Personal data

Personal data (sometimes referred to as PII — personally identifiable information) is information that to some extent can be attributed to you. When you use our website and customer portals, or contact us by telephone, email, or answer a questionnaire, we collect and process a range of data. This is, e.g., if you sign up for our newsletter, buy a standard, contact our information centre, complete a web form, or otherwise use our online services.

Personal data submitted by you via our website may be your name, phone number, newsletter interests, subject area, or email. If it is mandatory to provide data in order to proceed, this will be marked with an * (asterisk). 

We only request information relevant to your enquiry.

Purpose

We use personal data to deal with your request, make our services better and to ensure quality in our products and services as well as in our contact with you.

Changes

Our privacy policy may be changed from time to time. Any changes to this privacy policy will be stated on this page and if any significant changes are made, we will draw your attention to them in a more conspicuous manner (for some services, we will inform you about changes by email).

Copyright

All content on this site and all content of any documents provided to visitors or clients (in, for instance, newsletters) is our property, or that of another original copyright holder unless stated otherwise.

No user may copy, modify, publish, transmit, transfer or sell, reproduce, create derivative works from, distribute, display, or in any way exploit any of the content, in whole or in part, except with our express written agreement or that of the original copyright holder. These copyright terms apply to all books and other products purchased from this site or acquired in any format by accessing our sites.

Use of personal data

Danish Standards uses the personal data collected for the following purposes:

• Customer support

• Administrative purposes, including login to self-service portals, invoicing, and service messages

• Targeted communications, e.g., through newsletters, invitations to technical seminars, digital advertising on social media (primarily, but not limited to Facebook and LinkedIn)

• Market surveys

• Personal contact

• Marketing, in general

Retention period

We store personal data for as long as it is relevant in order for us to deal with your request or where filing is required by law. After this, your personal data will be deleted.

Disclosure

Personal data will not be disclosed to any third party unless you give separate consent to this. Therefore, Danish Standards will always appear as the sender of the e-mails you receive.