Privacy Policy

We are pleased about your visit on our website. Below we inform you about the processing of any personal data obtained via this website and our newsletter.

1. Collection and use of personal data

The scope, type of collection and the processing of your personal data depends on whether you are just visiting our website or subscribing to our newsletter.

a. Visit our website

When you visit our website, in particular your IP address, the browser used and the date and time of your visit are registered and stored.
This data is used to ensure the functionality of the website and for statistical purposes, in particular to further develop our website or to make it as user-friendly as possible.

b. Subscribe to our newsletter

If you register for our newsletter, the data from the input mask and the date of your registration will be transmitted to us.

For sending our newsletter we use the system of a third party provider (Cleverreach, based in Germany), which is equipped with functions for statistical evaluations. By means of the newsletters sent via this system, it is possible to register whether and which newsletters are opened on a personal basis. Although we do not actively use this, the system automatically registers from where and via which client you open our newsletter.

We use the data collected in this way for advertising purposes, such as sending emails of an advertising nature (newsletter), sending customer-specific advertising or for statistical purposes, in particular to optimize our newsletter.

You can unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time.

2. Legal basis and duration of storage

We comply with applicable laws when processing personal data. Your personal data will therefore be processed in accordance with Swiss data protection law. To the extent that the General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") is applicable, we process personal data only with your consent (article 6(1)(a) GDPR), for compliance with a legal obligation (Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR) or for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by us or by a third party (article 6(1)(f) GDPR). Justifiable interests are in particular: Ensuring the functionality and further development of the website, information security, newsletter optimization.

In principle, personal data is deleted as soon as it is no longer necessary to achieve the purpose of its collection (unless there is a legal obligation to store it).

3. Transfer of data

We do not transfer the data collected on our website or by sending the newsletter, unless you have expressly consented, this is necessary to assert, exercise or defend legal claims, a legal obligation requires this or to enforce claims arising from a contractual relationship.

However, we are entitled to commission third parties with the management of the website, the data processing and the technical implementation of the newsletter.

4. Rights of the data subject

You may request information at any time as to whether and which personal data concerning you are processed and/or stored by us.

Furthermore, you have a right to rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, the right of objection and - if and insofar as the GDPR is applicable - the right to data portability.

You can withdraw your consent to the processing of personal data at any time with effect for the future.

If and insofar as the GDPR is applicable, you have a right of appeal to a competent supervisory authority.

5. Data security

We protect your personal data with adequate technical and organisational measures against unauthorized processing.

Please note that personal data, which you transmit via the internet or by e-mail, may be viewed or changed by third parties.

6. Third-Party Services

a. Share Plug-ins

You can find plug-ins from Twitter, LinkedIn and Outlook on our website under "Share". These plug-ins are provided by the respective providers. As soon as you click on the respective icon, you will be connected to the server of the corresponding provider. If you are registered with the corresponding service, you can directly recommend or share certain contents of our website.

We do not know which data these providers collect using the plug-in and we have no influence on the collection of this data. You can find further information on this in the data protection declarations of the individual providers.

b. Google Maps

We use Google Maps to embed maps into our website. Cookies are also used in this process. Google Maps is a service by the American company Google LLC. For users in the European Economic Area (EEA) and Switzerland, the Irish company Google Ireland Limited is responsible. Further information on the nature, scope and purpose of data processing can be found in Google's Privacy and Security Principles and Privacy Policy, in Google's Product Privacy Guide (including Google Maps), in the information on how Google uses information from sites or apps that use their services and in the information on how Google uses cookies. In addition, there is the possibility to object to personalized advertising.

c. Google reCAPTCHA

We use Google reCAPTCHA to protect input forms from bots and spam, but at the same time to enable reliable human input. Cookies are also used in the process. This is a service of the American company Google LLC. For users in the European Economic Area (EEA) and in Switzerland, the Irish company Google Ireland Limited is responsible. Further information about the nature, scope and purpose of data processing can be found in Google's Privacy and Security Principles and Privacy Policy, as well as in the information on how Google uses cookies

7. Responsibility

Responsible is and you may contact with any questions or comments regarding this privacy policy:

Suter Howald Attorneys at Law
P.O. Box
8021 Zurich

Email: mail@suterhowald.ch
Tel.: +41 44 630 48 11

8. Amendments to the privacy policy

This privacy policy is updated from time to time, so we recommend that you consult it regularly.

Last update: May 2018

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