Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy explains how Dentsu International Switzerland AG (referred to as „we“ and „us“ in this policy) may collect and use personal information from you when you use our website (www.dentsu.ch).

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Last update: 13 07 2018
Version: 1.1

This Privacy and Cookie Policy explains the following:

  • What personal information we collect on this website;
  • How we use this information;
  • How we store your personal information;
  • How we secure your personal information;
  • Whether we disclose or share your personal information;
  • Your choice regarding the personal information you provide to us;
  • Our responsibility for website links;
  • How to contact us.

Supplementary Information section of this Privacy and Cookie Policy, we explain what is meant by “personal information” and other terms used in this Statement.

What personal information we collect on this website

We collect information about how you use our website and the device(s) you use to access our site. This includes collecting unique mobile device ID or the internet protocol (IP) address online identifiers, which are numbers that can uniquely identify a specific computer or other network device on the internet.

We also collect information about you if you make use of any of the interactive features within our website that rely on a personalised response, or where you ask us to respond to a query you have, The information we collect is limited to the details we need to provide the specific service you have asked for.  We do not collect sensitive information, such as your political or religious beliefs, ethnic background, sexual preference, health or any other sensitive information.

We do not actively seek to collect information about children aged 16 or under.  If you have any concerns about your child’s privacy in relation to our services, or if you believe that your child may have entered personal data onto our Website, please  Contact Us. We will delete such information from our records with a reasonable time.

How we use this information

Except where required by law, we only use the personal information you provide for the following purposes:

  • to deliver the specific information or services you have requested. For example, if you have requested further information on our services or content, or wish to subscribe to our alert service, or submit an enquiry through this site. We will only use the email address you provide to us to respond to that request. Without your express consent, we will not use your contact details for any other purpose.

How we store your personal information

We are committed to ensuring your personal information is kept secure and confidential and not kept for longer than is necessary. From time to time we may ask other members of our group, or third party service providers, to help us manage our information technology systems. Some of these systems may be located in countries overseas.

We will only transfer your information to a third party service provider or overseas, where we are satisfied that adequate levels of protection are in place to protect the integrity and security of any information being processed and compliance with applicable privacy and data protection laws.

How we secure your personal information

We have appropriate security measures in place to prevent unlawful or unauthorised use, access or accidental loss of personal information. We also seek to ensure our service providers do the same.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

We do not sell or rent any personally identifiable information about you to any third party.

We may disclose personally identifiable information in response to legal process, for example in response to a court order or a subpoena, or in response to a law enforcement agency’s request, or where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent or take action regarding illegal activities, and as otherwise required by law. Our agents and contractors may have access to personally identifiable information to help carry out the services they are performing for us.

Your choice regarding the personal information you provide to us

General rights

  • If you wish to stop receiving marketing communications from us then please click on the „unsubscribe“ link at the bottom of the relevant mailing. If you wish to opt-out completely then please contact us at using the details provided below.
  • If you would like us to delete your information from our records, please contact us using the contact details below and we will respond within a reasonable time. Please note that we may be required to retain certain information by law and/or for our own legitimate business purpose.

Users from the European Economic Area

If you are from the European Economic Area, you have rights (with some exceptions and restrictions) to:

  • object to our processing of your personal data, including profiling.  You can object at any time and we shall stop processing the information you have objected to, unless we can show compelling legitimate grounds to continue that processing;
  • access your personal data. If you make this kind of request and we hold personal data about you, we are required to provide you with information on it, including a description and copy of the personal data and why we are processing it;
  • request erasure of your personal data in certain circumstances Erasure rights do not apply where the data is processed for historical research purposes or statistical purposes.
  • request correction or updating of the personal data that we hold about you and that is inaccurate;
  • request the restriction of our processing of your personal data in some situations. If you request this, we can continue to store your personal data but are restricted from processing it while the restriction is in place;
  • withdraw your consent to our use of your personal data. When you use our website you may have been asked to consent to the dropping of a cookie. You may withdraw your consent to our processing of your personal data that has been derived from cookies. If you do withdraw consent, that will not affect the lawfulness of what we have done with your personal data before you withdrew consent;
  • complain to your local data protection authority about our collection or use of your personal data. For example, in the UK, the local data protection authority is the UK Information Commissioner’s Office.

If you exercise the rights above and there is any question about who you are, we may require you to provide information from which we can satisfy ourselves as to your identity.

If you are from the European Economic Area and would like to exercise any of these rights in relation to any information we hold about you via this website please contact us using the contact details provided below. We will consider and respond to your request in accordance with the relevant law.

Our responsibility for website links

This Privacy and Cookie Policy is limited to the personal information which we collect and use via this website. We do provide links within this site to other websites, including social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn and sites operated by other brands within the Dentsu International Switzerland AG Group (e.g. Carat, Vizeum, iProspect, Isobar and Posterscope). If you follow these links, you should use these sites in conjunction with their applicable user and Privacy and Cookie Policies as their data practices fall outside the scope of this Privacy and Cookie Policy. Further, we can have no responsibility for or control over the information collected by any third party website and we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you may provide on such websites.

Updates

This Privacy and Cookie Policy may be updated from time to time to reflect changes in law, best practice or a change in our practices regarding the treatment of personal information. If you do not agree to the changes, please do not continue to use our website. You should check this Statement frequently for updates. This Statement was last updated 13.07.2018

HOW WE DEPLOY COOKIES

Cookies are small packets of information stored by your web browser when you visit certain websites, including our website. Cookies are generally used by websites to improve your user experience by enabling that website to ‘remember’ you, either strictly for the duration of your visit (using a “Session” cookie which is erased when you close your browser) or for repeat visits (using a “Permanent” cookie). We do not use cookies to store any personally identifiable information about you.

Our site uses the following types of cookies:

Functionality Cookies

These cookies allow our sites to remember choices you make (such as cookie banner acceptance.  The information these cookies collect are anonymised and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.

The functionality cookies are listed below:

Cookie NamePurpose
catAccCookiesThis cookie is used to store the click on the cookie banner “accept” button

How to reject cookies

If you don’t want to receive cookies, you can alter your browser settings.  The procedure for doing so varies from one browser application to another.  If you wish to reject cookies from our site, but wish to accept those from other sites, you may choose the option in your browser settings to receive a notice before a cookie is stored on your device.  Please consult the “Help” section of your browser for more information.

To find out more, please consult the following:  http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookiies  and www.youronlinechoices.com .  By disabling cookies, you may be prevented from accessing some features of our site or certain content or functionality may not be available.

Contact us

If you have any questions about our approach to privacy or you would like to exercise any of the rights mentioned in this Privacy and Cookie Policy you can contact our Data Protection Officer in any of the following ways:

Address: Data Protection Officer, Dentsu International Switzerland AG, Regent’s Place, 10 Triton Street, London, NW1 3BF

Telephone: (+44) (0) 207 070 7700

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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION

In this Supplementary Information section, we explain some of terminology used in this Privacy and Cookie Policy.

personal information“ – any information that relates to you (or from which you can be identified).

profiling“ – automatically using personal data to work out certain things about people, like analysing or predicting their performance at work, reliability, economic situation, personal preferences, interests, behaviour, location or movements.