BACKGROUND
Lawsons Wealth understands that your privacy is important to you and that you care about how your personal data is used. We respect and value the privacy of everyone who visits this website, www.lawsonswealth.com, and will only collect and use personal data in ways that are described here, and in a way that is consistent with our obligations and your rights under the law, including both the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Swiss Data Protection Act (DPA) 2023.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully and ensure that you understand it. Your acceptance of this Privacy Policy is requested when you accept our cookies notice or submit a web form for us to contact you.
1. Definitions and Interpretation
In this Policy the following terms shall have the following meanings:
- Account means an account required to access and/or use certain areas and features of Our Site.
- Cookie means a small text file placed on your computer or device by Our Site when you visit certain parts of Our Site and/or when you use certain features of Our Site. Details of the Cookies used by Our Site are set out in Part 12, below.
- Cookie Law refers to the relevant parts of the Swiss Telecommunications Act and Swiss Data Protection Act.
2. Information About Us
Our site is owned and operated by Lawsons Network AG, registered in Switzerland under company number CHE-394.490.386.
Registered address: Rue Neuve-du-Molard 19, 1204 Genève, Switzerland
Data Protection Officer: Sarah Oglesby
Email address: info@lawsonswealth.com
Telephone number: +41 41 508 70 11
Postal address: Rue Neuve-du-Molard 19, 1204 Genève, Switzerland
Lawsons Network AG is registered as an Insurance Intermediary with the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA – 37795), a member of the Client Advisors register at Association Romande des Intermédiaires Financiers (ARIF – 32974) and affiliated to SO-FIT as a financial intermediary within the meaning of article 2 para. 3 of the Anti-Money Laundering Act (AMLA)- Affiliate No. 1202. SO-FIT is a self-regulatory organisation recognised by the Swiss Federal Financial Markets Supervisory Authority (FINMA).
3. What Does This Policy Cover?
This Privacy Policy applies only to your use of our site. Our site may contain links to other websites. Please note that we have no control over how your data is collected, stored, or used by other websites, and we advise you to check the privacy policies of any such websites before providing any data to them.
4. What Is Personal Data?
Personal data is defined by the GDPR and the Swiss Federal Data Protection Act 2023 (collectively, “the Data Protection Legislation”) as ‘any information relating to an identifiable person who can be directly or indirectly identified in particular by reference to an identifier’.
5. What Are My Rights?
Under the Data Protection Legislation, which includes the GDPR and Swiss DPA 2023, you have the following rights, which we will always work to uphold:
- The right to be informed about our collection and use of your personal data. This Privacy Policy should tell you everything you need to know, but you can always contact us to find out more or to ask any questions using the details in Part 14.
- The right to access the personal data we hold about you. Part 11 will tell you how to do this.
- The right to have your personal data rectified if any of your personal data held by us is inaccurate or incomplete. Please contact us using the details in Part 14 to find out more.
- The right to be forgotten, i.e., the right to ask us to delete or otherwise dispose of any of your personal data that we hold, within the bounds of applicable law.
- The right to restrict (i.e., prevent) the processing of your personal data.
- The right to object to us using your personal data for a particular purpose or purposes.
- The right to withdraw consent. This means that, if we are relying on your consent as the legal basis for using your personal data, you are free to withdraw that consent at any time.
- The right to data portability. This means that, if you have provided personal data to us directly, we are using it with your consent or for the performance of a contract, and that data is processed using automated means, you can ask us for a copy of that personal data to re-use with another service or business in many cases.
Complaints: If you have any cause for complaint about our use of your personal data, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC) in Switzerland or, for EU citizens, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) in the United Kingdom.
We would welcome the opportunity to resolve your concerns ourselves, however, so please contact us first, using the details in Part 14.
6. What Data Do You Collect and How?
Depending upon your use of our site, we may collect and hold some or all of the personal and non-personal data when you submit a web form for us to get in touch with you or when you log in to your IFA Hub. The data collected includes your name, company, email address, phone number, and the nature of your query. Please also see Part 12 for more information about our use of Cookies and similar technologies and our Cookie Policy. We do not collect any ‘special category’ or ‘sensitive’ personal data, nor data relating to children or criminal convictions and/or offences.
7. How Do You Use My Personal Data?
Under the Data Protection Legislation, we must always have a lawful basis for using personal data. We use your personal data to respond to your message or enquiry submitted on a website form or for providing and managing your access to your IFA Hub.
We will only use your personal data for the purpose(s) for which it was originally collected unless we reasonably believe that another purpose is compatible with that or those original purpose(s). If we do need to use your personal data for an unrelated purpose, we will inform you and explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.
In some circumstances, where permitted or required by law, we may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent, always within the bounds of the Data Protection Legislation.
8. How Long Will You Keep My Personal Data?
We will not keep your personal data for any longer than is necessary in light of the reason(s) for which it was first collected:
- If you register a web query, your personal data will be kept for 2 years.
- If you join our network, your data will be kept for no fixed period for compliance and audit purposes, as permitted by Swiss DPA 2023.
9. How and Where Do You Store or Transfer My Personal Data?
We will only store your personal data in our cloud-based systems on secure servers. We will only store your personal data within Switzerland, the European Economic Area (the “EEA”), and the UK. Transfers of personal data to the EEA from Switzerland and the UK are permitted without additional safeguards. For transfers outside of these regions, we will ensure that equivalent levels of data protection are met.
10. Do You Share My Personal Data?
We will not share any of your personal data with any third parties, except as required by law, in the case of legal proceedings, or as part of a business transfer where the new owner will continue to use your personal data as described in this Privacy Policy.
11. How Do You Use Cookies?
Our site may place and access certain first-party Cookies on your computer or device. All Cookies used by and on our site are used in accordance with the current Swiss Telecommunications Act and Swiss DPA 2023. You may, if you wish, deny consent to the placing of Cookies; however, certain features of our site may not function fully or as intended.
12. How Can I Access My Personal Data?
If you want to know what personal data we have about you, you can ask us for details and a copy (where any such personal data is held). This is known as a “subject access request”.
We will respond to your subject access request within 30 days. If more time is required due to complexity, we will inform you promptly and keep you updated on the progress.
13. How Do I Contact You?
To contact us about anything to do with your personal data and data protection, including to make a subject access request, please use the following details:
Email address: info@lawsonswealth.com
Telephone number: +41 41 508 70 11
Postal Address: Rue Neuve-du-Molard 19, 1204 Genève, Switzerland
14. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. This may be necessary, for example, if the law changes, or if we change our business in a way that affects personal data protection.
Any changes will be immediately posted on our website, and you will be deemed to have accepted the terms of the Privacy Policy on your first use of our site following the alterations.
This Privacy Policy was last updated on August 30, 2023.