Exercise your rights to privacy

Take control over your personal data

With the GDPR and Swiss data privacy laws, your right to privacy shall be easier to exercice.

You can exercise your rights of access electronically or by mail and receive all information that a company or a public entity hold and stores about you. You can request information about your data electronically or by mail, but it needs to be sufficiently detailed and explained so that the controller of your information can comply with your request. In some cases, such request may become complex.

We facilitate and help you exercise your data subject access rights (DSAR) and provide guidance and advice to access or delete your personal data from major social media platforms, search engines, insurances, etc.

We counsel and advise you to exercice your rights

Your right to know about the processing of your personal information is absolute.

In some cases, you also have the right to object to the processing or withdraw your consent. If you cannot exercice your rights successfully against a data controller, we advise you on how to proceed and defend your case. We offer advice and you may also use our legal services to answer your questions online (live chat) or by phone.

Your data on Twitter

Managing your personal data on social networks is complex. For Twitter, here are useful links to start familiarizing yourself.

Your data on Facebook

Facebook stores, shares and uses massive amounts of personal, which may constitute sensitive data (relating to health, religion, politics). Here are some useful links :

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My privacy rights (GDPR)

Access and verify your data

You always have the right to obtain and verify what personal data a company holds about you. You can exercise free of charge your right of access, after having informed precisely the controller about what data you wish to obtain. In some cases, you can also request data portability, which allow you to obtain your data in a readable and transposable format to another service provider.

Object to processing

Under the GDPR, you have the right to object at any time to the processing of personal data and to the use of such data. Your right to object may apply in cases where you justify a personal situation with overrides the interest of the data controller, or against direct marketing and profiling activities.

Right to be informed

An organization collecting information about you has to provide you with a clear information about the use the personal data and what your rights are. If you feel that the information was not clear, transparent or ambiguous, you can contact the controller and get further information about the processing of your personal data.

Right to be forgotten and to erasure

You have the right to request that the controller deletes your personal data, unless there is an obligation to keep that data to comply with a legal obligation to store such data any longer. On the internet, you can request to disappear from search engines (e.g.: on Google) so that your name is not referenced to visible content. You should not appear anymore from the results after someone makes a query in a search engine.

Consent withdrawl and opt-out

If you have given your consent to a processing activity, you can withdraw your consent at any time by contacting the controller which would be prohibited to use that information any further.

File a complaint to an authority

You always have the possibility to lodge a complaint in front of a data protection authority in your country of residence or where the processing activity takes place, or a court. This applies regardless of whether the controller refused to comply with your request, pour notify a breach, or to notify a controller’s misconduct or illegal processing activity.

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