Privacy Policy

Client infor­ma­tion on data protec­tion

We are very delighted that you have shown interest in our enter­prise. Data protec­tion is of a parti­cu­larly high priority for the manage­ment of the Tareno Ltd. The use of the Internet pages of the Tareno Ltd is possible without any indica­tion of personal data; however, if a data subject wants to use special enter­prise services via our website, proces­sing of personal data could become neces­sary. If the proces­sing of personal data is neces­sary and there is no statu­tory basis for such proces­sing, we generally obtain consent from the data subject.

The proces­sing of personal data, such as the name, address, e‑mail address, or telephone number of a data subject shall always be in line with the General Data Protec­tion Regula­tion (GDPR), and in accordance with the country-specific data protec­tion regula­tions appli­cable to the Tareno Ltd. By means of this data protec­tion decla­ra­tion, our enter­prise would like to inform the general public of the nature, scope, and purpose of the personal data we collect, use and process. Further­more, data subjects are informed, by means of this data protec­tion decla­ra­tion, of the rights to which they are entitled.

As the controller, the Tareno Ltd has imple­mented numerous technical and organizational measures to ensure the most complete protec­tion of personal data processed through this website. However, Internet-based data trans­mis­sions may in principle have security gaps, so absolute protec­tion may not be guaran­teed. For this reason, every data subject is free to transfer personal data to us via alter­na­tive means, e.g. by telephone.

1. Defini­tions

The Privacy Policy of Tareno Ltd, which is based on the requi­re­ments and terms used by the European General Data Protec­tion Regula­tion (GDPR) and the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protec­tion (DPA), should be easy to read and under­stand by the public and our clients and business partners. In order to ensure this is the case, we would like to explain the terms used.

In this data protec­tion decla­ra­tion, we use, inter alia, the follo­wing terms:

a) Personal data

Personal data means any infor­ma­tion relating to an identi­fied or identi­fiable natural person (“data subject”). An identi­fiable natural person is one who can be identi­fied, directly or indirectly, in parti­cular by reference to an identi­fier such as a name, an identi­fi­ca­tion number, location data, an online identi­fier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physio­lo­gical, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person.

b) Data subject

Data subject is any identi­fied or identi­fiable natural person, whose personal data is processed by the controller respon­sible for the proces­sing.

c) Proces­sing

Proces­sing is any opera­tion or set of opera­tions which is performed on personal data or on sets of personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collec­tion, recor­ding, organi­sa­tion, struc­tu­ring, storage, adapt­ation or altera­tion, retrieval, consul­ta­tion, use, disclo­sure by trans­mis­sion, disse­mi­na­tion or other­wise making available, alignment or combi­na­tion, restric­tion, erasure or destruc­tion.

d) Restric­tion of proces­sing

Restric­tion of proces­sing is the marking of stored personal data with the aim of limiting their proces­sing in the future.

e) Pseud­ony­mi­sa­tion

Pseud­ony­mi­sa­tion is the proces­sing of personal data in such a manner that the personal data can no longer be attri­buted to a specific data subject without the use of additional infor­ma­tion, provided that such additional infor­ma­tion is kept separa­tely and is subject to technical and organi­sa­tional measures to ensure that the personal data are not attri­buted to an identi­fied or identi­fiable natural person.

f) Controller or controller respon­sible for the proces­sing

Controller or controller respon­sible for the proces­sing is the natural or legal person, public autho­rity, agency or other body which, alone or jointly with others, deter­mines the purposes and means of the proces­sing of personal data; where the purposes and means of such proces­sing are deter­mined by Union or Member State law, the controller or the specific criteria for its nomina­tion may be provided for by Union or Member State law.

g) Processor

Processor is a natural or legal person, public autho­rity, agency or other body which processes personal data on behalf of the controller.

h) Recipient

Recipient is a natural or legal person, public autho­rity, agency or another body, to which the personal data are disclosed, whether a third party or not. However, public autho­ri­ties which may receive personal data in the frame­work of a parti­cular inquiry in accordance with Union or Member State law shall not be regarded as recipi­ents; the proces­sing of those data by those public autho­ri­ties shall be in compli­ance with the appli­cable data protec­tion rules accor­ding to the purposes of the proces­sing.

i) Third party

Third party is a natural or legal person, public autho­rity, agency or body other than the data subject, controller, processor and persons who, under the direct autho­rity of the controller or processor, are autho­rised to process personal data.

j) Consent

Consent of the data subject is any freely given, specific, informed and unambi­guous indica­tion of the data subject’s wishes by which he or she, by a state­ment or by a clear affir­ma­tive action, signi­fies agree­ment to the proces­sing of personal data relating to him or her.

k) Third country

Any country that is not a member of the European Union is considered a third country. Switz­er­land is not considered a third country in the sense under­s­tood here.

2. Name and address of the controller

The controller within the meaning of the appli­cable data protec­tion laws and other provi­sions with data protec­tion character is:

Tareno Ltd

Garten­strasse 56

4052 Basel

Schweiz

Phone: +41 (0)61 282 28 00

Email: info@​tareno.​ch

Website: http://www.tareno.ch

3. Cookies

The Internet pages of the Tareno Ltd use cookies. Cookies are text files that are stored in a computer system via an Internet browser.

Many Internet sites and servers use cookies. Many cookies contain a so-called cookie ID. A cookie ID is a unique identi­fier of the cookie. It consists of a character string through which Internet pages and servers can be assigned to the specific Internet browser in which the cookie was stored. This allows visited Internet sites and servers to diffe­ren­tiate the indivi­dual browser of the dats subject from other Internet browsers that contain other cookies. A specific Internet browser can be recognized and identi­fied using the unique cookie ID.

Through the use of cookies, the Tareno Ltd can provide the users of this website with more user-friendly services that would not be possible without the cookie setting.

By means of a cookie, the infor­ma­tion and offers on our website can be optimized with the user in mind. Cookies allow us, as previously mentioned, to recognize our website users. The purpose of this recogni­tion is to make it easier for users to utilize our website. The website user that uses cookies, e.g. does not have to enter access data each time the website is accessed, because this is taken over by the website, and the cookie is thus stored on the user’s computer system. Another example is the cookie of a shopping cart in an online shop. The online store remem­bers the articles that a customer has placed in the virtual shopping cart via a cookie.

The data subject may, at any time, prevent the setting of cookies through our website by means of a corre­spon­ding setting of the Internet browser used, and may thus perma­nently deny the setting of cookies. Further­more, already set cookies may be deleted at any time via an Internet browser or other software programs. This is possible in all popular Internet browsers. If the data subject deacti­vates the setting of cookies in the Internet browser used, not all functions of our website may be entirely usable.

4. Collec­tion of general data and infor­ma­tion

The website of the Tareno Ltd collects a series of general data and infor­ma­tion when a data subject or automated system calls up the website. This general data and infor­ma­tion are stored in the server log files. Collected may be (1) the browser types and versions used, (2) the opera­ting system used by the acces­sing system, (3) the website from which an acces­sing system reaches our website (so-called refer­rers), (4) the sub-websites, (5) the date and time of access to the Internet site, (6) an Internet protocol address (IP address), (7) the Internet service provider of the acces­sing system, and (8) any other similar data and infor­ma­tion that may be used in the event of attacks on our infor­ma­tion techno­logy systems.

When using these general data and infor­ma­tion, the Tareno Ltd does not draw any conclu­sions about the data subject. Rather, this infor­ma­tion is needed to (1) deliver the content of our website correctly, (2) optimize the content of our website as well as its adver­ti­se­ment, (3) ensure the long-term viabi­lity of our infor­ma­tion techno­logy systems and website techno­logy, and (4) provide law enforce­ment autho­ri­ties with the infor­ma­tion neces­sary for criminal prose­cu­tion in case of a cyber-attack. There­fore, the Tareno Ltd analyzes anony­mously collected data and infor­ma­tion statis­ti­cally, with the aim of incre­a­sing the data protec­tion and data security of our enter­prise, and to ensure an optimal level of protec­tion for the personal data we process. The anony­mous data of the server log files are stored separa­tely from all personal data provided by a data subject.

5. Contact possi­bi­lity via the website

The website of the Tareno Ltd contains infor­ma­tion that enables a quick electronic contact to our enter­prise, as well as direct commu­ni­ca­tion with us, which also includes a general address of the so-called electronic mail (e‑mail address). If a data subject contacts the controller by e‑mail or via a contact form, the personal data trans­mitted by the data subject are automa­ti­cally stored. Such personal data trans­mitted on a volun­tary basis by a data subject to the data controller are stored for the purpose of proces­sing or contac­ting the data subject. There is no transfer of this personal data to third parties.

6. Routine erasure and blocking of personal data

The data controller shall process and store the personal data of the data subject only for the period neces­sary to achieve the purpose of storage, or as far as this is granted by the European legis­lator or other legis­la­tors in laws or regula­tions to which the controller is subject to.

If the storage purpose is not appli­cable, or if a storage period prescribed by the European legis­lator or another compe­tent legis­lator expires, the personal data are routi­nely blocked or erased in accordance with legal requi­re­ments.

7. Rights of the data subject

a) Right of confir­ma­tion

Any data subject shall have the right to obtain from the controller confir­ma­tion as to whether personal data relating to him or her are being processed. If a data subject wishes to avail him/herself of this right of confir­ma­tion, he or she may, at any time, contact an employee of the controller.

b) Right of access

Any data subjects affected have the right to obtain at any time from the controller, free of charge, infor­ma­tion concer­ning the personal data relating to him or her which have been stored and a copy of that infor­ma­tion. The data subject also has a right of access to the follo­wing infor­ma­tion:

• the purposes of the proces­sing;
• the catego­ries of personal data concerned;
•  the recipi­ents or catego­ries of recipi­ents to whom the personal data have been or will be disclosed, in parti­cular recipi­ents in third count­ries or inter­na­tional      organi­sa­tions;
• where possible, the envisaged period for which the personal data will be stored, or, if not possible, the criteria used to deter­mine that period;
• the existence of the right to request from the controller recti­fi­ca­tion or erasure of personal data, or restric­tion of proces­sing of personal data concer­ning the data subject, or to object to such proces­sing;
• the existence of the right to lodge a complaint with a super­vi­sory autho­rity;
• where the personal data are not collected from the data subject, any available infor­ma­tion as to their source;
• the existence of automated decision-making, inclu­ding profiling, referred to in Article 22(1) and (4) of the GDPR and, at least in those cases, meaningful infor­ma­tion about the logic
  involved, as well as the signi­fi­cance and envisaged conse­quences of such proces­sing for the data subject.

Further­more, the data subject shall have a right to obtain infor­ma­tion as to whether personal data are trans­ferred to a third country or to an inter­na­tional organi­sa­tion. Where this is the case, the data subject shall have the right to be informed of the appro­priate safeguards relating to the transfer.

If a data subject wishes to avail himself of this right of access, he or she may at any time contact our Data Protec­tion Officer or another employee of the controller.

c) Right to recti­fi­ca­tion

Any data subjects affected have the right to obtain the recti­fi­ca­tion without delay of inaccu­rate personal data concer­ning him or her.

Further­more, the data subject shall have the right, having regard to the purposes of the proces­sing, to request the comple­tion of incom­plete personal data, inclu­ding through the use of a supple­men­tary state­ment.

If a data subject wishes to exercise this right to recti­fi­ca­tion, he or she may, at any time, contact our Data Protec­tion Officer or another employee of the controller.

d) Right to erasure (Right to be forgotten)

Any data subjects affected have the right to obtain from the controller the erasure without delay of the personal data concer­ning him or her, where one of the follo­wing reasons applies and where the proces­sing is not neces­sary:

• Personal data have been collected or other­wise processed for purposes for which they are no longer neces­sary.
• The data subject revokes the consent on which the proces­sing was based and there is no other legal basis for the proces­sing.
• The data subject objects to the proces­sing and there are no overri­ding legiti­mate reasons for the proces­sing.
• The personal data have been processed unlawfully.
• The deletion of personal data is neces­sary to fulfil a legal obliga­tion under European Union law or the law of the Member States to which the controller is subject.
• The personal data have been collected in relation to the offer of infor­ma­tion society services.

If one of the afore­men­tioned reasons applies, and a data subject wishes to request the erasure of personal data stored by the Tareno Ltd, he or she may at any time contact our Data Protec­tion Officer or another employee of the controller. The Data Protec­tion Officer of the Tareno Ltd or another employee shall promptly ensure that the erasure request is complied with immedia­tely.

Where the controller has made personal data public and is obliged pursuant to Article 17(1) to erase the personal data, the controller, taking account of available techno­logy and the cost of imple­men­ta­tion, shall take reasonable steps, inclu­ding technical measures, to inform other control­lers proces­sing the personal data that the data subject has reque­sted erasure by such control­lers of any links to, or copy or repli­ca­tion of, those personal data, as far as proces­sing is not required. The Data Protec­tion Officer of the Tareno Ltd or another employee will arrange the neces­sary measures in indivi­dual cases.

e) Right of restric­tion of proces­sing

Each data subject shall have the right granted by the European legis­lator to obtain from the controller restric­tion of proces­sing where one of the follo­wing applies:

• The accuracy of the personal data is conte­sted by the data subject, for a period enabling the controller to verify the accuracy of the personal data.
• The proces­sing is unlawful and the data subject opposes the erasure of the personal data and requests instead the restric­tion of their use instead.
• The controller no longer needs the personal data for the purposes of the proces­sing, but they are required by the data subject for the estab­lish­ment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
• The data subject has objected to proces­sing pursuant to Article 21(1) of the GDPR pending the verifi­ca­tion whether the legiti­mate grounds of the controller override those of the data subject.

If one of the afore­men­tioned condi­tions is met, and a data subject wishes to request the restric­tion of the proces­sing of personal data stored by the Tareno Ltd, he or she may at any time contact our Data Protec­tion Officer or another employee of the controller. The Data Protec­tion Officer of the Tareno Ltd or another employee will arrange the restric­tion of the proces­sing.

f) Right to data porta­bi­lity

Any data subjects affected have the right, granted by the European direc­tive and regula­tion maker, to obtain personal data concer­ning him or her which have been provided by the data subject to a controller in a struc­tured, common and machine-readable format.

This person also has the right to commu­ni­cate such data to another controller without being hampered by the controller to whom the personal data have been disclosed, provided that the proces­sing is based on consent or on a contract and that the proces­sing is carried out by automated means, provided that the proces­sing is not neces­sary for the perfor­mance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official autho­rity vested in the controller.

Further­more, in exercising his or her right to data trans­fera­bi­lity, the data subject has the right to effect the direct transfer of personal data from one controller to another controller, in so far as this is techni­cally feasible and without preju­dice to the rights and freedoms of others.

In order to assert the right to data porta­bi­lity, the data subject may at any time contact the Data Protec­tion Officer designated by the Tareno Ltd or another employee.

g) Right to object

Where the proces­sing of personal data is based on the “balan­cing of interests” argument, the data subject may object to the proces­sing.

This is the case, in parti­cular, where the proces­sing is not neces­sary for the perfor­mance of a contract with the data subject. Tareno Ltd will cease to process personal data in the event of objec­tion, unless we can provide compel­ling grounds for proces­sing worthy of protec­tion which outweigh the interests, rights and freedoms of the data subject, or the proces­sing serves the asser­tion, exercise or defence of legal claims

In addition, the data subject has the right to object, on grounds relating to his or her parti­cular situa­tion, to the proces­sing of personal data concer­ning him or her which takes place at Tareno Ltd for scien­tific or histo­rical research purposes or for statis­tical purposes, unless such proces­sing is neces­sary for the perfor­mance of a task in the public interest.

In order to exercise the right to object, the data subject may directly contact the Data Protec­tion Officer of the Tareno Ltd or another employee.

h) Right to withdraw data protec­tion consent

Each data subject shall have the right granted by the European legis­lator to withdraw his or her consent to proces­sing of his or her personal data at any time.

If the data subject wishes to exercise the right to withdraw the consent, he or she may at any time directly contact our Data Protec­tion Officer of the Tareno Ltd or another employee of the controller.

8. Data protec­tion provi­sions about the appli­ca­tion and use of LinkedIn

The controller has integrated compon­ents of the LinkedIn Corpo­ra­tion on this website. LinkedIn is a web-based social network that enables users with existing business contacts to connect and to make new business contacts. Over 400 million registered people in more than 200 count­ries use LinkedIn. Thus, LinkedIn is currently the largest platform for business contacts and one of the most visited websites in the world.

The opera­ting company of LinkedIn is LinkedIn Corpo­ra­tion, 2029 Stierlin Court Mountain View, CA 94043, UNITED STATES. For privacy matters outside of the UNITED STATES LinkedIn Ireland, Privacy Policy Issues, Wilton Plaza, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland, is respon­sible.

With each call-up to one of the indivi­dual pages of this Internet site, which is operated by the controller and on which a LinkedIn compo­nent (LinkedIn plug-in) was integrated, the Internet browser on the infor­ma­tion techno­logy system of the data subject is automa­ti­cally prompted to the download of a display of the corre­spon­ding LinkedIn compo­nent of LinkedIn. Further infor­ma­tion about the LinkedIn plug-in may be accessed under https://developer.linkedin.com/plugins. During the course of this technical proce­dure, LinkedIn gains knowledge of what specific sub-page of our website was visited by the data subject.

If the data subject is logged in at the same time on LinkedIn, LinkedIn detects with every call-up to our website by the data subject—and for the entire duration of their stay on our Internet site—which specific sub-page of our Internet page was visited by the data subject. This infor­ma­tion is collected through the LinkedIn compo­nent and associated with the respec­tive LinkedIn account of the data subject. If the data subject clicks on one of the LinkedIn buttons integrated on our website, then LinkedIn assigns this infor­ma­tion to the personal LinkedIn user account of the data subject and stores the personal data.

LinkedIn receives infor­ma­tion via the LinkedIn compo­nent that the data subject has visited our website, provided that the data subject is logged in at LinkedIn at the time of the call-up to our website. This occurs regard­less of whether the person clicks on the LinkedIn button or not. If such a trans­mis­sion of infor­ma­tion to LinkedIn is not desirable for the data subject, then he or she may prevent this by logging off from their LinkedIn account before a call-up to our website is made.

LinkedIn provides under https://www.linkedin.com/psettings/guest-controls the possi­bi­lity to unsub­scribe from e‑mail messages, SMS messages and targeted ads, as well as the ability to manage ad settings. LinkedIn also uses affiliates such as Eire, Google Analy­tics, BlueKai, Double­Click, Nielsen, Comscore, Eloqua, and Lotame. The setting of such cookies may be denied under https://www.linkedin.com/legal/cookie-policy. The appli­cable privacy policy for LinkedIn is available under https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy. The LinkedIn Cookie Policy is available under https://www.linkedin.com/legal/cookie-policy.

9. Newsletter

The Tareno Global Water Solutions Funds sites of this website give visitors the option to subscribe to a newsletter. The personal data trans­mitted in connec­tion with such a subscrip­tion depend on the values entered by the data subject in the corre­spon­ding registra­tion form. The data trans­mitted may include, in parti­cular: surname, first name, address, e‑mail address, telephone number.

Tareno Ltd uses a newsletter to keep its clients and business partners regularly updated on the Tareno Global Water Solutions Funds. This newsletter can only be received by the data subject if (1) the data subject has a valid e‑mail address and (2) the data subject has registered to receive the newsletter.

The personal data collected during registra­tion for the newsletter will be used exclu­si­vely for sending our newsletter.

The subscrip­tion to our newsletter can be cancelled by the data subject at any time. Each newsletter contains a link to revoke consent. In addition, subscri­bers may unsub­scribe directly from the newsletter at any time by e‑mailing the data controller at info@​tareno.​ch.

The personal data collected as part of the newsletter service will not be passed on to third parties.

10. Legal basis for the proces­sing

If the proces­sing of personal data is neces­sary to fulfil a contract to which the data subject is a party, as is the case, for example, with proces­sing opera­tions that are neces­sary for the delivery of goods or the provi­sion of other services or the rende­ring of conside­ra­tion, the proces­sing takes place on this legal basis.The same applies to such proces­sing opera­tions that are neces­sary for the imple­men­ta­tion of pre-contrac­tual measures, such as in cases of inqui­ries regar­ding our products or services. If our company is subject to a legal obliga­tion which requires the proces­sing of personal data, for example to fulfil tax obliga­tions, the proces­sing is based on “fulfilment of a legal obliga­tion”. In rare cases, the proces­sing of personal data may be neces­sary to protect the vital interests of the data subject or another natural person. This would be the case, for example, if a visitor to our company were injured and his name, age, health insurance infor­ma­tion or other vital infor­ma­tion would need to be disclosed to a doctor, hospital or other third party. Then the proces­sing would be based on Art. 6 (1) (d) GDPR.

Proces­sing opera­tions that are not covered by any of the afore­men­tioned legal bases are permis­sible if the proces­sing is neces­sary to safeguard a legiti­mate interest of our Company or a third party, provided that the interests, funda­mental rights and funda­mental freedoms of the data subject do not take prece­dence. Such proces­sing opera­tions are permitted to us in parti­cular because they have been speci­fi­cally mentioned by the European legis­lator. In this respect, the European legis­lator was of the opinion that a legiti­mate interest could be assumed if the data subject is a client of the controller.

11. The legiti­mate interests pursued by the controller or by a third party

Where the proces­sing of personal data is based on Article 6(1) lit. f GDPR our legiti­mate interest is to carry out our business in favor of the well-being of all our employees and the share­hol­ders.

12. Google Analy­tics

This website uses Google Analy­tics, a web analy­tics service provided by Google LLC (“Google”), based on our legiti­mate interests (interest in optimi­zing our online offering). Google Analy­tics uses cookies, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The infor­ma­tion generated by the cookie about your use of the website will be trans­mitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. However, due to IP anony­mization on this website, your IP address will be shortened by Google before­hand and thus anony­mized. Google is certi­fied under the Privacy Shield agree­ment.

You can prevent the storage of cookies by making the appro­priate setting in your browser. Further­more, you can prevent the collec­tion of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website to Google, as well as the proces­sing of this data by Google, by downloa­ding and instal­ling the browser plugin available under the follo­wing link.