Global Data Excellence (GDE or we or us) is strongly committed to protecting your privacy.

This Privacy Notice (the Notice) applies to the processing of your personal data in relation to the use of our website https://globaldataexcellence.com/, https://www.globaldataexcellence.ch, https://www.globaldataexcellence.fr/, https://www.globaldataexcellence.co.uk. (the Websites) and the performance of our contract with you when using and/or purchasing our services.

The website may contain links to other websites. Please note that we have no control over how your data is collected, stored, or used by other websites and we advise you to check the privacy policies of any such website before providing any data to them.

GDE may process the following personal data about you:

• your name and contact details (e.g. name, address, phone number or email address), information about the company you work for, your position or title and your relationship to a person, and other basic information;
• technical information (e.g. your IP address, device, browser, date and time of your visit etc.);
• information on your behaviour on our website (e.g. products you purchase, information on your interaction with us, your requests or about the sites you visit);
• financial information (e.g. payment-related information);
• information provided to us for the purposes of attending meetings, seminars and events;
• information in relation to materials and communications we send to you electronically (e.g. your use of marketing e-mails);
• any other information relating to you which you may provide to us when interacting with us (e.g. in relation to the performance of a contract with you).

Such data may also include sensitive data, i.e. data that requests higher protection. We will usually not process such information, unless you give your prior consent thereto.

You are not obliged to provide us with this information. However, please note, that in case you do not wish to share this data with us, you may not be able to use our entire services and products.

Usually, we collect this information directly from you. However, we also may collect from time to time your personal data from other sources, for example to keep your information up to date using publicly available sources. We need your personal data in the course of providing our services only.

Further, in case that you provide us with personal data from third parties, we rely on the lawfulness of such disclosure and require you to ensure that you are permitted to share such information with us.

Moreover, GDE aims to ensure that your personal data is accurate, complete, and current, but we depend on you to update or correct your personal information whenever necessary.

“Automated individual decision making” relates to decisions which are based solely on automated means and which result in negative legal effects or other similarly negative effects on you.

“Profiling” means a process by which personal data is processed automatically to evaluate, analyse or predict personal aspects, e.g. work performance, economic situation, health, personal preferences, interests, reliability, behaviour, location or movements.

We may process your personal data based on such processes, in particular in the context of our marketing activities or customer relationship management. We will inform you separately if we make automated individual decisions and provided that such information is required by law.

We may also transfer your personal data to recipients abroad, including in countries that do not provide the same level of protection as Swiss law. Before we do so we will implement appropriate measures to protect your personal data, for example by requiring the recipient to agree to data processing agreements. (If you would like to receive a copy of these agreements, please contact us at the address indicated above. These agreements are usually based on the EU standard clauses, which you may review here). We may also transfer personal data with your explicit consent and in certain other situations as permitted by applicable law.

A cookie is a small text file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our website.

Before cookies are placed on your computer or device, you will be shown a pop-up requesting your consent to set those cookies. By continuing to browse our website, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.

We use the following cookies:

• Strictly necessary cookies: these are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website or make use of e-billing services.

• Functionality cookies: these are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).

• Analytical/performance cookies: these allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. Our website uses analytics services provided by Google Analytics. You do not have to allow us to use these Cookies, however whilst our use of them does not pose any risk to your privacy or your safe use of our website, it does enable us to continually improve our website, making it a better and more useful experience for you.
  

• Targeting cookies: these cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have viewed and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including strictly necessary cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our website and related services.

Our website may contain links to third party websites some of which may also use cookies. This Notice does not cover third party websites which will be subject to their own privacy and cookies policies. We do not have access to or control over cookies or other features used by such website. Please contact them directly for more information about their privacy practices.

We retain your personal data for as long as it is necessary for the purposes for which the data is collected, and as long as we have a legitimate interest in keeping personal data (for example to enforce or defend claims or for archiving purposes and IT security). We also retain your personal data as long as it is subject to a legal retention obligation.

This Notice may be updated over time, specifically if we change our data processing or if new legislation becomes applicable. We actively inform persons whose contact details are registered with us of such changes in the event the changes are significant, if this is possible without disproportionate effort. In general, however, the data protection declaration in its current version at the beginning of the respective processing applies to data processing.