PRIVACY NOTICE

 We, The ShowCase Sàrl, Chemin du Pré-Fleuri 1-3, 1228 Plan-les-Ouates are the controller of the personal data which we collect and process.

Thank you for visiting and using our website, our social media pages, and our showroom and offices.

We respect your privacy and are committed to full transparency with regard to how we collect, use, and share your personal data.

This privacy notice informs you of how we process the personal data which we collect from you, which you provide to us, or which we may collect from other sources. This includes the various ways in which you interact with us, including in person, by email or telephone, through our website, or through our pages on social networks.

If you have any questions about your personal data, you can contact us at any time by e-mail at hello@show-case.ch.

As a data controller, we are providing this privacy notice to:

• list the personal data we collect from you
• explain why we process (e.g. collect, use, store, share) these data
• specify the legal bases on which we process these data
• identify with whom they are shared and where they are transferred
• lay out the security measures we take with your personal data
• describe your rights with regard to your personal data and how you can exercise them

WHAT DATA DO WE COLLECT?

When you interact with us, for example, on our website, through our social media accounts, by email, when you visit our showroom or our offices, or at events, we may collect your personal data.

When you get in touch with us, we collect your name, email address, telephone number, physical address, company you work for and communications metadata such as your IP address, time signature, and potentially geolocation details as contact information.

When you enter our premises (photo studios and offices), we may collect identifying information such as photographic images or video recordings of you, as well as contact information.

When you mandate us for our services, we collect transactional information such as payment details (e.g. credit card or bank account numbers) and billing address.

When you interact with us on social media, we may collect information from your social media accounts, such as profiles, photos, videos, stories, comments and other content generated by you where our name and/or services are mentioned or appear, if you authorize a third-party social network to share your personal data with us or when you use a social networḱ feature that is integrated with our website.

When you use our website, we collect various data including your IP address, location, browser type, operating system, source, duration of visit, pages viewed, etc. as usage information. Please also consult our cookie notice for further information on this.

When you send an unsolicited job enquiry or respond to an employment offer, we may collect professional information such as employment history, schools attended, references, or certifications.

We collect these data directly from you when you provide them to us and we may collect information about you from our partners when we co-host events together.

We also use cookies and other tracking technologies (pixels, web beacons, and APIs) that collect certain types of information when you interact with our website or open our emails, such as IP addresses, location, browsing devices or preferences, operating system, source, length of visit, pages viewed, etc. For further information, please consult our cookie notice. 

We may also collect personal data from third-party data aggregators (e.g. Google) and public sources.

 

WHY DO WE PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA?

We process your personal data in order:

• to respond to your queries regarding our services
• to provide you with our services
• to carry out commercial transactions with you
• to provide our customers with relevant marketing and communications about our services
• to manage your participation in events which we may organize;
• to optimize user experience on our website
• to guarantee the security of our website, staff and visitors
• to respond to job enquiries, unsolicited or otherwise
• to keep records of our activities to comply with financial obligations or to aid in dispute resolutions

 

ON WHAT LEGAL GROUNDS DO WE PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA?

Our processing of your personal data is lawful as long as there are legal grounds for doing so.

There are four main legal grounds on which we collect and process your data:

Processing necessary for the performance of a contract or prior to entering into a contract

When you start a client relationship with us, say by making an enquiry, getting in contact, etc. we process your contact information on a precontractual or contractual basis. Transactional information will be processed in the course of our business relationship and, if you respond to a job offer or send us an employment application, your professional information will also be processed on the same basis.

 

Processing on the basis of your consent

If you choose to subscribe to our communications and marketing materials, such as our Newsletter or mailing list, we will explicitly ask for your consent to process your personal data. Please note that you may exercise the option to unsubscribe or otherwise withdraw your content at any time by clicking on the “unsubscribe” button at the bottom of our Newsletter communications or contacting us at hello@show-case.ch. Information from your social media accounts and photos taken at events are also collected on this basis. For consent matters related to cookies, please see cookie notice.

Processing necessary for the purposes of our legitimate interests or of a third party

Although as our client you might be in a contractual relationship for specific services, we may want to let you know about different but related offerings that may be of benefit to you. In this case, it is in the legitimate interest of both our business and you that we process your contact information. Please note that in this case you have the right to object to the processing by contacting us at hello@show-case.ch.

We also process identifying information to guarantee the security of our premises, of our IT systems, as well as our staff and clients.

Processing necessary for compliance with a legal obligation

We as a business have legal obligations under both national and international law. In order to fulfil our obligations, we process your personal data for compliance purposes, record keeping, or fiscal, employment or security reasons.

WITH WHOM DO WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL DATA AND WHERE ARE THEY TRANSFERED?

We do not sell your personal data to third parties.

We may share your personal data with some of our providers (e.g. our IT hosting company, our CRM management services, our Newsletter publishing and distribution services, our billing company, and our fiduciary), or with authorities. We may also share your personal data with our partners when we co-host an event together.

Most of our providers are located in Switzerland, the European Union, and Great Britain.

Some of our providers are also located in the United States or have entities in the United States in addition to their offices and/or entities in the European Union. It is therefore important to note that your personal data may be transferred to this territory. These suppliers have put in place various safeguards when transferring personal data to the United States.

Our Newsletter provider is Mailchimp, which is located in the United States. For lawful transfers to the United States, Mailchimp relies on a Data Processing Addendum, which includes the European Commission Standard Contractual Clauses (see: here). AWS is also part of the Data Privacy Framework Program – see here.

Moreover, our website uses Google Analytics and other tools offered in the Google plug-in suite, such as reCaptcha, the Meta Pixel, as well as web beacons, pixels and APIs. Please note that by accepting these cookies, you consent to the transfer of your personal data to the United States. However, you can refuse them by using our preference center.

We may also use plugins on our website linking to social media platforms. The third-party platform’s use of information collected from you (or as authorized by you) is governed by its own privacy policy and your settings on the service. If you do not wish a third-party social network site to attribute data collected via our website to your account on that social network, you must log out of the relevant social network site before visiting our website.

WHAT SECURITY MEASURES ARE IN PLACE FOR YOUR PERSONAL DATA?

We take appropriate technical and organizational measures to secure your personal data and to prevent the loss, misuse, or alteration of your personal data.

When the personal data that we process is no longer required for the purpose for which it was collected, or to meet legal obligations, they will be deleted or destroyed securely.

WHAT ARE YOUR RIGHTS AND HOW CAN YOU EXERCISE THEM?

You can exercise your rights at any time by contacting us at hello@show-case.ch.

You have the following rights in relation to your personal data:

• You have the right to be informed about how your personal data are processed and access to your personal data at any time by contacting us at hello@show-case.ch.
• You have the right to rectify your personal data or to have your personal data erased under certain conditions.
• You have the right to restrict the processing of your personal data under certain conditions and, when based on legitimate interest, you have the right to object to the processing.
• When based on consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
• You have the right to data portability, that is, to receive the personal data in a structured, commonly used format. and to transmit those data to another controller without hindrance from us.
• If you are not satisfied with how we process your data, you have the right to make a complaint to a supervisory authority.

You can also limit the use of tracking technologies, such as cookies, by configuring your browser to warn you before accepting them, or you can simply configure it to refuse them.

If you feel that we are not respecting your rights or our obligations, you can lodge a complaint directly with your data supervisory authority at any time.

We reserve the right to make any changes and corrections to this privacy notice. Please refer to this page from time to time to review these and any new additional information.

The ShowCase Sàrl – January 2024