Privacy Policy

Information about the Processing of Personal Data

Your data security is important to us, and we therefore take great care to ensure that your personal data is handled responsibly. Below you can read how Thygesen & Birk Fabrics A/S (hereinafter “Thygesen & Birk Fabrics,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) process personal data about you when we act as data controller. You can also read about your rights in relation to our processing.

Thygesen & Birk Fabrics’s Role as Data Controller

In connection with the operation of our business, we process certain personal data. We do this in order to serve you in the best possible way. We mainly collect and process general (non-sensitive) personal data.

What Personal Data Do We Collect and Why

We process personal data about you in a number of different situations. Read more about our processing in the different situations below.

Visitors to Our Website and Users of Our Online Services

When you visit Thygesen & Birk Fabrics’s website (e.g., https://tbfabrics.com/) or use our other online services (e.g., LinkedIn), we may process information about your IP address, your computer device, and browser.

We also process information about your visit (e.g., how you access our websites, how you navigate around them, which pages you visit, content you view, searches, advertisements you have seen, etc.). Personal data is collected through cookies, log files, and other technologies (you can read more about our use of cookies here – We do not collect cookies at all).

We also process personal data that you provide to us in connection with your use of the website or our online services, including any other information you provide to us.

We use your personal data to make relevant products, supplies, benefits, and services (“Services”) available to you, to improve your experience of our websites and online services, and the Services we offer. We also use personal data to show you content on our and other sites based on your activities and preferences and to limit the number of times you see the same content.

The legal basis for processing is our legitimate interests in making our website (and online services) available to you (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation) or your consent (Article 6(1)(a) of the General Data Protection Regulation and Section 3 of the Danish Executive Order on Cookies).

We store personal data collected in connection with your visit to our website for 0 days – we do not collect any information of visitors.

Business Partners and/or Suppliers

When you are a business partner or supplier to Thygesen & Birk Fabrics, or are a contact person of a business partner/supplier, we process personal data about your name, company name, work telephone number, email address, title, as well as publicly available information and other information you provide to us.

We process personal data for the purpose of contract management, receiving goods and services from our suppliers and business partners, and where appropriate to fulfill agreements with our customers.

The legal basis for processing is the agreement with you (Article 6(1)(b) of the General Data Protection Regulation) or our legitimate interests in managing the relationship with you/the company you represent as a business partner/supplier (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

We store the personal data about business partners and/or suppliers for 365 days after finishing the cooperation.

Disclosure of Your Personal Data to Others

Thygesen & Birk Fabrics may disclose your personal data to other suppliers and/or service providers in the ordinary course of our business.

We may also disclose your personal data to a public authority in situations where we are specifically obliged to disclose your personal data pursuant to legislation and notification obligations to which we are subject.

It may, for example, be necessary to disclose personal data to the following recipients:

• We share information with some of our data processors

We try to limit the disclosure of personally identifiable information and thus the disclosure of information that can be attributed to you personally.

Thygesen & Birk Fabrics also discloses your personal data to data processors. Our data processors only process your personal data for our purposes and under our instructions.

Transfer of Personal Data to Countries Outside EU/EEA

Your personal data will not be transferred to countries outside of EU/EEA.

Storage, Data Integrity, and Security

When your personal data is no longer needed, we will ensure that it is deleted in a secure manner.

It is our policy to protect personal data by taking adequate technical and organizational security measures.

We have implemented security measures to ensure data protection for all personal data that we process. We conduct regular internal follow-ups on the adequacy of and compliance with policies and measures.

Your Rights

As a data subject, you have certain rights under the General Data Protection Regulation. If you want to exercise your rights, please contact us.

• You may – unconditionally and at any time – withdraw your consent. You can do so by sending us an email (see email address above). Withdrawal of your consent will not have any negative impact. However, this may mean that we cannot meet specific requests from you in the future. Withdrawal of your consent will not affect the lawfulness of the processing based on consent before it is withdrawn. Furthermore, it will not affect any processing carried out on another lawful basis.
• You can also – unconditionally and at any time – object to our processing when it is based on our legitimate interests.
• Right of access: You have the right to access the personal data we process about you.
• Right to rectification: You have the right to obtain rectification of any inaccurate and incomplete personal data about you.
• Right to erasure (right to be forgotten): In exceptional cases, you have the right to obtain erasure of information about you before the time when we would normally delete your personal data.
• Right to restriction of processing: In certain situations, you have the right to restrict the processing of your personal data. If you have the right to restrict the processing of your personal data, we may only process personal data in the future – apart from storage – with your consent or for the establishment, exercise, or defence of legal claims or to protect an individual or important public interests.
• Right to object: In certain situations, you have the right to object to our processing of your personal data and always if the processing is for direct marketing purposes.
• Right to data portability: In certain situations, you have the right to receive your personal data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and to have such personal data transferred from one data controller to another.
• Right to lodge a complaint: You can lodge a complaint at any time with the Danish Data Protection Authority about our processing of personal data. See more at www.datatilsynet.dk where you can also find further information on your rights as a data subject.

Updates of Our Privacy Policy

From time to time, it will be necessary to update this Privacy Policy. We will review our Privacy Policy on a regular basis in order to ensure that it is updated, valid, and in accordance with current legislation and the principles for processing personal data. We will publish new versions of the policy on our website.

This policy has version no. 1 and is valid from 30 September 2023.