PRIVACY POLICY

The company Sofia designers Sàrl, Chemin du Pré Bayard 7, 2520 La Neuveville, is the operator of this website and the services offered therein. It is therefore responsible for the collection, processing and use of your personal data and the compatibility of data processing with Swiss law.

The protection of your privacy is an important concern for us. The operator attaches great importance to the protection of personal data and collects, processes and uses personal data exclusively in accordance with the principles described below and in compliance with the applicable data protection regulations. Personal data is all information that relates to a specific or identifiable natural person, including, for example, first and last names, as well as your postal and e-mail address. Please note the following points of our privacy policy

1. Scope of application

The following rules apply to all SOFIA designers Sàrl websites. By accessing and using these sites, you accept these rules.

2. Use of information and non-personal data

In principle, you can visit our website without having to provide personal information. Only non-personal usage data such as your IP address, the last page you visited, the browser used, date, time, etc. is evaluated anonymously in order to identify trends and improve our online offer (cf. 8. Google Analytics). No conclusions about your person are drawn from this data. In order to improve the quality of the service, we ask you to voluntarily provide data in certain areas (e.g. name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, information and services of interest to you, etc.).

If you register your details with us, either by entering into a sales contract with us or by contacting us in another electronic form, you agree that we may collect, store and use the personal data you provide to us via our website/online store (also in connection with your sales contract) without your prior written consent in accordance with this data protection policy.

We will process and use your personal data and information in a secure, appropriate and lawful form in accordance with Swiss law. Processing will be carried out by electronic or automated means. We will only use the personal data that you provide to us via our website/online store (also in connection with your purchase contract) to enable you to purchase our products within the framework of the purchase contract that you have concluded with us, to participate in market research concerning the improvement of our website and our product range, to inform you about market activities, products, services and current transactions that we offer and to entrust logistical or other tasks to third parties. Without prior notice and without your consent, the data will not be made available to third parties in a form in which you can be identified. Your personal data is collected and used by Sofia designers Sàrl, Chemin du Pré Bayard 7, 2520 La Neuveville, Switzerland, which is also responsible for its administration.

Your personal data may be used for statistical analysis or marketing purposes. No personal data is transmitted to third parties for commercial purposes.

3. Customer data

Sofia designers Sàrl saves and processes the following customer data in particular: First and last name, residential address, e-mail and telephone number as well as the customer’s purchase history.

4. Identification

In order to be able to order online in our shop, it is necessary that you enter your personal data such as first and last name, home address, e-mail address and telephone number. In order to execute or clarify your order, Sofia designers Sàrl must be able to contact you for further information. You also grant Sofia designers Sàrl the right to exchange any information you provide with other companies affiliated with Sofia designers Sàrl for the purposes mentioned here. In addition to the personal information you provide, this site may use technology that may collect certain technical information, such as your IP address, your computer’s operating system, browser type, access patterns and the addresses of other connected websites.

5. Storage and security of your data

SOFIA designers Sàrl takes reasonable precautions and uses appropriate security technology to protect your information. Your data will only be kept for as long as necessary to achieve the purpose for which it was collected.

6. Correction of personal data

Sofia designers Sàrl may, at its request or on its own initiative, complete, correct or delete incomplete, erroneous or obsolete personal data.

7. Cookies

In some cases, we use so-called cookies. The web pages of Sofia designers Sàrl use “cookies” in several places. They serve to make the offer more user-friendly and safer. You can configure your browser to display a warning on the screen before saving a cookie. You can also do without the advantages of personal cookies. Some services cannot be used in this case.

8. Google-Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Inc. Google Analytics uses so-called cookies, text files that are stored on your computer and which enable your use of the website to be analysed. The information on your use of this website generated by the cookie is normally sent to a Google server in the USA and stored there. Because of the activation of IP address anonymisation on these websites however, your IP address will be abbreviated beforehand by Google within member countries of the European Union or other signatory countries to the agreement covering the European Economic Area. The full IP address will only be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and truncated there in exceptional circumstances.

Google will utilise this information on behalf of the operator of this website to analyse your use of the website, to compile reports on the website activities and in addition to provide the website operator with services associated with the use of the website and the Internet. The IP address transmitted by your browser within the scope of Google Analytics is not combined with other Google data. You may prevent the storage of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly. We would however like to point out that in this case you may not be able to utilise the entire functionality of this website.

In addition, you can prevent the capture of the data generated by the cookie relating to your use of the website (incl. your IP address) and its transmission to Google as well as the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available from the following link: Google Analytics Blocker browser add-on.

You can find more detailed information on terms of use and data protection at
https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/analytics/terms/gb/
or at https://policies.google.com

9. Social Plugins

Sofia designers Sàrl can use “social plugins” from social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google+, Pinterest, Instagram, etc. When you visit our website, these social plugins are disabled by default, i.e. they do not send any data to the respective social networks without your intervention.

Please note that we have no influence on the amount of data collected by the social networks with their social plugins. For the purpose and scope of the data collection and the further processing and use of the data by the respective social networks, as well as your rights and setting options to protect your privacy, please refer to the data protection notices of the respective social networks.

10. Minors

No person under the age of 18 years may, without the consent of his/her parents or legal guardians, provide information to Sofia designers Sàrl or make purchases or other legal transactions on this website, except as permitted by applicable law.

11. Questions on data protection

Please address any questions, corrections or deletions directly to Sofia designers Sàrl’s customer service department at the email address

12. Changes to this Privacy Policy

Sofia designers Sàrl may modify this privacy policy at any time and without notice. Please check this statement regularly.

13. Miscellaneous

All information has been compiled with the utmost care. However, we cannot accept liability for possible errors in the acquisition or transmission of data. The transfer of data to other data carriers, even in extracts, or the use for purposes other than those intended here, is only permitted with the express permission of Sofia designers Sàrl.

14. Legal basis

The Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP) (https://www.admin.ch/opc/en/classified-compilation/19920153/index.html) forms the basis of this privacy policy.

 

November 2020