BANQUE CRAMER & CIE SA (the “Bank”) cares about your privacy and is committed to give your personal data a high level of protection. This notice aims to inform you about the data the Bank collects and processes, as well as the reasons for processing it and the rights you have.
Please read the following information carefully. Should you have any questions or comments, do not hesitate to contact dpo@banquecramer.ch or
BANQUE CRAMER & CIE SA, Data Protection Office,
22 avenue de Miremont,
1206 Genève
The following entity is responsible for the data processing:
BANQUE CRAMER & CIE SA, Data Protection Office,
22 avenue de Miremont,
1206 Genève
For the purpose of this notice, “personal data” means any information in relation to an identified or identifiable natural person; an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly. Depending on the product or service we provide to you, the Bank collects and processes your personal data (e.g. as a former or current customer or as a prospective customer), including the following:
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Please keep in mind that we collect and process data not only of account holders but also of any person involved in the business relationship such as authorized representatives, persons holding a power of attorney and beneficial owners. You should inform them accordingly and provide a copy of this Data Privacy Statement to those individuals.
We collect and process personal data for at least one of the following purposes:
a) For fulfillment of our contractual obligations
The main reason for the collection and processing of your personal data is the onboarding and the fulfillment of our anti-money laundering obligations as well as our contractual obligations towards you.
The Bank needs to process your data in order to be able to provide you with banking and financial services such as advisory or discretionary mandates, to carry out transactions, payments, credit services or any other banking services. Such processing will be done mainly on the basis of the specific product or service agreed with you. Further details about the related purposes can be found in the relevant contract documents, terms and conditions (including the General Banking Conditions).
b) For purposes of legitimate interests of the Bank
When the legitimate purposes allow it, we process your data beyond the effective fulfillment of our contractual and legal or regulatory obligations in order to safeguard the Bank’s legitimate interests. Examples of legitimate interest are:
• Guarantee the Bank’s IT security and operation
• Defense in legal disputes and assertion of legal claims as well as prevention and clarification of possible crimes and breaches of contracts.
• Evidence in all types of proceedings (judicial, administrative, regulatory etc.).
• In relation to the credit business, consulting and exchanging information with offices such as debt registers to investigate credit worthiness and credit risk.
• Risk Controls and Risk Management at the Bank
• Video surveillance of our premises to provide security
c) Due to legal and regulatory obligations
As a Swiss bank, our activities are subject to various legal and regulatory obligations, which is why we have to comply with them, including the obligation to inform the authorities, regulators and other government bodies (such as tax and supervisory authorities, etc.), as well as certain participants in the financial markets, like depositaries, stock exchanges and other financial institutions. You can find more details about the purposes of data processing in the relevant contract documents, terms and conditions (including the General Banking Conditions).
The data is usually collected during the customer on-boarding process, but also during the maintenance of the business relationship, in order to verify your identity, for example, and conduct other compliance checks, in order to meet our legal obligations according to anti-money-laundering regulations, tax legislation, as well as to prevent fraud. The Bank needs to collect the personal data in order to meet these legal and regulatory obligations. If we cannot collect your personal data for the mentioned purposes, we may be unable to provide products or services to you.
d) Upon your consent
As long as you have granted us consent (required in certain cases), the Bank can process your data for a certain purpose, such as analyzing your trading activities for marketing purposes or disclosure of data to your providers, asset managers, tax advisors, accountants or other persons. Once you have given us your consent, you can withdraw it at any time with effect for the future.
In principle, we do not use any fully automated decision-making processes either in the onboarding process or during the maintenance of the business relationship. If we do use this process in exceptional cases, we will inform you accordingly, to the extent legally required.
We do not share your personal data with third parties without your consent unless we are required to do so by law or we do so at your request.
In order to fulfil our contractual obligations towards you, we share some of your personal data with third parties such as outsourcing providers, correspondent banks, credit card issuers, payment providers, custodians, brokers, exchanges, clearing houses, trade repositories and other credit or financial services institutions. We are also required, in some cases (e.g. as required by law or applicable regulation or in order to safeguard our legitimate interests), to share information with public or regulatory authorities such as FINMA (Switzerland’s independent financial-markets regulator), external auditors, courts, government bodies or other law enforcement agencies, for example.
The Bank can give access to entities that provide services to the Bank to your personal information, such as IT partners, hosting providers, fraud prevention or credit reference agencies, among others. In these cases, inter alia the Bank legally binds them to confidentiality and data protection as well as takes the necessary steps to ensure the service providers meet our data security standards in order to keep your data secure.
To the extent permitted by applicable law or regulation, your personal data may be held or stored on cloud platforms belonging to Swiss third party service providers, subject to contractual obligations of confidentiality and data protection.
Any other legitimate recipient for which you have given us your consent or where required by applicable law or regulation.
In some cases, the recipients of personal data can be located outside Switzerland. If the relevant country has not been determined by the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner to provide an adequate level of protection, the Bank requires the data recipients to apply appropriate measures to protect personal data, e.g., by signing a binding legal agreement to comply with the data protection level in Switzerland and by taking organizational and technical measures. Transfers outside Switzerland are only made where the transfer is made to countries that can demonstrate equivalent standards of security and other relevant data processing requirements, except we have obtained your express written consent.
We will store your data as long as necessary to fulfil the purpose for which it was collected or to comply with legal and regulatory obligations. In general, the Bank will retain personal data for the period of your business relationship or contract with the Bank plus at least 10 years, in order to respond to or make legal claims following the termination of the business relationship or contract, for example. In some cases (e.g., in the case of legal proceedings), this period can be longer. The Swiss Financial Supervisory Authority (FINMA) has also laid down numerous requirements, such as recording external and internal telephone calls of all employees engaged in securities trading, as well as all electronic correspondence for two years.
In case you request your data to be deleted, we will assess the request and delete the data, in case the data is no longer required to fulfill any contractual, regulatory or legal obligation.
The applicable laws give you, as data subject, the following rights related to your personal data: