Privacy Policy

Introduction

We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Policy sets out the basis on which any personal data that we collect from you, or that you provide us with, are processed on our website.

This Privacy Policy applies to the Speake Marin (BRAND) website and towards the times when you provide your personal information with the brand through speake-marin.com

The present policy complies with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to ensure the highest level of protection for all our users.

GDPR standards will apply, and Speake Marin will not process your personal data unless:

  • you have previously given your explicit consent otherwise;
  • a legally enforceable agreement or contract was established between Speake Marin SA and yourselves;
  • unless Speake Marin SA needs to do so to comply with our legal obligations (whether with French or European laws and regulations).

We take the security and confidentiality of your personal data very seriously. We want to inform you that your personal data may be disclosed to comply with the applicable laws and regulations, with a decision rendered by a statutory or regulatory authority, or in any case where it is necessary for the Editor to do so to protect his own rights and interests.

We use up-to-date data storage and security techniques to protect your personal information from unauthorised access, improper use or disclosure, unauthorised modification, unlawful destruction, or accidental loss. We protect your personal data using encryption protocols.

Speake-Marin SA (“Speake-Marin”) is registered under the laws of Switzerland with its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.

1. Definitions

 

Personal Data: Personal data means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person;

Special categories of personal data: Such personal data usually reveals the racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership, and involve the processing of genetic data, biometric data for the purpose of uniquely identifying a natural person, data concerning health or data concerning a natural person’s sex life or sexual orientation.

Data Subject: A data subject is any person whose personal data is being collected, held or processed.

Website or Site or Service: the website speake-marin.com as well as all the all-web pages it includes

The Editor: the legal entity or person responsible for the content of the website.

 

2. Introduction and role of the confidentiality policy

 

The objective of this policy is to inform you of our commitment to protect your privacy and the confidentiality of all personal data we record to allow you to benefit from our service.

We value our customers’ privacy and appreciate your confidence that we will respect your privacy in a careful and sensible manner. Please read this policy carefully.

Our business is constantly changing and our Privacy Policy and the Site and our Terms & Conditions may similarly evolve. We may email reminders of our notices regarding changes to this Site or to our terms of business conditions, unless you have instructed us not to, but you should check our Site to see recent changes. Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Policy applies to all information that we have about you and your account. If you choose to visit the Site, your visit and any dispute over privacy is subject to this Privacy Policy and to Speake-Marin Terms & Conditions as stated on the Site.

Updates will be valid and applicable from the day they are made live, and therefore we encourage all our users to refer to our Privacy Policy regularly so as to be informed of the most recent update.

By visiting the Site and/or using the products and services made available to you on the Site, you acknowledge having received this information from us and are agreeing to abide by these terms.

If you do not wish your personal data to be used by us as set out in this policy, please do not provide us with the same. Please note, in that case, we may not be able to serve you and permit use of certain features of the website thereby impacting your user experience.

When you sign in on the website, you in fact commit to give us true information at all times. Recording false information directly goes against our Terms and Conditions of Use.

By using our website, and filling in our electronic forms, you are voluntarily providing personal data that will be processed by us in the manner and for the purposes described in the following.

For some of the specific services offered on our website you may even need provide information to a third party, one of our partners, when their services are specifically required for example when making a payment. We do not have any access to the payment information, this sensitive data must be processed according to its specific nature, governed by the third party’s policy in the strictest confidentiality. We encourage you to read their policy on their website before using their platform to fill in your personal data.

Your IP address (Internet Protocol, a logical numeric address assigned to every single device when it is connected to the internet) is automatically detected and recorded. You are informed through our Cookie Policy that our service is most likely to automatically track your online activity. You can easily avoid this, using your browser settings, as indicated in our Terms and Conditions of use.

The website is accessible even without providing any personal data. You are under absolutely no obligation to provide any data if you do not feel comfortable doing so. However if you were to not provide all required information, you would not be eligible to benefit from our services fully or would not be able to access part of the information displayed on our website.

We gather, process and use aggregated data such as statistics or demographic data. These, although they are gathered from among your personal data are not directly linked to your identity and therefore are not included in the definition of personal data given by law. For example, we can aggregate your user data to calculate what percentage of our users have accessed each page of our website. We can therefore focus our efforts and offer services that remain relevant for our users.

In order to provide the best possible services and contents, the website uses speake-marin.com does not track your use of the internet outside of the boundaries of our website. speake-marin.com does not access any of the personal data you have provided on the website, nor can it process these.

The personal data of a sensitive nature collected on our website is protected with additional security measures: they are encrypted (numerically) and names are protected.

All personal details our Users provide when signing in are kept in compliance with the effective laws and regulations.

According to said law, our users have a right to access, remove, update or correct the data they have provided. To do so they may place a request using the following e-mail address: info@ speake-marin.com or place a request in writing and send it to the following address: info@ speake-marin.com.

To process the personal data of the User, it is not necessary for the Editor to make an official declaration to the relevant national authorities for the protection of personal data.

3. Collection

Purpose of personal data 

The mandatory fields on the forms displayed on our website need to be filled with the correct, up to date information. Only then will you benefit fully from the service provided on our website.

  • Our website collects and processes the data provided by its users in order to provide the necessary services or the information you subscribed to, such as Name, First name, email address, Country.
  • Our website collects and processes the data provided by its users we gather information with the aim of continued improvements on our website, to ensure the products and services we are offering to remain relevant (including the use of cookies. Please see below).
  • Our website collects and processes the data provided by its users in order to be able to contact you for a follow up on: retailers information, guarantee extension, customer service, Marketing newsletters

Recipients and use of the data collected

The Data collected by us are processed for the purposes of performing the operations on the contents of the Service.

You may receive emails from our Service, including newsletters that you have accepted. You can ask to no longer receive these emails by contacting us at the address or clicking the link provided for this purpose in each email that will be sent to you.

Your personal data may be shared with the parties listed below for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy:

Creatives Agency, Lausanne, Switzerland.

We require that all third parties guarantee the security of your personal data and treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your data.

4. It rights and freedom

In compliance with the effective GDPR laws and regulations on personal data, you have rights. They are detailed below. Please refer to Article IV of our privacy policy for details on how to exercise these rights, as a reminder, you can send your request in writing to the following address info@ speake-marin.com, or contact us via the following e-mail address: info@ speake-marin.com.

Please see the following list of your rights:

  • Right to be informed: we must give you information about the way we are using your personal data (as described in our Privacy Policy).
  • Right of accessing your personal data: you have the right to request access to all the personal data you have provided us with. When you do so, you then receive a copy of all the information you have given us.
  • However, to comply with the obligation to protect the confidentiality of such information, will not disclose this information before receiving first verifying your identity. We will then need sufficient proof of ID, such as a copy or a scan of a valid ID document.
  • Right of correction: you can request that we amend the data provided if it is incorrect or incomplete. This right also includes any update or suppression of incorrect or obsolete information.
  • Right to delete: also called in French “droit à l’oubli” in some cases you can request that we delete all information provided by you (with the exception of a legal reason for us to decline your request and preserve your data).
  • Right to limit data processing: in some cases you can request that we put your data processing on hold for a period of time.
  • Right to data portability: You have the right to request a copy of your personal data in a relevant format (such as .csv for example).
  • Right to object: you have the right to refuse that we process your personal data (for example you could refuse that we use your data for marketing purposes).

However, you can only exercise these right in one of these two situations: if you have a legitimate reason or if you wish to keep your data from being disclosed to a third party for commercial prospection or solicitation purposes.

Please contact us if you feel you need to exercise one of the rights listed above, write a letter and send it to the following address: Avenue de Miremont 33C, 1206 Geneva Switzerland, or contact us via e-mail at info@speake-marin.com.

You do not need to pay any fee to access tour personal data (or to exercise any of the rights listed above). However, we may charge you an appropriate fee if you send us a request clearly unfounded, or repetitive or obviously excessive. In that situation we will have the right to dismiss your request entirely.

Speake-Marin SA, if necessary, will have the right to dismiss any improper request, whether they are excessively repetitive, systematical or simply too numerous.

We may ask you to provide us with specific information to confirm your identity before granting you access to personal data (or to exercise any other of your rights). It is a way for us to protect your data, so they are not accidentally disclosed to a person who should not have any access to them. We may also contact you after receiving your query, simply to be able to answer it quicker.

We aim to answer all queries within 1 month if they are legitimate.

We may answer your query after a period longer than a month if it requires more time and attention, or if you sent multiple or complex requests. In that case we will inform you we need more time and will keep you updated.