Data protection

Studer Family Office AG collects and uses certain personal data in accordance with the provisions of EU General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR"), the Swiss Data Protection Act ("DSG"), and the revised Swiss Data Protection Act ("re-DSG").

This declaration is aimed at persons whose personal data we process in connection with our business Aactivities and to visitors to our website.

Personal data means any data relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.

Types of Personal Data

In the course of its business activities, Studer Family Office AG receives and processes personal data that you provide to Studer Family Office AG or that we request from you. The nature of the relationship with you determines the type of personal information we collect about you.

These include in particular:

Business contact details of representatives and employees of our customers, as well as potential customers with whom we maintain a business relationship, such as first name, last name, e-mail address, telephone number, address, profession, job title;
Business contact details of an employee or representative of another organization with which we have a business relationship or with which we otherwise interact, such as first name, last name, email address, telephone number, address, occupation, job title;
Private contact and identification data of our employees, board members and applicants such as first name, last name, email address, telephone number, address, ID documents, date of birth, nationality, social security number;
Personal data of our employees, members of the board of directors and applicants, in particular information regarding their spouses and children, marital status, curriculum vitae, certificates, extract from criminal records, bank information, health-related information;
AML and KYC data of our customers or their representatives;
Employees' working time recording data, in particular working hours and absences.

Collection of Personal Data

Studer Family Office AG typically receives and processes personal data by:

you provide them to us;
you communicate with us via email or other channels;
you use this website;
you apply for an open position at Studer Family Office AG or during the term of your employment;
we consult other sources such as publicly available search engines, official databases, registers and archives, social media or other websites;
you fulfill an order for us.

Purpose of processing your personal data

Your personal data will only be processed in connection with our business activities and/or to fulfill our contractual or legal obligations. Studer Family Office AG uses your personal data in particular:

for communication purposes;
for documentation purposes;
for evidence purposes;
for customer management;
for marketing and advertising purposes;
for the fulfillment of contractual obligations;
for the fulfillment of internal guidelines and legal obligations;
for recruitment and employee administration purposes;

Disclosure of your personal data to third parties

In connection with the aforementioned purposes, your personal data may be passed on to third parties. These third parties may include:

external service providers (e.g. IT service providers, accounting, CRM system);
external consultants (e.g. lawyers, consultants, auditors);
other third parties if required or permitted by law or requested in connection with a legal proceeding.

Studer Family Office AG takes reasonable measures to ensure that these third parties are bound by confidentiality, data protection and data security obligations in relation to the protection of your personal data.

During the processing of certain personal data as described above, some personal data may be transferred to another country in Europe (e.g. Germany and France). These are countries whose legislation ensures adequate data protection.

Studer Family Office AG can also transmit your personal data in other ways if the law expressly permits such a transmission, e.g. if the transmission is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims or to process a contract.

Data security

Studer Family Office AG operates and maintains appropriate physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to protect your personal information from misuse, loss, damage, unauthorized access, alteration or disclosure. Access is restricted to authorized personnel. In addition, the effectiveness of these protective measures is tested through regular checks.

Your rights

When we process your personal data, you have the following rights, which in most cases you can exercise free of charge:

the right to request information about the processing of your personal data;
the right to have your personal data rectified if it is inaccurate or incomplete;
the right to erase your personal data (unless we are required by law or regulation to keep your personal data);
the right to withdraw any consent you have given to the processing of your personal data at any time. However, please note that we may still be entitled to process your personal data, in particular if we are required to store it by law or regulation;
the right to object to the processing of your personal data in certain cases or to instruct us to restrict such processing. Again, there may be cases in which we are not obliged or entitled to comply with this request;
the right, in some cases, to obtain certain personal data in a certain format and/or, where applicable, the right to instruct us to transfer that data to a third party;
the right to lodge a complaint with the relevant data protection authority if you believe that we have breached your rights.

Retention period

The retention period of your personal data in our possession depends on the purpose for which we use your personal data and our legal obligations.

Visit our website

When you visit our website, anonymous data is automatically collected regarding the navigation behavior of users in order to administer and improve our website. This data is, for example, your anonymized IP address, the times you visited or the time zones from which you access the website.

For security purposes and to protect confidential content during transmission, this website uses SSL encryption.

When you use our website, we may collect technical information using cookies. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and allow us to track your visit to our website. You can usually disable cookies by changing your internet browser settings. Please note that if you refuse the use of cookies, you may not be able to use all the functions of this website.

Responsibility

Studer Family Office AG is responsible for data processing. If you have any data protection concerns, you can send them to us at the following contact address:

Studer Family Office Ltd

Churerstrasse 25

8808 Pfaffikon

Switzerland

Email: Info@studerfamilyoffice.com

Modification of this privacy policy

Any changes we make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this webpage. Please check regularly for updates or changes to our privacy policy.

Last updated: 1 September, 2023

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