Version: 27 April, 2023
This privacy policy (the "Privacy Policy") describes how Interogo Foundation (“Interogo Foundation”, “we”, “us”, or “our”), Kirchstrasse 79, 9490 Vaduz, Liechtenstein, processes your personal data when you visit us on our website www.interogofoundation.com (the "Website"), or interact with us via phone or email or for business purposes.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. If you have questions, concerns or complaints about this Privacy Policy and our privacy practices, please contact us at privacy@interogofoundation.com or Interogo Foundation, Kirchstrasse 79, 9490 Vaduz, Liechtenstein.
2.1 IP addresses and cookies
We may process the IP addresses of our Website's visitors and cookies. For more information about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, please consult our Cookie Policy.
2.2 Managing security of the Website
In our infrastructure, IP addresses are stored in infrastructure components that manage traffic and security (load balancing and web application firewall) in Microsoft Azure region West Europe. The purpose of storage is to manage traffic efficiently and to avoid and manage security risks, threats and abuse. IP addresses are stored for 90 days and are never stored together with other personal identifiable data.
2.3 Correspondence
If you correspond with us, we may retain such correspondence and the information contained therein (your name, e-mail/contact information, occupation (if applicable), and any personal identifiable data you provide in free text form).
We process your personal data for the following purposes:
3.1 Smooth Website functioning
IP addresses and cookies
When you visit our Website, we may use cookies, which enable us to provide you with our Website.
Legal basis: We process your personal data because it is of our legitimate interest to provide you with our Website.
Managing security of the Website
We process your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our Website. IP addresses are stored in infrastructure components that manage traffic and security (load balancing and web application firewall).
Legal basis: Processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the Website visitor is party or in order to take steps at the request of the Website visitor prior to entering into a contract (when we provide you with our Website or requested materials). IP addresses are never stored together with other personal identifiable information.
3.2 Answering correspondence with you
If you contacted us by email, postal service, or other form of communication, you may be providing us with, as the case may be, your name, e-mail/contact information, occupation (if applicable), and any personal identifiable data you provide in free text form.
We keep your personal data until the query is finalised and for two years thereafter or for the time necessary for us to establish, defend, or exercise legal claims.”
In order to provide journalists with a good experience, when the Media Team of Interogo Foundation is contacted at media.relations@interogofoundation.com and through the associated contact details, it retains correspondence including personal data, such as email address, place of work etc, for the duration of the business relationship the journalist and for a reasonable term thereafter as prescribed in the applicable legislation.
Legal basis: We process your personal data because it is of our legitimate interest to answer your queries.
3.3 Compliance with legal obligations
We may use your personal data to complete our contractual obligations and to comply with our legal obligations when so is necessary and mandatory by law. This can be specific regulations, court orders, or governmental regulations.
Legal basis: Processing for the purpose of complying with our legal obligations is based on the mandatory legal framework applicable to us.
4.1 With our subsidiaries to provide you with the services
We may disclose your personal data that you have provided to us to our subsidiaries (i.e. the Interogo Holding AG group of companies and the Inter IKEA Holding BV group of companies) that are entrusted to process your personal data on our behalf in accordance with our instructions, this Privacy Policy and other appropriate measures for privacy and security.
4.2 With third parties
Our ambition is to only share your personal data with others when it is necessary. Such situations may include necessity for the completion of a contract with a third party, or when we have acceptable business reasons to do so.
We do not sell personal data to anyone and only share it with third parties who are facilitating the answering of your queries.
We may also disclose your personal data to third parties if we have reason to believe that access, use, retention, or disclosure of such personal data is necessary to:
This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection.
Your personal data is stored by Interogo Foundation on its servers, and on the servers of the cloud-based database management services Interogo Foundation engages, located in Switzerland
By decision of 6 July 2018, the EEA Joint Committee announced the incorporation of the General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR”) into the EEA Agreement, making the GDPR directly applicable to the EEA and Liechtenstein as of 20 July 2018.
When transferring your personal data to third countries, i.e. countries outside the EU/EEA which do not offer an adequate protection, we will enter into the appropriate agreements and take other measures in accordance with applicable legal requirements. This will be done in accordance with adequacy decision (Switzerland), standard contractual clauses, or corporate contractual clauses.
The GDPR the Liechtenstein Data Protection Act, and the Liechtenstein Data Protection Ordinance provide certain rights for data subjects.
If you wish to exercise your data protection rights mentioned below, please contact us using the contact information at the end of this Privacy Policy.
To help protecting the privacy of personal data that you have transmitted by visiting the Website or communicating with us, we maintain physical, technical, and administrative safeguards. We update and test our security technology on an ongoing basis. We restrict access to your personal data to those employees who need to know that personal data to provide to provide the Website and answer your queries to you. In addition, we train our employees about the importance of confidentiality and maintaining the privacy and security of personal data.
Location of your data
Your personal data is stored by Interogo Foundation on its servers, and on the servers of the cloud-based database management services Interogo Foundation engages, located in Switzerland
Updates to this Policy
As our organization, services and Website change from time to time, this Privacy Policy is expected to change as well. We reserve the right to amend this Privacy Policy at any time, for any reason, without notice to you, other than the posting of the amended Privacy Policy on this Website. Please check our Website frequently to see the current Privacy Policy that is in effect and any changes that may have been made to it.
Significant changes to this Privacy Policy
If we make any change in the way we collect, use, or share personal data, we will make a note of the update under the section “Change history” here below.
If you have questions, comments or concerns about our Privacy Policy and our privacy practices, please contact us at
Interogo Foundation
Kirchstrasse 79
9490 Vaduz
Liechtenstein
Email: privacy@interogofoundation.com
Phone: +423 239 6350
Last updated: 27 April, 2023
Updated: 27 April, 2023
Clarifications due to new recommendations from data protection authorities. The Privacy Policy has also been revised to be concise, clear, comprehensible, and easy to understand. The updated Privacy Policy will automatically enter into force for all existing users on 27 April 2023. Your continued use of our services from that date will be subject to the new Privacy Policy.
Updated: 13 March, 2019
Clarifications due to new recommendations from data protection authorities. The updated Privacy Policy will automatically enter into force for all existing users on 13 March 2019. Your continued use of our services from that date will be subject to the new Privacy Policy. The Policy has also been revised to be concise, clear, comprehensible and easy to understand.