PerlineBeads SA (hereinafter referred to as PerlineBeads or the "Company"), operator of the portal www.perlinebeads.ch (hereinafter referred to as "the Website"), wishes to provide the following information on the processing of personal data. It is understood that by visiting the Website, you confirm and, where applicable, accept the procedures described in this privacy policy.
Purpose of the processing
The processing of personal data provided and/or derived from browsing the Website serves the following purposes:
- to allow access to and navigation of the website, as well as anonymous statistics on the use of the website, to check the correct functioning of the website, and to establish any liability in the event of breaches while browsing;
- Provision of the registration service on the website;
- to detect and prevent fraud and other unlawful acts.
- provide the services offered by the Company.
Personal data is stored for the duration of a commercial purpose or for the duration required by law and subsequently deleted.
Processing methods - security measures
In addition to their collection, the processing of personal data may also consist of their registration, storage, modification, transmission, and deletion.
Furthermore, processing may be carried out with or without the use of electronic tools by specifically designated personnel.
Data is stored in paper form and/or in electronic/IT/optical form and for the period strictly necessary to fulfil the purposes mentioned in the first point, in compliance with applicable legal provisions.
With regard to personal data, the company will use all appropriate instruments to ensure its security and confidentiality in accordance with the provisions of Swiss law. In particular, all technical, IT, organisational, logistical and procedural security measures will be taken in accordance with the Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG) to ensure the minimum level of data protection required by applicable law.
Furthermore, the methods applied ensure that access to data is only permitted to persons who are responsible for processing on behalf of the company.
Data transfer
With regard to the transfer of personal data, PerlineBeads informs you of the following:
- During normal operation, the IT systems and software procedures used to operate the website collect some personal data, the transmission of which is inherent to the use of Internet communication protocols. Therefore, merely accessing the website involves the collection of personal data by the company.
- Some personal data is mandatory for registration on the website. If you do not provide it, you cannot complete the registration process.
Communication and dissemination of data
The personal data collected to achieve the purposes mentioned in the first point will not be disclosed to third parties.
For some services, such as product delivery and payment processing, PerlineBeads uses third parties. These third parties have access to the personal data we have collected from you and that they need to perform their tasks. They are not authorised to use your personal data for other purposes and are contractually obliged to comply with the laws on the protection of personal data.
Personal data will be disclosed, insofar as required by law, for the enforcement of the General Terms and Conditions and for the enforcement of other agreements in the event of investigative measures, investigations and for the prevention of fraud or other unlawful acts.
Changes to the privacy policy
The privacy policy is subject to regular changes in order to ensure ever more comprehensive protection of your personal data. We recommend that you review the privacy provisions regularly when you access your account. Your use of the website implies your consent to the updated version of the privacy policy.
Data protection rights
You can contact PerlineBeads at any time and request information about all personal data collected about you. In addition, you have the option to request the modification, updating or deletion of personal data. PerlineBeads please note that it is no longer possible for the data subject to have its services provided if it is requested to delete personal data.
By logging into your account on the website, you can at any time change, update or delete personal information such as name, first name, address, country of residence or credit card details. Of course, you can also cancel your account at any time.
Owner and managing directors
The data controller is the undersigned company, represented by its legal representative. Please contact the following address if you have any questions about the use of personal data:
PerlineBeads SA, Via Cantonale 13, 6901 Lugano, Switzerland E-mail: monica@perlinebeads.ch
Cookies
The company wishes to inform you that its systems can recognise the customer's device and offer certain functions, including facilitating navigation on the website and correct use, as well as access to services that require authentication. To know which areas of the website have been visited, cookies are used, i.e. small text files that are sent by a web server (in this case, by the website) to your device (usually to the browser) and stored there; they are then transmitted again to the site on the next visit.
The cookies used on the website are both permanent (i.e. they remain stored on the hard drive of the user's/visitor's PC until they expire) and session-based (i.e. they are not stored permanently on the user's/visitor's computer and disappear when the browser is closed).
The company also uses cookies for other purposes, including:
- Identifying the customer at the time of authentication on the website. In this way, the company can make product recommendations, display personalised content and provide other personalised features and services.
- Provision of content, including advertising, that is relevant to customers' interests on the website;
- Keep track of the preferences specified by the customer.
- Track the items stored in the customer's shopping cart.
Permanent cookies are used exclusively to simplify navigation on the website and its proper use and to facilitate access to the services for which authentication is required (to avoid users having to re-enter the authentication data each time they access the services) as well as for statistical purposes, to find out which areas of the website have been visited. Session cookies are used exclusively to transmit the session identifiers required for a secure and efficient exploration of the website. The session cookies used on the website avoid the use of other IT techniques that could potentially compromise the confidentiality of user navigation. / Visitors and are also used to improve the provision of services.
By visiting the Website with a browser that accepts cookies, the customer agrees to use the Company's products and services and consents to the use of cookies and other technologies necessary for their display, as described in this privacy policy. The following section shows how you can change your browser settings to be notified when a new cookie is received or to allow the disabling of cookies.
While you are browsing the website, you may also receive cookies from various websites or web servers on your device (so-called "third-party" cookies), which are generated by other websites to provide content on the website and to manage it dynamically and efficiently. The delivery of advertising messages has evolved.
Most common browsers offer the option to block only third-party cookies and accept only the website's own cookies. In addition, some companies that generate cookies on third-party websites offer the option to disable and/or block only their own cookies in a simple and immediate manner, even if these are anonymous or do not involve the registration of personal identification data (such as, for example, the IP address).
Cookies and browser settings
For full use of the website, it is advisable to configure the browser to accept the receipt of cookies.
If you block or otherwise reject cookies, you may not be able to use some areas of the website optimally, and the use of the services to be authenticated may also be impaired.
In any case, you can set your browser to disable cookies through a very simple process. The "Help" function of most browsers indicates, in fact, how to prevent the browser from accepting new cookies, how the browser is warned when it receives a new cookie, and how to completely disable cookies. Furthermore, you can disable or delete similar data used by browser add-ons such as Flash cookies by changing the add-on settings or by visiting the website of the respective manufacturer.
Email advertising with newsletter registration
When you register for our newsletter, we use the data required for this purpose or separately provided by you to send you our email newsletter regularly on the basis of your consent.
Unsubscribing from the newsletter is possible at any time and can be done either by sending a message to the contact option described below or via a link provided for this purpose in the newsletter. After unsubscribing, we delete your email address, unless you have expressly consented to further use of your data or we reserve the right to use your data beyond this, which is permitted by law and about which we inform you in this statement.
