Personal data management

Cooki Management

The websites
www.spg.ch, www.spgone.ch/en, my.spg.ch, home.spg.ch, www.informationimmobiliere.ch,
www.immorama.ch and www.lvxmagazine.ch as well as the online application and recruitment portals
https://dec.spg.ch and https://erecrut.groupespg.ch (hereinafter referred to as the “Websites”) are edited and published by SPG.

Access to and use of the Websites are governed by the Legal Notices, the Privacy Policy, this Cookie Management Policy, and all applicable laws. By accessing and consulting the Websites, you accept these terms and policies without limitation or reservation.

In order to constantly improve the quality of the services offered by the Websites and guarantee that they correspond to your expectations, the SPG group uses “cookies”, which are small text files used to identify your device when you connect to one of our services.

The SPG group’s Websites use 4 types of cookies:

1. COOKIES THAT ARE ESSENTIAL FOR USING THE WEBSITE

They allow you to use the main features of the Websites, for example, to access your user account.
With this type of cookie, no personal data is collected, and the information stored cannot be used for commercial purposes.

2. WEBSITE PERFORMANCE COOKIES

Thanks to website performance cookies we are able to optimise our Websites and detect any technical problems you might encounter.
They permit the collection of information about your way of using the Websites including the number of visits per page, the number of error messages displayed, the time spent on a particular page, or the number of clicks in a given area of the site.
The information thus obtained cannot be used for commercial purposes.

3. PERSONALISATION OR PERSISTENT COOKIES

Personalisation cookies allow us to save your choices and preferences. This type of stored information includes your country of residence, your language, the last property you have consulted.
If this cookie category is disabled:

Certain Website pages are no longer displayed correctly (pages linked to your user account for example),
Your preferences for displaying or deactivating some features cannot be saved.

4. ADVERTISEMENT MARKETING COOKIES

Tracking Cookies

With tracking cookies we can evaluate the efficiency of our marketing campaigns. We do, in fact, keep count of and evaluate the number of clicks with respect to our advertisement investments.

Targeting cookies

Targeting cookies allow us to gather information about:

1. The content of the pages you consult,
2. The property researches you carry out,
3. The information you chose to share when you registered to other sites,
4. The pages and websites that you may have visited during your recent browsing activity or just before arriving at SPG’s Websites,
5. Thus, we are able to send you personalised e-mail notifications matching your real estate researches.

Cookies serving e-mail campaigns

As part of our email campaigns, we can offer an advertising “retargeting” program in connection with the SPG group’s publications L’INFORMATION IMMOBILIÈRE and IMMORAMA. If you agree to receive partner offers when subscribing to our newsletters and/or publications, a cookie is placed on your computer or mobile device. Subsequently, you will be able to receive emails about the latest properties for rent or sale, the latest articles in our publications, and SPG group news when you launch a search on the SPG group’s Websites

COOKIE MANAGEMENT AND BROWSER SETTINGS

Browser Help menus show you how to block new cookies or obtain a notification.
To assist you in this task, we are listing the links to the Help menus of the most widely used internet browsers as follows:

Internet Explorer™: https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
Safari™: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/safari/manage-cookies-and-website-data-sfri11471/mac
Chrome™: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en
Firefox™: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences
Opera™: https://help.opera.com/en/latest/security-and-privacy/

For further information about the way cookies and targeted advertising work, please refer to the following websites: www.youronlinechoices.eu and www.allaboutcookies.org.

ANALYTICAL TOOL

Our Websites use Google Analytics, a website analysis service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses cookies or small text files which are stored on your computer in order to help the Website analyse the browsing behaviour of its users. The data generated by the cookies regarding your use of the Websites including your IP address (your computer connection identification number), is transmitted to and stored by Google on servers located in the United States. Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the Websites, to compile reports on the activity on the Websites for its publisher and to provide other services related to the activity on the Website and Internet utilisation. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required by law or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf including but not limited to the publisher of such websites. Google will not cross-reference your IP address with other Google data. However, from a technical point of view, it cannot be excluded that Google may be able to identify one or the other user due to the collected data. The possibility exists that personal and user profile data from Google’s website may be processed for purposes beyond the sphere of influence of the Websites’ operator. In addition to the data protection issue, there is the fact that such data is transferred to the United States..

If you wish to disable Google Analytics, you will find the appropriate add-on for your particular browser by clicking on: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en

However, you should be aware that disabling this tool may prevent you from using certain features provided by the Websites.

SOCIAL MEDIA

Our Websites use Facebook pixel to help us reach our Facebook audience and provide them with relevant content. You can deactivate Facebook pixel by accessing the Advertising tab in your general account settings. The information we share with Facebook will be used solely according to Facebook’s Data Policy:
http://www.facebook.com/about/privacy

In order to facilitate the setup and connection with your SPG user account, you have the choice of linking your SPG account with almost all social media networks. By agreeing to share certain personal data, listed on the link and authorization screen specific to each social network, you will be able to benefit from optimized navigation on the SPG group’s Websites. However, you may disconnect your SPG user account from your social media account at any time.

SEVERABILITY

Any provision of this Cookie Policy that conflicts, in whole or in part, with Swiss mandatory law shall be severable and any invalidity, in whole or in part, of such a clause shall not affect the validity of the remainder of the clause in question, nor of the other clauses of this policy.

POLICY REVISIONS

SPG reserves the right to revise its Privacy Policy as well as this Cookie Management Policy at any moment by updating the corresponding Website pages. Such policies may evolve, specifically regarding the legal and regulatory context and according to the doctrine adopted by the Federal Data Protection Commissioner. You agree to all revisions and should periodically visit these pages to review the policies on these topics that apply to your use of the Websites.

JURISDICTION

Any dispute concerning this Cookie Management Policy is governed by Swiss law, and the Courts of the Canton of Geneva shall have exclusive jurisdiction to hear such disputes.