Privacy Policy

General / Introduction

Based on Article 13 of the Swiss Federal Constitution and the federal data protection regulations (Data Protection Act, DSG), every person is entitled 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 and this privacy policy.

In cooperation with our hosting providers, we strive to protect the databases as much as possible from unauthorized access, loss, misuse, or falsification.

We would like to point out that data transmission over the Internet (e.g., communication by email) can have security vulnerabilities. Complete protection of data against access by third parties is not possible.

By using this website, you consent to the collection, processing, and use of data according to the description below. This website can generally be visited without registration. Data such as pages called up or the name of the retrieved file, date, and time are stored on the server for statistical purposes, without these data being directly related to your person. Personal data, insofar as it is possible, is always collected on a voluntary basis. This data will not be passed on to third parties without your explicit consent.

Processing of Personal Data

Personal data is all information relating to an identified or identifiable person. An affected person is one whose personal data is processed. Processing includes any handling of personal data, regardless of the means and procedures used, in particular storage, disclosure, procurement, deletion, storage, modification, destruction, and use of personal data.

We process personal data in accordance with Swiss data protection law. Insofar and to the extent that the EU GDPR is applicable, we process personal data on the following legal bases in connection with Art. 6 (1) GDPR: lit. a) Processing of personal data with the consent of the affected person. lit. b) Processing of personal data for the performance of a contract with the affected person as well as for carrying out pre-contractual measures. lit. c) Processing of personal data for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject under the law of the EU or under the law of a country where the GDPR is applicable, in whole or in part. lit. d) Processing of personal data to protect the vital interests of the affected person or another natural person. lit. f) Processing of personal data to protect the legitimate interests of us or third parties, unless the fundamental freedoms and rights and interests of the affected person prevail. Legitimate interests include in particular our business 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-term storage obligations due to legal and other obligations to which we are subject, we restrict processing accordingly.

Cookies

This website uses cookies. These are small text files that make it possible to store specific, user-related information on the user’s device while using the website. Cookies make it possible, in particular, to determine the usage frequency and the number of users of the pages, to analyze patterns of site usage, and to make our offering more customer-friendly. Cookies remain stored beyond the end of a browser session and can be recalled when visiting the site again. If you do not wish this, you should set your Internet browser to refuse to accept cookies.

A general objection to the use of cookies for online marketing purposes can be declared for a wide range of services, especially in the case of tracking, via the US site http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ or the EU site http://www.youronlinechoices.com/. Furthermore, the storage of cookies can be achieved by deactivating them in the browser settings. Please note that in this case, not all functions of this online offer can be used.

SSL/TLS Encryption

This site uses SSL or TLS encryption for security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as inquiries you send to us as the site operator. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the fact that the address line of the browser changes from “http://” to “https://” and by the lock symbol in your browser line.

When SSL or TLS encryption is activated, the data you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.

Rights of the Affected

Person Right to Confirmation

Every affected person has the right to request confirmation from the operator of the website as to whether personal data concerning them is being processed. If you wish to exercise this right of confirmation, you can contact the data protection officer at any time.

Right to Information

Every person affected by the processing of personal data has the right to receive free information about their stored personal data and a copy of this information from the operator of this website at any time. Furthermore, information can be provided about the following:

The purposes of processing
The categories of personal data processed
The recipients to whom the personal data have been or will be disclosed
If possible, the planned duration for which the personal data will be stored, or, if not possible, the criteria used to determine that duration
The existence of the right to request rectification or erasure of personal data, or restriction of processing of personal data concerning the data subject, or to object to such processing
The existence of a right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority
If the personal data is not collected from the data subject: Any available information as to their source

Furthermore, the data subject has the right to be informed if personal data has been transferred to a third country or to an international organization. If this is the case, then the data subject has the right to be informed of the appropriate safeguards relating to the transfer.

If you wish to avail yourself of this right to information, you can contact our data protection officer at any time.

Right to Rectification

Every person affected by the processing of personal data has the right to demand the immediate rectification of inaccurate personal data concerning them. Furthermore, the data subject has the right, taking into account the purposes of the processing, to have incomplete personal data completed, including by means of providing a supplementary statement.

If you wish to exercise this right to rectification, you can contact our data protection officer at any time.

Right to Erasure (Right to be Forgotten)

Every person affected by the processing of personal data has the right to demand from the controller of this website the immediate deletion of personal data concerning them, provided one of the following reasons applies and insofar as the processing is not necessary:

The personal data has been collected for such purposes or otherwise processed for which it is no longer necessary.
The data subject withdraws their consent on which the processing was based, and there is no other legal ground for the processing.
The data subject objects to the processing for reasons arising from their particular situation, and there are no overriding legitimate grounds for the processing, or the data subject objects to the processing in the case of direct marketing and related profiling.
The personal data has been unlawfully processed.
The deletion of personal data is necessary to fulfill a legal obligation under Union or Member State law to which the controller is subject.
The personal data has been collected in relation to the offer of information society services directly to a child.

If one of the aforementioned reasons applies and you wish to request the deletion of personal data stored by the operator of this website, you can contact our data protection officer at any time. The data protection officer of this website will ensure that the request for deletion is complied with immediately.

Right to Restriction of Processing

Every person affected by the processing of personal data has the right to demand the restriction of processing from the controller of this website if one of the following conditions is met:

The accuracy of the personal data is contested by the data subject, for a period enabling the controller to verify the accuracy of the personal data.
The processing is unlawful, the data subject opposes the erasure of the personal data and requests instead the restriction of their use.
The controller no longer needs the personal data for the purposes of the processing, but they are required by the data subject for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims.
The data subject has objected to processing pending the verification whether the legitimate grounds of the controller override those of the data subject.

If one of the aforementioned conditions is met, you can contact our data protection officer at any time to request the restriction of processing of personal data stored by the operator of this website. The data protection officer of this website will arrange for the restriction of processing.

Right to Data Portability

Every person affected by the processing of personal data has the right to receive their personal data, which they have provided to a controller, in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format. They also have the right to transmit those data to another controller without hindrance from the controller to which the personal data have been provided, as long as the processing is based on consent pursuant to Art. 6 (1) lit. a GDPR or Art. 9 (2) lit. a GDPR or on a contract pursuant to Art. 6 (1) lit. b GDPR and the processing is carried out by automated means, as long as the processing is not necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller.

Furthermore, in exercising their right to data portability pursuant to Art. 20 (1) GDPR, the data subject has the right to have personal data transmitted directly from one controller to another, where technically feasible and when doing so does not adversely affect the rights and freedoms of others.

To assert the right to data portability, you can contact the data protection officer designated by the operator of this website at any time.

Every person affected by the processing of personal data has the right, for reasons arising from their particular situation, to object at any time to the processing of personal data concerning them.

The operator of this website will no longer process the personal data in the event of the objection unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing that override the interests, rights, and freedoms of the data subject, or for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims.

To exercise your right to object, you can directly contact the data protection officer of this website.

Right to Withdraw a Data Protection Consent

Every person affected by the processing of personal data has the right to withdraw their consent to the processing of personal data at any time.

If you wish to exercise your right to withdraw consent, you can contact our data protection officer at any time.

Copyright

The copyright and all other rights to content, images, photos, or other files on the website belong exclusively to the operator of this website or the specifically named rights holders. For the reproduction of any files, written consent must be obtained from the copyright holder in advance.

Anyone committing a copyright infringement without the consent of the respective rights holder may be subject to prosecution and potentially liable for damages.

Third-Party Services

This website may use Google Maps for embedding maps, Google Invisible reCAPTCHA for protection against bots and spam, and YouTube for embedding videos. These services of the American Google LLC use, among other things, cookies, thus data can be transferred to Google in the USA, although we assume that no personal tracking takes place solely by using our website. Google has committed to ensuring adequate data protection in accordance with the American-European and the American-Swiss Privacy Shield. Further information can be found in Google’s privacy policy.

Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Ireland Limited. If the person responsible for data processing on this website is located outside the European Economic Area or Switzerland, the data processing by Google Analytics is carried out by Google LLC. Google LLC and Google Ireland Limited are referred to as “Google” for the purposes of this document.

The statistics obtained allow us to improve our offer and make it more interesting for you as a user. This website also uses Google Analytics for a cross-device analysis of visitor flows, which is carried out via a user ID. If you have a Google user account, you can disable the cross-device analysis of your usage in the settings there under “My data”, “Personal data”.

The legal basis for the use of Google Analytics is Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. f DS-GVO. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data. We would like to point out that on this website Google Analytics has been extended by the code “_anonymizeIp();” to ensure anonymous collection of IP addresses. As a result, IP addresses are processed in shortened form, which means that they cannot be linked to a particular individual. If the data collected about you is personal, this is immediately excluded, and the personal data is immediately deleted.

Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activities, and to provide other services related to website and internet use to the website operator. For the exceptional cases in which personal data is transferred to the USA, Google has submitted to the EU-US Privacy Shield, https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework.

Google Analytics uses cookies. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. You can prevent the storage of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly; however, we would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all functions of this website to their full extent. You can also prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) to Google and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available under the following link: Disable Google Analytics.

Furthermore, you can also prevent the use of Google Analytics by clicking on this link: Disable Google Analytics. This will set a so-called opt-out cookie on your data carrier, which prevents the processing of personal data by Google Analytics. Please note that if you delete all cookies on your device, these opt-out cookies will also be deleted, i.e., you will have to set the opt-out cookies again if you still want to prevent this form of data collection.

YouTube

Functions of the “YouTube” service are integrated on this website. “YouTube” is owned by Google Ireland Limited, a company incorporated and operated under Irish law with its registered office at Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, which operates services in the European Economic Area and Switzerland.

Your legal agreement with “YouTube” consists of the terms and conditions that you can find under the following link: https://www.youtube.com/static?gl=de&template=terms&hl=de. These terms constitute a legally binding agreement between you and “YouTube” regarding your use of the Services. Google’s privacy policy explains how “YouTube” treats your personal data and protects your privacy when you use the service.

Vimeo

Plugins of the video portal Vimeo of Vimeo, LLC, 555 West 18th Street, New York, New York 10011, USA are integrated on this website. When you access a page that offers one or more Vimeo video clips, a direct connection is established between your browser and a Vimeo server in the USA. Information about your visit and your IP address is stored there. Through interactions with the Vimeo plugins (e.g., clicking the start button), this information is also transmitted to Vimeo and stored there. The privacy policy of Vimeo provides more detailed information on the collection and use of your data by Vimeo, which can be found in Vimeo’s privacy policy.

If you have a Vimeo user account and do not want Vimeo to collect information about you through this website and link it to your member data stored at Vimeo, you must log out of Vimeo before visiting this website.

In addition, Vimeo calls up the Google Analytics tracker via an iFrame in which the video is called up. This is Vimeo’s own tracking, to which we have no access. You can prevent tracking by Google Analytics by using the deactivation tools that Google offers for some Internet browsers. In addition, you can prevent the collection of data generated by Google Analytics and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) to Google as well as the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available under the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en

Changes

We may change this privacy policy at any time without notice. The current version published on our website applies. If the privacy policy is part of an agreement with you, we will notify you of the update by email or in another appropriate way in case of an amendment.

Disclaimer

All information on our website has been carefully checked. We make every effort to ensure that the information we provide is current, correct, and complete. Nevertheless, the occurrence of errors cannot be completely excluded, so we cannot guarantee the completeness, accuracy, and timeliness of information, including journalistic-editorial content. Liability claims regarding damage caused by the use or non-use of the information provided or by the use of incorrect and incomplete information are generally excluded.

The publisher can change or delete texts at its discretion and without notice and is not obliged to update the contents of this website. The use or access to this website is at the visitor’s own risk. The publisher, its clients, or partners are not responsible for damages, such as direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, or punitive damages, allegedly caused by visiting this website, and therefore assume no liability for such damages.

The publisher also assumes no responsibility or liability for the content and availability of third-party websites that can be accessed via external links from this website. The operators of the linked pages are solely responsible for their content. The publisher thus expressly distances itself from all third-party content that may be relevant to criminal or liability law or that violates good morals.

The author assumes no responsibility for the correctness, accuracy, timeliness, reliability, and completeness of the information.

Liability claims against the author for material or immaterial damage resulting from accessing, using, or not using the published information, through misuse of the connection, or through technical faults are excluded.

All offers are non-binding. The author expressly reserves the right to change, supplement, delete parts of the pages or the entire offer without separate announcement or to cease publication temporarily or permanently.

Romano Zala
mail@romanozala.ch