1. Contact addresses

Responsibility for processing personal data:

Haargenau
Seefeldstrasse 96
8008 Zürich
Schweiz
Tel: +41 44 383 12 47
E-Mail: style@haargenau-cb.ch

In individual cases, third parties may be responsible for processing personal data or there may be joint responsibility with third parties.

2. Terms and Legal Bases

2.1 Terms

Data subject: Natural person about whom we process personal data.

Personal data: All information that relates to an identified or identifiable natural person.

Personal data that is particularly worthy of protection: data about trade union, political, religious or ideological views and activities, data about health, privacy or membership of an ethnic or racial group, genetic data, biometric data that clearly identifies a natural person, data about criminal and administrative sanctions or persecution, and data about social assistance measures.

Processing: Any handling of personal data, regardless of the means and procedures used, such as querying, comparing, adapting, archiving, storing, reading, disclosing, obtaining, recording, collecting, deleting, disclosing, sorting, organizing, storing, changing, disseminating, linking, destroying and using personal data.

2.2 Legal Bases

We process personal data in accordance with Swiss data protection law, in particular the Federal Data Protection Act (Data Protection Act, DSG) and the Data Protection Ordinance (Data Protection Ordinance, DSV).

3. Type, Scope and Purpose of Processing Personal Data

We process the personal data that is necessary to be able to carry out our activities and operations permanently, humanely, safely and reliably. The personal data processed may in particular fall into the categories of browser and device data, content data, communication data, metadata, usage data, master data including inventory and contact data, location data, transaction data, contract data and payment data.

We also process personal data that we receive from third parties, obtain from publicly available sources or collect in the exercise of our activities and activities, to the extent that such processing is permitted for legal reasons.

We process personal data, where necessary, with the consent of the data subjects. In many cases we can process personal data without consent, for example to fulfill legal obligations or to protect overriding interests. We may also ask data subjects for their consent where their consent is not required.

We process personal data for the period necessary for the respective purpose. We anonymize or delete personal data, particularly depending on legal retention and limitation periods.

4. Disclosure of Personal Data

We may disclose personal data to third parties, have it processed by third parties or process it jointly with third parties. Such third parties are, in particular, specialized providers whose services we use.

We may disclose personal data, for example, to banks and other financial service providers, authorities, educational and research institutions, consultants and lawyers, interest groups, IT service providers, cooperation partners, credit and credit reporting agencies, logistics and shipping companies, marketing and advertising agencies, media, organizations and associations, social institutions, telecommunications companies and insurance companies.

5. Communication

We process personal data in order to be able to communicate with individuals as well as with authorities, organizations and companies. In particular, we process data that a data subject sends to us when contacting us, for example by post or email. We may store such data in an address book or similar means.

Third parties who provide us with data about other people are obliged to independently ensure the data protection of these data subjects. In particular, you must ensure that such data is accurate and may be transmitted.

6. Data Security

We take appropriate technical and organizational measures to ensure data security that is appropriate to the respective risk. With our measures, we ensure in particular the confidentiality, availability, traceability and integrity of the processed personal data, but cannot guarantee absolute data security.

Access to our website and our other online presence is carried out using transport encryption (SSL / TLS, in particular with the Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure, abbreviated HTTPS). Most browsers warn against visiting websites without transport encryption.

Our digital communication is - like basically all digital communication - subject to mass surveillance without cause or suspicion by security authorities in Switzerland, the rest of Europe, the United States of America (USA) and other countries. We cannot have any direct influence on the appropriate processing of personal data by secret services, police departments and other security authorities. We also cannot rule out the possibility that an affected person is being specifically monitored.

7. Personal Data Abroad

We generally process personal data in Switzerland. We can also disclose or export personal data to other countries, in particular in order to process it or have it processed there.

We can disclose personal data to all countries in the world, provided that the local law guarantees adequate data protection in accordance with the decision of the Swiss Federal Council.

We may disclose personal data in countries whose laws do not ensure adequate data protection, provided that appropriate data protection is guaranteed for other reasons, in particular on the basis of standard data protection clauses or with other appropriate guarantees. As an exception, we can export personal data to countries without adequate or appropriate data protection if the special data protection requirements are met, for example the express consent of the data subjects or a direct connection with the conclusion or execution of a contract. Upon request, we will be happy to provide affected persons with information about any guarantees or provide a copy of any guarantees.

8. Rights of Data Subjects

8.1 Data Protection Claims

We grant data subjects all claims in accordance with applicable data protection law. Data subjects have the following rights in particular:

• Information: Data subjects can request information as to whether we process personal data about them and, if so, what personal data is involved. Affected persons also receive the information necessary to assert their data protection claims and to ensure transparency. This includes the processed personal data as such, but also, among other things, information on the purpose of processing, the duration of storage, any disclosure or export of data to other countries and the origin of the personal data.
• Correction and restriction: Data subjects can correct incorrect personal data, complete incomplete data and have the processing of their data restricted.
• Deletion and objection: Data subjects can have their personal data deleted (“right to be forgotten”) and object to the processing of their data with effect for the future.
• Data release and data transfer: Affected persons can request the release of personal data or the transfer of their data to another person responsible.

We may suspend, restrict or refuse to exercise the rights of data subjects to the extent permitted by law. We can inform affected persons of any requirements that need to be met in order to exercise their data protection rights. For example, we can refuse to provide information in whole or in part with reference to confidentiality obligations, overriding interests or the protection of other people. For example, we can also refuse to delete personal data in whole or in part, in particular with reference to legal retention requirements.

We may, in exceptional circumstances, provide for costs for the exercise of the rights. We will inform those affected in advance about any costs.

We are obliged to take appropriate measures to identify data subjects who request information or assert other rights. Those affected are obliged to cooperate.

8.2 Legal Protection

Affected persons have the right to enforce their data protection claims through legal action or to file a report or complaint with a data protection supervisory authority.

The data protection supervisory authority for private parties responsible and federal bodies in Switzerland is the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC).

9. Use of the Site

9.1 Cookies

We may use cookies. Cookies - our own cookies (first-party cookies) and cookies from third parties whose services we use (third-party cookies) - are data that are stored in the browser. Such stored data need not be limited to traditional text-based cookies.

Cookies can be stored in the browser temporarily, as “session cookies” or for a certain period of time as so-called permanent cookies. “Session cookies” are automatically deleted when the browser is closed. Permanent cookies have a specific storage period. In particular, cookies make it possible to recognize a browser the next time you visit our website and thereby, for example, measure the reach of our website. Permanent cookies can also be used for online marketing, for example.

Cookies can be completely or partially deactivated and deleted in the browser settings at any time. Without cookies, our website may no longer be fully available. We actively request – at least if and to the extent necessary – your express consent to the use of cookies.

9.2 Logging

We can log at least the following information for every access to our website and our other online presence, provided that it is transmitted to our digital infrastructure during such access: date and time including time zone, IP address, access status (HTTP status code), operating system including user interface and version, browser including language and version, individual subpage of our website accessed including amount of data transferred, last website accessed in the same browser window (referrer).

We log such information, which can also represent personal data, in log files. The information is necessary in order to be able to provide our online presence in a permanent, human-friendly and reliable manner. The information is also necessary in order to ensure data security - also by third parties or with the help of third parties.

9.3 Web Beacons

We may incorporate web beacons into our online presence. Web beacons - including those from third parties whose services we use - are usually small, invisible images or scripts formulated in JavaScript that are automatically retrieved when you access our online presence. Web beacons can be used to record at least the same information as log files.

10. Social Media

We are present on social media platforms and other online platforms in order to be able to communicate with interested parties and provide information about our activities and operations. In connection with such platforms, personal data can also be processed outside of Switzerland.

The General Terms and Conditions (GTC) and terms of use as well as data protection declarations and other provisions of the individual operators of such platforms also apply. These provisions provide information in particular about the rights of data subjects directly vis-à-vis the respective platform, which includes, for example, the right to information.

11. Third Party Services

We use services from specialized third parties in order to be able to carry out our activities in a permanent, humane, safe and reliable manner. Such services allow us, among other things, to embed functions and content into our website. With such embedding, the services used record the users' IP addresses at least temporarily for technically compelling reasons.

For necessary security-related, statistical and technical purposes, third parties whose services we use may process data related to our activities and operations in aggregated, anonymized or pseudonymized form. This is, for example, performance or usage data in order to be able to offer the respective service. We particularly use:

• Google services: Providers: Google LLC (USA) / Google Ireland Limited (Ireland) partly for users in the European Economic Area (EEA) and Switzerland; General data protection information: «Privacy and security principles», «More information about how Google uses personal data», Data protection declaration, «Google is committed to complying with applicable data protection laws», «Guide to data protection in Google products», «How we use data from websites or apps on which our services are used», «Types of cookies and similar technologies that Google uses», «Advertising over which you can influence» (“Personalized advertising”).
  
  

11.1 Digital Infrastructure

We use services from specialized third parties to access required digital infrastructure in connection with our activities and operations. These include, for example, hosting and storage services from selected providers. We particularly use:

• Cyon: Hosting; Provider: cyon GmbH (Switzerland); Data protection information: “Data protection”, data protection declaration.
• WordPress.com: blog hosting and website builder; Providers: Automattic Inc. (USA) / Aut O’Mattic A8C Ireland Ltd. (Ireland) for users in Europe, among others; Data protection information: privacy policy, cookie policy.
  
  

11.2 Scheduling

We use services from specialized third parties to be able to arrange appointments online, for example for meetings. In addition to this data protection declaration, any directly visible conditions of the services used, such as terms of use or data protection declarations, also apply.

11.3 Social Media Features and Social Media Content

We use third-party services and plugins to embed functions and content from social media platforms and to enable sharing of content on social media platforms and in other ways. We particularly use:

• Instagram platform: Embedding Instagram content; Providers: Meta Platforms Ireland Limited (Ireland) and other meta companies (including in the USA); Data protection information: Data protection declaration (Instagram), data protection declaration (Facebook).

11.4 Map Material

We use third-party services to be able to embed maps into our website. We particularly use:

• Google Maps including Google Maps Platform: map service; Provider: Google; Google Maps-specific information: “How Google uses location information”.

11.5 Fonts

We use third-party services to embed selected fonts, icons, logos and symbols into our website. We particularly use:

• Google Fonts: Fonts; Provider: Google; Google Fonts-specific information: “Your Privacy and Google Fonts” (“Your Privacy and Google Fonts”), “Data protection and data collection” (Google Fonts).

12. Website Extensions

We use extensions for our website to enable additional functions. We can use selected services from suitable providers or use such extensions on our own digital infrastructure. We use in particular:

• Akismet: Spam protection (differentiation between desired content from humans and content from bots and spam); Providers: Automattic Inc. (USA) / Aut O’Mattic A8C Ireland Ltd. (Ireland) for users in Europe, among others; Data protection information: “Privacy Notice for Visitors to Our Users’ Sites”, Privacy Policy (from Automattic), Cookie Policy.

13. Final Information on the Data Protection Declaration

We may update this privacy policy at any time. We inform you about updates in an appropriate form, in particular by publishing the current data protection declaration on our website.