Privacy Policy

Your personal data is collected for one or more of the following reasons:

• To manage your access and use of the services of Genius Loci
• To perform customer management, including contracts, orders, deliveries, invoices and follow-ups
• To create a file of registered members, users, customers and prospects, to provide commercial and service usage statistics
• To manage customer product reviews Genius Loci
• Answer questions or provide other types of assistance
• Test additional features or services
• Comply with our legal and regulatory obligations

We will inform you, when requesting your personal data, if certain data must be provided or if it is optional.

You can request a backup of your data at any time. For any change request, please contact our support directly.

We take all necessary precautions, as well as appropriate organizational and technical measures, to preserve the security, integrity and confidentiality of your personal data, and in particular to prevent it from being distorted or damaged and unauthorized third parties have access to it. However, we all know that no method of transmission over the Internet, and no method of electronic storage, is foolproof, and therefore, we cannot guarantee the absolute security of your Personal Information.

We are a Swiss company, but we process and work with data from people who reside all over the world.

Only our employees, the services we use and applications from trusted third parties can have access to your personal data. Government bodies may also be recipients of your personal data, exclusively to meet legal obligations.

We will not sell or transfer your personal data to third parties.

Data processors

Hosting and backend infrastructure

Infomaniak SA – A major cloud player in Europe and a leading developer of Web technologies in Switzerland, Infomaniak is a growing independent and sustainable company. https://www.infomaniak.com/fr/cgv/reglement-general-protection-donnees

Collects certain personal data: various types of data, as set out in the service's privacy policy.

Registration and authentication provided directly by this website

Direct registration
Personal data: email address; password, username, profile description, photo.

Reports and data analysis

Google Analytics We use Google Analytics to assess user interaction with our websites. https://policies.google.com/privacy

plausible analytics We also use Plausible Analytics to measure visits to our site. This method does not use cookies and the data is processed anonymously.  https://plausible.io/privacy-focused-web-analytics

Contents

Youtube We use Youtube to display video content. https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-US

Some cookies are necessary to allow you to browse our website, to use its features and to access its secure areas. The use of these cookies is essential to the functioning of the website.

We also use cookies functionalities to remember the choices you have made or the information you have provided, such as your username, your language or the region you are in. This allows us to personalize your experience on our website based on your preferences.

The websites of Genius Loci mainly use “Cookies Internals”. It is cookies created and controlled by the Genius Loci, and not by an external organization. However, to view some of our pages, you must accept the cookies from external organizations (e.g. YouTube, external websites in references).

The 3 types of cookies internal systems that we use are used to:
store visitor preferences;
ensure the proper functioning of our websites;
collect analytical data (on user behavior).

We must use cookies to be able to operate certain web pages. This is why they do not require your consent. More precisely, it concerns cookies following:
cookies authentication (these cookies are stored when you connect to the site Genius Loci)
cookies techniques required by certain computer systems.

Some of our pages display content from external providers. To view this content, you must first accept the specific conditions of these providers. These include their policies regarding cookies, which are beyond our control.

You can do this in two ways:

• limit the use of cookies, in your browser settings (on your computer or on your phone)
• or using private browsing; erase the cookies stored by websites on your device.

Keep in mind that deleting or blocking cookies may have negative effects on your user experience and may prevent you from fully accessing certain parts of our website.

When you choose to provide your personal data, you expressly consent to the collection and use of your personal data in accordance with the provisions set out in this privacy policy and applicable law.