Data protection law. Data protection sample.

We are happy to inform you about the processing of personal data when using our website. We are available at any time to answer any questions you may have about this, and we will provide you with the necessary information within the scope of our legal obligations under the revDSG.

■ This website offering is provided by:

Name(specify a natural person with first name and surname)

Contact details (address, telephone, email, company name if applicable)

■ For clarification of terms, we reproduce Art. 5 revDSG below:

a. Personal data: any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person;

b. data subject: natural person about whom personal data are processed;

c. personal data requiring special protection:

1. data on religious, ideological, political or trade union views or activities,

2. data concerning health, privacy or racial or ethnic affiliation,

3. genetic data,

4. biometric data that uniquely identify a natural person,

5. data on administrative and criminal prosecutions or sanctions,

6. data on social assistance measures;

d. Processing: any handling of personal data, regardless of the means and procedures used, in particular the acquisition, storage, retention, use, modification, disclosure, archiving, deletion or destruction of data;

e. Disclosure: the transmission or making available of personal data;

f. Profiling: any automated processing of personal data consisting in using such data to evaluate certain personal aspects relating to a natural person, in particular to analyze or predict aspects relating to that natural person's performance at work, economic situation, health, personal preferences, interests, reliability, behavior, location or change of location;

g. High-risk profiling: profiling that entails a high risk to the personality or fundamental rights of the data subject by leading to a combination of data that allows an assessment of essential aspects of the personality of a natural person;

h. Data breach: a breach of security that results in Personal Data being inadvertently or unlawfully lost, deleted, destroyed or altered, or disclosed or accessed by unauthorized persons;

i. Federal body: agency or department of the Confederation or person entrusted with public duties of the Confederation;

j. Responsible party: private person or federal body that alone or together with others decides on the purpose and means of processing;

k. Data processor: private person or federal body that processes personal data on behalf of the data controller.

■ Processing purpose

Your data will be processed for the following purpose(s)(include only those used by you):

• Use of our website offer

• Contact and communication

• Use of cookies to ensure the basic functionality of the website

• Use of cookies to analyze user behavior and/or transmission to third-party providers

• Provision of a newsletter or other marketing opportunities

• Evaluation of the use of the website through the use of so-called analysis tools

• Compliance with legal and regulatory requirements or obligations, insofar as we are obliged to do so

• Integration of third-party offers for a better user experience or ensuring a high quality of our offer

■ Recipients or category of recipients (specify specific recipients or the category/superordinates).

• Webmaster/Web agency

• Service provider of the web offer

• Employees

• integrated third party providers

• Payment provider/payment processor

• Package/Shipping Service Provider

• Service providers for the preparation of offers e.g. insurers, craftsmen, manufacturers, developers)

• Supplier

• Commissioned data processor

■ Processed personal data

When visiting our website, the following personal data is collected, which is automatically collected by the browser or which you have provided to us. (Indication of the specific personal data collected).

• their actual IP address, unless it has been hidden or changed by the website user,

• E-mail address, as far as it is entered by the website user,

• Name, address, other data, as far as these are entered by the website user,

• Bank data, insofar as these are entered by the website user,

• Health data, insofar as these are entered by the website user or are transferred with consent,

■ Data security

We use the widespread SSL procedure (Secure Socket Layer) in conjunction with the encryption level supported by your browser to visit our website. You can tell whether the page of our website is transmitted in encrypted form by the closed display of the key or lock symbol in the status bar of your browser.

■ Rights of the data subject

Your rights to information and correction, among other things, are governed by the statutory provisions of the revDSG.

■ Use of cookies

Cookies are text files to ensure the use of the website, to improve the website or to track the use of the website (so-called "tracking technology"). Some cookies are stored only for the duration of the visit to the website (so-called "session cookies"). Other cookies are stored for a longer period of time and are only deleted after a set period of time, e.g. to recognize returning users, to analyze user behavior or visit patterns, or to improve website functionality for all users.

You can usually set which cookies you want to allow in the settings of your browser. If all cookies are rejected ("functional cookies"), the visit to our website may be restricted or unavailable. You can find help on cookie management for common browsers here:

- Mozilla Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/de/kb/cookies-loeschen-daten-von-websites-entfernen

- Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/de-de/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies

- Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/61416?hl=de

- Opera: http://www.opera.com/de/help

- Safari: https://support.apple.com/kb/PH17191?locale=de_DE&viewlocale=de_DE.

■ Use of analysis tools

We have integrated analysis tools on our website in order to analyze user behavior, evaluate advertising measures or create visitor statistics. (List and describe analytics tools and refer to their privacy agreements).

■ Integration of social media services

We have integrated so-called social media services on our website. We point out that the data is processed outside of Switzerland and the European Union. We link on our website to our company profiles in the social networks. However, please note that already by calling up our website or by clicking on the link, personal data may be transferred to the social networks on their servers. For information about the respective processing and respective objection options, we refer to the privacy information of the providers. We have integrated the following providers, whose data protection information can be found below. (List providers and their privacy policy and objection).

■ Integration of external online services

We have integrated external online services (e.g. map service) on our website. When you visit our website and consent to the transfer of data abroad, data is transferred to the online service. (Please refer to the online service, collected data and objection options or data protection notice).

■ Changes to the privacy policy

We have made every effort to provide the legally required and legally required information in the data protection declaration. We reserve the right to change and adapt the privacy policy at any time.

■ When visiting our website, personal data may be transferred abroad to the following countries or international bodies.

• Country group 1

• Country2

• Country3

The transfer is based on the following guarantees according to Art. 16 para. 2 or exceptions according to Art. 17 revDSG.

Country group1: Art. 16 para. 1 rev FADP - Determination of adequate level of data protection by Federal Council

Country2: Art. 16 (2) revDSG - appropriate data protection e.g. through standard data protection clauses

Country3: Exception according to Art. 17, e.g. consent of the data subject, conclusion of a contract, protection of public interest or enforcement of legal claims.

A sample data protection declaration with explanation is provided by Prof. Thomas Hoeren as of 09/2022 (incl. TTDSG). Download in Word format (DOC)