Social Media

By using the Social Media pages of Vontobel on e.g. Twitter, LinkedIn or Youtube (hereafter referred to as "Vontobel Social Media Sites"), you confirm that you have reviewed, understand and agree to the following important legal information and terms of use (hereinafter referred to the “Terms”). If you do not agree to the Terms, please do not access the Vontobel Social Media Sites.

The Terms are subject to change at any time without notice and access to, and use of the Vontobel Social Media Sites may be restricted or terminated at any time. You are therefore advised to review these terms each time you access the Vontobel Social Media Sites.

Further access to the Vontobel Social Media Sites might also be subject to the laws applicable to the Vontobel Social Media Sites and the laws applicable in the relevant jurisdiction from which the same is being accessed.

The Vontobel Social Media Sites must not be accessed by any person subject to a jurisdiction (e.g. due to that person's nationality and/or place of residence) in which publication of the content of the Vontobel Social Media Sites or access to it is prohibited for any reason. Persons to whom these restrictions apply are prohibited from accessing the Vontobel Social Media Sites.

We encourage your participation on our sites, but must ask that you respect Vontobel as well as other users on our sites. When you contribute to our social media pages, we ask you to follow our house rules outlined below. These rules exist to ensure that visiting our pages is a positive and enjoyable experience for everyone.

• Stay confidential
  Please do not post any sensitive or confidential information. You should only post information that is in the public domain. When in doubt, do not post.
• Play safe
  To ensure that our channels are safe for all users, please do not post links to inappropriate websites. Linking to sites containing spyware, viruses, and malware is forbidden.
• Abide by the law
  Please adhere to the law when using our social media channels. Do not post content that you do not have the right to post, do not encourage illegal activities, and do not infringe the privacy of others.
• Show respect
  Our social media channels should be a welcoming place for all users. Please be mindful about your tone and treat other users and their opinions with respect at all times. Offensive posts and behavior of any kind will not be tolerated.
• Don’t spam
  We do not allow spam or advertisements. Do not send identical, irrelevant or unsolicited posts to users and never misrepresent the source of posts.
• Keep posts relevant
  We encourage you to keep your posts on topic to ensure that our pages are relevant and interesting for everyone.

Please understand that we reserve the right to delete any posts and comments without prior notification that we believe are not in accordance with our house rules, the terms and policies of the social media site concerned, or that we otherwise deem inappropriate for our social media. We also reserve the right to remove comments that are posted multiple times either by the same user or multiple users.

We will never ask you to send us your personal or account details via Social Media. However, we may ask you to direct message us more details so that we can respond to your particular queries directly. Please do not post and or comment on any personal details or secure information on this page.

The information, products, data, services, tools and documents contained or described on the Vontobel Social Media Sites and provided by Vontobel (hereinafter referred to as the “Content”) are for information purposes only and in any legal system constitute neither an advertisement or personal recommendation nor an offer or solicitation to buy or sell investment instruments, to effect any transaction or to enter into any legal relations.

The Content should not be construed in any case as legal, tax, accounting, regulatory or other specialist or technical advice or services or investment advice.

Vontobel provides no warranty and makes no representations of any kind whatsoever regarding: (1) the currency, accuracy or completeness of the Content; (2) the results to be obtained by any user of the Sites; or (3) any third party content accessible on or through the Sites.

Except to the extent required by mandatory current laws and/or regulations, Vontobel, including its directors, agents, employees or subcontractors: (1) disclaims any and all express or implied warranties and conditions including without limitation warranties and conditions as to quality and fitness for a particular purpose; and (2) does not warrant that the Sites, any content (including any third party content), goods and services referred to therein will be uninterrupted or error free, that defects will be corrected or that the Vontobel Social Media Sites, the servers from which they are available or any connected website is free of viruses, trojan horses, worms, software bombs or similar items or processes or other harmful components. In order to safeguard against viruses, it is advisable to use up-to-date versions of browsers and to install and continuously update antivirus software. Users should strictly avoid opening e-mails of unknown origin or unexpected e-mail attachments.

Certain information that is found in the contents comes from third-party sources. Although the information comes from sources regarded as dependable, Vontobel has not independently verified this information and cannot provide any assurances about the permanent correctness of the information or its appropriateness to a specific situation. All contents are based on the status as of the indicated date. All such information is provided "as is" to the user without express or implied warranties of any kind, including warranties of quality, originality, non-infringement of intellectual property or fitness for any particular purpose.

Any expressions of opinion, estimates and projections on the Vontobel Social Media Sites are those of the authors at the date of writing. They do not necessarily reflect the view of Vontobel and are subject to change at any time without prior warning. Vontobel and its contractual partners may discontinue, or make changes in, the information, data and documents, and the products or services described herein, at any time without prior notice. Any information marked with a date is published as of this date only and no obligation or responsibility is undertaken to update or amend any such information.

To the maximum extent permitted by current law and/or regulations, Vontobel, including its directors, agents, employees, subcontractors and its sales partners disclaim any and all liability for losses or damages (direct or indirect) of any kind whatsoever arising directly or indirectly as a result of (1) the Content, accuracy, completeness or otherwise of the Content; (2) any errors in or omissions from the sites; (3) use of or access to the sites; (4) any inability to acces or use the Vontobel Social Media Sites for any reason.

To the full extent permitted by current laws and/or regulations, Vontobel shall in particular not be liable for any (1) loss of profits or revenue or savings or other economic loss, (2) loss of business or goodwill, (3) loss of damage to data, (4) incidental or special loss, (5) wasted or lost management time, or (6) indirect or consequential loss arising from the use of or access to the sites, even if advised of the possibility of any such loss or damage or if such loss or damage was foreseeable.

Unless accompanied by an explicit statement to the contrary, all content on the Vontobel Social Media Sites is protected by copyright, database rights, or other intellectual property rights of Vontobel.

Without written consent from Vontobel, you do not have the right to use Vontobel copyrights and trademarks (for example the Vontobel logo). Sharing official Vontobel content is of course allowed and appreciated.

As an operator of a profile on a social media channel, the only published information that can be viewed is information that can be viewed based on the settings of the profile.

Vontobel processes personal data from persons who interact with us on social media channels. This data is processed for the purpose of appropriately answering inquiries. If the European General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) is applicable, this processing is based on a justified interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR especially to be able to handle requests or general posts, to determine habits (especially page accesses, user statistics by age, origin, and language), and to be able to improve Vontobel’s presence online.

If there are statutory retention obligations or if required for the purpose of processing, Vontobel also processes personal data outside of social media channels.

We may commission third parties to maintain our social media channels. They only process personal data provided that this is necessary for the purposes (such as answering requests), for pursuing justified interests, or to the extent consent exists in compliance with the applicable data protection laws.

Applicable data protection laws may provide you with certain rights. To exercise these rights in regard to processing of data by operators of social media channels, please contact them directly by the contact options made known on their websites if possible.

You can find more information about processing of personal data by Vontobel in the privacy policies. You can find more information about Vontobel in the legal notice.

Please note that third-party websites are not subject to Vontobel data protection notice and Vontobel is not responsible for the notice they apply with regard to collection and treatment of your personal data. We recommend that you carefully read the terms of use and data protection information governing the third-party website before using it.

Links to third-party websites on the Vontobel Social Media Sites provided by Vontobel are provided solely for your convenience as pointers to information on topics that may be useful to users of the Vontobel Social Media Sites. Vontobel has no control over the content on such third-party websites nor are such websites monitored by Vontobel. Activating some links to third-party websites on the Vontobel Social Media Sites may cause you to leave the Vontobel Social Media Sites. No warranties or liability concerning the content of such websites are made, including assurances that it is correct, accurate, complete, true, up-to-date or fit for any particular purpose. Nor does Vontobel warrant that such website or content is free from any claims of copyright or trademark or other infringement of the rights of third parties or that such site or content is free of viruses or other harmful components. No guarantee as to the authenticity of documents on the Internet is given.

Using links to third-party websites provided on the Vontobel Social Media Sites is at your sole discretion and at your own risk.

Statements on the Vontobel Social Media Sites may contain information obtained from third parties. Reproduction and distribution of third-party content in any form is prohibited except with the prior written permission of the related third-party. Third-party content providers do not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, timeliness or availability of any information, including ratings, and are not responsible for any errors or omissions (negligent or otherwise), regardless of the cause, or for the results obtained from the use of such content. Third party content providers give no express or implied warranties, including, but not limited to, any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose or use