Last updated: January 2026
This Privacy Policy, together with our Terms of Use and its other essential parts, governs HFSS, processing and use of your Personal Data.
In provision of HFSS Services as well as in our mission to make HFSS Services better for everyone at HFSS, We collect and use Personal Information of our users, authorized persons using HFSS Services, visitors to HFSS Website, or anyone contacting HFSS Support Team.
This Privacy Policy has incorporated provisions of the Revised Federal Act on Data Protection (revFADP / nFADP) and EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and is compliant with them and set in coherence with other valid generally binding legal regulations as we act in accordance with personal information processing rules within the European Union.
In this policy, "we", "us" or "our" refers to HFSS. Your HFSS account is operated by Helvetia Financial Services & Software SA, registered at Rue Robert-Céard 6, 1204, Geneve, Switzerland.
This Policy sets out the manner in which we collect, use, disclose and process your Personal Data when you access or use our website https://hfss.ch/ (our "Website") and services and/or provide us with your Personal Data, regardless of the medium through which such Personal Data is provided.
Please read this document carefully in order to understand our approach and policy regarding your Personal Data and how we will use your Personal Data. This Privacy Policy should be read in conjunction with our Cookie Policy.
We may collect your Personal Data directly or indirectly through various means, including the following:
You can provide us with information about yourself by filling in the relevant forms on the Website or by providing us such information by phone, email, during a video conference or in any other manner. This information includes Personal Data which was specified when registering on the Website, when subscribing to our Service, opening an Account and verifying the identity of the Account holder or persons authorized to use it.
The information that you give us includes:
With regard to each of your visits to our Website and use of our Services we can collect the following information about you (including automatic collection):
We may receive information about you if you use any of the other Websites we operate or the other services we provide. We are also working closely with third parties (including business partners, sub-contractors, analytics providers, credit reference agencies) and may receive information about you from them.
Note: HFSS does not collect nor process sensitive personal users' data, such as race or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, genetic or biometric data, health, sex life or sexual orientation information. HFSS does not collect or store any information about persons under 18.
Our Website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of the website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our Website and also allows us to improve our website.
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree to the use of cookies.
We use the following cookies:
These are cookies that are required for the operation of our Website. They include cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our Website.
They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our Website when they are using it.
These are used to recognise you when you return to our Website. This enables us to personalize our content for you and remember your preferences.
These cookies record your visit to our Website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed to make our Website more relevant to your interests.
Google Analytics: We reserve the right to use Google Analytics cookies. For more information on Google's privacy, visit: policies.google.com/privacy
You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies.
We are going to use your Personal Data for the following purposes:
We may share your information with selected third parties including:
We have implemented security measures to ensure the confidentiality of your Personal Data and to protect it from loss, misuse, alteration or destruction. Only authorized personnel of HFSS have access to your Personal Data, and this personnel is required to treat the information as confidential.
We restrict access to personal information to our employees, service providers and contractors on a strictly need-to-know basis and ensure that those persons are subject to contractual confidentiality obligations.
While we take reasonable precautions to safeguard your Personal Data in our possession or under our control, we cannot be held responsible for unauthorized or unintended access that is beyond our control, such as hacking or cybercrimes.
We review our information collection, storage and processing practices from time to time to guard against unauthorized access, processing or use. Please note that the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure.
We only retain Personal Data for so long as we need the Personal Data to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, and to satisfy our business and/or legal purposes, including audit, accounting or reporting requirements.
We collect and process your Personal Data only when we have a legitimate reason for such processing. Legal grounds may include:
You have certain rights with respect to your Personal Data, including those set forth below:
You have the right to be informed about the collection and use of your Personal Data.
You have the right to obtain from us confirmation as to whether or not Personal Data concerning you are being processed, and access to the Personal Data.
You have the right to obtain from us the rectification of inaccurate Personal Data concerning you, as well as the right to have incomplete Personal Data completed.
You have the right to ask for the deletion of your Personal Data if the Personal Data are no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which they were collected.
You have the right to obtain from us the restriction of further processing of your Personal Data, where you have a legal basis to do so.
You have the right to receive your Personal Data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit those data to another controller.
You have the right to object, on grounds relating to your particular situation, at any time to processing of your Personal Data.
You have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning you.
Making sure your Personal Data is safe and secured is of the highest priority to us. We use secure storage facilities ensuring the safeguard of your Personal Data you share with us at all stages of interaction with our Platform using our products and Services.
We will hold your Personal Data only for the duration of you using our products and Services via your Account, having regard to the purposes described in this Privacy Policy as well as legal and regulatory obligations that we comply with.
Retention Period: In accordance with our record keeping obligations, we will retain your Account information and your Personal Data for at least a period of 5 (five) years from the moment you cease to carry on the use of our Services or the moment your customer relationship with us ends, unless otherwise required for legal or regulatory reasons.
We may amend this policy from time to time by posting the updated policy on our Website without notice to you. The updated privacy policy will supersede earlier versions and will apply to Personal Data provided to us previously.
If you have any questions, comments or requests regarding Personal Data, please address them to:
Helvetia Financial Services & Software SA
Rue Robert-Céard 6
1204 Geneve, Switzerland
Email: info@hfss.ch