published: 09/12/2020
This privacy policy is intended for those of you belonging to our current and prospect customers, suppliers, distributors and other business partners. We, MMC Hardmetal UK Ltd, take your privacy seriously. When we collect and use your personal data for various business purposes, we undertake to comply with applicable data protection laws including EU General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR”) and Data Protection Act 2018. Please note that data transmitted via the internet (e.g. via email communication) may be subject to security breaches. Complete protection of your data from third-party access is not possible. Below is our policy on how we collet, use and protect your personal data. You can obtain the latest version of this policy at the following link:
https://www.mmc-hardmetal.com/en/bp-privacy-policy
This privacy policy is issued by us, MMC Hardmetal UK Ltd. You can find more detailed information about MMC Hardmetal UK Ltd in the imprint of the above-mentioned website (https://www.mmc-hardmetal.com/en/site-notice). When we collect and use your personal data, we are the data controllers in the meaning of GDPR and are responsible for protecting your rights with personal data.
We have appointed a data protection officer (DPO) for the purpose of privacy and data protection, whom you can contact by the following e-mail address: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
As we are based outside of the EU, Article 27 required that we appoint an EU representative to handle certain data subject requests and queries. In compliance with this, we have appointed MMC Hartmetall GmbH to act as our representative. Any queries requiring the input of our representative, should please be directed to them as follows:
quoting “MHUK” in the subject line; or mailing your request to the following address:
Corporate Planning Department, MMC Hartmetall GmbH, Comeniusstraße 2, 40670 Meerbusch, Germany
We collect and use the following categories of your personal data:
We use your personal data for the following purposes on the lawful basis that it is necessary for the purposes of our legitimate interests, i.e. running our business efficiently and effectively.
Where we collect and use sensitive categories of your personal data as defined in Articles 9 and 10 of the GDPR, we will obtain your prior and explicit consent. You may withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future. An informal e-mail with this request is sufficient. The data processed before we receive your request may still be processed lawfully. Excepted from this consent is data where we are obliged to collect and use in order to fulfil our legal obligations or to protect vital interests of you or other persons in emergencies.
We will retain your personal data as long as we have business relation with the company or any other entity you belong to at the time when we collect your personal data. Thereafter we keep them as may be required by applicable laws related to audit or tax issues or until we receive your objection to our retaining your personal data.
We disclose certain categories of your personal data in so far as may be necessary for the purposes above to the following entities:
where such service providers are “data processors” in the meaning of GDPR, we make sure that such data processors have in place appropriate data protection measures by virtue of data processing contracts signed between such processors and us in compliance with Article 28 of GDPR.
We may disclose your personal data to other Mitsubishi Materials group companies that are located in countries outside of the European Economic Area, where data protection law with a level of privacy and data protection equivalent to that of GDPR is not in force. In cases where such data transfer happens, we protect your personal data by virtue of data transfer agreements with such data recipients pursuant to Article 46 of the GDPR, which impose on such recipients contractual obligations to ensure adequate level of data protection equivalent to those laid down by GDPR.
Provided that certain conditions are met, you have legal rights to request from us the following:
If you wish to exercise any of your rights or have further questions about data protection, please contact us or our DPO, whose e-mail address can be found in the below abstract “INQUIRY”.
If you visit our website, please note that there is a separated privacy notice available, explaining about the processing of your personal data during and / or after the visit of the website.
You can lodge complaints about our way of processing your personal data with data protection supervisory authorities. If there has been a breach of data protection legislation, the person affected may file a complaint with the competent regulatory authorities. The competent regulatory authority for matters related to data protection legislation in the UK is the data protection officer of the ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office). A list of data protection officers and their contact details can be found at the following link: https://ico.org.uk/
For further information and inquiry, please contact:
Person in charge:
MMC Hardmetal UK Ltd
Galena Close, Amington Heights
Tamworth, Staffs, B77 4AS
E-Mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Data protection officer:
E-Mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
The responsible body is the natural or legal person, which alone or jointly with others decides on the purposes and means of processing personal data (e.g. names, e-mail addresses, etc.).
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