PRIVACY POLICY
INTRODUCTION
THIS PRIVACY POLICY DEMONSTRATES ALESSIA SCHMID LAW FIRM LLC'S COMMITMENT TO ENSURE YOUR PRIVACY AND THE CONFIDENTIALITY OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA WHEN YOU USINGOUR WEBSITE OR COMMUNICATING WITH US. IT INFORMS YOU OF THE NATURE, EXTENT AND PURPOSE OF THE DATA PROCESSED BY OUR FIRM.
When accessing our website and/or communicating with us by e-mail or other channels, you accept this privacy policy, which may be modified unilaterally, at any time and without prior notice.
THE PERSONAL DATA WE PROCESS
We process the personal data that you provide to us when you (or third parties) communicate with us (i.e. data that directly or indirectly identifies natural persons). The same applies to personal data that we collect ourselves.
We process the personal data provided to us by you (or other data subjects) when communicating with us by post/e-mail or telephone to request our services. This may include the name, contact details or information about the data subject's role within the company or organisation for which you (or the respective contact persons) work, or on whose behalf you (or they) are contacting us. In the course of providing our services, we also process personal data that we collect from our correspondence with you or third parties (including opposing parties, authorities, courts, their respective employees or other contact persons). This may include names, contact details, dates of birth, information about employmentrelationships, income, family situation or state of health. We also collect certain personal data ourselves, for example from public registers or websites.
PURPOSES FOR PROCESSING YOUR PERSONAL DATA
We use personal data for the purposes of managing our relationship with you, in particular to provide our services, to document them and to invoice them.This is based on a legitimate interest in the processing of personal data. Some processing is also necessary for us to fulfil our contractual obligations towards you. The same applies to the legal obligations to which we are subject, such as our obligation to retain documents.
We process your contact details, those of your colleagues or others for marketing purposes (using any means of communication such as email, social media, post or telephone) in order to provide information about publications, events or new services that may be of interest to you.
PROTECTION OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA
We restrict the use of and access to your personal data to those people who absolutely need to know it in order to give you access to our website and/or to communicate with you. We maintain appropriate technical and organizational measures to preserve the confidentiality and integrity of your personal data. We regularly review our security policies and procedures to ensure that our systems are secure and protected, and we ensure compliance with all applicable data protection and security laws.
We retain personal data for the duration of our contractual relationship and, in any event, for the period required by legal retention or documentation obligations, or for as long as there is an overriding private or public interest. We take appropriate and proportionate measures to protect your personal data against loss, unauthorized modification or unlawful access by third parties. If you provide us with personal data via a third party (e.g. your employees or other contact persons), it is your responsibility to inform them in full of the data processing carried out by our firm and other external service providers (e.g. in a data protection declaration for your employees).
We would like to draw your attention to the fact that, in order to provide our services, we use external IT service providers or cloud providers with their servers in Switzerland. In such cases, we use certain IT services or means of communication that may be associated with data security risks (e.g. e-mail and video conferencing). If you would like us to take special security measures, please let us know.
COOKIES
On our website, we use “cookies” to identify your browser or device. A “cookie” is a small text file that is transferred to your computer and saved by your browser when you browse our pages. We use two types of cookies on our website :
Firstly, cookies linked to your session on our website, which are technically necessary for the website to function properly (“session cookies”). These cookies are automatically deleted as soon as you leave our website.
Cookies that enhance your experience on our website (“functional cookies”). These cookies are deleted after one year. Our banner on our website gives you the opportunity to refuse the use of these functional cookies. Please note, however, that in this case you may not be able to use all the functions of our website to their full extent.
CONTACT
We welcome your enquiries and comments. You have the right to be informed by us of any processing of your personal data in order to verify its lawfulness. If you are concerned by incorrect or incomplete personal data, you may request the rectification or completion of any relevant data. To the extent permitted by applicable law, you may request the deletion of your personal data or a temporary restriction on processing in certain cases and you may also object to the processing of your personal data, in which case we may not be able to provide services.
If you, your employees or other contact persons have any questions or wish to assert your or their data protection rights, please contact us at the following postal address :
Alessia Schmid Law Firm LLC
Rue du Conseil-Général 8
CH - 1205 Geneva