This page contains Light Chain Bioscience-Novimmune SA’s Privacy Notice and Cookies Notice and was last edited on January 2024.
This Privacy Statement explains how Light Chain Bioscience-Novimmune SA, as the Data Controller, (hereinafter referred to as “LCB” or “we” or “us”) process and safeguard your personal data as Visitors to the LCB’s website: www.lightchainbio.com.
LCB is committed to protecting privacy and security of your personal data. We take great care in processing your personal data (including cookies) in compliance with the applicable Data Protection Laws, in particular:
- The General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (“GDPR”) and e-Privacy Directive 2002/58;
- The Swiss revised Federal Act on Data Protection 2020 ("FADP"), whereby any reference to the FADP herein always includes a reference to the Swiss revised Ordinance on Data Protection 2022 (“FODP”) and the Swiss Telecommunication Act;
- And all EEA applicable laws and regulations regarding data protection.
Collectively referred as "Data Protection Laws".
Privacy Notice for website visitors
LCB only collects and processes your personal data exclusively for the purposes described in this Privacy Notice and only to the extent necessary within the framework of applicable Data Protection Laws.
General warning
The access of the LCB’s website implies the Visitor’s full and unreserved acceptance of this Privacy Notice (hereinafter the “Notice”), as well as its general terms of use and the Cookies Notice.
As Visitor, you acknowledge having read the information below and understand that LCB processes, in accordance with the provisions of the Notice, the personal data that you provide on the Website.
The Notice is valid for all pages hosted on the LCB’s website. It is not valid for the pages hosted by third parties to which LCB may refer and whose privacy notices may differ. LCB cannot therefore be held responsible for any data processed on these websites or by them. This Notice also applies to any other website that LCB may operate, including our Company pages on LinkedIn and YouTube.
Please, note that for the use of social media, LCB will be Joint-Controller with LinkedIn and YouTube, only for the following activities: accessing and processing statistical aggregate data provided by with LinkedIn and YouTube. For any other processing on the platform, social media platform shall be considered as the sole Data Controller.
LinkedIn has created an "addendum" to their user agreements for company pages for the processing for which they are Joint-Controllers with us. Such agreement is not currently provided by YouTube.
Who is this Privacy Notice for?
This Notice applies to all Visitors of the LCB’s website whose personal data (including cookies) is being processed.
The following Notice does not refer to foreign internet sites of other providers to which our site is linked, or, vice versa, from which a link to our website is made.
Who is responsible for processing the data?
In processing your personal data, Light Chain Bioscience-Novimmune SA acts as the Data Controller (“Owner”) as per GDPR and FADP. This means that we are responsible for deciding how we hold and use personal data about you.
Email address:
Postal address: Chemin du Pré Fleuri 15, CH-1228 Plan-Les-Ouates, Geneva, Switzerland.
How to contact LCB’s Data Protection Officer (“DPO”) ?
LCB has appointed a Data Protection Officer (or “Data Protection Advisor”), whose role in relation to data protection includes informing and advising LCB of its obligations under applicable Data Protection Laws.
The contact details of the Data Protection Officer are as follows:
Email Address:
| Data | Purpose | Legal basis | Retention |
| Email address including information provided by the visitors by contacting us via the means provided in the section “contact us” of the website. | Answer to a visitor’s query on the website | This processing is based on our legitimate interest in answering the requests or queries raised by you through the existing different contact channels. We understand that the processing of these data is also beneficial to you to the extent that it enables us to assist you adequately and answer to the queries raised. | Time necessary to meet the visitor’s request |
| Email address including all information contained in the CV and motivation letter sent by the visitors to |
Please refer to the Privacy Notice for Candidates | ||
| Aggregate statistical data (e.g., Company page on LinkedIn, YouTube). | For statistical purposes | We consider that we have lawful interest to understand the way our page is consulted (e.g., how many times our page is consulted, from which country,…). | Statistical information is stored by LinkedIn and YouTube and consequently subject to their retention policy. We may export statistical reports, but we guarantee that this is only in an anonymous form. |
| Cookies may store in certain circumstances personal data which may include: IP addresses, browser type, location, operating system,… | Use of cookies for the functioning and managing of our website | Please, see our Cookies Notice for more information. | Please, see Cookies Notice for more information |
Who do we share your personal data with?
LCB does not sell or trade to outside parties your personal data.
LCB may transfer your personal data with relevant LCB’s departments and third parties where it is necessary for the purposes described in this Notice. Those third parties are the following:
- LCB appropriate department to answer to your request
- LCB HR department and hiring department in case you are a candidate
- Our trusted service providers that supply services to us, such as website managing and hosting providers ; iage and METANET
- Any authority for which we are legally obliged to do so where applicable (e.g. Tax Authorities, social security authorities)
In certain situations, your personal data may be transferred to third parties through the use of products or services integrated on our Website. For further information, please refer to our Cookies Notice.
Sharing your personal data as described above may involve transferring it to third countries located (i) outside Switzerland, or (ii) outside the European Economic Area, whose data protection and Data Protection Laws may not be equivalent to, or as protective as, those that exist in your country of residence.
In case of such cross-border disclosure, your personal data will only be transferred to third country guaranteeing an adequate level of protection in accordance with the applicable (i) Swiss Federal Council’s decision or, (ii) the European Commission’s decision.
In case of absence of such adequacy decision, your personal data will still be disclosed abroad only if appropriate safeguards are guaranteed pursuant to FADP or GDPR, including EU Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses (subject to Swiss Addendum when transfer is covered by both FADP and GDPR)
The list of all the third countries outside Switzerland to which LCB intends to transfer your personal data can be found in Annex I.
You can receive a copy of the appropriate safeguards by contacting LCB’s Data Protection Officer at the contact details provided above (in the section entitled “How to contact LCB’s Data Protection Officer ?”).
Automated decision-making
You will not be subject to decisions that will have a significant impact on you based solely on automated decision-making unless we have a justification for doing so and we have prior notified you.
What security measures does LCB take to protect your personal data?
LCB takes appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect your personal data in compliance with applicable data protection and privacy laws, which includes protection against accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized access to, or disclosure of your personal data.
Your personal data are contained behind secured networks and are only accessible by a limited number of persons who have special access rights to such systems and are required to keep the information confidential.
Our website «www.lightchainbio.com» uses SSL encryption for reasons of security and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as the requests you send to us as the site operator. You can recognise an encrypted connection if the address line of your browser changes from “http://” to “https://” and the padlock icon is dis-played in your browser line. If SSL encryption has been activated, the data you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.
What are your rights and how can you exercise them?
As foreseen in the GDPR and FADP, you have the following rights in relation to your personal data:
| Right of access: | You have the right to obtain information about the processing of your personal data (if any) and receive a copy of the data being processed. |
| Right to rectification: | You are entitled to ask us to rectify, by completing or correcting, all or certain information held about you which appears incorrect or inaccurate. |
| Right to erasure | You have also the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal data where there are no longer legitimate grounds to continue to process it. |
| Right to restriction | You have the right to restrict processing of data under certain specified circumstances |
| Right to data portability | You can ask to receive a copy of your personal data in a commonly used format and / or ask that your personal data is transferred to another data controller. |
| Right to object | You have the right to object on grounds relating to your particular situation, at any time to the processing where we are relying on legitimate interest as legal basis. |
| Right to withdraw your consent | When you have given your explicit consent for the processing of your data, you can withdraw it at any time without any cost nor justification. |
Please note that all these rights are not absolute and will be assessed on a case-by-case basis by our DPO.
To exercise your rights regarding your personal data, you may do so by contacting LCB’s Data Protection Officer at the contact details provided above (in the section entitled “How to contact LCB’s Data Protection Officer?”). If LCB does not fulfil your request, you will be provided with the reason(s) for such decision.
In the case you consider the processing of your personal data infringes the GDPR or the FADP, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the data protection supervisory authority in the Member State of your habitual residence, place of work or place of the alleged infringement.
Please find here the link to the contact details of the EU supervisory authority: https://edpb.europa.eu/about-edpb/about-edpb/members_en
Under the FADP, you may lodge a civil claim in case of personality rights’ infringements, in particular, regarding the exercise of your rights of access, rectification and object but also regarding infringements related to data privacy principles. The competent supervisory authority in Switzerland is the Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (“FDPIC”):
Feldeggweg 1
CH - 3003 Berne
Telefon: +41 (0)58 462 43 95 (mon.-fri., 10-12 am)
Telefax: +41 (0)58 465 99 96
Website: https://www.edoeb.admin.ch/edoeb/en/home.html
Notes for children and parents
Our website «www.lightchainbio.com» is directed to an adult public. Minors (especially those under 13) may not transmit personal data to us or register for a service. If we determine that such data have been transmitted, we will delete those data from our database. The child’s parents or legal representatives can contact us and request deletion or registration. To do so, we need a copy of an official document identifying you as the parent or legal guardian.
| Changes to this website Users Privacy Notice This Privacy Notice is effective from XXX . We reserve the right to change this notice at any time (for example, to comply with changes in laws or regulations; our practices, procedures and organizational structures; requirements imposed or recommended by supervisory authorities; or otherwise). Changes to this notice shall be applicable on the effective date of implementation. We will will provide you a new Privacy Policy in case of substantial updates. |
Annex I:
List of the third countries and related data protection guarantees in case of cross-border disclosure
| THIRD COUNTRY | DATA PROTECTION GUARANTEES |
| XXX | XXX |
Cookies Notice
Applicable Laws create obligations for digital publishers such as LCB to give visitors of their sites and apps information about how they will use and share their personal data, as well as about the use of cookies, mobile ad IDs, and other forms of local storage.
Since LCB is using cookies on its website, clear and mandatory information must be mentioned in this Cookies Notice, as set out below.
“Cookies” means small files that are placed on your computer, mobile device or any other device by a website, containing details of your browsing history on that website among its many uses.
These cookies can be used to identify or to collect information about you.
Cookies can be classified as follows, depending on the owner:
“First-party cookies” are created, sent to your device and stored by the website you are visiting directly. They allow LCB to collect analytics data, remember language settings, and carry out other useful functions that help provide a good user experience.
“Third-party cookies” are created and placed by third parties other than the website you are visiting directly. They are not managed by LCB, but by the third party that processes the data obtained from the cookies.
Cookies can also be classified depending on the purpose of their placement. Main categories are:
- Strictly necessary cookies (technical): Allow you to browse a website, platform or app, and use the various options or services on it (e.g., control traffic, identify data or session, access restricted access sections or content, etc.).
- Functional cookies: They help LCB to make the website usable by providing you some basic features and by remembering your preferences and choices of using LCB’s website (e.g., language, the region from where the service is accessed, etc.). Not accepting cookies may cause slow website performance or poorly adapted recommendations.
- Analytics cookies (statistic): Allow to provide a better understanding of how you interact with the website.
- Marketing cookies: Enable to monitor your behaviour on the website. The aim is to display advertisements that are meaningful and attractive to you and therefore more useful to third party publishers and advertisers, as well as to make promotional and specific information available on the website.
Cookies can be “Persistent” or “Session” Cookies. Persistent Cookies remain on your personal computer or mobile device when you go offline, while Session Cookies are deleted as soon as you close your web browser.
Which cookies are used on this website?
| NAME | TYAPE SERVICE PROVIDER | PURPOSE | FIRST OR THIRD-PARTX COOKIES | RETENTION PERIOD |
| _ga | Analytics | Google Analytics | Cookie used to count and track pageviews | 2 years |
| _gat | Analytics | Google Analytics | To read and filter request from bots | 1 minutes |
| _gid | Analytics | Google Analytics | Cookie used to count and track pageviews | 1 day |
| _ga_72 5H272 9WR |
Analytics | Google Analytics | Cookie used to count and track pageviews | 1 year |
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How to manage cookies?
You are able to accept or decline cookies when you enter our website and see the cookie notice. If you change your opinion, you are also able to come back to your preferences at all times by clicking on the icon in the right-hand corner of the site.
If you prefer to avoid the use of Cookies on the Website, you can also disable the use of Cookies in your browser and then delete the Cookies saved in your browser associated with this website. You may use this option for preventing the use of Cookies at any time.
If you do not accept our Cookies, you may experience some inconvenience in your use of the Website and some features may not function properly.
If you would like to delete Cookies or instruct your web browser to delete or refuse Cookies, please visit the help pages of your web browser.
- For the Chrome web browser, please visit this page from Google: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/32050
- For the Internet Explorer web browser, please visit this page from Microsoft: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835
- For the Firefox web browser, please visit this page from Mozilla: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/delete-cookies-remove-info-websites-stored
- For the Safari web browser, please visit this page from Apple: https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/manage-cookies-and-website-data-sfri11471/mac
For any other web browser, please visit your web browser's official web pages.
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit –http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Who placed cookies?
The information stored through cookies is only used by LCB except those identified in section 3 as “Third-Party cookies” (if any), which are used and managed by external entities aiming to improve LCB’s services and your experience when browsing on the website.
Please note that LCB do not have any control over how the information in these cookies is used by these external parties nor do LCB have access to it. Please refer to the cookies policies of the relevant party for more information.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Cookies Notice, you can contact us:
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