Privacy policy
Preamble
HBP GROUP places great importance on respecting the privacy of individuals with whom it maintains relationships. Through this privacy policy, HBP GROUP is committed to protecting the privacy of individuals whose data is processed when using its website or when publishing various content on social networks.
This privacy policy provides comprehensive and transparent information about how HBP GROUP collects and processes your personal data in these contexts. Personal data refers to any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.
HBP GROUP may process your personal data when you visit its website and when you interact with HBP GROUP via its website (e.g., contact form, etc.). HBP GROUP may also process your personal data due to its ownership of various accounts and profiles on social media platforms. This may include information that HBP GROUP collects about you or that you provide to it.
HBP GROUP takes legal, organizational, and technical measures to ensure that the collection and processing of personal data is carried out with due care and in compliance with data protection laws. All data processing complies with data protection principles, particularly requirements related to the purpose of processing, data security, and retention periods.
Legal Bases for Data Processing
HBP GROUP processes your personal data in accordance with the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP) and its implementing ordinance. Under this law, any processing of personal data must be lawful and justified by one of the following grounds: your consent, an overriding private or public interest, or a legal obligation.
If you have not consented to the processing of your personal data, HBP GROUP carries out such processing based on its own legitimate interest.
Visiting Our Website
When you visit our website for informational purposes only and do not submit any information via a form, we collect and process the following data about you:
- the IP address of your computer
- the date and time of access
- the name and URL of the file accessed
- 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. These help enhance your browsing experience by facilitating the use of our website’s services. These cookies generally remain stored on your device until you delete them.
In addition to cookies that are strictly necessary for the operation of this site, we use other types of cookies to implement web analytics services, including the generation of statistical data (see section titled “Google Analytics”). The storage of these cookies on your device requires your consent. You can disable these cookies at any time by selecting the appropriate settings in your browser, or by downloading and installing a browser add-on. However, if you do not allow the storage of certain cookies, such as those of a purely technical nature, some features may no longer function properly or may become inaccessible.
By continuing to browse our website without using cookie blocking options, you consent to the use of cookies, as well as the use of web analysis and tracking tools.
Social Media Publishing
HBP GROUP operates various accounts and profiles on social media platforms (LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube, etc.). Information published through these channels is automatically transmitted to the respective social network operator. Please note that such data may be collected and shared with third parties, over which we have no control. These data are processed under the responsibility of the respective operator and in accordance with its own privacy policies.
When you visit our social media account/profile or interact with us through a social media platform, we may receive personal data about you from that platform. This may include data you publicly share on the platform, data that is part of your user profile, or data that is shared with us based on your consent (e.g., name, first name, username, profile image, contacts and friends, profession, email address, etc.).
Contact Form
You also have the option of sending us your inquiries using a contact form available on our website. In order for us to contact you and respond to your requests, you will be asked to provide personal contact details (name, first name, email address) as well as the subject of your inquiry.
Unless otherwise specified by you, we do not share this information with third parties. We commit to not using it for any purpose other than to respond to your inquiry and to delete it as soon as that purpose has been fulfilled, unless we have a legitimate interest in further processing or are legally obliged to retain it.
Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics on our website, a web analytics service provided by Google Ireland Limited (Gordon House Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland). Google Analytics uses cookies that are stored on your computer to help us analyze how you use 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 and stored by Google Ireland Limited on servers located in the United States. If IP anonymization has been activated on our website, Google Ireland Limited will shorten your IP address before transmission. In exceptional cases, your full IP address may be transmitted to a Google server in the United States and then truncated 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 related to website activity and internet usage. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics is not merged with other Google data.
Your consent constitutes the legal basis for this data processing. You can refuse the use of Google cookies by selecting the appropriate settings in your browser and withdraw your consent at any time with future effect. However, this may prevent the use of some features of our website. The browser add-on required to disable Google Analytics can be downloaded and installed via the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=fr.
reCAPTCHA
We also use the reCAPTCHA service provided by Google Ireland Limited (Gordon House Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland), hereinafter referred to as “Google”. This tool verifies whether data entered on our website (e.g., in a contact form) is entered by a human or an automated program/bot. It helps us improve our website’s security and prevent spam (unsolicited emails).
The reCAPTCHA service collects personal data from website visitors to determine whether they are real people and not bots or spam software. For this purpose, reCAPTCHA obtains certain information such as IP address, URL, date and language settings, and mouse and keyboard behavior. The IP address is almost always shortened before data is transferred to a Google server in the United States. Unless you are logged into your Google account while using reCAPTCHA, your IP address is not combined with other Google data. For more information on how Google may use this data, please refer to Google’s privacy policy via the following link: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=fr.
The use of reCAPTCHA is based on our legitimate interest and legal obligation to help secure our website and combat spam and abuse. By using reCAPTCHA, you consent to your data being processed by Google. If you do not want your data to be transmitted to Google, you must completely log out of Google and delete all Google cookies before visiting our website. In general, data is transmitted to Google as soon as you visit our website, so you will need to contact Google support to request deletion of this data using the following link: https://support.google.com/?hl=de&tid=331599549805.
Social Plug-ins
We use various social media plug-ins (LinkedIn and Facebook), indicated by corresponding symbols on our website. By default, these are disabled and do not transmit any data. If you activate them by clicking on them, your browser establishes a direct connection to the server of the respective social network operator. Please note that the operator may record your presence on our website, your location, and use this information for its own purposes. Your personal data is then processed under its own responsibility and in accordance with its data protection policies.
If you do not want data collected on our website to be linked to your personal profile by the respective social network operator, you must log out of the social network before visiting our website. You can also download and install browser add-ons that prevent the installation of social plug-ins.
Data Security
We take appropriate technical and organizational measures to ensure adequate security of your personal data and to prevent any security breach that could lead to the accidental or unlawful loss, alteration, erasure, disclosure, or unauthorized access to such data. Our security measures are regularly updated in line with technological advancements.
Data Retention Period
We retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the aforementioned purposes, i.e., to meet our contractual and legal obligations or where we have a legitimate interest. Your personal data is generally deleted or destroyed as soon as it is no longer required for the purposes for which it was collected.
Data Subject Rights
In accordance with data protection legislation, you have the right to request information about the personal data we process about you and to obtain a copy. You may also request the correction or, where appropriate, deletion of such data; restriction of processing purposes; object to processing; or request data portability.
If you have given your consent to the processing of your personal data, you may withdraw this consent at any time with future effect.
To exercise these rights, please contact us using the details provided under the “Data Controller and Website Operator” section above. In order to verify your identity, we reserve the right to request additional information before processing your request, including the presentation of identification.
Lastly, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent data protection authority, namely the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC).
