Based on Article 13 of the Swiss Federal Constitution and the data protection provisions of the Federal Act on Data Protection (Data Protection Act, DPA), every individual has the right to protection of their privacy and protection against misuse of their personal data. The operators of this website 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 collaboration with our hosting providers, we strive to protect the databases as effectively as possible against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, or forgery.
We would like to point out that data transmission over the Internet (e.g., when communicating via email) may have security vulnerabilities. A complete protection of 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 in the following. This website can generally be visited without registration. In this process, data such as pages visited or names of retrieved files, date and time are stored for statistical purposes on the server without these data being directly related to your person. Personal data, particularly name, address, or email address, is collected voluntarily whenever possible. Without your consent, data will not be passed on to third parties.
Personal data refers to any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual. A data subject is an individual whose personal data is processed. Processing includes any handling of personal data, regardless of the means and procedures used, in particular, the retention, disclosure, acquisition, deletion, storage, alteration, destruction, and use of personal data.
We process personal data in accordance with Swiss data protection law. Furthermore, to the extent that the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) applies, we process personal data based on the following legal bases in connection with Art. 6 (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 and for the implementation of corresponding pre-contractual measures.
c) Processing of personal data to comply with a legal obligation to which we are subject according to any applicable EU law or applicable law of a country where the GDPR is wholly or partly applicable.
d) Processing of personal data to protect vital interests of the data subject or another natural person.
e) Processing of personal data to safeguard our legitimate interests or the legitimate interests of a third party, unless the fundamental freedoms and rights of the data subject override those interests. Legitimate interests include, in particular, our economic interest in being able to provide our website, information security, enforcement of our legal claims, and compliance with Swiss law.
We process personal data only for as long as necessary for the purposes for which they are processed. If there are longer retention periods due to statutory or other obligations to which we are subject, we restrict the processing accordingly.
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 change in the browser address line from "http://" to "https://" and the lock symbol in your browser line.
When the SSL or TLS encryption is activated, the data you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.
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 provided by the American Google LLC may use cookies, resulting in data being transmitted to Google in the USA, assuming that no personal tracking occurs solely through the use of our website.
Google is committed to ensuring an adequate level of data protection according to the U.S.-EU and U.S.-Swiss Privacy Shield frameworks.
For more information, please refer to Google’s privacy policy.
If you would like to subscribe to the newsletter offered on this website, we require an email address from you, as well as information that allows us to verify that you are the owner of the provided email address and that you agree to receive the newsletter. No additional data will be collected. We use this data exclusively for sending the requested information and do not pass it on to third parties.
You can revoke your consent for the storage of data, email address, and its use for sending the newsletter at any time, for example, via the "unsubscribe" link in the newsletter.
This website uses Google Maps API to visually display geographic information. When using Google Maps, Google also collects, processes, and uses data about the usage of the map features by visitors. For more information on data processing by Google, please refer to Google's privacy notices. You can also change your personal privacy settings in the privacy center there.
Detailed instructions on managing your data related to Google products can be found here.
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. To deactivate Google Analytics, Google provides a browser plug-in at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en. Google Analytics uses cookies. These are small text files that allow specific, user-related information to be stored on the user's device. This enables Google to analyze the usage of our website offerings. The information collected by the cookie about your use of our pages (including your IP address) is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. We would like to point out that on this website, Google Analytics has been enhanced with the code “gat._anonymizeIp();” to ensure anonymous collection of IP addresses (so-called IP masking). When anonymization is active, Google shortens 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 can be drawn about your identity. Only in exceptional cases is the full IP address transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. Google adheres to the privacy provisions of the "Privacy Shield" agreement and is registered in the "Privacy Shield" program of the U.S. Department of Commerce and uses the collected information to evaluate the use of our websites, compile reports for us, and provide other related services. You can find out more at https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en.
This website uses features from Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA. When you visit our pages with Facebook plug-ins, a connection is established between your browser and the servers of Facebook. Data is transferred to Facebook during this process. If you have a Facebook account, this data can be linked to your account. If you do not wish for this data to be associated with your Facebook account, please log out of Facebook before visiting our site. Interactions, particularly using a comment function or clicking a "like" or "share" button, are also passed on to Facebook. For more information, please refer to https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy.
We may adjust this privacy policy at any time without prior notice. The current version published on our website applies. If the privacy policy is part of an agreement with you, we will inform you of the change via email or another appropriate method in the event of an update.
If you have questions regarding data protection, please send us an email or contact the person responsible for data protection listed at the beginning of this privacy policy in our organization.
St. Gallen, 08.08.2019
Source: SwissAnwalt