Data protection

General information

The use of our pages is possible in a limited form without providing personal data. As far as personal data (e.g. name, address, date of birth or email addresses) is collected on our pages or forms, this is always done on a voluntary basis.

We would like to point out that data transmission over the Internet (e.g. when communicating via email) can have security gaps. Complete protection of data from access by third parties is not possible. We have taken technical and operational precautions to protect your data from accidental or intentional manipulation, loss, destruction or access by unauthorized persons. Our security procedures are regularly reviewed and adapted to technological advances.

We only process the personal data that we voluntarily receive from you as part of your visit to our website or through your other information.

Analytics & Third Party Tools

It may happen that third-party content, such as videos from YouTube, Facebook links, maps from Google Maps or graphics from other websites as well as analysis tools, are integrated into our online offering. This generally requires that the providers of this content (hereinafter referred to as “third-party providers”) are aware of the users’ IP address. However, we have no influence if the third party stores the IP address, for example for statistical purposes. As far as we know, we inform users about it.

Some of the third parties mentioned may be located outside your country or outside the EU or may process your personal data there. The level of data protection in other countries may not be the same as in your country. For example, companies in the USA are obliged to disclose personal data to security authorities without those affected being able to take legal action. However, without your consent, we will only transfer your personal data to countries within the EU or to those for which the EU Commission has decided that they have an adequate level of data protection or, where possible, we will take measures to ensure that there is an adequate level of data protection. If you expressly consent to data transfer to third countries, data processing is also based on Article 49 Paragraph 1 lit a GDPR. If the data transfer is necessary to fulfill a contract, your data will be processed based on Art. 6 Para. 1 lit b

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Hosting

Hosting provider: Worldsoft AG, Summelnweg 91, 8808 Pfäffikon SZ, Switzerland

General information & mandatory information

Note on the responsible body

The person responsible within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is:

Dr. phil.l Marianne Meister

Streulistrasse 2

CH-8032 Zurich

+41 44 420 00 32

contact@marianne-meister.com

Storage period

In the event that no specific storage periods are specified in this data protection declaration, we will store your personal data, if necessary, for the duration of the entire business relationship in accordance with the statutory retention periods and documentation obligations or for as long as there is a legitimate interest in processing. Legally required retention periods can also arise from civil or commercial laws.

Legal basis for data processing

We process your data to fulfill contractual obligations (Article 6 Paragraph 1b GDPR), as part of your consent/registration (Article 6 Paragraph 1a GDPR) and, if necessary, to fulfill legal obligations (Article 6 Paragraph 1c GDPR). Furthermore, we can process your data to protect legitimate interests (Article 6 Paragraph 1f GDPR) for advertising or market and opinion research, unless you have objected to its use in accordance with Article 21 GDPR. If you expressly consent to the transfer of personal data to third countries, data processing is also based on Art. 49 Para. 1a GDPR.

Affected rights

Revocation of your consent to data processing / Right to object to data collection (Article 21) / Right to lodge a complaint with the responsible supervisory authority / Right to data portability, information, reporting and deletion / Right to restriction of processing

You are entitled, among other things, to (i) check whether and which personal data we have stored about you and to receive copies of this data, (ii) the correction, addition or deletion of your personal data that is incorrect or not processed in accordance with the law to request (iii) to require us to restrict the processing of your personal data and (iv) to object to the processing of your personal data in certain circumstances or to request the processingr to revoke your given consent, (v) to request data portability, (vi) to know the identity of third parties to whom your personal data is transmitted and (vii) to the competent authority, which is the one for the place of your usual residence, to lodge a complaint with the data protection authority responsible for your place of work or the location of the alleged violation.

If you have any further questions about personal data, you can contact us at any time using the contact address listed above.

SSL or TLS encryption on the website

For security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, we use SSL or TLS encryption.

You can recognize an encrypted connection by the browser address line changing 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.

Cookies & Servers

Some of our pages use so-called cookies. Cookies are small files that make it possible to store specific information related to the device on the user's access device (PC, smartphone, etc.). Cookies do not cause any damage to your computer and do not contain viruses. On the one hand, they serve to make websites and therefore users more user-friendly (e.g. storage of login data). On the other hand, they are used to record statistical data on website usage and to be able to analyze it in order to improve the offer. Users can influence the use of cookies.

Most of the cookies we use are so-called “session cookies”. They are automatically deleted after your visit. Other cookies remain stored on your device until you delete them. These cookies enable us to recognize your browser the next time you visit. You can configure your browser so that you are informed 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 closing the browser. If cookies are deactivated, the functionality of our pages may be restricted.

If cookies are used by third parties or for analysis purposes, you will be informed about this in this data protection declaration or separately and, if necessary, your consent will be requested.

The following cookies and their respective storage periods are available:

PHPSESSID – Session – 2 hours

Vc – Statistics – 30 days

wsw-logger-session-id – Statistics & Session – 2 hours

wbs_wdiget_session – Session / Forms – 2 hours

Server log files

Our hosting provider automatically collects and stores information that your browser automatically sends to us in so-called server log files. These are:

Browser type/browser version

Operating system used

Referrer URL (the previously visited page)

Host name or anonymized IP address of the accessing computer

Time of server request

IP address

This data cannot be assigned to specific persons. This data will not be merged with other data sources. We reserve the right to subsequently check this data if we become aware of concrete indications of illegal use.

Contact form, email, telephone, fax, chatbot

If you send us inquiries by email or other means, your details, including the contact details and file attachments you provided there, will be processed by us for the purpose of processing the inquiry and stored by us for 3 months in the event of follow-up questions and then deleted, unless otherwise because this results in a contractual relationship or you request us to delete it beforehand or revoke your consent to storage. We will not pass on this data without your consent.

Newsletter & Video

Google Fonts

Our pages use the Google Fonts function. The provider is Google Inc., 600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. The purpose is to provide the fonts required by the web browser to display the website. This data is only processed for the time required to select and transmit the fonts. The individual fonts are stored on the server of our technical provider.

The legal basis for data processing is, on the one hand, the legitimate interest (technical necessity for the provision and delivery of our “website”) in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR.

To the extent that Google Fonts may carry out further independent processing of the data, Google is the sole controller.

The data collected by this service may be transferred to a third country (USA). Your express consent also constitutes Art 49 Paragraph 1lit a in conjunction with Art 6 Paragraph 1 lit a GDPR is the legal basis for this data transfer. Before you gave your consent, we informed you that the USA currently does not have a level of data protection that meets EU standards. For this reason, the European Court of Justice has declared the “Privacy Shield” (adequacy decision in accordance with Art. 45 GDPR) invalid.

Further information and Google's privacy policy can be found at: https://www.google.de/policies/privacy/

Google Maps

Our pages use the map service Google Maps. The provider is Google Inc., 600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. In order to use the functions of Google Maps, it is necessary to save your IP address. This information is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. The provider of this site has no influence on this data transfer. If Google Maps is activated, Google can use Google Web Fonts for the purpose of uniform font display. When you access Google Maps, your browser loads the required web fonts into your browser cache in order to display texts and fonts correctly.

The use of Google Maps is in the interest of an attractive presentation of our online offerings and to make it easy to find the places we indicate on the website. This represents a legitimate interest within the meaning of Article 6 Paragraph 1 Letter f GDPR.

The data collected by this service is transferred to a third country (USA). Your express consent also forms the legal basis for this data transfer in accordance with Art. 49 Para. 1 lit. a in conjunction with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR. Before you gave your consent, we informed you that the USA currently does not have a level of data protection that meets EU standards. For this reason, the European Court of Justice has declared the “Privacy Shield” (adequacy decision in accordance with Art. 45 GDPR) invalid.

Data transfer to the USA is based on the EU Commission's standard contractual clauses. Details can be found here: https://privacy.google.com/businesses/gdprcontrollerterms/ and https://privacy.google.com/businesses/gdprcontrollerterms/sccs/.

You can find more information on how to handle user data in Google's privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de.