Personal Data Protection Declaration
Last updated: [04/08/2023]
We take the protection of your personal data very seriously and want to assure you that we respect our legal obligations in this area.
We have therefore drawn up this personal data protection declaration to explain to you in a clear and transparent manner how we collect, process and use your personal data and for what purpose.
1. Data controller and contact
The data controller is Anne Lassus, OriginOil, 77 chemin des Marais, 1255 Veyrier (CH)
For any questions regarding data protection or to exercise your rights, please send us an email at [contact@originoil.ch] or send us a letter to the above address
2. Personal data collected
Personal data is any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.
These data include sensitive data, the processing of which requires the express consent of the person concerned, namely:
- data on religious, philosophical, political or trade union opinions or activities;
- data on health, intimate sphere or racial/ethnic origin;
- genetic data;
- biometric data uniquely identifying a natural person;
- data on criminal and administrative prosecutions or sanctions; or
- data on social assistance measures.
In general, we collect personal information in the following categories:
- Identity: Name, first name,
- Contact: Address, phone, email, social media.
- Account: Account ID, User ID, Account Profile, Settings and Preferences, Purchase History, Subscriptions and Registrations.
3. How is your data collected?
We may collect your personal information in a number of ways:
- When you interact directly with us, for example by registering for our services, filling out forms, contacting us, applying for a job or being employed by us.
- When personal information is provided by you or others through actions such as uploading, sharing, sending or entering through our services or networks, or through communication with us.
- When you interact with us indirectly, such as by using our services, visiting our offices or attending our events, accessing emails or viewing advertisements from us, or when communication takes place between you and us, we may collect certain information. Some of this information may be collected automatically using cookies and similar technologies.
- When personal information about you is obtained from external sources, including our business partners such as data brokers and advertising partners, or when information is shared by your affiliated organizations, government agencies that disclose public records, and other publicly available or generally available sources, which may also include websites.
4. Purposes of collecting personal data
We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it, namely:
- To fulfill our contractual obligations.
- To register as a new customer.
- To process and deliver your order and complete payment transactions.
- For any purpose with your consent or to follow your instructions.
- To communicate and interact with you about our services and process related transactions.
- To allow you to enter a sweepstakes, contest or complete a survey.
- To develop or improve our products/services, website, marketing or customer relationships.
- To recommend products or services that may be of interest to you.
- To audit/measure the use of our services/products, networks and corporate devices.
- To ensure your and our security and prevent abuse, fraud and other criminal activity.
- To comply with our legal obligations.
- To preserve/exercise our rights or protect our legitimate interests.
- To design, manage or improve our internal processes.
5. Legal basis
The processing of your personal data is based, depending on its purpose, on the following different legal bases:
- The contract or in order to take pre-contractual measures.
- Your consent and instructions.
- Legitimate interests (e.g. customer database, marketing, technical management).
- The applicable national or foreign legal bases.
6. Transmission of personal data to third parties
In order to conclude or execute a contract and provide you with our services, it may be necessary to transmit your personal data to partners with whom we collaborate. Before doing so, we ensure that these partners comply with the legal requirements regarding the protection of personal data.
We may also transmit data to third parties if we are required to do so by legal provisions or an enforceable administrative or judicial decision.
7. Transmission of personal data to third parties outside Switzerland and the EEA
The processing and storage of your personal data is mainly carried out in Switzerland
When the processing of your data is carried out outside Switzerland or the EEA, we verify, before communicating your personal data, that:
- the recipient provides an adequate level of protection of your personal data;
- we have your explicit consent; or
- we have a legal basis to do so; or
- we are legally obliged to do so.
To verify the adequacy of the level of protection of your personal data offered by the recipient, we rely in particular on:
- an adequacy decision for the country in question; or
- the use of standard contractual clauses of the European Union or the model contract of the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC).
8. Storage duration and retention period
We retain your personal data for the period necessary to fulfil our contractual and legal obligations, as well as for the purposes pursued by the processing. For example, we retain them for the entire duration of our business relationship (from preparation to termination of the contract), and beyond this period, in accordance with legal retention and documentation obligations.
We may also retain your personal data for a period during which claims may be made against us, or if it is required by law or for legitimate business interests (for example, for evidentiary or documentation purposes).
9. Profiling and automated individual decision-making
No profiling is carried out with your personal data.
Your personal data is not subject to automated decision-making.
10. Data Security
We have implemented technical and organizational security measures to protect your personal data against loss, theft, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction. We ensure that our subcontractors comply with the rules on the protection of personal data.
Since transmissions made over the Internet are never completely secure, we cannot, despite our best efforts, guarantee the security of the information you transmit to us via our website. Transmissions made through this means are therefore at your own risk. You can of course transmit your information through us (e.g. in person, by telephone).
11. Children's Data
Our Site is not directed to children. If we are notified or discover that personal data from a child under 18 has been inappropriately collected, we will take all reasonable steps to delete such data.
12. Cookies and other tracking technologies
has) What is a cookie?
We use cookies on our website to improve your user experience and to track statistical data from our visitors. Cookies are text files that are stored on your computer when you visit our website. They allow us to recognize your browser and provide you with easier access to our website.
b) Legal bases and purposes
The legal bases for this processing of your personal data are:
- your consent
- our legitimate interest (in particular to provide you with the service you have expressly requested from us or for the provision of electronic communication services).
These cookies serve several purposes:
- Strictly Necessary Cookies: These cookies are essential for the website to function properly and enable you to use its basic features, such as navigating between pages and accessing secure areas. Without these cookies, the website cannot function properly.
- Preference cookies: These cookies allow the website to remember information you have provided and choices you have made to personalize your user experience, such as your preferred language or the region you are in.
- Performance cookies: These cookies collect anonymous information about how visitors interact with the website, in order to improve its functioning and better understand user needs.
- Marketing cookies: These cookies are used to track users across websites in order to provide targeted and relevant advertising. They are usually placed by third parties, such as advertising networks or social networks.
c) Who can place these cookies?
The cookies on the website are issued by Google Analytics.
Please note that the privacy policies of these partners govern the issue and use of their own cookies on the site.
d) Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics to collect data about how our website is used. The data collected includes information such as the number of visitors to our site, the pages visited, and the length of the visit. This data is collected for analysis purposes and to improve our website.
Google Analytics uses cookies to collect this data. The information generated by the cookie is transmitted to Google and stored on their servers. Google uses this information to evaluate your use of our website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide us with other services relating to website activity and internet usage.
The data collected by Google Analytics is not used to identify you personally. IP addresses are anonymized and are not stored with the collected data. We have also enabled the "IP anonymization" feature in Google Analytics to ensure that your IP address is anonymized before it is transmitted to Google.
For more information on the privacy practices of Google Analytics, please visit: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245.
e) Google Maps
Not used
f) Google reCaptcha
We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website from spam and automated attacks. Google reCaptcha uses cookies and collects data such as mouse movements and clicks to verify whether you are a human or a bot.
The data collected by Google reCaptcha is not used to personally identify you.
For more information on the privacy practices of Google reCaptcha, please visit: https://support.google.com/a/answer/1217728?hl=en.
g) List of cookies used on the website
Google Analytics
https://www.originoil.ch/content/6-politics-de-protections-des-donnees-personnelles
h) How to configure cookies?
You can do this as follows, by selecting “Customize”
13. Social Media Plugins
Social media plugins are tools that allow users of our website to share content on social media platforms Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, and LinkedIn. The social media plugins are easily identifiable on our website by their respective logo.
When you use these plugins, the corresponding social networks may collect data about you, such as your IP address, the pages you have visited on our website and the interactions you have had with the plugins.
It is important to note that if you are logged into your social network account at the time of using the plugin, the data collected may be used to personally identify you. The data may also be used for advertising or profiling purposes, in accordance with the privacy policies of the social networks.
If you do not want social networks to collect data about you when using our website, please log out of your social network account before using our social media plugins.
Please note that we have no control over the privacy practices of the corresponding social networks. We therefore recommend that you consult the privacy policy pages of the social networks for detailed information on their privacy practices.
By using our website, you consent to our use of social media plugins and to the social networks collecting data about you in accordance with their privacy policies. If you do not wish to consent to these practices, please do not use our social media plugins.
14. Email communications and newsletters for advertising purposes
Not applicable
15. Your rights
You have the right
- to request access to, rectify or erase your personal data
- to restrict or object to the processing of your personal data
- to withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future and to the extent that the processing is based on consent
- to obtain a copy of your personal data (right to data portability).
16. How to exercise your rights?
If you have any concerns about how we collect, use and protect your personal data, we encourage you to contact us at contact@originoil.ch so that we can attempt to resolve your concerns.
However, if you are not satisfied with our response or if you consider that we are processing your personal data inappropriately or unlawfully, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority for your country of residence.
17. Links to Third Party Websites
We provide links to websites of other companies on our site. Please note that we are not responsible for the data protection measures applied on these external websites, accessible via these links. We recommend that you inform yourself about the personal data protection policies of these external websites.
18. Changes to the personal data protection declaration
OriginOil reserves the right to amend this personal data protection declaration at any time, without giving reasons, in order to comply with legal requirements or to protect the interests of the company.
The current version of the personal data protection declaration is available on our website.
Please check back regularly to ensure you are informed of the latest changes.
Personal Data Protection Declaration
Last updated: [04/08/2023]
We take the protection of your personal data very seriously and want to assure you that we respect our legal obligations in this area.
We have therefore drawn up this personal data protection declaration to explain to you in a clear and transparent manner how we collect, process and use your personal data and for what purpose.