Data privacy is important to Venturi Lab SA and its associated companies (“Venturi”) (“us” or “we”). The purpose of this notice is to explain the types of personal data we collect from you, how we use, disclose, protect and process that information, and who we share it with, as well as certain rights you have in this respect.

 

By visiting our website, or providing us with your personal information, you consent to the collection, processing, and storage of your personal information as described in this privacy notice.

 

We comply with applicable data protection laws, including the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Switzerland’s Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP). 

 

Types of personal data collected and processed

We collect and process personal information that you provide to us when communicating with us (such as your name and contact information, language preference, job title, business affiliations, and other information you provide to us or when visiting our website, such as IP address, domain name, browser type, and other technical information. The latter type of information enables us to better understand the visitors who come to our website, and the content that is of interest to them. Some of the information may be collected by “cookies” when you visit our website. The website will by necessity contain strictly necessary cookies that are essential for the website to function correctly. Because these cookies are strictly necessary to the operation of the website, you cannot refuse them, and they cannot be disabled. By using the website, you agree to their use. You can block or delete them by changing your browser settings. In so far as the website may use performance and functionality cookies, analytics and customization cookies, advertising cookies, social networking cookies and web beacons, please also consider their use and blocking them as may be appropriate to your circumstances in your browser, or to contact us as noted below, for assistance.

 

We may collect personal information indirectly through public sources, from public registers (such as commercial registers), news articles, embargo or sanctions lists, and Internet searches. The personal information may relate to you as well as your employees and/or agents. If you are a potential hire, we may process the following personal information: name and job title; contact information including email address, physical address, and phone number; CV/resume, including your age and/or gender (if you provide it to us), your education, job history and similar information that you provide to us. 

 

Purposes for processing data

Our goals for collecting personal information from you is to help us do the following: deliver our services, verify your identity, improve, develop, and market our services, carry out requests made by you in relation to our services or requests you make on our web site, comply with any applicable law, court order, or requirements of a regulatory authority, enforce our agreements with you, carry out recruiting, respond to requests to exercise your rights and to ensure the website is able to function correctly, such as through cookies.

 

This website may provide links to websites, apps, and services other than those of Venturi Lab, which may be operated by third-party companies. We accept no liability for personal data processing by those third-party websites. You should refer to the third-party websites’ privacy policies.

 

Legal basis for processing data

Our legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described above will depend on the personal information concerned and the specific context in which we collect it. We will normally collect personal information from you only where we have your consent to do so, where we need the personal information to perform a contract with you, or where the processing is in our legitimate interests and not overridden by your data protection interests or fundamental rights and freedoms. In some cases, we may also have a legal obligation to collect personal information from you or may otherwise need personal information to protect your vital interests or those of another person.

 

If we ask you to provide personal information to comply with a legal requirement or to perform a contract with you, we will make this clear at the relevant time and advise you whether the provision of your personal information is mandatory or not (as well as of the possible consequences if you do not provide your personal information).

 

If we collect and use your personal information in reliance on our legitimate interests (or those of any third party), we will explain the legitimate interests to you at that time.

 

Security measures

We have implemented physical, administrative, and technical safeguards to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure in our custody and control. Information is accessed only by authorized staff who are instructed to handle Information with confidentiality, and it is protected by firewalls and standard industry security measures. The measures we use are designed to provide a level of security appropriate to the risk of processing your personal information. The Internet, however, cannot be guaranteed to be 100% secure, and we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any personal information you provide to us. 

 

Sharing of personal data

We may, where necessary and according to the relevant legal basis, share your personal information with any number of the following categories of third parties: regulators/tax authorities/corporate registries, professional advisers that we use, such as accountant and lawyers, government or regulatory authorities, software providers or IT systems, IT support services.

 

We do an appropriate level of due diligence on third party contractors and assure contractually that sub-contractors are processing personal information in an appropriate manner and in accordance with our legal and regulatory obligations. While doing so, we will adhere to our legal and regulatory obligations regarding personal information, including, without limitation, establishing and implementing appropriate safeguards.

 

Storage and transfer of data

We may transfer personal information to locations outside of the jurisdiction in which we provide our services to you. We normally process your data within Switzerland and the EU/EEA. If and to the extent your personal information is transferred to and/or stored at a destination outside of Switzerland/EU/EEA, we will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely. To the extent that these countries are outside the EEA and the EU has not adopted an adequacy decision for these countries, we will make appropriate arrangements to ensure an adequate level of data protection for any data transfers. These include, for example, the EU’s standard contractual clauses. 

 

Data retention

We retain your personal information only as long as necessary where we have an ongoing legitimate purpose to do so, or in line with legal and regulatory requirements or contractual arrangements. When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize it or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.

 

Rights to personal information

You have the following rights regarding the personal information we hold about you. If you wish to exercise your rights or want further information, please contact us as noted below: 

• Right of access, correction, updating or deletion of personal information: You have the right to ask us for the aforementioned at any time by contacting us.
• Right to data portability and restrict processing: Under certain circumstances, you have the right to obtain and to ask us to object to the processing of the personal information.
• Right to withdraw consent: if we have collected and processed your personal information with your consent, then you can withdraw your consent at any time. Withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing we conducted prior to your withdrawal, nor will it affect the processing of your personal information conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent.
• Right to submit a complaint with the supervisory authority:You are entitled to contact the relevant Supervisory Authority—in Switzerland, the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner.
• Right to object to automated decision making: you can request a human intervention in any automated decision making process related to processing of your data resulting in a significant or legal effect, and where such processing is not based on your consent, authorized by law or necessary for the performance of a contract. We don’t currently make decisions using automated processes only, that result in significant or legal effects on individual.

 

Use of Microsoft Teams and other videoconferencing applications 

We use “Teams” to conduct online meetings and use videoconferencing technology that may be used to record online meetings. The legal basis for the processing of data to conduct meetings via Teams and other videoconferencing technology is in our legitimate interests, such as for in the effective conduct of online meetings, discussion rounds, presentations etc. During a meeting, participant details (e.g., display name, first name, last name, phone), metadata (e.g. meeting topic and description, IP address, time of participant’s last activity on Teams) chat or channel massages, microphone and video recording data, images and phone use may be processed under certain circumstances. For Teams you can deactivate the transmission via microphone and camera at any time via the corresponding settings. We only record meetings or log text data with your consent and prior notification.

 

Changes to this Privacy Notice

We may amend this Privacy Notice from time to time. We would do that to reflect any changes to our use of your personal information or to comply with changes in the law. 

 

Data Controller and how to contact us

This website is operated by Venturi, which is the contact and controller for the processing of your personal information when using this website. If you have any questions about this Privacy Notice, you can contact us by: 

• E-mail at: info@venturilab.ch
• Address: Route du Pâqui 1, 1720 Corminboeuf, Switzerland

 

January 2025