Privacy policy

This policy explains which personal data AKB Project Sàrl processes when you visit akbproject.ch or write to us, and how to exercise your rights. It follows the Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP), in force since 1 September 2023.

Data controller

• AKB Project Sàrl
• Rue Maunoir 13, 1207 Geneva, Switzerland
• UID number: CHE-276.027.009
• Questions about your data: admin@akbproject.ch

When you write to us

The contact form asks for your first and last name, your email address, your telephone number, the type of project and your message. We use this information to reply to your enquiry and, if you wish, to prepare a proposal.

The website does not keep this data: your message reaches us by email through Formspree, Inc., in the United States, which keeps a copy of it in our account. To filter out automated submissions, the form contains an invisible field and limits the number of submissions per IP address; the address remains in memory for a few minutes and is not stored.

Your messages stay in our email system and in that account for as long as we need to deal with your enquiry and follow up the relationship arising from it. They are then deleted, unless the law requires us to keep them. The same rules apply to an email or a telephone call, which do not go through Formspree.

When you visit the website

Our hosting provider, Vercel Inc., records technical data for each visit: IP address, date and time, page requested, browser and referring page. These logs are used to run the website and to protect it from attacks. They are kept for a limited period. Vercel is based in the United States, where the contact form is processed.

Audience measurement with Google Analytics

If you accept this in the cookie banner, we measure website traffic with Google Analytics, loaded by Google Tag Manager. Without your consent, no request is sent to Google.

Google Analytics collects the pages viewed, the length of the visit, the website you came from, the type of device, the browser and an approximate location (country, city). This information is linked to a random identifier stored in cookies, not to your name. It shows us which pages are useful to you.

Google’s advertising features remain disabled: the website does not ask for your consent to any advertising.

The service is provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. Data may be transferred to Google LLC, in the United States. The Federal Council recognises an adequate level of protection for US companies certified under the Swiss-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, of which Google LLC is one. Measurement data is kept for no more than 14 months.

You may withdraw your consent at any time using the Cookie preferences link at the bottom of every page.

Cookies and local storage

• Your choice in the cookie banner is saved in your browser’s local storage for 12 months. It is necessary for the website and does not leave your device.
• With your consent only: the Google Analytics cookies (_ga and _ga_ followed by an identifier), valid for no more than 2 years.

The website sets no other cookies. Your browser also lets you block or delete cookies.

Service providers

Your data is neither sold nor rented out. We pass it only to the service providers that help us run the website and reply to you: Vercel for hosting, Formspree for the emails from the form, our email provider and, if you accept this, Google for audience measurement. They process it only on our behalf.

Vercel Inc. is certified, like Google LLC, under the Swiss-U.S. Data Privacy Framework. The form is an exception: by sending it, you agree that your message passes through the United States, via Formspree, so that we can reply to it. To avoid this, write to us at info@akbproject.ch or call +41 22 700 73 00.

Security

Communications with the website are encrypted (HTTPS). We restrict access to your messages to the people who need it in order to reply to you.

Your rights

You may, at any time:

• find out whether we process data about you, and which data;
• have inaccurate data corrected;
• request its erasure, or object to processing;
• receive the data you have provided to us in a commonly used format;
• withdraw any consent you have given, with no effect on what was done before.

Write to admin@akbproject.ch. We may ask you to prove your identity, and we reply within 30 days. If you believe that your rights are not being respected, you may contact the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC), Feldeggweg 1, 3003 Berne, www.edoeb.admin.ch.

Changes

We update this policy when the website changes, for example if it starts using a new tool. The version in force is the one on this page, with its date of last update.