Privacy Policy

Responsible Entity

For more information, please visit the Legal Notice.

General Notice

Based on Article 13 of the Swiss Federal Constitution and the data protection provisions of the Federal Act on Data Protection (DSG), every person has the right to the protection of their privacy and to 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 legal data protection regulations as well as this privacy policy. In collaboration with our hosting providers, we strive to protect the databases as best as possible against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, or falsification. We point out that data transmission over the Internet (e.g., communication by email) can have security vulnerabilities. A complete protection of data from access by third parties is not possible. By using this website, you agree to the collection, processing, and use of data in accordance with the following description. This website can generally be visited without registration. Data such as accessed pages or names of retrieved files, date, and time are stored on the server for statistical purposes without this data being directly related to your person. Personal data, particularly name, address, or email address, are collected on a voluntary basis as far as possible. Without your consent, the data will not be disclosed to third parties.

Processing of Personal Data

Personal data is any 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, in particular, 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 – in accordance with the following legal bases in connection with Art. 6 para. 1 GDPR:

• (a) Processing of personal data with the consent of the data subject.
• (b) Processing of personal data for the performance of a contract with the data subject as well as for the implementation of pre-contractual measures.
• (c) Processing of personal data to fulfill a legal obligation to which we are subject according to any applicable law of the EU or according to any applicable law of a country in which the GDPR is fully or partially applicable.
• (d) Processing of personal data to protect the vital interests of the data subject or another natural person.
• (f) Processing of personal data to safeguard the legitimate interests of us or third parties, provided that the fundamental freedoms and rights and interests of the data subject do not outweigh these. Legitimate interests are, 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 long-term retention obligations due to legal and other obligations to which we are subject, we restrict the processing accordingly.

Privacy Policy for 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 frequency of use and the number of users of the pages, to analyze behaviors of site usage, but also to make our offer more customer-friendly. Cookies remain stored beyond the end of a browser session and can be recalled upon a new site visit. If you do not wish this, you should set your Internet browser to refuse the acceptance of cookies. A general objection to the use of cookies used for online marketing purposes can be declared for a variety 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 disabling them in the settings of the browser. Please note that in this case, not all functions of this online offer may be used.

Privacy Policy for SSL/TLS Encryption

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

Privacy Policy for Server Log Files

The provider of this website automatically collects and stores information in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically transmits to us. These are:

• Browser type and browser version
• Operating system used
• Referrer URL
• Hostname of the accessing computer
• Time of the server request

This data cannot be attributed to specific persons. A combination of this data with other data sources is not made. We reserve the right to check this data retrospectively if concrete indications of illegal use become known to us.

Privacy Policy for Contact Form

If you send us inquiries via the contact form, your details from the inquiry form, including the contact details you provided there, will be stored by us for the purpose of processing the inquiry and in case of follow-up questions. We do not pass on this data without your consent.

Privacy Policy for Right of Information, Deletion, Blocking

You have the right at any time to free information about your stored personal data, its origin, and recipients, and the purpose of data processing as well as a right to correct, block or delete this data. For this purpose, as well as for further questions on the subject of personal data, you can contact us at any time at the address given in the Legal Notice.

Copyrights

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, the written consent of the copyright holder must be obtained in advance. Anyone who commits a copyright infringement without the consent of the respective rights holder may be liable to prosecution and, if applicable, to damages.

General Disclaimer

All information on our Internet offering has been carefully checked. We strive to offer our information offer timely, factually correct, and complete. Nevertheless, the occurrence of errors cannot be completely ruled out, so we do not assume any guarantee for the completeness, correctness, and topicality of information including journalistic-editorial kind. Liability claims from damages of material or non-material nature caused by the use of the offered information are excluded, provided that there is no demonstrably intentional or grossly negligent fault. The publisher may, at its own discretion and without notice, change or delete texts and is not obliged to update the content of this website. The use or access to this website is at the visitor’s own risk. The publisher, his clients, or partners are not responsible for damages, such as direct, indirect, incidental, predictable, or consequential damages, allegedly caused by the visit of this website and consequently do not assume any liability. The publisher also assumes no responsibility and liability for the content and availability of third-party websites that can be accessed via external links on this website. For the content of the linked pages, the operators of these pages are exclusively responsible. The publisher expressly distances himself from all third-party content that may be relevant under criminal or liability law or that violates common decency.

Changes

We may amend this privacy policy at any time without prior notice. The current version published on our website shall apply. Insofar as the privacy policy is part of an agreement with you, we will notify you of the change by email or other appropriate means in case of an update.

Questions to the Data Protection Officer

If you have any questions about data protection, please email us or contact the person responsible for data protection listed at the beginning of this privacy policy in our organization.

Privacy Policy for Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. To disable Google Analytics, Google provides a browser plugin at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en. Google Analytics uses cookies, which are small text files that are stored on your computer and that allow an analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website (including your IP address) will generally be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. We point out that on this website Google Analytics has been extended by the code “gat._anonymizeIp();” to ensure the anonymized collection of IP addresses (so-called IP masking). If the anonymization is active, Google truncates IP addresses within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area, which means that no conclusions about your identity are possible. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. Google complies with the data protection provisions of the “Privacy Shield” agreement and is registered with the “Privacy Shield” program of the US Department of Commerce and uses the collected information to evaluate the use of our websites, to compile reports for us on this, and to provide other related services to us. For more information, visit https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en.

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, and as a result, data is transmitted to Google in the USA, whereby we assume that no personal tracking takes place solely through the use of 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 (https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en).

Privacy Policy for WordPress Plugins

Polylang

We use the “Polylang” plugin to enable multilingual features on our website. This plugin does not store any personal data but uses cookies to save the language you selected.

Contact Form 7

Our website uses the “Contact Form 7” plugin for submitting inquiries. If you fill out a form on our website, the information you enter is collected and stored for processing your request. We do not retain this information longer than necessary and do not share it with third parties without your explicit consent.

WP Mail SMTP

We use the “WP Mail SMTP” plugin to send emails from our website. This plugin does not store any personal data but is used to transmit contact forms and other necessary functions requiring email notifications.

Wordfence Security

We use the security plugin “Wordfence Security” on our website. This plugin is provided by Defiant, Inc., 800 5th Ave Ste 4100, Seattle, WA 98104, USA. Wordfence Security helps us protect our website against security threats such as hacking attempts or malware by identifying and blocking potential threats.

• Functionality:

  • Threat Defense Feed: Wordfence Security uses a Threat Defense Feed to receive current threat data and protect our website against current security threats.
  • Firewall: The plugin provides a web application firewall that checks incoming traffic and blocks known harmful requests.
  • Malware Scan: Wordfence performs regular scans of our website to ensure no harmful files or codes are present.
  • Blocking Mechanisms: If a threat is detected, the plugin can block the harmful traffic or the IP address from which the threat originates.

• Data Storage: Wordfence Security stores IP addresses in localized logs to inform us about security threats. These data are automatically deleted after a certain time (usually 60 days). The plugin may also set cookies to distinguish users with administrative access from normal visitors and ensure administrators are not blocked.

• Legal Basis: The use of Wordfence Security serves the security of our website and therefore represents a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR.

• Further Information: For more information on the processing of personal data by Wordfence Security, we recommend reading the official privacy policy of Defiant, Inc.: https://www.wordfence.com/privacy-policy/. If you do not want Wordfence Security to process your data, we recommend that you do not use our website or use special browser plugins that block tracking and analysis of website activities.

Antispam Bee

We use the “Antispam Bee” plugin on our website to detect and block spam comments. “Antispam Bee” may store IP addresses for a limited time for spam detection. However, the IP addresses are automatically deleted after a short time.