Privacy Policy

General information

The kissling-legal.ch website collects and processes data from interested parties and customers. In accordance with 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 their privacy and protection against misuse of their personal data. We fully respect these applicable regulations and implement them to the best of our knowledge and belief. The data entrusted to us is collected, maintained and protected with the greatest possible care and is neither offered to third parties for use or further dissemination nor used for other purposes that contradict the principle of good faith. The transmission of data to and from our website is encrypted using the TLS protocol. This encryption makes it difficult for unauthorized third parties to view information transmitted between two computers. Kissling Legal operates an Internet site with general information for Switzerland as well as areas for downloading brochures and leaflets in the form of PDF files. Below we explain how we handle personal data.

Who is the controller?

The controller within the meaning of data protection law is

Kissling Legal GmbH
Klosbachstrasse 37
8032 Zurich
Switzerland

Telephone: +41 44 500 97 00
kontakt@kissling-legal.ch
kissling-legal.ch

Data Protection Officer

Mischa Kissling

When and for what purpose do we collect personal data?

Kissling Legal only collects, stores or processes data for its own business purposes.

In principle, our website is available to all visitors without actively or passively collecting personal data. Personal data is only requested, processed and used to the extent necessary to provide the services you have commissioned.

Collection of general information

When you access our website, information of a general nature is automatically collected. This information (server log files) includes, for example, the name and version of your web browser, the operating system used, the domain name of your Internet service provider and similar. This is exclusively information that does not allow any conclusions to be drawn about your person. This information is technically necessary to correctly deliver the contents of our website that you have called up and is mandatory when using the Internet. Anonymous information of this kind is statistically evaluated by us in order to optimize our Internet presence and the technology behind it.

Handling of your personal data

We only handle personal data insofar as this is possible in accordance with data protection regulations. We take all technical and organizational security measures to ensure that your personal data is adequately protected against unauthorized access or misuse at all times.

Insofar as we store or process personal data, this takes place within a closed data processing system. To protect the security of your data during transmission, we use an encryption process via HTTPS.

All our employees and agents involved are obliged to comply with the provisions of Swiss legislation and the EU GDPR - insofar as it affects us at all - when handling personal data.

Cookies

Our website uses so-called "cookies". Cookies are small text files that are transferred from a web server to your hard disk. This automatically provides us with certain data such as the IP address, the browser used, the operating system and your connection to the Internet. Cookies cannot be used to start programs or transfer viruses to a computer. Based on the information contained in cookies, we can make navigation easier for you, enable the correct display of our website or the filling of a shopping basket.

Of course, you can also visit our website without cookies. However, Internet browsers are usually set to accept cookies. However, you can deactivate the use of cookies at any time via your browser settings. Please use the help functions of your Internet browser to find out how you can change these settings.

Contacting Kissling Legal

If a website user contacts Kissling Legal by email or using the contact form, the information provided by the user will be stored for the purpose of processing the inquiry and for possible follow-up questions.

Use of Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Inc. Google Analytics uses so-called "cookies", i.e. text files that are stored on your computer and that enable an analysis of your use of our website. The information collected by the cookie about your use of our website is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there.

Kissling Legal uses Google information to compile reports and obtain information on the use of our website, for example how often an individual content page was visited, which country site visitors came from, how long they stayed on our website and where they left our website. No information is merged with other Google data (e.g. data from the DoubleClick network) in order to create personal data records (profiling).

In general, you can prevent the storage of analytics cookies by selecting the appropriate settings in your browser software. You can also prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and relating to your use of the website (including your IP address) and from processing this data by Google by installing the browser plug-in available under the following link to deactivate Google Analytics: https://tools.google.com/dlpag...

How long is the data stored?

We adhere to the principles of data avoidance and data economy. We therefore only store your personal data for as long as is necessary to fulfill the requested services or as required by the storage periods stipulated by law. After the respective purpose no longer applies or after these periods have expired, the data will be blocked or deleted in accordance with the statutory provisions.

Your rights to information, correction, blocking, deletion and objection

You have the right to receive information about your personal data stored by us at any time. You also have the right to have your personal data corrected, blocked or, apart from the prescribed data storage for business processing, deleted. Please contact our data protection officer. You will find the contact details at the top under point 1.

Changes to our data protection provisions

We reserve the right to amend this privacy policy from time to time so that it always complies with current legal requirements or to implement changes to our services in the privacy policy, e.g. when introducing new services. The new privacy policy will then apply to your next visit.

Questions for the data protection officer

If you have any questions about data protection, please send us an email.

Zurich, December 2023