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Privacy Policy
A legal disclaimer
This statement sets out our data processing practices and our commitment to protecting your personal data. Protecting and keeping your personal data secure is of utmost importance to us. The following statement will provide you with an overview of the practices we use to ensure data security and the kind of data and purposes for which we collect personal data.
Responsible body
The responsible body in terms of data protection law is:
PonteMed AG
Stickereistrasse 4
CH-9320 Arbon
Switzerland
Telefon +41 71 333 60 77
Email: office@pontemed.com
Your rights
When you are visiting this website, we will collect certain personal data. Personal data is defined as any information that could be used to identify you as an individual. However, by law, you are entitled to exercise the following rights at any time:
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To ask for information on the data we have stored about you, its origin, recipients and the purpose of its storage
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To ask us to correct incorrect personal data
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To ask us to delete your personal data that we have stored
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To restrict the processing of your personal data if we are unable to delete this data for legal reasons
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To refuse the processing of your personal data by us and
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To exercise your right to data portability if you have agreed to the processing of your data or have entered into a contract with us
Furthermore, you also have the right to withdraw any consent you have given us at any time with effect for the future.
Data processing purpose
We only process your personal data for the purposes specified in this data privacy statement. We do not share your personal data with any third parties other than for the purposes stated. We only share your personal data with third parties if:
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You have given your express consent
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Processing is necessary for the performance of a contract in which you are a party
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Processing is necessary for compliance with a legal duty
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Processing is necessary for protecting legitimate interests and there are no reasons to suggest that your interests in terms of the non-disclosure of your data override the need to protect legitimate interests
If you are only using this website to obtain information and do not provide us with any personal information, log in, register or place an order or provide other personal data, none of your personal data will be processed. This does not include the data automatically provided to us by your browser and information collected through cookies (see below) for statistical website usage analyses.
The data automatically provided by your browser are your:
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IP address
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Browser type and version
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Operating system
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Time of server request
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Referrer URL
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Host name of the accessing computer
Use of our website for information purposes
We use cookies on this website. A cookie is a small text file that is stored on your computer and that allows us to analyse usage of our website. To do so, the cookie collects user information such as a user’s IP address, browser, operating system and internet connection, which is then sent to us and stored for usage analyses to help us optimise our website. The usage information generated through cookies is not shared with any third parties.
If you do not wish to have cookies stored on your computer, you can disable cookies in your browser settings. However, doing so may prevent you from being able to make full use of some of the features on our website.
Cookies
This website uses Google Analytics. Google Analytics uses cookies, i.e. text files, that are stored on your computer and that allows us to analyse usage of our website. The website usage information obtained by these cookies is usually transferred to and stored on one of Google’s servers in the US.
Acting on instruction of this website’s operator, Google will use this information to analyse your use of this website, generate website activity reports and provide further services related to the use of this website and the internet to the operator of this website. The IP address provided by your browser to Google Analytics is not collated with other Google data.The storage of Google Analytic cookies serves our legitimate interest in analysing user behaviour in order to improve both our web content and advertising.
If you do not wish to have cookies stored on your computer, you can disable cookies in your browser settings. However, if you do so, you may be unable to use some of the features on our website or certain parts of those features. Furthermore, you can also prevent Google from recording and processing the data produced by the cookie as well as the data relating to your use of this website (including your IP address) by downloading and installing Google’s browser plugin.
For more information on how Google Analytics uses user data, please refer to Safeguarding your data.
Google Analytics
This website uses Google Maps API for providing geographical information in a visual form. When using Google Maps, Google collects, processes and uses data about a user’s use of Google Maps features. For more information on how Google processes data, please refer to the Google Privacy Policy. You can also change your personal privacy settings in Google’s privacy settings.
For more information on how Google Analytics uses user data, please refer to Safeguarding your data.
Using Google Maps
Our website uses plugins from YouTube, which is operated by Google. If you visit one of our pages featuring a YouTube plugin, your browser will establish a link to YouTube’s servers. When doing so, YouTube’s servers will be provided with information on the pages you have visited on our website.
Using YouTube
If you get in touch with us using any of the various contact options provided, we will store your personal data in order to allow us to process and respond to your enquiry, but we will never share this information with a third party without your consent.
Furthermore, we will provide you with information on whether we have processed any personal data about you and, if relevant, what kind of personal information we have stored on you, on request and free of charge.
We will retain your personal data either until you ask us to delete it or withdraw your consent for us to store this data. This does not affect any legal retention periods.
How we use contact data
If you submit a job application through the internet, you automatically consent to the storage, distribution and processing of the application data within the PonteMed Group for recruitment purposes.
Application documents may contain special categories of personal data in accordance with Art. 9 of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This includes, for example, information on political opinions, religious beliefs, physical or mental health or a photograph indicative of ethnic origin. By providing information of this kind in your job application, you consent to us processing, sharing and storing this information.
If an application is not successful, we will delete the application documents within six months of announcing the application’s rejection, provided such a deletion would not impact on any other legitimate interests of the responsible body.
Job applications
All of the information you provide to us will be stored on servers located within the European Union, the EEA and Switzerland. We always ensure that the relevant country has adequate data protection measures and data privacy laws.
We use appropriate technical and organisational security measures to protect your data from accidental or intentional manipulation, partial or complete loss, destruction and access by unauthorised third parties. Our security measures are constantly enhanced and updated in line with advances in the associated technologies.
However, please note that transmitting data on the internet (e.g. by e-mail) is always prone to security issues, which means that it is not possible to fully protect data from access by third parties.
Data security
Being a service provider, we are responsible for the content published by us in line with the general legal regulations. The contents of our websites have been created and are updated to the best of our knowledge and belief. We do not accept any responsibility for the completeness, accuracy and currency of the information provided. This also applies to all of the links that this website directly or indirectly provides. Furthermore, we do not accept any responsibility for the contents of the external websites associated with these links.
We reserve the right to change, amend or complete the information provided without prior notice.
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