Data Protection Guidelines / Privacy Policy

Data protection declaration

1. General
1.1. Scope
1.2. Controller’s Contact Data
1.3. Supervisory Bodies’ Contact Data
2. Processing Activities
2.1. CT’s Customers
2.2. End Customer
2.3. Suppliers
2.4. Potential Employees
2.5. Visitors to Our Premises
2.6. Web Visitors
2.7. Cookies
3. Sharing Data With Third Parties
4. Data Security
5. Duration of Retention
6. Your Rights
7. Topicality and Modification of this Privacy Policy

1. General

CAMION TRANSPORT AG (hereinafter CT) attaches great importance to compliance with the Swiss data protection regulations. In this Privacy Policy (retrievable at www.camiontransport.ch/data-protection), we inform you about the manner in which we handle any personal data of you as our customer, end customer, supplier, potential employee, visitor and web user.

The processing of our employees’ personal data is regulated in the privacy policy for employees of CAMION TRNSPORT AG.

1.1 Scope

This Privacy Policy applies to any and all processing operations related to personal data regarding any

  • visit to and use of the CT website by web users,
  • service provision by CT to customers and end customers,
  • service purchase by CT from suppliers,
  • application process at CT regarding potential employees and
  • stay on our premises.

1.2 Controller’s Contact Data

CAMION TRANSPORT AG
Hubstrasse 103
CH-9500 Wil SG
dsg@camiontransport.ch

1.3 Supervisory Bodies’ Contact Data

Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner
Feldeggweg 1
3003 Bern
Tel. +41 58 462 43 95

2. Processing Activities

Depending on your relationship with CT, we process different personal data about you for different purposes and having regard to different legal bases, which we inform you about hereinafter.

2.1 CT’s Customers

2.1.1 Provision of Services

The service provision by CT and ultimately the mutual contract performance require coordination and consultation between CT and its customers. Service provision includes processing of the purchase order, packing, loading and, if need be, finishing as well as pick-up and supply of the freight goods.

CT processes the following data to that end:

  • contact data of the customer’s employees (incl. employee numbers or initials)
  • contact data of the pick-up point or of the customer

The data is processed for the following purposes:

  • contract performance
  • customer care
  • debt collection

CT’s customers are kindly requested, for their part, to inform their employees about their rights and duties in the field of data protection.

CT’s customer warrants that CT may process the data of both the customer’s employees and the end customer.

2.1.2 Customer Care and Acquisition

CT processes the following personal data:

  • customers’ or potential customers’ first name and surname
  • potential customers’ contact details

Processing is effected for customer care (e.g. dispatch of newsletters / advertising materials) and acquisition (business card, trade fairs, marketing measures) purposes.

2.1.3 Dispatch of Newsletters

CT dispatches newsletters for corporate communications to its customers to inform them about services, public holidays and further relevant information. The newsletters are dispatched using «Mailchimp», a newsletter platform of the US provider Rocket Science Group, LLC, 675 Ponce De Leon Ave NE #5000, Atlanta, GA 30308, USA.

Our newsletter recipients’ e-mail addresses and contact data are retained on the servers of Mailchimp in the USA. Mailchimp uses this information to dispatch and evaluate the newsletters by our order. Mailchimp, however, neither uses our newsletter recipients’ data to write to them in person nor shares it with any third parties. We have entered into an order processing contract with Mailchimp. The Mailchimp Privacy Statement is available at https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/.

You may unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time.

2.2 End Customer

If CT provides any service (mainly deliveries) directly to the end customer of CT’s customer, the following data of the end customer is processed:

  • end customer’s first name and surname
  • end customer’s contact data

CT’s customer warrants that CT may process the end customer’s data.

2.3 Suppliers

The purchase of services and ultimately the mutual contract performance require coordination and consultation between CT and its suppliers. CT processes the following data to that end:

  • first name and surname of the supplier’s employees
  • contact data of the supplier’s employees

Processing is effected having regard to the following purposes:

  • contract performance
  • operation

CT’s suppliers are kindly requested, for their part, to inform their employees about their rights and duties in the field of data protection.

2.4 Potential Employees

2.4.1 Application Tool, E-Mail or Mail

You have the possibility to send us your application via our web-based application tool (provider: Abacus Umantis AG), by e-mail or by mail. In these cases, we process any and all data you send to us with your application documents. Depending on the data actually transferred, these are usually the following documents:

  • applicant’s and reference persons’ contact data
  • application letter
  • application photo/video
  • track records
  • CV
  • criminal record (only where explicitly requested)
  • OASI number
  • data from official identity cards (ID, driving licence)

We process this data for the purpose of recruiting employees.

If you ask us to take account of your application documents for any other position or potential vacancy despite a rejection, we will keep your application documents during a further 3 years.

2.4.2 Trial/Apprenticeship Positions Via Online Portals

We use various online services in connection with the advertisement of trial and regular apprenticeship positions. You have the possibility to upload your application documents to these platforms. Depending on the data actually transferred by you, these are usually the following documents:

  • applicant’s and reference persons’ contact data
  • application letter
  • application photo/video
  • track records
  • CV
  • OASI number (if any)
  • data from official identity cards (ID, driving licence)

Any and all application documents are available to us on these platforms. If the applicants are minors or persons under guardianship, we assume that the application documents have been transferred in any case with the permission of the legal representatives.

2.4.3. Webinars via Zoom

We organise webinars using the Zoom software for training purposes and to present our range of services for career changers. To participate, we need the following data from you:

  • first name and surname
  • e-mail address

We process this data for the purpose of organising webinars. Further information on the purpose and scope of data collection and its processing by Zoom can be found in the platform's privacy policy: https://zoom.us/privacy

2.5 Visitors to Our Premises

2.5.1 Visitor Passports

If you enter or drive on premises of CT, you are provided with a visitor card. The following data is captured in order to issue the visitor card:

  • contact data
  • date and time of arrival at / leaving of the premise

CT processes this data for the following purposes:

  • warranty of safety
  • prevention of crime

2.5.2 Surveillance Cameras

CT has installed surveillance cameras at certain locations in the premise. These have been marked. If you move on the premise of CT, you might be captured by the camera section. The following data of you is processed:

  • picture recording
  • date, time and place of recording
  • location at the time of recognition

CT processes this data for the following purposes:

  • warranty of safety
  • prevention of crime

2.6 Web Visitors

2.6.1 Visiting the Website

Every time our website www.camiontransport.ch is accessed, the browser used on your terminal automatically sends information to the server of our website. This information is temporarily retained in log files. The following information is captured in this process and retained until its automated erasure:

  • IP address of the enquiring computer
  • date and time of access
  • name and URL of the file retrieved
  • website from which access is made (referrer URL)
  • browser identifier (user-agent header)

We process this data for the following purposes:

  • warranty of smooth website connection establishment
  • warranty of convenient website usage
  • system security and stability evaluation

2.6.2 Contact Form / Transport Enquiry

We provide you with the opportunity to contact us using a form provided on our website with regard to any queries you might have. The following details need to be provided:

  • first name and surname
  • e-mail address / phone number
  • address

We process this data for the following purposes:

  • establishment of contact
  • reply to your enquiry

2.6.3 Range of Courses

We provide you with the opportunity to participate in courses by registering via a form on our website. The following details need to be provided:

  • first name and surname
  • e-mail address / phone number
  • address
  • date of birth
  • driving licence number
  • invoice data

We process this data for the following purposes:

  • establishment of contact
  • reply to your enquiry

2.6.4. CT Shop

In the event that you place any purchase order in our CT shop, we collect the following data from you:

  • first name and surname
  • e-mail address / phone number
  • delivery and invoice address

This data is processed for the following purposes:

  • purchase handling
  • shipping

This data is used by CT in Switzerland and not shared with any third parties. The data gathered in relation to the CT shop is not linked to the data of the website.

2.6.5 Visiting the Social Media Channels

CT is present on various social media channels to introduce the company and to keep in touch with customers, suppliers, employees and other persons. When you visit our social media presences (Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube), the respective operators capture personal data about you. The captured data relates, amongst others, to your IP address as well as to further information existing on your PC in the form of cookies. This information is used, amongst others, to provide us, as operators of the pages, with statistical information about how the page is used.

More detailed information about the data gathered is available in the following privacy policies of the platforms:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy

Instagram: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy

LinkedIn: https://de.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy

YouTube: https://policies.google.com/privacy

2.7. Cookies

2.7.1 Basics

We use cookies on our website. A cookie is a small block of data which is stored by a website on a visitor's computer or mobile terminal. A cookie does not necessarily mean that we can identify you.

2.7.2 Types of Cookies

Our website uses session cookies and permanent cookies.

Session cookies are used to increase the security of use of our website, to make our information user-friendly and to analyse the use of our website. A session cookie is deleted when the session is ended (website is left).

Permanent cookies are used to optimise user-friendliness and to accelerate the use of our website. When you visit our website again, it is recognised automatically that you had already opened it and what entries and settings you have made so that you do not have to enter them again. Permanent cookies expire after a certain period.

2.7.3 Management, Deletion and Deactivation of Cookies

Cookies are automatically accepted in the default setting of most web browsers. You may configure the browser settings in such a way that your browser blocks most of our cookies and allows only certain cookies or blocks any and all cookies. You may also withdraw your consent to certain cookies by deleting the cookies already stored.

Further information about cookies is available on the websites of the respective browser platforms:

Microsoft Edge: https://support.microsoft.com/de-de/microsoft-edge/cookies-in-microsoft-edge-l%C3%B6schen-63947406-40ac-c3b8-57b9-2a946a29ae09

Mozilla Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/de/kb/Cookies-blockieren

Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/61416

Safari: https://support.apple.com/de-ch/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac

Opera: https://help.opera.com/de/latest/web-preferences/#cookies

Please note that the partial or full deactivation of cookies may result in you not being able to use all functions of our website.

2.7.4 Technically Necessary Cookies

2.7.4.1 Session Identifier

NWe use cookies on our website to identify your session. This allows us to save your settings within the website and offer you the desired user experience.

2.7.4.2 Cookies for Logging Your Consent

These cookies are used to store the user settings regarding cookies on our website.

2.7.5 Optional Cookies

We gather your data using the optional cookies only with your consent, which you give us by accepting the cookies in the cookie settings. You may customise your consent via the cookie settings at any time: Open cookie settings

2.7.5.1. Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. Google Analytics stores cookies on your computer to recognise you anonymously when you repeatedly visit a certain website. Google uses the obtained information to save a profile with the pages you visited during your visit.

The information generated by the cookie about the use of this website is usually transmitted to a server of Google Inc. in the USA and retained there. Google Analytics anonymises the IP addresses for our website (IP masking). This means that Google shortens IP addresses, making any conclusions about your identity impossible. The full IP address is transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there only in exceptional cases. Google acts as data processor for CT and analyses the obtained data only by CT’s order. CT uses the information obtained via Google Analytics for statistical as well as marketing purposes to better understand how we can improve the content and use of our website.

You may block the collection of your data by this cookie by downloading and installing the following browser plug-in: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

2.7.5.2. Google Maps

We use Google Maps to embed maps into our website and to visually display geographic information. When Google Maps is used, Google also collects, processes and uses data on the use of the map function by visitors. These services of the American Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California, USA, use, amongst others, cookies, with data being transferred to Google in the USA as a result. Google is committed to ensuring adequate data protection under the EU-US Privacy Shield and the Swiss-US Privacy Shield.

More detailed information about the data processing by Google is available on https://policies.google.com/privacy. There, you may also change your personal data protection settings in the privacy centre.

2.7.5.3. YouTube

When you visit the website, YouTube is informed that you have accessed the relevant sub-page of our website. This happens regardless of whether YouTube provides a user account, into which you are logged, or whether no user account exists. If you are logged into Google, your data is directly allocated to your account. If you do not want the data to be allocated to your YouTube profile, you must log out before displaying the video. YouTube retains your data as user profiles and uses it for the purposes of advertising, market research and/or the needs-based design of its website. The data is evaluated in such manner (even for users not logged in), in particular, to display needs-based advertising. You have the right to object to the creation of these user profiles and may exercise it by contacting YouTube.

Further information on the purpose and scope of such data collection and processing by YouTube is available in the following privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

3. Sharing Data With Third Parties

Your personal data is not transferred to any third parties for any purposes other than those set out above. Within the company, your personal data is made available to the respective branches of CT.

4. Data Security

We take appropriate measures to ensure that your personal data cannot be viewed or stolen unlawfully by any third parties. We ensure, especially by technical (e.g. firewall, password protection etc.) and organisational (e.g. restriction of authorised persons, training of authorised persons etc.) measures, that only authorised persons have access to this data.

You should be aware, however, that the transfer of information via the Internet and other electronic means entails certain security risks and that we cannot guarantee the security of information transferred in this way. Your personal data is transferred from the website to us in SSL-encrypted form.

5. Duration of Retention

We retain your personal data for as long as we deem it necessary or appropriate to comply with the applicable laws or as long as it is necessary for the purposes for which it has been gathered. We erase your personal data once it is no longer needed and, in any case, after the maximum retention period of five respectively ten years prescribed by law has expired. Any data that is no longer necessary and for which there is no statutory duty of retention is destroyed after the purpose and ground of justification have ceased to exist.

6. Your Rights

Regarding your rights, we refer to the Swiss Data Protection Act (DSG), chapters 4 and 5: https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/eli/cc/2022/491/.

7. Topicality and Modification of this Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy or to adapt it to new processing methods at any time. The current Privacy Policy may be retrieved on https://www.camiontransport.ch/en/data-protection-guidelines at any time.

Effective: 1 September 2023

This translation is for information purposes only and is not a legally binding document. Please refer to the original terms in German.