Privacy Policy

Pursuant to Article 13 of the Swiss Federal Constitution and the federal data protection provisions (Data Protection Act, DSG), every person has the right to privacy and to protection against the misuse of their personal data. We comply with these provisions. Personal data is treated as strictly confidential and is neither sold nor disclosed to third parties.

You have the right at any time to receive, free of charge, information about your stored personal data, its origin and recipients, and the purpose of data processing, as well as the right to have this data corrected, blocked, or deleted.

SSL Encryption

This website uses SSL encryption for security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as the inquiries you send to us as the website operator. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the fact that the address bar of your browser changes from “http://” to “https://” and by the lock icon in your browser’s address bar.

When SSL encryption is enabled, the data you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.

Contact Form

If you send us inquiries via the contact form, the information you provide in the form—including the contact details and IP address you enter there—will be stored by us for the purpose of processing your inquiry and in case of follow-up questions. We will not disclose this data without your consent.

Only in exceptional cases is the full IP address transmitted to a Google server in the United States and truncated there. Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity for the website operators, and to provide other services related to website and Internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required by law or where such third parties process the data on Google’s behalf. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics is not combined with other data held by Google.

You can prevent the installation of cookies by adjusting your browser settings accordingly (https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de); however, please note that in this case you may not be able to use all features of this website to their full extent. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data collected about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes described above.

MailChimp

Newsletters are sent via “MailChimp,” a newsletter distribution platform provided by the U.S. company Rocket Science Group, LLC, 675 Ponce De Leon Ave NE #5000, Atlanta, GA 30308, USA.

e of Cookies

Some parts of this website use so-called cookies. These are used to make our website more user-friendly, effective, and secure. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and saved by your browser. Most of the cookies we use are so-called “session cookies.” They are automatically deleted at the end of your visit. Cookies do not cause any damage to your computer and do not contain viruses.

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies,” which are text files stored on your computer that enable an 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 United States and stored there. However, if IP anonymization is enabled on this website, your IP address will be truncated by Google beforehand within member states of the European Union or in other signatory states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area.

MailChimp

Newsletters are sent via “MailChimp,” a newsletter distribution platform provided by the U.S. company Rocket Science Group, LLC, 675 Ponce De Leon Ave NE #5000, Atlanta, GA 30308, USA.

The email addresses of our newsletter recipients, as well as their other data described in this privacy notice, are stored on MailChimp’s servers in the United States. MailChimp uses this information to send and analyze the newsletters on our behalf. Furthermore, according to its own information, MailChimp may use this data to optimize or improve its own services—for example, to technically optimize the delivery and presentation of newsletters or for business purposes, such as determining which countries the recipients are from. However, MailChimp does not use the data of our newsletter recipients to contact them directly or to share it with third parties.

We trust in MailChimp’s reliability and its IT and data security measures. MailChimp is certified under the U.S.-EU “Privacy Shield” framework and is therefore committed to complying with EU data protection regulations. Furthermore, we have entered into a “Data Processing Agreement” with MailChimp. This is a contract in which MailChimp commits to protecting our users’ data, processing it on our behalf in accordance with its privacy policy, and, in particular, not disclosing it to third parties.