Policy last reviewed:

June 2019

Cosmovici Intellectual Property undertakes to observe and protect your privacy. Therefore, Cosmovici Intellectual Property complies with the General Data Protection Regulation (EU 2016/679) and the local laws applicable in various countries in which it operates.

Cosmovici Intellectual Property (“we”, “us”, “our”) operates its website (Website or Digital Service) in compliance with the applicable laws on data privacy protection and data security. On the other side, references to “you” and “your” are for the users of our Website.

This Privacy Policy (Notice) describes how we, as a data controller, may collect, use, and share information, particularly in association with the operation of our main website (https://cosmovici-ip.com), including any personal data you may provide through the use of the Website when you sign up to receive newsletters, register to our events.

We respect your privacy and duly protect the personal data we process about you (“Personal Data”). All processing of Personal Data is carried out in accordance with General Data Protection Regulation1 (“GDPR”).

The following describes how we collect, process and share your Personal Data.

Unless otherwise defined herein, terms used in this Notice have the same meanings as in GDPR.

• Performance of a contract – we may use your Personal Data required for the execution of a contract to which you are part of (labour contract, services contract); Likewise, we will use your personal information to respond to your requests sent on our Digital Service and provide you with such services.
• Legitimate interest – we may use your Personal Data for our legitimate interests to improve our Digital Service. We may use technical information as described in this Privacy Policy and use Personal Data to keep you up to date with our newsletters, in case you have chosen to join our Digital Service.
• Legal obligation – we may use your Personal Data when we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation that we are subject to;
• Consent – we may use your Personal Data to keep you up to date on the latest developments, announcements, and other information about our Digital Service for example: briefings, newsletters and events and initiatives.

While using our Digital Service, by subscribing thereto, we may ask you to provide us with certain personal identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. Personal identifiable information include: e-mail address, full name and phone number.

We may also collect information on how the Digital Service is accessed and used (“Usage Data”). This Usage Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Digital Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

We use the collected data for various purposes:

• provide and maintain our Digital Service;
• allow you to participate in interactive features of our Digital
• Service when you choose to do so;
• provide support;
• inform you about the latest developments and other information
  monitor the usage of our Digital Service;

We can also use your personal information to send you newsletters and other information you may be interested in. You may waive receipt of any or all of these communications from us by following the unsubscribe link or the instructions provided in any email we send or contacting us.

• The right to be informed – you are entitled to know what Personal Data we are processing regarding you, and you can request a copy of such data. This is why we’re providing you with the information in this Notice.
• The right of access – you have the right to obtain access to your Personal Data, and other certain other information (similar to that provided in this Notice).
• The right to rectification – you are entitled to have your Personal Data corrected if it is inaccurate or incomplete.
• The right to erasure – you have the right to request the deletion or removal of your Personal Data where there is no compelling reason for us to keep using it. This is not a general right to erasure; there are exceptions.
• The right to restrict processing – you have rights to ‘block’ or suppress further use of your Personal Data. When processing is restricted, we can still store your Personal Data, but may not use it further. We keep lists of people who have asked for further use of their information to be ‘blocked’ to make sure the restriction is respected in the future.
• The right to data portability – you have rights to obtain and reuse your Personal Data for your own purposes across different services.
• The right to object – you have the right to object against certain types of processing, including processing for direct marketing (which we do only with your consent).

We will retain your Personal Data only for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this Notice. We will retain and use your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

We will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our Digital Service, or we are legally obliged to retain this data for longer time periods.

We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Digital Service, to provide the services on our behalf, to perform service-related services or to assist us in analysing how our Digital Service is used.

These third parties have access to your Personal Information only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obliged not to disclose or use it for any other purposes.

The security of your data is important for us, thus we have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed.

Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction.
If you are located outside Switzerland and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Data, to Switzerland and process it there.

Your consent to this Notice followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Notice and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other Personal Data.

This Website is not intended for use by children. We understand the importance of protecting children’s information, especially in an online environment, and we do not knowingly collect or maintain information about children.

This Notice is updated from time to time. You will find the date of the last update at the top of this page.

If you have any questions, concerns, comments, requests or if you would like further information about this Notice, how we handle your Personal Data, please contact us:

COSMOVICI INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
By mail: office@cosmovici-ip.com
By phone: +41 22 819 18 05
In writing to: 14, Rue du Rhône, CH – 1204 Geneva, Switzerland