Privacy policy
The responsible body within the meaning of the data
protection laws, in particular the EU Data Protection Basic Regulation (DSGVO):
Spherix AG
Geltenwilenstrasse 8a, 9000 St.Gallen, Switzerland
visions@spherix.ch
General note
Based on Article 13 of the Swiss Federal Constitution
and the data protection regulations of the Swiss Confederation (Data Protection
Act, DPA), 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.
In cooperation with our hosting providers, we make
every effort to protect the databases as well as possible against unauthorized access,
loss, misuse or forgery.
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.
By using this website, you agree to the collection, processing and use of data in accordance with the following description. This website can be visited without registration. Data such as pages called up or the name of the file called up, date and time are stored on the server for statistical purposes without these data being directly related to your person. Personal data, in particular name, address or e-mail address are collected on a voluntary basis as far as possible. The data will not be passed on to third parties without your consent.
Processing of personal data
Personal data is all information that relates to an
identified or identifiable person. A data subject is a person about whom
personal data is processed. Processing includes any handling of personal data,
irrespective of the means and procedures applied, in particular the retention, disclosure, acquisition, deletion,
storage, modification, destruction and use of personal data. We process personal data in accordance with Swiss data
protection law. In other respects, we process personal data - insofar and to
the extent that the EU DSGVO is applicable - in accordance with the following
legal principles in connection with Art. 6 Para. 1
DSGVO:
a) Processing of personal data with the consent of the
person concerned.
b) Processing of personal data for the purpose of
fulfilling a contract with the data subject and for the implementation of
appropriate pre-contractual measures.
c) Processing of personal data for the fulfilment of a
legal obligation to which we are subject under any applicable law of the EU or under
the applicable law of any country in which the DPA is applicable in whole or in
part.
d) Processing of personal data to protect the vital
interests of the data subject or of another natural person.
f) Processing of personal data for the purpose of
safeguarding the legitimate interests of us or of third parties, except where
such interests are overridden by fundamental freedoms and rights or by the
interests of the data subject. Legitimate interests include in particular our commercial interest in being able to
provide our website, information security, the enforcement of our own legal
claims and compliance with Swiss law.
We process personal data for the duration necessary for the purpose or purposes in question. In the case of longer-term storage obligations due to legal and other obligations to which we are subject, we restrict processing accordingly.
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
requests 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 the SSL or TLS encryption is activated, the data
that you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.
Privacy policy for server log files
The provider of this website 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 used
- Referrer URL
- Host name of the accessing computer
- Time of the server request
These data cannot be assigned to specific persons. A consolidation of this data
with other data sources is not carried out. We reserve the right to subsequently check this data if we become
aware of concrete indications of illegal use.
Services from third parties
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,
whereby we assume that in this context no personal tracking takes place solely
through the use of our website. Google has committed itself to providing adequate data protection in accordance
with the American-European and American-Swiss Privacy Shield. Further information can be found in the Google Privacy
Policy.
Privacy policy for contact form
If you send us enquiries via the contact form, your
details from the enquiry form, including the contact data you provide there,
will be stored by us for the purpose of processing the enquiry and in the event
of follow-up questions. We will not pass on this data without your consent.
Privacy policy for newsletter data
If you would like to receive the newsletter offered on
this website, we need an e-mail address from you as well as information that
allows us to verify that you are the owner of the e-mail address provided and
that you agree to receive the newsletter. Further data will not be collected. We use these data exclusively for
sending the requested information and do not pass them on to third parties. You can revoke your consent to the storage of the data,
the e-mail address and its use for sending the newsletter at any time, for example
by clicking on the „unsubscribe“ link in the newsletter.
Data protection declaration for right to information,
deletion, blocking
You have the right to receive information free of
charge at any time about your stored personal data, its origin and recipients
and the purpose of data processing, as well as the right to correct, block or
delete this data. For this purpose, as well as for further questions regarding personal data, you can contact us at any
time at the address given in the imprint.
Google AdWords
This website uses Google Conversion Tracking. 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 served by Google. These cookies expire after 30 days and are not used for personal
identification. If the user visits certain pages on our site and the cookie
hasn‘t expired, we and Google can tell that the user clicked the ad and was
redirected to that page. Each Google AdWords customer receives a different cookie. As a result, cookies cannot be tracked across the
websites of AdWords customers. The information collected through the conversion
cookie is used to generate conversion statistics for those advertisers who have
opted in to conversion tracking. Customers are told the total number of users
who clicked on their ad and were redirected to a page with a conversion
tracking tag. However, they do not receive any information that can be used to
personally identify users. If you do not wish to participate in tracking, you
can refuse to accept the cookie that is required for this purpose - for
example, by changing your browser settings to disable automatic cookie
placement or to set your browser to block cookies from the
„googleleadservices.com“ domain.
Please note that you may not delete the opt-out cookies as long as you do not wish to record measurement data. If you have deleted all your cookies in your browser, you have to set the respective opt-out cookie again.
Privacy policy for Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics
service provided by Google Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043,
USA. To deactivate Google Analytics, Google provides a browser plug-in at
https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.
Google Analytics uses cookies. These are small text files that make it possible to store specific information relating to the user on the user‘s terminal device. These enable Google to analyse the use of our website offer. The information collected by the cookie about
the use of our website (including your IP address) is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. We would like to point out that on this website Google Analytics has been extended by the code „gat._anonymizeIp();“ in order to ensure an anonymised
recording of IP addresses (so-called IP-Masking). If anonymisation is active, Google will shorten IP addresses within member states of the European Union or in other states that are parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, which means that
no conclusions can be drawn about your identity. Only in exceptional cases is the full IP address transferred to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. Google observes the data protection regulations of the „Privacy Shield“ agreement and is registered with
the „Privacy Shield“ program of the US Department of Commerce and uses the collected information to evaluate the use of our websites, to write reports for us in this regard and to provide other related services to us. You can learn more at https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=de.
Privacy Policy for Instagram
Functions of the service Instagram are integrated on
our pages. These functions are offered by Instagram Inc, 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park,
CA, 94025, USA integrated. If you are logged in to your Instagram account, you
can link the content of our pages to your Instagram profile by clicking the Instagram button. This
allows Instagram to associate your visit to our sites with your account. We would
like to point out that we, as the provider of the pages, have no knowledge of
the content of the transmitted data or its use by Instagram. For more information, please refer to
Instagram‘s privacy policy: http://instagram.com/about/legal/privacy/
Privacy policy for LinkedIn
This website uses functions of the LinkedIn network. Provider
is the LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.
Each time you access one of our pages that contains LinkedIn features, a
connection to LinkedIn‘s servers is established. LinkedIn is notified that you have visited our sites
using your IP address. When you click on LinkedIn‘s „Recommend“ button and are logged
into your LinkedIn account, LinkedIn is able to track your visit to our site to
you and your account. We would like to point out that we, as the provider of
these pages, have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its
use by LinkedIn.
For further information, please refer to the LinkedIn
privacy policy:
https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy
Privacy policy for Pinterest
On this website, we use social plugins from the Pinterest
social network, which is operated by Pinterest Inc, 808 Brannan Street San Francisco,
CA 94103-490, USA („Pinterest“). If you call up a page that contains
such a plugin, your browser will establish a direct connection to the servers of Pinterest. The plugin transmits
protocol data to the Pinterest server in the USA. This log data may include your
IP address, the address of the websites visited that also contain Pinterest
functions, the type and settings of the browser, the date and time of the
request, your use of Pinterest and cookies.
Further information on the purpose, scope and further processing and use of the data by Pinterest, as well as your rights and options for protecting your privacy, can be found in Pinterest‘s privacy policy: https://about.pinterest.com/de/privacy-policy
Privacy policy for YouTube
This website uses plugins from the Google operated
YouTube site. The operator of the pages is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno,
CA 94066, USA. When you visit one of our sites equipped with a
YouTube plugin, a connection to the servers of YouTube is established. This tells the YouTube server which of
our pages you have visited.
If you are logged in to your YouTube account, you allow YouTube to assign your surfing behavior directly to your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account. For more information on how user data is handled, please see the YouTube privacy policy at: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/Privacy
Note concerning data transmissions to the USA (United
States of America)
For the sake of completeness, we would like to point
out that users based in Switzerland are subject to monitoring measures by US authorities,
which generally prohibit the storage of all personal data from Switzerland -
which is transferred to the USA have been transmitted - enabled. This is done
without differentiation, restriction or exception on the basis of the
objectives pursued and without any objective criterion making it possible to
limit the access and subsequent use of the data by the US authorities to very
specific, strictly limited
purposes which may justify both access to the data and interference with their use. We also draw your attention to the fact that there are no legal remedies available in the USA for data subjects from Switzerland that would allow them to gain access to the data concerning them and to obtain its correction or deletion, or that there is no effective judicial protection against general access rights of US authorities. We explicitly draw the attention of the person concerned to this legal and factual situation in order to make an appropriately informed decision to consent to the use of his or her data.
Users residing in a member state of the EU are advised that the USA does not have a sufficient level of data protection from the perspective of the European Union.
General exclusion of liability
All information on our website has been carefully
checked. We make every effort to ensure that the information we offer is up-todate, correct
and complete. Nevertheless, the occurrence of errors cannot be completely ruled
out, which means that we cannot guarantee the completeness, accuracy and topicality of
information, including journalistic and editorial information. Liability claims
arising from material or non-material damage caused by the use of the
information provided are excluded, unless there is evidence of wilful intent or gross negligence.
The publisher 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 or access to this website is at the visitor‘s own risk. The publisher, its clients or partners are not responsible for damages, such as direct, indirect, accidental, pre-determined or consequential damages, which are allegedly caused by visiting this website and therefore do not assume any liability.
The publisher also 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 content of linked sites is the sole responsibility of their operators. The publisher thus expressly distances itself from all third-party content that may be relevant under criminal or liability law or that is contrary to public decency.
Changes
We may change this privacy policy at any time without
notice. The current version published on our website applies. If the data
protection declaration is part of an agreement with you, we will inform you of
the change by e-mail or other suitable means in the event of an update.
Questions to the Data Protection Officer
If you have any questions about data protection,
please send us an e-mail or contact directly the person responsible for data
protection in our organization listed at the beginning of this privacy policy.