Privacy Policy

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:

• Account means a unique account created for You to access our Website or parts of our Website.

• Company (referred to as either "the Company", "We", "Us" or "Our" in this Agreement) refers to Schmit and Partners.

• Cookies are small files that are placed on Your computer, mobile device, or any other device by a website, containing details of Your browsing history on that website among its many uses.

• Data Controller refers to the Company as the legal entity which determines the purposes and means of the processing of Personal Data.

• Data Subject is any living individual who is the subject of Personal Data.

• Personal Data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.

• Service refers to the Website.

• Usage Data refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Website or from the Website infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).

• Website refers to Schmit and Partners, accessible from https://www.schmitpartners.com

• You means the individual accessing or using the Website, or the company, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Website, as applicable.

While using Our Website, We may ask You to provide Us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify You. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

•  Email address

•  First name and last name

•  Phone number

Purposes of Processing:

• To manage our customer relations and communications.

• To handle contract initiation and pre-relationship communication.

• To provide you with information regarding our services and events.

Sources of Personal Data:

We collect your personal data either (i) directly from you, in the course of our communication or business relationship, (ii) from public sources (e.g., public internet or other sources, social media), or (iii) through our employees who are in contact with you. Kindly note that you are under no obligation to provide us with the data we ask for you.

Legal Basis for Processing:

We process your personal data based on our overriding legitimate interest according to Article 6 para 1 lit f GDPR to be able to enter into new business relationships as well as maintain and manage existing business relationships.

When you subscribe to our newsletter at www.schmitpartners.com, we process your personal data (e.g., email address) for the purpose of sending you regular updates on data privacy and related topics. This processing is based on your consent in accordance with Article 6(1)(a) GDPR.

We use a double opt-in process to confirm your subscription, ensuring that no one else can subscribe you without your permission. You will receive an email asking you to confirm your subscription by clicking on a link. If you do not confirm your subscription, your data will be deleted.

You have the right to withdraw your consent and opt out of the newsletter at any time by clicking the "unsubscribe" link in any newsletter or by contacting us directly. Your data will be deleted immediately after you unsubscribe.

Data Sharing:

To achieve the purposes set out above, we may transfer your personal data to IT service providers that we use, legal representatives, banks for the management of payment transactions, auditors for the performance of audits, courts and public authorities, contract partners or business partners who are or should be participating in the performance of the delivery or service, and companies that are part of our corporate group.

Data Retention:

We will retain your personal data for as long as we are in a business relationship with you or as long as we are in the phase of entering into a business relationship (as the case may be), and thereafter as long as required under statutory retention obligations or as long as potential legal claims (where personal data is needed to raise or defend against the claim) are not yet time-barred.

We use Cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on Our Website and store certain information. Tracking technologies used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze Our Website.

• bSession

• Ssr-caching

• CookieConsent

• Hs

• XSRF-Token

• svSession

• fedops.logger.sessionid

You can instruct Your browser to refuse all Cookies or to indicate when a Cookie is being sent. However, if You do not accept Cookies, You may not be able to use some parts of our Website.

​We use the e-commerce system provided by Wix.com Ltd., 500 Terry A François Blvd, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA ("Wix"), for hosting and displaying the online store based on processing carried out on our behalf. All data collected on our website is processed on servers operated by Wix. As part of the aforementioned services provided by Wix, data may also be transferred for further processing on behalf of Wix.com Ltd., USA. For more information about Wix's data protection policies, please visit the following website: https://www.wix.com/about/privacy.

 

Further processing on servers other than those mentioned above by Wix will only take place within the scope communicated below.