Privacy policy

1. Introduction

We value your privacy. With this Privacy Notice, we are committed to ensuring your privacy and the confidentiality of your personal information ("Personal Information") when you use our website or communicate with us. By accessing our website and/or communicating with us, you agree to this Privacy Notice. If you do not agree to any part of this Privacy Notice, you must notify us and stop using our website. We will then be unable to provide any further legal or related services to you.

2. Personal Data we process

We process the Personal Data that you provide to us when you communicate with us (e.g., name, e-mail and postal addresses, telephone number, language preference, job title, business affiliations, and content of communications). The Personal Data may relate to you as well as to your employees and agents. In some cases, Personal Data may be supplemented with information from public sources, such as online media or employer websites, to confirm your current job position or to obtain additional information so that we can communicate effectively with you.

3. Hosting provider and server log files

The provider of the website automatically collects and stores information in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically transmits to us. These are:

  • IP address

  • Browser type and browser version

  • Operating system used

  • Referrer URL

  • Host name of the accessing computer

  • Time of the server request

This data cannot be directly assigned to specific persons. This data is not merged with other data sources. We reserve the right to check this data retrospectively if we become aware of concrete indications of illegal use. This data, as well as all data on this website, is stored by our hosting provider Hostpoint AG, Rapperswil-Jona, whose privacy policy can be found here.

4. Purposes of processing your Personal Data

We use Personal Data to manage our relationship with you and to communicate with you, e.g., to send you newsletters and invitations to events, training programs or lectures, to maintain our contact list, and/or to provide you with other information that you request from us. Personal Information is used only by us and our technology suppliers (who are obligated to protect your Personal Information to the same extent as we are). We do not sell or otherwise disclose your Personal Information to third parties unless you have given prior consent or we are required to do so under applicable law. We do not subject you to profiling or automated decision making. Personal data relating to communications with you will be stored for as long as you are in business contact with us, subject to any applicable legal or regulatory retention requirements.

5. Our basis for processing your Personal Data

In processing Personal Data for the purposes described herein, we rely on your consent to this Privacy Notice, our legitimate interests in communicating with you as a business contact about our business and events and/or our performance of contracts, or any other reason for lawfully processing your Personal Data in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.

6. Protection of your personal data

We limit the use of and access to your Personal Data to those who have a need to know to provide you with access to our website and/or to communicate with you. We take appropriate technical and organizational measures to maintain the confidentiality and integrity of your Personal Information. We regularly review our security policies and procedures to ensure that our systems are safe and secure, and we ensure compliance with all applicable privacy and security laws.

7. Your choices and rights

We welcome your requests and comments. You have the right to be informed by us about any processing of your Personal Data to verify the lawfulness of the processing. If you are affected by inaccurate or incomplete Personal Data, you may request that the relevant data be corrected or completed. To the extent permitted by applicable law, in certain cases you may request the deletion of your Personal Data or a temporary restriction of processing, and you may also object to the processing of your Personal Data, in which case, however, we may not be able to provide relevant services.

8. Contact

If you have any questions or are dissatisfied with any aspect of our processing of your Personal Data, you may contact your contact or respective attorney at Uto Legal, Utoquai 39, P.O. Box, CH-8034 Zurich (utolegal.ch).