Disclaimer

The controller within the meaning of data protection laws, particularly the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), is:

General notice

In accordance with Article 13 of the Swiss Federal Constitution and the data protection provisions of the Federal Act on Data Protection (Data Protection Act, FADP), everyone has the right to the protection of privacy and to protection against their data being misused. The operators of this site take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and handle it in accordance with legal data protection provisions and this privacy notice.

Working with our hosting providers, we strive to protect databases against external access, loss, misuse and falsification.

Please note that there may be security vulnerabilities with respect to data transmission on the internet (e.g. when communicating by email). It is not possible to completely protect against access by third parties.

By using this website, you are declaring that you consent to the collection, processing and use of data in line with the descriptions below. This website can be visited without being required to register. As a result of visiting the site, data such as pages accessed or names of files accessed, the date and the time are saved on the server for statistical purposes, without this data making a direct reference to you personally. Personal data, particularly your name, address and email address, are collected on a voluntary basis, wherever possible. Data is not shared with third parties without your consent.

Processing personal data

Personal data is any information relating to an identified or identifiable person. A data subject is a person about whom personal data is processed. Processing includes any operation involving personal data, regardless of the means and procedures used, particularly the storage, disclosure, procurement, erasure, saving, alteration, destruction and use of personal data.

We process personal data in accordance with Swiss data protection law. Otherwise, if and provided that the EU GDPR applies, we process personal data in accordance with the following legal bases in connection with Article 6 (1) of the GDPR:

• (a) personal data is processed with the data subject’s consent.
• (b) personal data is processed for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is party and to take steps prior to entering into a contract.
• (c) personal data is processed to comply with legal obligations to which we are subject pursuant to any applicable laws in the EU or pursuant to any applicable laws in a country in which the GDPR applies either in whole or in part.
• (d) personal data is processed to protect the vital interests of the data subject or another natural person.
• (f) personal data is processed to safeguard our legitimate interests or those of third parties, except where such interests are overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject. Legitimate interests particularly refer to our commercial interest in being able to provide our website, information security, to enforce our own legal claims and to comply with Swiss law.

We process personal data for the duration required for the respective purpose or purposes. If there are longer retention requirements due to legal obligations and other obligations which we are subject to, we will limit the processing accordingly.

Privacy notice for cookies

This website uses cookies. These are small text files that make it possible to save specific user-related information on the user’s end device whilst they are using the website. In particular, cookies allow us to determine the frequency of use and number of site users in order to analyse behaviour with respect to site use, but also to make our offering more customer-friendly. Cookies stay on the device after the browser session ends and can be retrieved when you visit the site again. If you don’t want this to happen, you should change your browser settings to reject cookies.

You can generally object to the use of cookies for online marketing purposes using a variety of services, in particular when it comes to tracking, via the US site http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ or the EU site http://www.youronlinechoices.com/. Cookies can also be disabled in your browser settings. Please note that if you do so, you may be unable to use all of this website’s features.

Privacy notice for SSL/TLS encryption

This website uses SSL/TLS encryption for security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as enquiries you send to us as the site operator. You can tell that a connection is encrypted by ‘http://’ changing to ‘https://’ in the browser’s address bar, and a padlock symbol being shown in the browser line.

If SSL or TLS encryption is enabled, data that you send to us cannot be read by third parties.

Privacy notice for the contact form

If you send us an enquiry via the contact form, we will save your information from the enquiry form, including any contact details you have provided in it, for the purpose of processing your enquiry and in case there are any follow-up questions. We do not pass this data on without your consent.

Changes

We may change this privacy notice at any time without prior notice. The current version published on our website applies. If the privacy notice is part of an agreement with you, we will notify you of any changes by email or in another suitable manner.

Questions for the data protection officer

If you have any questions about data protection, please write us an email or contact the data protection officer in our organisation listed at the beginning of this privacy policy directly.