Legal Notice

All content on www.wadsack.ch; hereinafter «Websites» is for information purposes only. They are therefore not legally binding.

The operators of the Websites are:

  • wadsack.ch: WADSACK Zug AG;

Where the Websites refer to third party websites, no responsibility is taken for their content and accuracy.

Privacy Notice of WADSACK Zug AG,

 

Version 1.3

I.             General Information

WADSACK Zug AG (hereinafter also «Wadsack», «we», «us») appreciate you visiting our Websites and your interest in the products and services we offer. Protecting your personal data is very important to us. In this Privacy Notice, we explain how we collect your personal data, what we do with it, for what purposes and on what legal foundation we do so, and what rights you have on that basis. When appropriate we will provide just-in-time notice to cover any additional processing activities not mentioned in this Privacy Notice. In addition, we may inform you about the processing of your personal data separately, for example in consent forms, terms and conditions, additional privacy policies, forms and other notices. We use the word «data» here interchangeably with «personal data».

  • «Personal data» means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person, i.e. data which, on its own or in combination with other data, can be used to identify that individual. «Sensitive personal data» is a subset of personal data that is specifically protected by the applicable data protection regulations. Sensitive personal data are data revealing racial or ethnic origin, data concerning health, data concerning religious or philosophical beliefs, biometric data for identification purposes, and data concerning trade union membership.
  • «Processing» means any handling of personal data, irrespective of the means and procedures used, in particular collecting, storing, using, modifying, disclosing and erasing data.

If you submit or provide data about other people, such as family members, work colleagues, etc., we will assume that you are authorised to do so and that the data is accurate. By submitting data about third parties, you are confirming this. Please also ensure that these third parties have been informed of this Privacy Notice.

This Privacy Notice is aligned with the EU General Data Protection Regulation («GDPR») and the Federal Act on Data Protection. However, whether and to what extent these laws are applicable depends on each individual case.

II.            Name and Address of the Controller

Each WADSACK company is an independent controller within the meaning of data protection law and decides on the purposes and means of data processing. If you have any questions regarding data protection, please contact:

  • WADSACK Zug AG, Bahnhofstrasse 7, CH-6300 Zug, datenschutz@wadsack.ch

III.           Categories of Data we Process

The processing of personal data is limited to data that is required to operate functional Websites and for the provision of content, products and services. The processing of personal data of our users is based on the purposes agreed or on a legal basis. We only collect personal data that is necessary to implement and process our tasks and services or if you provide data voluntarily. Depending on the reason and purpose of the processing, we process different data about you:

  • Technical Data

When you use our Websites, or other online offerings, we collect the IP address of your terminal device and other technical data in order to ensure the functionality and security of these offerings. This data includes logs with records of the use of our systems. We generally keep technical data for 6 months. In order to ensure the functionality of these offerings, we may also assign an individual code to you or your device (for example as a cookie, see Section XIV). Technical data as such does not permit drawing conclusions about your identity. However, technical data may be linked with other categories of data (and potentially with your person) in relation with user accounts, registrations, access controls or the performance of a contract.

Technical data includes, among others:

  • the IP address and information about the operating system of your terminal device
  • name and URL of any visited Websites
  • the date, the region and time of use, GMT time difference
  • information, whether the access was successful (access status/http status code)
  • amount of data transferred
  • websites that are accessed via our Websites
  • website form which any access takes place (so-called referrer URL)
  • the type of browser that you use to access our online offerings
  • name of your internet provider
  • browser type and version used, and other information provided by the browser (such as geographical origin, language setting, add-ons used, screen resolution, etc.).
  • logs that are created in our systems (e.g. the log of user logins to our Websites).

This may help us to provide an appropriate layout of the Websites or, for example, to display a sub-page for your region. We know through which provider you access our offerings (and therefore also the region) because of the IP address, but usually this does not tell us who you are. However, this changes for example when you create a user account, because personal data can then be linked with technical data (for example, we can know the browser you use to access an account through our Websites).

  • Registration Data

Some of our offers and services can only be used with a registration or a user account, which may be made directly with us or through our third-party login service providers. This will require you to provide us with certain data and we will collect data about your use of the offer or service. We generally will keep registration information for 12 months after you cease to use the offer or service or terminate your user account.

Registration data includes, among others:

  • information you provide when you create an account on our Websites (for example username, password, name, email, contact details, account details)
  • IP-address
  • User-ID (please see technical data)
  • Communication Data

When you get in contact with us via contact form, email, telephone, chat, or by letter or other means of communication, we collect the data exchanged between you and us, including your contact details and the metadata of the communication. If we record telephone conversations or video conferences, we will tell you specifically. If we have to confirm your identity, for example in relation with a request for information, we collect data to identify you (for example a copy of an ID document). We generally keep this data for 12 months from the last exchange between us. This period may be longer where required for evidentiary purposes, to comply with legal or contractual requirements, or for technical reasons. Emails in personal mailboxes and written correspondence are generally kept for at least 10 years. Chats are generally stored for 2 years.

Communication data includes, among others:

  • your name and contact details,
  • the means, place and time of communication and usually also its contents (i.e. the contents of emails, letters, chats, etc.). This data may also include information about third parties. For identification purposes, we may also store your ID document number or a password set by you.
  • Master Data

Master data is the basic data that we need, in addition to contract data (see below), for the performance of our contractual and other business relationships or for marketing and promotional purposes, such as name and contact details, and information about, for example, your role and function, your bank details, your date of birth, customer history, powers of attorney, signature authorizations and declarations of consent. We process your master data if you are a customer or other business contact or work for one (for example as a contact person of the business partner), or because we wish to address you for our own purposes or for the purposes of a contractual partner (for example as part of marketing and advertising, newsletters, etc.). We receive master data from you (for example during the provision of services, a purchase or in the context of a registration), from parties you work for, or from third parties such as contractual partners, associations and address brokers, and from public sources such as public registers or the internet (websites, social media, etc.). We generally keep master data for 10 years from the last exchange between us but at least from the end of the contract. This period may be longer if required for evidentiary purposes, to comply with legal or contractual requirements, or for technical reasons. For contacts used only for marketing and advertising, the period is usually much shorter, usually no more than 2 years from the last contact.

Master data is not comprehensively collected for all contact. Rather, the collection of master data depends on the individual case and purpose of the processing. In general, it may include:

  • Your name
  • Address
  • email address
  • telephone number and other contact details
  • gender
  • date of birth
  • nationality
  • data about related persons
  • Websites
  • social media profiles
  • photos and videos
  • copies of ID cards
  • details of your relationship with us (e.g. customer, supplier, visitor, service provider or service recipient, etc.)
  • details of your status, allocations, classifications and mailing lists
  • details of interactions with you
  • reports
  • official documents (e.g. excerpts from the commercial register, permits)
  • payment information (e.g. bank details, account number and credit card data)
  • declarations of consent and opt-out information
  • As regards customers, suppliers and partners, master data also includes information about the role or function in the company, qualifications and information about superiors, co-workers and information about interactions with these persons.
  • Contract Data

We collect contract data in relation with the conclusion or performance of a contract, e.g. information about the products and the services provided or to be provided, as well as data from the period leading up to the conclusion of a contract, information required or used for performing a contract, and information about feedback (e.g. complaints, feedback about satisfaction, etc.). We generally collect this data from you, from contractual partners and from third parties involved in the performance of the contract, but also from third-party sources and from public sources. We generally keep this data for 10 years from the last contract activity but at least from the end of the contract. This period may be longer where necessary for evidentiary purposes, to comply with legal or contractual requirements, or for technical reasons.

Contract data includes, among othrs:

  • information about the conclusion of the contract, about your contracts, for example, the type and date of conclusion and its duration
  • the performance and administration of the contracts, for example information in relation with billing, customer service, technical assistance and the enforcement of contractual claims
  • information about deficiencies, complaints and changes of a contract as well as customer satisfaction information that we may collect for example through surveys
  • financial data, such as credit information (meaning information that allows to draw conclusions about the likelihood that receivables will be paid), information about reminders and debt collection.

We receive this data partly from you (for example when you make payments), but also from credit agencies and debt collection companies and from public sources (for example a commercial register).

  • Behavioural and preference data

Depending on our relationship with you, we try to get to know you better and to tailor our products, services and offers to you. For this purpose, we collect and process data about your behaviour and preferences. We do so by evaluating information about your behavior in our area and we may also supplement this information with third-party information, including from public sources. Based on this data, we can for example determine the likelihood that you will use certain services or behave in a certain way. The data processed for this purpose is already known to us (for example when you use our services), or we collect it by recording your behaviour (for example how you navigate our Websites). We anonymize or delete this data when it is no longer relevant for the purposes pursued, which may be – depending on the nature of the data – between 2-3 weeks and 24 months (for product preferences and service preferences). This period may be longer as for evidentiary purposes, to comply with legal or contractual requirements, or for technical reasons. We describe how tracking works on our Websites in Sections XVI.

Behavioral data includes, among others:

  • information about certain actions, such as your response to electronic communications (for example if and when you have opened an email) or your location, as well as your interaction with our social media profiles and your participation in sweepstakes, competitions and similar events.
  • For example, we may collect your location data wirelessly through unique codes that your cell phone emits or when you use our Websites. We will use signage at the relevant locations to tell you about the collection of such anonymous motion profiles, and we will only create personalized motion profiles with your consent.

Preference data provides information on your needs, which products or services you might be interested in or when and how you are likely to respond to communication from us. We obtain this information by analysing existing data, such as behavioural data, so that we get to know you better, tailor our advice and offers to you more accurately and generally improve our offering. To improve the quality of our analysis, we may combine this data with other data that we may also obtain from third parties or public sources (such as the Internet).

Behavioural and preference data may be analysed on a personally identifiable basis (for example to show you personalized advertising), but also on a non-identifiable basis (for example for market research or product development). Behavioural and preference data may also be combined with other data (for example, motion data may be used for contact tracing as part of a health protection concept).

  • Other Data

We also collect data from you in other situations. For example, data that may relate to you (such as files, evidence, etc.) is processed in relation with administrative or judicial proceedings. We may also collect data for health protection (for example as part of health protection concepts). We may obtain or create photos, videos and sound recordings in which you may be identifiable (for example at events, with security cameras, etc.). We may also collect data about who enters certain buildings and when or has certain access rights (including in relation with access controls, based on registration data or lists of visitors, etc.), who participates in events or campaigns and when and who uses our infrastructure and systems and when. The retention period for this data depends on the processing purpose and is limited to what is necessary. This ranges from one or two days for many of the security cameras, to usually a few weeks in case of data for contact tracing for visitor data that is usually kept for 3 months, to several years or longer for reports about events with images.

Much of the data set out in this Section III is provided to us by you (e.g. through forms, in relation with communication with us, in relation with contracts, when you use the Websites, etc.). You are not obliged or required to disclose data to us except in individual cases, for example within the framework of binding health protection concepts (legal obligations). If you wish to enter into contracts with us or use our services, you must also provide us with certain data, in particular master data, contract data, guest access data and registration data, as part of your contractual obligation under the relevant contract. When using our Websites, the processing of technical data cannot be avoided. If you wish to gain access to certain systems or buildings, you must also provide us with registration data. However, in the case of behavioural and preference data, you have the option of objecting or not giving consent.

We provide certain services to you only if you provide us with registration data, because we or our contractual partners wish to know who uses our services, because it is a technical requirement or because we wish to communicate with you. If you or the person you represent (for example your employer) wishes to enter into or perform a contract with us, we must collect master data, contract data and communication data from you, and we process technical data if you wish to use our Websites or other electronic offerings for this purpose. If you do not provide us with the data necessary for the conclusion and performance of the contract, you should expect that we may refuse to conclude the contract, that you may commit a breach of contract or that we will not perform the contract. Similarly, we can only submit a response to a request from you if we process communication data and – if you communicate with us online – possibly also technical data. Also, the use of our Websites is not possible without us receiving technical data.

As far as it is not unlawful we also collect data from public sources (for example debt collection registers, land registers, commercial registers, the media, or the internet including social media) or receive data from other companies within our group, from public authorities and from other third parties (such as credit agencies, address brokers, associations, contractual partners, internet analytics services, etc.).

The categories of personal data that we receive about you from third parties include, in particular, information from public registers, information that we receive in relation with administrative and legal proceedings, information in relation with your professional functions and activities (so that we can, for example, conclude and process transactions with your employer with your assistance), information about you in correspondence and meetings with third parties, credit information (where we conduct business with you in a personal capacity), information about you that persons related to you (family, advisors, legal representatives, etc.) share with us so that we can conclude or perform contracts with you or involving you (for example references, your delivery address, powers of attorney, information about compliance with legal requirements such as those relating to fraud prevention and the combating of money laundering and terrorist financing export restrictions, information from banks, insurance companies, sales and other contractual partners of us about your use or provision of services (for example payments, purchases, etc.), information from the media and the internet about you (where appropriate in a specific case), your address and potentially interests and other socio-demographic data (especially for marketing and research purposes) and data in relation with the use of third-party websites and online offerings where such use can be linked to you.

IV.          Purposes of the Processing

We process your data for the purposes explained below. Further information is set out in Sections XIII et seq. for online services. These purposes and their objectives represent interests of us and potentially of third parties. You can find further information on the legal basis of our processing in Section V.

  • Communication

We process your data for the purposes of communicating with you, in particular to respond to enquiries and to exercise your rights (Section XI) and to contact you in the event of queries. For this purpose, we use in particular communication data and master data and, in connection with offers and services used by you, also registration data. We keep this data to document our communication with you, for training purposes, for quality assurance and for follow-up questions.

  • Performance of a Contract

We process your data for entering into a contract with you, perform and administer it. In particular, we process communication data, master data, registration data and contract data about you. This might include data about third parties, e.g. if you order products or services for the benefit of a third party. This also includes data about potential customers, that we receive from communication with you, on a trade fair or any other business event. When you contact us, we use this data to check your creditworthiness and to enter into a business relationship with you. Administering and performing the contract with your might involve third parties, such as logistic companies, advertising service providers, banks, insurance companies or credit information providers in order to provide our products and services to you.

  • Marketing and Relationship Management

We process your data for marketing and relationship management purposes. For example, we send personalized newsletters for products and services from us and, if applicable from selected third parties (e.g. advertising partners). Marketing and relationship management might include contacting you via email, telephone or other channels for which we have contact information from you. We and, if applicable, selected third parties, only display personalized content or advertising based on your usage behaviour or send emails for marketing purposes (e.g. newsletter) if and to the extent you give your consent to us if required under applicable law. You can object to such marketing activities or withdraw your consent at any time (Section XI and XII).

With regard to relationship management, we use a customer relationship management system («CRM») to store and process your data as described in this Privacy Notice (e.g. about contact persons, products and services provided to you, interactions, interests, marketing measures, newsletters, invitations to events and other information). In order to provide you with the best products and services and to use our resources as effectively as possible we use the CRM together with the company group. The company includes the companies in Section I above.

  • Product/Service Improvement and Innovation

We process your data for market research, to improve our services and operations and for product development.

  • Safety or Security Reasons

We process your data to protect our IT and other infrastructure (e.g. buildings). For example, we process data for monitoring, analysis and testing of our networks and IT infrastructures including access controls. We might also use surveillance systems, e.g. cameras for security purposes. In such a case, we will inform you at the relevant locations separately.

  • Compliance with Law

We process your data to comply with legal requirements, e.g. health security concepts, money laundering and terrorist financing, tax obligations etc. and we might have to request further information from you to comply with such requirements («Know Your Customer», «KYC») or as otherwise required by law and legal authorities.

  • Risk Management, Corporate Governance and Business Development

We process your data as part of our risk management and corporate government in order to protect us from criminal or abusive activity. As part of our business development, we might sell businesses, parts of businesses or companies to others or acquire them from others or inter into partnerships and this might result in the exchange and processing of data based on your consent, if necessary.

V.           Legal Basis for Processing your Data

Where we asked for your consent (e.g. for receiving newsletters and for personalized content or advertising based on your usage behaviour or for processing sensitive data), we process your data based on such consent. You may withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future by providing us written notice (email sufficient), see our contact details in Section II. If you like to withdraw your consent for online tracking, please see Section XIV. Withdrawal of your consent does not affect the lawfulness of the processing that we have carried out prior to your withdrawal, nor does it affect the processing of your data based on other processing grounds.

Where we did not ask for your consent, we process your data on other legal grounds, such as

  • a contractual obligation
  • a legal obligation
  • a vital interest of the data subject or of another natural person
  • to perform a public task
  • a legitimate interest, which includes compliance with applicable law and the marketing of our products and services, the interest in better understanding our markets and in managing and further developing our company, including its operations, safely and efficiently.

VI.          Profiling and Automated Individual Decision

We may automatically assess («profiling») certain of your personal characteristics for the purposes set out in Section IV using your data (Section III), if we want to determine preference data, but also to determine abuse and security risks, to carry out statistical evaluations or for operational planning purposes. For the same purposes, we may also create profiles, i.e. we may combine behavioural and preference data, but also master data and contract data and technical data assigned to you, in order to better understand you as a person with your different interests and other characteristics. We may also use profiling to assess your creditworthiness. We do not use profiling that may have legal implications for you or similarly significantly affect you without human review.

In certain situations, it may be necessary for reasons of efficiency and consistency of decision-making processes that we automate discretionary decisions that affect you with legal effect or potentially significant disadvantages («automated individual decision»). In such cases, we will inform you accordingly and take the measures required by applicable law.

VII.         Disclosure of Data to Third Parties and Social Plug-ins

In connection with our contracts, the Websites, our services and products, our legal obligations or otherwise to protect our legitimate interests and the other purposes listed in Section IV, we may disclose your data to third parties, in particular to the following categories of recipients:

  • Group companies

Our group companies are listed in Section I above. Group companies process the data in accordance with this Privacy Notice for the same purposes as we use it, including advertising for their own range of products and services.

  • Offerings of Third Parties

Our Websites may contain third-party offerings. If you click on such an offer, we will transfer data to the respective third party to the extent necessary (e.g. the information that you found this offer on our Websites and, if applicable, further information that you provided for this purpose on our Websites).

  • Service Providers

We work with service providers in Switzerland and abroad who process data about ou on our behalf or in joint responsibility with us or receive data about you from us in their own responsibility (e.g. IT provider, shipping companies, advertising service provider, login service providers, cleaning companies, security companies, banks, insurance companies, telecommunication companies, credit information agencies, address verification provider, lawyers) or who we engage to process personal data for any of the purposes listed above on our behalf and in accordance with our instructions only.

  • Contractual Partners Including Customers

In case required under the respective contract we share your data with other contractual partners. If we sell or buy any business or assets, we may disclose your data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets to whom we assign or novate any of our rights and obligations.

  • Legal Authorities

If legally obliged or entitled to make disclosures or if it appears necessary to protect our interests, we may disclose your data to government officials, courts or other authorities in Switzerland or abroad. The authorities process data about you that they receive from us on their own responsibility.

  • Social Plug-ins

We do not use social media plug-ins on our Websites. If our Websites contains icons of social media providers (e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, X and Xing), we use these only for as passive links to the websites of the respective social media platforms.

  • Our Appearance on Social Networks

We have various appearances on social media platforms. We operate these apperances with the following providers: Facebook, x and Xing and collect the data about you described in Section III and below.

We receive this data from you and the platforms, when you enter into contact with us via our online presence (e.g. when you communicate with us, comment on our content or visit our presence). At the same time, the platforms evaluate your use of our online presence and link this data with other data about you known to the platforms (e.g. about your behaviour and preferences). They also process this data for their own purposes under their own responsibility, in particular for marketing and market research purposes (e.g. to personalize advertising) and to control their platform (e.g. which content they show to you).

This also happens, if you do not have a profile on the social media platform. We process this data for the purposes described in Section IV, in particular for communication, marketing purposes and market research. You will find information on the legal basis in Section V.

We would like to point out that you use our presence on social media platforms and their functions on your own responsibility. This applies, in particular to the use of interactive functions (e.g. commenting, sharing, rating).

The individual data processing activities and their scope differ depending on the social media provider. For details about the collection and storage of your personal data and about the type, scope and purpose of its use by the social media provider, please refer to the privacy policy of the social media provider:

  • The privacy policy for the social network Facebook, which is operated by Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ireland, can be viewed at https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/update?ref=old_policy.
  • The privacy policy for the social network LinkedIn, which is operated by LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Attn: Legal Dept. (Privacy Policy and User Agreement), Wilton Plaza, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland, can be viewed at https://de.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy.
  • The privacy policy for the social network X, which is operated by Twitter International Unlimited Company, Attn: Data Protection Officer, One Cumberland Place, Fenian Street, Dublin 2, D02 AX07 Ireland, can be viewed at https://twitter.com/de/privacy.
  • The privacy policy for the social network Xing, which is operated by New Work SE, Am Strandkai 1, 20457 Hamburg, Germany, can be viewed at https://privacy.xing.com/de/datenschutzerklaerung.

The data collected about you in this context is processed by the platforms and may be transferred to countries outside the European Union, in particular the USA, which may not ensure an adequate level of protection for the processing of personal data in accordance with Swiss/EU standards from the perspective of Switzerland or the European Economic Area (EEA). In such a case, we have agreed so-called standard contractual clauses (SCCs) with the providers, the purpose of which is to ensure compliance with an adequate level of data protection in the third country.

We do not know how the social media platforms use the data from your visit to our account and interaction with our posts for their own purposes, how long this data is stored and whether data is passed on to third parties. The data processing may differ depending on whether you are registered and logged in to the social network or visit the site as a non-registered and/or non-logged-in user. When you access a post or the account, the IP address assigned to your terminal device is transmitted to the provider of the social media platform. If you are currently logged in as a user, a cookie on your end device can be used to track how you have moved around the network. Buttons embedded in websites enable the platforms to record your visits to these website and assign them to your respective profile. Based on this data, content or advertising can be offered tailored to you. If you wish to avoid this, you should log out or deactivate the «stay logged in» function, delete the cookies on your device and restart your browser.

To exercise your data subject rights, you can contact both, us or the provider of the social media platform. To the extent that one party is not responsible for responding or must obtain the information from the other party, we or the provider will then forward your request to the respective partner. Please contact the provider of the social media platform directly for questions about profiling, processing of your data when using the website. For questions about the processing of your interaction with us on our site, write to the contact details provided by us above.

The providers describe what information the social media platform receives and how it is used in their privacy policies (see link above). You will also find information on how to contact them and how to set up your advertising options.

  • Integration of Google Maps

We use Google Maps on our Websites. Google Maps allows us to display its interactive maps directly on our Websites for your convenient use of the Google Maps functions. Legal basis for the use of Google Maps is your consent, that means, the integration only takes place after your consent.

Once you provided your consent, Google receives the information that you accessed our Websites. Furthermore, the above-mentioned technical data such as IP address and timestamp are transmitted. This occurs, regardless of whether Google provided a user account through which you are logged in or whether no user account exists. If you are logging in to Google, your data will be directly assigned to your account. If you do not want an assignment to your profile at Google, you must log out before activating the button. Google stores your data as usage profiles and uses them for the purposes of advertising, market research and/or demand-orientated design of its website. Such evaluation is carried out in particular (even for users who are not logged in) to provide targeted advertising and to inform other user of the social network about your activities on our Websites. You have the right to object to the creation of these user profiles. Please contact Google to exercise this right.

The information collected is stored on Google servers, including in the US. For these cases, we have agreed to so-called standard data protection clauses (SCCs) with Google, in order to ensure compliance with an appropriate level of data protection in third countries.

For more information on the purpose and scope of data collection and its processing by Google, please review Google’s privacy notice. It will provide further information about your rights and the setting options for protecting your privacy: www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy.

VIII.       Transfer of Data Abroad

As we have explained in Section VII, we disclose data to other parties. Not all of them are located in Switzerland. Your data may be processed both in Europe and in countries outside of Europe.

We only transfer data to countries without adequate legal data protection laws if it is necessary for the performance of a contract or for the exercise or defence of legal claims, or if such transfer is based on your explicit consent or subject to safeguards that assure the protection of your data, such as the European Commission approved standard contractual clauses.

IX.          How Long We Keep your Personal Data

We only process your data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of complying with legal retention requirements and where required to assert or defend against legal claims, until the end of the relevant retention period or until the claims in question have been settled. Upon expiry of the applicable retention period we will securely destroy your data in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.

X.           Security of your Personal Data

We take reasonable security measures to maintain the confidentiality, integrity and availability of your personal data, to protect it against unauthorised or unlawful processing and to protect against the risks of loss, accidental alteration, unauthorised disclosure or access.

However, we and your personal data can still become victims of cyber-attacks, cybercrime, brute force, hacker attacks and further fraudulent and malicious activity including but not limited to viruses, forgeries, malfunctions and interruptions which is out of our control and responsibility.

We have also put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.

XI.          Your Rights

You have various rights in relation with our processing of your personal data, depending on the applicable data protection law:

  • Right of Access

You have the right to request information from us as to whether and which of your data we process.

  • Right to Rectification

We aim to keep your personal data accurate, current, and complete. We encourage you to contact us to let us know if any of your personal data is not accurate or changes, so that we can keep your personal data up to date.

  • Right to Erasure

You have the right to require us to erase your personal data when the personal data is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, or when, among other things, your personal data have been unlawfully processed.

  • Right to Restriction

You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.

  • Right to Data Portability

You have the right to ask that we provide certain personal data in a common electronic format or transfer it to another data controller.

  • Right to Withdraw Consent

Where we process data based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent. Once we have received notification that you have withdrawn your consent, we will no longer process your information for the purpose(s) to which you originally consented unless there is another legal ground for the processing.

  • Complaints

If you believe that your data protection rights might have been breached, please let us know and contact the applicable supervisory authority.

XII.         Right to Object

Under applicable data protection law, you have the right to object at any time to the processing of personal data pertaining to you under certain circumstances, in particular where your data is processed in the public interest, on the basis of a balance of interests or for direct marketing purposes.

If you like to exercise the above-mentioned rights, please contact us at datenschutz@wadsack.ch or the contact details provided under Section II unless otherwise specified or agreed. Please note that we need to identify you to prevent misuse, e.g. by means of a copy of your ID card or passport, unless identification is possible otherwise.

XIII.       Newsletter

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XIV.       Cookies

We use cookies on our Websites and may allow certain third parties to do so as well. Cookies are small files that your browser automatically creates and that are stored on your device (laptop, tablet, smartphone, etc.) when you visit our Websites.

However, depending on the purpose of these cookies, we may ask for your express prior consent before they are used. You can access your current settings by clicking on the «Change Your Cookies»-button and you can withdraw your consent under the same link at any time. You can also set your browser to block or deceive certain types of cookies or alternative technologies, or to delete existing cookies. You can also add software to your browser that blocks certain third-party tracking. You can find more information on the help pages of your browser (usually with the keyword «Privacy»).

  • Necessary Cookies

Some cookies are necessary for the functioning of the Websites or for certain features. For example, they ensure that you can move between pages without losing information that was entered in a form. They also ensure that you stay logged in. These cookies exist temporarily only («session cookies»). The session cookies are automatically deleted after leaving our pages. If you block them, the Websites may not work properly. Other cookies are necessary for the server to store options or information (which you have entered) beyond a session (i.e. a visit to the Websites) if you use this function (for example language settings, consents, automatic login functionality, etc.). These cookies have an expiration date of up to 12 months. The legal basis for such cookies is our legitimate interest according to provide you with all functions of our Websites. A list of necessary cookies is provided in our Consent Management Tool.

  • Performance Cookies

In order to optimize our Websites and related offers and to better adapt them to the needs of the users, we use cookies to record and analyse the use of our Websites, potentially beyond one session. We use third-party analytics services for this purpose that are listed below (see Section XV «Monitoring Tools»).  For example, we analyse which page a user accesses most often and whether error messages are displayed. These cookies do not store any information beyond this. They are used exclusively to increase user-friendliness and to tailor websites more specifically to the user. Before we use such cookies, we ask for your express prior consent. You can withdraw consent at any time through the cookie settings. Performance cookies also have an expiration date of up to 12 months. Details can be found on the websites of the third-party providers.

  • Marketing Cookies

We and our advertising partners have an interest in targeting advertising as precisely as possible, i.e. only showing it to those we wish to address. For this purpose, we and our advertising partners – if you consent – use cookies that can record the content that has been accessed or the contracts that have been concluded. This allows us to optimize our content (see Section XV «Monitoring Tools») and it allows us and our advertising partners to display advertisements that we think will interest you on our Websites, but also on other websites that display advertisements from us or our advertising partners (see Section XVI «Tracking Tools»). If you consent to the use of these cookies, you will be shown related advertisements. If you do not consent to them, you will not see less advertisements, but simply any other advertisement. You can withdraw consent at any time through the cookie settings. Marketing cookies have an expiration period of a few days to 12 months, depending on the circumstances.

XV.        Monitoring Tools

We can use social media monitoring tools that help us to identify and monitor content on third-party websites, e.g. in posts, tweets, blogs, news, forum posts and social media platforms. This gives us a detailed insight into customer opinions and any topics on the internet that mentions our company name(s) or talks about our brand(s). In doing so, so-called «crawlers» search available online sources to seek out the relevant hits. Some monitoring tools search both publicly available data on the internet and closed-loop third-party networks with which they have directly concluded contracts in order to access their data.

Our use of monitoring tools is based on our legitimate interests of market and opinion research for marketing and PR purposes. Data processing by such monitoring tools is external and separate from our Websites and social media sites and we are not responsible for any data processing by such monitoring tools.

If you like to object to the use of your information by such monitoring tools, or require information about the data stored by them, or if you wish to exercise any other right that you are entitled to, please contact the respective monitoring tool.

XVI.       Tracking Tools

Based on your consent we use tracking tools to ensure a tailored design and the continuous optimization of our Websites. We also use the following tracking tools to statistically record the use of our Websites and evaluate it for the purpose of optimizing the content we show you.

We use Google Analytics based on your consent.

Google Analytics: Google Ireland (based in Ireland) is our provider of «Google Analytics» and acts as our processor. Google Ireland relies on Google LLLC (based in the USA) as a processor for its services (both «Google»). Google uses performance cookies (see above) to track the behaviour of visitors to our Websites (duration, frequency of pages viewed, geographic origin of access, etc.) and compiles reports for us on the use of our Websites on this basis. We have configured the service so that the IP addresses of visitors are shortened by Google in Europe before being forwarded to the US and thus cannot be traced. We have turned off the «Data Forwarding» and «Signals» settings. Although we can assume that the information we share with Google is not personal data for Google, it is possible that Google can draw conclusions about the identity of visitors from this data for its own purposes, create personal profiles and link this data to the Google accounts of these persons. If you consent to the use of Google Analytics, you explicitly agree to such processing, which also includes the transfer of personal data (in particular usage data for the website, device information and individual IDs) to the US and other countries. Information on the data protection of Google Analytics can be found here https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245 and if you have a Google account, you can find further details on processing by Google here https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

XVII.     Updating and changing this Privacy Notice

Due to continuous development of our Websites and the contents thereof, changes in law or regulatory requirements, we might need to change this privacy notice from time to time. The version published on this Websites is the current version.

Last update: March 22, 2024