Data privacy statement

Thank you for your interest in our website. Protecting your privacy is very important to us. We treat your personal data as confidential and handle it in compliance with statutory data protection regulations and this data privacy statement.

We would like to point out that the transmission of data on the Internet (e.g. e-mail communication) can be subject to security flaws. It is impossible to protect data completely against access by third parties.

We will now tell you in detail about how we handle your information.

 

Access details and hosting

You can visit our website without providing any information about yourself. Each time a page of the site is accessed, all the web server automatically stores is a ‘server log file’, which may contain things like the name of the file requested, your IP address, the date and time of request, the quantity of data transferred and the provider making the request (access data); it also documents the request.

These access details are evaluated purely for the purpose of ensuring that the website works properly and for improving it. This, pursuant to Art. 6 Par. 1 Clause 1 lit. f GDPR, serves to assert our interest in displaying our website correctly, which is considered overridingly legitimate in the overall weighing of interests. All access details are deleted no later than seven days after the end of your session on our site.

A third-party provider supplies us with the services of hosting and displaying our website on our behalf. This serves to assert our interest in displaying our website correctly, which is considered overridingly legitimate in the overall weighing of interests. All of the data collected as described below while you are using this website, or in forms at the online store, is processed on that provider’s servers. It will only processed on other servers within the scope described here.

This service provider is based in Switzerland or in a country belonging to the European Union or European Economic Area.

 

Cookies

We use cookies on our website in order to make visiting it as attractive as possible and to enable certain features to be used. This serves to assert our interest in improving the way our website displays, which is considered overridingly legitimate in the overall weighing of interests pursuant to Art. 6 Par. 1 Clause 1 lit. f GDPR. Cookies are small text files stored automatically on your terminal device. Some of the cookies we use (known as session cookies) are deleted at the end of your browser session, which is when you close your browser. Other cookies remain on your terminal device and allow us to recognise your browser the next time you visit us (persistent cookies). Check the overview of cookie settings in your browser to find out how long cookies are saved.

If you do not want to receive cookies from our website, you can set your browser to decline cookies or notify you whenever cookies are received. You can then manually accept or reject each cookie when you receive a message about it. You can set your browser to automatically deactivate all cookies. To do so, click the ‘Tools’ menu in your browser or a similarly named option.

If you do not accept cookies, the features of our website may be limited.

 

Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a Web analysis service provided by Google Inc (‘Google’). This serves to assert our interest in improving the way our website displays, which is considered overridingly legitimate in the overall weighing of interests pursuant to Art. 6 Par. 1 Clause 1 lit. f GDPR. Google Analytics uses “cookies” – text files stored on your computer to facilitate the analysis of your use of the website. 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. Because IP-anonymity is activated on this website, your IP address will first be truncated by Google inside the member states of the European Union and in other states that are signatories to the European Economic Area treaty. Only in exceptional circumstances will the full IP address be sent to a Google server located in the USA, and truncated there.

Google Inc has its headquarters in the USA and is certified in compliance with the EU-US Privacy Shield. You will find the latest certificate here. On the basis of a treaty between the USA and European Commission, the latter has established an appropriate level of data protection for companies certified in compliance with the Privacy Shield.

Google uses this information on behalf of the website operator in order to evaluate your use of the website so that it can draw up reports on website activities, and in order to provide the website operator with other services associated with the use of the website and access to the Internet. Google will not connect the IP address sent to them by your browser as part of Google Analytics with other Google data. You can prevent the saving of cookies via the corresponding setting in your browser software. However, if you do so, please note that this may mean that you cannot use the full functionality of this website.

If you do not agree with the use of this information, you can also prevent data generated by the cookie and relating to your use of the website from being sent to Google and prevent Google from processing it, by clicking here. This sets an ‘opt-out cookie’ which prevents this website from collecting your data from then onwards. Alternatively, you can download and install the browser plugin available at the following link. If you delete your cookies you will have to repeat the step you have chosen.
https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en

For more information and to read the data protection terms, visit www.google.com/policies/privacy and https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245

 

Revocation

There are many data processing activities that can only be done with your express consent. You can revoke consent you have given if reasons arise that pertain to your particular situation. An informal e-mail to us will suffice. Revoking your consent does not render illegal any data processing done up to that point.

If you exercise your right to revoke, your personal data will no longer be used for those purposes. This does not apply if it is being processed for direct marketing purposes.

 

Getting in touch

If you have any questions about how we collect, process or use your personal details, or if you require information or for your details to be corrected, blocked or deleted, or if you wish to revoke any consents or object to particular uses of your data, then please get in touch with us directly using the contact details in our Legals section.