The new European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into effect May 25th. The new regulation applies to all companies that process EU citizens’ personal data, regardless of the companies’ country of origin or country of data processing. As an organization with worldwide operations, Sivantos is committed to complying with all applicable laws wherever we do business including the GDPR.
How important is data privacy for Sivantos?
Sivantos receives and processes personal data in order to provide you with quality hearing aids and related products. It is therefore important that when we do receive your personal data, we process it in compliance with our legal obligations including the GDPR.
What is Sivantos doing to be compliant with GDPR?
Sivantos implemented a global data protection policy that is consistent with the GDPR. If your personal data is processed by external processors, we will enter into data processing agreements that will contain contractual clauses to ensure that personal data is processed in accordance with the requirements of the GDPR.
We have also updated our privacy policy to be transparent to you on how we collect, use and process your personal data. Please click on the following link for a copy of our updated privacy policy: https://sivantos.com/privacy-policy/
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