Privacy policy Swiss Medical Network
Introduction
We, Swiss Medical Network SA, located in Genolier, Switzerland, are committed to protecting your privacy while continuously improving the services we offer to you. This privacy policy is applicable to all the websites of Swiss Medical Network and its clinics.
All processing of Personal data is carried out in strict compliance with the applicable data protection laws, including the Swiss Federal Data Protection Act of 19 June 1992 and, to the extent applicable, the new EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
This Privacy Policy demonstrates our commitment to ensure your privacy and the confidentiality of your Personal data when you use our websites or communicate with us. It intends to give you all the information regarding the processing of any Personal data that we may collect from you through our online platforms (website, applications, social networks), our online forms or registrations or through any other form of interaction.
When accessing our websites and/or communicating with us via our website, E-mails or other channels, you consent to this Privacy Policy. In the event you should not agree to any part of this Privacy Policy, you must inform us and discontinue using our websites. We shall then not be in a position to provide any further services to you.
Personal data
Personal data means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person, such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier, date and place of birth, professional information or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person. The Personal data may relate to you as well as to your employees or agents.
The websites of Swiss Medical Network may collect Personal data you actively give us (e.g. name, address, phone number, E-mail address and/or date of birth…) when filling in online forms or registrations. The websites of Swiss Medical Network may also collect other types of information when you or an automated system call up our websites (browser types and versions used, operating system, referrers, sub-websites, date and time of access to websites, IP address, Internet service provider…).
You can receive our company news by clicking the “Receive our news” on our website. In order to subscribe to our company news, you are requested to fill in a form on our website to confirm your subscription. If you no longer wish to receive our company news, you can unsubscribe at any time, by clicking the link on the bottom of the newsletter. If you unsubscribe, your Personal data will be erased.
Use and Storage of your Personal Data
We process your Personal data only to the extent required to provide functional websites as well as our content and services.
We may use the Personal Data you provide us for the following purposes:
Unless required by law or because of security imperative for another time period, we may store or otherwise process your Personal data as long as it is deemed necessary, insofar as you do not withdraw your consent for their processing (either for one or several purposes) or exercise your right to be forgotten before the expiry of any of these time periods (see below "Contact").
We restrict the use and access to your Personal data. It will only be used by us and our technology suppliers, who are also obliged to protect your Personal data. We do not sell or otherwise transfer your Personal Data to third parties except with your prior consent or as we are required under applicable law or regulation. We do not monitor your behaviour, track your physical location or subject you to profiling or automated decision-making.
Personal data processing
We save and process your Personal data for the purpose for which you have granted us your consent and in connection with the services we offer, with the exception when it is impossible for practical reasons to obtain prior consent and when the processing of data is permitted by law. The storage of your Personal Data shall be carried out in a manner compatible with legal obligations and available technology.
Personal data in connection with communications will be saved in order to respond to your enquiry.
Cookies
The internet pages of Swiss Medical Network use cookies, which are downloaded to your device by visiting our website. The cookies are necessary in order provide the users of our websites with more user-friendly services, to record preferences, to analyse connections on the website, to include third party cookies and for purposes of advertisement.
You can prevent the setting of cookies through our websites by means of a corresponding setting of the Internet browser used, and thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. Furthermore, already set cookies may be deleted at any time via an Internet browser or other software programs. If you deactivate the setting of cookies in the Internet browser used, not all functions of our websites may be entirely usable.
Tracking with fusedeck
This Website uses “fusedeck”, a tracking solution provided by Capture Media AG (hereinafter referred to as “Capture Media”). Capture Media is a Swiss company having its registered office in Zurich which, on behalf of its customers, measures website usage in the context of engagements and events. Tracking is anonymous so that it is impossible to attribute any information gained to any identified or identifiable persons.
For more information on data protection and the rights which data subjects have in connection with “fusedeck”, including their right to “opt out” (right to object), please refer to the Privacy Policy and the Information on the Right to Object.
https://fuse.swissmedical.net/en/KeRyblcxGI
Data protection provisions about the application and use of Facebook and Instagram
Components of the social networks Facebook and Instagram are integrated on our websites. With each call-up to one of the individual pages of our websites into which a Facebook or Instagram plug-in was integrated, your Internet browser is automatically prompted to download a display of the corresponding Facebook / Instagram component. If you are logged in on Facebook or Instagram, it detects which specific sub-site of our Internet page was visited. If you click on one of the Facebook or Instagram buttons integrated into our website, e.g. the "Like" button, or if you submit a comment, Facebook / Instagram will match this information with your personal Facebook or Instagram user account and store the personal data. Facebook / Instagram always receive information about your visit to our website. If such a transmission of information to Facebook or Instagram is not desirable, then you may prevent this by logging off from your Facebook or Instagram account before a call-up to our website is made.
Data protection provisions about the application and use of Google Analytics (with anonymization function)
Component of Google Analytics are integrated on our websites. The IP address of your Internet connection is abridged by Google and anonymised when accessing our websites from a Member State of the European Union or another Contracting State to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. The purpose of the Google Analytics component is to analyse the traffic on our websites. With each call-up to one of the individual pages of our websites, your Internet browser – through the use of cookies – will automatically submit data through the Google Analytics component for the purpose of online advertising and the settlement of commissions to Google. During the course of this technical procedure, the enterprise Google gains knowledge of personal information, such as your IP address, which serves Google, inter alia, to understand the origin of visitors and clicks, and subsequently create commission settlements.
The IP address transmitted by the user's browser is not merged with other data from Google. Users can prevent the storage of cookies by setting their browser software accordingly; users can also prevent the collection of the data generated by the cookie and related to their use of the online offer to Google, as well as the processing of this data by Google, by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.
For more information about Google's data use, settings and opt-out options, please visit Google's websites: https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/partners ("Data use by Google when you use our partners' websites or apps"), https://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads ("Data use for advertising purposes"), https://www.google.com/settings/ads ("Manage information Google uses to serve you ads").
Further information and the applicable Google privacy policy can be found at https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/ and at http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/.
Further information on Google Analytics can be found at this link: https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/.
Data protection provisions about the application and use of LinkedIn
Components of the social network LinkedIn are integrated on our websites. With each call-up to one of the individual pages of our websites into which a LinkedIn plug-in was integrated, your Internet browser is automatically prompted to download a display of the corresponding LinkedIn component. During the course of this technical procedure, LinkedIn gains knowledge of what specific sub-page of our website you visited. If you are logged in at the same time on LinkedIn, it will detect which specific sub-page of our Internet page you visited. If you click on one of the LinkedIn buttons integrated on our websites, LinkedIn will assign this information to your personal LinkedIn user account and stores the personal data. If such a transmission of information to LinkedIn is not desirable, you may prevent this by logging off from your LinkedIn account before a call-up to our websites is made.
Data protection provisions about the application and use of Twitter
Components of the microblogging service Twitter are integrated on our websites. With each call-up to one of the individual pages of our websites into which a Twitter button was integrated, your Internet browser is automatically prompted to download a display of the corresponding Twitter component. During the course of this technical procedure, Twitter gains knowledge of what specific sub-page of our website you visited. If you are logged in at the same time on Twitter, it will detect which specific sub-page of our Internet page you visited. If you click on one of the Twitter buttons integrated on our websites, Twitter will assign this information to your personal Twitter user account and stores the personal data. If such a transmission of information to Twitter is not desirable, you may prevent this by logging off from your Twitter account before a call-up to our websites is made.
Data protection provisions about the application and use of YouTube
Components of the internet video portal YouTube are integrated on our websites. With each call-up to one of the individual pages of our websites into which a YouTube component/video was integrated, your Internet browser is automatically prompted to download a display of the corresponding YouTube component. During the course of this technical procedure, YouTube and Google gain knowledge of what specific sub-page of our website you visited. If you are logged in on YouTube, it recognizes with each call-up to a sub-page that contains a YouTube video, which specific sub-page of our websites you visited. If such a transmission of information to YouTube and Google is not desirable, you may prevent this by logging off from your own YouTube account before a call-up to our websites is made.
Integration of third-party services and content
We use content or service offers from third-party providers within our online offer in order to integrate their content and services, such as videos or fonts (hereinafter uniformly referred to as "content"). This always requires that the third-party providers of this content perceive the IP address of the user, since without the IP address they could not send the content to their browser. The IP address is thus required for the display of this content. We endeavor to use only such content whose respective providers use the IP address only for the delivery of the content. Third-party providers may also use so-called pixel tags (invisible graphics, also known as "web beacons") for statistical or marketing purposes. The "pixel tags" can be used to evaluate information such as visitor traffic on the pages of this website. The pseudonymous information may also be stored in cookies on the user's device and may contain, among other things, technical information about the browser and operating system, referring websites, time of visit and other information about the use of our online offer, as well as be linked to such information from other sources.
The following presentation provides an overview of third-party providers and their content, along with links to their privacy statements, which contain further information on the processing of data and, in part already mentioned here, opt-out options:
Your rights
You have to following rights regarding your Personal data :
These rights may be subject to exceptions or limitations (e.g. when your Personal Data has been processed for security purposes or stored for legal or contractual obligations) and taking account of available technology and the cost of implementation. In any case, we undertake to verify systematically your identity before processing any request you may have based on the above-mentioned rights.
Contact
If you would like to exercise any of your rights as described in this Privacy Policy or if you have any question or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact the Data Protection Officer.
Swiss Medical Network SA
Route du Muids 3
1272 Genolier
dataprotection@aevis.com