With this privacy policy, we provide information about the processing of personal data in connection with our activities and operations, including our website at the domain name gasthaus-rathaus.ch. In particular, we explain for what purposes, how and where we process which personal data. We also provide information about the rights of persons whose data we process.
For individual or additional activities and operations, we may publish further privacy policies or other information on data protection.
1. Contact addresses
Responsibility for the processing of personal data lies with:
Melanie Holdener + Norman Karl
Under Platz 31
7107 Safien Platz
Switzerland
In individual cases, third parties may be responsible for the processing of personal data, or responsibility may be shared with third parties. We are happy to provide data subjects with information about the relevant responsibility on request.
2. Terms and legal basis
2.1 Terms
Data subject: A natural person about whom we process personal data.
Personal data: Any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.
Sensitive personal data: Data on trade union, political, religious or philosophical views and activities; data on health, the intimate sphere or ethnic or racial origin; genetic data; biometric data that uniquely identifies a natural person; data on criminal or administrative sanctions or proceedings; and data on social assistance measures.
Processing: Any handling of personal data, regardless of the means and procedures used — for example, querying, comparing, adapting, archiving, retaining, reading out, communicating, obtaining, recording, collecting, deleting, disclosing, sorting, organising, storing, altering, distributing, linking, destroying and using personal data.
2.2 Legal basis
We process personal data in accordance with Swiss law, in particular the Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP) and the Ordinance on Data Protection (Data Protection Ordinance, DPO).
3. Nature, scope and purpose of the processing of personal data
We process the personal data that is necessary to carry out our activities and operations in a sustainable, user-friendly, secure and reliable manner. The personal data we process may fall in particular into the categories of browser and device data, content data, communication data, metadata, usage data, master data including inventory and contact data, location data, transaction data, contract data and payment data. It may also constitute sensitive personal data.
We also process personal data that we receive from third parties, obtain from publicly accessible sources or collect in the course of our activities and operations, provided such processing is permitted.
Where required, we process personal data with the consent of the data subjects. In many cases, we may process personal data without consent, for example to comply with legal obligations or to protect overriding interests. We may also ask data subjects for their consent even where their consent is not required.
We process personal data for the duration necessary for the relevant purpose. We anonymise or delete personal data in particular in accordance with statutory retention and limitation periods.
4. Disclosure of personal data
We may disclose personal data to third parties, have it processed by third parties or process it jointly with third parties. Such third parties may include, for example, specialised providers whose services we use.
In the course of our activities and operations, we may disclose personal data in particular to banks and other financial service providers, public authorities, educational and research institutions, advisers and lawyers, interest groups, IT service providers, cooperation partners, credit and business information agencies, logistics and shipping companies, marketing and advertising agencies, the media, parent, sister and subsidiary companies, organisations and associations, social institutions, telecommunications companies, insurers and payment service providers.
5. Communication
We process personal data in order to communicate with individuals as well as with public authorities, organisations and companies. In particular, we process data that a data subject provides when contacting us, for example by post or email. We may store such data in an address book or using similar tools.
Third parties who transmit data about other persons to us are obliged to ensure the data protection of those data subjects themselves. In particular, they must ensure that such data is accurate and may be transmitted.
6. Data security
We take appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure data security appropriate to the relevant risk. Our measures ensure in particular the confidentiality, availability, traceability and integrity of the personal data we process — although we cannot guarantee absolute data security.
Access to our website and our other digital presence takes place via transport encryption (SSL / TLS, in particular using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure, HTTPS for short). Most browsers warn before visiting a website without transport encryption.
Like essentially all digital communication, our digital communication is subject to mass surveillance without cause or suspicion by security authorities in Switzerland, the rest of Europe, the United States of America (USA) and other countries. We have no direct influence on the corresponding processing of personal data by intelligence services, police forces and other security authorities. Nor can we rule out that individual data subjects may be specifically targeted for surveillance.
7. Personal data abroad
We generally process personal data in Switzerland. However, we may also disclose or export personal data to other countries, in particular to process it there or have it processed there.
We may disclose personal data to all countries on Earth and elsewhere in the universe, provided that local law guarantees adequate data protection in accordance with the decision of the Swiss Federal Council.
We may disclose personal data to countries whose law does not guarantee adequate data protection, provided that appropriate data protection is ensured for other reasons, in particular on the basis of standard data protection clauses or other suitable safeguards. In exceptional cases, we may export personal data to countries without adequate or appropriate data protection if the specific data protection requirements are met, for example the express consent of the data subjects or a direct connection with the conclusion or performance of a contract. On request, we are happy to inform data subjects about any safeguards in place or provide a copy of such safeguards.
8. Rights of data subjects
8.1 Data protection rights
We grant data subjects all rights under applicable law. In particular, data subjects have the following rights:
- Access: Data subjects may request information as to whether we process personal data about them and, if so, which personal data. Data subjects also receive the information necessary to assert their data protection rights and to ensure transparency. This includes the personal data processed as such, but also, among other things, information about the purpose of processing, the retention period, any disclosure or export of data to other countries, and the origin of the personal data.
- Rectification and restriction: Data subjects may have inaccurate personal data corrected, incomplete data completed and the processing of their data restricted.
- Right to be heard and human review: In the case of decisions based solely on automated processing of personal data that have legal effects for them or significantly affect them (automated individual decisions), data subjects may state their own point of view and request review by a human being.
- Deletion and objection: Data subjects may have personal data deleted (‘right to be forgotten’) and object to the processing of their data with effect for the future.
- Data release and data portability: Data subjects may request the release of their personal data or the transfer of their data to another controller.
We may defer, restrict or refuse the exercise of data subjects’ rights to the extent permitted by law. We may inform data subjects of any conditions that must be met in order to exercise their data protection rights. For example, we may refuse access in whole or in part with reference to confidentiality obligations, overriding interests or the protection of other persons. We may also refuse the deletion of personal data in whole or in part, in particular with reference to statutory retention obligations.
In exceptional cases, we may charge costs for the exercise of these rights. We inform data subjects of any costs in advance.
We are obliged to take appropriate measures to identify data subjects who request access or assert other rights. Data subjects are obliged to cooperate.
8.2 Legal protection
Data subjects have the right to enforce their data protection claims through the courts or to lodge a report or complaint with a data protection supervisory authority.
The data protection supervisory authority for private controllers and federal bodies in Switzerland is the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC).
9. Use of the website
9.1 Cookies
We may use cookies. Cookies — both our own cookies (first-party cookies) and cookies from third parties whose services we use (third-party cookies) — are data stored in the browser. Such stored data need not be limited to traditional cookies in text form.
Cookies may be stored in the browser temporarily as ‘session cookies’ or for a certain period as so-called permanent cookies. Session cookies are deleted automatically when the browser is closed. Permanent cookies have a defined storage period. In particular, cookies make it possible to recognise a browser on the next visit to our website and thereby, for example, measure the reach of our website. Permanent cookies may also be used for online marketing, for example.
Cookies can be fully or partially deactivated, restricted or deleted in the browser settings at any time. Browser settings often also allow automated deletion and other management of cookies. Without cookies, our website may no longer be available in full. We actively seek express consent to the use of cookies — at least where and to the extent required by applicable law.
For cookies used for performance and reach measurement or for advertising, a general opt-out is possible for numerous services via AdChoices (Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada), the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI), YourAdChoices (Digital Advertising Alliance) or Your Online Choices (European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance, EDAA).
9.2 Logging
For each access to our website and our other digital presence, we may log at least the following information, provided it is transmitted to our digital infrastructure during such access: date and time including time zone, IP address, access status (HTTP status code), operating system including user interface and version, browser including language and version, the individual sub-page of our website accessed including the amount of data transferred, and the web page last accessed in the same browser window (referrer).
We log such information, which may also constitute personal data, in log files. The information is necessary to provide our digital presence in a sustainable, user-friendly and reliable manner. It is also necessary to ensure data security — including by third parties or with the help of third parties.
9.3 Tracking pixels
We may embed tracking pixels in our digital presence. Tracking pixels are also known as web beacons. Tracking pixels — including those from third parties whose services we use — are usually small, invisible images or scripts written in JavaScript that are automatically retrieved when our digital presence is accessed. Tracking pixels can capture at least the same information as logging in log files.
10. Social media
We maintain a presence on social media platforms and other online platforms in order to communicate with interested persons and provide information about our activities and operations. In connection with such platforms, personal data may also be processed outside Switzerland.
The general terms and conditions (GTC) and terms of use as well as the privacy policies and other provisions of the individual platform operators also apply. These provisions provide information in particular about data subjects’ rights directly vis-à-vis the relevant platform, including, for example, the right of access.
11. Third-party services
We use services provided by specialised third parties in order to carry out our activities and operations in a sustainable, user-friendly, secure and reliable manner. Among other things, such services allow us to embed functions and content in our website. Where such content is embedded, the services used necessarily capture the IP addresses of users, at least temporarily, for compelling technical reasons.
For necessary security-related, statistical and technical purposes, third parties whose services we use may process data in connection with our activities and operations in aggregated, anonymised or pseudonymised form. This includes, for example, performance or usage data needed to provide the relevant service.
Digital infrastructure
We use services provided by specialised third parties to access the digital infrastructure we need for our activities and operations. These include, for example, hosting and storage services from selected providers.
In particular, we use:
- Hostpoint: Hosting; provider: Hostpoint AG (Switzerland); data protection information: privacy policy.
12. Website extensions
We use extensions for our website in order to add further functions. We may use selected services from suitable providers or run such extensions on our own digital infrastructure.
In particular, we use:
- Imagify: Image optimisation; provider: WP MEDIA (France); data protection information: Terms of Service, Frequently Asked Questions.
13. Performance and reach measurement
We try to measure the success and reach of our activities and operations. In this context, we may also measure the effect of third-party references or test how different parts or versions of our digital presence are used (‘A/B testing’). Based on the results of performance and reach measurement, we may, in particular, fix errors, strengthen popular content or make improvements.
In most cases, the IP addresses of individual users are recorded for performance and reach measurement. In this case, IP addresses are generally shortened (‘IP masking’) in order to follow the principle of data minimisation through the corresponding pseudonymisation.
Cookies may be used and user profiles created for performance and reach measurement. Any user profiles created include, for example, the individual pages visited or content viewed on our digital presence, information about screen or browser window size, and the — at least approximate — location. As a rule, any user profiles are created exclusively in pseudonymised form and are not used to identify individual users. Individual third-party services with which users are registered may be able to assign the use of our online offering to the user’s account or profile with the relevant service.
14. Final remarks on this privacy policy
We may update this privacy policy at any time. We provide information about updates in an appropriate form, in particular by publishing the current version of the privacy policy on our website.