The company responsible for processing your personal data is Beker Guiramand & Associés, rue de Hesse 7, 1204, Switzerland. References in this personal data protection charter (the Charter) to "Beker Guiramand", "we" or "us" are references to Beker Guiramand & Associés.
The personal data we process about you includes:
We collect this information when you interact with us, for example when you contact our staff or when you attend a meeting or other event. We also collect or generate personal data in the course of providing legal services, and we may collect personal data from other sources, for example to keep your information up to date using publicly available sources.
We process your personal data in order to:
We process personal data for these purposes on the following basis: to the extent necessary for the performance of a contract, such as interacting with an individual to provide legal or other services; for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims or proceedings; to comply with legal and regulatory obligations; for legitimate interests, including the interests set out above; and/or on the basis of consent.
We use various technical and organisational measures to help protect your personal data against unauthorised access, use, disclosure, modification or destruction.
We automatically collect and store, for a limited time, log and device data when you access and use our website. This information includes, but is not limited to, details of how you use our website, IP address, dates and times of access, hardware and software information, device information and similar information. We process this data on the basis that it is necessary for the operation, maintenance and improvement of our websites.
Our websites use Google Analytics, a service provided by Google LLC, USA, which tracks and provides information about how our websites are used. Google Analytics does this by placing small text files called "cookies" on your computer or other device. Cookies collect information about the number of visitors to the websites, the pages visited and the time spent on the websites. This information is aggregated and not personally identifiable. This Google Analytics integration generally anonymises IP addresses by shortening them within the EU/EEA. Google is registered under the Swiss-US and EU-US Privacy Shield domain names.
You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser. Please note, however, that this may affect your experience of our websites. To find out more about cookies, including how to manage, reject and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
We may use your name and email address to send you publications, alerts, updates, invitations to events and other information by email, but we will ask for your consent first unless we have obtained your details as part of our service.
We may share your personal data with trusted third parties, including:
For the purposes set out in this Charter and where necessary, we may share personal data with courts, tribunals, regulatory authorities, government agencies and law enforcement bodies. We may also disclose your personal data in order to comply with legal or regulatory requirements.
We may transfer your personal data to recipients abroad, including countries that do not offer the same level of protection as Swiss law. We generally do this on the basis that such a transfer is necessary for the performance of a contract with the data subject(s), for a contract or for the performance of a contract concluded in the interest of the data subject, or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
We retain your personal data for as long as is necessary for the purposes for which the data is collected and for as long as we have a legitimate interest in retaining the personal data, for example to assert or defend claims or for archiving and IT security purposes. We also retain your personal data for as long as it is subject to a legal retention obligation.
You have the right to request details of the personal data we hold about you and how we process it and to receive a copy of your personal data. You also have the right to have your data rectified or deleted, to restrict the processing of that information and to object to the processing of your personal data. You may also choose to withdraw your consent. Please note that even after you have chosen to withdraw your consent, we may be able to continue to process your personal data to the extent required or permitted by law. You may also lodge a complaint about the processing of your personal data with a local supervisory authority, or in Switzerland with the Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner.