Protecting the individual's privacy is crucial to the future of business. We have created this privacy statement to demonstrate our firm commitment to the individual’s right to data protection and privacy. It outlines how we handle information that can directly or indirectly identify an individual (“personal data”)
Respecting your time and with the goal of providing you with the quickest possible access to the relevant passages of the privacy statement, we offer you the following summary.
The privacy statement aims to explain what personal data is processed by SAP, who uses your personal data, for what purpose, for how long, and explains what rights you have in this context.
Who collects and processes your personal data? SAP does, in the form of the respective legal entity, being either SAP SE in Walldorf, Germany or any another entity of the global group of SAP companies. The sap.com Privacy Statement describes in detail which processing activities of which SAP Group Entities apply.
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What personal data does SAP collect? SAP may collect various types of personal data about you when conducting its business, including:
For what purpose(s) does SAP collect personal data? SAP processes your personal data to:
If you want to learn more about each of these purposes for which SAP may collect, transfer, and use your personal data, including for how long your data is being retained and specific to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the legal ground on which SAP is pursuing them, please refer to the full privacy statement below.
What are your data protection rights? You have the right to request from SAP access to, correction of, and/or the return or the deletion of your personal data. You may request from SAP to restrict the access to your personal data or to exclude it from further processing. You may revoke a once given consent or object to processing activities which SAP may intend to pursue in a given case. When you believe that SAP was processing your personal data not in accordance with this privacy statement or under breach of applicable data protection laws, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a relevant supervisory authority. The sap.com Privacy Statement describes each of these rights in detail, including how you can reach us to exercise any of these rights against SAP and how to identify, if necessary, the relevant data protection authority.
In the final section below, SAP addresses several country-specific aspects that must be explained in a privacy statement under relevant country laws. The country-specific requirements include but are not limited to those from the EU and EEA, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Malaysia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Thailand and the United States of America.