Privacy Policy

With this data protection declaration we inform you about the processing of personal data in the context of the use of our Internet pages. The abbreviation DSG stands for Swiss Data Protection Act.

Name and address of the responsible person

Responsible person in the sense of the data protection legislation and other regulations with data protection character is:
Association of the Arbenz family
President of the association Peter Arbenz
Bubental 24
8852 Altendorf
Switzerland

Contact us if you have any questions:

    Right to information
    According to Art. 8 DSG, you have the right to request confirmation from us free of charge as to whether personal data concerning you is being processed by us. If this is the case, you have the right to information about this personal data.

    Right to rectification
    According to Art. 5 DSG, you have the right to request that we correct any inaccurate personal data concerning you.

    Right to deletion
    According to Art. 5 DSG, you have the right to request that we delete personal data that is inaccurate or incomplete with regard to the purpose for which it was obtained or processed.

    Disclosure of data to third parties
    As a matter of principle, we do not pass on the personal data provided to us to third parties, i.e. in particular not to third parties for advertising purposes.
    However, for the operation of these Internet pages or for the provision of products / services, we cooperate with third parties. It may happen that such third parties obtain knowledge of personal data. We select our service providers carefully – especially with regard to data protection and data security – and take all measures required by data protection law for permissible data processing.

    Data processing in Switzerland
    We generally process data in Switzerland. Insofar as service providers of ours, whose plugins and tools we use, process data outside of Switzerland, this will be disclosed within the framework of this data protection declaration when explaining the plugins / tools used.
    The appropriate level of data protection is guaranteed within the framework of participation in the so-called “Privacy Shield” and the measures taken by the service provider for data protection and data security.

    Legal remedies
    For your protection, you can invoke the legal remedies pursuant to Art. 15 / 25 / 27 / 29 DSG.

    Server Log Files
    When you access our website, the company commissioned by us to operate the website processes and stores not only technical information about the terminal device you are using (operating system, screen resolution and other, non-personal characteristics) and the browser (version, language settings), but in particular the public IP address of the computer you are using to visit our website, together with the date and time of access. The IP address is a unique numeric address under which your terminal device sends or retrieves data on the Internet. As a rule, we or our service provider do not know who is behind an IP address, unless you provide us with data during the use of our website that enables us to identify you. Furthermore, a user may be identified if legal action is taken against him or her (e.g. in the event of attacks against our website) and we become aware of his or her identity in the course of the investigation. As a rule, therefore, you do not need to worry that we will be able to assign your IP address to you.
    Our service provider uses the processed data in a non-personal manner for statistical purposes, so that we can understand which end devices are used with which settings for visiting our website, in order to optimize it for them if necessary. These statistics do not contain any personal data. The basis for the compilation of the statistics is our interest in the improvement and economic operation of our business.
    The IP address is further used so that you can technically access and use our website and to detect and defend against attacks against our service provider or our website. Unfortunately, there are always attacks to cause damage to the operators of websites or their users (e.g. preventing access, spying on data, spreading malware (e.g. viruses) or other unlawful purposes). Such attacks would impair the intended functionality of the data center of the company we have contracted, the use of our website or its functionality, and the security of visitors to our website. The processing of the IP address including the time of access is carried out to defend against such attacks. Through our service provider, we pursue the legitimate interest in this processing to ensure the functionality of our website and to ward off illegal attacks against us and the visitors to our website. Basis for the processing at the improvement and economic operation of our business.
    The stored IP data is deleted (by anonymization) when it is no longer needed for the detection or defense of an attack.

    Data transfer when submitting applications
    If you submit an application on our website, we process the data you provide for the purpose of reviewing and deciding on the application or, if the project is funded, in the course of implementing it. To the extent necessary, data will be transferred to service providers.
    We also process this data for the purpose of detecting and defending against attempted fraud. In this way, we pursue the goal of protecting ourselves from fraudulent requests.
    Data stored in connection with the submission of an application will be deleted after expiry of the legal obligation to keep records. Insofar as legal recording and storage obligations exist due to the processing of a project (e.g. storage of invoices according to tax law), these apply.
    We delete or anonymize the data when it is no longer required for the implementation of the respective project and there are no longer any legal retention obligations. We delete data from application requests that are not funded once a year.

    Cookies
    We use cookies and similar technologies (local storage) for the operation of our website to ensure the technical functionality of our website, to understand how visitors use our website and to store preferences that a user has made in his browser.
    A cookie is a small text file that is stored on your terminal device when you access our website through your browser. If you call up our website again later, we can read these cookies again. Cookies are stored for different periods of time. You have the option at any time in your browser to set which cookies it should accept, but this may result in our website no longer functioning properly. Furthermore, you can delete cookies independently at any time. If you do not do this, we can specify when saving how long a cookie should be stored on your computer. A distinction must be made here between so-called session cookies and permanent cookies. Session cookies are deleted from your browser when you leave our website or you close the browser. Persistent cookies are stored for the duration that we specify when storing them.

    We use cookies for the following purposes:

    • Technically necessary cookies that are mandatory for the use of the functions of our website (e.g. recognition of whether you have logged in). Without these cookies, certain functions could not be provided.
    • Functional cookies, which are used to technically perform certain functions that you want to use.
    • Analysis cookies, which are used to analyze your user behavior.
    • Third-party cookies. Third-party cookies are stored by third parties whose functions we include on our website to enable certain functions. They may also be used to analyze user behavior.
      Most browsers that our users use allow you to set which cookies should be stored and allow you to delete (certain) cookies. If you restrict the storage of cookies to certain websites or do not allow cookies from third party websites, it may be possible that our website can no longer be used to its full extent. Here is information on how to adjust cookie settings for the most common browsers:
    • Google Chrome
    • Internet Explorer
    • Firefox
    • Safari

    Adjustment of privacy policy
    We always keep this privacy notice up to date. Therefore, we reserve the right to change it from time to time and to update any changes in the collection, processing or use of your data. The current version of the privacy policy is always available at the following address: www.arbenz-family.org/en/privacy-policy/