Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

1. Privacy at a Glance

General Notes

The following notes provide a simple overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit this website. Personal data are all data with which you can be personally identified. Detailed information about data protection can be found in our privacy policy listed below this text.

Data Collection on This Website

WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DATA COLLECTION ON THIS WEBSITE?

The data processing on this website is carried out by the website operator. You can find their contact details in the "Note to the Responsible Party" section of this privacy policy.

HOW DO WE COLLECT YOUR DATA?

Your data are collected firstly by you providing it to us. This may include data that you input in a contact form.

Other data are collected automatically by our IT systems or after your consent when you visit the website. These are primarily technical data (e.g., Internet browser, operating system, or time of the page call). This data is collected automatically as soon as you enter the website.

WHAT DO WE USE YOUR DATA FOR?

A portion of the data is collected to ensure a flawless provision of the website. Other data can be used to analyze your user behavior.

WHAT RIGHTS DO YOU HAVE REGARDING YOUR DATA?

You have the right to obtain information about your processed personal data, its source, its recipients, and the purpose of its collection at no charge at any time. You also have the right to request that it be corrected, blocked, or deleted. You can contact us at any time at the address given in the legal notice if you have further questions about personal data.

You also have the right to revoke any consent you have given for the use of your personal data at any time.

You can exercise these rights at any time using the contact details provided.

If you believe that the processing of your personal data violates data protection law, you have the option to lodge a complaint with the Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC).

You can contact us at any time with further questions about the issue of data protection.

2. Hosting

We host the content of our website with the following provider:

External Hosting

This website is hosted externally. The personal data collected on this website are stored on the servers of the host(s). These primarily include IP addresses, contact requests, meta and communication data, contract data, contact details, names, accesses to the website, and other data generated through a website.

External hosting is done for the purpose of fulfilling contracts with our potential and existing clients and in the interest of secure, fast, and efficient provision of our online services by a professional provider. If corresponding consent has been asked, the processing is carried out exclusively on the basis of this consent, which can be revoked at any time.

We use the following host:

FIREGROUP GmbH
Hottingerstrasse 12
8032 Zurich

CONTRACT PROCESSING

We have entered into a contract processing agreement with the above-mentioned service provider. This is a legally required contract that ensures they process the personal data of our website visitors only according to our instructions and in compliance with the GDPR. In cooperation with our hosting providers, we strive to protect the databases as much as possible against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, or falsification.

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

3. General Information and Mandatory Information

Data Protection

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. Various types of personal data are collected when you use this website. Personal data are data with which you can be personally identified. This privacy policy explains what information we collect and what we use it for. It also explains how and for what purpose this happens.

Notice Concerning the Party Responsible for This Website

The party responsible for processing data on this website is:

Aveva Trust SA
Steinhauserstrasse 70
P.O. BOX
CH-6301 Zug
Switzerland

Phone: +41 41 710 83 50
Email: info@aveva.ch

The responsible party is the natural or legal person who alone or jointly with others decides on the purposes and means of processing personal data (e.g. names, email addresses, etc.).

Data Retention

Unless a more specific storage period has been specified within this privacy policy, your personal data will remain with us until the purpose for data processing no longer exists. If you make a legitimate request for deletion or revoke your consent to data processing, your data will be deleted, unless we have other legally permissible reasons for storing your personal data (e.g., tax or commercial law retention periods); in the latter case, the deletion will occur after these reasons cease to apply.

Recipients of Personal Data

In the course of our business activities, we work with various external entities. Partial transmission of personal data to these external entities is necessary. We only transfer personal data to external entities when it is required for the fulfillment of a contract, when we are legally obliged to do so, when we have a legitimate interest in the transfer, or when another legal basis allows for the data transfer. When using processors, we only pass on personal data of our customers based on a valid contract for data processing.

SSL or TLS Encryption

For security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as orders or inquiries you send to us as the site operator, this site uses SSL or TLS encryption. You can recognize an encrypted connection in your browser's address line when it changes from "http://" to "https://" and the lock icon is visible in your browser's address bar.

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

4. Data Collection on This Website

Cookies

Our websites use so-called "cookies." Cookies are small data packets that do not cause any damage to your device. They are stored temporarily for the duration of a session (session cookies) or permanently (permanent cookies) on your device. Session cookies are deleted automatically at the end of your visit. Permanent cookies remain stored on your device until you delete them yourself or an automatic deletion is performed by your web browser.

Cookies can be those set by our website (first-party cookies) or by third-party companies (third-party cookies). Third-party cookies can enable the integration of certain services provided by third-party companies on websites (e.g., cookies for processing payment services).

Cookies serve various purposes. Many cookies are technically necessary as certain website functions would not operate without them (e.g., the shopping cart function or displaying videos). Other cookies can be used to analyze user behavior or for advertising purposes.

You can configure your browser to inform you about the setting of cookies and to allow cookies only on a case-by-case basis, to accept cookies for certain cases or to generally exclude them as well as to activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. Disabling cookies may limit the functionality of this website.

Which cookies and services are used on this website can be seen in this privacy policy.

This website utilizes the consent technology of Usercentrics to obtain your consent for storing certain cookies on your device or for using certain technologies and to document it in compliance with data protection regulations. The provider of this technology is Usercentrics GmbH, Sendlinger Straße 7, 80331 Munich, website: https://usercentrics.com/de/ (hereinafter "Usercentrics").

When you enter our website, the following personal data are transmitted to Usercentrics:

  • Your consent(s) or withdrawal of your consent(s)
  • Your IP address
  • Information about your browser
  • Information about your device
  • Time of your visit on the website

Usercentrics also stores a cookie in your browser to be able to assign granted consents or their revocation. The data collected in this way will be stored until you instruct us to delete them, delete the Usercentrics cookie yourself or the purpose for data storage lapses. Mandatory statutory retention periods remain unaffected.

The Usercentrics banner on this website was configured using eRecht24. You can recognize this by the eRecht24 logo appearing in the banner. To display the eRecht24 logo in the banner, a connection to the image server of eRecht24 is established. In this process, the IP address is also transmitted, but only stored in an anonymized form in the server logs. The image server of eRecht24 is located in Germany at a German provider. The banner itself is provided exclusively by Usercentrics.

Consent with Usercentrics

This website uses the consent technology of Usercentrics to obtain your consent for storing certain cookies on your device or for using certain technologies and to document it in compliance with data protection regulations. The provider of this technology is Usercentrics GmbH, Sendlinger Straße 7, 80331 Munich, website: https://usercentrics.com/de/ (hereinafter "Usercentrics").

When you enter our website, the following personal data are transmitted to Usercentrics:

  • Your consent(s) or withdrawal of your consent(s)
  • Your IP address
  • Information about your browser
  • Information about your device
  • Time of your visit on the website
  • Geolocation

Usercentrics also stores a cookie in your browser to be able to assign granted consents or their revocation. The data collected in this way will be stored until you instruct us to delete them, delete the Usercentrics cookie yourself or the purpose for data storage lapses. Mandatory statutory retention periods remain unaffected.

The Usercentrics banner on this website was configured using eRecht24. You can recognize this by the eRecht24 logo appearing in the banner. To display the eRecht24 logo in the banner, a connection to the image server of eRecht24 is established. In this process, the IP address is also transmitted, but only stored in an anonymized form in the server logs. The image server of eRecht24 is located in Germany at a German provider. The banner itself is provided exclusively by Usercentrics.

The use of Usercentrics is to obtain the legally required consents for the use of certain technologies. The legal basis for this is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c GDPR.

Order Processing

We have concluded a contract data processing agreement with the service mentioned above. This contract ensures that the personal data of our website visitors are processed only according to our instructions and in compliance with the GDPR.

Server Log Files

The provider of these pages 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
  • Hostname of the accessing computer
  • Time of the server request
  • IP address

No merging of this data with other data sources will be done.

The website operator has a legitimate interest in the technically error-free presentation and the optimization of his website – for this purpose, the server log files must be captured.

Contact Form

When you send us inquiries via the contact form, your details from the inquiry form, including the contact details you provide there, are stored by us for the purpose of processing the inquiry and in case of follow-up questions. We do not share this information without your consent.

The data you enter in the contact form will remain with us until you ask us to delete it, revoke your consent to storage, or the purpose for data storage no longer pertains (e.g., after completing your request). Mandatory statutory provisions - in particular, retention periods - remain unaffected.

Inquiries via Email, Telephone, or Fax

If you contact us by email, telephone, or fax, your inquiry, including all resulting personal data (name, inquiry), will be stored and processed by us for the purpose of handling your request. We do not share this information without your consent.

The data sent by you to us via contact requests will remain with us until you ask us to delete it, revoke your consent to storage, or the purpose for the data storage no longer pertains (e.g., after your request has been processed). Mandatory statutory provisions - in particular, legal retention periods - remain unaffected.

5. Plugins and Tools

Google Fonts (Local Hosting)

This site uses so-called Google Fonts provided by Google for uniform representation of fonts. The Google Fonts are installed locally. Thus, no connection to Google servers is made.

More information about Google Fonts can be found under https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in Google's privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.

Google Maps

This page uses the map service Google Maps. The provider is Google Ireland Limited ("Google"), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

To use the features of Google Maps, it is necessary to save your IP address. This information is generally transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. The provider of this page has no influence on this data transfer. If Google Maps is activated, Google may use Google Fonts for the purpose of uniform representation of the fonts. When you call up Google Maps, your browser loads the required web fonts into your browser cache to display texts and fonts correctly.

The use of Google Maps is based exclusively on your consent. The consent can be revoked at any time.

More information about handling user data can be found in Google's privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.

The company has a certification according to the "Swiss-US Data Privacy Framework" (DPF). The DPF is an agreement between Switzerland and the USA, which is intended to ensure compliance with Swiss data protection standards in data processing in the USA. Every company certified under the DPF is committed to adhering to these data protection standards. More information about this can be obtained from the provider at the following link:

https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/s/participant-search/participant-detail?contact=true[&]id=a2zt000000001L5AAI[&]status=Active