Privacy Policy
The Company is committed to respecting your privacy and we understand how important it is to protect an individual’s personal information and apply the highest ethical and regulatory standards.
We urge you to read this Privacy Policy to learn more about the policies and practices that hph Management GmbH (“The Company”) has developed to safeguard personal information, to manage our relationships with the third parties who may have access to personal information and to comply with all applicable data-protection laws. You will also find information about how to contact us to update personal information or express your preferences about how we process your personal information.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT
As part of our day-to-day business operations, and from our interactions with you, the Company may collect personal information about you. The personal information we collect is limited to information related to and needed for the conduct of our legitimate business purposes and/or fulfill commitments to you and fulfill our legal obligations. The Company may be able to provide individuals with the option of not identifying themselves, or using a pseudonym when entering transactions when it is lawful and practicable to do so. However, we will not always be able to do this and in such cases, if you do not provide personal information, the Company may not be able to provide services or information to you, or enter commercial engagements with you. We may have access to the following categories of personal information about you and only some of this information is personally identifiable information that could identify you directly, but each category may offer some information about your interests and activities that could be used to make inferences about you.
INFORMATION THAT YOU VOLUNTARILY PROVIDE OR IS LEGALLY REQUIRED:
Biographic or commercial profile. As part of our interaction with you, we may be required to collect personal information about you in order to provide you with services or information you request, or in order to facilitate commercial engagements with you. This personal information may be collected directly from you through your interactions with our Company, through services and content, including online, that we make available to you, or as result of services or other input you provide to the Company. Such information may include name, age, contact details, employment history, education history including qualifications, occupation or business details including areas of specialization.
INFORMATION THAT IS COLLECTED BY VISITING OUR SITE:
When you visit this Site, we have access to the following types of information about you:
IP address.
We record the Internet protocol (IP) address of your computer when you visit the Site. The IP address does not identify you personally, but it allows us to maintain communications with you as you move about the Site.
Cookies.
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or other Web-accessing devices by our websites. These cookies allow us to distinguish you from other users of our website, and to enhance our website and your experience when you browse our website. We also collect information about your use of the Site through cookies and similar technology. Cookies allow us to recognize you and maintain your preferences when you return to our Site. Cookie technology collects “clickstream” data, which does not include personally identifying information, but which reflects your activities on the Site and helps us to customize our Site experience and anticipate what may be of interest to our users, by monitoring traffic in popular areas and modifying the services and information to meet customer demand.
We use the following types of cookies:
First-party cookies – cookies set by the Site displayed in the browser window – identified by the domain name in the address bar of the browser window.
Session cookies – cookies that expire at the end of a browser session, starting with the time when a user opens the browser window, and finishing when the user exits the browser.
We use cookies on this website to:
Direct users to the relevant sections on the Site.
Make sure the Site delivers a consistent look across different browsers and devices.
Enable complex areas of the Site to function.
We only use first-party cookies or cookies of first-party functionality. We do not allow other sites or third parties to use our cookies for their own purposes or to place their own cookies on your computer when you access our Site.
Most Web browsers allow control of cookies through the browser settings. You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, which will enable you to decide if you want to accept it or not. However, if you do not accept a particular cookie, certain elements of the Site may not function correctly or completely.
To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to the delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION
INFORMATION LIMITATION AND DISCLOSURES:
Limitation.
The Company will only collect personal information about you that is necessary for one or more of our legitimate business purposes, or is required by law.
Disclosure.
The Company will advise you of the organizations (or types of organizations) to which we may normally disclose that personal information, and we will provide you with contact information in the event you would like access to your personal information we hold about you or need to update your personal information or preferences.
DISCLOSURE TO THIRD PARTIES
The Company will not sell or disclose your personal information without your consent, except where such disclosure is reasonably necessary for normal business operations and such disclosure is in accordance with all applicable data protection and privacy laws.
We may use third parties to provide services and information and we may provide some co-branded services in partnership with others. We also may use third parties to analyze data collected in the course of our normal business operations, including on this Site. We will not disclose your personally identifying information to anyone other than our employees and those third parties with whom we have a business relationship.
If we allow a third party to have access to your personal information, they will only be permitted access for purposes that are consistent with this privacy policy and specifically, we do not disclose an individual’s personal data to third parties, except when one or more of the following conditions is true:
We have the individual’s permission to make the disclosure
The disclosure is required by law, legal process or mandatory professional standards
The disclosure is reasonably related to the sale or other disposition of all or part of our business; but we will take reasonable steps to make you aware of such an event so that you might update your preferences in respect to how we process your personal information
The information in question is publicly available
The disclosure is reasonably necessary for the establishment of legal claims
The disclosure is to other Company entities or to persons or entities providing services on our or the individual’s behalf (each a “transferee”), consistent with the purpose for which the information was obtained, if the transferee, with respect to the information in question:
is subject to law providing an adequate level of privacy protection; or has contractually agreed to provide an adequate level of privacy protection
OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH THIRD PARTIES:
Co-branded products or services. The Company may partner with other companies to provide you with content or services on a joint or “co-branded” basis. At a co-branded site, you will see both the Company logo and the logo of the co-branded partner displayed on your screen. To access the services available on a co-branded site you may have to complete an online registration form, and this registration information may be shared with our co-branded partners. You should read the individual privacy policies of the co-branded sites, as these may differ in some respects from ours. Reading these policies will help you to make an informed decision about whether to provide your information to a given site. Remember, you may always opt-out of sharing your information with a partner site by choosing not to use the service or content provided by the co-branded site.
Links to other sites. The Company websites may also feature links to websites that we believe you might find useful and informative. Please be aware, however, that, other than the websites controlled by the Company group of companies, we do not endorse or recommend these sites’ content or services, and we are not responsible for the privacy practices of these other sites. We encourage you to be aware of and read the privacy policy of each site you visit. Remember, the statements in this privacy policy apply solely to information collected by the Company.
Advertisers. We do not permit advertisers to display their advertisements at the Site, and we will not permit third-party advertising servers to use cookies to collect information from users at the Site.
PERSONAL INFORMATION TRANSFERS
Permitted transfers of personal data to third parties or within the Company include the transfer of data from one jurisdiction to another and may include transfers to a jurisdiction where the laws provide different protection than the jurisdiction in which the data originated. In such cases, we will take appropriate measures to protect personal data in accordance with this privacy statement and all applicable data-protection law.
YOUR PRIVACY CHOICES
Accept cookies.
Your browser software can be set to reject all cookies, but if you reject our cookies certain of the functions and conveniences of the Site may not work properly.
Access/review/update personal information.
If an individual becomes aware that personal information we maintain about them is inaccurate, incomplete, misleading, irrelevant or out of date, or if an individual would like to access, update or review his or her information, the individual may contact us using the contact information below. The Company will attempt to provide the requested information or make requested changes to the extent allowable by applicable privacy laws. In any event, we will respond to you as soon as reasonably possible, to advise you of the outcome of your request.
Remove Personal information.
You may request the removal of previously provided personal information at any time using the contact information below.
CONTACT US
If you have any concerns or complaints about the manner in which your personal information has been collected or handled by the Company, or any queries in regard to this privacy statement or would like to advise us in respect to your choices as outlined above, please contact us using the following options:
You can email us at:
You can also write to the following address:
hph Management GmbH
Bodenstrasse 23
CH-6403 Küssnacht a. R.
Switzerland
CHANGES IN OUR PRIVACY POLICY
We will only use personally identifying information in the manner described in the Privacy Policy in effect when the information was collected from you. However, we reserve the right to change the terms of this Privacy Policy at any time by posting revisions to the Site and will take adequate and reasonable action to obtain your consent if required, to process your personal information.