1. Introduction
Your privacy is important to us at Logan & Partners Sàrl. Our registered address is Avenue Alexandre Vinet 25, 1004 Lausanne, Switzerland. Our website is www.loganpartners.com which is also accessible through www.loganpartners.ch.
This privacy notice details the personal information we collect, the purposes for which we use it, the steps we take to protect it, and your rights regarding our use of your personal information. Please read this privacy notice carefully. Contact us at info@loganpartners.com, or write to us at our registered address, if you have any questions about this privacy notice and/or our use of your personal information.
We may change our privacy notice from time to time. We will post any changes to our privacy notice on our website with the effective date of the change. We encourage you to check back often for updates to this notice.
2. What personal information we collect
Personal information means any information that identifies an individual, such as name, phone number or email address. We collect personal information of our clients, employees, consultants, people who are interested in our services and events, supplier and people who communicate with us.
The personal information we collect may include:
- Name, email address, telephone and other contact details
- Information about your company and job function
- Invoicing and financial information of clients
- Standard information your browser sends to our website, such as your IP address
3. How we collect personal information
We may collect personal information in a variety of ways:
- You provide the personal information to us directly e.g. through a form on our website, through emailing us, through sending us a letter, in person at a seminar, workshop or conference
- As a consequence of providing you with services e.g. through correspondence, emails, the set-up of you as a client on our systems
- Automatically through our website (e.g. through cookies as explained below)
- Through publicly available third-party websites such as LinkedIn where you have made your contact information available
4. Why we process information
We collect, use, and store personal information about you for the following purposes:
- To provide you with the information that you have requested from us
- To provide services to you and to fulfil our contractual obligations
- To send you news on our services, events, services and topics of interest including topical articles on law
- For marketing our services and events to you
- To issue invoices and manage accounts and records
- To administer our website
- To comply with legal obligations applicable to us
- To meet our audit requirements
- To improve the quality of our services
- To review/discuss job applications, consulting arrangements and offers to us for products and services
5. When we share personal information and why
We share or disclose personal information when necessary to provide you with our services and events, and to provide you with news as described above. We also share or disclose personal information when necessary to conduct and administer our business operations.
We may share personal information with other third parties, where required, such as to comply with requests from governmental authorities when such disclosure is necessary according to applicable law.
6. Where we store, process and transfer personal information
We work with third-party service providers for cloud-hosted service applications for example: legal practice management (time recording, client contact information, matter management and documents), data storage, office applications and client relationship management tools. These providers host cloud-based platforms where personal information may be stored and processed. Following our IT Data Protection Policy, our cloud service suppliers are selected based on their ability to provide high standards of IT security including data encryption and two-step authentication for authorized users. Our major processors are listed in the table below. To review how these third-party service providers, use and process your personal information you should check their privacy notices and terms of service which we have detailed below.
At times processing of your personal data may occur outside of your home country. For residents of the European Union, we use reasonable efforts to ensure that your personal information stays in the European Economic Area. To this end our preference is to select cloud service providers who host their data within the European Economic Area, however, some providers do not offer this possibility, and in these cases, personal information we collect may be transferred within or outside the country or territory where it was collected for further processing in accordance with the purposes for which your personal information was originally collected, or for purposes to which you have consented. In this situation we take steps to ensure your personal information is processed and transferred according to applicable law, such as the US-Swiss Privacy Shield, and take measures to ensure your rights are adequately protected by technical and contractual means.
| Name of Processor | Purpose | Terms/Privacy Notice or Policy |
| Dropbox business | Cloud Storage | Terms & Privacy Policy |
| Google services & tools | Website statistics, analysis, advertising | Terms & Privacy Policy |
| Microsoft Office 365 | Email, Storage, shared documents | Terms & Privacy Policy https://products.office.com/en/business/office-365-trust-center-privacy |
| Infomaniak | Website hosting | Terms & Privacy Policy |
| Clio EU | Cloud-based time management | Term & Privacy Policy |
| Zoho | Cloud Software Suite and SaaS Applications for Businesses | Term & Privacy Policy |
| Skype | Cloud-based communication platform | Term & Privacy Policy (part of the Microsoft group https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement#maincookiessimilartechnologiesmodule
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| Cloud-based communication platform; also used to communicate events | Term & Privacy Policy https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy
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7. How long we store the personal information
We keep personal information for the time necessary for us to complete the purposes for which it was collected, or as legally required (e.g. for accounting purposes). When we no longer need the personal information, it is deleted.
8. How we secure the personal information
We are committed to ensuring that your personal information is secure. We implement appropriate technologies and organizational measures to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure of the personal information. For example, we process the personal information you provide on computer systems with limited access. We also require our third-party service providers to comply with applicable data privacy and security requirements.
9. Links to other websites
Our website may contain links to other websites not operated by us. We provide hyperlinks for these websites for your convenience however we are not responsible for the operation of these websites or their data protection and privacy practices. We recommend that you review these websites’ privacy notices and policies.
10. Unsubscribe
We hope that you will enjoy the news that we send to you electronically or by post. However, if you do not want to receive emails and/or marketing emails from us, or you wish to be removed from a posting list, you may unsubscribe at any time by using the unsubscribe button contained in our emails on these subjects, by emailing us at info@loganpartners.com, or writing to us at our registered address.
11. Your rights with respect to your personal information
You have certain rights with respect to the personal information we hold on you:
- Request a copy of the personal information we have about you.
- Request us to correct or delete your personal information
- Request data portability
- Object to processing of your personal information
- Withdraw your consent to our using the personal information
- Unsubscribe from a mailing list as described above
If you would like to exercise these rights or have any questions about this privacy notice, please contact us at: info@loganpartners.com or write to us at our registered address: Avenue Alexandre Vinet 25, 1004 Lausanne Switzerland.
COOKIES
1.What are Cookies?
Cookies are simple text files that a website places on your computer or mobile device. These text files store anonymous information about your visit such as a unique identifier that in turn helps a website recognize you each time you come back, remember your preference settings, and help us enhance the performance of our website. Only the website server that placed the cookie can retrieve or read the contents of that cookie.
2. How does Logan & Partners use Cookies?
At Logan & Partners, we use cookies on our website to make sense about the content on our website that you are interested in and to remember you if you choose to return to the website. In some cases, the information provided by cookies helps us optimize the website for a better user experience.
We use the following cookies:
- Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website.
- Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
- Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
- Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website more relevant to your interests.
The tables below summarize the cookies our website may place on your computer or device when you visit our website.
| FUNCTIONAL COOKIES | ||
| Cookie name | Description | Expiration (i.e. when the cookie is deleted from your device) |
| cookie_banner_state | This cookie helps our website know when the banner with cookie information appears. | 3 days |
| ANALYTICS COOKIES Google Analytics is a simple, easy-to-use tool that helps website owners measure how users interact with website content. As a user navigates between web pages, Google Analytics provides website owners JavaScript tags (libraries) to record information about the page a user has seen, for example, the URL of the page. The Google Analytics JavaScript libraries use HTTP Cookies to “remember” what a user has done on previous pages/interactions with the website. | ||
| Cookie name | Description | Expiration (i.e. when the cookie is deleted from your device) |
| _ga | First-party cookie used to store the client IP | 2 years |
| _gid | First-party cookies used to distinguish users. | 24 hours |
| _gat | First-party cookies used to throttle request rate. If Google Analytics is deployed via Google Tag Manager, this cookie will be named _dc_gtm_<property-id> | 2 minutes |
| _utma | Used to distinguish users and sessions. This cookie keeps track of the number of times a visitor has been to the site, when their first visit was and when their last visit occurred. | 30 minutes |
| _utmb | Used to determine new sessions/visits. The cookie contains the timestamp of the exact moment in time when a visitor enters the website. | 1 year |
| _utmc | Contains a timestamp of the exact moment in time when a visitor leaves the website. The __utmb and __utmc cookies are brothers; working together to calculate how long a visit takes. | Until the end of the browser session |
| _utmt | This cookie indicates the request that a visitor makes from the website, for example, a banner click. | 10 minutes |
| _utmv | This cookie works hand in hand with the __utmz cookie to improve cookie targeting capabilities. It allows for custom variables to be created to segment different groups of users and understand their behaviour. | 6 months |
| __utmz | Stores traffic source information that explains how a visitor reached our website. | 2 years
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3. How can I disable or delete cookies from my PC?
You can set your internet browser to notify you when you receive a cookie (see details below). This allows you to reject or accept cookies. If you disable or reject cookies, some of the services and features of our website may not function properly. Deleting cookies will affect your experience on most websites you’ve already visited.
You can manage your cookie choices here.
If you want to delete cookies from your personal computer, please follow the instructions below depending on the web browser you use:
- Delete cookies in Chrome
- Delete cookies in Firefox
- Delete cookies in Internet Explorer
- Delete cookies in Safari
- Delete cookies in Microsoft Edge web browser
- Delete cookies in Opera browser
4. Further information about cookies
If you’d like to learn more about cookies and how to manage them, visit the following pages:
