Privacy policy

Based on Article 13 of the Swiss Federal Constitution and the data protection provisions of the Swiss Confederation (Data Protection Act, DSG), every person is entitled to protection of his or her privacy and protection against misuse of his or her personal data. The operators of these pages take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and according to the legal data protection regulations as well as this privacy policy.

When you access our websites, the following data is stored in log files: IP address, date, time, browser request and generally transmitted information on the operating system or browser. This usage data forms the basis for statistical, anonymous evaluations, so that trends can be identified, on the basis of which we can improve our offers accordingly.

Insofar as personal data (e.g. name, address or e-mail addresses) is collected on our pages, this is always done on a voluntary basis, as far as possible. This data is partly passed on to third parties in accordance with this data protection declaration.

We would like to point out that data transmission on the Internet (e.g. communication by e-mail) can have security gaps. A complete protection of data against access by third parties is not possible.

1. Cookies

This website uses so-called cookies. Cookies do not damage your computer and do not contain viruses. Cookies serve to make our offer more user-friendly, effective and safer. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and saved by your browser.

If you write a comment on our website, you agree that your name, e-mail address and website are stored in cookies. This is a comfort function, so that you do not have to enter these details again when you write another comment. These cookies are stored for one year.

If you have an account and login to this website, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie does not contain any personal data and will be discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will set some cookies to store your login information and display options. Login cookies expire after two days and display option cookies expire after one year. If you select “Stay signed in” when you sign in, your sign-in will be maintained for two weeks. When you log out of your account, the login cookies are deleted.

When you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie is stored in your browser. This cookie contains no personal data and only refers to the article ID of the article you have just edited. The cookie expires after one day.

Further cookies used on this site can be found in the following paragraphs of this privacy policy under the respective topics. (e.g. Google Analytics, etc)

Most web browsers automatically accept cookies. You can avoid this by changing the settings of your browser. You can remove cookies stored on your PC at any time by deleting the temporary internet files. You also have the option of deactivating the use of cookies in your browser.

Here you will find instructions for deleting or deactivating cookies for Internet ExplorerGoogle Chrome and Mozilla.

Disabling cookies may mean that you will not be able to use all the features of our website.

2. Comments

When you post comments on this website, we collect the data displayed in the comment form, your IP address and the user-agent string (which identifies the browser) to assist in detecting spam.

3. Media

If you are a registered user and upload photos to this website, you should avoid uploading photos with an EXIF GPS location. Visitors to this site may download photos stored on this site and extract their location information.

4. Contact forms

If you contact us using the contact options offered, your details will be stored for an unlimited period of time so that they can be used to process and answer your enquiry and in the event of follow-up questions. This data will not be passed on to third parties without your consent.

5. Embedded content from other websites

Contributions on this website may contain embedded content (e.g. videos, pictures, articles etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves exactly as if the visitor had visited the other website.

These sites may collect information about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking services, and record your interaction with that embedded content, including your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged on to that site.

5.1 Google Fonts

We integrate the fonts (“Google Fonts”) of the provider Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Privacy Policy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/, Opt-Out: https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated.

6. Validity of the privacy policy

We reserve the right to adapt this declaration at any time. The version published on this website applies in each case.

Last updated in July 2021