8.1. The following definitions are used in this Section 8:
8.1.1. CCPA means the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, Cal. Civ. Code §§ 1798.100 et. Seq.
8.1.2. Data Controller, Data Processor, Data Subject, Personal Data, Personal Information, Data Breach, Processing, Processed and Process and appropriate technical and organisational measures shall have the meaning as defined in the applicable Data Protection Legislation.
8.1.3. Data Protection Legislation means means all laws, regulations and other legal requirements (as amended or replaced from time to time) applicable to either (i) Autom Mate in its role as provider of the Solution or (ii) you. This may include, for example, the EU Data Protection Law; UK Data Protection Law; the CCPA, and the California Privacy Rights Act and its implementing related regulations when effective ("CPRA"); the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, SC 2000, c.5 ("PIPEDA") in Canada; Australia's Privacy Act 1988 and the Australian Privacy Principles (the "Privacy Act"); the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act when effective ("VCDPA"); the Utah Consumer Privacy Act when effective ("UCPA"), and the Colorado Privacy Act and related regulations when effective ("CPA"). Each party is responsible only for the Data Protection Legislation applicable to it.
8.1.4. EU Data Protection Law” means the (i) EU General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation 2016/679) (“GDPR”); (ii) Regulation 2018/1725; (iii) the EU e-Privacy Directive (Directive 2002/58/EC), as amended (e-Privacy Law); (iv) any national data protection laws made under, pursuant to, replacing or succeeding (i) – (iii); and (iv) any legislation replacing or updating any of the foregoing.
8.1.5. Swiss Data Protection Laws” or “FADP” means the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection of June 19, 1992, SR 235.1, and any other applicable data protection or privacy laws of the Swiss Confederation as amended, revised, consolidated, re-enacted or replaced from time to time, to the extent applicable to the processing of Personal Data under this Agreement.
8.1.6. UK Data Protection Laws” means the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA 2018), as amended, and the EU General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and the free movement of such data, as incorporated into UK law as the UK GDPR, and any other applicable UK data protection laws, or regulatory Codes of Conduct or other guidance that may be issued from time to time
8.2. Autom Mate takes privacy extremely seriously. Autom Mate will comply with the terms of its privacy policy available at https://www.autommate.com/privacy/
8.3. Each of the parties agrees to comply with all applicable requirements of any relevant Data Protection Legislation and the provisions of the Data Processing Addendum (“DPA”) published at https://www.autommate.com/privacy/ which shall be incorporated by reference herein and is subject to all of the terms and conditions of this Agreement. This is in addition to, and does not relieve, remove or replace, either party’s obligations under the Data Protection Legislation.
8.4. You warrant to Autom Mate that you have taken all steps that are required to enable Autom Mate to process your Personal Data/Personal Information in compliance with all Data Protection Laws including without limitation that you have in place the necessary notices and consents from Data Subjects for you to lawfully transfer their Personal Data to us, or have another appropriate legal basis in place to enable lawful transfer of the Personal Data to us and for us to process, use and transfer such personal data in connection with the provision of the Solution.
8.5. “Confidential Information” of a party means such party’s (or its affiliate’s): inventions, discoveries, improvements, and copyrightable material not yet patented, published, or copyrighted; special processes and methods, whether for production purposes or otherwise, and special apparatus and equipment not generally available or known to the public; current engineering research, development, design projects, research and development data, technical specifications, plans, drawings and sketches; business information such as product costs, vendor and customer lists, lists of approved components and sources, price lists, production schedules, business plans, and sales and profit or loss information not yet announced or not disclosed in any other way to the public; and any other information or knowledge not generally available to the public. All business terms of this Agreement, including, but not limited to, pricing and access/login details, details of the Solution and your data if provided to us shall be considered Confidential Information hereunder.
8.6. Each party shall keep in confidence all Confidential Information of the other party obtained prior to or during this Agreement and shall protect the confidentiality of such information in a manner consistent with the manner in which such party treats its own confidential material, but in no event with less than reasonable care. Without the prior written consent of the other party, a party shall not disclose or make available any portion of the other party’s Confidential Information to any person, firm, association, or corporation, or use such Confidential Information, directly or indirectly, except for the performance of this Agreement. The foregoing restrictions shall not apply to Confidential Information that:
8.6.1. was known to such party (as evidenced by its written record) or was in the public domain prior to the time obtained by such party;
8.6.2. was lawfully disclosed to such party by a third party who did not receive it directly or indirectly from such party and who is under no obligation of secrecy with respect to the Confidential Information;
8.6.3. became generally available to the public, by publication or otherwise, through no fault of such party; or
8.6.4. was developed independently by the receiving party as evidenced by written records without reference to the Confidential Information of the other party.
8.7. The parties shall take all necessary and appropriate steps in order to ensure that its employees and subcontractors adhere to the provisions of this Section 8. All Confidential Information shall be returned to the disclosing party or destroyed upon receipt by the receiving party of a written request from the disclosing party. The receiving party may disclose the disclosing party’s Confidential Information to the extent required by law or legal process, provided, however, the receiving party will (unless prohibited by law or legal process): (a) give the disclosing party prior written notice of such disclosure to afford the disclosing party a reasonable opportunity to appear, object, and obtain a protective order or other appropriate relief regarding such disclosure; (b) use diligent efforts to limit disclosure to that which is legally required; and (c) reasonably cooperate with the disclosing party, at the disclosing party’s expense, in its efforts to obtain a protective order or other legally available means of protection.