Privacy Policy
Data Protection and
Privacy Policy
Based on Article 13 of the Swiss Federal Constitution and the data protection provisions of the Federal Government (Data Protection Act, DSG), every person has the right to privacy and 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 legal data protection regulations and this data protection declaration.
In cooperation with our hosting providers, we strive to protect the databases as best as possible against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, or forgery.
We point out that data transmission over the Internet (e.g., communication by email) can have security gaps. Complete protection of the data from access by third parties is not possible.
By using this website, you consent to the collection, processing, and use of data as described below. This website can generally be visited without registration. During the visit, data such as accessed pages or names of retrieved files, date, and time are stored on the server for statistical purposes, without these data being directly related to your person. Personal data, especially name, address, or email address, are collected on a voluntary basis as far as possible. Without your consent, data will not be passed on to third parties.
Processing of Personal Data
Personal data is all information that relates to an identified or identifiable person. A data subject is a person whose personal data is processed. Processing includes any handling of personal data, regardless of the means and procedures used, particularly storing, disclosing, acquiring, deleting, saving, altering, destroying, and using personal data.
We process personal data in accordance with Swiss data protection law. In addition, we process personal data – insofar as and to the extent that the EU GDPR is applicable – based on the following legal grounds in connection with Art. 6 para. 1 GDPR:
- lit. a) Processing of personal data with the consent of the data subject.
- lit. b) Processing of personal data for the fulfillment of a contract with the data subject and for the implementation of corresponding pre-contractual measures.
- lit. c) Processing of personal data to fulfill a legal obligation to which we are subject under any applicable EU law or under any applicable law of a country where the GDPR is wholly or partially applicable.
- lit. d) Processing of personal data to protect the vital interests of the data subject or another natural person.
- lit. f) Processing of personal data to protect the legitimate interests of us or third parties, provided that the fundamental freedoms and rights as well as interests of the data subject do not outweigh them. Legitimate interests include, in particular, our economic interest in being able to provide our website, information security, the enforcement of our own legal claims, and compliance with Swiss law.
We process personal data for the duration necessary for the respective purpose or purposes. In the case of longer retention obligations due to legal and other obligations to which we are subject, we restrict processing accordingly.
Data Protection Declaration for the Use of Google Web Fonts
This website uses so-called web fonts provided by Google for the uniform display of fonts. When you call up a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into its browser cache to display texts and fonts correctly. If your browser does not support web fonts, a standard font from your computer will be used. Further information on Google Web Fonts can be found at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in Google’s privacy policy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.
Data Protection Declaration for LinkedIn
We use the marketing services of the social network LinkedIn of the LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Plaza, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland (“LinkedIn”) within our online offer. These use cookies, i.e., text files stored on your computer. This allows us to analyze your use of the website. For example, we can measure the success of our advertisements and show users products they were previously interested in. This captures information about the operating system, browser, previously visited website (referrer URL), which web pages the user visited, which offers the user clicked on, and the date and time of your visit to our website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is pseudonymized and transmitted to a LinkedIn server in the USA and stored there. LinkedIn does not store the name or email address of the respective user. The data mentioned above are assigned only to the person for whom the cookie was created. This does not apply if the user has allowed LinkedIn to process without pseudonymization or has a LinkedIn account. You can prevent the storage of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly; however, please note that in this case, you may not be able to use all the functions of this website fully. You can also object to the use of your data directly with LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/psettings/guest-controls/retargeting-opt-out. We use LinkedIn Analytics to analyze and regularly improve the use of our website. With the obtained statistics, we can improve our offer and make it more interesting for you as a user. All LinkedIn companies have accepted the standard contractual clauses to ensure that the necessary data traffic required for the development, implementation, and maintenance of the services is legally conducted in the USA and Singapore. If we ask users for consent, the legal basis for processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR. Otherwise, the legal basis for using LinkedIn Analytics is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR. Information from the third party: LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company Wilton Place, Dublin 2 Ireland; user agreement and privacy policy.
Agency Services
We process our customers’ data in accordance with the data protection regulations of the Federal Government (Data Protection Act, DSG) and the EU GDPR within the scope of our contractual services. We process inventory data (e.g., customer master data such as names or addresses), contact data (e.g., email, phone numbers), content data (e.g., text inputs), contract data (e.g., contract subject, term), payment data (e.g., bank details, payment history), usage and metadata (e.g., as part of the evaluation and success measurement of marketing measures). The data subjects include our customers, prospects, and their customers, users, website visitors, or employees and third parties. The purpose of the processing is to provide contractual services, billing, and our customer service. The legal bases for processing result from Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR (contractual services), Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR (analysis, statistics, optimization, security measures). We process data necessary for establishing and fulfilling contractual services and point out the necessity of providing it. Disclosure to external parties only occurs if it is required within the framework of an order. When processing the data provided to us within an order, we act according to the instructions of the client and legal requirements for order processing according to Art. 28 GDPR and process the data for no other purposes than those specified in the order. We delete the data after the expiration of legal warranty and comparable obligations. The necessity of retaining the data is checked at irregular intervals. In the case of legal archiving obligations, the deletion takes place after their expiration. If data is disclosed to us by the client within an order, we delete the data according to the order’s specifications, generally after the end of the order.
Notice on Data Transfer to the USA
On our website, tools from companies based in the USA are integrated. If these tools are active, your personal data can be transferred to the US servers of the respective companies. We point out that the USA is not a secure third country in the sense of EU data protection law. US companies are required to disclose personal data to security authorities without you, as the data subject, being able to take legal action against it. It cannot, therefore, be ruled out that US authorities (e.g., intelligence services) process, evaluate, and permanently store your data located on US servers for surveillance purposes. We have no influence over these processing activities.
General Disclaimer
All information on our website has been carefully checked. We strive to offer our information service up-to-date, accurate, and complete. Nevertheless, the occurrence of errors cannot be completely ruled out, so we cannot guarantee the completeness, accuracy, and timeliness of information, including journalistic-editorial nature. Liability claims for damages of a material or immaterial nature caused by the use of the information provided are excluded, provided there is no demonstrable intentional or grossly negligent fault. The publisher may change or delete texts at their own discretion and without notice and is not obligated to update the content of this website. The use or access to this website is at the visitor’s own risk. The publisher, their clients, or partners are not responsible for damages, such as direct, indirect, incidental, pre-determined, or consequential damages allegedly caused by visiting this website, and therefore assume no liability for them. The publisher also assumes no responsibility and liability for the content and availability of third-party websites accessible via external links from this website. The operators of linked pages are solely responsible for their content. The publisher thus expressly distances itself from all third-party content that may be relevant under criminal or liability law or violate good morals.
Changes
We can change this data protection declaration at any time without prior notice. The current version published on our website applies. If the data protection declaration is part of an agreement with you, we will inform you of the change by email or other appropriate means if updated.
