Data protection

1. DATA PROTECTION AT A GLANCE

GENERAL

The following information provides a simple overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit our website. Personal data is any data that can be used to identify you personally. For detailed information on the subject of data protection, please refer to our privacy policy listed below this text.

DATA COLLECTION ON OUR WEBSITE

Who is responsible for data collection on this website?
Data processing on this website is carried out by the website operator. You can find their contact details in the legal notice on this website.

How do we collect your data?
Your data is collected when you provide it to us. This may include data that you enter in a contact form.

Other data is collected automatically by our IT systems when you visit the website. This is mainly technical data (e.g. internet browser, operating system or time of page view). This data is collected automatically as soon as you enter our website.

What do we use your data for?
Some of the data is collected to ensure that the website is provided without errors. Other data may be used to analyse your user behaviour.

What rights do you have regarding your data?
You have the right to obtain information about the origin, recipient and purpose of your stored personal data free of charge at any time. You also have the right to request the correction, blocking or deletion of this data. You can contact us at any time at the address given in the legal notice if you have any further questions on this subject. Furthermore, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority.

Analysis tools and third-party tools
When you visit our website, your surfing behaviour may be statistically evaluated. This is mainly done using cookies and so-called analysis programmes. The analysis of your surfing behaviour is usually anonymous; your surfing behaviour cannot be traced back to you. You can object to this analysis or prevent it by not using certain tools. You can find detailed information on this in the following privacy policy.

You can object to this analysis. We will inform you about the options for objection in this privacy policy.

2. GENERAL INFORMATION AND MANDATORY INFORMATION

Data protection
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.

When you use this website, various pieces of personal data are collected. Personal data is data with which you can be personally identified. This privacy policy explains what data we collect and what we use it for. It also explains how and for what purpose this is done.

We would like to point out that data transmission over the Internet (e.g. when communicating by email) may be subject to security vulnerabilities. It is not possible to completely protect data from access by third parties.

Information about the responsible body
The responsible body for data processing on this website is:

AMG Attorneys at Law Ltd
Pestalozzistrasse 2
P.O. Box 12
9001 Sankt Gallen
Switzerland

The responsible body is the natural or legal person who alone or jointly with others decides on the purposes and means of the processing of personal data (e.g. names, email addresses or similar).

Revocation of your consent to data processing
Many data processing operations are only possible with your express consent. You can revoke your consent at any time. To do so, simply send us an informal email. The legality of the data processing carried out until the revocation remains unaffected by the revocation.

Right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority
In the event of violations of data protection law, the data subject has the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority. The competent supervisory authority for data protection issues is the state data protection officer of the federal state in which our company is based. A list of data protection officers and their contact details can be found at the following link: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html.

Right to data portability
You have the right to have data that we process based on your consent or in fulfilment of a contract delivered to you or to a third party in a common, machine-readable format. If you request the direct transfer of the data to another controller, this will only be done to the extent that it is technically feasible.

SSL or TLS encryption
For security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as orders or enquiries that you send to us as the website operator, this website uses SSL or TLS encryption. 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.

Information, blocking, deletion
Within the framework of the applicable legal provisions, you have the right to obtain information free of charge at any time about your stored personal data, its origin and recipients and the purpose of data processing and, if applicable, a right to correction, blocking or deletion of this data. You can contact us at any time at the address given in the legal notice if you have any questions about this or other issues relating to personal data.

Objection to advertising emails
We hereby object to the use of contact data published within the scope of the imprint obligation for the purpose of sending unsolicited advertising and information material. The operators of the pages expressly reserve the right to take legal action in the event of unsolicited advertising information being sent, for example via spam emails.

3. DATA COLLECTION ON OUR WEBSITE

Cookies
Some of the Internet pages use so-called cookies. Cookies do not cause any damage to your computer and do not contain viruses. Cookies serve to make our offer more user-friendly, effective and secure. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and saved by your browser.

Most of the cookies we use are so-called ‘session cookies’. They are automatically deleted after the end of your visit. Other cookies remain stored on your device until you delete them. These cookies enable us to recognise your browser when you next visit.

You can configure your browser to inform you about the setting of cookies and only allow cookies in individual cases, exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general, and activate the automatic deletion of cookies when you close your browser. If you deactivate cookies, the functionality of this website may be restricted.

Cookies that are necessary for the electronic communication process or for the provision of certain functions you have requested (e.g. shopping basket function) are stored on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in storing cookies for the technically error-free and optimised provision of its services. If other cookies (e.g. cookies for analysing your surfing behaviour) are stored, these are treated separately in this privacy policy.

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

Browser type and browser version
Operating system
Referrer URL
Host name of the accessing computer
Time of the server request IP

This data is not merged with other data sources.

The basis for data processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR, which permits the processing of data for the fulfilment of a contract or pre-contractual measures.

4. ANALYSIS TOOLS AND ADVERTISING

Privacy policy for Matomo
Matomo, formerly Piwik, is an open-source web application for web analytics. It is the successor project to the now discontinued phpMyVisites project and an alternative to Google Analytics. The Matomo used is hosted locally by the provider cubetech in Bern, Switzerland.

Matomo is used on this website to collect statistical evaluations of the performance of individual pages with the aim of optimising the user experience. The following data is processed: the type of browser and browser version you are using, your operating system, your country of origin, the date and time of the server request, the number of visits, your length of stay on the website and the external links you have clicked on. The IP address of users is anonymised before it is stored. Matomo uses cookies that are stored on the user's computer and enable an analysis of the use of our online offer by the user. Pseudonymous user profiles can be created from the processed data. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is only stored on our server and is not passed on to third parties.

Browser plugin
You can prevent the storage of cookies by adjusting your browser software settings accordingly; however, we would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all functions of this website to their full extent. You can also prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and relating to your use of the website (including your IP address) and from processing this data by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.

5. PLUGINS AND TOOLS

Privacy policy for Mapbox
We integrate, among other things or exclusively, the maps of the ‘Mapbox’ service provided by Mapbox, Logan Exchange 2nd Floor 1509 16th Street Northwest Washington, DC 20036, USA, into our website. The data processed may include, in particular, IP addresses and location data of users. The data may be processed in the USA and/or Europe. Mapbox privacy policy: https://www.mapbox.com/privacy/. For more information, please contact privacy@mapbox.com..