OBJECTIVE OF THE DATA PROTECTION POLICY

 

Global Designers is fully committed to complying with applicable data protection laws, as we believe that ensuring data protection is the basis of trustworthy business relationships.

We are always working to stay compliant - encourage audits, certifications, and provide industry-standard contractual protections.

This Data Protection Policy on globally accepted, basic principles on data protection.

The latest version of the Data Protection Policy can be accessed with the data privacy information at Global designer's website at: www.globaldesigners.ch

The processing of personal data, for example, the name, address, email address or telephone number of a person concerned, is always carried out in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation and in accordance with the country-specific data protection regulations applicable to Global Designers. By means of this data protection declaration, our company would like to inform the public about the type, scope and purpose of the personal data we collect, use and process. Furthermore, data subjects are informed about their rights by means of this data protection declaration.

 

As the controller, Global Designers has implemented numerous technical and organizational measures to ensure the most complete protection possible for personal data processed via this website. Nevertheless, internet-based data transmissions can generally have security gaps, so that absolute protection cannot be guaranteed. For this reason, every person concerned is free to transmit personal data to us in alternative ways, for example by telephone.

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PRINCIPLES OF PERSONAL DATA PROCESSING

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We have to collect and use (to process) certain types of information (Personal Data) that relates to the people (Data Subjects) with whom we come into contact in order to carry out our business.

We are confident that when processing personal data, individual rights must be protected what means that all personal data must be collected and processed in a legal and fair manner.

Therefore we presume and agree that Personal data shall be:

1. processed lawfully, fairly and in a transparent manner in relation to the data subject (‘lawfulness, fairness and transparency)

2. collected for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes and not further processed in a manner that is incompatible with those purposes (‘purpose limitation’)

3. adequate, relevant and limited to what is necessary for relation to the purposes for which they are processed (‘data minimisation’);

4. accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date; every reasonable step must be taken to ensure that personal data that are inaccurate, having regard to the purposes for which they are processed, are erased or rectified without delay (‘accuracy’);

5. kept in a form which permits identification of data subjects for no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which the personal data are processed (‘storage limitation’);

6. processed in a manner that ensures appropriate security of the personal data, including protection against unauthorised or unlawful processing and against accidental loss, destruction or damage, using appropriate technical or organisational measures (‘integrity and confidentiality).

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LAWFULNESS OF PROCESSING

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To make processing compliant, we should ensure it has at least one legitimate reason for processing (collecting, using, managing or disclosing) personal data.

The data protection declaration of D4design Studios GmbH is based on the terms used by the European legislator for directives and regulations when the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was adopted. Our data protection declaration should be easy to read and understand for the public as well as for our customers and business partners. 

The operators of this website take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with the statutory data protection regulations and this data protection declaration.

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• the data subject has given consent to the processing of his or her personal data for one or more specific purposes;

• processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is party or in order to take steps at the request of the data subject prior to entering into a contract;

• processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the controller or by a third party, except where such interests are overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject which require protection of personal data, in particular where the data subject is a child.

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HOW DO WE COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

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These are the main ways we collect your information:

• you contact us directly via our website to request information about our services.

• you reply to our direct marketing campaigns.

• we acquired your personal data from other sources, such as social media sites.

If you are under 16, please do not provide us with any of your information unless you have the permission of your parent or guardian.

Please help us to keep your information up to date by informing us of any changes to your contact details as we respect your right to obtain the rectification of inaccurate personal data and the right to have incomplete personal data completed. Also, please be noticed that you have the right to obtain from us the erasure of personal data («right to be forgotten») according to point (a) of Article 17 (1). In order to use this right please contact us at: s.arora@globaldesigners.ch.

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WHAT PERSONAL DATA MAY BE COLLECTED

 

The following types of personal information about you may be collected:

• name,

• address,

• phone numbers,

• e-mail address.

Also, when you visit our website, the web servers automatically recognize your domain name and IP address. The IP address of the site that directed you to our website, operating system version and your web browser would be disclosed too as related information. Nevertheless, this information does not relate to you directly and could not identify your personality so it could not be treated as personal data.

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HOW DO WE KEEP PERSONAL DATA SAFE

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We believe that personal information must be collected and dealt with appropriately, thus there must be safeguards in place to ensure this. Although data transmission over the Internet cannot be guaranteed to be secure, we work hard to maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to protect your information in accordance with applicable data protection requirements.

The data will not be passed on to third parties without your consent.

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YOUR RIGHTS

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Every data subject is guaranteed the following rights. Their assertion is to be handled immediately by the responsible unit and cannot pose any disadvantage to you.

• Right of Access by the Data Subject: You shall have the right to receive information from us regarding the processing of your personal data.

• Right to rectification: You shall have the right to demand that we correct your personal data which are incorrect and/or incomplete.

• Right to Erasure:

  • Every person affected by the processing of personal data has the right granted by the European legislator of directives and regulations to demand that the person responsible delete the personal data concerning them immediately, provided that one of the following reasons applies and insofar as the processing is not necessary:

  • The personal data were collected or otherwise processed for purposes for which they are no longer necessary.

  • The data subject revokes their consent, on which the processing was based in accordance with Art. 6 Paragraph 1 Letter a GDPR or Art. 9 Paragraph 2 Letter a GDPR, and there is no other legal basis for the processing.

  • The data subject objects to the processing in accordance with Art. 21 Paragraph 1 GDPR, and there are no overriding legitimate reasons for the processing, or the data subject objects in accordance with Art. 21 Paragraph 2 GDPR to the Processing a.

  • The personal data was processed unlawfully.

  • The deletion of personal data is necessary to fulfil a legal obligation under Union law or the law of the member states to which the person responsible is subject.

  • The personal data was collected in relation to the information society services offered in accordance with Art. 8 Para. 1 GDPR.

  • If one of the above-mentioned reasons applies and a person concerned wishes to have personal data stored at D4design Studios GmbH deleted, they can contact an employee of the person responsible for processing at any time. The employee of D4design Studios GmbH will arrange for the deletion request to be complied with immediately.

  • If the personal data has been made public by D4design Studios GmbH and our company, as the person responsible, is obliged to delete the personal data in accordance with Art. 17 Paragraph 1 GDPR, Global Designers takes appropriate measures, taking into account the available technology and the implementation costs, also of a technical nature, in order to inform other data processors who process the published personal data that the data subject has requested the deletion of all links to this personal data or of copies or replications of these other data processors has requested personal data insofar as the processing is not necessary. The owner of Global Designers will arrange the necessary in individual cases.

• Right to Restriction of Processing: You shall have the right to demand the restriction of the processing of your data if the requirements specified in Art. 21 Paragraph 1 GDPR have been fulfilled. This is, for example, the case if you dispute the correctness of your data. For the duration of the verification of the correctness of the data, you may demand the restriction of the processing.

• Right to Object: If the processing is based upon an overriding interest or your data are used for the purposes of direct advertising, you shall have the right to object to the processing of your data.

• Right to Data Portability: Insofar as the data processing is undertaken based upon consent or a fulfilment of a contractual agreement and this is also undertaken while using an automated processing system, you shall have the right to receive your data in a structured, commonplace and machine-readable format and to transfer these data to another data processing service provider.

• Right of Revocation: If the data processing is undertaken based upon consent, you shall have the right to withdraw your consent for the data processing, with effectiveness for the future, at any time and upon a free-of-charge basis, by using the following address: s.arora@globaldesigners.ch

• Right to Complain: You shall also have the right to complain to a government supervisory authority regarding our processing of your data.

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