Data protection

Based on Article 13 of the Swiss Federal Constitution and the data protection regulations of the federal government (Data Protection Act, DSG), every person has the right to protection of their privacy and protection against misuse of their personal data. The operators of these pages take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with the statutory data protection regulations and this data protection declaration.

When accessing our website, the following data is stored in log files: IP address, date, time, browser request and general transmitted information about the operating system resp. browsers. This usage data forms the basis for statistical, anonymous evaluations so that trends can be identified, which we can use to improve our offers accordingly.

Insofar as personal data (e.g. name, address or e-mail addresses) is collected on our website, this is always done on a voluntary basis as far as possible. Some of this data will be passed on to third parties in accordance with this data protection declaration.

We would like to point out that data transmission on the Internet (e.g. when communicating by e-mail) can have security gaps. A complete protection of the data against access by third parties is not possible.

1.Cookies

This website uses so-called cookies. Cookies do not damage your computer and do not contain viruses. Cookies serve to make our offer more user-friendly, effective and secure. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and saved by your browser.

By leaving a comment on our site, you consent to having your name, email address and website stored in cookies. This is a convenience function so that you do not have to re-enter this information when you write another comment. These cookies are stored for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

If you log in, we will set some cookies to save your login information and viewing options. Login cookies expire after two days and display options cookies after one year. If you select “Keep me signed in” when registering, your registration will be kept for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be deleted.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be stored in your browser. This cookie contains no personal data and only refers to the post ID of the article you just edited. The cookie expires after one day.

You can find more cookies that are used on this site in the following sections of this data protection declaration for the relevant topics. (e.g. Google Analytics, etc)

Most web browsers automatically accept cookies. You can avoid this by changing your browser settings. You can remove cookies stored on your PC at any time by deleting the temporary internet files. There is also the option of deactivating the use of cookies in your browser.

Here you will find instructions on how to delete or disable cookies for Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Mozilla.

Deactivating cookies may mean that you cannot use all the functions of our website.

3. Media

If you are a registered user and upload photos to this website, you should avoid uploading photos with an EXIF GPS location. Visitors to this website may download photos stored on this website and extract location information from them.

4. Contact Forms

We use the WordPress plugin Gravity Form for the forms. In the case of form inquiries, details such as name, address, telephone number and e-mail address are requested. This information is stored and used indefinitely for the sole purpose of processing the request. The data is transmitted in encrypted form according to the current state of technology and cannot be viewed by third parties, nor is data passed on to third parties.

5. Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this website may contain embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves exactly as if the visitor had visited the other website.

5.1 Twitter

The website integrates content from the social media platform Twitter. The Custom Twitter Feeds plugin from Smashballoon is used for this. The plugin forwards the user directly to Twitter, whereby Twitter collects specific user data. If you want to know what data Twitter collects from you, you can find this in Twitter’s privacy policy .

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third party tracking services, and record your interaction with that embedded content, including your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to this website.

5.2. Google Fonts

We integrate the fonts (“Google Fonts”) from the provider Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Privacy Policy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/ , Opt-Out: https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated .

6. Collection and analysis of user data

No additional services are used to collect user data (e.g. Google Analytics).

7. Validity of the Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to amend this declaration at any time. The version published on this website applies.

Last updated in June 2022