This website (the "Website") is operated and owned by CONTEXA SA ("CONTEXA").
By accessing this Website, you accept - without limitation or qualification – this Privacy Policy, as detailed below.
1. Introduction
CONTEXA is committed to protecting the privacy and security of personal information provided to us or collected during our operations ("Personal Data"). We protect and process your Personal Data in compliance with the Swiss Data Protection Act and any other applicable data protection laws.
This privacy policy ("Privacy Policy") explains how we collect and use your Personal Data and how you can exercise your rights in this respect.
We process your Personal Data (such as name, e-mail and postal address, telephone number, language, job title, professional affiliations and communication content) as follows:
- We process all Personal Data that you provide when communicating with us. This Personal Data may relate to you, your employees, representatives and/or agents;
- When we provide our services or sell our products, we collect and process Personal Data about our customers, their counterparties and/or third parties;
- We collect certain Personal Data (such as, but not limited to, your IP address, your geographical location, the search terms you enter on this Website and your browser type) when you visit this Website using cookies;
- In some cases, we collect Personal Data from public sources, such as, but not limited to, online media or employer websites, in order to check the information you have provided to us or to obtain additional information to facilitate our communication with you.
2. Purpose of Personal Data processing
We use Personal Data to operate this Website, manage our relationship with you and communicate with you, including sending event invitations, maintaining contact lists and/or providing any requested information. We do not monitor your behaviour, track your physical location or subject you to profiling or automated decision-making.
3. Legal basis for processing Personal Data
We process your Personal Data only when permitted by applicable laws and regulations. Accordingly, we process your Personal Data in the following situations:
- With your consent;
- When necessary for the performance of a contract with you;
- To comply with a legal obligation;
- When we have a legitimate interest in communicating with you professionally regarding our activities and events, or
- Any other legal bases for the legitimate processing of your Personal Data under applicable laws and regulations.
4. Personal Data protection
CONTEXA takes appropriate measures to ensure the security of your Personal Data. We restrict access and use of your Personal Data to those necessary for Website access and communication purposes. We take technical and organizational measures to protect your Personal Data (both electronic and physical) against misuse, accidental loss, destruction, falsification, alteration and unauthorized disclosure.
5. Google Analytics
Google Analytics is operated by Google LLC in the United States and provides us with information about how visitors use our Website. Google uses cookies to collect anonymous information such as the number of visitors to the Website, their origin, the pages they visit and the length of their visit. Generally, we do not share your Personal Data with Google (not even IP addresses). However, Google may track your use of the Website, combine this information with data from other tracked websites you visit and use this information for its own purposes (e.g. advertising). If you are registered with Google, it may also identify you. The processing of your Personal Data by Google is therefore carried out under Google's responsibility and in accordance with its own privacy policies.
6. Cookies and social plugins
Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you use this Website. They help analyse how users interact with this Website and improve it by providing statistical information on user interaction, visitor numbers and similar data. Most cookies are deleted when you close your browser or after a short period of time. Other cookies remain on your device and enable recognition upon your next visit. You can modify your browser settings to delete or block cookies. However, disabling cookies may prevent access to certain features of this Website. By continuing to use this Website without changing your settings, you consent to the use of cookies.
We use plugins for the LinkedIn social network, which you can recognise by the logo on this Website. If you interact with this social network, relevant information will be transmitted, and it will recognise your visit. MHG has no control over the extent of Personal Data collected by this social network through plugins. You should consult its own privacy policies for further details.
7. Recipients of Personal Data
As a general rule, Personal Data will only be used by us and our technology service providers (who are required to protect your Personal Data to the same extent as we do). However, if required or useful to provide our services, sell our products or achieve other purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, we may share your Personal Data collected while providing such services or products with additional third parties (such as advisors, stakeholders, authorities, counterparties and others) in Switzerland, the EU or other countries. In addition, we may share your Personal Data with third parties in the following situations:
- You have consented (where necessary) or your organisation has obtained your consent (where necessary);
- We are subject to a legal, regulatory or professional obligation to do so; or
- It is required for legal proceedings or to exercise or defend legal rights.
Contact Forms
- If you send us a contact request via the form on our website, we will record the information contained therein. The processing of data collected in the contact form is carried out exclusively on the basis of your consent (art. 4, para. 5, LPD), which you can revoke at any time. Any possible revocation does not affect the lawfulness of the processing carried out previously.
- When you send us a contact form, it is transferred in the form of two FTP files to the Switzerland-based servers of our provider. These files are automatically and immediately detected and then retrieved to our own servers, before being destroyed from the aforementioned external server after 30 days.
8. Personal Data retention period
Personal Data will be kept for as long as necessary for the purposes for which it was collected. Personal Data related to communications will be retained for as long as you remain a business contact for us. We will also keep your Personal Data to comply with any applicable legal or regulatory obligations.
9. Your rights
We welcome your questions and comments about this Privacy Policy. You have rights which you may exercise in certain circumstances regarding the Personal Data we process. You have the right to be informed of any processing of your Personal Data in order to verify its legal processing. You have the right to request access to your Personal Data. You have the right to request correction or completion of incorrect or incomplete Personal Data. To the extent permitted by applicable law, you may request the deletion or temporary restriction of your Personal Data in certain cases. Finally, you have also the right to object to processing or withdraw your consent for specific processing activities. However, withdrawing your consent may limit the services we provide. Subject to applicable laws and regulations, you may also file a complaint with the relevant data protection authority if you believe that our processing violates applicable data protection laws and regulations.
If you have any questions or wish to exercise your rights, please contact us in writing at the following address: info@contexa.ch
10. Updates
We may modify or update this Privacy Policy at any time. Any such changes will become binding when you first use this Website after the changes have been implemented. You are therefore advised to visit this Website regularly.
In the event of a conflict between the current version of this Privacy Policy and any previous version(s), the current and applicable provisions shall prevail, unless expressly stated otherwise.
11. Jurisdiction and applicable law
This Privacy Policy is governed by and construed in accordance with Swiss law (excluding Swiss private international law and international treaties, in particular the Vienna Convention on the International Sale of Goods of 11 April 1980).
Any dispute or claim arising out of, or in relation to, this Privacy Policy or your general use of this Website, shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the competent courts of CONTEXA 's registered headquarters
January 2025
