To what is this Privacy Policy Applicable?
This Privacy Policy together with any referenced documents are applicable to the Swisscare Insurance Management System (SIMS), the myswisscare account, and the myswisscare mobile application (hereinafter all are collectively referred to as the Swisscare App) including, but not limited to the privacy policies applied by Apple Inc. and Google Inc. ("Play Store Rules") with respect to the use of their App Store and Play Store respectively located at https://www.apple.com/privacy/ ("App Store") and https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-US ("Play Store").
Swisscare Europe Ltd.
Landstrasse 20
9496 Balzers (LI)
(Referred to as "Swisscare")
The data protection officer can be contacted via the above-mentioned address with the addition to the Data Protection Officer” or via email at dpo@swisscare.com
Rights of the data subject
Every data subject has the right to request information about any personal data being processed by Swisscare. In particular, information about the purpose of the processing, the categories of personal data, the categories of recipients who will have access or were disclosed with personal data, the duration periods for saving the personal data, whether there is a right to adjust/correct, erase, restrict or object, the transmission of data, the source of the personal data if not collected through Swisscare and if automatic decision-making technologies including profiling are being used.
Additionally, every data subject has the right to revoke a previously granted consent to use personal data at any time.
The Customer has the right to object to the processing of personal data for marketing purposes. Swisscare enables Clients to unsubscribe from the newsletter independently. If Swisscare processes personal data in order to protect legitimate interests, the Client has the possibility to object to this based on the particular situation.
Should the processing of personal data be inconsistent or contradicts the applicable data protection laws there is the possibility to lodge a complaint with the data protection officer.
Why does Swisscare process personal data?
Swisscare processes personal data in compliance with the GDPR and the local data protection regulations applicable in the Principality of Liechtenstein, namely the Data Protection Act and the Data Protection Ordinance, as well as Swiss Data Protection law.
Within the scope of the services offered, Swisscare requires certain information to be able to conclude a contract with a Customer. If the potential Customer decides to conclude an insurance contract through Swisscare, personal data is processed for a customer to be able to apply for an offer, as well as to conclude and maintain a contractual relationship, for example, for invoicing purposes or to verify eligibility.
Swisscare is unable to propose a contractual relationship to a Customer without this personal data. For example, due to tax law regulations, social security and health insurance law regulations, corporate regulations, and compliance obligations. Due to these regulations and statutory retention periods, Swisscare is unable to delete certain personal data until these statutory retention periods have passed.
Other reasons why Swisscare processes your personal data:
IT Security and Operations
Insurance Fraud Prevention
Marketing of Swisscare products and services
Third parties who receive personal data
Relevant personal data will be communicated to the Insurer based on the concluded contract. When concluding a contract with Swisscare Switzerland Ltd., Morgenstrasse 129, 3018 Bern, personal data will have to be disclosed to that entity. Swisscare may be obliged to disclose personal data to governing authorities concerning the insurance validity and concerning exemption from mandatory health insurance and other insurers and reinsurers. Swisscare may also have to give access to third-party providers of the IT Services in order to maintain IT Security and Operations who may be accessing Swisscare’s data from the EU/EFTA area or from a third country.
It is also possible that Swisscare will also have to communicate personal data to governing authorities to fulfill statutory duties of notifications (finance authorities, criminal investigation agencies).
Data retention
Swisscare will store personal data until the statute of limitations for claims against Swisscare has ended (retention period is between 5 and 30 years), and if Swisscare has a legal obligation to do so.
Description of data processing
Plausible Analytics
Swisscare uses Plausible Analytics, a privacy-focused analytics service. Plausible Analytics does not use so-called "cookies", and they do not collect or store any personal data.
Plausible Analytics only collects the following data:
Page URL
HTTP Referer
Browser
Operating system
Device type
Visitor Country
Cookies
Swisscare uses cookies on the website to ensure a user-friendly experience. Cookies are small files that are managed by the user’s web browser and are directly stored on the respective device (Laptop, Tablet, Smartphone etc.) whenever a User visits our website. Cookies are stored as long as they are not deleted. This process allows Swisscare to recognize the browser on the next visit.
If the User does not wish to use cookies the settings in the browser can be changed accordingly. The User will then be notified whenever the browser attempts to create a cookie and the User can decide whether they want to allow the cookie. However, please note that deactivation of cookies may result in a limited user experience and may render certain functionalities unusable.
Overview Cookies
| Cookie | Domain | Type | Description | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| test_cookie | .doubleclick.net | Advertisement | This cookie is set by doubleclick.net. The purpose of the cookie is to determine if the user's browser supports cookies. | 15 minutes |
| IDE | .doubleclick.net | Advertisement | Used by Google DoubleClick and stores information about how the user uses the website and any other advertisement before visiting the website. This is used to present users with ads that are relevant to them according to the user profile. | 1 year 24 days |
| _gcl_au | .swisscare.com | Analytics | This cookie is used by Google Analytics to understand user interaction with the website. | 3 months |
| _ga | .swisscare.com | Analytics | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assign a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors. | 2 years |
| _gid | .swisscare.com | Analytics | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the website is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages visted in an anonymous form. | 1 day |
| _gat_gtag_UA_73433429_4 | .swisscare.com | Analytics | This cookie is set by Google and is used to distinguish users. | 1 minute |
| XSRF-TOKEN | swisscare.com | Necessary | The cookie is set by Wix website building platform on Wix website. The cookie is used for security purposes. | 2 hours |
| __Secure-swisscare_website_master_session | swisscare.com | Other | No description | 2 hours |
| defaultLanguageId | swisscare.com | Other | No description | 14 days |
Contact Form
If a User fills out a contact form, sends us an email or another form of electronic message, the data will only be used to process the inquiry and possible further questions.
Newsletter
During the application process a user account is created. During the creation of this user account, the Customer can sign up to the Newsletter. The Newsletter is managed via Mailchimp, their privacy policy can be found here: https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/
Each newsletter contains a reference on how to unsubscribe from the newsletter.
myswisscare account
To purchase an insurance policy online the User has to sign up and chose an email address and define a password. The password is encrypted and cannot be viewed by us.
When signing up the Customer must provide name, passport number, residence and destination, address, email address, and payment information. During the insurance application, further information will be provided about the reason and scope of the data processing. The Customer can agree to the terms by checking a box.
The data from the purchased insurance policies are also stored on the user account.
If the Customer requests to update any information Swisscare keeps a copy of the prior details for questions that might come up.
The Customer can revoke your consent to process the above-mentioned data at any time. If the request can be processed, the User will be required to sign up for any future orders. The revocation of consent is to be directed at the DPO, whose details are mentioned above.
The Customer has the possibility to delete the user account if there are no active policies.
Data Security
We use a common encryption technology SSL in connection with the highest encryption levels that are supported by your browser. If a page on our website was/is being transmitted encrypted it is shown by the lock symbol in the address bar of your browser.
Additionally, we use appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect your data from accidental or intentional manipulation, partial or complete loss, destruction, or to prevent unauthorized access by third parties. Our security measures are continuously upgraded according to the latest technological developments.