Privacy policy

Date: 21 February 2024

KREA (Key Real Estate Advisory) Sàrl (“we”, “us”, or “our”) operates the krea.swiss website (the “service”).

This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of personal data when you use our service and the choices you have associated with that data. We use your data to provide and improve the Service.

By using the service, you consent to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.

Definitions

Personal data

Personal data means data relating to a living individual who can be identified from that data (or from that data together with other information in our possession or likely to come into our possession).

Usage data

Usage data is data collected automatically, either generated by use of the service or by the service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).

Cookies

Cookies are small data files stored on a user’s device.

Data controller

Data controller means a person who (alone or jointly with others) determines the purposes and methods of processing personal data that are or will be processed.

For the krea.swiss website, KREA (Key Real Estate Advisory) Sàrl is the data controller.

Data Processor (or Service Provider)

Data Processor (or Service Provider) means any person (other than an employee of the Data Controller) who processes data on behalf of the Data Controller.

We may use the services of various service providers in order to process your data more efficiently.

Data subject

The data subject is any living individual who is the subject of personal data.

User

The user is the person who uses our service. The user corresponds to the person concerned, who is the subject of personal data.

Collection and use of information

We collect different types of information for various purposes, in order to provide and improve our service to you.

Types of data collected

Personal data



When using our service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you (“personal data”).

Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

  • Email address

  • First and last name

  • Phone number 

  • Cookies and usage data

We may use your personal data to contact you, at your request, with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information that may be of interest to you. You can choose not to receive some or all of these communications from us by following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in any email we send you or by contacting us.

Usage data


We may also collect information about how the Service is accessed and used (“Usage Data”). This Usage Data may include information such as your computer’s IP address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our service you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

Cookie tracking and data



We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our service and retain certain information.

Cookies are files containing a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Other tracking technologies used are beacons, tags and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and enhance our website.

You can ask your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use certain parts of our service.

Examples of cookies we use:


  • Session cookies. We use first session cookies and third party session cookies to operate our Service.


  • My preferences. We use preference cookies to remember your preferences and various settings.

Use of data

 KREA (Key Real Estate Advisory) Sàrl uses the data collected for various purposes:

  • To provide and maintain our service

  • To inform you of changes to our service

  • To allow you to participate in interactive features of our service when you choose to do so

  • To carry out analyses or collect valuable information in order to improve our service.

  • To monitor the use of our service

  • To detect, prevent and resolve technical problems

  • To provide you with news and general information about our services, unless you have chosen not to receive this information.

Data retention

KREA (Key Real Estate Advisory) Sàrl will retain your personal data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your personal data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

KREA (Key Real Estate Advisory) Sàrl will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis. Usage data is generally retained for the life of the website.

Transfer of data

Your information, including personal data, may be transferred to and stored on computers located outside your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where data protection laws may differ from those in your jurisdiction.

If you are located outside the European Union and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer data, including personal data, within the European Union and process it there. Other service providers (see “Service Providers”) may hold your data in other jurisdictions.

  • Please consult their privacy policies for further information.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy, followed by your submission of such information, constitutes your consent to such transfer.

KREA (Key Real Estate Advisory) Sàrl will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your personal data will take place to any organisation or country unless adequate controls are in place, including the security of your data and other personal information.

Disclosure of data

Disclosure in accordance with the law

In certain circumstances, KREA (Key Real Estate Advisory) Sàrl may be required to disclose your personal data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (for example, a court or government agency).

Legal requirements

KREA (Key Real Estate Advisory) Sàrl may disclose your personal data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:



  • To comply with a legal obligation

  • Protect and defend the rights or property of KREA (Key Real Estate Advisory) Sàrl
  • Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in relation to the service

  • To protect the personal safety of users of the service or the public

  • To protect against civil liability

Data security

The security of your data is important to us, but please remember that no method of transmission over the internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. Although we endeavour to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

The methods and procedures we use to protect personal data have been chosen on the basis of the assessed importance of the personal data and the risk to the individual concerned. This assessment was carried out as part of our Privacy Impact Assessment and is reviewed annually.

Your rights

KREA (Key Real Estate Advisory) Sàrl aims to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete or limit the use of your personal data.

If you wish to amend your personal data, please contact us to make the necessary changes.

If you would like to know what personal data we hold about you and would like it deleted from our systems, please contact us.

In certain circumstances, you have the right to:


  • Access and receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you (Right of Access)

  • To rectify inaccurate personal data held about you (Right of rectification)

  • To request the deletion of your personal data (Right to erasure)
  • To object at any time to the processing of personal data for purposes such as direct marketing (Right to object)

You have the right to data transfer of the information you provide to KREA (Key Real Estate Advisory) Sàrl. You may request a copy of your personal data in a commonly used electronic format so that you can manage and move it.

Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests.

We will inform you if it is not possible to continue to use our service without processing your personal data. For example, if it is not possible to use a website that includes a login system that uses cookies to verify your identity and keep you logged in.

Service providers and links to other sites

We may use third party companies and individuals to provide our service (“service providers”), to provide the service on our behalf, to provide services related to the service or to help us analyse how our service is used.

These third parties only have access to your personal data to carry out these tasks on our behalf and are required not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

Our service may also contain links to other sites which are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be redirected to the third party site. We strongly advise you to consult the privacy policy of each site you visit.

We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for, the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services. Please click on the links below to read their respective privacy policies.

These services include:

Protection of children’s privacy

Our service is not intended for persons under the age of 13 (“children”).

If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your children have provided us with personal data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected personal data from children without verification of parental consent, we will take steps to delete that information from our servers.

Changes to this privacy policy

We may update our privacy policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

We will notify you, before the change takes effect, by email and/or by a visible notice on our service and will update the “effective date” at the beginning of this Privacy Policy.

We encourage you to periodically review this Privacy Policy for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy will be effective when posted on this page.

Name and address of the controller

The controller of the processing for the purposes of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), other data protection laws applicable in the Member States of the European Union and other data protection provisions is :

KREA (Key Real Estate Advisory) Sàrl
Rue des Pâquis, 11
1201 Genève Suisse
Email : sophie.carliez@krea.swiss
Phone : +41 79 525 84 87

Contact us

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please do not hesitate to contact us: