PRIVACY POLICY
General
This website and privacy policy is operated by:
Century Time Gems Ltd
Zihlstrasse 50
CH-2560 Nidau, Switzerland (“CENTURY” / “we”)
For questions and enquiries about this Policy, please do not hesitate to contact us (email: info@century.ch).
CENTURY takes the security and privacy of your personal information very seriously. Century will process personal data only to the extent necessary to operate CENTURY’s website, providing its content and services, ensuring the security of both its website and services and communicating with you. The legal basis for Century’s data processing is your consent as well as the applicable provisions of both Swiss Data Protection law as well as the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
This policy together with CENTURY’s Terms of Use sets out the basis on which CENTURY will process any personal data obtained as a result of your use of the website www.century.ch (“the Website”) or provided by you by any other means. Please read the following carefully to understand CENTURY’s views and practices regarding your personal data and how CENTURY may use cookies and third party providers to provide services to you.
2. Information collected
CENTURY may collect and process the following information and data about you:
2.1 Website / Logfiles
When you access CENTURY’s website, our computer System automatically collects various details of the computer accessing the website such as:
a) Web browser and version used
b) Operating system of the user
c) Internet Service Provider (“ISP”) of the user
d) IP-Address of the user
e) Date and time of access
f) Content accessed on our website
g) Ingoing and outgoing website accesses from our website
This data is stored in the logfiles of our computer system. Processing this data is necessary to provide the functionality, stability and security of our website. This information does not contain anything that can personally identify you. For the scope of the GDPR, the legal basis for this data processing is Art. 6 sect. 1 lit. f GDPR.
2.2 Newsletter, communication and correspondence data
When you communicate with Century, we may collect and process various data:
When you register to use CENTURY’s website, subscribe to or request our services, post material or fill in forms, CENTURY may collect and process the information provided by you for the purpose of providing CENTURY’s services, managing its customer relationship and ensuring its business operation.
When you subscribe to CENTURY’s newsletter, century may collect and process the information you provided in the subscription form, including but not limited to your name and email address.
When you enter a competition, promotion or survey, CENTURY may collect and process the information you provided for the purpose of conducting the competition and/or promotion, ensuring its regularity, record-keeping as well as marketing and research purposes.
When you contact CENTURY or its affiliates or subsidiaries by email, telephone or any other means, CENTURY may collect data contained in or relating to this communication. CENTURY may process this data for the purpose of communicating with you, providing CENTURY’s services and record-keeping.
For the scope of the GDPR the legal basis for above data processing is Art. 6 sect. 1 lit. a (where you have given your consent) and lit. b and f GDPR.
2.3 Cookies
Like many websites, CENTURY uses “cookies”, which are small files saved on your computer’s hard drive by your browser and used to collect and store certain information about you. CENTURY may use the following kinds of Cookies in connection with its website:
Security and Status cookies: These cookies are required for the operation of the Website and provision of services. These may include cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of the Website, access your user account and prevent fraudulent use of our website.
Customization cookies: These cookies store information regarding your preferences and settings you make on CENTURY’s website, such as your preferred language or region. This permits to personalize your visit to the website.
Performance cookies: These “analytical” cookies allow CENTURY to collect information about how visitors use its website (e.g. to count visitors and to see how visitors move around the website). They record your visit of the Website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. These cookies generally do not collect information that identifies you. All information is anonymous.
Social media cookies: CENTURY uses third party social media plugins to provide you with sharing features. These Social media platforms (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram) may set cookies to provide their services to you. CENTURY has no control over these cookies. Please refer to below on how to deactivate cookies and to the section “Social Media plug-ins” below for further information on how to block these plug-ins.
Advertisement cookies: These cookies deliver tailor-made advertisements to you on third party websites based on your interests in CENTURY’s products and services manifested during your visit on our Website.
Third party cookies: CENTURY uses third party providers to provide additional features on its website as set out below. These providers may store additional cookies on your computer. You can view the privacy policies of these providers at:
Google Services (Analytics, Maps, Youtube, Tag Manager): https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en
Social Media-Plugins (see detailed description in the sections below):
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/policy.php
Instagram: https://help.instagram.com/155833707900388
How long a cookie will stay on your device depends on whether it is a “persistent” or “session” cookie. Session cookies stay on your device during the current browsing session. Persistent cookies are kept on your device until they expire or are deleted.
Most browsers accept cookies by default, but allow you to disable them. For information about how to block and deleting cookies in the most popular browsers, please see the links below.
Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647
Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences
Safari: https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/manage-cookies-and-website-data-sfri11471/mac
Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
For other browsers, the help menu will usually tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie and how to disable cookies all together. You can also disable or delete cookies you have previously accepted if you wish to. Please note that if you set your browser to block all cookies (including strictly necessary cookies) you may not be able to access parts of CENTURY’s website and certain functions may be limited.
2.4 Third party services
CENTURY uses third party services such as Web analysis tools to enhance the functionality of its website and to better understand how our customers use our sites and services. Some of these third party services collect data for this purpose and exchange it with third party servers.
Google Analytics
CENTURY uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google, Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA, to better understand how our customers use our website and services.
For this purpose, Google Analytics uses cookies. The data collected by Google Analytics includes time, place and frequency of your visits to Century’s site, including your IP address. This information is used to analyze your use of our site and to provide us with reports. We have set up Google Analytics to use shortened IP addresses (IP anonymization), which prevents the identification of individual devices. Google also states that it does not associate your IP address with other data held by Google. Any onward transfer of this data third parties employed by Google is subject to the applying legal regulations as well as a data processing service agreement.
Google also offers an add-on for most current browsers, which allows you to opt-out of the data collection of Google Analytics:
https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
Google Maps
CENTURY’s website embeds Google Maps to provide customers with map and navigational services. Google Maps is operated by Google, Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA.
When using Google Maps, the service may use your IP-address and geolocation (usually after prompting you or following e.g. your phone’s privacy settings). For more information on what data Google Maps may collect and process, please see Google’s Privacy Policy:
https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en
Google Tag Manager
CENTURY’s website also uses Google Tag Manager, operated Google, Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA.
For more information on what data Google Tag Manager collects and processes, please see Google’s Privacy Policy https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en as well as Google Tag’s terms of use https://www.google.com/analytics/tag-manager/use-policy/.
YouTube
CENTURY’s website may also embed Videos from the video platform YouTube, operated by YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA, a subsidiary of Google, Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA.
For more information on what data YouTube may collect and process, please see Google’s Privacy Policy:
https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en
2.5 Social Media Plugins
CENTURY uses social media plug-ins on its website to allow users to share our content. These plug-ins can easily be recognized by their social network logos (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram).
By activating a social media plug-in, this plug-in may contact the provider (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram) and collect and exchange data with it. The kind of data collected and exchanged depends on the social media plug-in and your interaction with it. For more information about data collection and processing by the providers of these social media plug-ins, and your related rights and settings options to protect your privacy, please look at the privacy policies of these providers. A list of the plug-ins we use can be found below:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/policy.php
Instagram: https://help.instagram.com/155833707900388
If you would like to prevent the plug-ins from being loaded, you can also use an add-ons for your browser such as “NoScript” (http://noscript.net/) or „Ghostery“ (https://www.ghostery.com/).
3. Retention period of data
CENTURY stores and processes your personal data as long as is necessary to fulfil the purpose of its collection as stated above or as long as required or permitted by law.
4. Transmission and storage of personal data
Please note that the transmission of data via the Internet is not under CENTURY’s control and CENTURY cannot guarantee its security. Although CENTURY will use reasonable efforts to protect your personal data, CENTURY cannot guarantee the security of your personal data transmitted via its website; any transmission is at your own risk.
Once CENTURY has received your information, CENTURY will use strict procedures and security measures to prevent unauthorized access. Personal data that CENTURY collects from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a location in Switzerland or another location inside or outside Switzerland or the EU. If data is transferred to a country outside Switzerland or the EU, we take appropriate measures to protect your personal data, e.g. by concluding data transfer agreements.
All information you provide is stored on secure servers. Where CENTURY has given you (or where you have chosen) a password that enables you to access certain parts of the Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. Do not share any passwords with anyone.
5. Uses made of the information
In accordance with the declarations above (see “Information collected by CENTURY “), CENTURY uses information and data held about you in the following ways:
To ensure that content from the Website is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.
To provide you with information, products or services that you request from CENTURY or that CENTURY feels may interest you, where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes.
To carry out CENTURY’s obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and CENTURY.
To allow you to participate in interactive features of CENTURY’s services, when you choose to do so.
To notify you about changes to CENTURY’s services.
If you are an existing customer, CENTURY will only contact you with information about goods and services similar to those that were the subject of a previous sale to you. If you are a new customer and have consented to this, CENTURY may permit selected third parties to contact you using your contact data.
CENTURY may also share non-personal, non-individual statistics or demographic information in aggregate form with marketing partners, advertisers or other third parties for research and marketing purposes. This aggregated information is anonymous and not individually associated to your data.
6. Disclosure of your information
CENTURY may disclose your personal data to its affiliates or subsidiaries, to the extent necessary for the purposes and on the legal basis set out in this policy.
CENTURY may also disclose your personal data to selected third parties who help CENTURY provide the services you are requesting, to the extent necessary for the purposes and the legal basis set out in this policy. These third parties must at all times provide the same levels of security for your personal data as CENTURY.
CENTURY may disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with legal obligations, or in order to enforce or apply CENTURY’s Terms of Use and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of CENTURY, its affiliates and subsidiaries, its customers or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
7. Your rights regarding personal data
As part of Swiss Data Protection Law and the GDPR, you have the right to.
– Access your personal Data, you can ask CENTURY for a confirmation of whether we process any personal data belonging to you.
– Correct and complete your personal data.
– Delete your personal data, if it is no longer needed for the intended purposes as stated above, you have withdrawn your personal consent and there is no other legal basis for processing.
– Object to the use of your data for marketing purposes, either by checking the corresponding boxes in the forms you fill out or by contacting CENTURY.
To exercise your rights, you may contact us at the contact details below.
8. Links to other websites
The Website may contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that they have their own privacy policies and that CENTURY does not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.
9. Changes to the privacy policy
CENTURY may at its sole discretion change this Privacy Policy by updating this document. CENTURY will take steps to inform you of the update by appropriate means.
10. Contact
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please do not hesitate to contact Century Time Gems Ltd. Zihlstrasse 50, CH-2560 Nidau, Switzerland (email: info@century.ch // +41 32 332 98 88)