DATA PROTECTION STATEMENT
The responsible party within the meaning of data protection laws, in particular the EU General Data Protection Regulation (DSGVO), is: Attesta Schweizer Zertifizierungsgesellschaft AG
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Your data subject rights
You can exercise the following rights at any time using the contact details provided by our data protection officer:
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Information about your data stored by us and its processing (Art. 15 DSGVO),
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Correction of incorrect personal data (Art. 16 DSGVO),
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Deletion of your data stored by us (Art. 17 DSGVO),Restriction of data processing if we are not yet allowed to delete your data due to legal obligations (Art. 18 DSGVO),
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Objection to the processing of your data by us (Art. 21 DSGVO) and
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Data portability, provided that you have consented to the data processing or have concluded a contract with us (Art. 20 DSGVO).
If you have given us consent, you can revoke this at any time with effect for the future.
You may at any time lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, e.g. the competent supervisory authority in the federal state of your residence or the authority responsible for us as the responsible body.
Collection of general information when visiting our website
Nature and purpose of processingWhen you access our website, i.e., when you do not register or otherwise submit information, information of a general nature is automatically collected. This information (server log files) includes, for example, the type of web browser, the operating system used, the domain name of your Internet service provider, your IP address and the like. This is exclusively information that does not allow any conclusions to be drawn about your person.
In particular, they are processed for the following purposes:
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Ensuring a smooth connection of the website,
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Ensuring a smooth use of our website,
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Evaluation of system security and stability, and
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For further administrative purposes.
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We do not use your data to draw conclusions about your person.
Information of this kind is statistically evaluated by us, if necessary, in order to optimize our Internet presence and the technology behind it.
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Legal basis
The processing is carried out pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO on the basis of our legitimate interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website.
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Recipients
Recipients of the data may be technical service providers who act as order processors for the operation and maintenance of our website.
Storage period
The data is deleted as soon as it is no longer required for the purpose for which it was collected. For data used to provide the website, this is generally the case when the respective session has ended.
Provision prescribed or required
The provision of the aforementioned personal data is not required by law or contract. However, without the IP address, the service and functionality of our website is not guaranteed. In addition, individual services and services may not be available or may be limited. For this reason, an objection is excluded.
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Note on the responsible entity
The responsible body for data processing on this website is:
Attesta Schweizer Zertifizierungsgesellschaft AG
Bächaustrasse 75, CH-8806 Bäch SZ
info@attesta.ch
+41 (0)55 615 12 60
Forms
Nature and purpose of processing
The data you enter will be stored for the purpose of individual communication with you. For this purpose, it is necessary to provide a valid e-mail address and your name. This is used for the assignment of the request and the subsequent response to the same. The provision of further data is optional.
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Legal basis
The processing of the data entered in the contact form is based on a legitimate interest (Art 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO). By providing the contact form, we would like to enable you to contact us in an uncomplicated manner. The information you provide will be stored for the purpose of processing the request and for possible follow-up questions. If you contact us to request a quote, the data entered in the contact form will be processed for the implementation of pre-contractual measures (Art 6 para 1 lit. b DSGVO).
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Recipient
Recipients of the data are, if applicable, order processors.
Storage period
Data will be deleted if no longer required after processing the request.
If there is a contractual relationship, we are subject to the statutory retention periods under the German Commercial Code (HGB) and delete your data after these periods have expired.​
Provision mandatory or required
The provision of your personal data is voluntary. However, we can only process your request if you provide us with your name, e-mail address and the reason for the request.
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Cookies
Nature and purpose of processing
Like many other websites, we also use so-called "cookies". Cookies are small text files that are transferred from a website server to your hard drive. Through this, we automatically receive certain data such as IP address, browser used, operating system and your connection to the Internet.
Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to a computer. Based on the information contained in cookies, we can facilitate your navigation and enable the correct display of our web pages.
Under no circumstances will the data we collect be passed on to third parties or linked to personal data without your consent.
Of course, you can also view our website without cookies. Internet browsers are regularly set to accept cookies. In general, you can deactivate the use of cookies at any time via your browser settings. Please use the help functions of your Internet browser to find out how to change these settings. Please note that individual functions of our website may not work if you have disabled the use of cookies.
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Storage period and cookies used
Insofar as you allow us to use cookies through your browser settings or consent, the following cookies may be used on our websites:
Insofar as these cookies may (also) affect personal data, we will inform you about this in the following sections.
You can delete individual cookies or the entire cookie inventory via your browser settings. In addition, you will receive information and instructions on how to delete these cookies or block their storage in advance. Depending on the provider of your browser, you can find the necessary information under the following links:
Mozilla Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/de/kb/cookies-loeschen-daten-von-websites-entfernen
Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/de-de/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/61416?hl=de
Opera: http://www.opera.com/de/help
Safari: https://support.apple.com/kb/PH17191?locale=de_DE&viewlocale=de_DE
Use of Google Analytics
Nature and purpose of processing
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA (hereinafter: "Google"). Google Analytics uses "cookies", which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. However, due to the activation of IP anonymization on these web pages, your IP address will be truncated beforehand 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 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. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other data from Google.
The purposes of data processing are to evaluate the use of the website and to compile reports on website activities. Based on the use of the website and the internet, other related services shall then be provided.
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Legal basis
The processing of the data is based on the user's consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO).
Recipient
The recipient of the data is Google as an order processor. For this purpose, we have concluded the corresponding order processing agreement with Google.
Storage period
The data is deleted as soon as it is no longer required for our recording purposes.
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Third country transfer
Google processes your data in the USA and has submitted to the EU_US Privacy Shield https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework. We have also concluded standard data protection clauses with Google for the use of Google Analytics.
Provision mandatory or required: The provision of your personal data is voluntary, based solely on your consent. If you prevent access, this may result in functional restrictions on the website.
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Revocation of consent
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) to Google and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link: Browser Add On to disable Google Analytics.
In addition or as an alternative to the browser add-on, you can prevent tracking by Google Analytics on our pages by clicking this link. This will install an opt-out cookie on your device. This will prevent the collection by Google Analytics for this website and for this browser in the future, as long as the cookie remains installed in your browser.
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Profiling
With the help of the tracking tool Google Analytics, the behavior of visitors to the website can be evaluated and interests analyzed. For this purpose, we create a pseudonymous user profile.
Google Ads
Type and purpose of processing: Our website uses Google conversion tracking. The operator of the Google Ads services is Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. If you have reached our website via an ad placed by Google, Google Adwords will set a cookie on your computer. The conversion tracking cookie is set when a user clicks on an ad placed by Google.
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 can therefore not be tracked across AdWords customers' websites. The information obtained using the conversion cookie is used to create conversion statistics for AdWords customers who have opted for conversion tracking. Customers learn the total number of users who clicked on their ad and were redirected to a page tagged with a conversion tracking tag. However, they do not receive information that personally identifies users.
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Legal basis
The legal basis for the integration of Google Ads and the associated data transfer to Google is your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO).
Recipients
Whenever you visit our website, personal data, including your IP address, is transferred to Google in the USA. This personal data is stored by Google. Google may pass on this personal data collected via the technical process to third parties.
Our company does not receive any information from Google by means of which the data subject could be identified.
Storage period
These cookies lose their validity after 30 days and are not used for personal identification.
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Third country transfer
Google processes your data in the USA and has submitted to the EU_US Privacy Shield https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework.
Revocation of consent
If you do not wish to participate in tracking, you can refuse the setting of a cookie required for this purpose - for example, by means of a browser setting that generally deactivates the automatic setting of cookies or by setting your browser to block cookies from the domain "googleleadservices.com".
Please note that you may not delete the opt-out cookies as long as you do not want any measurement data to be recorded. If you have deleted all your cookies in the browser, you must set the respective opt-out cookie again.
Provision mandatory or required
The provision of your personal data is voluntary, based solely on your consent. If you prevent access, this may result in functional restrictions on the website.
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Changes to our privacy policy
We reserve the right to adapt this data protection declaration so that it always complies with the current legal requirements or in order to implement changes to our services in the data protection declaration, e.g. when introducing new services. The new privacy policy will then apply to your next visit.
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