Data protection

Privacy policy

1. general note

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

In cooperation with our hosting providers, we endeavor to protect the databases as well as possible against unauthorized access, loss, misuse or falsification.

We would like to point out that data transmission over the Internet (e.g. when communicating by e-mail) may be subject to 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 in accordance with the following description. This website can generally be visited without registration. Data such as pages called up or the name of the file called up, date and time are stored on the server for statistical purposes without this data being directly related to your person. Personal data, in particular name, address or e-mail address, are collected on a voluntary basis as far as possible. No data will be passed on to third parties without your consent.

2. processing of 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 handling of personal data, regardless of the means and procedures used, in particular the storage, disclosure, procurement, deletion, storage, modification, destruction and use of personal data.

We process personal data in accordance with Swiss data protection law. In addition, we process personal data in accordance with the following legal bases in connection with Art. 6 para. 1 GDPR, insofar as the EU GDPR is applicable:

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 and for the implementation of corresponding pre-contractual measures.

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 in which the GDPR is fully or partially applicable.

d. Processing of personal data in order to protect the vital interests of the data subject or another natural person.

e. Processing of personal data in order to protect our legitimate interests or those of third parties, except where such interests are overridden by the fundamental freedoms and rights and interests of the data subject. 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 required for the respective purpose or purposes. In the case of longer-term retention obligations due to legal and other obligations to which we are subject, we restrict processing accordingly.

3. 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 they are using the website. Cookies make it possible, in particular, to determine the frequency of use and number of users of the pages, to analyze the behavior of page use, but also to make our offer more customer-friendly. Cookies remain stored at the end of a browser session and can be called up again when you visit the site again. If you do not wish this to happen, you should set your Internet browser to refuse to accept cookies.

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

4. 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 requests 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.

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

5. services from third parties

Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Inc ("Google"). Google Analytics uses "cookies", which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. However, if IP anonymization is activated on this website, your IP address will be shortened by Google beforehand within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area.

Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.

Other Google services

This website may use Google Maps for embedding maps, Google Invisible reCAPTCHA for protection against bots and spam.

The services of the American Google LLC use cookies, among other things, and as a result, data is transferred to Google in the USA, whereby we assume that no personal tracking takes place in this context solely through the use of our website.

Google has undertaken to guarantee appropriate data protection in accordance with the US-European and US-Swiss Privacy Shield.

Further information can be found in Google's privacy policy.

Jotform

This website uses jotform.com to create forms. Jotform is an online form generator from Jotform LTD 25 Cabot Square, London E14 4QZ. Jotform Enterprise offers the highest industry standards to protect your data. All form data is stored in special databases encrypted with 256-bit SSL. Depending on your requirements, you can also request a SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA certified environment. You also have the option of storing data within the EU.

Weglot

Functions of the Weglot translation service are integrated on this website. The provider is Weglot SAS, 138, rue Pierre Joigneaux in Bois-Colombes 92270 France. Weglot is loaded when you access the website so that you can change the language to a language other than German using the language icon on the website. This allows a direct connection to be established between your browser and the Weglot server when you visit this website. Weglot then receives the information that you have visited this website with your IP address. The data is stored and analyzed on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit.f GDPR. A corresponding consent is requested via the cookie and data protection settings of the website. The processing is then carried out exclusively on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR; consent can be revoked at any time via the data protection settings at the bottom of each subpage. Further information on this can be found in Weglot's privacy policy.

Value Quest GmbH

On this page you will be redirected to an external server when you click on self-reflection (Online questionnaire). People who give you external feedback will also be redirected to the same external server. The provider is Value Quest GmbH, Schönenbergstrasse 12, 8820 Wädenswil, Switzerland. ValueQuest, the leading Swiss specialist for employee surveys, assures you that your personal data will be handled confidentially in accordance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). In particular, the data will not be passed on to third parties or used for any purpose other than that stated. The data is only evaluated in anonymized form and does not allow any conclusions to be drawn about the individual participants. Read more about data protection on the Value Quest website at: https://valuequest.ch/datenschutzerklaerung/

Server data

For technical reasons, the following data, which your Internet browser transmits to us or to our web space provider, is recorded (so-called server log files): 

• Browser type and version 
• Operating system used 
• Website from which you visit us (referrer URL) 
• Website you visit 
• Date and time of your access
• Your Internet Protocol (IP) address. 

This anonymous data is stored separately from any personal data you may have provided and therefore does not allow any conclusions to be drawn about a specific person. They are evaluated for statistical purposes in order to optimize our website and our offers.

6. 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 provide there, will be stored by us for the purpose of processing the inquiry and in the event of follow-up questions. We will not pass on this data without your consent.

7 Rights of data subjects

Right to confirmation

Each data subject has the right to obtain from the website operator confirmation as to whether or not personal data concerning him or her are being processed. If you wish to exercise this right of confirmation, you can contact the data protection officer at any time.

Right to information

Any person affected by the processing of personal data has the right to receive information free of charge from the operator of this website at any time about the personal data stored about them and a copy of this information. In addition, the following information may also be provided:

• the purposes of processing
• the categories of personal data that are processed
• the recipients to whom the personal data have been or will be disclosed
• where possible, the envisaged period for which the personal data will be stored, or, if not possible, the criteria used to determine that period
• the existence of a right to rectification or erasure of personal data concerning them or to restriction of processing by the controller or a right 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: All available information about the origin of the data

Furthermore, the data subject has a right to information as to whether personal data has been transferred to a third country or to an international organization. If this is the case, the data subject also has the right to obtain information about the appropriate safeguards in connection with the transfer.

If you would like to exercise this right to information, you can contact us at any time.

RIGHT TO RECTIFICATION

Any person affected by the processing of personal data has the right to demand the immediate correction of incorrect personal data concerning them. Furthermore, the data subject has the right to request the completion of incomplete personal data, including by means of a supplementary declaration, taking into account the purposes of the processing.

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

RIGHT TO ERASURE (RIGHT TO BE FORGOTTEN)

Any person affected by the processing of personal data has the right to demand from the person responsible for this website that the personal data concerning them be deleted immediately, provided that one of the following reasons applies and insofar as the processing is not necessary:

• The personal data were collected or otherwise processed for purposes for which they are no longer necessary
• The data subject withdraws consent on which the processing is based and where there is no other legal ground for the processing
• The data subject objects to the processing on grounds relating to his or her 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 associated profiling
• The personal data was processed unlawfully
• The deletion of personal data is necessary to fulfill a legal obligation under Union law or the law of the Member States to which the controller is subject
• The personal data was collected in relation to information society services offered directly to a child

If one of the above reasons applies and you would like 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

Any person affected by the processing of personal data has the right to request the controller of this website to restrict the processing 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 and the data subject opposes the erasure of the personal data and requests the restriction of their use instead
• 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 the processing on grounds relating to his or her particular situation and it is not yet clear whether the legitimate grounds of the controller override those of the data subject

If one of the above conditions is met and you wish to request the restriction 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 arrange for the restriction of processing.

RIGHT TO DATA PORTABILITY

Any person affected by the processing of personal data has the right to receive the personal data concerning them in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. They also have the right to have this data transmitted to another controller if the legal requirements are met.

Furthermore, the data subject shall have the right to have the personal data transmitted directly from one controller to another, where technically feasible and provided that this does not adversely affect the rights and freedoms of others.

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

RIGHT TO OBJECT

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

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

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

RIGHT TO WITHDRAW CONSENT UNDER DATA PROTECTION LAW

Any 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 your consent, you can contact our data protection officer at any time.

8. privacy policy for objection to advertising e-mails

We hereby object to the use of contact data published as part of our obligation to provide a legal notice for the purpose of sending unsolicited advertising and information material. The operators of this website expressly reserve the right to take legal action in the event of the unsolicited sending of advertising information, such as spam e-mails.

9. notice regarding data transfers to the USA (United States of America)

For the sake of completeness, we would like to point out that for users based in Switzerland there are surveillance measures by US authorities, which generally allow the storage of all personal data from Switzerland - which has been transmitted to the USA.

This is done without differentiation, restriction or exception on the basis of the objectives pursued and without an objective criterion that would make it possible to restrict the US authorities' access to the data and its subsequent use to very specific, strictly limited purposes that could justify the interference associated with access to this data and its use. We would also like to point out that there are no legal remedies available in the USA for data subjects from Switzerland that would allow them to obtain access to the data concerning them and to obtain its correction or deletion, or that there is no effective legal protection against general access rights of US authorities. We explicitly inform the data subject of this legal and factual situation so that they can make an appropriately informed decision to consent to the use of their data.

We would like to point out to users residing in a member state of the EU that the USA does not have an adequate level of data protection from the point of view of the European Union.

10. 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. The written consent of the copyright holder must be obtained in advance for the reproduction of all files.

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

11 General disclaimer

All information on our website has been carefully checked. We make every effort to ensure that the information we provide is up-to-date, correct and complete. Nevertheless, the occurrence of errors cannot be completely ruled out, which means that we cannot guarantee the completeness, correctness and topicality of information, even of a journalistic or editorial nature. Liability claims arising from material or immaterial damage caused by the use of the information provided are excluded, unless there is evidence of willful intent or gross negligence.

The publisher may change or delete texts at its own discretion and without notice and is not obliged to update the content of this website. The use of 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, accidental, pre-determined or consequential damages, which are allegedly caused by visiting this website and therefore accept no liability for them.

The publisher also accepts no responsibility or liability for the content and availability of third-party websites that can be accessed via external links on this website. The operators of the linked pages are solely responsible for their content. The publisher therefore expressly distances itself from all third-party content that may be relevant under criminal or liability law or offend common decency.

12. changes

We may amend this privacy policy at any time without prior notice. The current version published on our website shall apply. If the privacy policy is part of an agreement with you, we will inform you of the change by e-mail or other suitable means in the event of an update.

13. questions to the data protection officer

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