Legal Notice & Privacy Policy
Owner and operator of the website
Bernhard Betschart, Muotathal
Web programming
Pixmill GmbH, Lucerne
www.pixmill.ch
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Privacy policy and disclaimer
Introduction
We are delighted by your interest in our company. Data protection is of particularly high importance to bernhardbetschart.com. It is generally possible to use the website www.bernhardbetschart.com without providing any personal data at all. However, should a data subject wish to make use of particular services offered by our company via our website, the processing of personal data may become necessary. Where the processing of personal data is necessary and there is no legal basis for such processing, we generally obtain the data subject's consent.
The processing of personal data, such as a data subject's name, address, e-mail address or telephone number, is always carried out in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation and in compliance with the country-specific data protection provisions applicable to the company. By means of this privacy policy, our company wishes to inform the public about the nature, scope and purpose of the personal data we collect, use and process. Furthermore, this privacy policy informs data subjects of the rights to which they are entitled.
As the controller responsible for the processing, the company has implemented numerous technical and organisational measures in order to ensure the most complete protection possible of the personal data processed through this website. Nevertheless, internet-based data transmissions can in principle contain security gaps, so that absolute protection cannot be guaranteed. For this reason, every data subject is free to transmit personal data to us by alternative means, for example by telephone.
Legal basis
The website www.bernhardbetschart.com is subject to Swiss data protection law, in particular the Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP), as well as to any applicable foreign data protection law such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) of the European Union (EU). The EU recognises that Swiss data protection law ensures an adequate level of data protection.
We may adapt our privacy policy at any time by publishing it on this website.
Scope
The privacy policy applies to all websites and subpages of www.bernhardbetschart.com. No warranty is given regarding compliance with data protection provisions on websites outside bernhardbetschart.com to which the bernhardbetschart.com website links.
Disclaimer
The operator of the website gives no warranty whatsoever as to the correctness, accuracy, currency, reliability or completeness of the information it contains.
Liability claims against the operator of the website for damage of a material or immaterial nature arising from access to or use or non-use of the published information, from misuse of the connection or from technical faults are excluded.
All offers are non-binding. The operator of the website expressly reserves the right to change, add to or delete parts of the pages or the entire offering without separate notice, or to suspend publication temporarily or permanently.
Liability for links
Our website contains links to external third-party websites over whose content we have no influence. We therefore cannot accept any responsibility for this third-party content. The respective provider or operator of the linked pages is always responsible for their content. The linked pages were checked for possible legal infringements at the time of linking. No unlawful content was discernible at the time of linking.
However, permanent monitoring of the content of the linked pages is not reasonable without concrete evidence of an infringement. Should we become aware of any legal infringements, we will remove such links immediately.
Surveillance
Access to our website is subject – as is all internet use – to the general, suspicionless, indiscriminate mass surveillance carried out by security authorities in Switzerland, the EU, the USA and other states. The operator of the website has no direct influence over the corresponding processing of personal data by intelligence services, police authorities and other security agencies.
Encryption
Access to our website takes place using transport encryption (SSL/TLS).
General information
Each time the website is accessed by a data subject or an automated system, the company's website collects a series of general data and information. This general data and information is stored in the server's log files. The following may be collected:
(1) the browser types and versions used,
(2) the operating system used by the accessing system,
(3) the website from which an accessing system reaches our website (so-called referrer),
(4) the subpages accessed on our website by an accessing system,
(5) the date and time of access to the website,
(6) an internet protocol address (IP address),
(7) the internet service provider of the accessing system, and
(8) other similar data and information used to avert danger in the event of attacks on our information technology systems.
When using this general data and information, the company draws no conclusions about the data subject. Rather, this information is needed in order to
(1) deliver the content of our website correctly,
(2) optimise the content of our website and the advertising for it,
(3) ensure the long-term functionality of our information technology systems and of the technology behind our website, and
(4) provide law enforcement authorities with the information necessary for prosecution in the event of a cyber attack.
This anonymously collected data and information is therefore evaluated by the company both statistically and with the aim of increasing data protection and data security within our company, so as ultimately to ensure an optimal level of protection for the personal data we process. The anonymous data in the server log files is stored separately from all personal data provided by a data subject.
Cookies
The website www.bernhardbetschart.com uses cookies. Cookies are text files that are placed and stored on a computer system via an internet browser.
Numerous websites and servers use cookies. Many cookies contain a so-called cookie ID. A cookie ID is a unique identifier for the cookie. It consists of a character string by which websites and servers can be assigned to the specific internet browser in which the cookie was stored. This enables the websites and servers visited to distinguish the data subject's individual browser from other internet browsers containing other cookies. A particular internet browser can be recognised and identified by means of the unique cookie ID.
By using cookies, the company can provide the users of this website with more user-friendly services that would not be possible without the setting of cookies.
By means of a cookie, the information and offers on our website can be optimised in the interest of the user. As already mentioned, cookies allow us to recognise the users of our website. The purpose of this recognition is to make it easier for users to use our website. The user of a website that uses cookies does not, for example, have to re-enter their access data each time they visit the website, because this is handled by the website and the cookie stored on the user's computer system. Another example is the cookie of a shopping basket in an online shop. The online shop uses a cookie to remember the items a customer has placed in the virtual shopping basket.
The data subject may prevent the setting of cookies by our website at any time by means of a corresponding setting in the internet browser used, and may thus permanently object to the setting of cookies. Furthermore, cookies that have already been set can be deleted at any time via an internet browser or other software programs. This is possible in all common internet browsers. If the data subject deactivates the setting of cookies in the internet browser used, not all functions of our website may be fully usable.
Forms
The website www.bernhardbetschart.com may contain forms for making contact and/or transmitting data. If a data subject contacts the company via one of these forms, the personal data entered and transmitted by the data subject is stored automatically. Such personal data transmitted on a voluntary basis by a data subject to the controller responsible for the processing is stored for the purposes of processing the enquiry or contacting the data subject. This personal data is not passed on to third parties.
Third-party services
Google Analytics
The controller responsible for the processing has integrated the Google Analytics component (with anonymisation function) on this website. Google Analytics is a web analytics service. Web analytics is the gathering, collection and evaluation of data about the behaviour of website visitors. Among other things, a web analytics service collects data about the website from which a data subject came to a website (so-called referrer), which subpages of the website were accessed, and how often and for how long a subpage was viewed. Web analytics is used predominantly to optimise a website and to carry out cost-benefit analyses of internet advertising.
The operating company of the Google Analytics component is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351, USA.
For web analytics via Google Analytics, the controller responsible for the processing uses the "_gat._anonymizeIp" extension. By means of this extension, the IP address of the data subject's internet connection is truncated and anonymised by Google when our websites are accessed from a member state of the European Union or from another contracting state to the Agreement on the European Economic Area.
The purpose of the Google Analytics component is to analyse visitor flows on our website. Google uses the data and information obtained, among other things, to evaluate the use of our website, to compile online reports for us showing the activities on our websites, and to provide further services connected with the use of our website.
Google Analytics places a cookie on the data subject's information technology system. What cookies are has already been explained above. By setting the cookie, Google is enabled to analyse the use of our website. Each time one of the individual pages of this website operated by the controller responsible for the processing is called up, and on which a Google Analytics component has been integrated, the internet browser on the data subject's information technology system is automatically prompted by the respective Google Analytics component to transmit data to Google for the purpose of online analysis. In the course of this technical procedure, Google obtains knowledge of personal data such as the data subject's IP address, which Google uses among other things to trace the origin of visitors and clicks and subsequently to enable commission settlements.
The cookie is used to store personal information such as the time of access, the location from which access was made and the frequency of the data subject's visits to our website. Each time our websites are visited, this personal data, including the IP address of the internet connection used by the data subject, is transmitted to Google in the United States of America. This personal data is stored by Google in the United States of America. Google may pass on this personal data collected through the technical procedure to third parties.
As already set out above, the data subject may prevent the setting of cookies by our website at any time by means of a corresponding setting in the internet browser used, and may thus permanently object to the setting of cookies. Such a setting in the internet browser used would also prevent Google from placing a cookie on the data subject's information technology system. In addition, a cookie already set by Google Analytics can be deleted at any time via the internet browser or other software programs.
The data subject also has the option of objecting to, and preventing, the collection of the data generated by Google Analytics relating to the use of this website and the processing of this data by Google. To do so, the data subject must download and install a browser add-on available at the link https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. This browser add-on tells Google Analytics via JavaScript that no data or information about visits to websites may be transmitted to Google Analytics. The installation of the browser add-on is regarded by Google as an objection. If the data subject's information technology system is later deleted, formatted or reinstalled, the data subject must install the browser add-on again in order to deactivate Google Analytics. If the browser add-on is uninstalled or deactivated by the data subject or by any other person within their sphere of control, it is possible to reinstall or reactivate the browser add-on.
Further information and Google's applicable data protection provisions can be found at https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/ and at http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html. Google Analytics is explained in more detail at this link: https://www.google.com/intl/de_de/analytics/.
Google Maps
The controller responsible for the processing has used Google Maps by Google Inc as a component on this website. By using this website you consent to the collection, processing and use of the automatically gathered data by Google Inc, its representatives and third parties.
The terms of use for Google Maps can be found at https://www.google.com/intl/de_de/help/terms_maps.html
Date of publication
This privacy policy was published on 8.5.2018 and may be adapted at any time.