Privacy Policy

Website Privacy Notice

This Privacy Policy explains the personal data that Bcomp Ltd collects through your use of our Website and the rights you can assert on the use of your personal data when you use our Website or contact us via the Website.  Personal information collected about you in connection with other Company activities may be covered by different privacy statements.

By accessing and using the Website, you expressly acknowledge that we may collect and process personal data in accordance with this Privacy Notice.

Who is responsible for the processing of your personal data

Bcomp Ltd. (hereinafter “Bcomp” or “we” or “us”) is the responsible party for the processing of your personal data collected through the Website bcomp.ch.

We have our registered headquarter at Passage du Cardinal 1, 1700 Fribourg, Switzerland.

For any queries regarding your personal information or its processing, please contact us at contact@bcomp.ch

How we collect your personal data

We collect the personal data that you provide to us when you use the Website, in particular when you use the “Get in touch” contact form or the “Stay in touch” newsletter subscription form.

Certain information that you provide to us in that context is mandatory. For instance, when you fill in our Get in touch form (contact form), you agree to at least provide us with the following information: First name, last name, your email, company name, country. You also have the option of whether you wish to tell us about your role within your company, such data being optional. When you fill in our Stay in touch form to receive our newsletter, you provide us the following information: First name, last name, your email. You also have the option of whether you wish to tell us about your company name and role within it.

We also automatically collect personal data, including by means of cookies, as further described in this privacy notice.

How and on which legal grounds we process your personal data

We process your personal data by automated means for the purposes indicated in this privacy notice and in accordance with applicable law.

We take the technically and organizationally appropriate security measures to prevent unauthorized access, disclosure, modifications or destruction of your personal data, as specified below.

We only process your personal data if we have a valid legal ground for doing so. Depending on the processing in question, we will only process your personal data if:

• data processing is necessary to fulfil our contractual obligations to you or to take pre-contractual measures at your request (contractual necessity); this is the case in particular when processing your personal data is strictly required to provide you with the Websites or to provide you with information requested through our Website;
• data processing is necessary for the fulfilment of our legitimate interests, and to the extent that your interests or fundamental rights do not require us to refrain from processing; our legitimate interests include in particular (i) ensuring that the Website is provided in an efficient and secure way, (ii) improving and developing our Website, (iii) benefitting from cost-effective services (e.g. we may opt to use certain services offered by suppliers rather than undertaking the activity ourselves), and (iv) achieving our corporate goals;
• we have obtained your clear and unambiguous consent; or
• data processing is necessary to comply with our legal or regulatory obligations.

Purposes for which we process your personal data

Your personal data is collected and processed for the purpose of operating the Website and for the other legitimate purposes explicitly specified below and is not further processed in a manner that is incompatible with those purposes.

We process your personal data for the following purposes:

To operate the Website and provide the related services. We mainly provide your personal data to provide the Website, based on our contractual necessity to do so, including for providing the requested information as well as for customer management purposes. In that context, we automatically collect technical information about your interactions with the Website, including your navigation details on the Website. We process this data to establish a connection with your device over the Internet, to identify you when you use the website and to manage to stability and security of the Website.

To contact you and respond to your queries. The Website allows you to contact us directly, via a contact form. In this context, we process the data which you provide to us (including your contact information and the subject-matter of your request) and such data is used for the purpose of providing you with the requested information and services, based on our contractual necessity. The retention period depends on the reason for your request and its context but may be retained for as long as there is a legal ground (such as evidentiary or tax purposes).

To send you our newsletter and other advertising information. If you subscribe to our newsletter, we will collect your contact details and use it to provide you with our newsletter based on your consent. You may unsubscribe from the newsletter service at any time, in which case your contact details will be deleted. We also process the time of registration and your opt-in confirmation based on our legal obligation to demonstrate compliance. We also analyse your use of our newsletter, e.g. whether you have opened it or clicked certain links, to optimize and improve our newsletter, based on our legitimate interest.

We use the third-party services of Mailchimp to provide you our newsletter services. Mailchimp will have access to and process your contact data in order to provide you with the service. Its privacy policy is applicable in connection with this service and is available here Mailchimp’s Privacy Policy.

To provide you with job opportunities within Bcomp. In a certain section of the Website, we may process your personal data to allow you to consult and apply for job opportunities within Bcomp. We will process the personal data that you provide in that context. In addition, if you provide us with links to your profile on social media platforms such as LinkedIn), or with contact information for reference, we will assume that we are authorized to gather information from these sources. We will process your personal data solely for the purpose of assessing your application, based on our contractual necessity, and within three months of the completion of the selection process, your data will be deleted, unless required otherwise by our legal obligations. You can request deletion earlier at any time by emailing us at: workwithus@bcomp.ch or contact@bcomp.ch.

For internal analysis and statistical purposes in order to improve our Website. Unless you object to such processing, we may process your personal data, in particular data relating to your use of the Website and your habits and preferences for internal analysis and statistical purposes, In order to better understand the needs of our users and to optimise their experience. You may object to such processing activities at any time.

For that purpose, we use third-party service provider such as Google Analytics, Google Data Studios, Google Tag Manager and Google reCaptcha. We use Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager to collect statistical information to help us understand Website traffic and webpage usage. Cookies added by Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager are governed by their respective privacy policies which can be found here and here.

To comply with our legal obligations. We may further process your personal data if we have a legal obligation to do so; this may be the case if we need to disclose certain information to public authorities or retain such information for tax or accounting purposes, or the establishment or defence of legal claims. We retain the personal data for the duration of the legal obligation imposed on us.

For other purposes for which we have obtained your consent. In addition to the above, we may process your personal data if we have obtained your prior unambiguous consent for specific purposes. Consent can be withdrawn at any time but this does not affect data processed prior to withdrawal.

Circumstances in which we disclose your personal data to third parties.

We may disclose your personal data to third parties in connection with the operation of the Website, such as Webtoffee (cookies management) and to subcontractors, such as IT service providers, cloud service providers, marketing solution providers such as Mailchimp (newsletter management), Google Analytics (data analytics tool), Google reCaptcha.

We also use plugins from social networks LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube on our Website. We have configured these elements to be disabled by default. If you enable these (by clicking on them), the social network operators may register that you are on our Website and where you are on our Website and may use this information for their own purposes. The operator concerned will then be responsible for processing your personal data in accordance with the applicable data protection provisions. We will not receive any information regarding you from the operator concerned. You should carefully review the privacy policies of any other websites you visit from the websites to learn more about their personal data processing practices.

We may also disclose your personal data where we have a legitimate interest to do so, for example to respond to a request from a judicial authority or in accordance with a legal obligation, or in the bringing or defence of a claim or in the context of restructuring, in particular if we transfer our assets to another company.

International transfers

We store your personal data on servers located in Switzerland and/or the European Union.

In principle, we do not transfer your personal data to other countries or make it available there. However, in certain circumstances, your personal data may be available to recipients located abroad, from which locations some data may become available. In such cases, we will ensure that suitable safeguards are in place in accordance with applicable data protection laws, for instance by relying on standard contractual clauses adopted by the European Commission. If you transfer data to us, you expressly consent to such data transfers. You may request additional information and data to us and obtain copy of the relevant safeguards upon requests by sending a request to the contact address indicated above.

Retention of data

We will erase or anonymise personal data as soon as it is no longer necessary for us to fulfil the purposes set forth in this privacy policy, This duration varies depending on the type of data concerned and the applicable legal requirements. In view of the legal obligations incumbent upon us, certain information relating to our contractual relationship must be retained for at least 10 years and may need to be retained longer to allow for proper provision of services.

Security

We are committed to the security of your personal data and have in place physical, administrative and technical measures designed to keep secure your personal data and to prevent unauthorized access to it. We restrict access to your personal data to those persons who need to know it for the purpose described in this privacy notice.

Although we take appropriate steps to protect your personal data, no website is completely secure and therefore we cannot guarantee that data you provide to us is safe and protected from all unauthorized third-party access. We waive any liability in this respect.

If we have reasonable reasons to believe that your personal data have been acquired by an unauthorized person and applicable law requires notification, we will promptly notify you of the breach by email (if we have it)and/or by any channel of communication reasonably available for such purpose.

Our use of cookies and analytical tools

“Cookies” are small text files that are stored by your browser on your device when you access the Website. We use cookies on our Website to collect information about how visitors use our Website and to enhance aspects of the performance of our Website. The aim with these cookies is to improve your experience on our Website. Here you can see the cookies we use and how you can enable/disable them.

If you do not want cookies to be stored on your device, you may configure your browser or your device to refuse and/or restrict the cookies. You may also change your cookies preferences through the interface available on the Website. Certain cookies are, however, essential to the functioning of the Website itself and its use may be altered or prevented by refusing these cookies.

For more information, please visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/fr/. Please check the user help sections of your internet browser or electronic devices for specific instructions on the management of cookies.

Why and how we use cookies and other similar technologies 

These technologies are generally aimed at monitoring and analysing your interactions with the Website and/or to enable us to improve the Website and its functionalities, namely through the personalisation of the Website and the related services, according to your interactions. We also use cookies and similar technologies to measure and monitor the traffic and use of the Website, as well as its performance.

Some cookies are retained in your electronic device for only as long as you access and use the Website, while others persist for a longer specified or unspecified period.

We may use the following cookies:

Necessary cookies

The following cookies are required and the Website cannot function properly without these cookies.

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Optional performance cookies

The following cookies help improve the user experience of the Website and can provide a more personalised service.

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Advertising cookies

These cookies are used to better understand customer interests and to display more relevant advertisements.

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Rights

You may have certain rights with respect to personal data collected through the Website. The rights that apply will depend on the laws of your country of residence, but it will usually include a right for you to know whether we are processing your personal data. You may contact us to know the content of such personal data, to verify its accuracy and, to the extent permitted by law, to request that it be supplemented, updated, rectified or erased. If you would like us to delete your personal data from our system, please send a request to the contact details below, which we will comply with unless we need to retain your data for legal or other legitimate reasons. Where we rely solely on your consent to process your personal data, we will seek your freely given consent and you may revoke such consent at any time. For more information about your rights or to exercise your rights, contact us at contact@bcomp.ch

Contact

As a reminder, if you have any questions about this privacy policy or your personal data, please contact us at contact@bcomp.ch

Changes to this privacy notice

This privacy notice may be subject to amendments, in particular to adapt it to any new commercial or technological practice or change in law, and we will inform you by all appropriate means (email, pop-ups, etc.). If you do not agree to the changes made, you must stop accessing and/or using the Website.