Please read our privacy policy carefully to get a clear understanding of how we collect, use, protect or otherwise handle your data in accordance with our website.
Controller
Villiger Söhne AG
5735 Pfeffikon
Switzerland
Legal representatives: Clemens Gütermann, Gerrit Kamphuis, Mirko Lorenzi, Christoph Lüscher
Phone: +41 (0)62 765 55 55
Fax: +41 (0)62 765 56 56
Email: customer.service@villiger.ch
www.villiger.ch
Representative of Controller in the European Union
Villiger Söhne GmbH
Schwarzenbergstr. 3-7
79761 Waldshut-Tiengen
Germany
Legal representatives: Clemens Gütermann, Gerrit Kamphuis, Mirko Lorenzi, Christoph Lüscher
Phone: +49 (0)7741/607-0
Fax: +49 (0)7741/607-249
E-Mail: info@villiger.de
Data Protection Officer
Villiger Söhne GmbH
Schwarzenbergstr. 3-7
79761 Waldshut-Tiengen
Germany
E-Mail: privacypolicy@villiger.ch
Villiger Söhne AG (VILLIGER) is committed to protecting your personal
information when you are using VILLIGER websites. This Privacy Policy
relates to our use of any personal information we collect from you via
any VILLIGER website, social media or official VILLIGER content on other
websites that link to this Privacy Policy.
It also relates to our use of any personal information you provide to us.
In order to provide you with the full range of our services and online contents, we sometimes need to collect information about you.
This Privacy and Cookies Policy explains the following:
VILLIGER websites may contain links to websites owned and operated by third parties. These third party websites have their own privacy and cookies policies, and we therefore urge you to review them. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for the privacy practices of such third party websites and your use of such websites is at your own risk.
When you participate in, access or sign up to any of VILLIGER’s websites, activities or online content, such as newsletters, competitions, online shop, book tickets for a VILLIGER event or create an account using VILLIGER’s online registration system we may receive personal information about you. This can consist of information such as your name, email address, postal address, telephone or mobile number, gender or date of birth, as well as information collected about your use of VILLIGER websites or product preferences.
Please remember that our contents are suitable only for users of legal age.
Please note that sometimes we will require you to provide additional personal information. When we do this (e.g. via contact forms) we will provide further information about why we are collecting your information and how we will use it.
Where we provide personalised websites, we may ask your permission to review third party data about you, for example, your Twitter or Facebook feeds, to get to know you better and to provide more effective personalisation. Some of our websites enable you to sign-in via a third party service, such as Facebook. If you choose to sign-in via a third party app, you will be presented with a dialog box which will ask your permission to allow VILLIGER to access your personal information (e.g. your full name, date of birth, email address and any other information you have made publicly accessible). Please note that any information that is not required by the particular service you have opted to use will not be retained by VILLIGER.
VILLIGER will use your personal information for a number of purposes including the following (Legal basis is Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR):
Where VILLIGER proposes using your personal information for any other uses we will ensure that we notify you first.
VILLIGER may contact you:
We will never contact you to ask for your VILLIGER account password, or other login information. Please be cautious if you receive any emails or calls from people asking for this information and claiming to be from VILLIGER.
VILLIGER will only send you marketing emails or contact you on VILLIGER platforms where you have agreed to this.
In certain countries we offer regular newsletters to let you know about VILLIGER events, products and online contents that may be of interest to you.
We may personalise the message content based upon any information you have provided to us and your use of VILLIGER websites.
We will keep your information within VILLIGER except where disclosure is required or permitted by law (for example to government bodies and law enforcement agencies, including for child protection reasons) or to the extent otherwise specified in this Privacy Policy.
Another exception are our Trusted Partners. In order for us to offer you the best possible experience with VILLIGER, we must ensure that our service keeps that promise today and also in the future. Our trusted partners, companies we work with primarily in the IT and marketing fields, make this possible. These partners handle certain data exclusively in pre-determined frameworks and for the purposes expressly stated by VILLIGER. Data transfer usually takes place where we cooperate with a subcontractor (such as a marketing agency) or a service provider (such as a provider of data storage services). In each case, the transfer of data does not release the transferring party from responsibility for its data handling. Data may also be transmitted to public authorities if they are authorized under applicable law to make such request, but not under any other circumstances.
Our Trusted Partners currently include:
If you post or send content which may reasonably be deemed to be offensive, inappropriate or objectionable anywhere on or to VILLIGER websites or social media, or otherwise engage in any disruptive behaviour on any VILLIGER service, VILLIGER may remove such content.
Where VILLIGER reasonably believes that you are or may be under the legal age required to view its contents, VILLIGER may contact you for age verification purposes. VILLIGER reserves the right to freeze or remove your VILLIGER account, should you fail to prove your legal age.
We will hold your personal information on our systems only for as long as necessary for the relevant activity. If you delete your VILLIGER account then your personal information is deleted immediately, and the remaining information is anonymised for analytical purposes. For further information about deleting your VILLIGER account, please see section 9 below.
Where you contribute content together with your personal information (User Generated Content or UGC) please refer to our Terms of Use for further information about how long we may store such material.
If you have not used your VILLIGER account in the last year then your account may be classed as dormant or may be deleted in line with this privacy policy. We will email to remind you before deletion so please check your inbox regularly to see if we have sent you any emails about this.
You can always delete your VILLIGER account.
As explained in section 8 above, deleting your VILLIGER account will erase any personal information in your account that we have about you and it will mean any data we hold about how you have used VILLIGER will be made anonymous.
Deleting your VILLIGER account will not delete the data you shared with VILLIGER for reasons that are not connected with your VILLIGER account. For example, if you sign up for VILLIGER Events, we will keep your data so that we can deliver that service.
Data collected
Information about browser
type/version, operating system used, referrer URL (origin URL), IP
address of the accessing computer, time of server request, HTML sites
visited, number of sessions and duration. The IP address will be
abbreviated by Google within the Member States of the EU or in other
member countries of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. In
exceptional cases, the full IP address will be transmitted to a Google
server in the US and will only then be abbreviated there.
Purpose and legal basis for data use
The
purpose of the data collection is the needs-based design of our
website. The legal basis for the collection is a legitimate interest in
providing you with quality service (Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR).
Additional information
Data will be received by internal employees at VILLIGER and Trusted Partners who are involved in data analysis.
The duration of data storage is 38 months.
We
continue to use Google Analytics to analyze data from DoubleClick
cookies and also AdWords for statistical purposes. If you do not want
this, you can disable it through the ad preferences manager:
http://www.google.com/settings/ads/onweb/?hl=en
You can prevent the storage of Google Analytics cookies by changing the settings in your browser software accordingly; however, in this case you may not be able to use all the features of this website to the full extent.
You may also prevent the collection and processing of data generated by cookies and related to your use of websites (including your IP address) by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link:http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en
More information about privacy in connection with Google Analytics can be found in the Google Analytics Help Center:https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en
If you any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy please contact privacypolicy@villiger.ch
If you are contacting us from the US or Canada, please address your questions or comments to:
We want to ensure that our privacy policy is in keeping with international rules, guidelines and industry standards, and we would also like to clarify your rights with regards to your data: you have the right to access and request the modification and deletion of your data. Moreover, you have the right to restrict and object to the use of your data and the right to data portability.
You may revoke your consent to the use of your personal data at any time by contacting us at privacypolicy@villiger.ch. This also applies if you wish to revoke consent granted to us before the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) entered into force (before May 25, 2018). By revoking your consent, the legality of data processing conducted on the basis of your consent up until the revocation remains unaffected.
If you enter into a business relationship with us, you must provide the personal data necessary for the purposes of entering into and conducting a business relationship as well as fulfilling associated contractual obligations. You must also provide those data that we are required to collect by law. Without this data, we generally must refuse the conclusion of the contract, the provision of products and the delivery of services, and we will no longer be able to fulfill any existing contracts and must terminate these if necessary.
Case-specific right of objection
For reasons arising from your particular situation, you have the right to object at any time to the use of your personal data. This also applies to profiling pursuant to Article 4, paragraph 4 of the GDPR. If you make an objection, we will no longer use your personal data unless one of the following conditions is met: