Thank you for visiting our website and your interest in www.btg.com. We regard the privacy of your data as essential. We therefore wish to inform you in the following about how we process your personal data. The website www.btg.com and all the services associated with it are offered by BTG Eclépens S.A, Switzerland and, in certain cases, by its affiliated undertakings (referred to in the following as BTG).
Controller for the processing of data is:
BTG Eclépens S.A
Z.I. Village 1312
Eclépens Switzerland
Phone: +41 21 866 00 66
E-Mail: dataprotection@btg.com
Personal data is processed whenever (i) this is necessary for the IT involved in the technical operation of the website or linked services (apps) or whenever such processing guarantees ease of use of the website or such services, (ii) such processing is necessary for the purpose of initiating or performing a contract and the personal data is usually provided by you for this purpose, or (iii) generally for the purpose of maintaining the business relationship, e.g. for sending information material.
If it is necessary to forward your data to other Group companies for the above-mentioned purposes, your data can be passed on to them. Beyond that, your data will not be passed on. Your data will not be sold, rented out or made available to third parties in any other way. Personal data is only transferred to government agencies or authorities if this is necessary for compliance with mandatory national statutory provisions.
Data is either recorded by you yourself or, for technical IT reasons, are generated automatically when you visit our website. In particular, technical IT data is stored temporarily in a logfile and is deleted automatically when the purpose for which they have been stored no longer applies.
We process the data stated for the following purposes:
We have a legitimate interest to collect data for the purposes listed above. There are no situations in which we use the data collected for the purpose of drawing conclusions about you personally. In addition to this, we use cookies when you visit our website.
We offer you extensive personal support. If you contact us using the contact form, we will collect your first and last names for this purpose together with your email address so that we can send you a fast and personalized response to your request. The data is used to answer your request and, in cases where you may wish to become a customer, to send information on BTG’s products and services.
BTG provides customers and partners with a central access point for all applications and services for collaboration purposes. Access is only available to those users who have registered beforehand.
Cookies are small files created automatically via your browser which are stored on your terminal device (laptop, tablet, smart phone or similar). Cookies do not contain viruses, Trojans or other malware.
Information is stored in cookies in connection with the specific terminal device used. This does not mean that we have immediate access to your identity. The purpose of cookies is to make it easier for you to use our services. The following types of cookies are used.
The pages on www.btg.com (the “Website”) are published by Coda Communications Limited (“Coda”) on behalf BTG Eclépens S.A (“BTG”, “us” or “we”). BTG will not collect any information about individuals, except where it is specifically and knowingly provided by them. You can refuse the use of cookies by following the link at the bottom of the page.
The names and types of the cookies we use are:
Cookie name | Purpose |
_ga,_gid,_gat | These cookies are used by Google Analytics. They collect information on how visitors use the Website. The data collected is in anonymous form and is also used by Google to produce reports that help us improve the Website. |
catAccCookies | This is used to record that you accept the fact that the Website uses cookies. |
wfvt_[hash] | These contain information about your general geographic location (used to remember your time zone, for example). These are known as session cookies and are deleted when you leave the Website. |
wordfence_verifiedHuman | Used by Wordfence (a WordPress plugin) to protect the Website against malicious attacks. |
wordpress_test_cookie | This plugin is used by WordPress to see if the user’s browser has options for reading cookies enabled. |
When you visit the Website, Coda’s web server collects some basic information such as your internet service provider’s domain name, which pages you accessed on the site, and when. We and Coda use this information only to analyse the use of our Website to help guide improvements. We do not collect any personally identifiable information. Coda uses cookies for detecting what kind of device you have in order to present content in the best way, for a language switch and/or for other purposes.
You have a number of rights under applicable data protection law in respect of our processing of your personal data, these include:
A list of other authorities can be found in the provided download (National Data Protection Authorities v1.0 20180419).
Further details on the scope of these rights can be found in our Data Subject Rights Request Form, which is also provided as a download (BTG Data Subject Request May 2018). Should you wish to exercise your rights, please complete this request form and send (including any supporting documents) to the BTG Chief Privacy Officer: dataprotection@btg.com
When in doubt, or if you have any questions relating to data protection, you can contact us via dataprotection@btg.com
The criterion for the storage of personal data is the applicable statutory retention period or the cessation of the purpose, in particular if processing is lawfully based on the balance of interests. The data are routinely erased.