Privacy policy

General informationBased on Article 13 of the Swiss Federal Constitution and the data protection provisions of the Swiss Confederation (Data Protection Act, DSG), every person has the right to protection of their privacy as well as 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 statutory data protection regulations and this privacy policy. In cooperation with our hosting providers, we make every effort to protect the databases as good as possible against unauthorised access, loss, misuse, or falsification. We would like to point out that data transmission on the Internet (e.g., communication by e-mail) can have security gaps. Complete protection of data against access by third parties is not possible. By using this website, you consent to the collection, processing and use of data as described below. This website can basically be visited without registration. In the process, data such as accessed pages or the name of the file called up, 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 e-mail address, are collected on a voluntary basis. The data will not be passed on to third parties without your consent.

Responsibility
Responsible for this Privacy Policy in terms of data protection laws is:

Yvonne and Peter Imholz Foundation
Lüssirainstrasse 50
6300 Zug, Switzerland

E-mail: info@imholz-stiftung.ch
Website: www.imholz-stiftung.ch

Processing personal data
Personal data is any information relating to an identified or identifiable person. A person concerned is someone 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, acquisition, deletion, storage, modification, destruction and use of personal data. We process personal data in accordance with Swiss data protection law. Furthermore, we process personal data in accordance with the following legal basis:

- Consent: The person concerned has given consent to the processing of personal data relating to him or her for a specific purpose or purposes.·      
- Performance of a contract and pre-contractual enquiries: Processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the person concerned is a party or for the performance of pre-contractual measures taken at the request of the person concerned.    
- Applications and project requests: The processing is necessary for the examination and execution of an application to which the person concerned is a party.·      
- Donations in favour of the Foundation: the processing of the personal data and the purpose of the donation (if requested) is necessary. ·      
- Legal obligation: Processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the responsible person is subject to.·  
- Protection of vital interests: Processing is necessary to protect the vital interests of the person concerned or another person.·    
- Legitimate interests: Processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests of the responsible person or a third party, except where such interests are overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the person concerned which require the protection of personal data.

We process personal data for the period of time required for the respective purpose or purposes. In the case of longer-term retention obligations due to legal or other obligations to which we are subject, we restrict processing accordingly.

Safety measures
We take appropriate technical and organisational measures in accordance with the legal requirements, considering the state of technology, to ensure a level of protection appropriate to the risk. This is done by taking into account the implementation costs, the scope, the circumstances and the purposes of the processing, as well as the different probabilities of occurrence and the extent of the threat to the rights and freedoms of individuals. The measures particularly include ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data by controlling physical and electronic access to the data as well as access to, entry into, disclosure of, assurance of, availability of, and segregation of, the data. We also have procedures in place to ensure the exercise of rights of the person concerned, the deletion of data and responses to data compromise. Furthermore, we already take the protection of personal data into account in the development or selection of hardware, software, and procedures in accordance with the principle of data protection, through technology design and through data protection-friendly default settings.

Transmission of personal data
In the course of our processing of personal data, the data may be transferred to or disclosed to other bodies, companies, legally independent organisational units, or persons. The recipients of this data may include, for example, service providers commissioned with IT tasks or providers of services and content that are integrated into a website. In such cases, we observe the legal requirements and, in particular, conclude appropriate contracts or agreements that serve to protect your data with the recipients of the data.

Data processing in third countries
If we process data in a third country, or the processing takes place in the context of the use of third-party services or the disclosure or transfer of data to other persons, bodies or companies, this only takes place in accordance with the legal requirements. Subject to express consent or contractually or legally required transfer, we only process the data in third countries with a recognised level of data protection..

Privacy policy for cookies
This website uses cookies. Cookies are text files that contain data from visited websites or domains and are stored by a browser on the user's computer. A cookie is primarily used to store information about a user during or after their visit within an online service. Stored information may include, for example, language settings on a website, login status or where a video was watched. The term cookies also includes other technologies that perform the same functions as cookies (e.g. when user details are stored using pseudonymous online identifiers, also known as "user IDs").

The following cookie types and functions are distinguished:

- Temporary cookies (also: session cookies): Temporary cookies are deleted at the latest after a user has left an online offer and closed his browser.·      
- Permanent cookies: Permanent cookies remain stored even after the browser is closed. For example, the login status can be saved or preferred content can be displayed directly when the user visits a website again.      
- First-party cookies: First-party cookies are set by ourselves.
- Third-party cookies: Third-party cookies are mainly used by advertisers (so-called third parties) to process user information.  
- Necessary cookies (also: essential or absolutely necessary): Cookies may be absolutely necessary for the operation of a website (e.g. to store logins or other user input or for security reasons).  
- Statistical, marketing and personalisation cookies: Cookies are usually also used in the context of range measurement and when a user's interests or behaviour (e.g. viewing certain content, using functions, etc.) on individual websites are stored.

Notes on legal basis: The legal basis on which we process your personal data using cookies depends on whether we ask you for consent. If this is the case and you consent to the use of cookies, the legal basis for the processing of your data is the consent given. Otherwise, the data processed using cookies is processed on the basis of our legitimate interests or, if the use of cookies is necessary to fulfil our contractual obligations.

Storage period: If we do not provide you with explicit information on the storage period of permanent cookies (e.g. in the context of a so-called cookie opt-in), please assume that the storage period can be up to two years.

General information on revocation and objection (opt-out): You have the option at any time to revoke any consent you have given or to object to the processing of your data by cookie technologies (collectively referred to as "opt-out"). You can declare your objection by means of your browser settings, e.g. by deactivating the use of cookies (whereby this may also restrict the functionality of our online offer). An objection to the use of cookies for online marketing purposes can also be declared by means of a variety of services, especially in the case of tracking, via the https://optout.aboutads.info and https://www.youronlinechoices.com/ websites.  

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 enquiries that you send to us as the site operator. You can recognise an encrypted connection by the fact that the address line of the browser changes from "http://" to "https://" and by the lock symbol in your browser line. If SSL or TLS encryption is activated, the data you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties..

Third party services
This website may use Google Maps for embedding maps, Google Invisible reCAPTCHA for protection against bots and spam, and YouTube for embedding videos. These services of the American Google LLC use cookies, among other things, and as a result, data is transferred to Google in the USA, although we assume that no personal tracking takes place in this context solely through the use of our website. Google has undertaken to ensure adequate data protection in accordance with the US-European and the US-Swiss Privacy Shield. Further information can be found in Google's privacy policy.

Privacy policy for application and contact form
If you send us projects and/or enquiries by means of an application and/or contact form of the website, your details from the respective form, including the contact details you provide there, will be stored by us for the purpose of processing the project / enquiry and in the event of follow-up questions. We do not pass on this data without your consent.

Rights of persons concerned

Right to information
Every person affected by the processing of personal data has the right to obtain information, free of charge, from the operator of this website at any time about the personal data stored about him or her. Furthermore, information may be provided about the following information, if applicable:·    

- the purposes of the processing·      
- the categories of personal data processed
- the recipients to whom the personal data have been or will be disclosed      
- if possible, the envisaged duration for which the personal data will be stored or, if this is not possible, the criteria for determining this duration
- the existence of the right to obtain the rectification or erasure of personal data concerning him or her, or the restriction of processing by the responsible, or the right to object to such processing- the existence of a right of appeal to a supervisory authority·      - if personal data are not collected from the person concern: Any available information on the origin of the data

Right to rectification
Any person concerned by the processing of personal data has the right to obtain the rectification without delay of inaccurate personal data concerning him or her. Furthermore, the person concerned has the right to request the completion of incomplete personal data, considering the purposes of the processing.

Right to erasure (right to be forgotten)

Any person concerned by the processing of personal data has the right to obtain from the responsible of this website the erasure without delay of personal data concerning him or her, where one of the following reasons applies and insofar as the processing is not necessary:·      

- The personal data were collected or otherwise processed for purposes for which they are no longer necessary·      
- The person concerned revokes the consent on which the processing was based and there is no other legal basis for the processing·      
- The person concerned objects to the processing on grounds relating to his or her particular situation and there are no overriding legitimate grounds for the processing, or the person concerned objects to the processing in the case of direct marketing and related profiling·      
- The deletion of the personal data is necessary for the fulfilment of a legal obligation

Right to object

Any person concerned by the processing of personal data has the right, on grounds relating to his or her particular situation, to object at any time to processing of personal data concerning him or her. The operator of this website shall no longer process the personal data in the event of the objection, unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override the interests, rights and freedoms of the person concerned, or if the processing serves the purpose of asserting, exercising or defending legal claims.

Right to revoke consent under data protection law

Every person affected by the processing of personal data has the right to revoke a given consent to the processing of personal data at any time.

Use of Google Maps
This website uses the Google Maps service. This enables us to show you interactive maps directly on the website and allows you to use the map function conveniently. By visiting the website, Google receives the information that you have accessed the corresponding subpage of our website. This occurs regardless of whether Google provides a user account via which you are logged in or whether no user account exists. If you are logged in to Google, your data will be directly assigned to your account. If you do not wish your data to be associated with your Google profile, you must log out before activating the button. Google stores your data as usage profiles and uses them for the purposes of advertising, market research and/or designing its website in line with requirements. Such an evaluation (even for users who are not logged in) is carried out, in particular, to provide needs-based advertising and to inform other users of the social network about your activities on our website. You have the right to object to the creation of these user profiles, and you must contact Google to exercise this right. Further information on the purpose and scope of data collection and processing by Google, as well as further information on your rights in this regard and settings options for protecting your privacy, can be found at: www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy.

Use of Google reCAPTCHA
We use "Google reCAPTCHA" (hereinafter "reCAPTCHA") on our webpages. The provider is Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, hereinafter "Google". The purpose of reCAPTCHA is to check whether the data input on our webpages (e.g. in a contact form) is made by a human being or by an automated programme. For this purpose, reCAPTCHA analyses the behaviour of the website visitor on the basis of various characteristics. This analysis begins automatically as soon as the website visitor enters the website. For the analysis, reCAPTCHA evaluates various information (e.g. IP address, time spent by the website visitor on the website or mouse movements made by the user). The data collected during the analysis is forwarded to Google. The reCAPTCHA analyses run entirely in the background. Website visitors are not informed that an analysis is taking place. The website operator has a legitimate interest in protecting its web offers from abusive automated spying and from SPAM. For more information on Google reCAPTCHA and Google's privacy policy, please see the following links: https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/ and https://policies.google.com/terms?hl=de.

Privacy policy for Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Ireland Limited. If the person responsible for the processing of data on this website is located outside the European Economic Area or Switzerland, the Google Analytics data processing is carried out by Google LLC. Google LLC and Google Ireland Limited are hereinafter referred to as "Google". This website also uses Google Analytics for a cross-device analysis of visitor flows, which is carried out via a user ID. If you have a Google user account, you can deactivate the 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 Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. f DS-GVO. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data. We would like to point out that on this website Google Analytics has been extended by the code "_anonymizeIp();" in order to ensure anonymised collection of IP addresses. This means that IP addresses are processed in abbreviated form, which means that they cannot be linked to a specific person. If the data collected about you is related to a person, this is immediately excluded, and the personal data is deleted immediately. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transferred to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity, and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website operator.

Google Analytics uses cookies. The information generated by the cookies about your use of this website is generally transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however, please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. You can also prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) by Google, and the processing of this data by Google by deactivating Google Analytics.

Privacy policy for Facebook
This website uses functions of Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA. When you call up our pages with Facebook plug-ins, a connection is established between your browser and the Facebook servers. In the process, data is already transmitted to Facebook. If you have a Facebook account, this data can be linked to it. If you do not wish this data to be associated with your Facebook account, please log out of Facebook before visiting our site. Interactions, in particular the use of a comment function or the clicking of a "Like" or "Share" button, are also passed on to Facebook. You can find out more at https://de-de.facebook.com/about/privacy.

Privacy policy for LinkedIn
We use the marketing services of the social network LinkedIn of LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Plaza, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland ("LinkedIn") within our online offer. These use cookies, i.e. text files that are stored on your computer. This enables us to analyse your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is transferred pseudonymously to a LinkedIn server in the USA and stored there. LinkedIn therefore does not store the name or email address of the respective user. Rather, the above-mentioned data is only assigned to the person for whom the cookie was generated. This does not apply if the user has allowed LinkedIn to process without pseudonymisation or has a LinkedIn account. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. You can also object to the use of your data directly at LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/psettings/guest-controls/retargeting-opt-out.

Privacy policy for YouTube
Functions of the "YouTube" service are integrated on this website. "YouTube is owned and operated by Google Ireland Limited, a company incorporated under the laws of Ireland with its registered office at Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, which operates the services in the European Economic Area and Switzerland. Your legal agreement with "YouTube" consists of the terms and conditions set out at the following link: https://www.youtube.com/static?gl=de&template=terms&hl=de. These terms constitute a legally binding agreement between you and YouTube regarding your use of the services. Google's privacy policy explains how YouTube treats and protects your personal data when you use the service.

Copyright
The copyrights and all other rights to the content, images, photos, logos, texts, or other files on this website belong exclusively to the Yvonne and Peter Imholz Foundation or the specifically named rights holders. The written consent of the copyright holder must be obtained in advance for the use of any elements or the reproduction of any files. Anyone who commits a copyright infringement without the consent of the respective copyright holder may be liable to prosecution and possibly to damages.

General disclaimer
All information on our website has been carefully checked. We make every effort to ensure that the information we provide is up-to-date, accurate and complete. Nevertheless, the occurrence of errors cannot be completely ruled out, which means that we cannot guarantee the completeness, correctness and accuracy of information, including journalistic and editorial information. Liability claims regarding damage caused by the use of any information provided, including any kind of information which is incomplete or incorrect, will therefore be rejected. The website operator may change or delete texts at his own discretion and without notice and is not obliged to update the contents of this website. The use of or access to this website is at the visitor's own risk. The operator, its principals or partners are not responsible for damages, such as direct, indirect, incidental, consequential or punitive damages, alleged to have been caused by the use of this website and consequently assume no liability for such damages. The website operator accepts no responsibility or liability for the content and availability of third-party websites that can be accessed via external links on this website. The operators of the linked sites are solely responsible for their content. The website operator thus expressly dissociates itself from all third-party content that may be relevant under criminal or liability law or that may offend common decency.

ModificationsWe may modify this privacy policy at any time without prior notice. The current version published on our website will apply. If the Privacy Policy is part of an agreement with you, we will notify you of the change by email or other appropriate means in the event of an update.

Questions to the Data Protection Officer
If you have any questions about data protection, please write to us by e-mail or contact the person in our organisation responsible for data protection, listed at the beginning of this privacy policy, directly.

Source Privacy Policy: SwissAnwalt