Updated: October 01, 2020 Relief Therapeutics Holding AG (Geneva, Switzerland) including all its subsidiaries (referred to as “Relief”, “Company”, “we”, “us”, “our”), as data controller is responsible for the processing of your personal information. This policy describes the ways in which we collect, hold and use information about individuals (“Personal Data”) who interact with our employees by phone or email or who visit our website or subscribe to our newsletter and provide any of our employees with their personal information.
We would like to kindly advise you to carefully read this Privacy Policy, which sets out the ways and context in which we are processing your personal data and explains your rights and our obligations when doing so.
In order to refine these rules and comply with eventual changes in the regulations, we may periodically modify, add, remove or update this policy by posting a new privacy policy on this website.
1. Personal Data collected and use thereof
Accessing our website is normally devoid of any unwanted announcements or advertisement. This is because we will never sell, rent, give or offer any Personal Data collected for internal purposes or otherwise obtained from third parties, nor knowingly permit it to be used for marketing purposes to any third party.
Registration is required to access our services only on rare occasions, and you can easily navigate our website without sharing personal information with us. A few services, such as receiving corporate news, require an active registration by which you will provide us with Personal Data, including your name, email address or telephone number. We may collect and use your Personal Data to send you News when available, documents or information (e.g., AGM invitation, Statuses or annual reports) you may request.
Your visit to this website may lead to collection of your Personal Data, including pages you visit, the previous website or search engine you came from and related searches. We use this information to improve the contents of the site and to compile statistics for internal use. Generally, “cookies” are installed that collect your domain name, service provider, operating system, and the date and time of access. Cookies are small harmless information stored on your computer every time you access a page on the internet. You can set your browser to receive alerts when cookies are created for you to accept or reject it. Rejecting it may prevent you from freely accessing all functionalities on some pages.
We use Google Analytics to analyze how users use our website. “Google Analytics” is a statistical service by Google Inc. (“Google”) that provides, for example, information on the traffic of a website and sources of the visits. This system uses “cookies” stored on your computer, including your IP address, that will be anonymized prior to being transmitted to Google.
2. Access to and transfer of your Personal Data
We will not sell, share, or otherwise distribute your Personal Data to third parties except as provided in this Privacy Policy. We may share your Personal Data with third parties who act for or on our behalf for further processing in accordance with the purpose(s) for which the data were originally collected or may otherwise be lawfully processed, such as information to shareholders, data management or technical support.
These third parties have contracted with us to use Personal Data only for the agreed upon purpose and not to sell your Personal Data to third parties, and not to disclose it to third parties except as may be permitted by us, as required by law, or as stated in this Privacy Policy.
Your Personal Data may be transferred to a third party in the unlikely event that it would acquire this site or part of it. In this case, the buyer, assignee or transferee would be required by law to treat Personal Data in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Also, Personal Data may be disclosed to a third party if we are legally required to do so based upon an applicable law, a court order or governmental regulation. Such disclosure is also rendered mandatory in support of any legal investigation in or outside our territory of business.
Our activity does not usually foresee the storage and process of your Personal Data outside Switzerland or the EU. Other countries may commit to a different protection method, type and level of your Personal Data. If we transfer your Personal Data in such countries, we will make sure in this case that the recipient of your Personal Data applies the level of protection required under applicable data privacy laws.
The privacy policy described here however applies only to this website. We have no influence on the content of third-party websites, including those linked by our website. Please familiarize yourself with the privacy policies and other legal statements of third-party websites. Continuous control of the content of the link is not possible. Relief is unable to guarantee the privacy standards of any linked websites or to accept any liability for their content.
3. Protection of your Personal Data
We value the privacy of the individuals who approach our organization, and this Privacy Policy is to ensure the security and confidentiality of Personal Data that we collect. To do so, we use professional providers using industry standard firewalls and password protection. While we handle your Personal Data, we take all possible measures to prevent any modification without your consent, loss, unauthorized access, misuse, alteration or destruction.
4. Duration of Personal Data storage
Applying the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) regulation, we will retain your Personal Data only for as long as needed to provide you with the services you requested, or to fulfill a regulatory requirement.
5. Your rights to your Personal Data
We take reasonable care while processing your Personal Data to maintain its accuracy and relevance for the purposes for which it was collected.
You can at any time exercise the following rights under the framework set out by the GDPR:
i. General rights You have a right to information, correction, deletion, limitation of data processing, objection to data processing and data portability. If the processing we perform is based on your consent, you have the right to revoke this consent with effect in the future.
i. Right to process data for legitimate interests Under Article 21 (1) of the GDPR, you have the right to object to the processing of your Personal Data at any time for reasons arising out of your particular situation, occurring as a result of Article 6 (1e) of the GDPR (Data Processing in the Public Interest) or Articles 6 (1f) GDPR (Data Processing for the Protection of a Legitimate Interest). This also applies to profiling supported by this provision. If you object, we will no longer process your personal information unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for processing that outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing is for the purpose of enforcing, pursuing or defending legal claims.
ii. Right to file a complaint You also have the right to complain to the competent data protection supervisory authority about our processing of your personal data.
6. Contact us
If you wish to contact us regarding the use of your Personal Data or you wish to exercise your data privacy rights, please email us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..