Privacy Policy

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SIGLO Capital Advisors AG («SIGLO») collects and uses certain personal data in accordance with the provisions of the Federal Data Protection Act («DPA»), Data Protection Ordinance («DPO») and, where applicable, the EU General Data Protection Regulation («GDPR»).

This Privacy Policy is directed to individuals whose personal data we process in relation with our commercial activities and to visitors to our website.

Personal data means any data relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.

If you have any questions about the processing of your personal data, please contact us at info@siglo.ch.

Types of personal data

In the course of our activities, SIGLO receives and processes personal data that you provide to SIGLO or that we request from you. In doing so, the nature of our relationship with you will determine the categories of personal data we collect about you.

In particular, this includes:

Professional contact details of representatives of our clients, prospects and service providers, such as name, last name, e-mail address, telephone number, mobile, address, function, job title;
Private contact and identification data of our employees, board members as well as applicants, such as name, last name, e-mail address, telephone number, mobile, address, identification documents, birth date, nationality, social security number;
Personal data of our employees, board members as well as applicants such as data on spouses and children, marital status, curriculum vitae, references, criminal records, banking information, health-related information;
AML and KYC data of our clients or their representatives;
Working time data of employees such as working hours and absences.
Private contact data of our members of the IICG such as name, last name, e-mail address, telephone number, mobile, address.

Collection of personal data

The collection of personal data usually takes place as follows:

If you provide it to us;
If you communicate with us by email or through other channels;
If you use this website;
If you apply for a role with SIGLO or during the course of your employment;
If we consult other sources such as publicly available search engines, official databases, registers and archives, social media or other websites.

Purpose of processing your personal data

Your personal data will only be processed within the scope of our activities and/or the fulfilment of our contractual or statutory obligations. SIGLO uses your personal data in particular:

For communication purposes;
For documentation purposes;
For evidence purposes;
For client administration purposes;
For marketing and advertising purposes;
For the fulfilment of contractual obligations;
To meet regulatory or internal record keeping requirements;
For recruitment and employee management purposes;

Disclosure of your personal data to third parties

For the purposes set above, your personal data may be disclosed to third parties. Such third parties may include:

External service providers (such as IT service providers, accountants, CRM-system etc.);
External advisors (such as lawyers, consultants, auditors etc.);
Custodians and/or Fund Administrators and/or Fund Managers when disclosure of your personal information is reasonably necessary to effect, administer or rectify transactions or to establish a relationship with respect to that transaction;
Other third parties where required, or allowed under law, or in connection with legal proceedings.

SIGLO will take reasonable steps to ensure that such third parties are bound by confidentiality, privacy and data security obligations in relation to the protection of your personal data.

During the processing of certain personal data as described above, some personal data may be transferred to another country in Europe (Germany and France). These are countries whose legislation ensures adequate data protection.

SIGLO may also transfer your personal data otherwise, where the law explicitly permits such a transfer, for example where the transfer is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims or to perform a contract.

Data security

SIGLO operates and maintains appropriate physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to protect your personal data from misuse, loss, damage, unauthorised access, modification or disclosure. Access is restricted to authorised personnel. In addition, the effectiveness of these safeguards is tested through regular checks.

Your rights

When we process your personal data, you have the following rights, which you can exercise free of charge in most cases:

The right to obtain information regarding the processing of your personal data;
The right to request that we rectify your personal data if it is inaccurate or incomplete;
The right to request that we erase your personal data (unless legal or regulatory requirements require your personal data to be stored);
The right to withdraw your consent to the processing of your personal data at any time. However, please note that we may still be entitled to process your personal data if we are required to retain it by law or regulation;
The right to object to, or request that we restrict, our processing of your personal data in certain circumstances. Again, there may be circumstances where we are not obliged or entitled to comply with this request;
In some circumstances, the right to receive certain personal data in a structured, commonly used format and/or request that we transfer such data to a third party where this is technically feasible;
The right to lodge a complaint with the relevant data protection supervisory authority if you think that any of your rights have been infringed by us.

Retention

The period for which we keep your personal data will depend on the purpose for which we use your personal data and our legal obligations.

Use of our website

If you use our website, anonymised data relating to user navigation behavior is automatically collected in order to administer and improve our website. This data may include your anonymised IP address, the times you visit or the time zones from which you access the website.

For security purposes and to protect confidential content during transmission, this website uses SSL encryption.

If you use our website, we may collect technical information using cookies. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and allow us to track your visit to our website. You can usually disable cookies by changing your internet browser setting. Please note that you may not be able to use all the features of this website if you refuse the use of cookies.

Contact for your privacy concerns

SIGLO Capital Advisors AG

Birmensdorferstrasse 140

8003 Zurich

Switzerland

E-mail: info@siglo.ch

Changes to this privacy policy

Any changes we make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this website. Please check regularly for updates or changes to our privacy policy.

Last updated: 8. August 2023