Personal data is all information relating to an identified or identifiable person.

A data subject is a person about whom personal data is processed.

Processing includes any handling of personal data, regardless of the means and procedures used, in particular the storage, disclosure, procurement, deletion, storage, modification, destruction and use of personal data.

We process personal data in accordance with Swiss data protection law. In addition, we process personal data - if and insofar as the GDPR is applicable - in accordance with the following legal bases:

• Article 6(1)(a) GDPR for the processing of personal data with the consent of the data subject.
• Article 6(1)(b) GDPR for the necessary processing of personal data for the performance of a contract with the data subject and for the implementation of corresponding pre-contractual measures.
• Article 6(1)(c) GDPR for the processing of personal data necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject under any applicable EU law or under any applicable law of a country in which the GDPR is applicable in whole or in part.
• Article 6(1)(d) GDPR for the necessary processing of personal data in order to protect the vital interests of the data subject or another natural person.
• Article 6(1)(f) GDPR for the necessary processing of personal data for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by us or by a third party, except where such interests are overridden by the fundamental freedoms and rights and interests of the data subject.

Legitimate interests are, in particular, our business interest in being able to provide the websites, 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(s). In the case of longer-term retention obligations due to legal and other obligations to which we are subject, we restrict processing accordingly.

This privacy policy describes how and which personal data we collect and process via the following channels:

(a) When accessing the websites, in particular when entering data in contact forms, registration pages or when users register for an e-mail newsletter. By accessing the websites, the user declares his/her agreement with this privacy policy. Any user who does not agree with the content of this privacy policy must refrain from accessing other pages of the websites.

(b) As part of the registration for events and other events organized and carried out by us with the express consent of the persons concerned.

Visiting the websites does not require identification by the users of the websites or the entry of personal data.

We process the personal data collected via the above-mentioned channels in accordance with the applicable laws and regulations for the following purposes:

• Technical management of the websites,

• Customer and user administration and marketing;

• Informing data subjects about our products and services;

• All other purposes expressly specified in the collection via the above-mentioned channels or requested by the data subjects.

When accessing the websites, the user's Internet browser automatically transmits the following log data to the web server for technical reasons:

• Date of access,

• Time of access,

• URL of the referring (previously visited) website (referrer URL),

• retrieved files,

• amount of data transferred,

• Length of stay, entry pages, exit pages and abandonment rates,

• Search terms that are entered into the search mask,

• Origin of visitors by country,

• Browser type and version and browser plug-ins used,

• Operating system and version,

• IP address

This log data is stored by us in a log file to ensure data security. The stored data is used for the purpose of tracking unauthorized access attempts and access to the web server. Any further use of the log data is exclusively for statistical purposes in anonymized form.

Search terms entered in the search mask on the websites are used exclusively by us to carry out the search query and are stored together with the log data.