Privacy Statement

1. Contact details for data protection concerns

Legal Department

Dreyfus Sons & Co Ltd, Banquiers 
Aeschenvorstadt 16
PO Box
CH-4002 Basel 

Competent data protection authority

Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner
Laupenstrasse 27
CH-3003 Bern  

2. Data sources and data types

Dreyfus Banquiers primarily processes personal data that clients make available in the context of their business relationship. Insofar as necessary, data from third-party sources (e.g. land registers, commercial register, internet, cooperation partners) may also be consulted or data from prospects, visitors and other business partners may be processed.
Relevant personal data is in particular personal details (e.g. name, addresses and other contact details, date and place of birth, nationality, etc.), legitimation data (e.g. identification data, specimen signatures), transaction data, in some cases third-party data (e.g. concerning life partners, beneficial owners, holders of a power of attorney) or other comparable data.
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3. Purpose of data processing

Data processing is carried out for the purpose of providing banking and financial services to clients as well as within the framework of other contractual (e.g. towards other business partners) and pre-contractual measures (e.g. towards prospects).
Furthermore, data is processed for the fulfilment of legal or regulatory information, disclosure or notification obligations (e.g. towards courts, authorities or in connection with the automatic exchange of information) as well as for the protection of other legitimate interests (e.g. towards debt collection registers, for the assertion of legal claims and for the defence in the event of legal disputes, in case of voice recordings, for the preservation of property rights, for the protection of assets, persons and property, for the prevention and punishment of criminal offences, etc.).

4. Data users

Within Dreyfus Banquiers, only those departments that require the corresponding data to fulfil their tasks are granted access ("need to know"). If third parties, such as service providers, are involved, this is done in accordance with banking and data protection regulations, as they are also obliged to comply with banking secrecy and data protection requirements.
Otherwise, information may only be made available to third parties if there is an appropriate basis for this (e.g. law, ordinance, consent, etc.). Under these conditions, the recipients may be authorities (law enforcement agencies, FINMA, etc.), correspondent banks, custodian banks, brokers, stock exchanges, registers or other bodies.

5. Data transfer abroad

Data may be transferred to countries outside of Switzerland in particular if this is necessary for the execution of orders (e.g. for payment or securities orders) or required by law (e.g. for tax reporting obligations) as well as if the appropriate consent has been obtained.

6. Duration of data storage

The duration of the storage of personal data is determined by the purpose of the respective data processing or by statutory retention obligations, respectively. Dreyfus Banquiers therefore retains personal data generally for the duration of the business relationship and then for a further ten years. In some cases, a longer retention period is possible, e.g. in connection with ongoing or anticipated legal claims.

7. Data protection rights

Every person concerned has a right to information, rectification, deletion, restriction of processing and objection. In addition, there is, in principle, a right of appeal to the competent data protection authority as well as a right of revocation with regard to a granted consent to data processing (the latter only for the future).

8. Obligation to provide data

Within the context of the business relationship, personal data which is necessary for the establishment and maintenance of a business relationship or which Dreyfus Banquiers is legally obliged to collect (e.g. identification data in connection with the identification on the basis of money laundering regulations) must be made available. In principle, a business relationship may not be entered into or continued without the relevant data.

Link to the federal act on data protection