General
Based on Article 13 of the Swiss Federal Constitution and the federal data protection regulations (Data Protection Act, DPA), every person has the right to protection of their privacy as well as protection against misuse of their personal data. The operators of these pages take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with the statutory data protection regulations as well as this privacy policy.
We apply the utmost care and state-of-the-art security standards to ensure maximum protection of your personal data. In cooperation with our hosting providers, we strive to protect the databases as best as possible against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, or falsification. We have implemented technical and organizational measures to ensure that data protection regulations are complied with by both us and our external service providers.
This website can generally be used without registration. Data such as accessed pages or names of accessed files, date and time are stored on the server for statistical purposes without being directly related to your person. Personal data (such as name, address or email addresses) are collected on our pages only on a voluntary basis. These data will not be passed on to third parties without your explicit consent.
Definitions
The legislator requires that personal data be processed lawfully, in good faith and in a transparent manner for the data subject (“lawfulness, fairness, transparency”). To ensure this, we inform you about the legal definitions used in this privacy policy:
Personal Data
“Personal data” means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (“data subject”); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person.
Processing
“Processing” means any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organization, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction.
Restriction of Processing
“Restriction of processing” means the marking of stored personal data with the aim of limiting their future processing.
Profiling
“Profiling” means any form of automated processing of personal data consisting of the use of personal data to evaluate certain personal aspects relating to a natural person, in particular to analyze or predict aspects concerning work performance, economic situation, health, personal preferences, interests, reliability, behavior, location or movements of that natural person.
Pseudonymization
“Pseudonymization” means the processing of personal data in such a manner that the personal data can no longer be attributed to a specific data subject without the use of additional information, provided that such additional information is kept separately and is subject to technical and organizational measures to ensure that the personal data are not attributed to an identified or identifiable natural person.
Filing System
“Filing system” means any structured set of personal data which are accessible according to specific criteria, whether centralized, decentralized or dispersed on a functional or geographical basis.
Controller
“Controller” means the natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data; where the purposes and means of such processing are determined by Union or Member State law, the controller or the specific criteria for its nomination may be provided for by Union or Member State law.
Processor
“Processor” means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which processes personal data on behalf of the controller.
Recipient
“Recipient” means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or another body, to which the personal data are disclosed, whether a third party or not. However, public authorities which may receive personal data in the framework of a particular inquiry in accordance with Union or Member State law shall not be regarded as recipients.
Third Party
“Third party” means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or body other than the data subject, controller, processor and persons who, under the direct authority of the controller or processor, are authorized to process personal data.
Consent
“Consent” means any freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous indication of the data subject's wishes by which they signify agreement to the processing of personal data relating to them.
Lawfulness of Processing
We process personal data in accordance with Swiss data protection law. Where and insofar as the GDPR is applicable, we also process personal data on the following legal bases in conjunction with Art. 6 (1) GDPR:
- The data subject has given consent to the processing of their personal data for one or more specific purposes;
- processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is party or in order to take steps at the request of the data subject prior to entering into a contract;
- processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the controller is subject;
- processing is necessary in order to protect the vital interests of the data subject or of another natural person;
- processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller;
- processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the controller or by a third party, except where such interests are overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject.
We process personal data for as long as necessary for the respective purposes. In the case of longer statutory retention obligations, processing is restricted accordingly.
Information on the Collection of Personal Data
Below we provide information about the collection of personal data when using our website. Personal data includes, for example, name, address, email addresses, and user behavior.
When you contact us by email or via a contact form, the data you provide (your email address, possibly your name and telephone number) will be stored by us in order to answer your questions. We delete the data arising in this context once storage is no longer necessary, or restrict processing if statutory retention obligations apply.
Collection of Personal Data When Visiting Our Website
When using the website for informational purposes only, i.e., if you do not register or otherwise provide us with information, we only collect the personal data that your browser transmits to our server. If you wish to view our website, we collect the following data, which is technically necessary for us to display our website and to ensure stability and security:
- IP address
- Date and time of the request
- Time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
- Content of the request (specific page)
- Access status/HTTP status code
- Amount of data transferred
- Website from which the request originates
- Browser
- Operating system and its interface
- Language and version of the browser software
SSL/TLS Encryption
This website uses SSL or TLS encryption for security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as inquiries that you send to us as the site operator. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the fact that the browser address line changes from “http://” to “https://” and by the lock symbol in your browser line.
If SSL or TLS encryption is activated, the data you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.
Cookies
Our website uses cookies. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device and saved by your browser.
We use cookies to make our website more user-friendly, effective, and secure. Some cookies are “session cookies,” which are automatically deleted after your visit. Other cookies remain stored on your device until you delete them.
You can configure your browser to inform you about the use of cookies, to allow cookies only in individual cases, to exclude acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general, and to activate automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. If cookies are deactivated, the functionality of this website may be limited.
Contact and Support Requests
If you send us inquiries via the contact form or email, your details from the inquiry form including the contact details you provided will be stored by us for the purpose of processing the request and in case of follow-up questions. We do not share this data without your consent.
Newsletter
If you would like to receive the newsletter offered on the website, we require an email address from you as well as information that allows us to verify that you are the owner of the given email address and that you agree to receive the newsletter. No further data is collected or only on a voluntary basis.
We use this data exclusively for sending the requested information and do not pass it on to third parties.
You can revoke your consent to the storage of the data, the email address, and their use for sending the newsletter at any time, for example via the “unsubscribe” link in the newsletter.
Children
Our offer is generally aimed at adults. Persons under the age of 18 should not submit any personal data to us without the consent of their parents or legal guardians.
Rights of Data Subjects
You have the following rights regarding your personal data:
- Right to withdraw consent at any time
- Right to confirmation
- Right to access
- Right to rectification
- Right to erasure (“right to be forgotten”)
- Right to restriction of processing
- Right to data portability
- Right to object
- Right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing
- Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority
- Right to an effective judicial remedy
Data Security
We use appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect your data against accidental or intentional manipulation, partial or complete loss, destruction, or against unauthorized access by third parties. Our security measures are continuously improved in line with technological developments.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to adapt this privacy policy so that it always complies with current legal requirements or to implement changes to our services in the privacy policy, e.g., when introducing new services. The new privacy policy will then apply to your next visit.
Questions About Data Protection
If you have any questions about data protection, please send us an email or contact the person responsible for data protection in our organization.