With this Privacy Policy, we inform you which personal data we process in connection with our activities and operations, including our beorg.ch website. In particular, we inform you for what purposes, how and where we process which personal data. We also inform you about the rights of persons whose data we process.

Additional privacy policies and other legal documents, such as General Terms and Conditions (GTC), Terms of Use or Conditions of Participation, may apply to individual or additional activities and operations.

1. Contact addresses

Responsibility for the processing of personal data:

Helmut Hell
beOrg AG
Sälde 5
CH-9050 Appenzell

helmut.hell@beorg.ch

In individual cases, there may be other controllers responsible for the processing of personal data or joint responsibility with at least one other controller.

2. Terms and legal bases

2.1 Terms

Personal data means all information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.

Special categories of personal data are data concerning trade union, political, religious or philosophical views and activities, data concerning health, the intimate sphere or membership of an ethnic group or race, genetic data, biometric data that uniquely identify a natural person, data concerning criminal and administrative sanctions or prosecutions, and data concerning social assistance measures.

Processing includes any handling of personal data, regardless of the means and procedures used, for example querying, comparing, adapting, archiving, retaining, reading, disclosing, obtaining, recording, collecting, deleting, revealing, arranging, organising, storing, modifying, disseminating, linking, destroying and using personal data.

A data subject is a natural person about whom we process personal data.

2.2 Legal bases

We process personal data in accordance with Swiss data protection law, in particular the Federal Act on Data Protection (Data Protection Act, FADP) and the Ordinance on Data Protection (Data Protection Ordinance, DPO).

3. Nature, scope and purpose

We process the personal data that is necessary to carry out our activities and operations in a permanent, user-friendly, secure and reliable manner. Such personal data may in particular fall into the categories of inventory and contact data, browser and device data, content data, metadata or marginal data and usage data, location data, sales data, and contract and payment data.

We process personal data for the period required for the respective purpose or purposes or as required by law. Personal data whose processing is no longer required will be anonymised or deleted.

We may have personal data processed by third parties. We may process personal data jointly with third parties or transmit it to third parties. Such third parties are, in particular, specialised providers whose services we use. We also ensure data protection with such third parties.

We process personal data in principle only with the consent of the data subjects. If and insofar as processing is permitted for other legal reasons, we may refrain from obtaining consent. For example, we may process personal data without consent in order to fulfil a contract, comply with legal obligations or safeguard overriding interests.

We also process personal data that we receive from third parties, obtain from publicly accessible sources or collect in the course of carrying out our activities and operations, provided and insofar as such processing is permitted for legal reasons.

4. Communication

We process personal data in order to communicate with third parties. In this context, we process in particular data that a data subject transmits when contacting us, for example by post or e-mail. We may store such data in an address book or using comparable tools.

Third parties who transmit data about other persons are obliged to ensure data protection in relation to such data subjects. Among other things, this requires ensuring the accuracy of the personal data transmitted.

5. Data security

We take appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure data security appropriate to the respective risk. With our measures, we ensure in particular the confidentiality, availability, traceability and integrity of the personal data processed, although we cannot guarantee absolute data security.

Access to our website and our other online presence takes place using transport encryption (SSL / TLS, in particular with the Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure, abbreviated HTTPS). Most browsers warn users before visiting websites without transport encryption.

Our digital communication is subject – as in principle all digital communication is – to mass surveillance without cause or suspicion by security authorities in Switzerland, the rest of Europe, the United States of America (USA) and other countries. We have no direct influence over the corresponding processing of personal data by intelligence services, police authorities and other security authorities. Nor can we rule out the possibility that individual data subjects are subject to targeted surveillance.

6. Personal data abroad

We process personal data in principle in Switzerland. However, we may also disclose or export personal data to other countries, in particular in order to process it there or have it processed there.

We may disclose personal data to all states and territories on Earth as well as elsewhere in the universe, provided that the law there ensures adequate data protection in accordance with a decision of the Swiss Federal Council.

We may disclose personal data to countries whose law does not ensure adequate data protection, provided that suitable data protection is ensured for other reasons, in particular on the basis of standard data protection clauses or other suitable safeguards. Exceptionally, we may export personal data to countries without adequate or suitable data protection if the special data protection requirements for this are met, for example the express consent of the data subjects or a direct connection with the conclusion or performance of a contract. Upon request, we will be pleased to provide data subjects with information about any safeguards or provide a copy of safeguards.

7. Rights of data subjects

7.1 Data protection claims

We grant data subjects all claims in accordance with applicable data protection law. Data subjects have, in particular, the following rights:

• Access: Data subjects may request information as to whether we process personal data about them and, if so, which personal data. Data subjects also receive the information required to assert their data protection claims and to ensure transparency. This includes the personal data processed as such, but also, among other things, information on the purpose of processing, the duration of storage, any disclosure or export of data to other countries and the origin of the personal data.
• Rectification and restriction: Data subjects may have inaccurate personal data corrected, incomplete data completed and the processing of their data restricted.
• Erasure and objection: Data subjects may have personal data erased (“right to be forgotten”) and object to the processing of their data with effect for the future.
• Data release and data transfer: Data subjects may request the release of personal data or the transfer of their data to another controller.

We may postpone, restrict or refuse the exercise of data subjects’ rights to the extent permitted by law. We may inform data subjects of any requirements that must be met in order to exercise their data protection claims. For example, we may refuse access in whole or in part with reference to business secrets or the protection of other persons. For example, we may also refuse the erasure of personal data in whole or in part with reference to statutory retention obligations.

We may exceptionally provide for costs for the exercise of rights. We will inform data subjects in advance of any costs.

We are obliged to identify data subjects who request access or assert other rights by taking appropriate measures. Data subjects are obliged to cooperate.

7.2 Legal protection

Data subjects have the right to enforce their data protection claims through legal channels or to submit a report or complaint to a competent data protection supervisory authority.

The data protection supervisory authority for reports by data subjects against private controllers and federal bodies in Switzerland is the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC).

8. Use of the website

8.1 Cookies

We may use cookies. Cookies – both our own cookies (first-party cookies) and cookies from third parties whose services we use (third-party cookies) – are data stored in the browser. Such stored data does not have to be limited to traditional cookies in text form.

Cookies may be stored temporarily in the browser as “session cookies” or for a specific period as so-called permanent cookies. “Session cookies” are automatically deleted when the browser is closed. Permanent cookies have a specific storage period. Cookies make it possible, in particular, to recognise a browser the next time it visits our website and thereby, for example, to measure the reach of our website. Permanent cookies may also be used, for example, for online marketing.

Cookies can be fully or partially disabled and deleted at any time in the browser settings. Without cookies, our website may no longer be fully available. We request – at least where and insofar as required – active express consent to the use of cookies.

For cookies used for performance and reach measurement or for advertising, many services allow a general objection (“opt-out”) via AdChoices (Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada), the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI), YourAdChoices (Digital Advertising Alliance) or Your Online Choices (European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance, EDAA).

8.2 Logging

For every access to our website and our other online presence, we may log at least the following information, provided it is transmitted to our digital infrastructure during such access: date and time including time zone, IP address, access status (HTTP status code), operating system including user interface and version, browser including language and version, individual sub-page of our website accessed including the amount of data transferred, and the website last accessed in the same browser window (referrer).

We log such information, which may also constitute personal data, in log files. The information is required in order to provide our online presence permanently, in a user-friendly and reliable manner. The information is also required to ensure data security – including through third parties or with the help of third parties.

8.3 Tracking pixels

We may integrate tracking pixels into our online presence. Tracking pixels are also known as web beacons. Tracking pixels – including those from third parties whose services we use – are usually small, invisible images or scripts written in JavaScript that are automatically retrieved when our online presence is accessed. Tracking pixels can collect at least the same information as log files.

9. Third-party services

We use services provided by specialised third parties in order to carry out our activities and operations in a permanent, user-friendly, secure and reliable manner. Such services enable us, among other things, to embed functions and content in our website. In the case of such embedding, the services used collect at least temporarily the IP addresses of users for technically necessary reasons.

For necessary security-related, statistical and technical purposes, third parties whose services we use may process data in connection with our activities and operations in aggregated, anonymised or pseudonymised form. This may, for example, involve performance or usage data in order to be able to provide the respective service.

In particular, we use:

• Google services: Providers: Google LLC (USA) / Google Ireland Limited (Ireland) for users in the European Economic Area (EEA) and Switzerland; general information on data protection: “Privacy and Security Principles”, Privacy Policy, “Google is committed to complying with applicable data protection laws”, “Guide to privacy in Google products”, “How we use data from sites or apps that use our services” (information provided by Google), “Types of cookies and similar technologies used by Google”, “Ads you can control” (“Personalised advertising”).

9.1 Digital infrastructure

We use services provided by specialised third parties in order to access the digital infrastructure required in connection with our activities and operations. This includes, for example, hosting and storage services from selected providers.

9.2 Fonts

We use third-party services in order to embed selected fonts as well as icons, logos and symbols in our website.

In particular, we use:

• Google Fonts: Fonts; provider: Google; Google Fonts-specific information: “Your Privacy and Google Fonts”, “Privacy and data collection” (for Google Fonts).

10. Performance and reach measurement

We try to determine how our online offering is used. In this context, we may, for example, measure the success and reach of our activities and operations as well as the effect of third-party links to our website. We may also, for example, test and compare how different parts or versions of our online offering are used (“A/B testing” method). Based on the results of performance and reach measurement, we may in particular fix errors, strengthen popular content or make improvements to our online offering.

For performance and reach measurement, the IP addresses of individual users are stored in most cases. In this case, IP addresses are in principle shortened (“IP masking”) in order to follow the principle of data minimisation through corresponding pseudonymisation.

Cookies may be used and user profiles created for performance and reach measurement. Any user profiles created may include, for example, the individual pages visited or content viewed on our website, information on the size of the screen or browser window and the – at least approximate – location. In principle, any user profiles are created exclusively in pseudonymised form and are not used to identify individual users. Individual third-party services with which users are logged in may potentially assign the use of our online offering to the user account or user profile with the respective service.

In particular, we use:

• Google Marketing Platform: Performance and reach measurement, in particular with Google Analytics; provider: Google; Google Marketing Platform-specific information: measurement also across different browsers and devices (cross-device tracking) and with pseudonymised IP addresses, which are only exceptionally transmitted in full to Google in the USA, “Privacy” (for Google Analytics), “Browser add-on to disable Google Analytics”.

11. Final provisions

We created this Privacy Policy using the Privacy Policy Generator from Datenschutzpartner.

The original privacy policy is written in German. This English version has been automatically translated using AI and is provided for convenience only.

We may amend and supplement this Privacy Policy at any time. We will provide information about such amendments and supplements in an appropriate form, in particular by publishing the latest version of the Privacy Policy on our website.