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Privacy Policy of P8S and Pick8ship Technology AG

What is this privacy policy about?

P8S with the legal company name Pick8ship Technol­ogy AG (hereinafter also referred to as “we”, “us”) obtains and process-es personal data concern­ing you or other persons (so-called “third parties”). We use the term “data” here synony­mously with “personal data” or “personal infor­ma­tion”.

Personal data” refers to data that relates to specific or identi­fi­able persons, i.e. it is possi-ble to draw conclu­sions about their identity based on the data itself or with correspond-ing additional data. “Partic­u­larly sensi­tive personal data” is a category of personal data that is partic­u­larly protected by the applic­a­ble data protec­tion law. For example, data re-vealing racial and ethnic origin, health data, infor­ma­tion on religious or ideolog­i­cal be-liefs, biomet­ric data for identi­fi­ca­tion purposes and infor­ma­tion on trade union member-ship are consid­ered to be partic­u­larly sensi­tive personal data. In para. 3 you will find de-tails of the data that we process within the scope of this privacy policy. “Process­ing” means any handling of personal data, e.g. obtain­ing, storing, using, adapt­ing, disclos­ing and delet­ing.

In this Privacy Policy, we describe what we do with your data when you visit www.pick8ship.com/ or other websites of ours (hereinafter collec­tively referred to as the “Website”), our services or products, are other­wise in contact with us under a contract, commu­ni­cate with us or other­wise deal with us. Where appro­pri­ate, we will provide you with timely written notice of additional process­ing activ­i­ties not mentioned in this Privacy Policy. In addition, we may inform you separately about the process­ing of your data, e.g. in decla­ra­tions of consent, contrac­tual terms and condi­tions, additional data protec­tion decla­ra­tions, forms and notices.

If you trans­mit or disclose data about other persons, such as family members, work col-leagues, etc., we assume that you are autho­rised to do so and that this data is correct. By trans­mit­ting data about third parties, you confirm this. Please also ensure that these third parties have been informed about this privacy policy.

This privacy policy is designed to meet the require­ments of the EU General Data Protec-tion Regula­tion and the Swiss Data Protec­tion Act. However, whether and to what extent these laws are applic­a­ble depends on the individ­ual case.

Who is responsible for processing your data?

Pick8ship Technol­ogy AG (UID CHE-458.749.318), Sonnen­tal­strasse 8, 8600 Düben­dorf (“Pick8ship Technol­ogy”), is respon­si­ble under data protec­tion law for the data process­ing described in this Privacy Policy, unless other­wise commu­ni­cated in individ­ual cases.

For every data process­ing opera­tion, there are one or more bodies that are respon­si­ble for ensur­ing that the process­ing complies with the require­ments of data protec­tion law. This body is called the controller. It is respon­si­ble, for example, for respond­ing to requests for infor­ma­tion (para. 11) or ensur­ing that personal data is secured and not used in an unautho­rized manner.

Other bodies may also be jointly respon­si­ble for the data process­ing described in this pri-vacy policy if they are involved in decid­ing on the purpose or organi­za­tion. If you would like infor­ma­tion on the individ­ual controllers for a specific data process­ing opera­tion, you can request this from us within the scope of the right to infor­ma­tion (para. 11) to request infor­ma­tion. Pick8ship Technol­ogy remains your primary contact, even if there are other joint controllers.

In no. 3, in no. 7 and in no. 12 you will find further infor­ma­tion on third parties with whom we work and who are respon­si­ble for their process­ing. If you have any questions or wish to exercise your rights vis-à-vis these third parties, please contact them directly.

You can contact us for your data protec­tion concerns and to exercise your rights in accord-ance with para. 11 as follows:

Pick8ship Technol­ogy AG
Switzer­land Innova­tion Park Zurich
Sonnen­tal­strasse 8
8600 Dueben­dorf (Zurich)
E‑mail: office@pick8ship.com

What data do we process?

We process various categories of data about you. The most impor­tant categories are as follows:

Techni­cal data: When you use our website or other electronic services, we collect the IP address of your end device and other techni­cal data to ensure the function-ality and security of these services. This data also includes logs in which the use of our systems is recorded. To ensure the function­al­ity of these offers, we can also as-sign you or your end device an individ­ual code (e.g. in the form of a cookie, cf. 12). The techni­cal data itself does not allow any conclu­sions to be drawn about your identity. However, in the context of user accounts, regis­tra­tions, access controls or the process­ing of contracts, they can be linked to other data categories (and thus possi­bly to your person).

The techni­cal data includes, among other things, the IP address and infor­ma­tion about the operat­ing system of your end device, the date, region and time of use as well as the type of browser you use to access our electronic offers. This can help us to trans­mit the correct format­ting of the website. Although we know from the IP address which provider you are using to access our offers (and there­fore also the region), we cannot usually deduce who you are from this. This changes if you cre-ate a user account, for example, because personal data can then be linked to tech-nical data (e.g. we can see which browser you are using to access an account via our website). Examples of techni­cal data include logs that accumu­late in our sys-tems (e.g. the log of user logins on our website).

Regis­tra­tion data: Certain offers and services can only be used with a user account or regis­tra­tion, which can be done directly with us or via our exter­nal login service providers. In doing so, you must provide us with certain data and we collect data on the use of the offer or service. Regis­tra­tion data may be collected during access controls to certain systems; depend­ing on the control system, biomet­ric data may also be collected. Regis­tra­tion data includes the infor­ma­tion you provide when you create an account on our website (e.g. user name, password, name, e‑mail ad-dress).

Commu­ni­ca­tion data: If you are in contact with us via the contact form, by e‑mail, telephone or chat, by letter or other means of commu­ni­ca­tion, we collect the data exchanged between you and us, includ­ing your contact details and the marginal data of the commu­ni­ca­tion. If we want or need to estab­lish your identity, e.g. if you request infor­ma­tion, apply for media access, etc., we collect data to identify you (e.g. a copy of an identity document).

Commu­ni­ca­tion data includes your name and contact details, the manner, place and time of commu­ni­ca­tion and, as a rule, its content (i.e. the content of emails, letters, chats, etc.). This data may also contain infor­ma­tion about third parties. For the purpose of identi­fi­ca­tion, we may also process your ID number or a password set by you.

Master data: We define master data as the basic data that we require in addition to the contract data (see below) for the process­ing of our contrac­tual and other business relation­ships or for market­ing and adver­tis­ing purposes, such as name, contact details and infor­ma­tion, e.g. about your role and function, your bank ac-count(s), your date of birth, customer history, powers of attor­ney, signa­ture au-thorisations and decla­ra­tions of consent. We process your master data if you are a customer or other business contact or work for one (e.g. as a contact person of the business partner), or because we want to contact you for our own purposes or the purposes of a contrac­tual partner (e.g. in the context of market­ing and adver­tis­ing). We receive master data from you yourself (e.g. when a contract is concluded or as part of a regis­tra­tion), from organi­za­tions for which you work or from third parties such as our contrac­tual partners, associ­a­tions and address dealers and from public-ly acces­si­ble sources such as public regis­ters or the Inter­net (websites, social me-dia, etc.). We gener­ally store this data for 10 years from the last exchange with you, but at least from the end of the contract. This period may be longer if this is neces-sary for reasons of proof or to comply with legal or contrac­tual require­ments or for techni­cal reasons .

Master data includes, for example, data such as name, address, e‑mail address, tel-ephone number and other contact details, gender, date of birth, nation­al­ity, de-tails of associ­ated persons, websites, social media profiles, photos and videos, cop-ies of ID cards; further­more, details of your relation­ship with us (customer, suppli-er, visitor, service recip­i­ent, etc.). We also collect infor­ma­tion about your relation-ship with us (customer, supplier, visitor, service recip­i­ent, etc.), infor­ma­tion about your status with us, alloca­tions, classi­fi­ca­tions and distri­b­u­tion lists, infor­ma­tion about our inter­ac­tions with you (possi­bly a history of these with corre­spond­ing en-tries), reports (e.g. from the media) or official documents (e.g. extracts from the commer­cial regis­ter, autho­riza­tions, etc.) that relate to you. We collect payment details such as your bank details, account number and credit card details. Consent or block­ing notices are also part of the master data, as is infor­ma­tion about third parties.

For contact persons and repre­sen­ta­tives of our customers, suppli­ers and partners, we process master data such as name and address, infor­ma­tion on role, function in the company, quali­fi­ca­tions and, if applic­a­ble, infor­ma­tion on superi­ors, employ-ees and subor­di­nates and infor­ma­tion on inter­ac­tions with these persons.

Master data is not collected compre­hen­sively for all contacts. Which data we col-lect in detail depends in partic­u­lar on the purpose of the process­ing.

Contract data: This is data that arises in connec­tion with the conclu­sion or pro-cessing of a contract, e.g. infor­ma­tion about contracts and the services to be pro-vided or provided, as well as data from the run-up to the conclu­sion of a contract, the infor­ma­tion required or used for process­ing and infor­ma­tion about reactions. We gener­ally collect this data from you, from contrac­tual partners and from third parties involved in the fulfil­ment of the contract, but also from third-party sources (e.g. providers of credit­wor­thi­ness data) and from publicly acces­si­ble sources. We gener­ally store this data for 10 years from the last contrac­tual activ­ity, but at least from the end of the contract. This period may be longer if this is neces­sary for rea-sons of proof or to comply with legal or contrac­tual require­ments or for techni­cal reasons.

Contract data includes infor­ma­tion about the conclu­sion of the contract, about your contracts, e.g. type and date of conclu­sion of the contract, infor­ma­tion from the appli­ca­tion process (such as an appli­ca­tion for our products or services) and in-formation about the contract in question (e.g. its duration) and the process­ing and admin­is­tra­tion of the contracts (e.g. infor­ma­tion in connec­tion with invoic­ing, cus-tomer service, support with techni­cal matters and the enforce­ment of contrac­tual claims). Contract data also includes infor­ma­tion on defects, complaints and ad-justments to a contract, as well as infor­ma­tion on customer satis­fac­tion, which we can collect e.g. by means of surveys. Contract data also includes finan­cial data such as infor­ma­tion on credit­wor­thi­ness (i.e. infor­ma­tion that allows conclu­sions to be drawn about the likeli­hood of claims being settled), reminders and debt collec-tion. We receive some of this data from you (e.g. when you make payments), but also from credit agencies and debt collec­tion agencies and from publicly acces­si­ble sources (e.g. a commer­cial regis­ter).

Behav­ioural and prefer­ence data: Depend­ing on the relation­ship we have with you, we try to get to know you and better tailor our products, services and offers to you. To do this, we collect and use data about your behav­ior and prefer­ences. We do this by evalu­at­ing infor­ma­tion about your behav­ior in our area, and we can also supple­ment this infor­ma­tion with data from third parties, includ­ing from pub-licly acces­si­ble sources. Based on this, we can, for example, calcu­late the probabil-ity that you will use certain services or behave in a certain way. Some of the data processed for this purpose is already known to us (e.g. when you use our services), or we obtain this data by record­ing your behav­ior (e.g. how you navigate our web-site). We anonymize or delete this data when it is no longer relevant for the pur-poses pursued. This period may be longer if this is neces­sary for reasons of proof or to comply with legal or contrac­tual require­ments or for techni­cal reasons. We describe how track­ing works on our website in section 12.

Other data: We also collect data from you in other situa­tions. In connec­tion with official or court proceed­ings, for example, data is collected (such as files, evidence, etc.) that may also relate to you. We may also collect data for health protec­tion reasons (e.g. as part of protec­tion concepts). We may receive or produce photos, videos and audio record­ings in which you may be recog­nis­able (e.g. at events, through security cameras, etc.). We may also collect data about who enters certain build­ings and when, or who has the corre­spond­ing access rights (includ­ing during access controls, based on regis­tra­tion data or visitor lists, etc.), who takes part in events or campaigns and when, or who uses our infra­struc­ture and systems and when. Finally, we collect and process data about our share­hold­ers and other inves-tors; in addition to master data, this includes infor­ma­tion for the relevant regis-trars, regard­ing the exercise of their rights and the organ­i­sa­tion of events (e.g. gen-eral meetings). The reten­tion period for this data depends on the purpose and is limited to what is neces­sary. Data about you as a share­holder or other investor will be retained in accor­dance with the require­ments of company law, but in any case for as long as you are invested.

Many of the items listed in this para. 3 you disclose to us yourself (e.g. via forms, as part of commu­ni­ca­tion with us, in connec­tion with contracts, when using the website, etc.). You are not obliged to do so, subject to individ­ual cases, e.g. as part of binding protec­tion concepts (legal oblig­a­tions). If you wish to conclude contracts with us or make use of ser-vices, you must also provide us with data as part of your contrac­tual oblig­a­tion in accord-ance with the relevant contract, in partic­u­lar master data, contract data and regis­tra­tion data. When using our website, the process­ing of techni­cal data is unavoid­able. If you wish to gain access to certain systems or build­ings, you must provide us with regis­tra­tion data. In the case of behav­ioral and prefer­ence data, however, you always have the option of object­ing or not giving your consent.

Insofar as this is not unautho­rized, we also obtain data from publicly acces­si­ble sources (e.g. debt collec­tion regis­ters, land regis­ters, commer­cial regis­ters, media or the inter­net, includ­ing social media) or receive data from other compa­nies within our group, from au-thorities and from other third parties (such as credit agencies, address dealers, associa-tions, contrac­tual partners, inter­net analy­sis services, etc.).

For what purposes do we process your data?

We process your data for the purposes explained below. Further infor­ma­tion for the online area can be found in para. 12 and –. These purposes and the under­ly­ing objec­tives repre­sent legit­i­mate inter­ests of us and, where applic­a­ble, of third parties. You will find further infor­ma­tion on the legal basis of our process­ing in Section 0.

We process your data for purposes in connec­tion with commu­ni­ca­tion with you, in par-ticular to respond to enquiries and assert your rights (para. 11) and to contact you in the event of queries. In partic­u­lar, we use commu­ni­ca­tion data and master data for this pur-pose and, in connec­tion with offers and services used by you, also regis­tra­tion data. We retain this data in order to document our commu­ni­ca­tion with you, for train­ing purposes, for quality assur­ance and for enquiries.

This concerns all purposes in connec­tion with which you and we commu­ni­cate, whether in customer service or counselling, authen­ti­ca­tion in the event of use of the website or for train­ing and quality assur­ance (e.g. in the area of customer service). We further process commu­ni­ca­tion data so that we can commu­ni­cate with you by e‑mail and telephone, as well as messen­ger services, chat, social media, letter and fax. Commu­ni­ca­tion with you usually takes place in connec­tion with other process­ing purposes, e.g. so that we can provide services or respond to a request for infor­ma­tion. Our data process­ing also serves as proof of commu­ni­ca­tion and its content.

We process data for the estab­lish­ment, admin­is­tra­tion and fulfil­ment of contrac­tual relation­ships.

We conclude contracts of various kinds with our business and private customers, with suppli­ers, subcon­trac­tors or other contrac­tual partners, such as partners in projects or with parties in legal disputes. In partic­u­lar, we process master data, contract data and commu­ni­ca­tion data and, depend­ing on the circum­stances, regis­tra­tion data of the cus-tomer or the persons to whom the customer provides a service.

As part of the business initi­a­tion process, personal data — in partic­u­lar master data, contract data and commu­ni­ca­tion data — is collected from poten­tial customers or other contrac­tual partners (e.g. in an order form or contract) or results from commu­ni­ca­tion. We also process data in connec­tion with the conclu­sion of the contract to check credit­wor­thi­ness and to open the customer relation­ship. In some cases, this infor­ma­tion is checked for compli­ance with legal require­ments.

As part of the process­ing of contrac­tual relation­ships, we process data for the admin­is­tra­tion of the customer relation­ship, for the provi­sion and collec­tion of contrac­tual services (which also includes the involve­ment of third parties, such as logis­tics compa­nies, adver­tis­ing service providers, banks, insur­ance compa­nies or credit agencies, which may in turn provide us with data), for consult­ing and for customer support. The enforce­ment of legal claims arising from contracts (debt collec­tion, legal proceed­ings, etc.) is also part of process­ing, as are account­ing, contract termi­na­tion and public commu­ni­ca­tion.

We process data for market­ing purposes and to maintain relation­ships, e.g. to send our customers and other contrac­tual partners person­al­ized adver­tis­ing about our products and services. This may take the form of newslet­ters and other regular contacts (electron­i­cally, by post, by telephone), via other channels for which we have contact infor­ma­tion from you, but also as part of individ­ual market­ing campaigns. You can refuse such contacts at any time (see at the end of this section). 4) or refuse or revoke your consent to be contacted for adver­tis­ing purposes. With your consent, we can target our online adver­tis­ing on the Inter­net more specif­i­cally to you (see section. 12).

We continue to process your data for market research, to improve our services and opera­tions and for product devel­op­ment.
We may also process your data for security purposes and for access control.
We process personal data to comply with laws, instruc­tions and recom­men­da­tions from author­i­ties and inter­nal regula­tions (“compli­ance”).
We also process data for the purposes of our risk manage­ment and as part of prudent corpo­rate gover­nance, includ­ing business organi­za­tion and corpo­rate devel­op­ment.
We may process your data for other purposes, e.g. as part of our inter­nal processes and admin­is­tra­tion.

On what basis do we process your data?

If we ask for your consent for certain process­ing, we will inform you separately about the corre­spond­ing purposes of the process­ing. You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future by sending us a written notifi­ca­tion (by post) or, unless other­wise stated or agreed, by email; our contact details can be found in Section 2. 2. For the revoca­tion of your consent in the case of online track­ing, see para. 12. If you have a user account, you may also be able to withdraw your consent or contact us via the website or other service in question. Once we have received notifi­ca­tion of the withdrawal of your consent, we will no longer process your data for the purposes to which you origi­nally consented, unless we have another legal basis for doing so. The withdrawal of your consent does not affect the lawful­ness of process­ing based on consent before its withdrawal.

Where we do not ask for your consent for process­ing, we base the process­ing of your personal data on the fact that the process­ing is neces­sary for the initi­a­tion or execu­tion of a contract with you (or the entity you repre­sent) or that we or third parties have a legit­i­mate inter­est in it, in partic­u­lar in order to fulfil the purposes described above in Section 4. 4 described above and the associ­ated objec­tives and to be able to imple­ment corre­spond­ing measures. Our legit­i­mate inter­ests also include compli­ance with statu­tory provi­sions, unless this is already recog­nized as a legal basis by the applic­a­ble data protec­tion law (e.g. in the case of the GDPR, the law in the EEA and Switzer­land).

If we receive sensi­tive data (e.g. health data, infor­ma­tion on polit­i­cal, religious or ideolog­i­cal views or biomet­ric data for identi­fi­ca­tion purposes), we may also process your data based on other legal grounds, e.g. in the event of disputes due to the neces­sity of process­ing for any legal proceed­ings or the enforce­ment of or defense against legal claims. In individ­ual cases, other legal grounds may apply, which we will commu­ni­cate to you separately if neces­sary.

What applies to profiling and automated individual decisions?

We may use certain of your personal charac­ter­is­tics for the purposes set out in para. 4 based on your data (section 3) automat­i­cally (“profil­ing”) if we want to deter­mine prefer­ence data , but also to deter­mine risks of misuse and security risks, to carry out statis­ti­cal analy­ses or for opera­tional planning purposes. For the same purposes, we can also create profiles, i.e. we can combine behav­ioral and prefer­ence data, but also master and contract data and techni­cal data assigned to you in order to better under­stand you as a person with your differ­ent inter­ests and other charac­ter­is­tics.

In both cases, we pay atten­tion to the propor­tion­al­ity and relia­bil­ity of the results and take measures to prevent misuse of these profiles or profil­ing. If these can have legal conse­quences or signif­i­cant disad­van­tages for you, we always provide for a manual review.

To whom do we disclose your data?

In connec­tion with our contracts, the website, our services and products, our legal oblig­a­tions or other­wise to safeguard our legit­i­mate inter­ests and the other data protec­tion require­ments set out in para. 4 we also trans­fer your personal data to third parties, in partic­u­lar to the follow­ing categories of recip­i­ents:

Service providers: We work with service providers in Switzer­land and abroad who process data about you on our behalf or under joint respon­si­bil­ity with us or who receive data about you from us under their own respon­si­bil­ity (e.g. IT providers, mail order compa­nies, adver­tis­ing service providers, login service providers, clean­ing compa­nies, banks, insur­ance compa­nies, debt collec­tion compa­nies, credit agencies or address verifiers). For infor­ma­tion on the service providers used for the website, see section. 12. Our central service providers in the IT sector are Microsoft (Office, Teams), Aut O’Mat­tic A8C Ireland Ltd (web hosting, contact form), Zoom Video Commu­ni­ca­tions, Inc (Zoom). Our central service provider in the area of office infra­struc­ture is the Zurich Innova­tion Park Founda­tion.

To enable us to provide our products and services efficiently and focus on our core compe­tences, we procure services from third parties in numer­ous areas. These services include IT services, the dispatch of infor­ma­tion, market­ing, sales, commu­ni­ca­tion and print­ing services, facil­ity manage­ment, security and clean­ing, the organi­za­tion and staging of events and recep­tions, debt collec­tion, credit agencies, address verifiers (e.g. to update address databases in the event of reloca­tions), antifraud measures and services from consult­ing firms, lawyers, banks, insur­ers and telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions compa­nies. We provide these service providers with the data required for their services, which may also concern you. These service providers may also use such data for their own purposes, e.g. infor­ma­tion about outstand­ing debts and your payment behav­ior in the case of credit agencies or anonymized infor­ma­tion to improve services. In addition, we conclude contracts with these service providers that include provi­sions for the protec­tion of data, insofar as this does not arise from the law. Our service providers may also process data on how their services are used and other data gener­ated in the course of using their services as indepen­dent controllers for their own legit­i­mate inter­ests (e.g. for statis­ti­cal analy­ses or billing). Service providers provide infor­ma­tion about their indepen­dent data process­ing in their own data protec­tion decla­ra­tions.

You can find more infor­ma­tion on how Microsoft processes data here: https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement; for the use of Microsoft Teams in partic­u­lar here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/teams-privacy.

You can find more infor­ma­tion on how the Innova­tion Park Zurich Founda­tion processes data here: https://www.switzerland-innovation.com/zurich/privacy-policy.

More infor­ma­tion on how Aut O’Mat­tic A8C Ireland Ltd. processes data can be found here: https://automattic.com/privacy/.

More infor­ma­tion on how Zoom Video Commu­ni­ca­tions, Inc. processes data can be found here: https://explore.zoom.us/en/privacy/.

Contrac­tual partners includ­ing customers: This initially refers to customers (e.g. service recip­i­ents) and other contrac­tual partners of ours, because this data trans­fer arises from these contracts. If you work for such a contrac­tual partner yourself, we may also trans­fer data about you to them in this context. The recip­i­ents also include contrac­tual partners with whom we cooper­ate or who adver­tise for us and to whom we there­fore trans­mit data about you for analy­sis and market­ing purposes (these may in turn be service recip­i­ents, but also sponsors and providers of online adver­tis­ing, for example).

Author­i­ties: We may disclose personal data to offices, courts and other author­i­ties in Switzer­land and abroad if we are legally obliged or autho­rized to do so or if this appears neces­sary to protect our inter­ests. This may also include health data. The author­i­ties process data about you that they receive from us under their own respon­si­bil­ity.

Other persons: This refers to other cases where the inclu­sion of third parties arises from the purposes set out in para. 4.

All these categories of recip­i­ents may in turn involve third parties, so that your data may also become acces­si­ble to them. We can restrict process­ing by certain third parties (e.g. IT providers), but not by other third parties (e.g. author­i­ties, banks, etc.).

We reserve the right to disclose this data even if it concerns confi­den­tial data (unless we have expressly agreed with you that we will not disclose this data to certain third parties, unless we are legally obliged to do so). Irrespec­tive of this, your data will continue to be subject to appro­pri­ate data protec­tion even after disclo­sure in Switzer­land and the rest of Europe. For disclo­sure to other countries, the provi­sions of para. 8. If you do not wish certain data to be disclosed, please let us know so that we can check whether and to what extent we can accom­mo­date you (para. 2).

Does your personal data also end up abroad?

As in no. 7 we also disclose data to other organi­za­tions. These are not only located in Switzer­land. Your data may there­fore be processed both in Europe and in the USA; in excep­tional cases, however, in any country in the world.

If a recip­i­ent is located in a country without adequate statu­tory data protec­tion, we contrac­tu­ally oblige the recip­i­ent to comply with the applic­a­ble data protec­tion regula­tions, unless the recip­i­ent is already subject to a legally recog­nized set of rules to ensure data protec­tion and we cannot rely on an exemp­tion clause. An excep­tion may apply in partic­u­lar in the case of legal proceed­ings abroad, but also in cases of overrid­ing public inter­ests or if the fulfil­ment of a contract requires such disclo­sure, if you have given your consent or if the data in question has been made gener­ally acces­si­ble by you and you have not objected to its process­ing.

Many countries outside of Switzer­land, the EU and the EEA do not currently have laws that guaran­tee an adequate level of data protec­tion from the perspec­tive of the FADP or the GDPR. The contrac­tual precau­tions mentioned above can partially compen­sate for this weaker or missing legal protec­tion. However, contrac­tual precau­tions cannot elimi­nate all risks (in partic­u­lar from state access abroad). You should be aware of these resid­ual risks, even if the risk may be low in individ­ual cases and we take further measures (e.g. pseudo­nymiza­tion or anonymiza­tion) to minimize it.

Please also note that data exchanged via the Inter­net is often routed via third countries. Your data may there­fore be sent abroad even if the sender and recip­i­ent are located in the same country.

How long do we process your data?

We process your data for as long as our process­ing purposes, the statu­tory reten­tion periods and our legit­i­mate inter­ests in process­ing for documen­ta­tion and evidence purposes require it or storage is techni­cally neces­sary. Further infor­ma­tion on the respec­tive storage and process­ing periods can be found under the individ­ual data categories in Section 3 or for the cookie categories in para. 12. If there are no legal or contrac­tual oblig­a­tions to the contrary, we will delete or anonymize your data after the storage or process­ing period has expired as part of our normal processes.

How do we protect your data?

We take appro­pri­ate security measures to protect the confi­den­tial­ity, integrity and avail­abil­ity of your personal data, to protect it against unautho­rized or unlaw­ful process­ing and to counter­act the risks of loss, uninten­tional modifi­ca­tion, unwanted disclo­sure or unautho­rized access.

Security measures of a techni­cal and organi­za­tional nature may include, for example, measures such as the encryp­tion and pseudo­nymiza­tion of data, logging, access restric­tions, the storage of backup copies, instruc­tions to our employ­ees, confi­den­tial­ity agree­ments and controls. We protect your data trans­mit­ted via our website in transit using suitable encryp­tion mecha­nisms. However, we can only secure areas that we control. We also oblige our contract proces­sors to take appro­pri­ate security measures. However, security risks cannot be completely ruled out; resid­ual risks are unavoid­able.

What rights do you have?

Under certain circum­stances, the applic­a­ble data protec­tion law grants you the right to object to the process­ing of your data, in partic­u­lar for the purposes of direct market­ing, profil­ing for direct adver­tis­ing and other legit­i­mate inter­ests in process­ing.

To make it easier for you to control the process­ing of your personal data, you also have the follow­ing rights in connec­tion with our data process­ing, depend­ing on the applic­a­ble data protec­tion law:

– The right to request infor­ma­tion from us as to whether and which of your data we process;
– the right to have us correct data if it is incor­rect;
– the right to request the deletion of data;
– the right to obtain from us the personal data concern­ing you in a commonly used electronic format or to trans­mit those data to another controller;
– the right to withdraw consent where our process­ing is based on your consent;
– the right to receive, upon request, further infor­ma­tion neces­sary for the exercise of these rights;

If you wish to exercise the above rights against us, please contact us in writing, at our premises or, unless other­wise stated or agreed, by e‑mail; our contact details can be found in Section. 2. So that we can rule out misuse, we must identify you (e.g. with a copy of your ID card, if this is not other­wise possi­ble).

Please note that these rights are subject to condi­tions, excep­tions or restric­tions under the applic­a­ble data protec­tion law (e.g. to protect third parties or business secrets). We will inform you accord­ingly if neces­sary.

If you do not agree with our handling of your rights or data protec­tion, please let us know (para. 2) please let us know. In partic­u­lar, if you are located in the EEA, the United Kingdom or Switzer­land, you also have the right to lodge a complaint with the data protec­tion super­vi­sory author­ity in your country. A list of author­i­ties in the EEA can be found here: https://edpb.europa.eu/about-edpb/about-edpb/members_en. You can contact the UK super­vi­sory author­ity here: https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/. You can contact the Swiss super­vi­sory author­ity here: https://www.edoeb.admin.ch/edoeb/en/home/deredoeb/kontakt.html.

Do we use online tracking and online advertising techniques?

We use various technolo­gies on our website with which we and third parties engaged by us can recog­nize you when you use our website and, under certain circum­stances, track you over several visits. We will inform you about this in this section.

In essence, we want to be able to distin­guish between access by you (via your system) and access by other users so that we can ensure the function­al­ity of the website and carry out analy­ses and person­al­iza­tion. We do not want to draw conclu­sions about your identity, even if we can, insofar as we or third parties engaged by us can identify you by combin­ing this with regis­tra­tion data. Even without regis­tra­tion data, however, the technolo­gies used are designed in such a way that you are recog­nized as an individ­ual visitor each time you visit the website, for example by our server (or the servers of third parties) assign­ing you or your browser a specific identi­fi­ca­tion number (so-called “cookie”).

Cookies are individ­ual codes (e.g. a serial number) that our server or a server of our service provider or adver­tis­ing contract partner trans­mits to your system when you connect to our website and that your system (browser, mobile) receives and stores until the programmed expiry date. Each time you access our website again, your system trans­mits these codes to our server or the server of the third party. This allows you to be recog­nized, even if your identity is unknown.

We use such technolo­gies on our website and allow certain third parties to do the same. However, depend­ing on the purpose of these techniques, we may ask for your consent before using them. You can program your browser to block or deceive certain cookies or alter­na­tive technolo­gies or to delete exist­ing cookies. You can also add software to your browser that blocks track­ing by certain third parties. You can find more infor­ma­tion about this on the help pages of your browser (usually under the heading “Data protec­tion”) or on the websites of the third parties listed below.

A distinc­tion is made between the follow­ing cookies (technolo­gies with compa­ra­ble functions such as finger­print­ing are also included here):

– Neces­sary cookies: Some cookies are neces­sary for the function­ing of the website as such or for certain functions. For example, they ensure that you can switch between pages without losing the infor­ma­tion entered in a form. They also ensure that you remain logged in. These cookies are only tempo­rary (“session cookies”). If you block them, the website may not work. Other cookies are neces­sary so that the server can save decisions or entries made by you beyond a session (i.e. a visit to the website) if you use this function (e.g. selected language, consent given, the function for automatic log-in, etc.). These cookies have an expiry date of up to 24 months.

– Perfor­mance cookies: In order to optimize our website and corre­spond­ing offers and to better tailor them to the needs of users, we use cookies to record and analyze the use of our website, possi­bly even beyond the session. We do this by using third-party analyt­ics services. We have listed these below. Before we use such cookies, we will ask for your consent. You can withdraw your consent at any time. Perfor­mance cookies also have an expiry date of up to 24 months. Details can be found on the websites of the third-party providers.

– Market­ing cookies: We and our adver­tis­ing contract partners have an inter­est in target­ing adver­tis­ing to specific groups, i.e. only display­ing it to those we want to address. We have listed our adver­tis­ing contract partners below. For this purpose, we and our adver­tis­ing contract partners — if you consent — also use cookies with which the content accessed or contracts concluded can be recorded. This enables us and our adver­tis­ing contract partners to display adverts that we can assume are of inter­est to you on our website, but also on other websites that display adverts from us or our adver­tis­ing contract partners. Depend­ing on the situa­tion, these cookies have an expiry period of a few days to 12 months. If you consent to the use of these cookies, you will be shown the relevant adverts. If you do not consent to these cookies, you will not see fewer adverts, but simply any other adverts.

In addition to market­ing cookies, we use other techniques to control online adver­tis­ing on other websites and thereby reduce wastage. For example, we can trans­mit the email addresses of our users, customers and other people to whom we want to display adverts to opera­tors of adver­tis­ing platforms (e.g. social media). If these people are regis­tered there with the same email address (which the adver­tis­ing platforms deter­mine through a compar­i­son), the opera­tors display the adverts we have placed to these people in a targeted manner. The opera­tors do not receive personal email addresses of people who are not already known. In the case of known email addresses, however, they will learn that these people are in contact with us and what content they have accessed.

We may also integrate other third-party offers on our website, in partic­u­lar from social media providers. These offers are deacti­vated by default. As soon as you activate them (e.g. by click­ing a button), the relevant providers can recog­nize that you are on our website. If you have an account with the social media provider, they can assign this infor­ma­tion to you and thus track your use of online services. These social media providers process this data on their own respon­si­bil­ity.

We currently use offers from the follow­ing service providers and adver­tis­ing contract partners (insofar as they use data from you or cookies set by you for adver­tis­ing purposes):

– Google Ireland (based in Ireland) is the provider of the Google Analyt­ics, Monster insights and Google Drive services and acts as our proces­sor. Google Ireland relies on Google LLC (based in the USA) as its proces­sor (both “Google”). Google uses perfor­mance cookies (see above) to track the behav­ior of visitors to our website (duration, frequency of pages accessed, geograph­i­cal origin of access, etc.) and compiles reports for us on the use of our website on this basis. We have config­ured the services so that the IP addresses of visitors are truncated by Google in Europe before being forwarded to the USA and there­fore cannot be traced. We have switched off the “Data sharing” and “Signals” settings. Although we can assume that the infor­ma­tion we share with Google is not personal data for Google, it is possi­ble that Google can use this data for its own purposes to draw conclu­sions about the identity of visitors, create personal profiles and link this data to the Google accounts of these persons. If you agree to the use of Google services, you explic­itly consent to such process­ing, which also includes the trans­fer of personal data (in partic­u­lar us-age data for the website and app, device infor­ma­tion and individ­ual IDs) to the USA and other countries. You can find infor­ma­tion about Google’s data protec­tion here: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-US.

What data do we process on our pages in social networks?

We may operate pages and other online presences (“fan pages”, “channels”, “profiles”, etc.) on social networks and other platforms operated by third parties and provide the services described in para. 3 and below about you. We receive this data from you and the platforms when you come into contact with us via our online presence (e.g. when you commu­ni­cate with us, comment on our content or visit our presence). At the same time, the platforms evalu­ate your use of our online presence and link this data with other data about you known to the platforms (e.g. about your behav­ior and prefer­ences). They also process this data for their own purposes under their own respon­si­bil­ity, in partic­u­lar for market­ing and market research purposes (e.g. to person­al­ize adver­tis­ing) and to control their platforms (e.g. which content they display to you).

We receive data about you when you commu­ni­cate with us via online presences or view our content on the corre­spond­ing platforms, visit our online presences or are active on them (e.g. publish content, make comments). These platforms also collect techni­cal data, regis­tra­tion data, commu­ni­ca­tion data, behav­ioral data and prefer­ence data from you or about you (for the terms, see section. 3). These platforms regularly statis­ti­cally analyze the way in which you inter­act with us, how you use our online presences, our content or other parts of the platform (what you view, comment on, “like”, share, etc.) and link this data with other infor­ma­tion about you (e.g. infor­ma­tion on age and gender and other demo-graphic infor­ma­tion). In this way, they also create profiles about you and statis­tics on the use of our online presences. They use this data and profiles to show you our or other adver­tis­ing and other content on the platform in a person­al­ized way and to control the behav­ior of the platform, but also for market and user research and to provide us and other bodies with infor­ma­tion about you and the use of our online presence. We can partially control the analy­ses that these platforms create regard­ing the use of our online presence.

We process this data for the purposes described in para. 4 in partic­u­lar for commu­ni­ca­tion, market­ing purposes (includ­ing adver­tis­ing on these platforms, see section 12) and for market research. You will find infor­ma­tion on the relevant legal bases in Section 0. We may redis­trib­ute content published by you (e.g. comments on an announce­ment) ourselves (e.g. in our adver­tis­ing on the platform or elsewhere). We or the opera­tors of the platforms can also delete or restrict content from or about you in accor­dance with the usage guide­lines (e.g. inappro­pri­ate comments).

For further infor­ma­tion on the process­ing carried out by the platform opera­tors, please refer to the platforms’ data protec­tion notices. There you can also find out in which countries they process your data, which rights of access, erasure and other rights of data subjects you have and how you can exercise these or obtain further infor­ma­tion. We currently use the follow­ing platforms:

– YouTube: We operate a channel here. The entity respon­si­ble for process­ing personal data on YouTube is Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. Infor­ma­tion about data process­ing at YouTube can be found here: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-US.

– LinkedIn: We operate a profile page here. The controller for the process­ing of personal data at LinkedIn is LinkedIn Ireland Unlim­ited Company, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland. Infor­ma­tion about data process­ing by LinkedIn can be found here: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy .

– X (Twitter): We operate a profile here. The controller for the process­ing of personal data at Pinter­est is X Corp, 1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA and for users from Europe Twitter Inter­na­tional Unlim­ited Company, One Cumber­land Place, Fenian Street, Dublin D02 AX07 IRELAND. Infor­ma­tion about da-ta process­ing by X (Twitter) can be found here: https://twitter.com/en/privacy.

Can this privacy policy be amended?

This privacy policy is not part of any contract with you. We may amend this privacy policy at any time. The version published on this website is the current version.

Last updated: 5 Decem­ber 2023