Privacy Policy
Preamble
Alps Group attaches great importance to respecting the privacy of the people with whom it maintains relations. Through this privacy policy, Alps Group undertakes to protect the privacy of the people whose data is processed in the context of the use of its website or when posting various content on social networks.
This privacy policy provides complete and transparent information on how Alps Group collects and processes your personal data in these cases. Personal data means any information that relates to an identified or identifiable natural person.
Alps Group may process your personal data when you visit its website and when you interact with Client through its website (e.g. contact form, etc.). Alps Group may also process your personal data because it holds different accounts and profiles on social networks. This may be information that Client collects about you or that you entrust to it.
Alps Group takes legal, organisational and technical measures to ensure that the collection and processing of personal data is carried out with all due diligence and in compliance with data protection legislation. All data processing complies with the principles of data protection, in particular the requirements relating to the purposes of the processing, the security of the data and the duration of its retention.
Legal Bases for Data Processing
Alps Group processes your personal data in compliance with the Federal Data Protection Act (FADP) and its implementing Ordinance. According to this, any processing of personal data must be lawful and justified by one of the following grounds: your consent, a predominant private or public interest, or the law.
When you have not consented to the processing of your personal data, Alps Group carries out the said processing on the basis of pursuing a legitimate interest of its own.
When you visit our website for purely informative purposes and do not submit information via a form, we collect and process the following data about you:
- the IP address of your computer
- the date and time of the visit
- the name and URL of the file consulted
- the operating system of your computer and its user interface
- the language and version of the browser software used
- the name of your internet service provider
Your browser automatically transmits the above-mentioned data via cookies. They improve your browsing experience by facilitating the use of the services on our website. These cookies will generally remain stored on your device until you delete them.
In addition to the cookies that are strictly necessary for the operation of this site, we use other types of cookies to implement web analysis services in order to establish statistical data (see section entitled “Google Analytics”). The storage of these cookies on your device requires your consent. You can deactivate the use of these cookies at any time by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, or by downloading and installing an add-on for this purpose. However, if you do not authorise the storage of certain cookies, such as those of a purely technical nature, certain features may no longer perform correctly or be inaccessible.
By continuing to browse our website without using the cookie blocking options, you accept the use of cookies, as well as the use of web analysis and tracking tools.
Social Media Broadcasting
Alps Group holds various accounts and profiles on social networks (LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube, etc.). Information published via these channels is automatically transmitted to the network operator concerned. We would like to point out that this data may be collected and transmitted to third parties without us being able to exert any influence on its use. This data is then processed under the responsibility of the operator concerned and in accordance with its confidentiality rules.
When you visit our account/profile on a social network or interact with us through this social network, we may receive personal data about you through it. This may include data that you share publicly on the social network, which is part of your user profile, or even data that it is authorised to share under your agreement (e.g. surname, first name, username, profile picture, contacts and friends, profession, email address, etc.).
Contact Form
You also have the option of sending us your requests using a contact form available on our website. So that we can contact you and respond favourably to your requests, you will be asked to send us your personal contact details (surname, first name, email address) as well as the subject of your request.
Unless otherwise specified, we do not transmit this information to third parties. We undertake not to process it for any purpose other than that of responding to your request and to delete it as soon as this purpose has been achieved, subject to an interest legitimising us to carry out another type of processing or when the law requires us to do so.
Google Analytics
On our website, we use Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google Ireland Limited (Gordon House Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland). Google Analytics uses cookies that are stored on your computer, which enable us to analyse your use of our website and improve its performance.
The information generated by the cookies about your use of our website (including your truncated IP address) is generally transmitted to Google Ireland Limited and stored on servers in the USA. If IP anonymisation has been activated on our website, Google Ireland Limited will shorten your IP address beforehand. In exceptional cases, your full IP address may be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and then shortened there. Google Ireland Limited uses this information on behalf of the website operator to evaluate your use of the website, compile reports and provide other services relating to website activity and internet usage. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics is not combined with other data from Google.
Your consent is the legal basis for this data processing. You can refuse the use of cookies by Google by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser and revoke your consent at any time, with effect for the future. However, this may prevent the use of certain features of our website. The browser plug-in required to deactivate Google Analytics can be downloaded and installed by clicking on the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=fr.
Data Security
We take appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure adequate security of your personal data and to prevent any breach of security that would accidentally or unlawfully result in the loss of your personal data, its modification, deletion, disclosure or unauthorised access to it. Our security measures are regularly updated according to technological developments.
Data Retention Period
We retain your personal data for as long as it is necessary for the pursuit of the above-mentioned purposes, i.e. to meet our contractual and legal obligations or when we have a legitimate interest. Your personal data is in principle deleted or destroyed as soon as it is no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which it was collected.
Rights of Data Subjects
In application of data protection legislation, you have the right to request information on the personal data that we process about you and to obtain a copy of it. You may also request the rectification or, where the request is legitimate, the erasure of this data, the limitation of the purposes for which it is processed, opposition to its processing and the portability of your data.
If you have given your consent to the processing of your personal data, you may also withdraw this consent at any time with effect for the future.
To exercise these rights, please contact us using the contact details provided in the “Site Operator and Data Controller” section above. In order to verify your identity, we reserve the right to require the provision of additional information before processing your request, in particular by presenting an identity document.
Finally, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent data protection authority, namely the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC).