1. Background
SR Technics Switzerland Ltd., Flughofstrasse, 8302 Kloten, Switzerland ("SRT-CH") and its affiliated companies ("SRT") (which are listed on www.srtechnics.com) understand that your privacy is important to you and that you care about how your personal data is used and shared online. We respect and value the privacy of everyone who visits this website, www.srtechnics.com (“Website”) and (subject to the limited exceptions in section 5, below) we do not collect personal data about you unless you contact us (see section 6, below).
Please read this Privacy Guideline ("Guideline") carefully and ensure that you understand it. Your acceptance of the Guideline is deemed to occur upon your first use of the Website. If you do not accept and agree with this Guideline, you must stop using the Website immediately.
2. Definitions and Interpretation
In this Guideline, the following terms shall have the following meanings:
“personal data” means any and all data that relates to an identifiable person who can be directly or indirectly identified from that data. In this case, it means personal data that you give to us via the Website. This definition shall, where applicable, incorporate the definitions provided in the Swiss Data Protection Act (as revised from time to time) ("DPA") and/or the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”); and
“we/us/our” means SR Technics Switzerland Ltd., Flughofstrasse, 8302 Kloten, Switzerland.
3. What Does This Guideline Cover?
This Guideline applies to your use of and the personal data you deliver and/or we collect through the Website.
The Website may contain links to other websites. Please note that we have no control over how your data is collected, stored, or used by other websites and we advise you to check the privacy policies of any such websites before accessing them.
4. Your Rights
4.1 As a data subject, you have the following rights under the DPA and/or GDPR:
a) The right to be informed about our collection and use of personal data;
b) The right of access to the personal data we hold about you (see section 5);
c) The right to rectification if any personal data we hold about you is inaccurate or incomplete (please contact us using the details in section 10);
d) The right to be forgotten – i.e. the right to ask us to delete any personal data we hold about you;
e) The right to restrict (i.e. prevent) the processing of your personal data;
f) The right to data portability (obtaining a copy of your personal data to reuse with another service or organisation);
g) The right to object to us using your personal data for particular purposes; and
h) Rights with respect to automated decision making and profiling.
4.2 If you have any cause for complaint about our use of your personal data, please contact us using the details provided in section 10 and we will do our best to solve the problem for you. If we are unable to help, you also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Officer ("FDPIC") and/or any competent EEA supervisory authority (as the case may be).
5. What Data Do we Collect?
5.1 Subject to section 5.2, we do not collect any personal data from you. We do place cookies on your computer or device. In this context please refer to our Cookie Guideline.
5.2 If you send us an email, we may collect your name, your email address, and any other information which you choose to give us.
6. How Do we Use Your Data?
6.1 If we do collect personal data, it will be processed and stored securely, for no longer than is necessary in light of the reason(s) for which it was first collected. We will do our best to comply with our obligations and safeguard your rights under the DPA and/or GDPR at all times.
6.2 As noted above, we do not generally collect personal data. If you contact us and we obtain your personal details from your email, we may use them as follows:
6.2.1 To reply to your email;
6.2.2 To keep you as a business contact in our database;
6.2.3 To send you Newsletters or other marketing material;
6.3 You have the right to withdraw your consent to us using your personal data at any time, and to request that we delete it.
6.4 We will not share any of your data with any third parties for any purposes.
7. How and where do we store your Personal Data?
7.1 We only keep your personal data for as long as we need to in order to use it as described above in section 6, and/or for as long as we have your permission to keep it.
7.2 Some or all of your data may be stored outside of Switzerland or of the European Economic Area (“the EEA”). If we do store data outside the EEA and/or Switzerland (this may be the case, for example, if our email server is located in a country outside the EEA), we will take all reasonable steps to ensure that your data is treated as safely and securely as it would be within Switzerland and under the DPA and/or GDPR in particular by using the standard contractual clauses issued by the European Commission and/or the Swiss transborder data flow agreement issued by the FDPIC.
8. Transfer of personal data to third parties
Your personal data can also be shared with third parties that are not part of SRT and who provide technical or organisational services on behalf of SRT and that we require for the purposes mentioned above or to carry out general business activities. These service providers are contractually bound to process your personal data exclusively on our behalf and as instructed by us, and to guarantee that the appropriate technical or organisational security measures are in place to guarantee your personal data is protected. If a service provider is located in a country that does not ensure a level of personal data protection comparable with that found in Switzerland, we enter contractual agreements with these providers to ensure compliance with Swiss standards of data protection. In doing so, we use standard contractual clauses issued by the European Commission and/or the Swiss transborder data flow agreement issued by the FDPIC.
Your personal data shall not otherwise be passed on, transmitted or sold to third parties outside SRT unless you have expressly consented to it.
This notwithstanding, SRT may disclose personal data for legal reasons; for example, to law enforcement agencies for the purpose of prosecuting and detecting illegal activities or to tax authorities.
9. Data Security
SRT has implemented appropriate technical and organisational security measures to help protect your Personal Data against loss and to safeguard against access by unauthorised persons.
10. Contacting us
If you have any questions about the Website or this Guideline, please contact us by email at dataprotection@srtechnics.com.
11. Changes to our Guideline
We may change this Policy from time to time (for example, if the law changes). Any changes will be immediately posted on the Website and you will be deemed to have accepted the terms of the Guideline on your first use of the Website following the alterations. We recommend that you check this page regularly to keep up-to-date.
12. Law and Jurisdiction
These Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with Swiss law (to the exclusion of Swiss Private International Law and international treaties, unless applicable mandatory data protection states otherwise.
Any disputes concerning these Terms shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the competent courts in Kloten, Switzerland, unless applicable mandatory data protection law states otherwise.