The protection of your privacy and your personal data is an important concern for us, which we always take into account in business relationships. Accordingly, we treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with the statutory data protection regulations and this privacy policy.

1. scope of this privacy policy

With this privacy policy, we would like to inform you about how we handle personal data, which information about the users of our website(s), online applications or our mobile platforms ("Services") is collected and evaluated and subsequently used, disclosed or otherwise processed.

2. collection of information

2.1 Data provided by you

The use of our services is generally possible without providing personal data. Insofar as personal data (such as name, address or e-mail address) is collected within the scope of our services, this is always done, insofar as possible, on a voluntary basis. If, for example, you would like to receive a newsletter offered by us, we need your e-mail address as well as information that allows us to verify that you are the owner of the specified e-mail address.

2.2 Automatically collected data

For purposes of data security and ongoing usability optimization, we also collect non-personal data in connection with the use of our services. For example, the Internet browser used, the operating system, the domain name of the website you visited previously, the number of visits as well as the average time spent and the pages you viewed are stored.

This automatically collected data is not merged with other data sources. However, we reserve the right to check this data retrospectively if we become aware of specific indications of unlawful use.

2.3 Cookies and Web Beacons

Our services use so-called cookies and web beacons on the browser side. Cookies do not cause any damage to your computer, rather they are small files with configuration settings that help us to make our services more user-friendly, effective and secure. Furthermore, cookies are used to realize certain user functions.

Our services mostly use "session cookies", which are automatically deleted when the browser is closed, and in some cases so-called "persistent cookies", which remain on your terminal device until they expire or are manually deleted by you. The latter enable us to recognize your browser on your next visit. Details on "third party cookies", i.e. cookies from third-party providers such as Google Inc. can be found in their privacy policy.

You can select your browser or the privacy settings of your mobile devices so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and only allow cookies in individual cases. Likewise, you can exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or generally as well as activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. When deactivating cookies, however, it is possible that not all functions of our services can be used to their full extent.

Furthermore, we use web beacons, so-called counting graphics, which enable us to analyze user behavior. For example, our newsletters and HTML e-mails may contain a web beacon that determines whether the e-mails have been opened or the links they contain have been clicked on. This information helps us improve our email service and better tailor our content to user needs. Web beacons are also deleted when the email is deleted. Of course, our regular text emails do not contain web beacons.

2.4. web analysis

For the ongoing optimization of the user-friendliness and functions of our services, they partly use the third-party web analytics services and social plugins described below. Only non-personal data is used for this purpose.

Google Analytics: Google Analytics of Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA uses so-called "cookies", text files that are stored on your computer and enable an analysis of your use of our services. The information collected by the cookie about your user behavior is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. However, in the event that IP anonymization is activated in the services, your IP address will be truncated beforehand by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states to 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. On behalf of the operator of the services, Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the services, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other data from Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of our services. You can also prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of a 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(http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de). For more information on the terms of use and data protection, please visit https://www.google.at/analytics/terms/de.htmlbzw.at https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/.

LinkedIn: The provider of the Linkedlin network is LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Each time you access one of our services that contains functions from LinkedIn, a connection to LinkedIn servers is established. LinkedIn is informed that you have used our services with your IP address. If you click the "Recommend Button" of LinkedIn and are logged into your account at LinkedIn, it is possible for LinkedIn to assign your use of our services to you and your user account. We would like to point out that we, as the provider of the services, have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its use by LinkedIn. You can find more information on this in LinkedIn's privacy policy at: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy

3. use of personal data

As a matter of principle, we will process and use the personal data provided by you only for the purposes stated in each case. These include in particular:

Provision, improvement and support of our services: This includes data analysis, identifying trends in usage, and generating billing and access behavior statistics.

Marketing: We will only use your personal data for marketing purposes such as surveys, or other promotional activities if you have given us your consent to do so. In this case, we will store your personal data for a period of 24 months, unless longer storage is permitted for other reasons. Of course, you can revoke your consent to the use of your personal data at any time. For details, see section 5.

Newsletter dispatch: If you register for our newsletter via web form, we use the data you provide exclusively to verify that you are the owner of the specified e-mail address and agree to receive the newsletter, as well as for the dispatch and analysis of newsletter usage. In this case, your data will be stored for the duration of the subscription to the newsletter and for 12 months after the end of the subscription to the newsletter, unless longer storage is permitted for other reasons. For further purposes, we will only use the personal data provided by you if you have given us your consent to do so.

Ordering reports or other information materials: If you request reports or other information materials from us, the personal data you provide will be used exclusively to process your request and will then be stored for 12 months after the last request. Under certain circumstances, order processing may also be carried out by third parties commissioned by us. In this case, your personal data will be passed on for exclusive use in the context of the completion of your order. For other purposes, we use the personal data provided by you only if you have given us your consent.

Contacting: If you send us inquiries via contact form, your data from the inquiry form, including the contact data you provided there, will be stored by us for processing the inquiry and in case of follow-up questions. If it is necessary to answer your inquiry, we may also pass on your data to other group companies (see section 4) or third parties outside the group of companies. Your personal data will be stored for the duration of the inquiry processing and - unless a longer storage is legally permissible for other reasons - for 12 months after the completion of your inquiry.

4. sharing and disclosing your personal information

Depending on the interaction you request (e.g. callback, order, services, information, etc.), your data may be exchanged with third parties involved in the processing (e.g. shipping companies, financial institutions, etc.) or other companies of the group. Likewise, it may be necessary to disclose personal data in order to comply with our legal obligations or to enforce rights and agreements.

Disclosure of data to third parties: We use external service providers (e.g. freight forwarders) to process various orders and services. These service providers may use or pass on the data collected and processed by us exclusively within the scope of the order placed by us and under no circumstances for other purposes.

Data use within the group of companies: We are part of an internationally active group of companies with cross-border internal business processes, structures and technical systems. For the purposes set out in Section 3 and in accordance with this Privacy Policy, we may use your personal data within the group of companies and may also transfer it to our sites in other countries. Our group-wide privacy policies and data protection procedures are designed to provide a consistent high level of data protection in this case. A complete list of our Group companies can be found here: https://www.finyon.ch/de/impressum/

Compliance with laws and similar obligations: We will share your personal information to (i) enforce or comply with a law, regulation, governmental request or compulsion, (ii) detect and prevent security threats, fraud or other malicious activity, (iii) protect or enforce the rights and property of us or third parties, and (iv) protect the rights or personal safety of our employees and third parties.

5. right to information, right of revocation and deletion of your personal data

You have the possibility at any time to request in writing information about the data stored about you. Furthermore, in connection with the use of your personal data, you have the right to rectification, deletion, blocking, restriction of processing and the right to lodge a complaint with the data protection authority. For this purpose, as well as for further questions in this regard, please contact the contact point indicated in section 7. If you have subscribed to our newsletter, you can unsubscribe at any time via the "opt-out" or unsubscribe link in the newsletter. Of course, you can also revoke your consent to the storage of your data and the use of your data in writing at any time. For this purpose, an informal e-mail to the e-mail address mentioned in section 7 is sufficient.

6. data security

We use a variety of data security measures to ensure the confidentiality and integrity of your personal information. However, due to the nature of the Internet, we would like to point out that data transmission over the Internet (e.g. communication by e-mail) may be subject to security vulnerabilities and that complete protection of data against access by third parties is not possible.

7. contact

For all questions in connection with this privacy policy or the processing of your data, please contact:

Finyon Consulting AG
Apollostrasse 2
CH-8032 Zurich
+41 44 577 52 80
info@finyon.ch

Privacy Policy Finyon Consulting AG - valid as of 24.04.2018