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DATA PROTECTION

The responsible body within the meaning of the data protection laws, in particular the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), is:

 

EZASWISS

Elizabeth Knechtli

Lärchenstrasse 6

5420 Ehrendingen

Telephone: 0782391674

Email: info@ezaswiss.ch

Website: https://www.ezaswiss.ch/

 

General Note

Based on Article 13 of the Swiss Federal Constitution and the data protection provisions of the Swiss Confederation (Data Protection Act, DSG), every person is entitled 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 privacy policy.

In cooperation with our hosting providers, we make every effort to protect the databases as well as possible against unauthorized access, data loss, misuse or falsification.

We would like to point out that data transmission over the internet (e.g. when communicating by email) may have security gaps. It is not possible to provide seamless protection of data against access by third parties.

By using this website, you consent to the collection, processing and use of data in accordance with the following description. This website can be visited without registration. Data such as pages viewed or the name of the file retrieved, date and time are stored on the server for statistical purposes without this data being directly related to your person. Personal data, in particular name, address or e-mail address, are collected on a voluntary basis as far as possible. The data will not be passed on to third parties without your consent.

 

Processing of personal data

Personal data is any information relating to an identified or identifiable person. A data subject is a person about whom personal data is processed. Processing includes any handling of personal data, regardless of the means and procedures used, in particular the storage, disclosure, procurement, deletion, saving, modification, destruction and use of personal data.

We process personal data in accordance with Swiss data protection law. In addition, we process personal data – insofar as and to the extent that the EU GDPR is applicable – in accordance with the following legal bases in connection with Art. 6 (1) GDPR:

  • Consent (Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a. DSGVO) - The data subject has given his or her consent to the processing of his or her personal data for one or more specific purposes.

  • Contract performance and pre-contractual requests (Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. b. DSGVO) - The processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is a party or for the implementation of pre-contractual measures taken at the request of the data subject.

  • Legal obligation (Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. c. GDPR) - The processing is necessary to fulfill a legal obligation to which the controller is subject.

  • Protection of vital interests (Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. d. GDPR) - The processing is necessary to protect the vital interests of the data subject or another natural person.

  • Legitimate interests (Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f. GDPR) - The processing is necessary to safeguard the legitimate interests of the controller or a third party, unless the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject, which require the protection of personal data, prevail.

  • Application procedure as a pre-contractual or contractual relationship (Art. 9 para. 2 lit. b DSGVO) - Insofar as special categories of personal data within the meaning of Art. 9 para. 1 DSGVO (e.g. health data, such as severely disabled status or ethnic origin) are requested from applicants as part of the application procedure, so that the person responsible or the data subject can exercise the rights arising from labor law and social security and social protection, their processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 9 para. 2 lit. b. DSGVO, in the case of the protection of vital interests of applicants or other persons in accordance with Art. 9 para. 2 lit. c. DSGVO or for purposes of health care or occupational medicine, for the assessment of the employee's ability to work, for medical diagnostics, care or treatment in the health or social field or for the administration of systems and services in the health or social field in accordance with Art. 9 para. 2 lit. h. In the case of a communication of special categories of data based on voluntary consent, their processing is carried out on the basis of Art. 9 para. 2 lit. a. GDPR.

We process personal data for the duration necessary for the respective purpose or purposes. In the case of longer-term storage obligations due to legal and other obligations to which we are subject, we restrict the processing accordingly.

 

Relevant legal bases

In accordance with Art. 13 GDPR, we will inform you of the legal basis for our data processing. If the legal basis is not mentioned in the data protection declaration, the following applies: The legal basis for obtaining consent is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a and Art. 7 GDPR, the legal basis for the processing for the performance of our services and the execution of contractual measures as well as the answering of inquiries is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR, the legal basis for the processing for the fulfillment of our legal obligations is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c GDPR, and the legal basis for the processing for safeguarding our legitimate interests is Article 6(1)(f) GDPR. In the event that the vital interests of the data subject or another natural person require the processing of personal data, Article 6(1)(d) GDPR serves as the legal basis.

 

Security measures

We take appropriate technical and organizational measures in accordance with the legal requirements, taking into account the state of the art, the implementation costs and the nature, scope, circumstances and purposes of the processing, as well as the varying probabilities of occurrence and the extent of the threat to the rights and freedoms of natural persons, in order to ensure a level of protection appropriate to the risk.

The measures include, in particular, safeguarding the confidentiality, integrity and availability of data by controlling physical and electronic access to the data, as well as the access, input, disclosure, safeguarding of availability and its separation. Furthermore, we have set up procedures to ensure that the rights of data subjects are exercised, that data is deleted and that we respond to data being compromised. Furthermore, we take the protection of personal data into account as early as the development or selection of hardware, software and processes, in accordance with the principle of data protection, through technology design and data protection-friendly default settings.

 

Transfer of personal data

As part of our processing of personal data, it may happen that the data is transferred or disclosed to other departments, companies, legally independent organizational units or persons. The recipients of this data may include, for example, service providers contracted to perform IT tasks or providers of services and content that are integrated into a website. In such cases, we comply with the legal requirements and, in particular, conclude appropriate contracts or agreements with the recipients of your data that serve to protect your data.

 

Data processing in third countries

If we process data in a third country (i.e. outside the European Union (EU), the European Economic Area (EEA)) or if the processing takes place in the context of using third-party services or disclosing or transferring data to other persons, bodies or companies, this will only be done in accordance with the legal requirements.

Subject to express consent or contractually or legally required transfer, we process the data only in third countries with a recognized level of data protection, contractual obligation through so-called standard protection clauses of the EU Commission, if certifications or binding internal data protection regulations are in place (Art. 44 to 49 GDPR, information page of the EU Commission: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic /data-protection/international-dimension-data-protection_de).

 

Privacy Policy for Cookies

This website uses cookies. Cookies are text files that contain data from visited websites or domains and are stored by a browser on the user's computer. A cookie is primarily used to store information about a user during or after their visit to an online service. The information stored may include, for example, the language settings on a website, the login status, a shopping cart or the place where a video was viewed. The term “cookies” also includes other technologies that perform the same functions as cookies (e.g. when user information is stored using pseudonymous online identifiers, also known as “user IDs”).

The following types of cookies and their functions are distinguished:

  • Temporary cookies (also: session cookies): Temporary cookies are deleted at the latest after a user has left an online service and closed his browser.

  • Permanent cookies: Permanent cookies remain stored even after the browser is closed. This means, for example, that the login status can be saved or preferred content can be displayed directly when the user visits a website again. Likewise, the interests of users, which are used to measure reach or for marketing purposes, can be stored in such a cookie.

  • First-party cookies: First-party cookies are set by ourselves.

  • Third-party cookies (also: third-party cookies): Third-party cookies are mainly used by advertisers (so-called third parties) to process user information.

  • Necessary (also: essential or absolutely necessary) cookies: Cookies may be absolutely necessary for the operation of a website (e.g. to store logins or other user input or for security reasons).

  • Statistics, marketing and personalization cookies: Furthermore, cookies are generally also used in the context of reach measurement and when a user's interests or behavior (e.g. viewing certain content, using functions, etc.) on individual websites are stored in a user profile. Such profiles are used, for example, to display content to users that matches their potential interests. This procedure is also referred to as “tracking”, i.e. tracking the potential interests of users. If we use cookies or “tracking” technologies, we will inform you separately in our data protection declaration or when we obtain your consent.

Notes on legal bases: The legal basis on which we process your personal data using cookies depends on whether we ask you for your consent. If this is the case and you consent to the use of cookies, the legal basis for processing your data is the declared consent. Otherwise, the data processed using cookies will be processed on the basis of our legitimate interests (e.g. in the commercial operation of our online services and their improvement) or, if the use of cookies is necessary to fulfill our contractual obligations.

Storage period: If we do not provide you with any explicit information about the storage period of permanent cookies (e.g. as part of a so-called cookie opt-in), please assume that the storage period can be up to two years.

General information on revocation and objection (opt-out): Depending on whether the processing is based on consent or legal permission, you have the option at any time to revoke consent that you have given or to object to the processing of your data using cookie technologies (collectively referred to as “opt-out”). You can initially declare your objection by means of your browser settings, e.g. by disabling the use of cookies (although this may also limit the functionality of our online services). An objection to the use of cookies for online marketing purposes can also be declared for a large number of services, especially in the case of tracking, via the websites https://optout.aboutads.info and https://www.youronlinechoices.com/. You can also find further information on how to object in the information on the service providers and cookies used.

Processing of cookie data on the basis of consent: We use a cookie consent management procedure in the course of which users' consent to the use of cookies and/or the processing and providers mentioned in the cookie consent management procedure can be obtained and managed and withdrawn by users. The declaration of consent is stored so that the request does not have to be repeated and so that the consent can be proven in accordance with the legal obligation. The storage can be done on the server side and/or in a cookie (so-called opt-in cookie, or using comparable technologies) in order to be able to assign the consent to a user or their device. Subject to individual information about the providers of cookie management services, the following information applies: The duration of the storage of consent can be up to two years. For this purpose, a pseudonymous user identifier is created and stored with the time of consent, information on the scope of consent (e.g. which categories of cookies and/or service providers) and the browser, system and end device used.

  • Processed data types: Usage data (e.g. websites visited, interest in content, access times), meta/communication data (e.g. device information, IP addresses).

  • Affected persons: Users (e.g. website visitors, users of online services).

  • Legal basis: Consent (Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a. GDPR), Legitimate interests (Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f. GDPR).

 

Privacy Policy for SSL/TLS Encryption

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

If SSL or TLS encryption is activated, the data you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.

 

Privacy Policy for Server Log Files

The provider of this website automatically collects and stores information in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically transmits to us. These are:

  • Browser type and browser version

  • Operating system used

  • Referrer URL

  • Host name of the accessing computer

  • Time of the server request

These data cannot be assigned to specific persons. These data are not combined with other data sources. We reserve the right to check these data retrospectively if we become aware of specific indications of illegal use.

 

Third-party services

This website may use Google Maps for embedding maps, Google Invisible reCAPTCHA for protection against bots and spam, and YouTube for embedding videos.

These services of the American Google LLC use cookies, among other things, and as a result, data is transferred to Google in the USA, although we assume that no personal tracking takes place in this context solely through the use of our website.

Google is committed to ensuring an adequate level of data protection in accordance with the US-European and US-Swiss Privacy Shield.

Further information can be found in the Google Privacy Policy.

 

Privacy policy for contact form

If you send us enquiries using the contact form, your details from the enquiry form, including the contact data you provided there, will be stored by us for the purpose of processing the enquiry and in the event of follow-up questions. We will not pass on this data without your consent.

 

Privacy policy for newsletter data

If you wish to receive the newsletter offered on this website, we require an e-mail address from you as well as information that allows us to verify that you are the owner of the e-mail address provided and that you agree to receive the newsletter. Further data is not collected. We use this data exclusively for sending the requested information and do not pass it on to third parties.

You can revoke your consent to the storage of the data, the e-mail address and its use for sending the newsletter at any time, for example via the “unsubscribe link” in the newsletter.

 

Privacy policy for the comment function on this website

For the comment function on this website, in addition to your comment, information about when the comment was created, your e-mail address and, if you do not post anonymously, the username you have chosen will be stored.

Storage of the IP address

Our comment function stores the IP addresses of those users who post comments. Since we do not check comments on our site before they go live, we need this information to be able to take action against the author in the event of legal violations such as insults or propaganda.

Subscribing to comments

As a user of the site, you can subscribe to comments after registering. You will receive a confirmation email to verify that you are the owner of the email address provided. You can unsubscribe from this function at any time via a link in the info emails.

 

Rights of data subjects

Right to confirmation

Every data subject has the right to request confirmation from the website operator as to whether personal data relating to data subjects is being processed. If you wish to exercise this right of confirmation, you can contact the data protection officer at any time.

 

Right to information

Any person affected by the processing of personal data has the right to receive information free of charge and at any time from the operator of this website about the personal data stored about them and to receive a copy of this information. Furthermore, information may be provided about the following, if applicable:

  • the purposes of the processing

  • the categories of personal data being processed

  • the recipients to whom the personal data has been or will be disclosed

  • if possible, the planned duration for which the personal data will be stored or, if this is not possible, the criteria for determining that duration

  • the existence of the right to request from the controller rectification or erasure of personal data or restriction of processing of personal data concerning the data subject or to object to such processing

  • the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority

  • where the personal data are not collected from the data subject, any available information as to their source

Furthermore, the data subject has the right to be informed as to whether personal data has been transferred to a third country or to an international organization. If this is the case, the data subject also has the right to receive information about the appropriate safeguards in connection with the transfer.

If you would like to exercise this right to information, you can contact our data protection officer at any time.

 

Right to rectification

Any person affected by the processing of personal data has the right to demand the immediate rectification of inaccurate personal data concerning him or her. Furthermore, the data subject has the right to request the completion of incomplete personal data, including by means of providing a supplementary statement, taking into account the purposes of the processing.

If you wish to exercise this right of rectification, you can contact our data protection officer at any time.

 

Right to erasure (right to be forgotten)

Any data subject affected by the processing of personal data has the right to request the controller of this website to erase personal data concerning him or her without undue delay where one of the following grounds applies and insofar as the processing is not necessary:

  • The personal data are no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed

  • The data subject withdraws the consent on which the processing was based and there is no other legal basis for the processing

  • The data subject objects to the processing for reasons arising from their particular situation and there are no overriding legitimate reasons for the processing, or the data subject objects to the processing in the case of direct marketing and associated profiling

  • The personal data have been unlawfully processed

  • The personal data have to be erased for compliance with a legal obligation in Union or Member State law to which the controller is subject

  • The personal data have been collected in relation to information society services offered directly to a child

If one of the aforementioned reasons applies, and a data subject wishes to request the erasure of personal data stored by the operator of this website, he or she may, at any time, contact our data protection officer. The data protection officer of this website shall promptly ensure that the erasure request is complied with immediately.

 

Right to restriction of processing

Any person affected by the processing of personal data has the right to request the controller of this website to restrict the processing if one of the following conditions applies:

  • The accuracy of the personal data is contested by the data subject, for a period of time that enables the controller to verify the accuracy of the personal data

  • The processing is unlawful, the data subject refuses to delete the personal data and instead requests that the use of the personal data be restricted.

  • The controller no longer needs the personal data for the purposes of the processing, but the data subject needs them in order to exercise or defend legal claims.

  • The data subject has objected to the processing for reasons arising from their particular situation and it is not yet clear whether the legitimate reasons of the controller outweigh those of the data subject.

If any of the above conditions apply and you wish to request the restriction of personal data stored by the operator of this website, you can contact our data protection officer at any time. The data protection officer of this website will arrange for the processing to be restricted.

 

Right to data portability

Every data subject has the right to receive the personal data concerning him or her in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. He or she also has the right to have this data transmitted to another controller where the legal requirements are met.

Furthermore, the data subject has the right to have the personal data transmitted directly from one controller to another, where technically feasible and provided that this does not adversely affect the rights and freedoms of others.

To assert the right to data portability, you can contact the data protection officer appointed by the operator of this website at any time.

Right to object

Any person affected by the processing of personal data has the right to object, on grounds relating to his or her particular situation, at any time to processing of personal data concerning him or her.

In the event of an objection, the operator of this website will no longer process the personal data unless we can prove compelling reasons for the processing worthy of protection, which outweigh the interests, rights and freedoms of the person concerned, or if the processing serves the assertion, exercise or defense of legal claims.

To exercise the right of objection, you can contact the data protection officer of this website directly.

Right to revoke consent under data protection law

Any person affected by the processing of personal data has the right to revoke consent to the processing of personal data at any time.

If you wish to exercise your right to revoke consent, you can contact our data protection officer at any time.

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