Privacy Policy
Read our Privacy Policy to see how Smat safeguards and uses your data in our investment platform.
Smat ("Smat", also referred to as "us" or
"we") cares about your privacy. We are committed to
maintaining your trust by protecting your personal data in accordance
with applicable law.This Privacy Policy Notice ("Notice")
describes how Smat collects, uses, and discloses your personal data in
connection with the use of our websites or other services or products
that refers to or links to this Notice, as well as any offline
services (collectively our "Services") we provide to you or
via our partners and service providers.
Before you use our
Services, please read this Notice in its entirety, which helps you
make informed decisions about your relationship with us.
References to "you" in this Notice means anyone who uses
our Services, websites, or applications.Smat may also collect
non-personal data or may anonymize personal data in order to make it
non-personal.
We may collect, store, use and transfer and
disclose non-personal data for any purpose.Personal data we may
collectSmat may collect and process data in relation to the data
referred to below with respect to persons using our Services, Smat
website. In addition to collecting personal data from its clients
(also known as users), including potential clients, Smat may also
process personal data about relevant persons using its Services, for
instance third party agents or intermediaries acting on behalf of
prospective or existing users or clients of user or related persons,
their contractors, etc. We may collect these data from several
sources, including directly from you, via our affiliates, delegates,
partners, service providers, legal professional advisors, or
third-party entities with whom we undertake verification upon you or
publicly available sources for the purposes of providing our
Services.Where relevant, we may collect and process personal data
related to persons associated with you or with whom you have a legal
relationship.
In such circumstances, it is your
responsibility to ensure you have permission from that third party for
us to collect their data and you remain responsible for ensuring that
the third party understands how their data are being used.
In each case, Smat collects data only insofar as is necessary or
appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the person’s interaction with
it, in particular to provide its Services. A person can always refuse
to supply personal data to Smat; such refusal may however prevent such
person from engaging in certain related activities with Smat.
Personal data that we may collect and process
includes:identification data, such as name(s), address(es), phone
number(s), email address(es), business contact information, passport,
identification card, tax identification;certain personal
characteristics, such as your date of birth, or
nationality;professional information, such as employment and job
history, title(s)/function(s);wallet and related financial
information, such as financial and credit history information, bank
details (e.g. IBAN);transaction data (current and past transactions),
number and value of token held, role in a transaction (seller/acquirer
of shares), transaction details, wealth and tax details;user
profile/login data, such as username(s) and password(s);technical
data, such as Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type and
version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and
versions, and other technology on the devices you use to access this
website (see also "Our cookie policy" section below).
Are your data transferred outside of Switzerland?
Personal data may be transferred to countries outside Switzerland if
this is required for the execution of of our contractual obligations,
prescribed by law, necessary to safeguard an overriding public
interest, or if you have given us your consent (see also "When we
may disclose personal data" section below).to achieve our
legitimate interests (such as for instance electronic communications
between you and us, or our affiliates; the provision of information to
you (e.g. product or product performance/rating related information),
details in order for us to manage and improve our website, for us
obtaining and recording details relating to your visit behavior on our
website) but always by ensuring that (i) your rights and interests are
taken into account, protected, and any privacy impact on you is as
minimal as possible, (ii) we are able to demonstrate that your data
are used in a proportionate manner in a such way that can be expected
by you and you would not object of such use, and (iii) we may lawfully
disclose personal data to third-parties where we can demonstrate that
this disclosure is justified; where we need to perform a contract that
we are about to enter into or have entered into with you (this
includes where you have asked us to do something before entering into
a contract, for example to provide a quote);to comply with our legal
or regulatory obligations; based on reasons of substantial public
interest; where your personal data are public information as a result
of your activity or action; explicit consent when required in very
limited circumstance.
Do we rely upon profiling or
automated decision-making?
As a rule, we do not make
decisions based solely on automated processing in order to perform our
Services.
Should we do so, we shall comply with applicable
legal and regulatory requirements.When we may disclose personal
dataour affiliates, including relevant third-party such as custodian
bank, interdealer broker, product issuer, rating providers; our
partners and professional service providers, including for the
purposes of conducting due diligence, including service providers
appointed by the third-party referred to above; any law enforcement,
court, regulator or other government authority in order for us to
comply with a legal obligation laid down in relevant applicable
regulation, such as Swiss law;a prospective buyer of our business,
including where we intend to sell part of our business or merge with
another third-party.
How and where we store your personal
data?
We generally store your physically (where applicable)
and electronically held personal data in our Swiss premises (where
applicable) in secure locations and/or on secure servers in
Switzerland. We may however host or transfer your personal data to our
affiliates, partners, or service providers that are based outside of
Switzerland or the European Economic Area. In such circumstances, we
will ensure that your personal data are adequately protected in
accordance with applicable data protection regulations.
We
take all reasonable steps to protect your personal data; however,
where you choose to transmit your personal data to us via the
internet, we do not guarantee the security of the personal data
transmitted and therefore any transmission is at your own risk. Where
we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables
you to access certain parts of the website or any application or
platform operated by Smat, you are responsible for keeping this
password confidential and not sharing it with any unauthorized person.
Your rights as a data subjectWhere applicable, you may have
certain rights under relevant data protection regulations including
the right to ask Smat for a copy or update the personal data held
about you as well as obtain supporting explanatory information,
including in case of automated decision-making. In certain
circumstances, you may ask Smat to make any necessary changes to your
data to ensure such data are accurate and up to date, ask Smat to
erase your personal data, or ask Smat to restrict the processing of
the data, or to transfer data collected by Smat to other
organizations, or directly to you, at your request.
You
may aso have rights to object to some processing, and where we have
asked for your consent to process your data, to withdraw your consent.
Where Smat processes your data because it has a legitimate interest in
doing so, you may also have the right to object to this. These rights
may however be limited in some situations, such as for instance, where
Smat can demonstrate that it has a legal requirement to process your
data. Where applicable, you may have similar rights in your country
under local legislation to access and correct/update your data. If you
wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us (see "How
to contact Smat " section below).How long we retain your personal
dataWe reserve the right to retain your personal data for as long as
we reasonably believe it to be necessary in order to facilitate our
legitimate interests, in order for us to comply with our legal or
regulatory obligations, where based upon reasons of substantial public
interest, or where your personal data remain public information by
your own actions. Subject to applicable legal minimum retention
periods, your personal data will not be retained for longer than
necessary with regard to the purposes and compliance obligations
contemplated in this Notice. For further information, you may contact
us (see "How to contact us" section below).
Our
cookie policy
Smat website uses cookies. Cookies are small
text files that are permanently or temporarily stored on the computers
of visitors when visiting our website. The purpose of the cookies is
specifically to provide a statistical analysis of the use of our
website in order to allow for improvements to be made. Smat website
visitors and users can disable the use of cookies on our website, in
whole or in part, in their browser’s cookie or privacy settings at any
time. If cookies are disabled, however, website visitors and users may
no longer be able to access all of our website’s functions.
Smat website uses Google Analytics services provided by Google Inc.,
a US company, and its subsidiaries (referred to together as
"Google"). The purpose of these Google services is to
provide a statistical analysis of the use of our website to allow us
to improve the user browsing experience. The listed Google services
use cookies, which enable us to record individual use of our website.
All data relating to the Google services are transmitted to Google in
the United States of America (USA) for analysis. If necessary, Google
will transmit the data to third parties insofar as this is required by
law or insofar as third parties process these data on behalf of
Google. The IP addresses of our website visitors will also be sent to
Google as part of the Google Analytics service. Website users can
disable the use of cookies for the listed Google services on our
website, in whole or in part, in their browser’s cookie or privacy
settings at any time.
Alternatively, users can prevent
their use of our website being analyzed via the "Google
Analytics" service by downloading and installing the
corresponding Google browser plugin available at
https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. This plugin installs an
"opt-out cookie".
More information on data
protection in connection with Google services can be found in the
Google Privacy Policy at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy[1].
Changes to this Notice Smat may make changes to this Notice at
any time and may do so without expressly notifying you of these
changes. However, should the legal basis or purpose for processing
your personal data changes then Smat will expressly notify you.
How to contact usQuestions or individual data requests
relating to this Notice should be addressed to: Smat SA, Rue de
l'Avenir 23, Delemont (2800)
admin@smat.io