Privacy Statement

Introduction

Thank you for visiting www.spineart.com (the “Website”). Spineart and its subsidiaries (collectively, “Spineart”, “we”) are committed to protecting your privacy and adhering to applicable European and local national data protection regulations.

This Privacy Statement explains you how we collect, hold, process, use and protect the personal data gathered through this website.
This includes, without limitation, all online and offline collections of all types of personal information.

By accessing and browsing this Website, you accept to the terms of the most recent version of this Privacy Statement.

This Privacy Statement applies only to this Website, therefore if you visit another website related to, recommended by Spineart, or linked to this Website, you should read their respective privacy policy.

What data do we collect?

Spineart collects the following data:

  • first and last name
  • address, telephone number and e-mail address
  • age and Gender
  • area of interest
  • geographical area: country and language
  • profession
  • CV, including work history, professional qualifications, publications, awards, references, completed training and signature, motivation letter.
  • IP (Internet Protocol) address when such address is associated with a specific user

How do we collect your data?

You directly provide Spineart with most of the data we collect. We collect data and process data when you:

  • voluntarily complete a contact form or provide feedback via email
  • use or view our website via your browser’s cookies

How will we use your data?

Spineart collects your data so that we can:

  • respond to your inquiries and fulfill your requests, such as to send you documents you request
  • provide the services you request such as to register you to a training
  • respond to enquiries regarding data privacy and your privacy rights
  • respond to applications for current vacancies and/or accept unsolicited job applications
  • analyze data about behaviors and use of our website

How and how long do we store your data?

Spineart maintains a number of appropriate technical and organizational security measures to safeguard your personal data from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, accidental destruction or loss. Whenever appropriate, and pursuant to the principle of data minimization, Spineart is committed to the anonymization or pseudonymization of personal data, and personal data will be stored securely in a designated system.

Spineart will retain your personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to comply with legal obligations or for no longer as required for legitimate business purposes.

Disclosure of Information

Spineart may share personal information we have collected through this website:

  • to our subsidiaries and affiliates for the purposes described in this Privacy Statement
  • to third party companies that we hire to perform services or functions on our behalf such as but not limited to: website hosting, technical maintenance, data analysis, e-mail and direct mail delivery services and auditing.
  • as permitted by applicable law, to a third party in the event of any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer, or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets, or stock.

If necessary, and in compliance with applicable laws, Spineart may also disclose your personal data to third-parties to:

  • enforce this Privacy Statement
  • protect Spineart’s rights or property
  • protect someone’s health, safety or welfare
  • comply with a law or regulation, court order or other legal process
  • investigate, or cooperate with law enforcement authorities in investigating and prosecuting, suspected fraud or illegal activities.

Spineart will not sell or share your personal data with unaffiliated third parties for their own direct marketing purposes.

Cross-Border transfer

Your personal information may be stored and processed in any country where we have facilities, service providers, partners or agents and by using our website or by providing consent to us (where required by law), your information may be transferred to countries outside of your country of residence, including to the United States, which may provide for different data protection rules than in your country. Appropriate contractual and other measures are in place to protect personal information when it is transferred to our subsidiaries, affiliates or third parties in other countries.

Some countries outside of the European Union are recognized by the European Commision as providing an adequate level of data protection. For transfers to countries not considered adequate, we have ensured that adequate measures are in place, including by ensuring that the recipient is bound by EU Standard Contractual Clauses, a code of conduct or certification, to protect your Personal Information.

What are your data protection rights?

We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights.
Every user is entitled to the following:

  • The right to access: you have the right to request a copy of your personal data.
  • The right to rectification: you have the right to obtain the rectification of your personal data if inaccurate, incomplete or obsolete.
  • The right to erasure: you have the right to request the erasure of your personal data (“right to be forgotten”), under certain conditions.
  • The right to restrict processing: you have the right to request that Spineart restricts the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
  • The right to object processing: you have the right to object to Spineart’s processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
  • The right to data portability: you have the right to receive your personal data for transmission to a third-party or to have your personal data directly transferred by Spineart to the third-party of your choice, where technically feasible.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you.
If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at: gdpr@spineart.com

What are cookies?

Cookies are text files placed on your computer to collect standard internet log information and visitor behavior information. When you visit our website, we may collect information from you automatically through cookies or similar tracking technologies.

For further information, visit https://www.allaboutcookies.org/

How do we use cookies?

Spineart uses cookies in a range of ways to improve your experience on our website, including:

  • Keeping you signed in
  • Understanding how you use our website
  • Guiding you to a website in your language

What types of cookies do we use?

There are a number of different types of cookies, however, our website uses:

  • Functionality: Spineart uses these cookies so that we recognize you on our website and remember your previously selected preferences. These could include what language you prefer and location you are in. A mix of first-party and third-party cookies are used.
  • Analytical: Spineart uses these cookies to collect information about your visit to our website, the content you viewed, the links you followed and information about your browser, device, and your IP address.

How to manage cookies?

You can set your browser not to accept cookies, and the above website tells you how to remove cookies from your browser. However, in a few cases, some of our website features may not function as a result.

Children

This Website is not designed or intended for use by children under the age of 16. Spineart do not knowingly collect any personal data on this Website from anyone under the age of 16 (or less if provided for by applicable national laws) without the prior, verifiable consent from his or her legal representative.

Privacy statements of other websites

This Website contains links to other websites. Our Privacy Statement applies only to our website, so if you click on a link to another website, you should read their privacy policy.

Changes to our privacy statement

This Privacy Statement may be amended at any time. We will not proactively notify you of any such changes and recommend you consult our Privacy Statement when revisiting our Website to review any changes.

This Privacy Statement was last updated on January 12th 2021.

How to contact us?

If you have any questions about Spineart’s Privacy Statement, the data we hold on you, or you would like to exercise one of your data protection rights, please do not hesitate to contact us.

You can email us at: gdpr@spineart.com

You may also send a mail to:
SPINEART SA
Chemin du Pré-Fleuri 3
1228 Plan-Les-Ouates
SWITZERLAND

How to contact the appropriate authority

Should you wish to report a complaint or if you feel that Spineart has not addresses your concern in a satisfactory manner, you may contact the applicable Data Protection Authority:

http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/bodies/authorities/index_en.htm