Legal notice

Terms of use

The website spgpartner.ch is edited and published respectively by:

  • spg partner Geneva SA, registered rue Ferdinand-Hodler 23, 1207 Geneva - Switzerland

Hereinafter collectively « spg partner »

Access to and use of the Website are subject to the following Terms of Use and all applicable laws. By accessing and browsing the Website, you accept, without limitation or qualification, these terms and conditions.

Liability

The information on the Website is provided for information only and is subject to change at any time. It is in no way legally binding upon either or the clients of spg partner.

spg partner endeavours to ensure, as far as possible, that the information published on the Website is accurate and up-to-date and reserves its right to correct the content at any time without notice.

However, spg partner cannot guarantee the accuracy, the precision or the comprehensive nature of the information made available on the Website.

In particular, spg partner disclaims all responsibility for:

  • any break in service of the Website, for whatever reason;
  • any imprecision or omission relating to information available on the Website;
  • any damage resulting from fraudulent intrusion by a third party leading to a modification of the information made available on the Website;
  • more generally, any direct or indirect damage, whatever the cause, origin, nature or consequences, loss of profits, clients, data or any other loss of intangible assets arising from access by whomever to the Website or access being impossible or credibility being given to any information coming directly or indirectly from the latter.

The invalidity of any term, condition or provision of the Terms of Use shall not affect the validity of the other portions of the Terms of Use.

Intellectual property

All material on the Website is covered by copyright laws. No part or element of the Website may be used or reproduced for any public or commercial purpose without the prior written consent of spg partner. All intellectual property rights relating to the Website, or appearing thereon, are exclusively owned by or licensed to spg partner. You may not use any of them in any manner, without the prior express written permission of spg partner.

Data protection

spg partner is committed to protecting your personal data and respecting your privacy.

Any personal information provided by you will be processed in accordance with the Swiss Federal Data Protection Act. We may disclose your personal data to other members of our Group solely for marketing and analysis purposes.

Your personal data will not be sold or otherwise distributed to third parties without your consent.

Right of access, rectification and deletion

spg partner commits to keeping confidential any information provided online by you. In this way, you have the right to access, modify and delete any personal information, which you may exercise at any time by sending a letter to spg partner’s address or by e-mail to the following addresses: geneva@spgpartner.ch

Publications / Newletters

If you register to receive one of our publications and/or our newsletters, you consent to receive e-mail offers and promotions from spg partner.

When you register, the following personal data will be collected: company name and e-mail address. The data thus collected shall be used only to reinforce and personalize communication and the services offered to you by spg partner.

If you do not wish to receive the publications / newsletters form spg partner, you can unsubscribe at any time by clicking on the link “unsubscribe” that appears at the bottom of all newsletters, or by sending a letter to spg partner or an e-mail at the following addresses:

contact@spgpartner.ch

We will immediately delete your personal data from our database.

Liens

spg partner may provide links on the Website to other sites. The inclusion of such links is solely for your convenience. spg partner makes no representations and disclaims all warranties, express and implied, as to the accuracy, validity, suitability, and legality or otherwise of any materials or information contained on such sites.

Revisions

spg partner may at any time revise the terms and conditions contained in the Terms of Use by updating this posting. You accept any revisions and should periodically visit this page to review the Terms of Use that apply to your use of the Website.

Jurisdiction

Any dispute over the content or use of the Website shall be governed by the laws of Switzerland and the Courts of the Canton of Geneva shall have exclusive jurisdiction on such dispute.

Privacy policy

Data protection

We focus our core competencies on the Swiss real estate sector. We take you seriously as a client and therefore your right and need to have the truth and security of data ensured. For this reason, we have decided to align our handling of your data with the strict requirements of the European General Data Protection Regulation even before the revised Swiss Data Protection Act comes into force.

Data Protection Policy

spg partner sa in its capacity as controller informs its users that personal data relating to you will be processed, and in particular:

  • personal data that you provide to us in the event of registration on the website or in the context of the initiation / processing of a contractual relationship, such as e-mail address, first name, surname, title, address, phone number;
  • personal data transmitted by your internet browser each time you visit the website and stored as part of log files, also known as server log files. These data include: IP address (internet protocol address) of the accessing computer; as well as other non-personal data such as name of the accessed page; date and time of access; related URL from which the user accesses the page; number of transmitted data; status message for successful access; session ID number.

Purpose of the processing

spg partner sa as controller processes the personal data for the following purposes:

  • to fulfil users’ requests (e.g., management of contact requests, management of contact orders for regular electronic newsletters with promotional information about real estate offers made by spg partner sa);
  • to process any contractual relationship with the user;
  • to enable the registration of users on the website;
  • to handle the technical management of the website and its operational functions, including the resolution of technical problems, statistical analysis, testing and research;
  • to prevent fraudulent activity or abuse on or in connection with the website;
  • to comply with the requirements of applicable laws, to protect the safety of an individual and the rights and property of spg partner sa, and to prevent deception or security or technical problems.
  • Nature of the provision of personal data and the consequences of refusal

The provision of personal data by the user is voluntary. You are free to decide whether to make personal data available to spg partner sa. If the processing of the data is based on your consent, you can revoke this consent at any time. Revocation may mean that you can no longer make full use of the website and the services offered by spg partner sa. By providing your personal data, you consent to the processing, storage and use of your data.

Access to data

The personal data will be processed by spg partner sa, and specifically, in particular, by staff and consultants authorised to manage the website and provide related services;

  • external companies (e.g., IT service providers, hosting providers, etc.) to which spg partner sa has outsourced services involving processing operations as part of contract data processing.

Sharing data

For the purpose of data processing, we transmit your data to our contract data processors. Upon request, we will gladly send you the current list of our contract data processors.

Furthermore, your data will only be shared with third parties for the following purposes:

  • to fulfil or settle our contractual rights or obligations in connection with our contractual relationship, in particular, data will be shared with your contractual partners, notaries and land registry offices;
  • on account of a legal basis or official order;
  • to safeguard the overriding legitimate interests of spg partner sa (e.g., sharing with external consultants, auditors and the like).

By providing us with your data, you also give us permission to share the data with affiliated companies of spg partner sa for marketing purposes (newsletters, product and service offers). You can object to this use at any time, either by notifying us or the affiliated company from which you are contacted or, in the case of e-mails, by unsubscribing from the distribution list via the corresponding unsubscribe link.

The servers used by spg partner sa are located within Switzerland/European Union.

Data storage

spg partner sa stores personal data for the time necessary to achieve the purposes for which data are collected and further processed. We reserve the right to retain data for longer periods if there is a legal basis for doing so, namely in the case of a legally prescribed retention period (e.g., retention of accounting records), in the case of overriding interests of spg partner sa or after obtaining your consent.

Use of cookies

In order to improve the browsing experience on the website, spg partner sa uses so-called cookies. Cookies are small text files, usually consisting of letters and numbers, which are stored by the users’ web browser on their PC and contain pseudo-anonymised data. Cookies allow a website to recognise users’ computers in order to track browsing on multiple pages of a website and to identify users who return to a website. There are cookies for technical and analytical purposes.

The website uses technical cookies to save:

  • the language selection
  • the selection of units of measurement
  • the last search queries
  • the ID of the watch list
  • the test assignment in the context of A/B tests
  • the allocation to distributed systems in load balancers

spg partner sa informs users that they can disable or remove cookies in their web browser by following the instructions at these links below:

Internet Explorer : (https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies).

Mozilla Firefox : (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/delete-cookies-remove-info-websites-stored).

Safari : (https://support.apple.com/kb/PH19214?viewlocale=en_US&locale=de_DE).

Data Security

spg partner sa has implemented the organisational and technical security measures required by law to protect your personal data from loss, misuse or unauthorised alteration. Our employees are regularly trained with regard to the requirements of data protection law, and we always ensure in our contracts with contract data processors that personal data are treated confidentially and processed using at least equivalent organisational and technical security measures.

We draw your attention to the fact that transmission on the Internet is not secure and loss or misuse of data can never be completely ruled out. As soon as we receive the transmitted information, we secure it in our systems in accordance with the security measures described above.

Your rights

You have the right to obtain information about the processing of your personal data (for example, the origin of these data, the purpose of processing, the modalities of data processing).

If the processing is based on your consent, you are entitled to revoke this consent at any time.

Subject to the condition that there is neither a legal retention period nor overriding legitimate interests for us, you can request the erasure of your personal data at any time.

In summary, you have a right to

  • information,
  • rectification,
  • erasure (subject to conditions),
  • restriction of processing,
  • data portability (in respect of data you send to us on the basis of contractual processing),
  • report to the supervisory authority.

To exercise the above rights and to request information, contact our internal data protection unit at the following postal address:

spg partner sa
Data protection officer
Rue Ferdinand-Hodler 23
1207 Genève
Tél. +41 22 707 46 00

Please note that we are required to verify your identity before processing your request to ensure that you are authorised to make the request.

Data Protection Policy spg partner sa, valid from 1 November 2022.