“BOOTS ON THE GROUND” APPLICATION

PRIVACY POLICY

 

The Holcim Group Affiliate operating in the country where you are located (hereinafter individually referred to as the “Controller”, “Us”,“We” or “Our” ), acting as your employer, is the data controller responsible for the processing of your personal data you provide while using the “Boots on the Ground” application (hereinafter the “BoG App”). The contact details of each Holcim Group Affiliate main operating entities in the countries where Holcim Group is present are available HERE.

LafargeHolcim Global Hub Service Private Limited (hereinafter “LHGH”), Level 3, Tower 1, Phase II, Logitech Park, A.K. Road, Sakinaka, Andheri (E), Mumbai 400072, India acting as developer of the BoG App is the data processor of your personal data you provide in the BoG App.

We are committed to protecting your personal data and being transparent about the manner your personal data are being processed while you use the BoG App. We take outmost care to process your personal data in accordance with the principles set forth in the data protection legislation applicable in the countries where Holcim Group operates, including (EU) Regulation 2016/679 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC ("GDPR").

This Privacy Policy regards the personal data of the employees and workers of the Controller, who were granted access to use the BoG App.

 

This Privacy Policy describes:

            the purposes for which We collect and use your personal data;

            the processing grounds for such purposes;

            the categories of personal data We collect from you and process and the sources from which they originate;

            whether the provision of your personal data is necessary and the possible consequences of your refusal to provide such data;

            to whom We disclose or We may disclose your personal data;

            the countries where We transfer your personal data;

            the duration of processing of such data;

            your rights as data subject and the way you may exercise them.

 

  1. PURPOSES, GROUNDS FOR PROCESSING AND CATEGORIES OF PERSONAL DATA

 

In the context of your interaction with the BoG App We use your personal data in the following cases:

Activity

Purposes

Categories of personal data and sources

Grounds for processing

Health & Safety compliance

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We process your personal data for managing your employment or other type of relationship with Us, for the following main purposes:

       organizational compliance, in particular monitoring and assessing compliance with Our Health & Safety policies and standards (e.g., implementing an internal reporting tool through BoG App for relevant employees which enables reporting of unsafe working conditions, actual/ potential hazards, actual/ suspected H&S misconduct, perform Visible Personal Commitments observation in the BoG App, conducting H&S observation tours, recording the findings and proposing improvements)

       regulatory compliance, ensuring compliance with Our Health & Safety legal and regulatory obligations and requests anywhere in the world, including reporting to or being audited by national and international regulatory, enforcement or exchange bodies which may include conducting due diligence as required under applicable law and regulations;

       disputes and enforcement of claims, including supporting Us in dealing with and solving disputes, complying with orders of courts, authorities or other public bodies, enforcing Our contractual agreements and to establish, exercise or defend legal claims.

forename, middle name(s) and surname, email, other data you may provide directly through the BoG App.

 

The app has a functionality to validate and confirm whether the user is present at the Zone where he/she is performing the BoG tour. To achieve this, the mobile app captures the current latitude and longitude of the user's device and compares it with the latitude and longitude of the ZoneArea tag that he/she scans. This happens at the run time and the app does not share or store the location of the user in the system.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Depending on the jurisdiction and the specific purpose, the processing is either necessary:

           for the performance of your agreement with Us,

           for compliance with a legal obligations incumbent to Us or

           for achieving Our legitimate interests.

Our legitimate interests consist of managing Our workforce and operating Our business, for instance, undertaking normal business operations and maintaining a dialogue with Our employees, contractors and workers, ensuring that each employee, contractor and worker undertakes appropriate duties, is properly trained and undertakes its role correctly and in accordance with appropriate procedures.

In case some of the personal data have a special regime under the data protection laws, We will process such data to the extent one or more of the guarantees prescribed by the law for processing such data are applicable. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Changes in structure or similar transactions involving the Controller

 

We may also process your data in the context of changes in structure or similar transactions involving Us.

forename, middle name(s) and surname, email, other data you may provide directly through the BoG App.

 

In this case, the grounds for processing may be represented by:

       the legal obligation (in case We are legally obliged to disclose certain personal data to public authorities);

 

       the performance of the agreement concluded by Us in the context of such transaction or Our legitimate interest to carry out the transaction in the most effective manner.

 

  1. PROVISION OF PERSONAL DATA

 

When We request you to provide Us your personal data in the BoG App, We kindly ask you to provide all categories of personal data We request. You will be free to refuse the provision of your personal data, however if you do withhold specific data, We shall not be able to achieve the processing purposes described above without processing such data.

 

  1. DISCLOSURE OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA

To achieve the aforementioned purposes and to the extent necessary, We disclose or We may disclose your personal data provided in or through the BoG App to the following categories of data recipients:

  1. other companies that are part of the Holcim Group;
  2. central/local public authorities, government agencies, governmental providers of healthcare services, social security authorities and other authorities;
  3. providers of IT support services, storage and hosting services;
  4. agents, consultants, contractors and other third parties that provide services to Us;
  5. brokers, banks, insurance agents;
  6. professional organizations (trade unions);
  7. other contractual partners of Us to whom data should be disclosed so that they may provide the services covered by the relevant contracts;

We disclose your personal data to the above-mentioned data recipients:

           if We are under an obligation or have permission to do so by law or in the context of legal proceedings, for instance to enforce a court ruling or to comply with a request made by a law enforcement agency;

           if We deem that the disclosure is necessary or appropriate in order to prevent physical harm or financial loss;

           in relation to an investigation into a fraudulent activity or other unlawful activity, actual or suspect;

           if We sell or transfer Our business or assets, entirely or partially (including in the event of a reorganization, winding-up or liquidation of business);

           for other legitimate interests justified by Us.

 

 

 

  1. TRANSFER OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We transfer or We may transfer your personal data to recipients located in other countries than the country where the personal data was originally collected. It is possible that such countries do not have the same data protection laws as the ones from the country where you have initially provided the personal data. In this case, We will implement appropriate guarantees, in accordance with the law, to protect your personal data irrespective of the countries to which they are transferred.

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area and the GDPR applies to you, or Switzeland, We may transfer your personal data to the following LafargeHolcim Affiliates:    

LafargeHolcim Affiliate

Contact details of LafargeHolcim Affiliate

Holcim Ltd

Grafenauweg 10, 6300 Zug, Switzerland

Holcim Group Services Ltd

Grafenauweg 10, 6300 Zug, Switzerland

Holcim Technology Ltd

Im Schachen, Holderbank Aargau 5113 Switzerland

1.     LafargeHolcim European Business Services

Protifašistických bojovníkov 11 040 01 Košice, Slovakia

2.     LafargeHolcim IT EMEA

Albasanz 14 28037 Madrid,  Spain

3.     Holcim Services (South Asia) Limited

17th Floor, Phase I & II, Reliable Tech Park, Thane Belapur Road, Airoli, Navi Mumbai-400708 / India

4.     LafargeHolcim Global Hub Services Private Limited

Level 3, Tower I, Phase II, Logitech Park, A.K. Road, Sakinaka, Andheri (E), Mumbai – 400072, India

 

 

 

 

 

 

  1. DURATION OF THE PROCESSING

We will retain your personal data provided in the BoG App for as long as is reasonably necessary for the purposes explained in this Privacy Policy. For example, your personal data is retained during your relation with Us, and afterwards for a subsequent period necessary for ensuring compliance with the applicable law.

  1. YOUR RIGHTS REGARDING THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area and the GDPR applies to you, or if you are a resident of another country which enacted a data protection law that provides any of the below listed rights in you favor, you will enjoy the benefit of these rights.      

 

Right of access

Allows you to obtain confirmation that your personal data are being processed by Us and, if affirmative, the relevant details of such processing activities, as well as copy of your personal data.

Right to rectification

Allows you to rectify your personal data if inaccurate.

Right to erasure

Allows you to obtain the erasure of your personal data in certain cases (e.g., if the data are no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which it was collected).

Important! We will not be able to act on such requests in all cases, such as where the law compels Us to keep data for a certain period, or where the data are necessary for a legitimate interest such as the defense of a right in court.

Right to restriction

Allows you to request Us not to use your personal data in any way except to store it until another request from you is resolved, namely: (i) you have requested the rectification of the data; (ii) you have opposed the erasure of the data in the case of unlawful processing; (iii) you have required Us to provide you with certain data for the defense of a right; (iv) you have objected to the data processing.

Right to object

Allows you to object to further processing of your personal data within the conditions and limits set forth by law.

Important! The law compels Us to act on such requests only for direct marketing processing (e.g., if you receive emails with Our informative notes, you can unsubscribe). In the other cases, We will balance Our interests and your particular situation in order to make a final decision. Therefore, please explain why you object to the processing when making such a request.

Right to portability

Allows you to receive the personal data concerning you that you have provided to Us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format or to transmit this data to another data controller.

Important! The law compels Us to act on such requests only for the data previously processed based on your consent or on the performance of the contract concluded with Us and only if the processing is carried out by automated means.

 

You may exercise your aforementioned rights and find out more about the processing of your personal data by sending a request to privacy.lh@lafargeholcim.com

You also have the right to file a complaint with the competent data protection authority.

This Privacy Policy is in force as of June 2021.

We may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time, for example, to keep it up to date or to comply with legal requirements or changes in the way We operate Our business.