PRIVACY STATEMENT
This data protection statement contains the principles of Charité Maritime for the handling of personal data collected during visits to this website, processed and used. The protection of your data is very important for Charité Maritime and the implementation of the European General Data Protection Regulation have highest priority. We respect your private sphere and we undertake to observe them. So that you can feel secure when using our website, we would like to inform you about how we use your data and how you can exert an influence on the collection and further utilization of your personal data.
1. Controller
Charité Maritime , with registered address at Riva Vincenzo Vela 12, 6900 Lugano, Switzerland, is responsible for the operation of the website. With questions or remarks in connection with data protection or with the use of our website, please contact the address given in the imprint or use our contact form.
2. Extent of the Processing of Personal Data
To use our website it is not absolutely necessary that you disclose personal data. Should you, however, decide to use our website actively and to make contact with us, to send for product information and/or order products directly, we then need your name and your address, and in some cases further details, so that we can provide the desired services.
The collection and utilization of your data takes place regularly only with your consent. An eception applies in cases in which, for practical reasons, prior consent is not possible and the processing of the data is permitted by statutory regulations (see also point 5: Usage Data).
3. Purpose of the Processing
The processing of personal data is undertaken solely for provision of the services requested and for safeguarding one’s own legitimate business interests. Charité Maritime otherwise collects and processes personal data only in keeping with the stipulations of statutory regulations.
4. Period of Storage
We process and store your personal data only for the period necessary for fulfilment of the purpose of the storage, or if this is foreseen in laws or regulations. After the purpose has been fulfilled or no longer exists, your personal data is deleted or blocked. In the case of blockage, the deletion takes place as soon as there are no longer statutory, company-law or contractual retention periods prohibiting this, there is no reason to assume that deletion would impede your legitimate interests, and such deletion would not, due to the special nature of the storage, invoke a disproportionately high level of cost or effort.
5. Usage Data
With every call-up, even in cases of solely information-seeking use of the website, we record temporary data and information of a general nature that your browser transfers in order to enable your visit to the website. Such data includes
access to the website (date, time and frequency)
time-zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
content of enquiry (specific page)
how you came to the website (previous page, hyperlink, etc.)
quantity of data sent
which browser, browser version and language you use
the operating system used by you
which Internet service provider you use
the IP address that your Internet-access provider assigns to your computer during the connection with the Internet
The recording and storage of this data is necessary for the operation of the Internet site, to ensure the functionality of the website, and to deliver the contents correctly, whereby no personal allocation is undertaken. Furthermore, this data helps us to optimize our website and to safeguard the security of our IT system. For this reason the corresponding log files are stored for a maximum of 7 days as technical precautionary measures.
6. Cookies
During use of our website, Cookies are stored on the device used by you to call up the page. Cookies are small text files which, on visiting a website, are stored on the user’s terminal device.
The stored information is sent back to our server on the next visit or visits to the website. We make use of session cookies and of temporary cookies.
Session cookies store a so-called session ID with which various enquiries of your browser can be ascribed to the joint session. These are automatically deleted from your hard disk again after the end of the browser session. This type of cookie is used by us to recognize you again throughout your visit to the website, even if you have called up sub-pages.
Temporary cookies are automatically deleted after a pre-specified period. They allow us to identify you, on repeated visits to the website, on the basis of the response of the set cookies to our server, and this over various browser sessions.
You have the option of configuring your browser, via the browser settings, such that either individual types of cookies or else no cookies at all are allowed. Our website can also be visited by you if your browser settings block the setting of cookies. At this point, however, we draw your attention to the fact that unlimited use of our website is in this case not possible, for technical reasons.
7. Passing-On to Third Parties
A passing-on of data to third parties occurs only to the extent that, for hosting purposes and for the operation of the website, service companies are active on behalf of and at the order of Charité Maritime . Corresponding contracts are concluded with these companies, that take on the hosting and provide technical support for the website, to ensure that appropriate technical and organizational measures are employed to protect the personal data.
Hosting activities and the operation of the website take place in Austria. Businesses, in other words, that like Charité Maritime are located within the European economic area and thus also underlie the strict EU data-protection laws.
A transfer of personal data to third countries does not take place and is also not planned.
8. Links on Internet Sites of Other Businesses
Our website contains links to the Internet pages different companies. We are not responsible for the implementation of data-protection policies on external websites, which you can reach via these links. Please inform yourself on these external pages about their respective framework conditions on data protection.
9. Your Rights
You have the right, at any time and free of charge, to be sent information on which personal data we stored about you. This right is combined with the right to immediate correction and/or completion of personal data concerning you.
You have the right to demand limitations on the processing of your personal data, if the correctness of the data is contested by you, if the processing is unlawful but you reject the deletion of the data and we no longer require it, though you need it for assertion, exercising or defence of legal entitlements, or if you have objected to its processing.
You have the right to demand deletion of your personal data stored by us, provided the processing is not necessary for the exercising of the right to freedom of expression and information, for the fulfilment of a legal obligation, for reasons that are in the public interest, or for assertion, exercising or defence of legal entitlements.
You have the right to have personal data that you have made available to us, passed on to yourself or to a third party in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. If you request the direct transfer of the data to another controller, this is undertaken only to the extent that it is technically feasible.
You have the right to revoke, at any time and with effect as to the future, your consent to the collection of data. The data collected prior to the coming into force of the revocation remains unaffected by this.
If the processing of your personal data violates data-protection law, or if your data-protection-law claims have otherwise been violated in any way, you can complain to the supervisory authority responsible.
Information about using Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service belonging to Google Inc. („Google“).
Google Analytics uses so called „Cookies“, text files, that are saved on your computer and an analysis of the website’s use through you. The information extracted using the Cookie regarding your use of this website will are typically transmitted to and stored on a Google server in the United States.
However, in the event that IP anonymization is activated on this website, your IP address will be shortened by Google within member states of the European Union beforehand, or States party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be sent to a Google server in the US and shortened there.
On behalf of the operator of this website, Google uses this information to evaluate your use of the website, in order to compile reports regarding website activity and provide other services related to website activity and internet usage to the website operator. The IP address provided by Google Analytics as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.
You can prevent the installation of Cookies by appropriately adjusting your browser software; however, we would like to inform you, that in this case it is possible that you will not be able to use all the functions of this website. In addition, you can prevent the collection of the data, generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address), by Google as well as the processing of this data by Google by using the link below (https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en-GB) to download and install the available browser plugin.
You can prevent this collection by Google Analytics by clicking on the following link. An opt-out cookie will be set, which prevents the future collection of your data when visiting this website:
Further information regarding the terms of use and data protection can be found at https://www.google.co.uk/analytics/terms/gb.html or at https://www.google.co.uk/intl/en-GB/policies/ We would like to point out that on this website Google Analytics has been extended, using the code “anonymizeIp”, to ensure the anonymous collection of IP addresses (so-called IP-Masking).
Alteration of this Data Protection Statement
Charité Maritime regularly controls its own data protection statement. We reserve the right to change this privacy statement as a result of these controls. Updates will be published on this website. With the further use of this data protection statement after such updates, you accept these alterations.
This data protection statement was last altered in May 2020.