Privacy policy of European Loc Pool AG (“ELP”)

With this privacy policy we inform you how ELP collects, uses and passes on (hereinafter referred to jointly as “processing”) personal data of visitors to this website (hereinafter referred to as “users”) and how this occurs.

The user grants ELP an authorisation to process personal data in accordance with this privacy policy when he/she visits this website. ELP may unilaterally amend this privacy policy at any time. The current version is published by ELP online.

Data collection

ELP may process personal data concerning the user if he/she visits a website of ELP or requests or uses products or services offered by ELP online. This includes, in particular, the registration of certain services or web content which can only be accessed with personal access data and subscriptions for print media or online newsletters.

On the one hand, ELP processes personal data (such as name, gender, address, email address, telephone or fax numbers) which is explicitly and actively made available for ELP by the user. This also applies if the user participates in events of ELP (online or personally). On the other hand, ELP’s web server automatically records details regarding the user’s visit (such as IP address, browser type and version, the operating system used, the website of origin, the pages viewed, the date and the duration of the page display).

Use and protection of personal data

ELP improves its product and service quality based on the processing of personal data in accordance with this privacy policy.

The processing of personal data serves the following purposes, in particular:

• technical management, as well as research and development of the website;
• user management and marketing;
• informing the user about ELP’s services and products, provided that the user has given his/her consent.

The employees, representatives and other third parties who have access to personal data are obligated by ELP to ensure compliance with all applicable data protection laws. Persons to whom ELP grants access to personal data in the meaning of this privacy policy are appropriately trained with regard to data security and data protection.

ELP protects personal data with appropriate physical, electronic and procedural security measures, including firewalls, personal passwords, encryption and authentication technologies.

ELP reserves the right to pass on personal data to governmental or regulatory authorities and, within the framework of this privacy policy, also to analysis service providers. ELP thus completely fulfils the applicable regulations and laws and any judicial or regulatory requirements.

Access to processed personal data

Data subjects or users whose personal data is processed within the framework of this privacy policy have the right:

• to receive information on whether ELP stores personal data and what data it stores (data categories, recipients or categories of recipient, retention periods for personal data or criteria for determining the retention period);
• to receive a copy of the personal data;
• to demand the rectification of the personal data if it is inaccurate;
• to demand the erasure of the personal data in certain circumstances;
• to demand the restriction of the processing of the personal data;
• to be provided with the personal data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format;
• to object to the processing, particularly for the purpose of direct marketing.

The above rights may be restricted or refused if the interests, rights and freedoms of third parties are overriding or the processing serves the purpose of establishing, exercising or defence of legal claims or legally permissible claims of ELP.

Please submit any enquiries regarding the processing of personal data to ELP’s data protection officer:

Data security officer
European Loc Pool AG
Schulstrasse 4
8500 Frauenfeld
Switzerland

Controller for the data processing
European Loc Pool AG
Schulstrasse 4
8500 Frauenfeld
Switzerland

Right to withdraw consent under data protection laws
Any data subject may at any time withdraw their consent to the processing of their personal data. The withdrawal should be sent to ELP’s data protection officer either by letter or by email.