1. General
MQT Horlogère Suisse SA is the operator of the website mqtsuisse.com and the provider of the services offered on this website. Thus, MQT Horlogère Suisse SA is responsible for the collection, processing and use of your data and must ensure compatibility with Swiss law. The protection of your personal data is a priority for MQT Horlogère Suisse SA. In this document, we inform you about the data collected on mqtsuisse.com and how this data is used. You will also learn how to verify the accuracy of this information and how to arrange the deletion this information with us. Please
note that this data protection declaration may change from time to time. We therefore recommend that you regularly review this data protection declaration to make sure you are always familiar with the latest version.
2. Collection, use and processing of personal and company-related data
When you visit mqtsuisse.com, certain data are automatically stored on our servers for the purposes of system administration, statistics, or backup. This data includes:
-Your IP address (under certain circumstances)
-The version of your browser software
-The operating system of the computer used to access mqtsuisse.com
-The date
-The time
Under certain circumstances, these data may allow conclusions to be made about a particular visitor. However, personal data is not utilized for this purpose. Such data is used solely after having been rendered anonymous.
By registering as a user and entering your data on mqtsuisse.com, you agree that the data you enter will be used for service-related purposes.
Furthermore, you also agree that your data may be used for advertising purposes. If you do not agree to the use of the data for advertising purposes, you can prohibit this at any time by writing a letter and sending it by mail to MQT Horlogère Suisse, Scheibenstrasse 16, 3014 Bern, Switzerland.
3. Disclosure, deletion and rectification
You can always request information about your data which is stored by us. To this end, we kindly ask you to send a written disclosure request by mail to the address below. Together with the request, a proof of identity must be sent to the same address.
You have the option to demand the deletion or correction of your data at any time. You are, of course, entitled to revoke your consent to the use or processing of personal data at any time with effect for the future. To do this, please write to MQT Horlogère Suisse, Scheibenstrasse 16, 3014 Bern, Switzerland.
Saved data will be deleted by us when it is no longer needed for the specified purpose.
With regard to the deletion of data, it should be noted that we are subject to certain statutory obligations which prescribe a retention obligation for certain data. We must fulfill this obligation. If you wish to delete data which is subject to statutory retention, the data will be blocked in our system and will only be used to fulfill the statutory retention requirements. After expiry of the retention period, your deletion request will be complied with.
4. Data protection
We will store your information securely and will take reasonable measures to protect your data from loss, access, misuse or alteration. Our employees and contract partners who have access to your data are contractually committed to secrecy and compliance with data protection regulations. In some cases, it may be necessary to forward your request to our affiliates. Your data will also be handled confidentially in these cases.
5. Cookies
We use so-called cookies to facilitate the use of our website mqtsuisse.com. “Cookies” are small pieces of information that are temporarily stored on your computer’s hard drive and are required to use our website mqtsuisse.com. The information contained in the cookies is used for session control, in particular, the improvement of the navigation, and enables a high degree of user-friendliness of a website. The cookies we use do not store personal data. Cookies are automatically accepted by most browsers. You can however avoid this by changing the settings of your browser. You can remove cookies stored on your PC at any time by deleting the temporary internet files (“Extras – Internet Options” in the browser bar).
The deactivation of cookies may mean that you cannot use all the features of our portal.
You can also find the instructions for deleting cookies on Internet Explorer here:
https://support.microsoft.com/de-de/kb/278835 and on Mozilla, here:
https://support.mozilla.org/de/kb/cookies-loeschen-daten-von-websites-entfernen
6. Plug-Ins
6.1. Facebook plug-ins
Plugins from the social network Facebook, 1601 South California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA are integrated on our website. You can recognize the Facebook plugins from the Facebook logo or the “Like” button or “Share” button on our site. You can find an overview of the Facebook plug-ins here:
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/.
When you visit our pages, the plug-in creates a direct connection between your browser and the Facebook server. The content of the plug-in is transmitted directly from Facebook to your browser and integrated by the browser into the website. This gives Facebook the information that you have visited our site with your IP address, even if you do not have a Facebook account or are not logged into Facebook. This information (including your IP address) is sent directly from your browser to a Facebook server in the US and stored there. If you click the Facebook “Like” button while you are logged in to your Facebook account, you can link the content of our pages to your Facebook profile. This allows Facebook to associate the visit of our pages with your user account. The information about your interaction is also sent directly to a Facebook server and stored there. The information is furthermore
published on Facebook and displayed to your Facebook friends. We point out that, as the provider of these pages, we do not receive knowledge of the contents of the transmitted data or its use by Facebook.
Facebook can use this information for the purpose of advertising, market research and demand-orientated design of the Facebook pages. To this end, Facebook creates usage, interest and relationship profiles, for example, to evaluate your use of our website with regard to the advertisements placed on your Facebook, to inform other Facebook users of your activities on our website and to provide further services associated with the use of Facebook. For more information, see Facebook’s data protection declaration at
https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/.
If you do not want Facebook to associate the visit of our pages with your Facebook user account, please log out of your Facebook user account before using our website.
6.2. Instagram
So-called social plug-ins from Instagram are used on our website, and are operated by Instagram LLC, 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA (“Instagram”). The plug-ins are marked with an Instagram logo, for example, in the form of an “Instagram camera”. An overview of the Instagram plug-ins and their appearance can be found here:
http://blog.instagram.com/post/36222022872/introducing-instagram-badges
When you view a page of our website that contains such a plug-in, your browser connects directly to the Instagram servers. The content of the plug-in is transmitted directly from Instagram to your browser and integrated into the website. Through this integration, Instagram gets the information that your browser has called up the corresponding page of our website, even if you do not have an Instagram profile or are just not logged into Instagram. This information (including your IP address) is sent directly from your browser to an Instagram server in the US and stored there.
If you are logged into Instagram, Instagram can directly associate the visit of our website with your Instagram account. If you interact with the plugins, for example, by pressing the “Instagram” button, this information is also sent directly to an Instagram server and stored there. The information is also published on your Instagram account and displayed to your contacts.
For more information on the purpose and scope of the data collection and the further processing and use of the data by Instagram, as well as your rights in this regard and settings for the protection of your privacy, please refer to the Instagram data protection notice:
https://help.instagram.com/155833707900388/
If you do not want Instagram to associate the data collected through our website directly with your Instagram account, you must log out of Instagram before you visit our website. You can also completely disable the loading of the Instagram plug-ins with add-ons for your browser, for example, with the script blocker “NoScript”(http://noscript.net/).
6.3. Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies”, text files which are stored on your computer and which allow an analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website (browser type/version, operating system used, referrer URL of previously visited website, IP address, time of the server request) is generally transferred to a Google server in the USA and Stored there. However, in the case of the activation of the IP anonymization on our website, your IP address will first be shortened by Google within the Member States of the European Union or in other Contracting States of the Agreement on the European Economic Area.
Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transferred to a Google server in the US and shortened there. Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity for the website operators, and to provide other services in connection with the use of the website and the internet. Google may also transfer this information to third parties, provided this is required by law or as far as third parties process this data on behalf of Google. The IP address provided by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.
You can prevent the installation of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly; However, we would point out that in this case you may not be able to fully utilize all the functions of this website. By using this website, you agree to Google processing your data in the manner and for the purposes set out above.
For more information about the web analytics service used, visit the Google Analytics website. For instructions on how to prevent the processing of your data by the web analytics service, see
http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.
6.4. Twitter plug-ins
Plugins from the social network Twitter, 1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA, are integrated on our website. You’ll recognize the Twitter plug-ins by the Twitter logo on our site. You can find an overview of the Twitter plug-ins here:
https://about.twitter.com/de/resources/buttons
When you visit our pages, the plug-in creates a direct connection between your browser and the Twitter server. The content of the plug-in is transmitted directly from Twitter to your browser and integrated by the browser into the website. This gives Twitter the information that you have visited our site with your IP address, even if you do not have a Twitter account or are not logged into Twitter at the time. This information (including your IP address) is sent directly from your browser to a Twitter server in the USA and stored there. We point out that, as the provider of these pages, we do not receive knowledge of the contents of the transmitted data or its use by Twitter.
Twitter can use this information for the purpose of advertising, market research and demand-orientated design of the Twitter pages. To this end, Twitter creates usage, interest and relationship profiles, for example, to evaluate your use of our website with regard to the advertisements placed on your Twitter, to inform other Twitter users of your activities on our website and to provide further services associated with the use of Twitter. For more information, see Twitter’s data protection declaration at
https://twitter.com/de/privacy
If you do not want Twitter to associate the visit of our pages with your Twitter user account, please log out of your Twitter user account before using our website.
6.5. Pinterest plug-ins
Plug-ins from the social network Pinterest, 808 Brannan Street, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA, are integrated on our website. You’ll recognize the Pinterest plug-ins by the Pinterest logo on our site. You can find an overview of the Pinterest plug-ins here:
https://developers.pinterest.com/tools/widget-builder/.
When you visit our pages, the plug-in creates a direct connection between your browser and the Pinterest server. The content of the plug-in is transmitted directly from Pinterest to your browser and integrated by the browser into the website. This gives Pinterest the information that you have visited our site with your IP address, even if you do not have a Pinterest account or are not logged into Pinterest at the time. This information (including your IP address) is sent directly from your browser to a Pinterest server in the USA and stored there. We point out that, as the provider of these pages, we do not receive knowledge of the contents of the transmitted data or its use by Pinterest.
Pinterest can use this information for the purpose of advertising, market research and demand-orientated design of the Pinterest pages. To this end, Pinterest creates usage, interest and relationship profiles, for example, to evaluate your use of our website with regard to the advertisements placed on your Pinterest, to inform other Pinterest users of your activities on our website and to provide further services associated with the use of Pinterest. For more information, see Pinterest’s data protection declaration at
https://policy.pinterest.com/de/privacy-policy
If you do not want Pinterest to associate the visit of our pages with your Pinterest user account, please log out of your Pinterest user account before using our website.
7. Changes
Changes to the data protection declaration will be published on this site. In this way, you can always inform yourself on which data we store, as well as how we collect and use this data. The data protection regulations can be saved here and / or printed out.