Protection des données

 

§1 Information about the collection of personal data

(1) In the following we inform about the collection of personal data when using our website. Personal data are all data that are personally identifiable to you, e.g. name, address, e-mail addresses, user behavior.

(2) Responsible according to Article 4 paragraph 7 EU Data Protection Basic Regulation (DSGVO):

Michel A. Bosshard, Johannes M. Driessen
OPAL Associates Holding AG
Motorenstrasse 116
CH-8620 Wetzikon.
Email: info@opal-holding.com
Telephone: +41 (0) 44 931 12 22

You can contact our data protection officer at datenschutz@opal-holding.com or via our postal address with the addition « the data protection officer ».

(3) When you contact us by e-mail or via a contact form, the data you provide (your e-mail address, if applicable your name and your telephone number) will be stored by us in order to answer your questions. We delete the data arising in this context after the storage is no longer necessary, or limit the processing if statutory retention obligations exist.

(4) If we use contracted service providers for individual functions of our offer or would like to use your data for advertising purposes, we will inform you in detail about the respective processes below. We also specify the defined criteria for the storage period.

 

 §2 Your rights

(1) You have the following rights towards us with regard to personal data concerning you:

• Right to information,
• Right to correction or deletion,
• Right to limitation of processing,
• Right of opposition to the processing,
• Right to data transferability.

(2) You also have the right to complain to a data protection supervisory authority about our processing of your personal data:

Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (EDÖB)
Adrian Lobsiger
Feldeggweg 1
CH-3003 Bern
Telephone: + 41 (0)31 322 43 95
Telefax: + 41 (0)31 325 99 96
E-Mail: info@edoeb.admin.ch

 

§3 Collection of personal data when you visit our website

(1) When using the website for information purposes only, i.e. if you do not register or otherwise provide us with information, we only collect the personal data that your browser transmits to our server. If you wish to view our website, we collect the following data, which is technically necessary for us to display our website to you and to ensure stability and security. The legal basis for this is Article 6 paragraph 1, point f, DSGVO.

This is the following data:

• IP address,
• Date and time of the request,
• Time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT),
• Content of the request (specific page),
• Access Status/HTTP Status Code,
• the amount of data transferred in each case,
• Website from which the request comes,
• Browser,
• Operating system and its interface,
• Language and version of the browser software.

(2) In addition to the aforementioned data, cookies are stored on your computer when you use our website. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your hard disk in the browser you use and through which certain information flows to the appropriate place that sets the cookie (here by us). Cookies cannot run programs or transmit viruses to your computer. They serve to make the Internet offer more user-friendly and effective overall.

(3) Use of cookies:

1. a) This website uses the following types of cookies, the scope and functionality of which are explained below:

• Transient cookies (see b)
• Persistent cookies (see c)

 

1. b) Transient cookies are automatically deleted when you close your browser. This includes in particular the session cookies. These store a so-called session ID, with which different requests of your browser can be assigned to the common session. This will allow your computer to be recognized when you return to our website. Session cookies are deleted when you log out or close your browser.
2. c) Persistent cookies are automatically deleted after a specified period, which may vary depending on the cookie. You can delete cookies at any time in the security settings of your browser.
3. d) You can configure your browser settings according to your wishes and refuse the acceptance of third party cookies or all cookies, for example. Please note that you may not be able to use all functions of this website.
4. e) We use cookies to identify you for follow-up visits if you have an account with us. Otherwise you will have to log in again for each visit.

 

§4 Further functions and offers of our website

(1) In addition to the purely informational use of our website, we offer various services that you can use if you are interested. As a rule, you must provide further personal data, which we use to provide the respective service and to which the aforementioned data processing principles apply.

(2) In some cases we use external service providers to process your data. These have been carefully selected and commissioned by us, are bound by our instructions and are regularly checked.

(3) Furthermore, we may pass on your personal data to third parties if we offer special offers, competitions, contracts or similar services together with partners. For more information, please provide your personal data or see the description of the offer below.

(4) If our service providers or partners are based in a country outside the European Economic Area (EEA), we will inform you of the consequences of this circumstance in the description of the offer.

 

§5 Objection or revocation against the processing of your data

(1) If you have given your consent to the processing of your data, you can revoke this at any time. Such a revocation influences the permissibility of processing your personal data after you have given it to us. The legality of data processing based on the consent until revocation remains unaffected by the revocation.

(2) If we base the processing of your personal data on the weighing of interests, you may object to the processing. This is the case if processing is not necessary in particular to fulfil a contract with you, which is described by us in the following description of the functions. When exercising such objection, we ask you to explain the reasons why we should not process your personal data as we have done. In the event of your justified objection, we will examine the situation and either stop or adjust data processing or point out to you our compelling reasons worthy of protection, on the basis of which we will continue processing.

(3) Of course, you can object to the processing of your personal data for purposes of advertising and data analysis at any time. You can inform us about your advertising contradiction under the following contact data:

 

Please send us all information requests, requests for information or objections to data processing by e-mail:

datenschutzbeauftragter@opal-holding.com