Effective Date: February 23, 2023

This Addendum applies to residents of the in the People’s Republic of China (“China”, which, solely for the purposes herein, is exclusive of Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau). We are committed to processing and protecting your personal data under Chinese law, including the Personal Information Protection Law of the People’s Republic of China (PIPL).

Toptech Systems, Inc. (Toptech), a company with its principal place of business at 1124 Florida Central Parkway, Longwood, Florida 32750, U.S.A. will process your personal data pursuant to this Statement as a personal data handler under PIPL, and can be contacted at the following email addresses: tlu-marketing@idexcorp.com or Privacy@idexcorp.com.

1.      Collection of Information

We collect the following information on our website:

a)     Information We Collect Automatically:

When you access or use our Sites, we automatically collect the following information which is stored separate from other data that you may provide to us.  We use this information to provide the Sites to you, deduce statistical and anonymous information about the users of the Sites and for the technical administration and the security of the Sites:

• Log Information – We log information about each session and the use of the Sites, including the type of browser you use, access times, pages viewed, your IP address and the page you visited before navigating to our Sites.
• Device Information – We collect information about the computer or mobile device you use to access our Sites, including the hardware model, operating system and version and mobile network information.
• Information Collected by Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies– We use various technologies to collect information, specifically cookies and web beacons. Cookies are small text files that a website or its service provider transfers to your devices, such as mobile devices or computers, through your web browser (if allowed by you), that enables the websites or service providers’ systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information. We use cookies to understand and save your preferences for future visits and compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction. Our Website and our emails may also contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifts) that permit IDEX, for example, to count the number of users who have visited those pages of the Website or opened an email and for other related statistics (for example, determining the popularity of certain content and verifying server integrity). Please see our IDEX Cookie Notice for more information on our use of cookies.

b)     Information You Provide to Us:

We also collect information you provide directly to us. For example, when you visit the Sites, we collect information when you request to create an account, respond to a survey, participate in any interactive features of the Sites, sign up for a newsletter or provide general feedback. The types of information we may collect include your name, company name, title, street address, telephone number, email address and any other information you choose to provide. We collect this information for offering the function that you use respectively.

2.      Use of Information

We may use information about you for various purposes, including:

• Providing our Sites to the users; Maintaining and improving our Sites;
• Providing and improving our customer service, including responding to your comments, questions and requests (e.g. product queries or technical questions);
• Analysing and managing our business;
• Establishing and managing our business relationship, g. when you as a customer contact us via one of the Sites and we connect this request to your business account;
• Improving our IT security;
• Defending our legal interests, g. when claiming remedies of attacks on our website;
• Processing employment inquiries;
• Communicating with you about services, offers, promotions, rewards, and events offered by IDEX and others; and
• Carrying out any other purpose described to you at the time the information was collected or for any other purpose with your consent.

We may also use your information to contact you about our own goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you do not want us to use your information in this way, please see the section of this Statement entitled “Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.”

3. Legal Basis for processing

We are entitled to process your personal data because one or more of the following legal bases applies:

• You have given consent;
• Processing is necessary for the conclusion or performance of a contract with you or necessary to conduct human resources management in accordance with lawfully formulated labor rules and regulations and lawfully concluded contracts;
• Processing is necessary for compliance with legal or regulatory obligations that we may discharge;
• Processing is necessary to respond to sudden public health incidents or protect individuals’ lives and health, or the security of their property, under emergency conditions; or
• Processing is necessary to undertake news reporting, public opinion supervision, and the performance of other tasks carried out in the public interest.

4.      International Data Transfers

To the extent permitted by PIPL, we may transfer your personal data outside of China to companies and/or branches within our group or to third parties as described in this Statement, and we will ensure the recipient is bound by applicable laws in its jurisdiction to provide a standard of protection for your personal data that is equivalent to that under this Statement.

5.      Retention Periods

We delete or anonymise your personal data as soon as it is no longer required for the purpose for which we processed it.

In general, we store your personal data for the duration of the usage or the contractual relationship via the website plus a period of fifteen (15) days for IT security purposes.

In the event that you have given us your consent to process your data (e.g. for marketing purposes including the associated profiling), we will store your data until you revoke your consent or the processing purpose does not apply anymore.

For the retention period of cookies and other tracking, please refer to the details in our Toptech Cookie Notice, available here https://toptech.com/privacy-statement/cookie-notice/.

After these periods have expired, the data will be erased unless this data is required for a longer period due to legal retention periods, alternative purposes or for criminal prosecution. Beyond these retention periods, we may retain the data for the purposes of legal defence and law enforcement for as long as is necessary for the preparation or execution of a possible legal dispute (usually up to four years, whereby the legal dispute itself may inhibit the course of this period). If data can be stored for these reasons, it will be blocked. The data will then no longer be available for further use.

6.      Your Rights

The PIPL provides you with certain rights in relation to the processing of your personal data.  Besides the rights listed below, you also have the right to request us to interpret this Statement for you.

All such requests to exercise these rights may be sent to tlu-marketing@idexcorp.com or privacy@idexcorp.com or to the other contact information listed below. Those rights include:

• Request access to personal data about you (commonly known as a “data subject access re-quest”). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you, and to check that we are lawfully processing it.
• Request rectification, correction, or updating to any of the personal data that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate information we hold about you corrected.
• Request personal data provided by you to be transferred in machine-readable format (“data portability”).
• Request erasure of personal data. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no valid reason for us continuing to process it. Please note that there may be circumstances where we are legally entitled to retain personal data regardless of any such request.
• Request the restriction of processing of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of personal data about you (e.g. if you want us to establish its accuracy or the reason for processing it).
• Withdraw your consent. You may withdraw your consent at any time by sending an email request to tlu-marketing@idexcorp.com or privacy@idexcorp.com. You may also disable some types of cookies of our website directly through this site’s Advanced Cookie Settings control panel. Click the following button to access the control panel:  Advanced settings The withdrawal does not affect the lawfulness of the prior processing.
• Lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. You have the right to make a complaint with a data protection authority.

7.      Obligation to Provide Personal Data

You are under no contractual or statutory obligation to provide personal data. However, if you do not provide the personal data we require to process your request (e.g. when you contact us with questions about our products), we may not be able to respond to such request.

8.      Automated Decision-Making

No automated decision occurs on the Sites.

9.      Changes to This PIPL Privacy Addendum

IDEX reserves the right to amend this PIPL Privacy Addendum at our discretion and at any time. When we make changes to this PIPL Privacy Addendum, we will post the updated addendum on the Website and update the addendum’s effective date. Your continued use of our Website following the posting of changes constitutes your acceptance of such changes.

10. Contact Information

If you have any question, concerns, complaints, or suggestions, or would like to exercise your rights with respect to your information pursuant to the PIPL, or otherwise need to contact us, you must contact both us and our representative in China (when applicable) at the contact information below:

To Contact Toptech:

Phone: +1(407)332-1774

Email: tlu-marketing@idexcorp.com or privacy@IDEXcorp.com

Postal Address:  Toptech Systems

Attn: Marketing Manager: Privacy Policy

1124 Florida Central Parkway

Longwood, FL 32750

To Contact IDEX:

Phone: 1-847-498-7070

Email: privacy@IDEXcorp.com

Postal Address:  IDEX Corporation

Attn: Legal Department: Compliance/Privacy

3100 Sanders Road, Suite 301

Northbrook, IL 60062, USA

To Contact our Representative:

Phone: +86 (21) 52415599

Email: kko@idexcorp.com

Postal Address:   IDEX Trading (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.

Attn: Legal Department: Compliance/Privacy

Rm 3502-3504, Zhao Feng Plaza, No. 1027

Chang Ning Road

Shanghai 200050