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:

Design Preis Schweiz
Prix Design Suisse
Design Prize Switzer­land
Falken­strasse 18
2502 Biel, Switzer­land

+41 32 533 24 06
hello@designpreis.ch

The controller’s data protec­tion officer is:

Michel Hueter

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.

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

EU-US Privacy Shield https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000GnywAAC&status=Active

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

EU-US Privacy Shield https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000GnywAAC&status=Active

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).

Through certi­fi­ca­tion according to the EU-US Privacy Shield

https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active

Google guar­an­tees that it will follow the EU’s data protec­tion regu­la­tions when processing data in the United States.

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.

Google-Maps

Our website uses Google Maps to display our loca­tion and to provide direc­tions. This is a service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Irland (here­inafter: Google).

Through certi­fi­ca­tion according to the EU-US Privacy Shield

https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active

Google guar­an­tees that it will follow the EU’s data protec­tion regu­la­tions when processing data in the United States.

To enable the display of certain fonts on our website, a connec­tion to the Google server in the USA is estab­lished when­ever our website is accessed.

If you access the Google Maps compo­nents inte­grated into our website, Google will store a cookie on your device via your browser. Your user settings and data are processed to display our loca­tion and create a route descrip­tion. We cannot prevent Google from using servers in the USA.

The legal basis is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. Our legit­i­mate interest lies in opti­mizing the func­tion­ality of our website.

By connecting to Google in this way, Google can deter­mine from which website your request has been sent and to which IP address the direc­tions are trans­mitted.

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.

In addi­tion, the use of Google Maps and the infor­ma­tion obtained via Google Maps is governed by the Google Terms of Use https://policies.google.com/terms?gl=DE&hl=en and the Terms and Condi­tions for Google Maps https://www.google.com/intl/de_de/help/terms_maps.html.

Google also offers further infor­ma­tion at

https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated

https://policies.google.com/privacy

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”.

Through certi­fi­ca­tion according to the EU-US Privacy Shield

https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active

Google and its subsidiary YouTube guar­antee that they will follow the EU’s data protec­tion regu­la­tions when processing data in the United States.

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.”

Some of the user data is processed on Vimeo servers in the USA. Through certi­fi­ca­tion according to the EU-US Privacy Shield

(https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt00000008V77AAE&status=Active)

Vimeo guar­an­tees that it will follow the EU’s data protec­tion regu­la­tions when processing data in the United States.

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.

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.

Through certi­fi­ca­tion according to the EU-US Privacy Shield

https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000CbahAAC&status=Active

Boot­strapCDN guar­an­tees that it will follow the EU’s data protec­tion regu­la­tions also when processing data in the United States.

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.

MailChimp — Newsletter

We offer you the oppor­tu­nity to register for our free newsletter via our website.

We use MailChimp, a service of The Rocket Science Group, LLC, 512 Means Street, Suite 404, Atlanta, GA 30318, USA, here­inafter referred to as “The Rocket Science Group”.

Through certi­fi­ca­tion according to the EU-US Privacy Shield

https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000TO6hAAG&status=Active

the Rocket Science Group guar­an­tees that it will follow the EU’s data protec­tion regu­la­tions when processing data in the United States. In addi­tion, the Rocket Science Group offers further infor­ma­tion about its data protec­tion prac­tices at

http://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/

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 processed by The Rocket Science Group. In addi­tion, your IP address and the date and time of your regis­tra­tion will be saved. During the regis­tra­tion process, your consent to receive this newsletter will be obtained together with a concrete descrip­tion of the type of content it will offer and refer­ence made to this privacy policy.

The newsletter then sent out by The Rocket Science Group will also contain a tracking pixel called a web beacon. This pixel helps us eval­uate whether and when you have read our newsletter and whether you have clicked any links contained therein. In addi­tion to further tech­nical data, such as data about your computer hard­ware and your IP address, the data processed will be stored so that we can opti­mize our newsletter and respond to the wishes of our readers. The data will there­fore increase the quality and attrac­tive­ness of our newsletter.

The legal basis for sending the newsletter and the analysis 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.

Model Data Protec­tion State­ment for Anwalt­skan­zlei Weiß & Partner