Legal notice and privacy policy

Date: 07 June 2022

Cocoon Invest SA (“we”, “our”, or “us”) operates the cocoon-lausanne.ch website (the “Service”).

This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal data when you use our service and the choices you have associated with that data. We use your data to provide and improve the service. By using the service, you consent to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.

Definitions

Personal data

Personal data means data relating to a living person who can be identified from that data (or from that data, together with other information in our possession or likely to come into our possession).

Usage data

Usage data is automatically-collected data, either generated by the use of the service, or by the service infrastructure itself (e.g. the duration of a visit to a page).

Cookies

Cookies are small data files stored on a user’s device.

Data Controller

Data controller defines a person who (alone or jointly with others) determines the purposes and treatment modalities of personal data that are, or will be, processed.

For the cocoon-lausanne.ch website, Cocoon Invest SA is the data controller.

Data processor (or service providers)

Data processor (or service provider) means any person (other than an employee of the data controller) who processes data on behalf of the data controller.

To process your data more efficiently, we may use the services of various service providers

Subject of the data

The person concerned is any living person who is the subject of the personal data.

User

The user is the person who uses our service. The user is the person concerned who is the subject of personal data.

Collection and use of information

We collect different types of information for various purposes in order to provide and improve our service to you.

Types of data collected

When using our service, we may ask you to provide certain personally-identifiable information that may be used to contact or identify you (“Personal Data”).

Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

• Email address
• First name and last name
• Telephone number
• Cookies and usage data

We may use your personal data to contact you at your request with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials, and other information that may be of interest to you. You may choose not to receive some or all of these communications from us by going to the ‘Unsubscribe’ link, or by following the instructions provided in any email we send you, or by contacting us.

Usage data

We may also collect information about how the Service is accessed and used (“Usage Data”). This Usage Data may include information such as your computer’s IP address, the browser type, the browser version, the pages of our service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on said pages, unique device identifications, and other diagnostic data.

Cooking tracking and data

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our service and retain certain information.

Cookies are files containing a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier.

Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. The tracking technologies used are web beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyse our service.

You can set your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. If, however, you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some parts of our service

Examples of cookies we use:

• Session cookies. We use first-session cookies and third-party session cookies to operate our Service.
• Preference cookies. We use preference cookies to remember your preferences and various settings.

Data use

Cocoon Invest SA uses the data collected for various purposes:

• To provide you with news and general information about Cocoon unless you have opted out of receiving such information.
• To monitor the use of our service
• To facilitate the use of our websites
• For statistical purposes
• To detect, prevent, and solve technical problems

Data retention

Cocoon Invest SA will retain your personal data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy policy. We will retain and use your personal data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

Cocoon Invest SA will also retain usage data for internal analysis purposes. Usage data is generally retained for the life of the website

Data transfer

Your information, including your personal data, may be transferred to, and stored on, computers located outside your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where data protection laws may differ from those in your jurisdiction.

If you are located outside of Switzerland and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer data, including personal data, to Switzerland and process it there. Other service providers (see the “Service Providers” section) may hold your data in other jurisdictions: please see their privacy policies for more information.

Your consent to this privacy policy, followed by your submission of such information, constitutes your consent to such transfer. Cocoon Invest SA will take all reasonably necessary measures to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy, and no transfer of your personal data will take place to any organisation or country unless adequate controls are in place, including the security of your data and other personal information.

Dissemination of data

Dissemination according to the law

In certain circumstances, Cocoon Invest SA may be required to disclose your personal data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests from public authorities (e.g. a court or government agency).

Legal requirements

Cocoon Invest SA may disclose your personal data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

• Comply with a legal obligation
• Protect and defend the rights or property of Cocoon Invest SA
• Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in relation to the service
• Protect the personal safety of service users or the public
• Protect itself from civil liability

Data security

The security of your data is important to us. Please remember, however, that no method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is 100% secure. Although we endeavour to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

The methods and procedures we use to protect personal data have been chosen based on the assessed importance of the personal data, and the risk to the person concerned. This assessment was carried out as part of our evaluation of privacy impact assessments and is reviewed annually

Your rights

Cocoon Invest SA aims to take reasonable steps to enable you to correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of your personal data.

If you wish to change your personal data, please contact us to make the necessary changes.

If you wish to be informed of the personal data that we hold about you, and if you wish to have it deleted from our systems, please contact us.

In certain circumstances, you have the right to

• Access and receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you (Right of access)
• Rectify personal data about you that are inaccurate (Right of rectification)
• Request the deletion of your personal data (Right to erasure)
• Object at any time to the processing of personal data for purposes such as direct marketing (Right of objection)

You have the right to the transfer of the data from the information you provide to Cocoon Invest SA. You may request a copy of your personal data in a commonly used electronic format so that you can manage and move it. Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests.

We will inform you if it is not possible to continue using our service without processing your personal data. For example, if it is not possible to use a website that includes a login system that uses cookies to verify your identity and keep you logged in

Service providers and links to other sites

We may use third-party companies and persons to provide our service (“Service Providers”), to provide the service on our behalf, to provide services related to the service, or to help us analyse how our service is used.

These third parties only have access to your personal data to perform these tasks on our behalf and are required not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

Our service may also contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be redirected to the third-party site. We strongly recommend that you review the privacy policy of each site you visit.

We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for, the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services. Please click on the links below to read their respective privacy policies. These services include:

• Google Analytics
• WordPress
•  Vimeo / Youtube

Protection of children’s privacy

Our service is not intended for persons under the age of 13 (“children”).

If you are a parent or guardian and you know that your children have provided us with personal data, please contact us. If we learn that we have collected personal data from children without verification of parental consent, we will take steps to delete that information from our servers

Changes to this privacy policy

We may occasionally update our privacy policy. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new privacy policy on this page.

We will notify you before the change takes effect by email and/or by a visible notice on our service and will update the “Date of entry into force” at the beginning of this privacy policy.

We recommend that you periodically check this privacy policy for any changes. The changes made to this privacy policy enter into force when they are posted on this page.

Name and address of the controller

The data processing controller for the purposes of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), other data protection laws applicable in the Member States of the European Union, and other provisions relating to data protection is:

Cocoon Invest – info@cocoon-lausanne.ch

Contact us

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please contact us:

• By email: info@cocoon-lausanne.ch