Privacy policy

Legal Notice

Please read this Legal Notice carefully before using this website (the "Site"). Material contained on the Site is provided by Challenger Manufacturing (Canada), ODRA Sweepers ( USA) and Challenger Sweepers Pvt Ltd (India) as a service and should be used for information purposes only. By accessing the Site you agree to the following terms. If you do not agree to them, you should not use the Site.

Copyright Information

The contents of the Site are copyright 2000-2018 Challenger Sweepers. All rights reserved.

The information on the Site, included but not limited to, text, graphics, images, audio clips and software is the property of Challenger Manufacturing and is protected by international copyright laws. Unauthorised use or distribution of any material on the Site may violate copyright, trademark, and other laws and is subject to civil as well as criminal sanctions.

The Site or any proportion of it may not, except where otherwise indicated, be reproduced, duplicated, copied, transferred, distributed, stored or otherwise exploited for any commercial use without prior written permission by Challenger Manufacturing. Modifications to the contents of the Site are expressly prohibited. You agree to prevent any unauthorised copying of the materials and to ensure that all employees, where applicable, of your organisation adheres to these limitations.

The Site may contain images that are subject to the copyright rights of third parties.

Trademark Information

Unless otherwise indicated, all trademarks, brand names, corporate logos and emblems displayed on the Site are the property of Challenger Manufacturing, its affiliates, its licensors or joint venture partners. Challenger trademarks, brand names, corporate logos and emblems may not be used any way without the prior written permission from Challenger.

No Warranties or Representations

INFORMATION ON THE SITE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. IN NO EVENT WILL CHALLENGER BE LIABLE TO ANY PARTY FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL OR OTHER CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES FOR ANY USE OF THE SITE, OR ON ANY OTHER HYPERLINKED WEBSITE INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY LOST PROFITS, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, LOSS OF PROGRAMS OR OTHER DATA ON YOUR HANDLING SYSTEM OR OTHERWISE, ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE INFORMATION, EVEN IF CHALLENGER ARE ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. Challenger makes no warranties or representations whatsoever in respect of use and content of any other website which you may access through the Site. Such access is provided only as a convenience and does not mean that Challenger endorses or accepts any responsibilities for the contents or the use of such web sites. In addition, you must take precautions and to ensure that whatever you select for your use is free of such items as viruses, worms, Trojan horses and other items of a destructive nature. Furthermore, Challenger does not warrant the accuracy or completeness of the information, text, graphics, links or other items that may be contained on the Site. The information contained on the Site may be changed at any time without prior notification. However, Challenger makes no commitment to update the information or other material contained on the Site.

User Submissions

Any material, information or other communications you transmit or post to the Site ("Submissions") will be considered non-confidential, non-exclusive, royalty free, irrevocable, fully sub licensable and non-proprietary. Challenger will have no obligations concerning Submissions. Challenger will be free to disclose, copy, distribute, incorporate, modify and otherwise use Submissions, together with all data, images, audio clips, text and other things embodied therein, for any and all commercial and non-commercial purposes.

Should you submit personal data to Challenger via the Site or otherwise, you consent to Challenger’s use of such data for the purposes of evaluating your information and use connected to the marketing of Challenger's products and services. This includes the right to transfer the submitted data to third parties and for potential publication on the Internet. Challenger is responsible under Canadian law for the processing of personal data. Challenger can be contacted to address cases of incorrect data or other issues related to the personal data. For more information please refer to Challenger's Privacy Statement.

Other

Challenger may at any time revise the terms of this Legal Notice by updating it. Further, Challenger reserves in its sole discretion, the right to monitor and discontinue the Site's availability at any time without prior notification. If any term, condition or provision of this Legal Notice is determined to be unlawful, invalid, void or for any reason unenforceable, the validity and enforceability of the remaining terms, conditions and provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.

The integrity of your personal data is vital for Challenger Manufacturing and its group of global subsidiaries (hereinafter referred to as “Challenger,” as applicable), and therefore, we welcome the extra transparency and protection of your personal data that the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requires. Whether you are a valued Customer, Supplier, Commercial or Administrative Intermediary, a Digital Registrant, a Physical Registrant, a Digital Visitor or a Facility Visitor, it’s important to us that you feel safe about how we treat your personal data.

Accordingly, we outline what types of personal data we collect from you, why, and what happens to your data while in our care. We also explain your rights under the GDPR and give you contact details in case you have any questions or requests about your data. To understand what legal ground we rely on for each of the purposes described below, you are informed at the point of data collection where you will also be referred to this Challenger Privacy Statement. Regarding retention periods, we store personal data only as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Statement unless a longer storage period is required for legitimate reasons, required by law or as necessary to justify or defend a legal claim. If you gave your consent for the use of your data, you may withdraw that consent at any time, and we will stop using your data. Your withdrawal of consent rights, as well as the specific retention periods, are provided to you in the information where we initially collected your personal data.

Definitions


We consider you:
  • a Customer if you or the company you work for has purchased our products or services;
  • a Commercial or Administrative Intermediary if you work for one of our many distributors or other intermediaries such as our agents and customs brokers;
  • a Digital Registrant if you, for example, use our websites to:
    • request information about our products or services
    • register for newsletters or Challenger sponsored events
    • apply to any Challenger subscriptions or community forums
    • respond to survey or marketing communication
  • a Physical Registrant if you register with us in person at any of our events;
  • a Digital Visitor if you navigate our websites without registering as described under Digital Registrant;
  • a Facility Visitor if you visit any of our offices or facilities in the USA, Canada or India
Please be aware that you may appear in multiple categories as described above, depending on your relationship and activities with Challenger. For example, you may be considered a Customer, a Digital Registrant, and a Facility Visitor if you purchased our products, filled in one of our web forms and visited a Challenger site at some point in time.

Attention

If you navigate our websites, you will find specific and applicable Cookie Information for each specific website.

In an attempt to provide you with increased value, we may include third party links on our websites. These linked sites have separate and independent privacy policies. Challenger is not responsible for the practices of these third-party websites and so your use of those websites will be in accordance with their privacy policies.

Sharing information with parties outside of Challenger

Challenger does not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer your personal data to outside parties except as provided below based on Challenger’s legitimate interests to provide you with the high quality, useful products, and services you have come to expect from Challenger. We may transfer your data as otherwise required under national data protection law.

  • We may share data about Digital Visitors, Customers and Registrants to our website hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating our websites, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep your personal data confidential.
  • Challenger may share data about a Digital Visitor, Facility Visitor, Customer, Registrant, or Supplier with another Challenger company if necessary, to respond to you.
  • We may share data about Digital Visitors, Facility Visitors, Customers and Digital or Physical Registrants within the Challenger group and with Challenger business partners like authorized resellers or distributors so they can market and sell relevant Challenger products and services to you, and so that we may jointly host product demonstrations and other events for you.
  • We may have to release information about Digital Visitors, Facility Visitors, Customers, Suppliers, or Digital and Physical Registrants to the appropriate authorities or other relevant third parties in order to enforce our privacy policies or to protect Challenger’s rights, property, or safety. We may also have to release your data to government authorities when a legal obligation compels us to.
Blogs, chat rooms and the like
Challenger may provide blogs, chat rooms or bulletin boards on our websites. Any personal information you choose to submit in such forum may be read, collected, or used by others who visit these forums. These non-Sandvik third parties may in their own discretion send you unsolicited messages. We are not responsible for these third parties’ handling of your personal data. We post a list of customers’ references and testimonials about our products and services only upon consent of each customer.
Your rights
You have the right to:
  • know what data Challenger holds about you;
  • restrict, under certain circumstances, our processing of your data;
  • have access to your data
  • have it corrected if inaccurate or out of date.
Additionally, you may object, based on your personal circumstances, to our processing of your data for our legitimate interests or object to our decisions about you based on profiling or automated decisions using your personal data. In some cases, you may require us to completely erase your data from all our files, and in other cases you may require us to provide your data in a machine-readable format and have the data transferred to another company.

If we collect personal data based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. You may exercise this right by clicking on “withdrawing consent” or clicking on the “unsubscribe” link located at the bottom of Challenger marketing emails or web forms where we obtained your consent.
The controller of your data

The Controller of your data is the Challenger Manufacturing company that initially collected your data and decided the purposes and means for using your data. If you have questions about who the Controller of your data is or any other questions about your data, please write to us on sweepers@challengermfg.net

Data collected from other sources

There may be times when Challenger collects data about you from another source than yourself. This could happen, for example, when our Business Partners or Suppliers provide us with information about you. We also collect personal data from public sources such as social media. We will provide more information about the third-party sources in the specific cases where this happens.