Updated 1 July 2025
In this privacy notice, we at Camfil (”Camfil”, “we”, ”our” and ”us”) explains how we process your personal data. Your privacy is important to us. We therefore encourage you to take the time to read this privacy notice carefully. We process different data about you depending on the relationship we have with you, as explained below.
If you are a Chief Airgonomics Officer or otherwise involved with the Chief Airgonomics Officer initiative, please read our specific privacy notice regarding the initiative here.
We process your personal data in the following situations:
In some cases, our processing of your personal data means that we transfer your personal data outside of the EU/EEA. Such transfer only takes place when we can ensure an appropriate level of protection of your personal data.
Depending on the relationship we have with you, we process your personal data for all or only some of the above stated purposes. A detailed description of our processing of your personal data is provided in the charts below.
In short you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, right to withdraw your consent, right of access, right to object, right to rectification, right-to-erasure (“the right to be forgotten”), right of restriction of processing, and right to data portability.
If you have any questions about these rights, or wish to exercise any of your rights, you are more than welcome to contact us.
By clicking on the links below you can read more about how we process your personal data.
When we refer to “your company” in this privacy notice, we refer to your employer or the organisation that you represent. We will only process data about you in your business role, which means, for example, that we will only send marketing to your company and not to you in your capacity as a private individual.
Camfil has several companies that are responsible for the processing of your personal data in different situations. We describe this below. However, we would like to point out that you can always contact us through the contact details stated below, regardless of which company that is listed below as responsible for the processing of your personal data.
If you have any questions regarding the processing or if you wish to exercise any of your rights, you are welcome to contact us by e-mail datarequest@camfil.com or by mail to the Global Data Protection Manager at Camfil AB, Sveavägen 56 e, 111 34 Stockholm, Sweden.
We collect your personal data directly from you, for example when you contact us. We may also collect your personal data from your company if they identify you as their representative. We will also collect your personal data from other sources in the following situations:
In general, you are not required to provide your personal data to us. You can find a description of when you need to provide your personal data in the charts below when the so-called legal basis is stated to be a “Legal obligation”. If you don’t provide such personal data to us, we at Camfil will not be able to manage our relationship with your company.
The below charts describe in detail why we process your personal data, what personal data we process, when you need to provide the personal data to us and the legal basis for our processing. The legal basis is the basis for processing your personal data according to the GDPR. You will also find information about how long we process your personal data.
You can also click on the links below if you want to read about how we process your personal data in a certain situation in which you encounter us:
If you visit our website (including any portal or app) or use our webshop we collect personal data from your device and the services we work with. To protect your privacy, we have taken measures to avoid identifying you when you visit our website. For instance, we only store an encrypted version of your IP address to reduce the risk of being able to identify you.
We gather personal data by using cookies and similar technical functionality. Our cookie policy describes how we do this and you can control your cookie choices through our Privacy Preference Center on our website and webshop.
To analyse how our website and webshop are used – if you consent | ||
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Purposes | Personal data | Legal basis |
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Consent (Article 6.1 (a) GDPR) We will only process your personal data for this purpose if you consent through our Privacy Preference Center. You can prevent Google Analytics from using your personal data by downloading and installing this browser add-on. You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us. |
To show you marketing on other websites | ||
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Purposes | Personal data | Legal basis |
We can customize our marketing to better suit you by using information collected from your previous interactions and visits to our website through marketing services. This process is known as profiling. Profiling allows us to present you with marketing that are most relevant to your interests. Without profiling, you would receive generic adverts that are not specifically tailored to you. You have the right to object to profiling at any time |
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Consent (Article 6.1 (a)) We will only process your personal data for this purpose if you consent through our Privacy Preference Center. You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us. Here you can make choices about the marketing You see from Google. On the Meta Account center, under the heading “Ad settings” you can choose which marketing you want to see on Facebook and Instagram. |
To provide a functioning website and webshop | ||
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Purposes | Personal data | Legal basis |
To do this we use cookies and/or similar technologies that collect information regarding your device |
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Legitimate interest (Article 6.1 (f) GDPR) The personal data will be processed based on our legitimate interest to provide a functioning website, webshop, portal and app. |
To remember your choices | ||
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Purposes | Personal data | Legal basis |
Do you want to read more about how we use cookies? You find a more detailed description of this in our cookie policy |
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Legitimate interest (Article 6.1 (f) GDPR) The personal data will be processed based on our legitimate interest to remember your choices. |
Below, we describe how we process your personal data if you sign up for or attend any of our events, webinars or training.
To arrange events | ||
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Purposes | Personal data | Legal basis |
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Legitimate interest (Article 6.1 (f) GDPR) The personal data will be processed based on our legitimate interest in inviting you to events that we organise and that we believe are of interest to you, and to handle your participation. Consent (Article 6.1 (a) and 9.2 (a) GDPR) If you send sensitive personal data to us, e.g., information about allergies or dietary preferences, we will process this personal data based on your consent. You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us. |
To host and provide webinars and training | ||
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Purposes | Personal data | Legal basis |
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Legitimate interest (Article 6.1 (f) GDPR) The personal data will be processed based on our legitimate interest to host and provide you with our webinars and training. |
To market us through photos and videos from the events | ||
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Purposes | Personal data | Legal basis |
Before and during our events, we clearly inform you about photography, filming, and audio recording. We never want you to be surprised by this – please do not hesitate to ask us if you have any questions about our image, film and audio recordings |
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Legitimate interest (Article 6.1 (f) GDPR) The personal data will be processed based on our legitimate interest of being able to market us and inform about our business. We will also gather a consent according to the Swedish Act on Names and Pictures in Advertising (1978:800). Consent (Article 6.1 (a) GDPR) In cases where we want to process footage where you are clearly depicted or publish footage of you for marketing purposes, we will obtain your consent. You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us. |
To contact you for future events, webinars or training and market our products | ||
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Purposes | Personal data | Legal basis |
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Legitimate interest (Article 6.1 (f) GDPR) The personal data will be processed based on our legitimate interest in contacting and marketing our events and products towards individuals who we believe may be interested in our events, webinars, training and products. |
The chart below describes how we process your personal data if you subscribe to our newsletters.
To send newsletters | ||
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Purposes | Personal data | Legal basis |
Do you want to read more about this type of analysis? You can find a more detailed description of this in our information about cookies |
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Consent (Article 6.1 (a) GDPR) The personal data will be processed based on your consent. You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us. |
The charts below describe how we process your personal data in the scenario where you represent a current or potential customer, supplier or partner. If you log in to a portal, app or use our webshop, read also the section above “If you visit our website or use our webshop”.
To enter into an agreement with your company and manage our relationship | ||
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Purposes | Personal data | Legal basis |
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Legitimate interest (Article 6.1 (f) GDPR) The personal data will be processed based on our legitimate interest to negotiate and enter into an agreement with your company and to manage the agreement, including to provide secure and functioning technical solutions and manage your or your company’s purchase. |
If you use our webshop to make purchases, we will also process your personal data as stated above |
To create your account at our webshop, we process the following personal data:
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To market our products towards the company you represent | ||
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Purposes | Personal data | Legal basis |
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Consent (Article 6.1 (a) GDPR) In cases where you fill out any of our contact forms or you in other ways represent a customer prospect for us, we will obtain your consent before processing your personal data for marketing purposes. You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us. Legitimate interest (Article 6.1 (f) GDPR) If your company is a customer or previous customer to us, your personal data will be processed based on our legitimate interest to market our products towards the company you represent which we consider could be interested in our products or to have a business relationship with us. If your company is one of our customers, your personal data will be processed based on our legitimate interest to provide relevant marketing towards your organization. |
To gather feedback by sending surveys and conducting interviews | ||
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Purposes | Personal data | Legal basis |
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Legitimate interest (Article 6.1 (f) GDPR) The personal data will be processed based on our legitimate interest to gather feedback from representatives of our customers. |
We have camera surveillance in and around facilities controlled by Camfil. If you were to enter our facilities, you will be filmed and the data from our cameras will be stored.
To maintain security for our property and employees | ||
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Purposes | Personal data | Legal basis |
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Legitimate interest (Article 6.1 (f) GDPR) The personal data will be processed based on our legitimate interest to protect our employees and our facilities from any unauthorized person trying to enter areas controlled by Camfil. |
If you choose to participate in our podcast, articles on the website or similar publishing we will process your personal data as stated below.
To market us | ||
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Purposes | Personal data | Legal basis |
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Legitimate interest (Article 6.1 (f) GDPR) The personal data will be processed based on our legitimate interest in marketing our products. |
If you are in contact with us without having a business relationship with us, for example by sending us an e-mail or a message, on our social media account or if you use a form on our website, we will process your personal data as we describe in the charts below.
When contacting us through a social media platform, we recommend that you also review the privacy information of that platform.
To communicate with you | ||
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Legitimate interest (Article 6.1 (f) GDPR) The personal data will be processed based on our legitimate interest in communicating with you who have contacted us. |
If you participate in a contest that we arrange we will process your personal data as described below.
To arrange contests | ||
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Purposes | Personal data | Legal basis |
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Legitimate interest (Article 6.1 (f) GDPR) The personal data will be processed based on our legitimate interest to be able to arrange contests. |
The charts below describe how we process your personal data in the scenario where you or your company have any questions or queries, as well as to comply with our legal obligations.
To handle any questions, complaints or claims | ||
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Purposes | Personal data | Legal basis |
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Legitimate interest (Article 6.1 (f) GDPR) The personal data is processed based on our legitimate interest to handle a question, complaint and/or legal dispute in which you are the representative of a customer, supplier or partner. |
To comply with marketing legislation | ||
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Purposes | Personal data | Legal basis |
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Legal obligation (Article 6.1 (c) GDPR) The processing is necessary to comply with legal obligations which we are subject to, i.e. marketing laws which require us to not send marketing material to individuals who have objected to receiving such marketing. You need to provide the personal data to us. Otherwise, we cannot ensure that you will not receive any more marketing from us. |
To comply with bookkeeping and accounting legislation | ||
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Purposes | Personal data | Legal basis |
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Legal obligation (Article 6.1 (c) GDPR) The processing is necessary to comply with legal obligations to which we are subject, i.e. bookkeeping and accounting legislation. You need to provide the personal data to us. Otherwise, we cannot comply with our legal obligations. |
We will store your personal data for as long as necessary, depending on the purpose for which we process the personal data. For example, we generally only store information from your visit to the website during the time you use the website.
If you receive marketing from us, you can at any time withdraw a consent you have provided, unsubscribe to our newsletters or object to the processing of your personal data. We will accommodate your request. If you object to receiving marketing from us, we will keep this on record in our unsubscribe register until further notice to avoid sending you further marketing material.
You can always ask us to remove your personal data. In addition, your comments and communication with us on social media can be deleted by you at any time. We will remove posts or comments which are in breach of the rules of the platform or in conflict with legislation as soon as possible.
We will store any document constituting bookkeeping material and personal data included therein according to bookkeeping and accounting legislation. In Sweden, legislation requires us to store bookkeeping material until and including the seventh year after the end of the calendar year for the fiscal year to which the personal data relates.
If we have any complaints or claims, we will store your personal data from the time the matter was initiated and for the duration of the potential dispute. If you are an active customer, we will store your personal data related to your questions to our customer service for as long as you are an active customer.
Your personal data is primarily processed by us at Camfil. This means that your personal data will be handled by our employees, but only by those personnel who need such access to perform their work.
In general, we will share your personal data with the following recipients:
In addition, we will share your personal data with specific recipients in the following cases:
If you have any questions about how we share your personal data or want to know more about who we share your personal data with, please feel free to contact us.
As a general principle, Camfil only processes your personal data within the EU/EEA. However, as an international company with a global presence, we sometimes need to transfer your personal data outside the EU/EEA during our processing activities.
Your personal data will be transferred outside the EU/EEA in the following cases:
If your personal data will be processed outside the EU/EEA, then we will find a transfer mechanism for such processing. We rely on either a decision from the Commission establishing that the country in question ensures an adequate level of protection or appropriate safeguards that ensure that your rights are protected or based on another ground for such transfer in accordance with the GDPR.
If you want to know more about where your personal data will be processed, please feel free to contact us.
As we state above, for some purposes, we process your personal data based on our “legitimate interest”. After conducting a balancing test regarding our processing of your personal data, we have determined that our legitimate interest of processing your personal data outweighs your interests or rights that require protection of your personal data.
If you want more information in relation to our balancing of interests assessments, please do not hesitate to contact us.
In accordance with the GDPR, you have certain rights that you can exercise to affect how we process your personal data– see below for more information.
If you have any questions regarding your rights or want to exercise any of your rights, please contact us by using the contact details above. You can also find more detailed information about your rights and when they apply at the Swedish Authority for Privacy Protection (IMY).
You have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority if you consider that the processing of your personal data violates the GDPR. In Sweden, the competent supervisory authority is
You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us. You can always withdraw the consent you give on the website directly on the website. Your withdrawal of consent shall not affect the lawfulness of the processing before its withdrawal.
You have the right to obtain confirmation as to whether we are processing your personal data or not. You can make a request by contacting us. If we are processing your personal data, you also have the right to obtain a copy of the personal data processed by us as well as information about our processing, such as the purposes of the processing and for how long your personal data is stored.
You have the right to at any time object to our processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes (including profiling) and to processing of your personal data that is based on a legitimate interest.
You have the right to have inaccurate personal data concerning you rectified without undue delay. You also have the right to have incomplete personal data completed.
Under certain conditions, you have the right to have your personal data erased by us without undue delay. For example, if you withdraw your consent and there is no other legal basis for the processing or if the personal data is no longer necessary for the purposes for which they were collected or processed.
Under certain conditions, you have the right to request that we restrict our processing of your personal data. For example, if you contest the accuracy of the personal data, or if the processing is unlawful and you oppose the erasure of the personal data and instead request the restriction on the use of the personal data.
If we process your personal data based on your consent, you have the right to receive personal data concerning you. This right applies to personal data that you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. You also have the right to transmit those personal data to another controller, where technically feasible.
Like many other websites, we use cookies and similar technology to obtain certain types of information when you visit our website, receive our newsletters, log in to any of our portals, apps or use our webshop. Cookies in themselves do not identify the individual user, just the device that you use. You find more information about our use of cookies in our cookie policy.