Volvo Buses
Australia
Volvo Buses
Australia
This notice provides information about the processing of personal data by the Volvo Group relating to you, as an individual, or a current or former employee of a company, that has bought or rented a product or service offered by one of the companies belonging to the Volvo Group.
The Volvo Group may also process personal data about you if:
Volvo Group Australia Pty Ltd (ABN 27 000 761 259) and its related bodies corporate, including Volvo Lastvagnar AB, Volvo Bussar Aktiebolag, Volvo Construction Equipment Aktiebolag, AB Volvo Penta, Renault Trucks Defense, Renault Trucks SAS, Volvo Financial Services LLC, WirelessCar Sweden AB and AB Volvo (“Volvo”, “Volvo Group”, “we” or “us”), as controllers of personal data, are responsible for the processing of personal data that relate to you under applicable data protection laws.
If you have questions regarding the processing of your personal data, please contact Volvo’s data protection officer at the contact details set out below in this notice.
Volvo will process all or a part of the following categories of personal data:
Contact data, such as name, email address, telephone number
Individual data, such as preferred language, photo, clothing size, food preferences
Organizational data, such as company name, job position, place of work, country
Repair/service data, such as tracking and logging of activities (including warranty claims) undertaken by you in connection with maintenance, repair or service on vehicles
Competence data, such as learning records and training activities
IT-related data, such as user-ID, passwords, log-in details as well as data and logs about your usage of Volvo’s IT applications or services
If you are a sole trader Volvo will also process the following categories of personal data:
Financial data, such as credit or payment information, bank account details
Contractual data, such as purchase orders, contracts and other agreements between you and Volvo
Legal basis and purposes of the processing
Volvo will process your personal data based on either of the following legal grounds and for the following purposes, see also further details below.
Legal obligation. Example, Volvo may be obliged by law to report transactions to a tax authority requiring Volvo to process your personal data.
Contractual obligation. Example, Volvo may be required to process your personal data to fulfill the terms and agreements of an order or a service contract signed by you or your employer.
Legitimate interests. Volvo’s legitimate interests include the interest to manage its daily operations according to lawful and fair business practices including managing its relationships with its customer in order to perform contract(s) to which you or your employer is a party and/or to take steps necessary prior to entering into a contract with you or your employer. Example, Volvo will need to know your preferred language, to be able to communicate properly with you in day to day activities.
In exceptional cases and only when no other legal ground can be applied, Volvo may ask separately for your consent to process your personal data for the following purposes. If consent is collected, you are always entitled to withdraw your consent, which will however not affect the lawfulness of the processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
Promotional communications and marketing purposes such as the sending of our periodic newsletter/magazines, information on our services, promotional and advertising material, invitations to events organized by us or from third-party companies with whom we collaborate.
Customer surveys purposes, such as end customer satisfaction surveys, dealer satisfaction surveys, product quality surveys, process improvement surveys.
Personalized services purposes, such as sending you a Volvo branded jacket at your size, or providing you food meeting your preferences when being invited to a Volvo organized event.
Volvo may process your personal data for a range of purposes including those listed below. Please note that the examples listed under each purpose are not exhaustive.
Legal obligation. Example, Volvo may be obliged by law to report transactions to a tax authority requiring Volvo to process your personal data.
Contractual obligation. Example, Volvo may be required to process your personal data to fulfill the terms and agreements of an order or a service contract signed by you or your employer.
Legitimate interests. Volvo’s legitimate interests include the interest to manage its daily operations according to lawful and fair business practices including managing its relationships with its customer in order to perform contract(s) to which you or your employer is a party and/or to take steps necessary prior to entering into a contract with you or your employer. Example, Volvo will need to know your preferred language, to be able to communicate properly with you in day to day activities.
Promotional communications and marketing purposes such as the sending of our periodic newsletter/magazines, information on our services, promotional and advertising material, invitations to events organized by us or from third-party companies with whom we collaborate.
Customer surveys purposes, such as end customer satisfaction surveys, dealer satisfaction surveys, product quality surveys, process improvement surveys.
Personalized services purposes, such as sending you a Volvo branded jacket at your size, or providing you food meeting your preferences when being invited to a Volvo organized event.
Other Business Purposes other purposes reasonably necessary for one or more of Volvo’s business functions or activities, including data analytics for routine business purposes including any of the purposes noted above.
Volvo will primarily obtain your personal data from yourself and your employer (excluding financial data in the latter case). We may also obtain your personal data from third parties with whom we do business, including the company that has sold or rented a Volvo product or service to you.
Some personal data might also be automatically generated from Volvo’s IT-system, or equivalent, when you are creating or using access to online services provided by Volvo.
Volvo may share your personal data with Volvo Group companies, including Volvo Group companies located outside of Australia. Volvo may also share your personal data with third parties, including third parties located outside of Australia, if necessary to fulfill the purposes for processing the personal data or any reasonably expected secondary purposes, or where required or authorised by applicable law or regulation. Such third parties may include:
Independent dealers, such as Volvo Group’s private dealers for the purposes of managing and developing the business relationship with a customer or a customer lead;
Professional advisors such as insurers, lawyers and other professional advisors in connection with insurance claims, audits and the receipt of advisory services.
Counterparties and their advisors, such as in connection with business transactions and other projects or collaborations (including merger and acquisition projects).
Emergency service providers, such as the police, fire brigade, ambulance and roadside assistance to protect the vital interest of you and other such as in connection with emergency assistance.
Law enforcement, regulatory authorities and other public and judicial bodies in connection with legal obligations such as court orders or legal reporting requirements or if considered necessary in exceptional cases to protect the vital interest of you or others.
Volvo will take reasonable steps to ensure that appropriate safeguards are in place which provide adequate levels of protection of your personal data as required by applicable data protection laws when sharing your personal data with Volvo Group companies or third parties. For example, this may include the use of intercompany or external data processing agreements or other mechanisms in compliance with applicable data protection laws.
Volvo will take reasonable steps to protect your personal data from misuse, interference and loss, as well as unauthorized access, modification or disclosure, including by storing your personal data in an environment protected by a combination of physical and technological security measures. Your personal data may be held and processed in Australia, or in other jurisdictions outside of Australia where Volvo Group companies or their third party suppliers or business partners operate. Although it is not reasonably practicable to list all the jurisdictions outside of Australia in which your personal data may be processed, such jurisdictions may include Sweden, the US, France, China, India, Brazil, Poland, Belgium and the Netherlands.
Volvo will keep your personal data as long as required to fulfill its legal or contractual obligations taking into account for example the contractual period, warranty and product liability requirements, and no longer than is required for Volvo to fulfill the purposes for which the personal data was collected.
You have the right to request from Volvo information about the personal data processed by Volvo and access to such personal data. You also have a right to request correction of your personal data if this is incorrect.
If you would like to request access to, or correction of, your personal data, or have queries or complaints regarding the processing of your personal data, please contact Volvo’s data protection officer at:
Email: hrsc.au@volvo.com
Address: 41 Bivouac Place, Wacol Qld 4076
Telephone: +61 7 3718 3500
If we fail to adequately address your complaint within 30 days, you may lodge a complaint with the Australian Information Commissioner (telephone: +61 1300 363 992 or email enquiries@oaic.gov.au).