IFS.com privacy and cookies statement
Protecting the individual's privacy on the Internet is crucial to the future of Internet-based business. Industrial and Financial Systems, IFS Aktiebolag (Swedish company reg. no 556122-0996) Teknikringen 5, 581 15 Linköping, Sweden (“IFS”) is the data controller for the purposes of this privacy statement. IFS has created this privacy statement to demonstrate our firm commitment to the individual's right to privacy. This privacy statement outlines our practices for handling personal data on this website.
The privacy statement covers this website and other sites that reference this privacy statement. Some IFS entities, programs and/or sites may have their own, possibly different, privacy statements. We encourage you to read the privacy statements of each of the IFS websites or program information you visit or review.
Our privacy practices reflect current global principles and standards on handling personal data. We abide by the privacy laws in the countries where we do business.
Our use of cookies
Most IFS websites use "cookies," which are small text files placed on your hard disk by a web server. We use cookies to remember the settings made by each visitor, such as choice of country, and thereby offer personalized features. This helps us to register the traffic flow on the website and provides us with statistics and information on how many visitors we have on our website, the time the visitors spend on our website, the visitors’ origin and domain and what operative system, such as Windows, and browser they use. We also use cookies to trace downloads you make, to facilitate your subsequent downloads and provide us with information about your downloads. To sum up, using cookies enables us to improve the service and function of our website for your benefit.
Cookies contain text that can be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. That text often consists of a string of numbers and letters that uniquely identifies your computer, but may contain other information as well. Here is an example of the text stored in a cookie that IFS might place on your hard disk when you visit one of our websites: E3732CA7E319442F97EA48A170C99801. On this website we use cookies that are saved to the hard disk and therefore remain after the browser is closed, so called persistent cookies. We may also use so-called session cookies, which are cookies saved to the web browser that disappear when the browser is closed.
Security
Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. You can accept or reject cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser settings to reject cookies. You must, however, allow cookies to be set to use all the functions on this website. Not allowing cookies will affect the possibility to conduct: Downloading gated assets, social sharing, personalization, watch and share videos.
We may use cookies for:
Storing your Preferences and Settings. If you enter your city or postal code to get local news or weather information on an IFS site, we may store that city or postal code in a cookie so that you will see the relevant local information when you return to the site. This can save you time by eliminating the need to repeatedly enter the same information every time you visit the site.
Targeted Advertising. When we display online advertisements to you, we will place one or more persistent cookies on your device to recognize your device each time we display an ad to you. Because we serve advertisements on our own websites as well as those of our advertising and publisher partners, we are able to compile information over time about the types of pages, content and ads you or others who are using your computer visited or viewed. This information is used for many purposes; for example, it helps us ensure that you do not see the same advertisements over and over again. We also use this information to help select and display targeted advertisements that we believe may be of interest to you.
Site Analytics. We may use cookies to count the number of unique visitors to a web page or service or to develop other aggregate statistics about the operations of our sites and services. Such analytics help us operate and improve the performance of these sites and services.
The cookies we commonly use are listed in the following chart. If you visit one of our websites, the site may set some or all of the following cookies:
How to control cookies
To control cookies, please click on Cookies Settings in the footer.
Please be aware that if you choose to block cookies, you may not be able to sign in or use other interactive features of IFS sites and services that depend on cookies, and some advertising preferences that are dependent on cookies may not be able to be respected.
Please be aware that if you choose to delete cookies, any settings and preferences controlled by those cookies, including advertising preferences, will be deleted and may need to be recreated.
Our use of web beacons
IFS web pages may contain electronic images known as web beacons—sometimes called single-pixel gifs—that may be used to help deliver cookies on our sites, let us count users who have visited those pages, and deliver co-branded services. We may include web beacons in our promotional e-mail messages or newsletters to determine whether messages have been opened and acted upon.
We may also work with other companies that advertise on IFS sites to place web beacons on their sites or in their advertisements to let us develop statistics on how often clicking on an advertisement on a IFS site results in a purchase or other action on the advertiser's site.
Finally, IFS sites may contain web beacons from third parties to help us compile aggregated statistics regarding the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns or other website operations. These web beacons may allow the third parties to set or read a cookie on your computer. We prohibit third parties from using web beacons on our sites to collect or access your personal information. Nevertheless, you can choose to opt out from data collection by changing the settings in your browser.
E-mail addresses and communication preferences
If you choose to give us your e-mail address, we will communicate with you via e-mail. You can change your communication preferences at any time.
You can also stop the delivery of future promotional e-mail from IFS sites and services by following the specific instructions in the e-mail you receive. Depending on the respective service, you may also have the option of proactively making choices about the receipt of promotional e-mail, telephone calls, and postal mail for particular IFS sites or services.
Included in the principles that we follow is your rights in relation to the personal data that we collect and use in accordance with this policy.
You have a right to request that IFS change, rectify, complete, erase or restrict the processing of your personal data. For processing of personal data that is based on the legal basis consent or fulfilment of agreement you also have the right to data portability.
You have a right to withdraw your consent (if our processing is based on consent) which however does not affect the lawfulness of the processing based on the consent before its withdrawal. We may continue processing your personal data based on other legal grounds, except for consent.
You have the right to request access and further information concerning the processing of your information. You have the right to obtain a copy of the personal data that we process relating to you free of charge once (1) every calendar year. For any additional copies requested by you, we may charge a reasonable fee based on administrative costs.
To exercise your rights, or if you have any questions regarding our processing of your personal data, please contact us at the following address: privacy@ifs.com or IFS World Operations AB, Teknikringen 5, 581 15 Linköping, Sweden. In your letter/email please state your full name and contact information.
If you have any complaints regarding our processing of your personal data, you may file a complaint to the competent data protection authority. You can find out more about the local data protection authorities.
If you have questions regarding this privacy statement or if you wish to exercise your rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, data portability, objection to automated decision-making please contact us via:
privacy@ifs.com or Privacy, IFS World Operations AB, Teknikringen 5, 581 15 Linköping, Sweden. In your letter/email please state your full name and contact information.
You may also reach out to our Data Protection Officer (DPO) at ifsdpo@synchlaw.se
Revised and posted/updated as of May 16, 2022.