Privacy Notice for Siemens Connected Home mobile application
Last update: January 2024
Protecting the security and privacy of your personal data is important to Siemens. Therefore, Siemens (as defined
below) operates Siemens Connected Home mobile application
(“
App
”) in compliance with applicable laws on data
protection and data security.
For App users residing in the United States,
“
Siemens
” shall be Siemens Industry, Inc., Smart Infrastructure, a
Delaware corporation, with its principal office in Buffalo Grove, Illinois, 60089, USA; for all App users residing
elsewhere, “
Siemens
” shall be Siemens Switzerland Ltd, Smart Infrastructure Global Headquarters, Theilerstrasse
1a, 6300 Zug, Switzerland.
Categories of personal data processed, purpose of the processing and legal basis
When visiting and using the App, Siemens processes the following personal data about you:
•
Contact Information
:
•
Email Address
, including but not limited to a hashed email address.
•
Location Data:
•
Coarse Location
,
meaning information which describes the location of a user or device with the lower
resolution than a latitude and longitude with three or more decimal places, such as approximate
location services.
•
Usage Data
:
•
Product Interaction
such as app launches, taps, clicks, scrolling information, or other information
about how the user interacts with the app.
•
Diagnostics
:
•
Crash Data
such as crash logs,
•
Performance Data
such as launch time, hang rate, or energy use,
•
Other Diagnostic Data
collected for the purposes of measuring technical diagnostics related to the
app.
We process your personal data for the following purposes:
•
Analytics
, meaning using data to evaluate user behavior, including to understand the effectiveness of
existing product features, plan new features, or measure audience size or characteristics,
•
App Functionality
•
Operation of the App
, such as to authenticate the user, enable features,
•
Maintenance and Support
, such as ensure server up-time, minimize app crashes, improve scalability
and performance, or perform customer support,
•
Security
, such as prevent fraud, implement security measures,
We only process your personal data if we are permitted by applicable law to do so. In particular, if you are based in
the European Economic Area, the legal basis for Siemens processing data about you is that such processing is
necessary for the purposes of:
•
Siemens exercising its rights and performing its obligations in connection with any contract we make with
you (Article 6 (1) (b) General Data Protection Regulation),
•
C
ompliance with Siemens’ legal obligations (Article 6 (1) (c) General Data Protection Regulation), and/or
•
Legitimate interests pursued by Siemens (Article 6 (1) (f) General Data Protection Regulation). Generally,
the legitimate interest pursued by Siemens in relation to our use of your personal data is the efficient
operation, management and support of the App, but we may disclose other legitimate interests for specific
uses. Where we rely on our legitimate interests for a given purpose, we are of the opinion that this
legitimate interests is not overridden by your interests and rights or freedoms, given (i) the regular reviews
and related documentation of the processing activities described herein, (ii) the protection of your personal
data by our data privacy processes, including our Binding Corporate Rules on the Protection of Personal