, we will analyze the following data of Participants:

  • as participant, your personal accounts accompanied with entering and leaving time will be processed.

This processing is based on our legitimate interest.

5) Survey: when viewing some of the webcasts, the Participants will receive pop-up requests for survey relevant to the webcast topics about the technologies or projects. If you choose to conduct the survey, your personal account and the registration data connected, will be processed with your valued opinions and comments submitted. This processing is based on our legitimate interest.

6) Project Approaching: based on your Survey feedback and your consent therein, we would further contact you for workshop, POC or ordering requests. In such cases, your requests connected to your personal account will be needed. You can exercise your right of withdrawal through the same contact channel when we contact you or according to section 4 of this statement.

7) Electronic Direct Marketing/EDM: to email the below content to your preferences

  • for participant, we will process the Email, First Name, Last Name, Country, Company, Job Title, your interested session and Industry, phone number (optional) in order to send you the preferred session links, latest information of products, solutions and services available for your region

This processing is based on your consent. You can withdraw your consent through the “Unsubscribe” option in any of EDM Email or according to section 4 of this statement.

Specific Statement for EDM: Huawei WEU (Western Europe) subsidiaries and Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf are joint controller for EDM activity, for EDM privacy statement please read it at: https://e.huawei.com/uk/special_topic/event/2022q2/2022-WEU-EDM-Privacy-Statement

8) MTL: based on your consent, part of the registrants’ data will be uploaded to our marketing to lead platform and we will contact with you for the further check about our business opportunities. We will process the Email, First Name, Last Name, Country, Company, Job Title, your interested session, industry, survey filled data

2. How do we retain your personal data?

The security of your personal data is important to us. We use appropriate physical, management, and technical measures to protect your personal data from unauthorized access, disclosure, use, modification, damage, or loss. We are committed to protecting your personal data; however, please note that no security measure is perfect.

The data retain period may vary with scenario and service. After the retention period expires, we will erase or anonymize your personal data, unless otherwise agreed in this Statement or required by laws and regulations.

Scenarios / purposes

Data Category

Retention period

Event Registration and notification

Your First Name, Last Name, Telephone (optional), Country, Company, Job Title, Industry

 The personal data will be retained on our supplier's servers in Poland for 120 days.

Viewing of Webcast

Your IP address and Device type (PC/Mobile)

The personal data will be retained on our supplier's servers in Poland for 120 days

Live Interactions

Your personal account, and the content you submitted for discussion

 The personal data will be retained on our supplier's servers in Poland for 120 days

Improvement of the Event

Your IP Location, Enter Time, Leave Time, Duration, Device type (PC/Mobile)

The personal data will be retained on our supplier's servers in Poland for 120 days

Survey

Your personal account, and the content you submitted for discussion

The personal data will be retained on our supplier's servers in Poland for 120 days

Project Approaching

Your POC requirement and Project requirement connected to your personal account

Until you withdraw your consent

3. How do we share your personal data?

1) Disclosure of your personal data outside of the [EU]:

Scenarios/purposes

Data Disclosure Purpose

Mechanism for cross-border transfer

Project Approaching based on consent in Survey

To respond your request of workshop, POC or ordering in the Survey and share with you more about our products, solutions and services, the relevant data will be stored in our marketing to lead platform whose server is deployed in China. Only when you agree to be contacted by us, will we  contact you or upload your data into this platform for the further check with you about business opportunities.

Huawei complies with applicable legal requirements for providing adequate safeguards by incorporating the EU Commission standard data protection model clauses with relevant supplementary measures in such transfer.

2) Disclosure of your personal data within the [EU]:

Scenarios/purposes

Data Disclosure Purpose

Event Registration      

To share the status of registration, and attract more participants, we will disclose the number of registrants and anonymized information of participants to our local affiliates. We procured a third-party vendor whose database is located in Poland to provide a registration platform for our activity. So your registration data will also be shared with the Platform

Live Interactions

To verify and improve the performance of WEU IP Club Tech Sessions, we generate and share the statistic report or evaluation of the WEU IP Club Tech Sessions, and share to our local business team. We procured a third-party vendor whose database is located in Poland to provide the online webinar host service. So the statistic report or evaluation will be shared with the Platform

Improvement of the Event

Survey

Project Approaching based on consent in Survey

To respond your request of workshop, POC or ordering in the Survey and share with you more about our products, solutions and services, the relevant data will be shared to our Huawei local MKT team or Huawei channel partners. Only when you agree to be contacted by us, will we contact you for the further check with you about business opportunities

3) Disclosures related to legal requirements and business transactions

We may share your data in response to a legal process or request from a competent authority based on an applicable law or in connection with legal proceeding or process.

Your data may also be disclosed as part of merger, acquisition, sale of assets (such as service agreements) or transition of service to Huawei affiliates or the third-parties.

4. What are your rights and choices?

You can enter into the Privacy Portal to exercise your rights of data subject as listed below:

  • The right to receive confirmation about the data processing and a copy of the processed data (right to access, Art. 15 GDPR);
  • The right to demand the rectification of inaccurate data or the completion of incomplete data (right to rectification, Art. 16 GDPR);
  • The right to demand the erasure of personal data. This right applies in particular when your personal data are no longer necessary for the purposes for which they were collected. (right to erasure, Art. 17 GDPR);
  • The right to demand the restriction of the data processing in certain cases (right to restriction of processing, Art. 18 GDPR);
  • The right to receive the personal data concerning the data subject in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and to request the transmittance of these data to another controller (right to data portability, Art. 20 GDPR);
  • The right to object the data processing in order to stop it, if applicable (right to object, Art. 21 GDPR);
  • If applicable, the right to withdraw a given consent at any time to stop a data processing that is based on your consent. The withdrawal will not affect the lawfulness of the processing based on the consent before the withdrawal (right to withdraw consent, Art. 7 GDPR);

If you think that we are not processing your personal data in accordance with this Statement or the applicable data protection laws, you are entitled to lodge a complaint with your data protection authority.

By using our services or providing your personal data to us, we may communicate with you regarding security, privacy and administrative issues relating to you. For example, if we are aware of a personal data breach concerning your, we may attempt to contact you in various method.

5. How to contact us

We value your opinions. If you have questions or comments related to this privacy statement, please contact our Data Protection Officer (DPO) through our Privacy Portal.

6. Update to this statement

We encourage you to regularly check for the latest version of this Statement as we may change it from time to time. If we make changes to this Statement, we will notify you by an appropriate method.

Last updated: Nov. 2022