Who are we?
Our website address is: https://nowvillage.com.
Contest policies
The contest is open to anyone over the age of 18 and resident in Switzerland. This offer is not convertible to cash. Personal data of participants may be used for promotional and marketing purposes by NOW Village and its communication channels. Only one entry per person is permitted for the duration of the competition. Automatically entered and submitted data and entries generated by technical manipulation will be excluded from the draw. The winners will be notified personally. Legal recourse is excluded.
Privacy statement
This NOW Village Privacy Statement deals with data about you both when you use our website and in any other way. In relation to this portal, we are responsible for the processing of your personal data and for ensuring that the processing of your personal data is compatible with applicable law. In doing so, we comply with the applicable data protection regulations.
Personal data” is any individual information concerning the personal and material circumstances of an identified or identifiable natural person. This means that it is information that can be linked to your person and provides information about you. These data protection provisions also use the term “your data” for this purpose. The term “processing” refers to any handling of your data, in particular the collection, storage, management, use, transmission, disclosure or deletion of your data.
Please note that the following information is subject to change at any time. We therefore recommend that you consult this privacy statement regularly. Third-party websites accessible via our portal are not subject to the principles set out here. We accept no responsibility for the data protection compliance of third-party websites.
1.Below you will find information about what personal data we collect and store about you when you visit our website, how we use that data and to whom we may pass it on, if at all. In addition, you will find information on the rights you have against us in relation to the use of your data:Scope and purpose of processing of personal data
a. During visits to our nowvillage.com website
If you use our digital offerings without providing any further information, the web server technology we use automatically saves general technical navigation data in so-called log files. This includes, among other things, the IP address of the device used for the visit, data on the type of browser, the Internet service provider and the operating system used, our digital offerings accessed, the referring/exit pages, the date and duration of the visit.
The purpose of collecting and processing this information is to enable the use of our website (login), to ensure and enhance the security and stability of our systems and offerings, to analyse the use of our offers and services, to gather general demographic information and to optimise our internet offering (in particular but not only product improvement, marketing measures, targeted advertising etc.), as well as to obtain internal statistics. The user is not identified. In principle, no connection is made between this automatically collected information and the personal data stored with us. However, there may be an exception to this principle if you already have a registered user account on our portal. More detailed information on the processing of personal data of registered users can be found in sections 1.b and 1.c below
If you send a message to a third party (e.g. to an advertiser) via a corresponding function of our portal, we may record it. You can also benefit from free services on our portal. We may use the personal data you may have provided when using a free service or with your message (e-mail address, telephone number etc.) for marketing or analysis purposes. Further information on the processing of personal data for marketing and analysis purposes can be found in Section 4 below.
We may – if necessary by adapting the format – publish the information you have published on our portal on other platforms and media.
If you access our portal via a mobile device, we ask for your permission before we determine your exact location using GPS or other tools
In addition, we use cookies and analysis tools (e.g. Google Analytics) when you visit our portals. In this respect, we refer to sections 9 and 10 of these data protection provisions.
b. When opening a user account
Your registration, as well as the creation of a user account, may be required for the use of personalised services or access to protected areas, or for the processing of requests and management of your subscriptions. In such cases, it is necessary for you to provide certain personal data. This includes for example
your e-mail address, which may also serve as your user name
a password
as well as other data, if necessary, depending on the context and the offer, such as
name and surname
address (full postal address, postcode, town)
telephone number
date of birth
gender
information about subscription newsletters or other advertisements preferred language
In addition to the data marked as mandatory for the use of a certain digital offer, you can freely provide and save other personal data.
We use the data for the provision and administration of our digital offers, for checking the plausibility of the data provided, i.e. for the substantiation, structure of the content, realisation and modification of the contractual relations concluded with you concerning your user account.
If you post contributions (comments, photos, videos, etc.) via the relevant functions of our Portals in order to share them with other users, we may disclose them and make them publicly available. This also applies to your user name or a pseudonym that you may have chosen for this purpose. We would like to point out that such data that you have once published on the Internet may still be accessed by third parties, for example via search engines, even if you have requested that it be deleted or anonymised.
By confirming the entry and transfer of your user account data during registration, you guarantee the accuracy of the data you have entered.
c. when using a portal as a registered user
When a registered user uses the portal, we collect data for statistical purposes in order to ensure the proper functioning of the portal and to analyse, optimise and personalise the use of our offers and services. In doing so, we collect data about your use of our digital offerings, such as which features you use, which advertisements you see and how you notice them. You will find further information on the processing of this personal data in Section 1.d and Section 4.
If you use our portal as a registered user, statistical data can be viewed by other registered users and recorded and evaluated by us.
d. when participating in games, competitions (events)
1-We use the data you have provided to organise and run events and to inform the winners and/or communicate their names on our portal, by means of direct communication or via social networks. If you have given us your consent, we are entitled to use your data in accordance with numbers 2 and 4 and to pass it on in accordance with number 3.
2- Direct marketing and online advertising
After you have registered or ordered as a guest on our nowvillage.com portal, we may use your personal data also for personalised advertising purposes. This includes the personalisation of advertising by e-mail, such as e-mails containing general information or advertising (newsletters), by telephone, mail, fax, text messages, picture messages and instant messaging services, as well as the provision of personalised content and advertising on our portals. For this purpose, we may automatically analyse information about your user behaviour on our portals that is brought to our attention, in order to prevent you from receiving unsuitable advertising. You can find out more about this processing under point 4.
By creating a user account, you will in principle automatically subscribe to our newsletter and your e-mail address may then also be used for our own advertising until you unsubscribe from the relevant newsletter. You will find a link at the end of each e-mail sent by us, which allows you to unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time.
You can also unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time by sending an e-mail to digital@nowvillage.com.
We are entitled to commission third parties for the technical processing of advertising measures and for our own advertising and to pass on your data for this purpose (see section 3 below).
3-Transfer of data to third parties
We work with or commission other companies or persons to process and store data. They may be given access to your personal or user data, but only insofar as this is necessary for the performance of their tasks.
We may use and pass on the information you have provided and the personal data about you or your user account that we have collected as part of the usage measurements carried out in accordance with section 1 above, to NOWVILLAGE.COM for the purpose of evaluating, improving and organising our services and the services of related companies in accordance with their needs, and for personalisation and marketing purposes. The processing of data by companies other than nowvillage is described in section 4 below.
In addition, we pass on your data to third parties insofar as this is necessary for the execution of the contract.
The personal data you make available to us will not be sold, rented or exchanged outside now village.
With the exception of the disclosures described above, we will only disclose your personal data if you have given your express consent, if there is a legal obligation to do so, or if we need to do so to enforce our rights, including those arising from the contractual relationship.
In the event of a sale, merger or other reorganisation of all or part of the assets of our company, personal data may be transferred, sold or otherwise shared with third parties as part of such transaction or reorganisation.
4-Processing of your personal data for marketing and analysis purposes
NOW Village aims to continually improve the digital offerings that are provided, to structure them in a more needs-based and secure manner.
To this end, various analytical tools may be implemented to link future and past user-specific data available to us and to analyse, aggregate, pseudonymise and anonymise user behaviour across our offerings. In order to update our database, we may use publicly available data or data from third party providers. The results of your use of our services may be used and evaluated by other participating companies for the purpose of analysing user behaviour. This data processing is primarily based on pseudonymised or anonymised data. The purpose of this data processing is, among other things, to send you anonymised advertising in accordance with Section 2 or to display it on one of our portals and to improve the security of our portal.
5-Right to information, correction, deletion or complaint
You have the right to invoke your data protection rights at any time and to demand information about the personal data we process about you. You can also have your personal data corrected, blocked or deleted at any time by informing us in writing and providing proof of your identity at the following address
We reserve the right to correspond with you on this matter.
Please note that we are obliged to retain some of your personal data within the scope of our legal and contractual retention obligations (e.g. for billing purposes) even after your request for blocking or deletion and in this case to block your personal data only to the extent required. In addition, the deletion of your personal data may have the effect of preventing you from continuing to acquire or use the services you have registered. Under certain conditions, you may request that we provide you or a third party designated by you with your personal data in a current format.
You may object at any time to the processing of your data for marketing and advertising purposes and to the transmission of your data to NOW village according to numbers 2 and 4 by e-mail.
Such an objection does not entirely exclude the collection of personal data. You can prevent the collection of your user data by sending an email to digital@nowvillage.com. The objection only excludes that personal data collected is processed in a non-anonymised way for marketing purposes and passed on to other companies for this purpose and processed by them. In order to completely exclude or at least reduce the collection of personal data, you must take the steps mentioned in Section 8 regarding the deactivation of cookies. This may have the effect of preventing you from using the services you have ordered. In addition, you have the right to lodge an objection to the data processing with the competent supervisory authorities. You can do this at the supervisory authority of your place of residence, your place of work or the place of the alleged data protection violation.
6-Duration of storage of your personal data
We only store your data for the legal or necessary duration of the processing. In the case of analyses, we only save your data until the end of the process. If we store your data on the basis of a contractual relationship with you, we will only store it for the duration of this relationship and at the most for the period of limitation of any claims in our favour or if the law or contractual provisions so provide.
7-Data security
We employ appropriate technical and organisational security measures to protect your personal data stored with us against unintentional, unauthorised and unlawful manipulation, deletion, alteration, access, transmission or use and against total or partial loss. Our security measures are continuously adapted and improved in line with technological developments. We do not accept any liability for the loss of data or for the disclosure of data to third parties and their use.
We also take internal data protection very seriously. Our employees and the employees of the service providers we have commissioned are obliged to maintain secrecy and to comply with the legal provisions on data protection.
8-Cookies
Cookies help us to better organise your visit to our website to make it easier, more enjoyable and more relevant. Cookies are files containing information that the web browser automatically saves on your computer’s hard drive when you visit our website.
Cookies do not damage your computer’s hard drive, nor do they transmit users’ personal data to us.
We use cookies, for example, to find out who has visited our portal and how often certain pages or offers are visited, which parts of the portal are particularly popular and how the portal is used. We use other cookies so that you can navigate freely on our portal and use its functions, such as accessing protected areas. The use of cookies also allows us to use the choices you have made or the decisions you have made as settings to make your visit to our portal more enjoyable. In general, the use of cookies serves to improve our services and to make them more efficient and secure. Cookies are also used to collect information in order to offer you advertisements that may be of interest to you. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies. However, you can set your browser so that no cookies are stored on your computer or so that you are always informed when you receive a new cookie.
9-Tracking and analysis tools
The use of our digital offerings is also measured and analysed by various technical systems, mainly from third-party providers such as Google Analytics. These measurements can be carried out anonymously or not. It is then possible that the data collected is passed on to third parties for processing by us or by the third-party providers of these technical systems for processing. The most commonly used analysis tool is Google Analytics, a service of Google Inc. The data collected may be transmitted to a Google server in the USA, but the IP addresses are anonymised by an ad-hoc process so that no association is possible. Google will not associate the IP address transmitted by your browser within the framework of Google Analytics with any other data it may have about you. You can prevent the collection and processing of this data by Google Analytics by setting an opt-out cookie which prevents the future collection of your data when you visit this website: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=fr.
10-Plug-ins and other integrations of third-party offers
Our digital offerings are connected to third-party functions and systems in various ways, for example through the integration of plug-ins from third-party social networks such as Facebook, Google Plus and Twitter.
If you have a user account with these third parties, they may also be able to measure and analyse your use of our digital offerings. Other personal data such as IP address, personal browser settings and other parameters may then be transmitted to these third parties and stored by them. If you use a social network connection service such as Facebook Connect, the provider may transmit personal data such as name, e-mail address and profile picture to us, which are stored by the provider. We have no control over the use of such personal data collected by third parties and accept no liability.
11-Legal basis
We only process your personal data within the framework of the data processing principles and if there is a legal basis. This legal basis exists in the preparation and execution of our contract. Furthermore, it is in our interest to constantly improve our offers, to adapt them to your needs and to provide advertising that is of interest to you. This is necessary to further develop and finance our offers and to ensure their security. We therefore assume that our interests prevail. If you have consented to the processing of your data, this is valid.
12-Contact
If you have any questions about data protection on our website, if you would like to receive information or if you would like to request the deletion of your data, please contact our contact person responsible for data protection law by sending an e-mail to the following address: digital@nowvillage.com
The contact details of our data protection officer are as follows NOW Village Chemin de la Pierraz, 1 – 1066 Epalinge
13-Updating and changes to the data protection provisions
The development of our website or the implementation of new technologies may make it necessary to amend these data protection provisions.
Registered users will be informed of any significant changes to these provisions by e-mail to the e-mail address given at the time of registration or by means of an appropriate notice after logging into the user account.
In addition, you can view and print out the current data protection regulations on our website at any time.