DATA PROTECTION

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No liability claims may be brought against the author for material or immaterial damages arising from access to or use or non-use of the information published, from the misuse of the Internet connection or due to technical faults.

All offers are non-binding. The author expressly reserves the right to modify, supplement or erase parts of the web pages or the entire offering without any prior notice or to discontinue publication temporarily or permanently.

Liability for Links

References and links to third-party websites are beyond our control. No responsibility shall be accepted for such websites. Access to and use of such websites are entirely at the user’s own risk.

Copyright

Copyrights and all other rights to content, images, photographs or other files on the website are exclusively owned by the company smart.t Ltd or the specified rights holder. No parts of the website may be reproduced whatsoever without the copyright holder’s prior written consent.

Data Privacy Notice

1. General

The operator of the smartt.ch website is smart.t Ltd, who is the provider of the services offered on this website. Thus, smart.t Ltd is responsible for the collection, processing and use of its data and must ensure its compliance with Swiss law. We take protecting your personal data very seriously and we would like to inform you herein about which data is collected by smartt.ch and how it is used. You will also learn how you can check whether this information is correct and how you can arrange for this data to be erased by us. Please note that this data privacy notice can change from time to time. Therefore, we recommend that you read this data privacy notice regularly to ensure that you are always familiar with the latest version.

2. Collection, Use and Processing of Personal and Company-Related Data

By visiting smartt.ch, specific data is automatically stored on our servers for the purposes of system administration, for statistical purposes or for security purposes. This includes:

• the name of your internet service provider

• your IP address (under certain circumstances)

• the version of your browser software

• the operating system of the computer used to access smart.t.ch

• the date

• the time

• the website from which you have visited us

• the search words used to find smart.t.ch

This data can allow conclusions to be drawn about a certain visitor under certain circumstances. However, personal data shall not be used in this context. The use of such data shall always be carried out anonymously.

By registering as a user and entering your data on smartt.ch, you agree that the data you have entered shall be used for internal evaluations.

Furthermore, you agree that your data can be used for advertising measures. If you do not agree with the use of your data for advertising purposes, you can prohibit this use at any time by sending an email to info@smartt.ch.

3. Information, Erasure and Rectification 

You can demand information about the data that we have stored about you at any time. Please send a request for information by e-mail to the address below. Proof of identity at the same address is also required together with this request.

It is possible to demand the erasure or rectification of your data at any time. Of course, you are also entitled to withdraw your given consent to use or process personal data at any time with effect to the future. To do this, please send an email to info@smartt.ch.

We will erase stored data if it is no longer required for the specified purpose.

It should be noted in regard to the erasure of data that we are subject to certain legal obligations wherein we are obligated to retain certain data. We must comply with this obligation. If you wish to erase data that is subject to a data retention obligation, the data shall be blocked by us in our system and only used to comply with our legal obligations to retain data. Once this retention period has expired, your request to erase the data shall be carried out.

4. Data security

We will ensure the security of your data and therefore take all appropriate measures to protect your data against loss, access, misuse or modifications. Our employers and contractual partners who have access to your data are contractually bound by a duty of confidentiality and obligated to comply with data protection regulations. In some cases, it shall be necessary to forward your enquiries to companies affiliated with us. This may include:

• the name of your Internet service provider

• your IP address (under certain circumstances)

• the version of your browser software

• the operating system of the computer with which you accessed smartt.ch

• the date

• the time

• the website from which you visited smartt.ch, and

• the search terms that you used to find smartt.ch.

In these cases, your data shall be treated as confidential.

5. Cookies

The website smartt.ch uses so-called “cookies” to facilitate the use of the website. Cookies are small amounts of information that are stored by your browser on the hard disc of your computer temporarily and are necessary to use smartt.ch. Thus, the information contained in the cookies is used for session control, in particular improving navigation, and enables the user-friendliness of the website. The cookies used by us do not contain any information related to specific persons. Cookies are accepted automatically in the case of most web browsers. It is possible to avoid this by changing the setting of your browser. You can remove the cookies stored on your PC at any time by deleting the temporary Internet files («Tools, Internet options» on your browser bar).

The deactivation of cookies may result in you not being able to use all the functionalities of our portal.

Moreover, you can find out here how to delete cookies for Internet Explorer https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/278835/how-to-delete-cookie-files-in-internet-explorer and Mozilla https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/clear-cookies-and-site-data-firefox.

6. Plug-ins

6.1. LinkedIn

The social network plug-ins of LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“LinkedIn” hereinafter) are integrated on our website. You will recognise the LinkedIn plug-ins by the LinkedIn logo or the “recommend button” on our website. When you visit our Internet pages, a direct link between your browser and the LinkedIn server is established. As a result, LinkedIn receives information that you have visited our website with your IP address. When you click on the “recommend button” while being logged into your LinkedIn account, it is possible to link the content of our Internet pages to your LinkedIn profile. As a result, LinkedIn can assign the visit to our Internet pages to your user account. We would like to note that we, as the provider of the Internet pages, have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data as well as its use by LinkedIn. For details regarding data collection (purpose, scope, further processing and use of the data) as well as details regarding your rights and settings, please refer to the LinkedIn privacy policy.

You can find this information at http://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy.

6.3. Google Ads

This Internet pages may use Google AdSense, a service for integrating advertisements of Google Inc. “(“Google”).  Google AdSense uses so-called “cookies”, text files which are stored on the user’s computer and enable the use of the website to be analysed. Google AdSense also uses so-called “web beacons” (invisible graphics). These web beacons enable information, such as visitor traffic to the web pages of this website, to be analysed.

The information generated by the cookies and web beacons about the use of this website (including the user’s IP address) and delivery of advertising formats are transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. This information can be forwarded by Google to its contractual partners. However, Google shall not combine your IP address with other data stored about you.

The user can prevent the installation of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser. Please note, however, that the user may not be able to use all the functionalities of this website to its full extent in this case. By using this website, the user consents to the processing of the data collected about the user by Google in the manner and for the purpose set out above.

6.4. Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service of Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies”, text files, that are stored on your computer

and facilitate an analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie (browser type/browser version, operating system used, referrer URL, previously visited website, IP address, time of the server request) regarding your use of this website shall be usually transmitted to and stored on a server in the USA by Google. If IP anonymisation has been activated on our website, however, your IP address shall be truncated previously by Google within the member states of the European Union or in other states that are party to the agreement on the European Economic Area.

Only in exceptional cases shall the full IP address be transmitted by Google to a server in the USA and truncated there. Google uses this information to evaluate your use of the website in order to compile reports on website activities for the website operator and to provide further services related to website use and Internet use. In addition, Google may transfer this information to third parties provided that it is required to do so by law or if third parties process this data on Google’s behalf. The IP address transmitted by your browser within the scope of Google Analytics shall not be combined with other data by Google.

You may prevent the installation of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser software. Please note, however, that you may not be able to use all the functionalities of this website to their full extent in this case. By using this website, you consent to the data collected about you being processed by Google in the manner and for the purpose set out above.

Further information about the web analytics service used can be found on the Google Analytics website. A guide on how you can prevent the processing of your data by the web analytics service can be found at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en-GB.

7. Amendments

Amendments to this data privacy notice shall be published on this website. As a result, you can obtain information at any time about which data we store as well as how we collect and use that data. You can save and/or print out the data privacy provisions here.