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Privacy policy

Privacy Policy
Baghera Wines Auction & Trading SA

Pursuant to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Baghera/wines protects the privacy of its website users by complying with legislation in effect as it may collect personal data from its website.

Baghera/wines takes the privacy of your information seriously. We are committed to ensuring that information relating to you, from which you can be identified (known as ‘Personal Data’) is protected in accordance with our legal obligations under the General Data Protection Regulation and other applicable national data protection laws.

This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use and share your Personal Data. It should be read in conjunction with other terms and conditions that you are asked to sign if and when you use our services (‘Services’), since these may contain additional information regarding how we collect, use and share your Personal Data.

We may update this privacy notice from time to time, and will post any revised notice on this webpage. Where appropriate we may notify you by email or by a notice on our website that our privacy notice has changed but we recommend that you check this page regularly. Any changes will be immediately effective on posting.

How do we collect your personal data?

Personal data refers to information which you, user, transmit to us willingly by filling in forms online on our website and information which is collected when you browse our website (cookies). As such, we collect two types of data about our visitors:

  • Personal data (such as name, address, phone number, email address, etc.) which you have willingly provided us with via online forms.
  • Statistical data

Information we collect directly from you
We may collect Personal Data directly from you (by email, telephone, face to face, in paper form and via our websites), including when you:

  • express an interest in our services or interact with us as a client or prospective client;
  • subscribe to our newsletters, emailing campaigns, blog articles and catalogues;
  • create a Baghera/wines account at www.bagherawines.com;
  • instruct us to provide services to you and sign contractual documentation;
  • register to bid in an auction (in person, on line, by telephone or by absentee bid);
  • attend auctions, events and tastings.

Information we collect from other sources
We may collect Personal Data about you and the property you own or wish to acquire from sources outside Baghera/wines, including when:

  • we carry out required due diligence checks on you and your property
  • we carry out required credit reference checks
  • someone introduces you to us.

Information we collect automatically

  • When you visit our websites www.bagherawines.com or www.bagehrawines-henrijayer.com or www.bagherawines-blog.com, we collect data about you, your computer and devices (including your internet address and browser type) to facilitate and personalize your experience, for security and analytical purposes (including trend analysis) and system administration.
  • Cookies
    A cookie is a data block which cannot identify users but which is used to store data relating to user browsing on our website.
    If you wish to limit or block cookies used by our website, or if you would like to delete all stored cookies, you may do so through your Internet browser settings.
  • Baghera/wines premises may be subject to video surveillance and recording during live auctions. Telephone calls for telephone bidding purposes may also be recorded.

How do we use your personal data?

Data sharing
Baghera/wines undertakes not to exchange, sell or transmit your personal data to other businesses or third parties, except if required to do so by law. The aforementioned excludes our trusted third parties which work with us to implement and run our websites, to run our activities and to serve you, in so far as these parties declare they keep this information confidential.

The use of your personal data
Personal Data includes all information relating to an identified or identifiable person. It provides information concerning the identity of a person. This includes information such as name, address, zipcode, telephone number, email address, date of birth, credit card number, etc.

The data which you transmit on our website enables Baghera/wines to:

  • Process your inquiries and requests for information,
  • Inform you about our services,
  • Transmit to you, subject to your consent, promotional messages,
  • Produce traffic statistics which enable us to enhance our services and the content we propose

All Personal Data provided by you while registering on the Website, or in the context of the negotiation, conclusion, execution or performance of an agreement, will be used by Baghera/wines to the extent that it is necessary for the proper conduction of an auction as well as the execution of the relevant contracts within the context of the business relationship between yourself and Baghera/wines. This may include communicating the Personal Data of the Purchaser to the Seller and the Personal Data of the Seller to the Purchaser (if the Data is made available) in case of defaults in performance or legal disputes concerning the auction or the auctioned item.

For the purpose of an event registration, a possible shipment and/or storage of an auctioned item, Baghera/wines may communicate your Personal Data to an external service provider, who will process this Data in the name of Baghera/wines and according to Baghera/wines’ instructions about data protection and the requisite security procedures.

Baghera/wines is furthermore permitted to collect your Personal Data for the purpose of customer service and to use it in the context of Baghera/wines’s business activities in connection with their future auctions. All of your Personal Data collected by Baghera/wines will be used exclusively for direct communication with you.

Baghera/wines undertakes not to exchange, sell or transmit your personal data to other businesses or third parties, except if required to do so by law. The aforementioned excludes our trusted third parties which work with us to implement and run our websites, to run our activities and to serve you, in so far as these parties declare they keep this information confidential.

Insofar as Baghera/wines is required legally or by court ruling, your Personal Data will be communicated to the appropriate legal authorities.

Security
Baghera/wines protects Personal Data from loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and damage by means of appropriate measures. For this purpose, Baghera/wines uses adequate technical and administrative security measures, continually improved in line with technological developments. However, Baghera/wines cannot guarantee the absolute security of Personal Data. Baghera/wines assumes no liability for breaches of these security provisions, provided they have not been caused intentionally or as the result of gross negligence.

The confidentially and safety of your Personal Data is also protected by the password you have selected; it is your responsibility to ensure that only authorized users have access to your password and that your password is secure. For your own security, we recommend that you regularly.

Data retention and storage
We retain/store the data which you transmit to us to process your requests, for a maximum duration of five (5) years.

Right to access, to modify, to rectify and to delete
Pursuant to the GDPR, you have the right to oppose, to access, to rectify, to modify and to delete any personal data. As such, you may contact us to rectify, complete, update or delete any personal data which is inaccurate, incomplete, ambiguous, outdated or for which collection, use, transmission or retention/storage is prohibited.

You may exercise these rights by transmitting a mail or postal mail to:

Julie Carpentier
Digital Protection Officer, Baghera/wines
Rue Adhémar-Fabri, 2 – 1201 Geneva
Switzerland

How to contact us

For questions about this Privacy Policy please contact:

Julie Carpentier
Digital Protection Officer, Baghera/wines
Rue Adhémar-Fabri, 2 – 1201 Geneva
Switzerland

Email : jcarpentier@bagherawines.com
Tél: +41 22 910 46 30
Mobile: +41 79 472 22 23

Status of, and updates to, this privacy policy

This Privacy Policy was updated on 22 September 2020. We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time and will publish any changes on our website www.bagherawines.com.

Last modified: 22 September 2020