Privacy policy

The protection of your personal data is important to us. You can expect us to handle your data sensitively and carefully and to ensure a high level of data security. We collect and use your personal data exclusively in accordance with the applicable data protection regulations.

In this privacy policy, we inform you about the most important aspects of the processing of your data that we have received from you via our website, mobile apps, social media, documents and data carriers provided to us and on the occasion of company events.


1 Contacts

1.1 Name and address of the Responsible Party

The Responsible within the meaning of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other national data protection laws of the EU member states as well as other data protection regulations is:

Gewerbe-Treuhand AG
Eichwaldstrasse 13
6002 Lucerne
Lucerne Switzerland
Phone +41 41 319 92 92
E-Mail: info@gewerbe-treuhand.ch
Website: www.gewerbe-treuhand.ch

1.2 Name and address of the representative in the EU

The representative within the meaning of the GDPR and other national data protection laws of the EU member states as well as other data protection regulations is

Swiss Infosec (Deutschland) GmbH
Unter den Linden 24
10117 Berlin
Berlin, Germany

gewerbe-treuhand.dataprivacy@swissinfosec.de

1.3 Name and address of the data protection coordinator

Dacor IT AG
Eichwaldstrasse 15
6002 Lucerne
Lucerne, Switzerland
Telephone: +41 41 319 92 95
E-Mail: dacor@dacor.ch
Website: www.dacor.ch


2 Scope and purpose of the collection, processing and use of personal data

We process your personal data for the following purposes:

  • Inquiries via the contact form
  • Credit assessment
  • Applications (via online form or by email)
  • Optimization of the website (adaptation of the website to your needs)
  • Defense against and recording of hacking attacks
  • Creation of usage statistics
  • Mailings, customer magazine
  • Fulfillment of our contractual obligations with customers, suppliers and service providers

2.1 Visiting the website

When you visit our website, our servers temporarily store the following data in a log file, the so-called server log files:

  • IP address of the requesting computer
  • Date and time of access/retrieval
  • Name and URL of the retrieved data
  • Operating system of your computer and the browser you are using
  • Country from which our website is accessed
  • Name of your internet access provider
  • Time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
  • Content of the request (specific page)
  • Access status/HTTP status code
  • amount of data transferred in each case
  • last visited website
  • Browser settings
  • Language and version of the browser software
  • Activated browser plugins

We consider our legitimate interest to be the legal basis for the temporary storage of your personal data and the log files. The legitimate interest exists in order to

  • to deliver the content of our website correctly and to optimize the advertising for it
  • to provide law enforcement authorities with the information necessary for prosecution in the event of a cyber attack
  • to further improve our offer and our website
  • and to collect statistical data

This data is not stored together with your other personal data. The data will be deleted as soon as it is no longer required to achieve the purpose for which it was collected.

2.2 Contact form

You have the option of using a contact form to get in touch with us. If you wish to contact us, the following information (*mandatory) is required. The other details are optional:

  • Title*, surname*, first name*
  • e-mail address*
  • street address
  • Postcode/city
  • Telephone number
  • Message

The fields marked as mandatory (*) are used to process your request. In order to provide you with targeted information, we also collect and process information provided voluntarily.

The legal basis for processing your personal data is our legitimate interest in this service. If the purpose of contacting you is to fulfill a contract to which you are a party or to carry out pre-contractual measures, this is an additional legal basis for processing your personal data.

Your personal data will be deleted as soon as it is no longer required for the purpose for which it was collected.

2.3 In connection with interested parties, customers, suppliers, service providers

In order to fulfill our contractual obligations, we process your inventory data (e.g. names and addresses as well as your contact details), contract data (e.g. services used, names of contact persons, payment information) with regard to our contractual obligations and services.

The legal basis for the processing of your data is the fulfillment of a contract to which you are a party or the implementation of pre-contractual measures.

If we store the data on the basis of a contractual relationship, this data will remain stored for at least as long as the contractual relationship exists and at most as long as limitation periods for possible claims by us run or statutory or contractual retention obligations exist.

2.4 Online applications

If you apply for a position with us, we will process your details in order to process your application. During the application process, the usual correspondence data such as postal address, e-mail addresses and telephone numbers are stored in the applicant database in addition to your title, surname, first name, date of birth and nationality. In addition, all documents submitted by you in connection with the application will be recorded. This data is stored, evaluated, processed or forwarded internally solely in the context of your application. The data may be processed for statistical purposes (e.g. reporting). It is not possible to draw conclusions about individual persons.

Processing may also take place via an online channel. This is particularly the case if you send us the relevant application documents electronically, for example by email.

The legal basis for the processing is the joint legitimate interest in processing your application or pre-contractual measures taken at your request.

If we jointly conclude an employment contract, the transmitted data will be stored for the purpose of processing the employment relationship in compliance with the applicable regulations. If the application process ends without employment, your personal data will be stored for a further six months for documentation purposes and then deleted, unless you have given us your consent to use your data for further application processes with us.

Irrespective of the above, you have the option of having your electronic data deleted at any time. You can send your request for deletion to the person named as the contact person in the job advertisement or to bewerbungen@gewerbe-treuhand.ch.

3 Deletion

We process and store your personal data only for the period of time required to achieve the purpose of storage or if this is provided for in laws or regulations to which we are subject. If the storage purpose no longer applies or if a prescribed retention period expires, your data will be routinely blocked or deleted in accordance with the applicable regulations.

In addition, we will delete your data if you request us to do so at info@gewerbe-treuhand.ch and we have no legal or contractual obligation to retain or otherwise safeguard this data.

4 Disclosure to third parties

We will only pass on your personal data if you have expressly consented to this, if we are legally obliged to do so or if this is necessary for the use of the website or for the provision of any services you have requested. The use of the disclosed data by third parties is strictly limited to the contractually agreed purposes.

In addition to the recipients already mentioned, we disclose your personal data to the following categories of recipients:

  • Businesses of the Gewerbe-Treuhand Group
  • service operators
  • commercial partners
  • Businesses for credit checks
  • logistics partners
  • Partners of our international network Allinial Global
  • public authorities

We are also entitled to transfer your personal data to third Businesses (contracted service providers) abroad if this is expedient for the data processing described in this Privacy Policy. The applicable regulations on the transfer of personal data to third parties are complied with. These third parties are obliged to protect data to the same extent as we are. If the level of data protection in a country does not correspond to Swiss or EU data protection law, we contractually ensure that the protection of your personal data corresponds to that in Switzerland or the European Economic Area (EEA).

Your data is stored in our customer relationship management system ("CRM system"). We use the CRM system on the basis of our legitimate interests (efficient and fast processing of user inquiries).

If we use subcontractors to provide our services, we take appropriate legal, technical and organizational measures to ensure the protection of your personal data in accordance with the relevant regulations.

5 Cookies

We use so-called cookies - also from third parties - on the basis of legitimate interests on our website. These are small text files that are stored on your end device with the help of the browser. When you access a website, a cookie may be stored on your operating system. This cookie contains a characteristic string of characters that enables the browser to be uniquely identified when the website is called up again.

By means of a cookie, information and offers on our website can be optimized in your interest. Cookies enable us to recognize visitors. The purpose of this recognition is to make it easier for you to use our website.

Accepting cookies is not a prerequisite for visiting our website. By changing the settings in your Internet browser, you can set up your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and only allow cookies in individual cases, exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general. Furthermore, cookies that have already been set can be deleted at any time.

The procedure for checking and deleting cookies depends on the browser you are using. You can find information on this in the help function of your browser. Alternatively, you can visit the website http://www.aboutcookies.org. There you will find step-by-step instructions on how to control and delete cookies in most browsers.

6 Analysis tools

Our website uses functions of the following web analysis services:

  • Google Analytics 4
  • Google AdWords

Details on the individual web analysis services can be found in the following explanations.

6.1 Google Analytics 4

Based on our legitimate interests, we use Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Inc. ("Google") (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA). Google uses cookies.

We use Google Analytics including the functions of Universal Analytics. Universal Analytics allows us to analyze the activities on our pages across devices (e.g. when accessed via a laptop and later via a tablet). This makes it possible to assign data, sessions and interactions across multiple devices to a pseudonymous user ID and thus analyze the activities of a user across devices.

The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website (including your IP address) is transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. Google is certified under the Privacy Shield Agreement and thus offers a guarantee of compliance with European data protection law(https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active).

Google uses this information on our behalf to evaluate your use of our website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide us with other services relating to website activity and internet usage. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.

We only use Google Analytics with activated IP anonymization. This means that the IP address of users is shortened by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and truncated there.

You can prevent the collection and transmission of the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) to Google and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link(http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de). An opt-out cookie will be set to prevent the future collection of your data when you visit this website. However, we would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all functions of this website to their full extent. To prevent Universal Analytics from collecting data across different devices, you must opt out on all systems used. Further information on Universal Analytics can be found here: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2838718?hl=de&ref_topic=6010376.

You can find more information on terms of use and data protection at https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/analytics/terms/de/ or at www.google.de/intl/de/policies/.

6.2 Google AdWords

On the basis of legitimate interest, we use the "Google AdWords" advertising program belonging to Google Marketing Services Online, an analysis service from Google.

Google AdWords places a cookie on your computer ("conversion cookie") if you have reached our website via a Google ad. These cookies lose their validity after 30 days and are not used for personal identification. If you visit certain pages of our website and the cookie has not yet expired, we and Google can recognize that someone clicked on the ad and was redirected to our site. Each AdWords customer receives a different cookie. Cookies can therefore not be tracked via the websites of AdWords customers. The information collected using the conversion cookie is used to generate conversion statistics for AdWords customers who have opted for conversion tracking. We do not receive any information that can be used to identify you personally.

The information collected by the cookie about your use of our website is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. Interest-relevant categories are assigned to your browser on the basis of the information collected. These categories are used to display interest-based advertising.

We use the data about you obtained with the above-mentioned cookie (so-called conversion tracking) for the following purposes:

  • Remarketing
  • Target groups with common interests
  • user-defined target groups with common interests
  • Ready-to-buy target groups
  • similar target groups
  • demographic and geographical targeting

You also have the option of objecting to interest-based advertising by Google. To do this, you must call up the link www.google.de/settings/ads from each of the Internet browsers you use and make the desired settings there.

Further information on terms of use and data protection in the context of Google AdWords can be found at this link http://www.google.de/policies/technologies/ads/.

7 Social plugins

We use social plugins on our website. Plugins are small programs or program packages with which software can be adapted and expanded according to your own needs. Many programs such as graphics programs, media players or Internet browsers support the functions that normal users need in their basic version.

We have included links to our social media profiles on the following social networks on our website:

  • Facebook Inc, 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA
  • LinkedIn Inc, 2029 Stierlin Ct, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA

When you access a link to one of our social media profiles, a direct connection is established between your browser and the server of the relevant social network. This provides the network with the information that you have visited our website with your IP address and accessed the link. If you access a link to a network while you are logged into your account on the network in question, the content of our site can be linked to your profile on the network, which means that the network can directly associate your visit to our website with your user account and we receive your personal data such as name, email, location, friends list and profile picture. This data enables us to offer certain functions on the pages. If you wish to prevent this, you should log out before clicking on the relevant links. An assignment takes place in any case if you log in to the relevant network after clicking on the link.

If you are logged in to a social network via your user account while visiting our website, the respective provider can also assign the visit to the page to your user account. If you interact with a plug-in, the corresponding information is also transmitted directly to a server of the respective provider in the USA and stored there. The information is also published via your user account in the respective social network and displayed to your contacts there.

Even if you are not logged in to the providers of the plug-ins during your visit to our website, the data collected by the plug-ins may be assigned to your respective user account. A plug-in sets a cookie with an identifier each time the website is accessed. As your browser sends this cookie every time you connect to a server of the respective provider without being asked, the social networks could in principle use it to create a profile of which website the user belonging to the identifier has accessed. If necessary, it would then be possible to assign this identifier to a person again later - for example when logging in to the provider at a later date.

You can also select the "Block third-party cookies" function in your browser settings, in which case your browser will not send any cookies to the respective social network server. With this setting, however, other cross-page functions of other providers may no longer work in addition to the plug-ins.

For more information on the purpose and scope of data collection and the further processing and use of your personal data, please refer to the privacy policies of the respective providers. There you will also find further information on your rights in this regard and setting options to protect your privacy as well as your right to object to the creation of user profiles:

8 Your rights

If the legal basis for the processing is our legitimate interest in the processing of your personal data, you can object to such data processing at any time.

You can also withdraw your consent for us to process your personal data at any time.

In addition, you have the rights to information, rectification, erasure, restriction and data portability with regard to your personal data. If you believe that the processing of your personal data violates data protection law or that your data protection rights have been violated in any other way, you can also lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority. In Switzerland, this is the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC).

Please contact info@gewerbe-treuhand.ch if you have any questions, suggestions or requests.

9 Use of the website by minors

The website is intended for an adult audience. Minors, in particular children under the age of 16, are prohibited from transmitting personal data to us or registering for a service without the consent of their parents or legal guardians. If we discover that such data has been transmitted to us, it will be deleted. The parents (or legal guardian) of the child can contact us and request the deletion or deregistration.

10 Data security

We take technical and organizational security precautions to protect your personal data against manipulation, loss, destruction or access by unauthorized persons and to ensure the protection of your rights and compliance with the applicable data protection regulations.

The measures taken are intended to guarantee the confidentiality and integrity of your data and to ensure the availability and resilience of our systems and services when processing your data in the long term. They should also ensure the rapid restoration of the availability of your data and access to it in the event of a physical or technical incident.

Our security measures also include the encryption of your data. When your data is transmitted to us, it is encrypted using Transport Layer Security (TLS) / HTTPS encryption. All information that you enter online is transmitted via an encrypted transmission path. This means that this information cannot be viewed by unauthorized third parties at any time.

Our data processing and security measures are continuously improved in line with technological developments.

Our own internal data protection is also guaranteed. Our employees and the service companies commissioned by us are obliged to maintain confidentiality and to comply with data protection regulations.

11 Links to websites of other providers

Our websites may contain links to websites of other providers that are not covered by this privacy policy. After clicking on the link, we no longer have any influence on the processing of any data transmitted to the third party by clicking on the link (such as the IP address or the URL on which the link is located), as the behavior of third parties is naturally beyond our control. We can therefore accept no responsibility for the processing of your data by third parties. Insofar as the collection, processing or use of personal data is associated with the use of the websites of other providers, please refer to the data protection notices of the respective providers.

12 Changes to the privacy policy

We reserve the right to amend this privacy policy if necessary.

The current status is April 23, 2019.