Identity and contact details of the data controller
Simone Paris is responsible for all processing of your personal data as described below
If you have any questions about data privacy, you can contact us at the following address:
Simone Paris
E-Mail: legal@simoneart.com
Collecting personal data
We primarily process the personal data that we receive from you as an employee, a job applicant, a business partner, a customer or an interested party and that we need to accomplish the purposes set out in section 3 of this Data Privacy policy (e.g. first name and surname, address, e-mail address, telephone number, function, application documents and other information relating to you that you provide to us verbally or in writing). We may also collect data about you from publicly accessible databases (e.g. trade registers, social media platforms) or may receive such data from third parties, for example, from your employer.
To the extent permitted, we also collect certain data from publicly accessible sources (e.g. debt collection registers, land registers, commercial registers, press, internet) or receive such data from authorities and other third parties. In addition to the data about you that you disclose to us directly, the categories of personal data that we receive about you from third parties include, in particular, information from public registers, information in connection with your professional roles and activities, information about you that people close to you (family, advisers and legal representatives, etc.) provide to us so that we can conclude or process contracts with you or involving you, e.g. references, powers of attorney, information on compliance with legal requirements, such as anti-money laundering and export restrictions, information from banks, insurance companies, sales and other contractual partners of ours relating to the services you have used or provided (e.g. payments made, purchases made), information from the media and the internet about you (if this is appropriate in the specific case, e.g. as part of a job application, customer acquisition and marketing, etc.).
Please note that you may only disclose data about third parties (e.g. work colleagues or family members) to us if you have notified the relevant persons in advance of our processing of this by referring to this Data Privacy policy. Finally, we wish to draw your attention to the fact that our web server automatically logs every visit to our website in a temporary log file. User-specific data (e.g. browser information, IP) as well as technical data (e.g. name and URL of the referring website) are logged in order to establish the connection and optimise your visit to the website. We may also use cookies (see section 5).
Purposes of data processing
We process your personal data primarily in order to communicate with you (e.g. as a customer or employee) and/or with third parties (e.g. your employer as a service provider or business partner of ours) and to initiate and perform contracts with you. In addition, we utilise your data to check and respond to your requests (or a job application) or to otherwise communicate with you (e.g. sending newsletters or responding to contact requests). In addition, we may use your data for the following purposes:
- Ensuring the availability and security of our website;
- Improving and further developing our services and website;
- Compliance with legal and/or regulatory obligations; in particular, money laundering regulations;
- Enforcing or defending legal claims in and outside of court proceedings;
- Safeguarding other legitimate interests.
Automated individual decisions
As a rule, we refrain from making automated individual decisions, i.e. decisions which are based exclusively on automated processing (without human input) and which are connected with a legal consequence for you (e.g. refusal to conclude a contract) or which significantly affect you in some other way. If, in exceptional circumstances, we make such decisions, you will be notified on a case-by-case basis.
Cookies
We only use technically necessary cookies (codes temporarily stored in your browser) on our website in order to ensure that you have a smooth browsing experience on our website. These are exclusively session cookies, which are deleted after you have finished visiting the website. You can configure your browser at any time to block cookies or delete them in advance. If you disable cookies, however, you may not be able to use certain features of our website. In addition, please note that if you click a link to a third-party service, we are not responsible for any further processing of your data and you must comply with the relevant third-party service provider.
Disabling cookies
Recipients of personal data
We may use external service providers to process your personal data in accordance with sections 3 and 4. These are primarily IT, support and hosting providers as well as accountants (including payroll accountants). We audit these recipients with regard to their compliance with the applicable data privacy provisions and contractually oblige them to process the personal data they receive exclusively in accordance with our instructions.
Disclosure abroad
The recipients of your personal data specified in section 6 are generally located in Switzerland or in the EU or EEA area. They may, however, be based anywhere in the world.
If we transfer your personal data to a recipient in a country without suitable data privacy laws, we ensure an appropriate level of data privacy by means of corresponding contracts (standard data privacy clauses which the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner [FDPIC] has approved, issued or recognised in advance) and – where necessary – additional protective measures, or rely on the legal exemptions with regard to consent, contractual performance, the establishment, exercise or enforcement of legal claims, prevailing public interests, published personal data or the need to protect your integrity.
Retention period
We process your personal data for as long as it is required to fulfil our contractual and/or legal obligations or for the purposes pursued via the processing; for example, for the duration of the entire contractual or employment relationship (i.e. from the initiation and processing to the termination of the contract) as well as beyond that in accordance with any statutory retention and documentation obligations. We may retain personal data for as long as claims may be asserted against us and to the extent that we are otherwise required to do so by law and by the applicable regulations (in particular, on the basis of money laundering regulations) or insofar as our legitimate business interests necessitate the processing (e.g. for evidence and/or documentation purposes). You data will be deleted or made anonymous once it is no longer required for specific purposes and/or by law.
Data security
We take reasonable security measures to maintain the confidentiality, integrity and availability of your personal data, to protect it against unauthorised or unlawful processing and against the risk of loss, accidental modification, and unauthorised disclosure or access.
Note regarding consent and your rights
You can withdraw any consent to the processing of your personal data at any time with effect for the future by writing to the address specified in section 1.
You have the right to request information about your data, and to request its correction or deletion, as well as to request the disclosure of your personal data for the purpose of transferring it to another data controller. Please note that we reserve the right to enforce restrictions stipulated by law, e.g. if we are obliged to retain or process certain data, have a prevailing interest in doing so or require it for the assertion of claims.
Exercising your rights requires proof of identity (e.g. by showing a copy of your ID card). In order to exercise your rights, you can contact us at the address specified in section 1.
You have the right to assert your claims in court or to take them to the competent authority. The responsible data protection authority in Switzerland is the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (http://www.edoeb.admin.ch).
Third-Party Tools
Google Analytics (GA4)
In pursuit of our legitimate interests (i.e., the interest in analysing, optimising, and economically operating our online offering), we utilise Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google LLC (“Google”). Google employs cookies. The information generated by the cookie about users‘ use of the online service is generally transmitted to and stored on a server of Google in the United States.
Google is certified under the Privacy Shield Agreement, thereby guaranteeing compliance with European data protection law (https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active).
Google will utilise this information on our behalf to evaluate the use of our online offering by users, to compile reports on the activities within this online service, and to provide us with further services related to the use of this online service and internet usage. In this process, pseudonymous user profiles may be created from the processed data.
Data Protection Regulations Regarding the Use of Google Analytics 4 (GA4) for Statistical Data Collection
This privacy statement pertains to the deployment of Google Analytics 4 (GA4) as a tool for statistical data collection on our website. According to official information from Google (see: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2763052?hl=en), the use of Google Analytics 4 does not involve the logging or storing of IP addresses. It is expressly noted that:
“In Google Analytics 4, masking of IP addresses is not necessary, as IP addresses are neither logged nor stored.”
Moreover, the IP address transmitted by the users‘ browsers is not merged with other data from Google. Users have the option to prevent the storage of cookies by adjusting the settings of their browser software. Additionally, they can prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to their use of the online service, as well as the processing of this data by Google. This can be achieved by using a web browser such as Brave, which globally disables tracking for such services, or by installing an ad blocker extension like the free and open-source uBlock Origin Plugin.
For further details on how Google uses your data, configuration options, and opt-out possibilities, please refer to Google’s privacy policy (https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads) and the settings for the display of advertising by Google (https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated).
As the operators of this website, we place the utmost importance on the protection and security of your personal data. Below, we provide comprehensive information on the processing of your data in the context of the use of our website.
Server Log Files – Collection of General Data and Information
Our websites collect a range of general data and information with each visit. These general data and information are stored in the server’s log files. The following may be recorded:
- Types and versions of browsers used,
- Operating system used by the accessing computer,
- The website from which an accessing computer arrives at our website (known as a referrer),
- The sub-pages accessed via an accessing computer on our website,
- The date and time of access to the website,
- The IP address, the Internet service provider of the accessing computer, and
- Other similar data and information used for the purpose of preventing threats in the event of attacks on our IT systems.
We do not draw any conclusions about you or other visitors from the use of this general data and information. Rather, this information is required to:
- Deliver the contents of our website correctly,
- Optimize the content of our website as well as the advertising for it,
- Ensure the ongoing functionality of our IT systems and the technology of our website, and
- Provide law enforcement authorities with the necessary information for criminal prosecution in the event of a cyber attack.
These anonymously collected data and information are therefore evaluated by us both statistically and with the aim of increasing data protection and data security in our company, to ultimately ensure an optimal level of protection for the personal data we process. The anonymous data from the server log files are stored separately from all personal data provided by you. There will be no merging of these data with other data sources.
Data Retention: 1 month.
Changes
We may amend this Data Privacy policy at any time without prior notice. The current version published on our website applies.
