Privacy Policy
VULCAN ASSETS MANAGEMENT SA, route de Malagnou 38A, 1208 Geneva, (“VULCAN“, the “Company“, “USA” or “us“understands that your personal data and your privacy are important to you.
This Website Privacy Notice (the “Website Notice“) is to inform data subjects (“You”or the“Customer“) who access the website http://www.vulcan-am.ch (the “Website“) regarding how we collect, store, process and protect your personal data“Data“).
This Website Notice applies only to your use of the Website. For information on how we process data if you are a potential or existing client, or a contractual partner or service provider, please refer to our Data Privacy Notice available at [insert link].
The Website also uses cookies. For more information, please refer to our Cookie policy available at this link: https://vulcan-am.ch/cookies-settings/.
The type of data collected and processed by the Company depends on how you use the website.
Whenever you use the Website, we will collect the information that is sent to our servers in Switzerland by your browser, particularly the access data required for technical reasons to display the Website and ensure its stability and security. This includes the IP address, the date and time of your visit, the access status/HTTP status code, the referrer URL, the browser used, etc.
ii. Contact by email or telephone
You can contact us by email or phone.
Regarding any contact by email or phone, in addition to the elements mentioned under Chapter 1.i, we will receive the personal information you voluntarily provide to us in your communication, for instance your name, address, email, telephone number, date and time of the request and content of your request. The emails you send us are stored on our servers in Switzerland.
iii. Statistics
The statistics services allow VULCAN to monitor and analyse traffic data on the Website. They are used to keep track of the Website user's behaviour. The Website uses Google Analytics.
We may process the Data for the following reasons:
• to provide you with access to the Website;
• to be able to manage, secure, stabilise, develop and optimise the Website;
• to carry out statistical and other analysis regarding the use of the Website;
• to process your request, if you contact us using the contact form on the Website;
• to send you the newsletter if you subscribe to it;
• to reply to your email / to any request submitted by you;
• to comply with any applicable laws and regulations;
• to comply with a request or requirement from any court in any relevant jurisdiction or any relevant authority; and
• for use in connection with any legal proceedings or regulatory action (including prospective legal proceedings/regulatory action) and for obtaining legal advice or for establishing, exercising or defending legal rights.
3. How we store and protect the data
VULCAN only stores the Data for as long as necessary for the purposes described under Chapter 2 above and/or for as long as it has your permission to keep it, or if otherwise required by law.
Data will only be stored on our physical server/cloud located in Switzerland. We have taken the appropriate technical and organisational precautions to ensure that our servers are accessible exclusively to duly authorised persons. We have taken suitable technical measures to safeguard the Data.
You may exercise the following rights with respect to the Data:
• right to information – you can ask VULCAN if it processes Data about you;
• Right of access to data – you can ask us to provide you with a copy of the data it processes;
• right to request the rectification of Data – you can ask the Company to correct the Data if it is inaccurate;
• right to request the deletion of Data – you can ask us to delete the Data, subject to the Company being under a legal obligation to retain the Data or having a legitimate interest to retain the Data;
• right to request a limitation of the processing of Data – you can ask VULCAN to temporarily restrict or to limit the processing of the Data, subject to any potential applicable legal provisions;
• Right to request a prohibition on the processing of Data – you can ask VULCAN to stop the processing of the Data, subject to any potential applicable legal provisions;
• the right to withdraw your consent to the processing of Data – you may inform the Company that you are revoking your consent, to the extent that you have given consent for any specific purpose of processing the Data. The withdrawal of your consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing of Data carried out before said withdrawal/carried out based on another grounds for justification.
The exercise of any right set forth in this Chapter 4 to be carried out according to the modalities provided for in Chapter 7. It may be refused or limited for legal reasons or based on the applicable data protection law. We will inform you of the reasons for such refusal/restriction to the extent permitted by law.
We may disclose Data in the situations described below:
• to third parties who provide services to us (e.g. IT companies);
• to public authorities, regulators or governmental bodies or other third parties, when required by law or regulation; or
• otherwise, if you consent to such disclosure.
We do not sell the Data.
6. Transfer of Data Abroad
We may transfer the Data we collect to countries other than the country in which the information was originally collected. Your Data might/will be transferred to or made accessible from the following countries:
• Switzerland;
• Countries within the EEA;
• United States of America.
These destination countries may not have the same laws on personal information as the country where you initially provided the information via the Website.
When we transfer your Data to other countries, we will protect that information as described in the Website Notice and in accordance with applicable law. If necessary, we require the recipients referred to in Chapter 5 above to comply with appropriate safeguards designed to protect personal data.
Should you have any questions regarding the Website, the Website Notice, or data protection in general, please contact us by email at info@vulcan-am.ch.
If we are unable to assist you, if you are not satisfied with our answer or if you believe that our processing of the Data is in contradiction with the applicable legal provisions, you can contact the Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner and/or with any competent EU supervisory authority if applicable based on your place of residence.
8. Amendments
The Website Notice does not form part of any contract/contractual relation between you and VULCAN and your consent to the Website Notice is not required. We may revise the Website Notice unilaterally at any time without prior notice. Any change will be immediately posted on the Website. The current version of the Website Notice available on the Website shall apply. It is therefore recommended to consult the Website Notice regularly.