The website of Audio Technic Switzerland AG (hereinafter referred to as the “Website”) is subject to Swiss data protection law, in particular pursuant to the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection (DSG) and any applicable foreign data protection law, such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) of the European Union (EU). The EU recognizes that Swiss data protection law ensures adequate data protection.
We may amend our privacy policy at any time by posting it on this website.
Access to this website is via transport encryption (SSL/TLS).
Access to this website is subject – like all Internet use – to general, indiscriminate and suspicionless mass surveillance by security authorities in Switzerland, the EU, the USA and other countries.
Customer account / registration
If you create a customer account via our website, we will collect and store the data entered by you during registration (name, address, e-mail address, etc.) exclusively for pre-contractual services, for the fulfillment of the contract or for the purpose of customer care. In addition, we store your IP address, the date and time of your registration. In the course of the further registration process, your consent to this processing is obtained and reference is made to this privacy policy. The data collected by us in this process will be used exclusively for the provision of the customer account. Insofar as you consent to this processing, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) DSGVO is the legal basis for the processing. If the opening of the customer account also serves pre-contractual measures or the fulfillment of the contract, the legal basis for this processing is also Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b) DSGVO. You can revoke the consent given to us for the opening and maintenance of the customer account at any time with effect for the future in accordance with Art. 7 (3) DSGVO. To do this, you only need to inform us of your revocation. The data collected in this respect will be deleted as soon as the processing is no longer necessary. However, we must observe retention periods under tax and commercial law.
Contact
Personal data is collected by us when you provide it to us, for example, when you contact us. We will of course use the personal data transmitted to us in this way exclusively for the purpose for which you made it available to us when contacting us.
Any communication of this information is expressly on a voluntary basis and with your consent. Insofar as this involves information on communication channels (e.g. e-mail address, telephone number), you also consent to us contacting you via this communication channel, if necessary, in order to respond to your request.
Of course, you can revoke your consent at any time for the future. Please contact us by e-mail for this purpose.
Dealing with comments and ratings
If you leave a comment or a rating on this website, your IP address and e-mail address will be stored. This is for security: If your text violates the law, we can track your identity with the help of this.
Cookies
Cookies are small text files that are permanently or temporarily stored in your computer when you visit this website. The purpose of the cookies is in particular the analysis of the use of this website for statistical evaluation and for continuous improvements.
If you want to restrict or block cookies stored on your device, you can do this via the settings of your browser. You can find information on this in the help function of your browser. You can also find comprehensive information on how to block cookies in many browsers at computerhope.com. If cookies are deactivated, you may no longer be able to use all the functions of this website.
Use of Google Maps
The “Google Maps” component from Google is used on this website.
With each individual call of the Google Maps component, a cookie is set by Google in order to process user settings and data when displaying the page on which the Google Maps component is integrated. This cookie is usually not deleted by closing the browser, but expires after a certain time, unless you delete it manually beforehand.
If you do not agree to this processing of your data, you have the option of deactivating the Google Maps service and thus preventing the transfer of data to Google. To do this, you must deactivate the Javascript function in your browser, but this may mean that not all functions on this website will work properly.
The use of Google Maps and the information obtained via Google Maps is subject to the Google Terms of Use http://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/terms/regional.html and the additional terms and conditions for Google Maps https://www.google.com/intl/de_de/help/terms_maps.html.
Use of Google Analytics with anonymization function
This website uses “Google Analytics”, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA, hereinafter “Google”. Google Analytics uses so-called cookies. These are text files that are stored on your computer and enable an analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. In the event that IP anonymization is activated on the website, however, your IP address will be truncated beforehand by Google within the member states of the European Union (EU) or in other contracting states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area (EEA). Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. On our behalf, Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data. You can prevent the storage of cookies by adjusting your browser settings accordingly. However, we would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all functions of this website to their full extent. You can also prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of this 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 terms of use and data protection, please visit http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html and https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/. We would like to point out that on this website Google Analytics has been extended by the code “anonymizeIp” to ensure anonymized collection of IP addresses (so-called IP masking).
As an alternative to the browser add-on or within browsers on mobile devices, you can disable web tracking under the following link: Web Tracking Settings
Use of social media plugins
On this website, we partially use social plugins from social networks such as LinkedIn, Xing, Facebook, Google+, Instagram and Twitter. The content of these plugins is transmitted directly from the corresponding social websites. If you are currently logged in to one of the social services, it may register your visit to this website.
Our tip: Always log out of the social networks if you do not want your surfing behavior to be recorded by Facebook and Co.
Access data/ Server log files
The web host collects data about accesses to this website and stores them as “server log files”. The following data is logged in this way:
Visited website
Time at the time of access
Amount of data sent in bytes
Source/reference from which you came to the site
Browser used
Operating system used
IP address used
The collected data is only used for statistical analysis and to improve the web server. However, the web host reserves the right to check the server log files retrospectively if there are concrete indications of illegal use.
Rights of the user: information, correction and deletion
As a user, you can request information free of charge about what personal data has been stored about you. If your request does not conflict with a legal obligation to store data (e.g. data retention), you have the right to correct incorrect data and to block or delete your personal data.