PRIVACY POLICY

In this privacy policy, we inform you about the key aspects of data processing in our company and the data protection rights and claims you are entitled to.

BERHALTER AG takes the protection of your personal data and the safeguarding of your privacy very seriously. You can expect us to handle your data sensitively and carefully, and to ensure a high level of data security. We collect and use your personal data exclusively within the framework of the applicable data protection regulations, particularly the Data Protection Act (revDSG) and the Data Protection Ordinance (DSV). In this privacy policy, we inform you about the key aspects of data processing in our company and the data protection rights and claims you are entitled to. This privacy policy applies to all areas of data processing, regardless of whether it occurs online or offline.
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1. Contacts

1.1 Name and Address of the Data Controller

Der Verantwortliche im Sinne des Datenschutzrechts ist die:
BERHALTER AG
Lindenstrasse 120
9443 Widnau
Schweiz
Tel: +41 71 727 02 00
E-Mail: info@berhalter.com
Website: www.berhalter.com

1.2 Name und Anschrift des Datenschutzkoordinators

1.2 Name and Address of the Data Protection Coordinator
Sascha Haltiner
Lindenstrasse 120
9443 Widnau
Schweiz
Tel: +41 71 727 02 00
E-Mail: info@berhalter.com
Website: www.berhalter.com

2. Scope and Purpose of the Collection, Processing, and Use of Personal Data

The revDSG defines personal data as “data/information linked to identified or identifiable natural persons.” Online identifiers, such as IP addresses, are considered personal data unless they are specifically anonymized.

We collect, process, and use your personal data for the following purposes:
Zwecken:

• Optimization of the website (adapting the website to your needs)
• Processing contact inquiries
• Applications
• Fulfillment of contractual obligations

2.1 Visiting the Website

When you visit our website, our servers temporarily store the following data in a log file, the so-called server log files:

• IP address of the requesting computer
• Date and time of access/retrieval
• Name and URL of the accessed page
• Access status/HTTP status code
• Amount of data transferred in each case
• Browser information

The basis for the temporary storage of your personal data and the log files is the legitimate interest. The legitimate interest exists in order to

• Correctly display the content of our website,
• Provide law enforcement authorities with the necessary information for prosecution in the event of an incident,
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• Improve our offerings and online presence,
• Collect statistical data.

This data is stored together with other personal data of yours for statistical purposes.

2.2 Contact

You have the option to contact us via email on our website. In this case, the information you provide will be processed for the purpose of handling your inquiry and processing it. 

Voluntary provision of personal data facilitates the processing of your request and enables us to provide more precise information. The personal data you provide will not be merged with other data. The basis for processing your personal data is our legitimate interest in handling your request. If the contact is aimed at fulfilling a contract to which you are a party or implementing pre-contractual measures, this constitutes an additional basis for processing your personal data. You can object to this data processing at any time. Please send your objection to the following email address:  info@berhalter.com
In such a case, your request will not be processed further.

2.4 (Online) Applications

If you apply for a position with us, we process your personal data to review your application. During the application process, we process, besides your personal details, information on education, work experience, and skills, postal and contact addresses, and application-related documents such as cover letters, resumes, references, and certificates. You can, of course, provide additional information voluntarily. This data will be stored, evaluated, processed, or forwarded internally solely for purposes related to your application. They may also be processed for statistical purposes (e.g., reporting), but in this case, no conclusions can be drawn about individual persons. The processing may also occur electronically, especially if you submit your application documents via email or through our online application platform Dualoo. The provision of applicant data marked as mandatory (*) is required to assign your application and contact you regarding your application and to evaluate the success prospects of your application. Mandatory fields include:

• Salutation*
• First name*
• Last name*
• Address*
• Country, postal code, and city*
• Email address*
• Mobile phone number*
• Nationality*
• Date of birth*
• Residence permit
• Attachments such as photo and other files (resume, cover letter, references, certificates, etc.)

The basis for processing is our legitimate interest in processing your application. You can object to this data processing at any time. In this case, we will not further review your application and will return your documents or delete your electronically submitted documents. Your applicant data will be stored separately from other user data and will not be merged with them.

If we conclude an employment contract with you, the transmitted data will be stored for the purpose of handling the employment relationship in compliance with legal requirements. If the application process ends without employment, your application data will be stored for documentation purposes for three months and then deleted, unless you have given us consent to use your data for further application processes and to contact you accordingly. Regardless of the above, you have the option to have your electronic data deleted at any time. You can send your deletion request to the following email address: info@berhalter.com.

2.5 Trade Show Visits

When you visit us at a trade show, we process your basic data (e.g., names and addresses as well as your contact details). The basis for processing your personal data is the fulfillment of a contract to which you are a party.

2.6 In Connection with Prospects, Customers, Suppliers, and Service Providers

To fulfill our contractual and pre-contractual obligations, we process basic data (e.g., names and addresses as well as your contact details) and contract data (e.g., services provided, names of contact persons, payment information).

The basis for processing your personal data is the fulfillment of a contract to which you are a party or the implementation of pre-contractual measures.

If we store your personal data due to a contractual relationship, these data remain stored for at least as long as the contractual relationship exists and at most for as long as limitation periods for possible claims or statutory or contractual retention obligations exist.

3. Deletion

We process and store your personal data only for the period necessary to achieve the storage purpose or as required by laws or regulations to which we are subject. If the storage purpose ceases to apply or a prescribed retention period expires, your personal data will be routinely deleted in accordance with the legal provisions. Additionally, we will delete your personal data if you request us to do so at info@berhalter.com and we do not have any legal or contractual retention or other security obligations regarding these data.

4. Disclosure of Personal Data

Wir behandeln Ihre personenbezogenen Daten grundsätzlich vertraulich und geben sie nur weiter, wenn Sie dem ausdrücklich zugestimmt haben, wir von Gesetzes wegen dazu verpflichtet sind oder dies zur Durchsetzung unserer Rechte, insbesondere zur Durchsetzung von Ansprüchen aus dem Vertragsverhältnis, erforderlich ist. Darüber hinaus geben wir Ihre personenbezogenen Daten an Dritte weiter, soweit dies im Rahmen der Nutzung der Website oder zur allfälligen Erbringung von Ihnen angeforderten Dienstleistungen erforderlich ist. Die Nutzung der hierzu weitergegebenen Daten durch die Dritten ist streng auf die genannten Zwecke beschränkt. Wenn das Datenschutzniveau in einem Land in dem die Daten verarbeitet werden nicht den anwendbaren Datenschutzbestimmungen entspricht, stellen wir vertraglich sicher, dass der Schutz Ihrer personenbezogenen Daten demjenigen in der Schweiz jederzeit entspricht.

We disclose your personal data to the following categories of recipients:
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• Business units of BERHALTER AG
• Service operators
• Commercial partners, such as licensees and distributors
• Authorities
  
  

5. Cookies

5.1 What Are Cookies?

When you visit a website, a cookie may be stored on your operating system. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device by your browser. This cookie contains a unique character string that allows the browser to be identified when the website is accessed again. With the help of a cookie, information and offers on our website can be optimized according to your preferences. Cookies enable us to recognize visitors. The purpose of this recognition is to facilitate the use of our website for you. This also constitutes our legitimate interest in data processing.

5.2 What Data Is Stored in Cookies?

The cookies we use store only pseudonymous data. When the cookie is activated, it is assigned an identification number. Your name, IP address, or similar data that would allow direct assignment of the cookie to you is not stored in the cookie. Based on cookie technology, we receive only pseudonymized information.

5.3 What Types of Cookies Do We Use?

Temporary Cookies
Wir verwenden temporäre Cookies. Diese werden automatisiert gelöscht, wenn Sie sich ausloggen oder den Browser schliessen. Dazu zählen insbesondere die Session-Cookies. Diese speichern eine sogenannte Session-ID, mit welcher sich verschiedene Anfragen Ihres Browsers der Sitzung zuordnen lassen. Wir verwenden diese Art von Cookies, um den Betrieb und die Funktionalität unserer Webseite sicherzustellen.

Non-personalized Cookies
Non-personalized cookies do not transmit any personal data to us. For example, statistics cookies help us understand how visitors interact with the website by collecting and reporting information anonymously.

Third-party Cookies
Furthermore, we use functions of some web analytics services that help us make our internet offering and website more interesting for you. For this purpose, cookies from partner companies are also stored on your hard drive during your visit to our website (so-called third-party cookies). For more information on the use of third-party cookies, please refer to the “Analysis Tools” section (see section 6).

5.4 How Can You Prevent the Use of Cookies or Delete Cookies?

Accepting cookies is not a prerequisite for visiting our website. Most internet browsers accept cookies automatically. If you do not wish this, you can set up your browser so that it informs you about the setting of cookies and you allow this only in individual cases, exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or generally, and activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. Furthermore, you can delete already set cookies at any time via an internet browser or other software programs. The procedure for controlling and deleting cookies depends on the browser you are using. You can find information on this in the help menu of your browser.

6. Analysis Tools

Google (Universal) Analytics
Based on our legitimate interests, we use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google LLC (“Google”), or, if you have your habitual residence in the European Economic Area or Switzerland, Google Ireland Limited (“Google”), (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA). Google uses cookies. We use Google Analytics, including the features of Universal Analytics. Universal Analytics allows us to analyze activities on our pages across devices (e.g., accessing via laptop and later via a tablet). This enables us to assign data, sessions, and interactions across multiple devices to a pseudonymous user ID and thus to analyze the activities of a user across devices.

The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website (including your IP address) is transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. Google is certified under the Swiss-US and EU-US Privacy Shield Frameworks and thus ensures an adequate level of data protection for the transfer of personal data, which is comparable to that in the EU and thus also in Switzerland. Further information in this regard can be found at:   https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=A….

Google will use this information on our behalf to evaluate your use of our website, to compile reports on website activity, and to provide us with other services relating to website use and internet use. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data. We only use Google Analytics with IP anonymization enabled. This means that the IP address of users will be shortened by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there.

You can prevent the collection and transmission of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) to Google and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link: Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. An opt-out cookie is set, which prevents the future collection of your data when visiting this website. However, we would like to point out that if you do this, you may not be able to use all the functions of this website to their full extent. To prevent collection by Universal Analytics across different devices, you must perform the opt-out on all systems used. Further information on Universal Analytics can be found here: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2838718?hl=de&ref_topic=6010376 .

For more information on terms of use and data protection with Google Analytics, please visit www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html. .

7. Your Rights

7.1 Right to Information
You have the right to request information from us about whether and which personal data we process about you.

7.2 Right to Rectification
You have the right to request the correction of your inaccurate personal data and, if necessary, the completion of incomplete personal data in our systems.

7.3 Right to Erasure
You have the right to request that your personal data be deleted, for example, if the data is no longer needed for the purposes pursued. However, if we are obliged to retain your data due to legal or contractual retention obligations, we may only restrict or block your data to the extent necessary in these cases.

7.4 Right to Restriction of Processing
You have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data by us.

7.5 Right to Data Portability
Where applicable, you have the right to receive your personal data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format.

7.6 Right to Object
You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data at any time in accordance with legal requirements.

7.7 Right to Withdraw Consent
You have the right to withdraw your consent to the processing of your personal data, with effect for the future, at any time.

7.8 Right to Lodge a Complaint
Where applicable, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a competent supervisory authority if you believe that the processing of your personal data violates data protection regulations. For questions regarding our privacy practices and information about your rights under sections 7.1-7.8, as well as their exercise, you can contact us or our Data Protection Coordinator using the contact details provided in section 1 of this Privacy Policy. If necessary, we reserve the right to request appropriate identification to process requests in a suitable manner.
Datenschutzkoordinator, unter den in Ziffer 1 dieser Datenschutzerklärung angegebenen Kontaktdaten kontaktieren. Falls notwendig, behalten wir uns vor, für die Bearbeitung von Anfragen in geeigneter Weise um Ihre Identifikation zu ersuchen.

9. Data Security

We take technical and organizational security measures to protect your personal data against manipulation, loss, destruction, or unauthorized access by third parties, and to ensure the protection of your rights and compliance with applicable data protection regulations. The measures taken are intended to ensure the confidentiality and integrity of your personal data, as well as the availability and resilience of our systems and services in processing your personal data in the long term. They are also intended to ensure the rapid restoration of the availability of your personal data and access to it in the event of a physical or technical incident.

Among our security measures is the encryption of your personal data. All information you enter online is transmitted via an encrypted transmission path. This prevents unauthorized third parties from viewing this information at any time. Our data processing and security measures are continuously improved in line with technological developments. We also take our own internal corporate data protection seriously. Our employees and the service providers we engage are obligated to maintain confidentiality and comply with data protection regulations. Furthermore, access to your personal data is only granted to them to the extent necessary.

10. Social Media

On our website, we have included links to our social media profiles on the following social networks: 

• YouTube, a service of YouTube LLC (“YouTube”), 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. YouTube LLC is a subsidiary of Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA, or, if you are resident in the European Economic Area or Switzerland, Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (“Google”).
• LinkedIn Inc., 2029 Stierlin Ct, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA
• Facebook, subsidiary of Meta Platforms Inc., Menlo Park, California, USA
• X, Twitter Inc., San Francisco, California, USA
• The data you enter on our social media profiles is published by the social media platform and is never used or processed by us for other purposes. However, we reserve the right to delete content if necessary. We may also communicate with you via the social media platform. The basis for this is our legitimate interest in exchanging information with you in this way.
• Please be aware that the operator of the social media platform uses web tracking methods. Web tracking, over which we have no control, can occur regardless of whether you are logged in or registered with the social media platform.
• For more detailed information on data processing by the provider of the social media platform, please refer to the privacy policy of the respective provider:
• https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy
• https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy/
• https://x.com/de/privacy
• https://policies.google.com/privacy

11. Links to Websites of Other Providers

Our website may contain links to websites of other providers that are not covered by this privacy policy. After clicking on the link, we no longer have any influence on the processing of any data transferred to the third party (such as the IP address or the URL on which the link is located), as the behavior of third parties is naturally beyond our control. We cannot assume any responsibility for the processing of your personal data by third parties. If the use of websites of other providers involves the collection, processing, or use of your personal data, please refer to the data protection information of the respective providers.

12. Changes to the Privacy Policy

We expressly reserve the right to supplement or amend this privacy policy at any time. All changes and additions are at the sole discretion of the company.