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Privacy Policy

This privacy statement informs you about the type of personal data that is collected and received through our terishield.com family of websites (“website”) and about how we use, share, retain and protect such personal data

Who we are

We are the Terishield SA (“we”, or “us”), a Swiss company registered at Via F. Pelli 13 – 6900 Lugano, Switzerland. We are the data controller responsible for the processing of personal data through the website.

How we obtain personal data

We collect and receive personal data through the website. Personal data means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.

We collect personal data that you choose to voluntarily provide to us for your use of the website.

The types of personal data we may obtain

We may collect and receive the following personal data from you:

  • Name and contact details (such as name, address, email, username, phone numbers);
  • Account details (such as username and password);
  • Information on your use of the website;
  • Personal data included in comments posted by you on the website;
  • Personal data of individuals you wish to share your uploaded content with (such as name and email address);
  • Traffic data (such as your Internet usage).

We may collect other types of personal data if required under applicable law or if necessary for the purposes listed below.

We will then inform you and ensure that there is a valid legal basis for doing so.

Use of personal data

We may use the personal data we collect and receive for the following purposes:

  • To create an account for your use of the website; to operate our website and deliver the services you have requested, including, without limitation, our interactive services which you use;
  • To respond to your queries;
  • To analyse how the website is used, such as which pages are visited, how long pages were visited, and the paths taken by visitors to our website as they move from page to page;
  • To manage our relationship with you;
  • To contact you, such as by sending personalized emails or newsletters, about our products and service;
  • To ensure the security of our business, preventing or detecting fraud or abuses of our website;
  • To verify compliance with applicable legal requirements and our policies;
  • We will not use your data to make automated decisions about you.
Sharing of personal data

We may share the personal data we collect and receive on a need to know basis with the following third parties:

  • Other affiliates of the Terishield entity or its agents;
  • Third party providers that perform services for us;
  • Other users of the platform if you choose to share your messages;
  • Competent public authorities or other third parties, if required by law or reasonably necessary to protect the rights, property and safety of ourselves or others.

We may also transfer your personal data in the event that we sell or transfer all or a portion of our business or assets on a need to know basis. Should such a sale or transfer occur, we will use reasonable efforts to direct the transferee to use personal data you have provided to us in a manner that is consistent with applicable law and this privacy statement. We do not sell, rent or trade your personal data.

Registration

In order to use certain parts of this website, you might have to first complete the registration process. During registration you are required to provide certain information (such as your name and email address). This information may be used to maintain a personalized contact with you about the products/services on our site in which you have expressed interest. You may also choose to provide additional information about yourself, but this is not required.

Links

This website may contain links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information. Your data protection and privacy rights under these third-party platforms will be governed by their respective privacy policies.

Personal data protection

We maintain appropriate technical and organizational security safeguards designed to protect your personal data against accidental, unlawful or unauthorized destruction, loss, alteration, access, disclosure or use. However, due the inherent open nature of the Internet, we cannot guarantee that communications between you and us or the personal information stored is absolutely secure. We will notify you of any data breach that is likely to have unfavourable consequences for your privacy in accordance with applicable law.

Data Retention

We will not keep your personal data for longer than is necessary for the purposes for which it was collected and is processed and for the purposes of satisfying our legal, accounting or regulatory reporting requirements.

Your rights

You have the following rights in relation to your personal data by emailing info@terishield.com with the subject line “Subject Access Request”:

  • The right to obtain, at reasonable intervals and free of charge, information on whether your personal data is being processed and to receive the personal data that is being processed in an intelligible form;
  • The right to have your personal data rectified, blocked or deleted if your personal data is incorrect, incomplete, inaccurate, irrelevant, outdated or processed unlawfully;
  • The right to object on legitimate grounds to the processing of your personal data.

When you contact us, we will need you to provide us with adequate information to identify yourself to enable us to assist you in fulfilling your request. We will deal with your request as soon as possible.

Social media buttons

We use plugins on our website from social media networks such as Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube and Twitter. You can recognize these plugins by their logos. We also use plugins for the embedded video players which can be found on our website. Our plugins will not collect personal data about you, unless you click on these logos or videos. If you click on them, these plugins are activated and automatically transmit data to the plugin provider.

We do not have any influence over which data these providers collect from you and we are also not aware of the extent of their data processing. If you would like more information about their data processing, this can be found in the respective privacy policies on the websites of these providers.

Updates to this privacy statement

We may occasionally update this privacy statement. We encourage you to periodically review this privacy statement in order to stay informed of how we use your information.