Pri­vacy Policy

Per­sonal data (usu­ally referred to just as “data” below) will only be processed by us to the extent nec­es­sary and for the pur­pose of pro­vid­ing a func­tional and user-friendly web­site, includ­ing its con­tents, and the ser­vices offered there.

Per Art. 4 No. 1 of Reg­u­la­tion (EU) 2016/679, i.e. the Gen­eral Data Pro­tec­tion Reg­u­la­tion (here­inafter referred to as the “GDPR”), “pro­cess­ing” refers to any oper­a­tion or set of oper­a­tions such as col­lec­tion, record­ing, orga­ni­za­tion, struc­tur­ing, stor­age, adap­ta­tion, alter­ation, retrieval, con­sul­ta­tion, use, dis­clo­sure by trans­mis­sion, dis­sem­i­na­tion, or oth­er­wise making avail­able, align­ment, or com­bi­na­tion, restric­tion, era­sure, or destruc­tion per­formed on per­sonal data, whether by auto­mated means or not.

The fol­low­ing pri­vacy policy is intended to inform you in par­tic­u­lar about the type, scope, pur­pose, dura­tion, and legal basis for the pro­cess­ing of such data either under our own con­trol or in con­junc­tion with others. We also inform you below about the third-party com­po­nents we use to opti­mize our web­site and improve the user expe­ri­ence which may result in said third par­ties also pro­cess­ing data they col­lect and control.

Our pri­vacy policy is struc­tured as follows:

I. Infor­ma­tion about us as con­trollers of your data
II. The rights of users and data subjects
III. Infor­ma­tion about the data processing

I. Infor­ma­tion about us as con­trollers of your data

The party respon­si­ble for this web­site (the “con­troller”) for pur­poses of data pro­tec­tion law is:

Kun­sthaus Langenthal
Mark­t­gasse 13
CH-4900 Langenthal

Tele­fon: +41 62 922 60 55
E‑Mail:

The controller’s data pro­tec­tion offi­cer is:

Raf­fael Dörig

II. The rights of users and data subjects

With regard to the data pro­cess­ing to be described in more detail below, users and data sub­jects have the right

• to con­fir­ma­tion of whether data con­cern­ing them is being processed, infor­ma­tion about the data being processed, fur­ther infor­ma­tion about the nature of the data pro­cess­ing, and copies of the data (cf. also Art. 15 GDPR);
• to cor­rect or com­plete incor­rect or incom­plete data (cf. also Art. 16 GDPR);
• to the imme­di­ate dele­tion of data con­cern­ing them (cf. also Art. 17 DSGVO), or, alter­na­tively, if fur­ther pro­cess­ing is nec­es­sary as stip­u­lated in Art. 17 Para. 3 GDPR, to restrict said pro­cess­ing per Art. 18 GDPR;
• to receive copies of the data con­cern­ing them and/or pro­vided by them and to have the same trans­mit­ted to other providers/controllers (cf. also Art. 20 GDPR);
• to file com­plaints with the super­vi­sory author­ity if they believe that data con­cern­ing them is being processed by the con­troller in breach of data pro­tec­tion pro­vi­sions (see also Art. 77 GDPR).

In addi­tion, the con­troller is obliged to inform all recip­i­ents to whom it dis­closes data of any such cor­rec­tions, dele­tions, or restric­tions placed on pro­cess­ing the same per Art. 16, 17 Para. 1, 18 GDPR. How­ever, this oblig­a­tion does not apply if such noti­fi­ca­tion is impos­si­ble or involves a dis­pro­por­tion­ate effort. Nev­er­the­less, users have a right to infor­ma­tion about these recipients.

Like­wise, under Art. 21 GDPR, users and data sub­jects have the right to object to the controller’s future pro­cess­ing of their data pur­suant to Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. In par­tic­u­lar, an objec­tion to data pro­cess­ing for the pur­pose of direct adver­tis­ing is permissible.

III. Infor­ma­tion about the data processing

Your data processed when using our web­site will be deleted or blocked as soon as the pur­pose for its stor­age ceases to apply, pro­vided the dele­tion of the same is not in breach of any statu­tory stor­age oblig­a­tions or unless oth­er­wise stip­u­lated below.

Server data

For tech­ni­cal rea­sons, the fol­low­ing data sent by your inter­net browser to us or to our server provider will be col­lected, espe­cially to ensure a secure and stable web­site: These server log files record the type and ver­sion of your browser, oper­at­ing system, the web­site from which you came (refer­rer URL), the web­pages on our site vis­ited, the date and time of your visit, as well as the IP address from which you vis­ited our site.

The data thus col­lected will be tem­porar­ily stored, but not in asso­ci­a­tion with any other of your data.

The basis for this stor­age is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. Our legit­i­mate inter­est lies in the improve­ment, sta­bil­ity, func­tion­al­ity, and secu­rity of our website.

The data will be deleted within no more than seven days, unless con­tin­ued stor­age is required for evi­den­tiary pur­poses. In which case, all or part of the data will be excluded from dele­tion until the inves­ti­ga­tion of the rel­e­vant inci­dent is finally resolved.

Cook­ies

a) Ses­sion cookies

We use cook­ies on our web­site. Cook­ies are small text files or other stor­age tech­nolo­gies stored on your com­puter by your browser. These cook­ies process cer­tain spe­cific infor­ma­tion about you, such as your browser, loca­tion data, or IP address.

This pro­cess­ing makes our web­site more user-friendly, effi­cient, and secure, allow­ing us, for exam­ple, to dis­play our web­site in dif­fer­ent lan­guages or to offer a shop­ping cart function.

The legal basis for such pro­cess­ing is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b) GDPR, inso­far as these cook­ies are used to col­lect data to ini­ti­ate or process con­trac­tual relationships.

If the pro­cess­ing does not serve to ini­ti­ate or process a con­tract, our legit­i­mate inter­est lies in improv­ing the func­tion­al­ity of our web­site. The legal basis is then Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR.

When you close your browser, these ses­sion cook­ies are deleted.

b) Third-party cookies

If nec­es­sary, our web­site may also use cook­ies from com­pa­nies with whom we coop­er­ate for the pur­pose of adver­tis­ing, ana­lyz­ing, or improv­ing the fea­tures of our website.

Please refer to the fol­low­ing infor­ma­tion for details, in par­tic­u­lar for the legal basis and pur­pose of such third-party col­lec­tion and pro­cess­ing of data col­lected through cookies.

c) Dis­abling cookies

You can refuse the use of cook­ies by chang­ing the set­tings on your browser. Like­wise, you can use the browser to delete cook­ies that have already been stored. How­ever, the steps and mea­sures required vary, depend­ing on the browser you use. If you have any ques­tions, please use the help func­tion or con­sult the doc­u­men­ta­tion for your browser or con­tact its maker for sup­port. Browser set­tings cannot pre­vent so-called flash cook­ies from being set. Instead, you will need to change the set­ting of your Flash player. The steps and mea­sures required for this also depend on the Flash player you are using. If you have any ques­tions, please use the help func­tion or con­sult the doc­u­men­ta­tion for your Flash player or con­tact its maker for support.

If you pre­vent or restrict the instal­la­tion of cook­ies, not all of the func­tions on our site may be fully usable.

Cookie Man­ager

To obtain con­sent for the use of tech­ni­cally unnec­es­sary cook­ies on the web­site, the provider uses a cookie manager.

When the web­site is called up, a cookie with the set­tings infor­ma­tion is stored on the end device of the user so that the request for con­sent does not have to be made on a sub­se­quent visit.

The cookie is required to obtain legally com­pli­ant user consent.

You can pre­vent cook­ies from being installed by adjust­ing the set­tings on your inter­net browser.

Newslet­ter

If you reg­is­ter for our free newslet­ter, the data requested from you for this pur­pose, i.e. your email address and, option­ally, your name and address, will be sent to us. We also store the IP address of your com­puter and the date and time of your reg­is­tra­tion. During the reg­is­tra­tion process, we will obtain your con­sent to receive this newslet­ter and the type of con­tent it will offer, with ref­er­ence made to this pri­vacy policy. The data col­lected will be used exclu­sively to send the newslet­ter and will not be passed on to third parties.

The legal basis for this is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a) GDPR.

You may revoke your prior con­sent to receive this newslet­ter under Art. 7 Para. 3 GDPR with future effect. All you have to do is inform us that you are revok­ing your con­sent or click on the unsub­scribe link con­tained in each newsletter.

Con­tact

If you con­tact us via email or the con­tact form, the data you pro­vide will be used for the pur­pose of pro­cess­ing your request. We must have this data in order to process and answer your inquiry; oth­er­wise we will not be able to answer it in full or at all.

The legal basis for this data pro­cess­ing is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b) GDPR.

Your data will be deleted once we have fully answered your inquiry and there is no fur­ther legal oblig­a­tion to store your data, such as if an order or con­tract resulted therefrom.

Social media links via graphics

We also inte­grate the fol­low­ing social media sites into our web­site. The inte­gra­tion takes place via a linked graphic of the respec­tive site. The use of these graph­ics stored on our own servers pre­vents the auto­matic con­nec­tion to the servers of these net­works for their dis­play. Only by click­ing on the cor­re­spond­ing graphic will you be for­warded to the ser­vice of the respec­tive social network.

Once you click, that net­work may record infor­ma­tion about you and your visit to our site. It cannot be ruled out that such data will be processed in the United States.

Ini­tially, this data includes such things as your IP address, the date and time of your visit, and the page vis­ited. If you are logged into your user account on that net­work, how­ever, the net­work oper­a­tor might assign the infor­ma­tion col­lected about your visit to our site to your per­sonal account. If you inter­act by click­ing Like, Share, etc., this infor­ma­tion can be stored your per­sonal user account and pos­si­bly posted on the respec­tive net­work. To pre­vent this, you need to log out of your social media account before click­ing on the graphic. The var­i­ous social media net­works also offer set­tings that you can con­fig­ure accordingly.

The fol­low­ing social net­works are inte­grated into our site by linked graphics:

Face­book

Face­book Ire­land Lim­ited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ire­land, a sub­sidiary of Face­book Inc., 1601 S. Cal­i­for­nia Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA.

Pri­vacy Policy: https://www.facebook.com/policy.php

Insta­gram

Face­book Ire­land Lim­ited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ire­land, a sub­sidiary of Face­book Inc., 1601 S. Cal­i­for­nia Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA.

Pri­vacy Policy: https://help.instagram.com/519522125107875

Google Ana­lyt­ics

We use Google Ana­lyt­ics on our web­site. This is a web ana­lyt­ics ser­vice pro­vided by Google Ire­land Lim­ited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Irland (here­inafter: Google).

The Google Ana­lyt­ics ser­vice is used to ana­lyze how our web­site is used. The legal basis is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. Our legit­i­mate inter­est lies in the analy­sis, opti­miza­tion, and eco­nomic oper­a­tion of our site.

Usage and user-related infor­ma­tion, such as IP address, place, time, or fre­quency of your visits to our web­site will be trans­mit­ted to a Google server in the United States and stored there. How­ever, we use Google Ana­lyt­ics with the so-called anonymiza­tion func­tion, whereby Google trun­cates the IP address within the EU or the EEA before it is trans­mit­ted to the US.

The data col­lected in this way is in turn used by Google to pro­vide us with an eval­u­a­tion of visits to our web­site and what vis­i­tors do once there. This data can also be used to pro­vide other ser­vices related to the use of our web­site and of the inter­net in general.

Google states that it will not con­nect your IP address to other data. In addi­tion, Google pro­vides fur­ther infor­ma­tion with regard to its data pro­tec­tion prac­tices at

https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/partners,

includ­ing options you can exer­cise to pre­vent such use of your data.

In addi­tion, Google offers an opt-out add-on at

https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en

in addi­tion with fur­ther infor­ma­tion. This add-on can be installed on the most pop­u­lar browsers and offers you fur­ther con­trol over the data that Google col­lects when you visit our web­site. The add-on informs Google Ana­lyt­ics’ JavaScript (ga.js) that no infor­ma­tion about the web­site visit should be trans­mit­ted to Google Ana­lyt­ics. How­ever, this does not pre­vent infor­ma­tion from being trans­mit­ted to us or to other web ana­lyt­ics ser­vices we may use as detailed herein.

FontAwe­some

In order to be able to dis­play fonts and visual ele­ments of our web­site, we use FontAwesome’s exter­nal fonts.  FontAwe­some is a ser­vice of

Fonti­cons Inc., 6 Porter Road, Apart­ment 3R, Cam­bridge, MA 02140, USA, here­inafter referred to as “FontAwe­some”.

When you access our web­site, a con­nec­tion is estab­lished to the FontAwe­some server in the USA in order to enable and update the dis­play of fonts and visual elements.

The legal basis is Art.  6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. Our legit­i­mate inter­est lies in the opti­mi­sa­tion and eco­nomic oper­a­tion of our website.

By con­nect­ing to the FontAwe­some server when you access our web­site, FontAwe­some can deter­mine from which web­site your request was sent and to which IP address the font should be sent.

At

https://fontawesome.com/privacy

FontAwe­some offers fur­ther infor­ma­tion, in par­tic­u­lar on the options for pre­vent­ing data use.

YouTube

We use YouTube on our web­site. This is a video portal oper­ated by YouTube LLC, 901 Cherry Ave, 94066 San Bruno, CA, USA, here­inafter referred to as “YouTube”.

YouTube is a sub­sidiary of Google Ire­land Lim­ited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Irland, here­inafter referred to as “Google”.

We use YouTube in its advanced pri­vacy mode to show you videos. The legal basis is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. Our legit­i­mate inter­est lies in improv­ing the qual­ity of our web­site. Accord­ing to YouTube, the advanced pri­vacy mode means that the data spec­i­fied below will only be trans­mit­ted to the YouTube server if you actu­ally start a video.

With­out this mode, a con­nec­tion to the YouTube server in the USA will be estab­lished as soon as you access any of our web­pages on which a YouTube video is embedded.

This con­nec­tion is required in order to be able to dis­play the respec­tive video on our web­site within your browser. YouTube will record and process at a min­i­mum your IP address, the date and time the video was dis­played, as well as the web­site you vis­ited. In addi­tion, a con­nec­tion to the Dou­bleClick adver­tis­ing net­work of Google is established.

If you are logged in to YouTube when you access our site, YouTube will assign the con­nec­tion infor­ma­tion to your YouTube account. To pre­vent this, you must either log out of YouTube before vis­it­ing our site or make the appro­pri­ate set­tings in your YouTube account.

For the pur­pose of func­tion­al­ity and analy­sis of usage behav­ior, YouTube per­ma­nently stores cook­ies on your device via your browser. If you do not agree to this pro­cess­ing, you have the option of pre­vent­ing the instal­la­tion of cook­ies by making the appro­pri­ate set­tings in your browser. Fur­ther details can be found in the sec­tion about cook­ies above.

Fur­ther infor­ma­tion about the col­lec­tion and use of data as well as your rights and pro­tec­tion options in Google’s pri­vacy policy found at

https://policies.google.com/privacy

Vimeo

We use Vimeo to dis­play videos on our web­site. This is a ser­vice of Vimeo, LLC, 555 West 18th Street, New York, New York 10011, USA, here­inafter referred to as “Vimeo.”

The legal basis for col­lect­ing and pro­cess­ing this infor­ma­tion is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. Our legit­i­mate inter­est lies in improv­ing the qual­ity of our website.

When you access a page on our web­site that has Vimeo embed­ded in it, a con­nec­tion to Vimeo’s servers in the USA is estab­lished. For tech­ni­cal rea­sons, it is nec­es­sary for Vimeo to process your IP address. In addi­tion, the date and time of your visit to our web­site will also be recorded.

If you are logged into Vimeo while vis­it­ing one of our web­pages con­tain­ing a Vimeo video, Vimeo will asso­ciate infor­ma­tion about your inter­ac­tion with our site to your Vimeo account. If you wish to pre­vent this, you must either log out of Vimeo before vis­it­ing our web­site or con­fig­ure your Vimeo user account accordingly.

For the pur­pose of func­tion­al­ity and usage analy­sis, Vimeo uses Google Ana­lyt­ics. Google Ana­lyt­ics stores cook­ies on your ter­mi­nal device via your browser and trans­mits infor­ma­tion about the use of those web­sites in which a Vimeo video is embed­ded to Google. It is pos­si­ble that Google will process this infor­ma­tion in the USA.

If you do not agree to this pro­cess­ing, you have the option of pre­vent­ing the instal­la­tion of cook­ies by making the appro­pri­ate set­tings in your browser. Fur­ther details can be found in the sec­tion about cook­ies above.

The legal basis for col­lect­ing and pro­cess­ing this infor­ma­tion is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. Our legit­i­mate inter­est lies in improv­ing the qual­ity of our web­site and in Vimeo’s legit­i­mate inter­est in sta­tis­ti­cally ana­lyz­ing user behav­ior for opti­miza­tion and mar­ket­ing purposes.

Vimeo offers fur­ther infor­ma­tion about its data col­lec­tion and pro­cess­ing as well your rights and your options for pro­tect­ing your pri­vacy at this link:

http://vimeo.com/privacy.

jsdelivr.net-CDN

We use the ser­vice jsdeliver.com, a con­tent deliv­ery net­work (“CDN”), on our web­site to opti­mise the retrieval speed, the design and pre­sen­ta­tion of the con­tent of our web­site on dif­fer­ent devices.  This is an open source ser­vice pro­vided by Prospec­tone Sp.z.o.o., ul. Krol­weska 65A, 30–081, Cracow, Poland.

In order to be able to deliver the con­tent of our web­site quickly, the ser­vice uses so-called JavaScript libraries.  Cor­re­spond­ing files are loaded from a third-party server that records your IP address.  We have no influ­ence on whether your IP address is processed by third par­ties for sta­tis­ti­cal purposes.

At

https://www.jsdelivr.com/privacy-policy-jsdelivr-net

Prospec­tone Sp.z.o.o. offers fur­ther data pro­tec­tion information.

The legal basis is Art.  6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. Our legit­i­mate inter­est lies in speed­ing up load­ing times and pro­tect­ing our web­site, as well as in analysing and opti­mis­ing our website.

To com­pletely pre­vent jsdeliver.net from exe­cut­ing the JavaScript code, you can install a so-called JavaScript blocker, such as noscript.net or ghostery.com. If you were to pre­vent or restrict the exe­cu­tion of the Java Script code, this can mean that for tech­ni­cal rea­sons not all the con­tent and func­tions of our web­site may be available.

Boot­strapCDN

We use the ser­vice Boot­strapCDN, a con­tent deliv­ery net­work (“CDN”), on our web­site to opti­mise the speed of retrieval, the design and pre­sen­ta­tion of the con­tents of our web­site on dif­fer­ent devices.  This is a ser­vice of Stack­Path, LLC, 2021 McK­in­ney Ave.  Suite 1100, Dallas, TX 75201, USA, here­inafter simply referred to as “Boot­strapCDN”.

In order to be able to deliver the con­tent of our web­site quickly, the ser­vice uses so-called JavaScript libraries.  Cor­re­spond­ing files are loaded from a Boot­strapCDN server that records your IP address.

At

https://www.stackpath.com/legal/master-service-agreement/#privacy

Prospec­tone Sp.z.o.o. offers fur­ther data pro­tec­tion information.

The legal basis is Art.  6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. Our legit­i­mate inter­est lies in speed­ing up load­ing times and pro­tect­ing our web­site, as well as in analysing and opti­mis­ing our website.

To totally pre­vent the exe­cu­tion of BootstrapCDN’s JavaScript code, you can install a so-called JavaScript blocker, such as noscript.net or ghostery.com.  If you were to pre­vent or restrict the exe­cu­tion of the Java Script code, this can mean that for tech­ni­cal rea­sons not all the con­tent and func­tions of our web­site may be available.

jQuery CDN

We use the ser­vice jQuery CDN, a Con­tent Deliv­ery Net­work (“CDN”), on our web­site to opti­mise the retrieval speed, the design and pre­sen­ta­tion of the con­tent of our web­site on dif­fer­ent devices.

This is a ser­vice of the jQuery Foun­da­tion, here­inafter referred to as “jQuery”. jQuery is dis­trib­uted for the JS Foun­da­tion via the Stack­Path CDN.

In order to be able to deliver the con­tent of our web­site quickly, the ser­vice uses so-called JavaScript libraries.  Rel­e­vant files are loaded from the CDN server if they are not already avail­able in your browser cache when you visit another web­site.  In the case of a con­nec­tion to the CDN server, your IP address is recorded.  It cannot be ruled out that a con­nec­tion will be estab­lished to a server out­side the EU.

The legal basis is Art.  6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. Our legit­i­mate inter­est lies in speed­ing up load­ing times and pro­tect­ing our web­site, as well as in analysing and opti­mis­ing our website.

To totally pre­vent the exe­cu­tion of jQuery’s JavaScript code, you can install a so-called JavaScript blocker, such as noscript.net or ghostery.com. . If you were to pre­vent or restrict the exe­cu­tion of the Java Script code, this can mean that for tech­ni­cal rea­sons not all the con­tent and func­tions of our web­site may be available.

Model Data Pro­tec­tion State­ment for Anwalt­skan­zlei Weiß & Partner