Privacy Policy
Thank you for visiting Skyjack’s site! Skyjack Inc. (“Skyjack”), part of the Linamar Corporation group of companies, takes compliance with all data protection laws very seriously and is committed to respecting your privacy. Your data is collected and processed only in accordance with applicable data protection rules. This data privacy policy describes how we collect and use personal data related to you, or data you provide to us.
Personal Data
Personal data means any information relating, either directly or indirectly, to an identified or identifiable natural person. This includes information such as your name, address, telephone number and email address. Information that is anonymized or aggregated in such a way that it cannot be associated with your actual identity is not classified as personal data.
Data Controller
Responsible for the processing of your personal data is: Skyjack Inc.
o if you are a customer of Skyjack or an employee or representative of Skyjack’s customer: your full name, email address, postal address, telephone number, job function and the details of the transactions which you conduct;
o if you are a supplier, service provider, dealer, or an employee or representative of Skyjack’s supplier or service provider: your full name, email address, postal address, telephone number, job function and the details of the transactions which you conduct
o if you are a job applicant or employee: your full name, contact details (including address, phone number and email address), identification details, job title, employment history and education details, names and contact details of referees, or other personal data if required by applicable law;
o if you are a visitor of our website our web server temporarily saves, by default, the connection data of the inquiring computer, which of our websites you are visiting, the date and the duration of your visit, the identification data of the browser and operating system type used as well as the website from which you visit us. We do not tie IP addresses back to specific visitors. Personal data beyond this, such as your name, address, phone number or email address will not be collected, unless this information has been voluntarily provided by you;
o personal data that you provide voluntarily by using Skyjack’s Career Center on the website or similar online application tools operated by external providers;
o personal data that you provide voluntarily by completing forms on the website, including if you sign up to receive our communications or attend one of our training or other events, if you request a trial of a product or service, if you search for a product or service, or if you request any other information;
o if you register or create an account with us, your log-in and password details;
o personal data contained in messages when you post voluntarily on our social media accounts;
o personal data contained in communications you send to us, for example when you report a problem or submit queries, concerns or comments regarding the website or its content; and
o personal data from surveys that we may, from time to time, run for research purposes, if you voluntarily choose to respond to, or participate in them.
You are under no obligation to provide any personal data if there is no requirement according to applicable law. However, if you choose to withhold requested information that Skyjack needs to address your needs, you may not be able to access all the contents and services we provide on our website.
Skyjack may also collect personal data relating to you from third parties.
This may include the collection of personal data relating to you from:
o our business partners;
o someone you duly authorize to act on your behalf;
o recruiters and employment agencies; and
o referees you have provided in support of a job application.
In accordance with applicable data protection laws, we may use personal information that we collect from you, or that you provide to us, for the purpose of our legitimate interests as follows:
o for the conclusion of a contract, the fulfillment of the contract entered into between you and us and to provide you with the information, products and services that you request from us;
o to provide you with information about other products and services we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about, where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes;
o to conduct our internal business and management processes, for example accounting or auditing purposes;
o for employment purposes, if this is necessary for the decision on the establishment of an employment relationship, the fulfillment of the employment or termination, or for the purpose to comply with legal requirements according to applicable labor law, social security and safety regulations or collective agreements;
o for answering your inquiries and to deal with complaints;
o for the purpose of technical administration of the websites to keep this website safe and secure and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes;
o to fulfill legal obligations or regulatory requirements.
Your personal data will be processed by us exclusively for the given purpose.
Skyjack ensures that your personal data is processed in a manner that protects your privacy. The personal data will be processed by electronic means and in paper form. In doing so, we adhere to acceptable industry security standards and technical and organizational measures to protect your privacy and minimize the risk of access to this personal data by unauthorized persons. We have made extensive technical and organizational security arrangements to protect your personal data from loss, manipulation, destruction, and unauthorized access. Your personal data is saved in a secure operating environment which is not accessible to the public. Our security measures are continuously improved in line with technological development and legal requirements. Access to your personal data is strictly limited to those with a relevant legal and business need to know.
We process your personal data only for as long as it is necessary to fulfill the relevant business purpose or as required according to applicable laws. Documents containing your data will be kept in accordance with Skyjack’s legal Retention and Destruction Policy and Schedule. Should you wish for your personal data to be deleted in advance of these requirements, we will comply with your request, so long as the deletion of this information does not conflict with any mandatory legal or contractual storage obligations.
Your personal data will not be disclosed, sold, or transferred in any way to third parties, unless this is necessary for the performance of a contract, to fulfill legal obligations or unless you have expressly given your consent.
If it is necessary to transfer your personal data to an external service provider in order to perform a service or to answer an inquiry, we will take all technical and organizational measures necessary to ensure that the legal provisions for data privacy are observed. Furthermore, Skyjack requires all external service providers to comply with all relevant data privacy regulations, including the confidential handling of personal data and the deletion of this data when it is no longer needed. Skyjack requires all third-party providers who will have access to your personal data to enter into Data Processing Agreements.
We may also share personal information relating to you with other companies within our group if this is required for business purposes and operational, support and continuity purposes. Skyjack has implemented group-wide data privacy and security policies and implemented a standardized security level to ensure that your personal data are handled in a safe manner.
As protecting the private sphere of children is particularly important to us, we do not collect, process, or use any data from persons under the age of 16 without the express permission of a legal representative. Should you, as a parent or guardian, learn that your children have transferred their personal data to us, it is possible to submit a written inquiry requesting to see the information provided by your child and/or to demand that this information be deleted.
This Cookie Notice applies to the websites accessible under “linamar.com” or any of our subsidiary companies and affiliates including skyjack.com and macdon.com (the “websites”).
Our website uses cookies. Cookies are small files containing certain information that are stored on your device. Cookies are served either by Linamar or our subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively “Linamar”) and are referred to “first party cookies” or by third parties providing services to Linamar. These cookies are referred to as “third party cookies”.
Cookies are necessary to provide certain functionalities on a website, e.g., to maintain a language choice made by a user. Moreover, cookies enable the respective issuer (Linamar or a third party) to recognize that the website was previously called up by a certain end device, allowing the identification of returning visitors’ end devices and gathering information about their usage of the websites and their presumed interests.
This information is used to improve the websites and to deliver relevant advertisement for Linamar products and services on the websites as well as on third party sites.
Cookies can be assigned to four categories, depending on their function, and intended purposes. Cookies can be strictly necessary cookies, performance cookies, functionality cookies, and marketing cookies.
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the websites and use the features, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in or filling in forms. Without these cookies, services requested through usage of our websites cannot be properly provided.
Strictly necessary cookies do not require consent from the user under applicable law. You may configure your web browser to block strictly necessary cookies, but you might then not be able to use the websites’ functionalities as intended.
To the extent that information processed in connection with strictly necessary cookies may qualify as personal data in a given case, the legal ground for that processing is Linamar’s legitimate interest to operate the website.
Performance Cookies
These cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and how visitors move around the site. They help us to better understand a user’s behavior on our webpages. This is necessary to improve the user friendliness of a website and therefore enhance the user’s experience.
Further information collected by performance cookies may include internet browser and operating system used, the domain name of the website which you previously visited, the number of visits, average duration of visit, and pages called up.
The information collected by these cookies in most cases is primarily aggregated and cannot be linked to a specific natural person. However, in certain cases the collected information can be linked to you directly if you previously disclosed your identity to Linamar, e.g., when creating an account or filing a request with us. To the extent that information processed in connection with performance cookies can, in a given case, be directly linked to you or otherwise qualifies as personal data, the legal ground for that processing is your user consent.
Functionality Cookies
These cookies allow the website to remember choices you make or information you enter such as your username, language, or the region you are in and provide enhanced, more personal features. They are also used to enable requested functions that you explicitly requested.
To the extent that information processed in connection with functionality cookies should, in a given case, qualify as personal data, the legal ground for that processing is the user’s consent.
Marketing Cookies
Marketing cookies, also referred to as targeting or advertising cookies, are used to deliver adverts on third party websites more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of an advertising campaign.
The legal basis for the processing of personal data in connection with marketing cookies (if any) is the user’s consent.
Linamar and its subsidiaries and affiliates are jointly responsible for any personal data collected by cookies as described in this Cookie Policy and have entered into an agreement setting out their respective data protection responsibilities. A summary of the content of that agreement is made available upon request.
In case of any request in connection with this Cookie Policy, please contact the Linamar Corporation Data Protection Officer: Elliot.Burger@linamar.comCookies are small text files which are transferred from websites, applications or services and stored on your device. In some cases, we use cookies to help us provide you with a personalized service, and to help make our websites, applications, and services better for you. Cookies do not cause any damage to your computer and do not contain any viruses.
Our cookies may be session cookies (temporary cookies that identify and track users within our websites, applications or services which are deleted when you close your browser or leave your session in the application or service) or persistent cookies (cookies which enable our websites, applications or services to remember your preferences within our websites, applications or services and which will stay on your computer or device after you close your browser or leave your session in the application or service).
By default, browsers are configured to accept cookies. However, these settings may be changed to block cookies entirely, or to inform the user each time they are used. Detailed information about cookies and the options associated with them are available in each browsers’ settings.
For more information about our use of cookies and your ability to identify your preferences please see our Cookie Policy above.
This Website may use social sharing buttons which help to share web content directly from our web pages to the social media platform. Where you use such social sharing buttons you do so at your own discretion – you should note that the social media platform may track and save your request to share a web page respectively through your social media platform account. Please note these social media platforms have their own privacy policies, and we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these social media platforms.
As a European or UK resident you are protected under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (EU) 2016/679 and the UK Data Protection Act 2018 (UK GDPR) that give you the following rights:
o The right to know about the processing of your personal data;
o The right to have inaccurate data corrected;
o The right to request deletion of your personal data once it is no longer needed;
o The right to restrict the processing of your data;
o The right to object to processing;
o The right to data portability;
o The right to revoke your given consent if your consent was a precondition for the processing of your personal data; and
o The right to file a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority:
If you believe that the processing of personal data concerning you is contrary to the applicable law, you may submit a complaint to a supervisory authority. Your competent supervisory authority is that of your place of residence.
o The right to know about the personal information Skyjack collects about you and how it is used and shared;
o The right to delete personal information collected once it is no longer needed;
o The right to opt-out of the sale of their personal information; and
o The right to non-discrimination for exercising your CCPA rights.
For legal and/or organizational reasons, it is occasionally necessary to carry out changes or to adapt our data privacy policy. Please always refer to the current version of our privacy policy.
Should you have any questions with respect to the collection, processing, or use of your personal data, you are welcome to contact us using the information below:
Skyjack Inc. Data Protection Officer
Elliot Burger, Associate General Counsel (Linamar Corporation)
Email: Elliot.Burger@linamar.com
Phone: 519 836 7550 x40078