PRIVACY POLICY
Statement on privacy policy and personal data
We take the protection of your personal data very seriously.
Any term beginning with a capital letter has the meaning assigned to it in the Conditions.
This statement (the “Statement”) describes the methods that we use to collect, store, process and use your personal data.
When you provide us with personal data and/or use our Services, you are consenting that we collect, store, process and use your personal data according to the applicable law and to the terms and conditions of this Statement.
If you do not agree with this Statement, do not provide us with any personal data or provide us only with the personal data that you agree to transmit. In case of disagreement, if you withdraw your consent or if you choose not to provide us with some of the required personal data, we may be totally or partially unable to provide you our Services.
Should you have questions or comments regarding this Statement or suggestions regarding its improvement, please contact us at info@cret-berard.ch.
What is the legal basis for the processing of your data?
We collect and process personal data that concern you only if (i) you have given consent by validating this Statement or (ii) the processing is necessary for the performance of a contract entered into between you and us.
Which Data do we Collect?
We collect personal data in three ways:
In order to use our Services, you shall provide us with some information.
For example:
- to request a quote for your next seminar: name, first name, e-mail address, your message;
- to register for an activity: chosen activity, name, first name, phone number, e-mail address;
- to make a donation and apply for membership: type of membership, surname, first name, address, e-mail address, phone number;
- to use our contact form: name, first name, e-mail address, your message.
While using our Services you may freely decide to provide us with some additional information.
For example:
- to register for an activity: room category, person(s) that share(s) your room, comments, indication that you are a member of the “Amis de Crêt-Bérard” association;
- to register for an activity: chosen activity, name, first name, phone number, e-mail address;
- to make a donation and apply for membership: company, fax number;
- to make a donation and apply for membership: type of membership, name, first name, address, e-mail address, telephone number;
- to use our contact form: telephone number.
Information that we may automatically collect when using our Services: Besides the personal data that you must provide us with or freely choose to share with us, we may collect and process various information regarding your use of – and your behavior through – our Services, such as your browsing preferences, statistics regarding the pages that are most visited on our Services, the amount of time spent on each page, the type of device used, technical information concerning your devices, software, computer peripheral, information on segments using demographic parameters such as age, gender, professional and personal interests, geographic location, etc.
Furthermore, when you are using, through our Services, third-party services (Google Maps™, YouTube™, Facebook™ or Twitter™ buttons etc.), we draw your attention to the fact that the providers of such services may also collect and process personal data through their services (your localization, your user preferences, etc.). Therefore, before using these services, we recommend that you carefully read the privacy policies of these third parties. These third-party companies export the data that they collect to the United States, which are not considered to offer an adequate level of data protection with respect to European standards.
How do we Use the Collected Data?
We use the personal data that you share with us precisely to achieve the purpose for which they were provided to us: to provide you with our Services and/or to carry out other obligations arising from any contract entered into between you and us. In addition to this purpose, we reserve our right to use all or part of your personal data for other purposes: To communicate with you, to conduct surveys or to recommend those of our products or services that you may be interested in.
With regards to the information relating to your behaviour through our Services that we automatically collect, we use them for the purpose of improving and personalizing such services so as to better meet your expectations.
To Whom are the Collected Data Communicated?
Your personal data are only communicated to third parties (i) if required to achieve the purpose for which they were shared with us, (ii) if you have provided prior consent, (iii) if required by law or by a court order or (iv) upon the sale of our business.
You may be able to share some information on social networks, e.g. by using the Facebook™ or Twitter™ buttons, which may be available through our Services. Please remember that when you publicly share personal data, this information may be seen and used by other people, as well as indexed by search engines.
What Kinds of Cookies we Might Use?
We may use cookies to optimize our Services. Cookies are little files that are stored on your data storage medium and that memorize, through your Internet browser, some configurations and data in order to exchange them with our system. We may in particular use the following cookies:
Strictly necessary cookies: these are cookies that are required for the operation of our Services and for you to be able to complete services you ask for. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our Services.
Functional cookies: these cookies record information about choices you make on our Services, such as your user name, language or the region you are in. In this way, we are able to personalize your visit on our Services.
Performance cookies: these “analytical” cookies allow us to collect information about how visitors use our Services, for example to count visitors and to see how visitors move around our Services. They record your visit on our Services, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. These cookies do not collect information that identifies you. All information is anonymous. This helps us improve the way our Services work. In order to continuously improve and optimize our Services, we may use in particular the Google Analytics™ tracking technology. Google Analytics™ is a service of Google LLC (“Google“). Google Analytics™ is a web-analysis service allowing us to better understand your behavior on our Services. It may use a certain type of cookies in order to collect anonymous information and create activity reports regarding usage statistics of our Services without you being personally identified. If you do not wish Google Analytics ™ collecting personal data regarding your visits, you can install an add-on module for your web browser, which allows you to deactivate Google Analytics™.
Social media cookies: these cookies allow you to share content with social media platforms (e.g. Facebook™ or Twitter™ buttons). This method may authorize the social media in question to monitor your navigation on our Services by the mere fact that your account is activated on your device (open session) during the navigation. We have no control over these cookies as they are set by third-party providers.
Advertisement cookies: these cookies allow us to deliver tailor-made advertisements to you on third-party websites based on your interests in our products and services manifested during your utilization of our Services. These cookies do not collect information that identifies you. All information is anonymous. We may engage on our Services in interest-based advertising, including retargeting or remarketing technology provided by third parties, such as Google™ or Facebook™. Based on that, we are able to approach you with personalized advertisements. For this purpose, cookies are stored on your computer. During your utilization of our Services, neither the third-party providers nor us collect any personalized data, only anonymized data. Thanks to such data we can, for example, approach you with advertisements on third-party websites which is personalized according to your interests in our products or services, e.g. after you have visited our Services and showed interest in a particular series of products or services, this technology may later show you more information in form of advertisements while surfing on another website. The only goal of using this technology is to best adapt the available information to your interests and to make your online experience as informative as possible.
Flash cookies from Adobe Flash Player™: Adobe Flash Player™ is a piece of software allowing quick development of dynamic content using “Flash” language. Flash (and application of the same type) memorizes the settings, the preferences and the utilization of this content thanks to a technology similar to cookies. However, Adobe Flash Player™ manages this information and your choices through a different interface than the one provided by your web browser. As your device could visualize content developed in Flash language, we invite you to access your Flash cookies management tools, directly through the following website: www.adobe.com/fr.
How can you Control the Cookies that we Use?
Upon your first visit on our Services, you expressed your choice regarding the use of cookies on your computer. At any time, you may deactivate them as follows.
Most browsers accept cookies automatically but allow you to disable them. The help menu on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie and how to disable cookies altogether. You can also disable or delete cookies you have previously accepted if you wish to. Further information is available on the following websites:
Microsoft Internet Explorer™: www.support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
Mozilla Firefox™: www.support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences
Safari™: www.support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/safari/manage-cookies-and-website-data-sfri11471/mac
Google Chrome™: www.support.google.com/accounts/answer/61416?hl=en
We recommend that you leave cookies “turned on” so that we can offer you a better experience on our Services. If you set your browser to block all cookies (including strictly necessary cookies), you may not be able to access parts of our Services.
Most cookies can also be deactivated through third-party tools, such as the ones proposed by the website Youronlinechoice, by the Network Advertising Initiative or by the company Ghostery. Further, most third-party providers offer modules or proceedings allowing you to deactivate the cookies they use. We offer no guarantee regarding these tools, developed by third parties.
Your Personal Data, your Rights
In line with the applicable law, you have the right to access to, object to, modify or delete the data that concern you. You may also, under some circumstances, refuse (see below) or request restrictions on the processing of your personal data. In the latter case, your data will be retained but will no longer be processed without your consent, except for reasons specifically provided by law. You also have the right to receive a copy of your personal data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. Finally, you may at any time withdraw your consent regarding the processing of your data for the purposes above-mentioned.
To this end, you may simply contact us. Unless we are not able to identify the data that concerns you, or the request is clearly unfounded or excessive, in particular because of its repetitive nature, or we may not oppose you another lawful legitimate reason, we will respond to your request as soon as possible and at no cost.
Information About your Right of Objection
You have the right, for reasons arising from your particular situation, to object at any time to the processing of personal data relating to you (including profiling), if this one is based on a public interest or on a balance of interests. If you file an objection, we will no longer process your personal data unless we can prove compelling grounds for the processing that outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms or the processing serves to assert, exercise or defend legal claims. Please also note that, if we terminate the processing due to your objection, our Services may no longer be available to you or only to a limited extent.
You also have the right to object at any time to the processing of personal data concerning you for the purpose of direct marketing (including any subscription to a newsletter); this also applies to profiling, insofar as it is associated with such direct marketing. If you object, we will no longer process your personal data in the future. Please also note that, if we terminate the processing due to your objection, our Services may no longer be available to you or only to a limited extent.
The objection may be filed at the address mentioned below.
Contact details
Please send any request by mail, with sufficient information for us to unequivocally identify you, to:
Fondation de Crêt-Bérard – Maison de l’Eglise et du Pays
Rue du Grand-Chêne 8
c/o Rochat & Laufer
CH-1003 Lausanne
or by email at: info@cret-berard.ch
Finally, please note that you have the right at any time to lodge a complaint with the competent data protection authority.
You are not required by law to provide us with the personal data as indicated in this Statement. Furthermore, the contractual relationship that you might have entered into with us does not imply an obligation to provide your personal data. However, you might not be able to use our Services to the full extent if you do not provide us with certain data.
Security and Retention of Personal Data
Your personal data are protected against unauthorized processing with the help of appropriate technical and organizational measures. Unless otherwise stated in this Statement, they are stored in – and may be transferred to – Switzerland whose legislation is deemed as offering an adequate level of protection by the European Union.
Your attention is drawn to the fact that companies such as Twitter, Google and Facebook transfer data to the United States whose legislation has been deemed as not guaranteeing an adequate level of protection by the European Union.
Your personal data will be retained for as long as is necessary for the purpose(s) for which we originally collected it (in principle, as long as you subscribed to our newsletter). We may also retain information and/or data as required by law.
Fraudulent Use of our Services
In case of fraudulent use of our Services and, in particular, upon suspicion of punishable acts, the data may be analysed for purposes of clarification and, upon duly justified request, according to us, transmitted to the competent official authorities or to the third person affected by the fraud.
The Declaration exists in French and English languages. In case of contradiction, the French version shall prevail.
We reserve the right to amend the Statement at any time.
Statement updated in June 2021.
All rights on this Statement belong to its author. Any reproduction, without prior license, is strictly forbidden.