Privacy Policy

The responsible party pursuant to data protection laws, in particular the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR/DGSVO), is:

dot consulting AG
David Berger
Ringstrasse 9
4600 Olten

Telefon: +41 62 962 26 26
E-Mail: info@dotag.ch
Website: https://www.dotag.ch/

General Notice

Based on Article 13 of the Swiss Federal Constitution and the data protection provisions of the Confederation (Federal Data Protection Act, DSG), every person has the right to protection of their privacy and protection against misuse of their personal data. The operators of these pages take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with the applicable legal data protection provisions and this privacy policy.

In cooperation with our hosting providers, we endeavor to protect databases as much as possible against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, or forgery.
We point out that data transmission on the Internet (e.g., in the case of email communication) may have security gaps. Complete protection of data against access by third parties is not possible.

By using this website, you agree to the collection, processing, and use of data in accordance with the description below. This website can generally be visited without registration. In the process, data such as pages accessed or names of retrieved files, date and time are stored on the server for statistical purposes, without this data being directly related to your person. Personal data, in particular name, address, or email address, are collected on a voluntary basis insofar as possible. Without your consent, data will not be passed on to third parties.

Processing of Personal Data

Personal data are all information relating to a specific or identifiable person. An affected person is a person whose personal data are being processed. Processing includes any handling of personal data, regardless of the means and procedures used, in particular storing, disclosing, obtaining, deleting, saving, altering, destroying, and using personal data.
We process personal data in accordance with Swiss data protection law. Furthermore, to the extent that the EU GDPR is applicable, we process personal data in accordance with the following legal bases in connection with Article 6 (1) GDPR:

lit. a) Processing of personal data with the consent of the affected person.

lit. b) Processing of personal data for the performance of a contract with the affected person and for the implementation of corresponding pre-contractual measures.

lit. c) Processing of personal data for the fulfillment of a legal obligation to which we are subject pursuant to possibly applicable EU law or possibly applicable law of a country in which the GDPR is wholly or partly applicable.

lit. d) Processing of personal data to protect vital interests of the affected person or another natural person.

lit. f) Processing of personal data to protect the legitimate interests of ourselves or third parties, provided that the fundamental freedoms and rights and interests of the affected person do not outweigh them. Legitimate interests are in particular our business interest in being able to provide our website, information security, the enforcement of our own legal claims, and compliance with Swiss law.

We process personal data for the duration required for the respective purpose or purposes. In cases of longer retention obligations due to statutory and other obligations to which we are subject, we restrict processing accordingly.

Privacy Policy for Cookies

This website uses cookies. These are small text files that make it possible to store specific, user-related information on the user's device while they use the website. Cookies make it possible, in particular, to determine usage frequency and number of users of pages, to analyze user behavior on the pages, but also to make our offer more user-friendly. Cookies remain stored beyond the end of a browser session and can be retrieved again upon a subsequent visit to the page. If you do not wish this, you should set your Internet browser to refuse the acceptance of cookies.
A general objection to the use of cookies used for purposes of online marketing can be made at a number of services, especially in the case of tracking, via the US website http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ or the EU website http://www.youronlinechoices.com/. Furthermore, the storage of cookies can be achieved by switching them off in your browser settings. Please note that this may prevent you from using all functions of this online offer.

Privacy Policy for SSL-/TLS Encryption

This website uses SSL-/TLS encryption for security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as requests you send to us as the website operator. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the fact that the address bar of your browser changes from "http://" to "https://" and by the lock symbol in your browser bar.
When SSL or TLS encryption is activated, the data you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.

Privacy Policy for Contact Form

If you send us requests via the contact form, your information from the request form, including the contact details you provide there, will be stored with us for the purpose of processing your request and in case of follow-up questions. We do not pass this data on to third parties without your consent.

Privacy Policy for Newsletter Data

If you wish to receive the newsletter offered on this website, we require an email address from you as well as information that allows us to verify that you are the owner of the specified email address and that you consent to receiving the newsletter. No further data are collected. We use this data exclusively for sending the requested information and do not pass it on to third parties.

The consent given to store the data, the email address, and its use for sending the newsletter can be revoked at any time, for example via the "unsubscribe link" in the newsletter.

Privacy Policy for Comment Function on This Website

For the comment function on this website, in addition to your comment, information about the time the comment was created, your email address, and, if you do not post anonymously, the username you have chosen are stored.

Storage of IP Address
Our comment function stores the IP addresses of users who write comments. Since we do not check comments on our site before publication, we need this data in order to take action in the event of legal violations such as insults or propaganda against the author.

Subscribing to Comments
As a user of the site, you can subscribe to comments after registration. You will receive a confirmation email to verify that you are the owner of the specified email address. You can cancel this function at any time via a link in the info emails.

Google AdWords

This website uses Google conversion tracking. If you have reached our website via an advertisement placed by Google, Google Adwords will set a cookie on your computer. The conversion tracking cookie is set when a user clicks on a Google-placed ad. These cookies expire after 30 days and do not serve to personally identify you. If the user visits certain pages of our website and the cookie has not yet expired, we and Google can recognize that the user clicked on the ad and was redirected to this page.

Each Google AdWords customer receives a different cookie. Cookies cannot thus be tracked across the websites of AdWords customers. The information obtained with the aid of the conversion cookie is used to create conversion statistics for AdWords customers who have opted in to conversion tracking. Customers learn the total number of users who clicked on their ad and were redirected to a page marked with a conversion tracking tag. However, they do not receive information that would allow users to be personally identified.
If you do not want to participate in tracking, you can refuse to set the required cookie—for example, by adjusting your browser settings, which disables the automatic setting of cookies, or by setting your browser to block cookies from the domain "googleleadservices.com".

Please note that you must not delete the opt-out cookies as long as you do not wish to record measurement data. If you have deleted all cookies in your browser, you must reset the respective opt-out cookie.

Use of Google reCAPTCHA

This website uses the reCAPTCHA service of Google Inc. (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; "Google"). The query serves the purpose of distinguishing whether the input is made by a human or by automated, machine processing. The query includes the transmission of your IP address and, if necessary, other data required by Google for the reCAPTCHA service to Google. For this purpose, your input is transmitted to Google and further used there. However, your IP address is abbreviated 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 abbreviated there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of this service.
The IP address transmitted from your browser in the context of reCaptcha will not be merged with other data from Google. Your data may also be transmitted to the USA. For data transmissions to the USA, there is an adequacy decision by the European Commission, the "Privacy Shield". Google is a participant in "Privacy Shield" and has subjected itself to its requirements. By clicking on the query, you consent to the processing of your data. Processing takes place on the basis of Art. 6 (1) lit. a GDPR with your consent. You may revoke your consent at any time without affecting the lawfulness of processing carried out on the basis of consent until revocation.

More information about Google reCAPTCHA and the associated privacy policy can be found at: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en 

Privacy Policy for Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service of Google Ireland Limited. If the person responsible for data processing on this website is located outside the European Economic Area or Switzerland, Google Analytics data processing is performed by Google LLC. Google LLC and Google Ireland Limited are hereinafter referred to as "Google".
The statistics obtained allow us to improve our offer and make it more interesting for you as a user. This website also uses Google Analytics for cross-device analysis of visitor flows, which is carried out via a user ID. If you have a Google user account, you can deactivate cross-device analysis of your usage in the settings there under "My Data", "Personal Data".
The legal basis for the use of Google Analytics is Article 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. f GDPR. The IP address transmitted from your browser in the context of Google Analytics is not merged with other data from Google. We point out that on this website Google Analytics has been extended with the code "_anonymizeIp();" to ensure anonymized collection of IP addresses. This means IP addresses are processed in abbreviated form, and a personal relationship can thus be excluded. To the extent that the data collected about you have a personal reference, this is immediately excluded and the personal data are immediately deleted.
Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and abbreviated there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activities, and to provide further services related to website usage and internet usage to the website operator. For the exceptional cases in which personal data are transmitted to the USA, Google has subjected itself to the EU-US Privacy Shield,
https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework  .
Google Analytics uses cookies. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is normally transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. You can prevent the storage of cookies by making an appropriate setting in your browser software; however, we point out that you may not be able to fully use all functions of this website in that case. You can furthermore prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and relating to your use of the website (including your IP address) by Google as well as the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link: Disable Google Analytics.
You can also prevent the use of Google Analytics by clicking on this link: Disable Google Analytics. This will store a so-called opt-out cookie on your device, which prevents the processing of personal data by Google Analytics. Please note that if you delete all cookies on your device, these opt-out cookies will also be deleted, meaning you will need to reset the opt-out cookies if you wish to continue to prevent this form of data collection. The opt-out cookies are set per browser and computer/device and must therefore be activated separately for each browser, computer, or other device.

Privacy Policy for Google Ads

This website uses the online marketing tool Google Ads by Google ("Google Ads"). Google Ads uses cookies to display relevant ads to users, to improve campaign performance reports, or to prevent a user from seeing the same ads multiple times. Via a cookie ID, Google records which ads are displayed in which browser and can thus prevent them from being displayed multiple times. Furthermore, Google Ads can use cookie IDs to record so-called conversions that are related to ad requests. This is the case, for example, when a user sees a Google Ads ad and later uses the same browser to visit the website of the advertiser and makes a purchase there. According to Google, Google Ads cookies do not contain personally identifiable information.

Due to the marketing tools used, your browser automatically establishes a direct connection with Google's server. By integrating Google Ads, Google receives the information that you have accessed the corresponding part of our Internet presence or clicked on an ad from us. If you are registered with a Google service, Google can assign the visit to your account. Even if you are not registered with Google or have not logged in, there is a possibility that Google will find out and store your IP address.
You can prevent participation in this tracking procedure in various ways:

by making an appropriate setting in your browser software, in particular, the suppression of third-party cookies means that you will not receive ads from third-party providers;
by deactivating cookies for conversion tracking by setting your browser to block cookies from the domain "www.googleadservices.com", https://adssettings.google.com, whereby this setting will be deleted if you delete your cookies;

by deactivating interest-based ads from providers that are part of the self-regulatory "About Ads" campaign via the link https://www.aboutads.info/choices, whereby this setting will be deleted if you delete your cookies;

by permanent deactivation in your Firefox, Internet Explorer, or Google Chrome browsers at the link https://www.google.com/settings/ads/plugin. We point out that you may not be able to fully use all functions of this offer in this case.

The legal basis for the processing of your data is a balancing of interests, according to which no overriding contrary interests on your part oppose the processing of your personal data described above (Article 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. f GDPR). Further information about Google Ads from Google can be obtained at https://ads.google.com/intl/en_US/home/, as well as regarding data protection at Google in general: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy. Alternatively, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) website at https://www.networkadvertising.org.

Privacy Policy for the Use of Google Web Fonts

This website uses so-called Web Fonts provided by Google for consistent display of fonts. When you call up a page, your browser loads the required Web Fonts into your browser cache in order to display texts and fonts correctly. If your browser does not support Web Fonts, a standard font from your computer will be used.

Further information about Google Web Fonts can be found at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in Google's privacy policy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/ 

Google Tag Manager

Google Tag Manager is a solution that allows us to manage so-called website tags via an interface and thus, for example, integrate Google Analytics and other Google marketing services into our online offer. The Tag Manager itself, which implements the tags, does not process any personal data of users. With regard to the processing of personal data of users, reference is made to the following information about Google services. Terms of Use: https://www.google.com/intl/en/tagmanager/use-policy.html.

Privacy Policy for HubSpot

Our website uses HubSpot, a marketing automation software from the company HubSpot, 2nd Floor 30 North Wall Quay, Dublin 1, Ireland. HubSpot is a software company from the USA with a European branch in Ireland. HubSpot helps us analyze the use of our portal. For this purpose, HubSpot uses cookies.
Certain usage data are linked to your person (e.g., after entry in a registration form) and stored in our CRM. This allows us to send you information and offers specifically tailored to your interests.
In this process, your personal data may also be transmitted to HubSpot servers in the United States (USA). An appropriate level of protection is established by the fact that HubSpot, Inc. participates in the EU-US Data Protection Shield agreement and is certified for compliance with it.
We use HubSpot to provide you with information and offers tailored to your needs. Accordingly, we have a legitimate interest within the meaning of Article 6 (1) lit. f) General Data Protection Regulation in this processing. The legal basis for the processing of your personal data by us in connection with the use of HubSpot is Article 6 (1) lit. f) General Data Protection Regulation.

In the context of the use of HubSpot, we store your personal data for as long as it is necessary to send you information and offers tailored to your needs.
The provision of personal data collected via HubSpot is not required by law or contract or for the conclusion of a contract. If you do not provide us with this data, we cannot provide you with information and offers tailored to your needs.

More information about data usage by HubSpot can be found in HubSpot's privacy policy at: https://legal.hubspot.com/en/privacy-policy.
You can object to the use of your data at any time, for example, by email to the email address provided in this privacy policy.
HubSpot is certified under the conditions of the "EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework" and is subject to TRUSTe's Privacy Seal and the "U.S.-Swiss Safe Harbor" Framework.

More information on HubSpot's data protection policies
More information from HubSpot regarding EU data protection provisions
More information from HubSpot regarding cookies set in a visitor's browser
More information about cookies set on HubSpot websites

Amendments

We may adjust this privacy policy at any time without notice. The current version published on our website applies. To the extent that the privacy policy is part of an agreement with you, we will inform you of any updates by email or in another appropriate manner.

Questions for the Data Protection Officer

If you have questions about data protection, please send us an email or contact directly the responsible person listed at the beginning of this privacy policy for data protection in our organization.
Olten, June 9, 2020
Source: SwissAnwalt