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Privacy statement

1. Legal basis

1.1. The EU General Data Protection Regulation provides protection of personal data. We exclusively process your data in accordance with the legal provisions (GDPR).

2. Basic information

2.1. Responsible party:

Sigrist-Photometer AG
Hofurlistrasse 1
CH-6373 Ennetbürgen
Telephone: +41 41 624 54 45
E-mail: [email protected]

2.2. Data protection officer:

Sigrist-Photometer AG
Hofurlistrasse 1
CH-6373 Ennetbürgen
Telephone: +41 41 624 54 45
E-mail: [email protected]

2.3. It is our particular concern that we protect and safely store all your personal data entrusted to us. This document provides more information on how we use and process personal data.

3. Purpose, legal basis, storage period and data recipient

3.1. The personal data collected by Sigrist-Photometer AG are needed for the purposes of customer service and promotion. In addition, we analyse the usage patterns of visitors browsing the website for the purpose of personalisation and demand specific preparation of information. The data are collected, stored, processed and used for these purposes.

3.2. Sigrist-Photometer AG collects, processes and uses your personal data on the legal basis of Art. 6 (1) GDPR. The legal basis for the processing of your personal data are, on the one hand, legitimate interests in accordance with Art 6 (1) (f) GDPR and, on the other hand, your consent to the processing of your relevant personal data in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (a) (newsletter, contact form and cookies). Not providing the data may have various consequences.

3.3. Sigrist-Photometer AG processes your personal data, as far as necessary, for the duration of the entire business relationship (from initiation, handling until expiration of a contract) and, exceeding that, in accordance with the legal safekeeping and documentation obligations accruing from Swiss laws and until a possible legal dispute is ended, continual warranty and guarantee periods expire.

3.4. In the course of operating our website and analysing the usage patterns or visitors browsing our website, we assign processors, i.e. software and hosting service suppliers as well as agencies, which may access your personal data in the course of their work as far as these data are necessary for rendering their respective services. They have committed themselves to us to comply with the data protection provisions. Processing contracts in accordance with Art. 28 GDPR have been concluded. More detailed information concerning the processors can be requested at [email protected].

4. Contact form (pending)

4.1. Your information and personal data given in our contact form is transmitted to us, processed and stored by us via our own mail server for the purpose of processing your enquiry. These data are not collected or passed on without your consent. However, without these data, your enquiry cannot be processed.

4.2. Data processing is carried out in accordance with the legal requirements of Art. 6 (1) (a) (Consent) GDPR.

5. Newsletter

5.1. You can register for our newsletter on our website following a double opt-in process. After your registration, you will receive an e-mail requesting your confirmation of registration. Without your e-mail address, our newsletter cannot be transmitted. You can unsubscribe our newsletter at any time by activating the unsubscribe-link at the end of each newsletter.

5.2. For forwarding our newsletters, we assign a processor (newsletter service provider), who in turn committed themselves to us to comply with the relevant data protection provisions. A processor contract in accordance with Art. 28 GDPR has been concluded. More detailed information concerning the processors can be requested at [email protected].

5.3. Data processing is carried out in accordance with the legal requirements of Art. 6 (1) (a) (Consent) GDPR. You can find detailed information on our newsletter privacy statement here.

6. Google Analytics and cookies

6.1. This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis supplier of Google Inc. (»Google«), 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Google Analytics uses »cookies« which are text files that are saved on your computer to help t analyse how you use the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website (including your IP-address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the USA. The IP-address transmitted by your browser within Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data. Google will use this information on behalf of the website operator for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activities for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. If necessary, Google will transmit this information to third parties provided this is prescribed by law or if third parties process there data on behalf of Google. Our legitimate interest in the processing of data lies in these purposes. The use of Google Analytics is governed by § 15 (3) TMA or Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR.

6.2. By using our website, you consent to our using cookies. You may refuse the acceptance of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser software. As to the details, please refer to the instructions provided by the supplier of your browser. The full functionality of this website may be restricted if you decide against certain technical and/or functional cookies. Some cookies remain stored on your terminal device until you delete them.

6.3. We have concluded a corresponding contract for data processing with the web analysis provider (»Google«), who committed themselves to us to comply with the valid data protection regulations. Detailed information on the processor can be requested at [email protected].

6.4. Your IP address will be recorded but immediately pseudonymized. By using the code extension, the last 8 bits of the IP addresses will be deleted and thus anonymized. Accordingly, only a rough localization is now possible.

6.5. Data processing is carried out in accordance with the legal requirements of Art. 6 GDPR (in particular consent). You can find detailed data protection information on Google Analytics here.

7. Consent and withdrawal of consent

7.1. If your consent is necessary for processing your data, we will only process said data after your express consent.

7.2. We do not process data of minors and we are not entitled to do so. By giving your consent, you also acknowledge that you have reached the age of 14 or that your legal representatives have given their consent.

7.3. You can withdraw your consent at any time at the following e-mail address: [email protected]. In such a case, all your data stored will be anonymised and further used for statistical purposes only without personal references. Withdrawal of consent does not affect the legality of data processing carried out as a result of the consent until said consent was withdrawn.

8. Data security

8.1. Sigrist-Photometer AG will take technical and organisational safety measures for safeguarding stored personal data against accidental or deliberate manipulation, loss or destruction and against the access of unauthorised persons. Our safety measures are continually improved in accordance with technical progress.

9. Your rights

9.1. 9.1. You have the right to be informed about your stored personal data at any time. Provided there is no legal retention period, you have the right to have your data deleted as well as to oppose its being processed. Moreover, you have the right to have your data corrected as well as to have its processing restricted, to the transferability of said data as well as to complain before the Swiss data protection authority (https://www.edoeb.admin.ch/edoeb/en/home.html).

9.2. As regards your rights, please contact us at [email protected] or write to us at:

Sigrist-Photometer AG
Datenschutz
Hofurlistrasse 1
CH-6373 Ennetbürgen

Privacy statement Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Inc. (»Google«), 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. This use is governed by Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR.

Google Analytics uses »cookies« which are text files that are saved on your computer to help the website analyse how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the USA.

Sigrist-Photometer AG activated the IP-anonymization of this website. Accordingly, Google will shorten your IP-address within the member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the European Economic Area beforehand. Only in exceptional cases will the complete IP address be transmitted to the Google server in the USA and shortened there. The IP address transmitted by your browser within Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.

Google will use this information on behalf of the website operator for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activities for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Our legitimate interest in the processing of data lies in these purposes. The use of Google Analytics is governed by § 15 (3) TMG or Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR.

The data transmitted by us and linked with cookies, user identification (e.g. user ID) or advertising ID are automatically deleted after 14 months. The deletion of data reaching the end of their storage period is carried out automatically once month. You can find further information on conditions of use and privacy on https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/gb.html or on https://policies.google.com/?hl=en.

You may refuse the storage of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser software; however, please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. You can prevent the collection of the data generated by the cookie and relating to your use of the website (including your IP address) and the processing of these data by Google by downloading and installing the browser add-on available under the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en-GB

As an alternative to the browser add-on, especially for browsers on mobile devices, you can further prevent the collection by Google Analytics: an opt-out cookie is set preventing the futures collection of your data when visiting this website. This opt-out cookie works only in this browser and only for our website and is stored on your device. If you delete the cookies in this browser, you will have to re-set the opt-out cookies. Information on embedding the opt-out cookie can be found on: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/gajs/?hl=de#disable in the paragraph »Disabling Tracking«.

If necessary, Sigrist-Photometer AG will implement other Google services to individualize advertisements (Google DoubleClick, Google Dynamic Re-Marketing, Google Tag Manager) or to compile conversion statistics (Google AdWords Conversion). If you do not want this, you can deactivate it with the following link: https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated

Further information:

• Google privacy policy:
  https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en
• Data privacy and security of Google Analytics:
  https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en
• Google advertising:
  https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads?hl=en
• Google ads:
  https://support.google.com/ads/answer/1634057
• Conversion tracking:
  https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/1722022?hl=en

Privacy statement Sigrist Newsletter

Sigrist-Photometer AG, Hofurlistrasse 1, 6373 Ennetbürgen, Switzerland (hereafter referred to as »Sigrist« or »we«) offer visitors browsing the Sigrist-Photometer AG website (www.sigrist.com, hereinafter referred to as »website«) a free subscription of the Sigrist newsletter (hereinafter referred to as »newsletter«).

In the following we provide information on the processing of personal data within the newsletter subscription in accordance with Art. 13 and Art. 14 of the General Data Protection Regulation (»GDPR«).

You can obtain further information on the processing of personal data within the website on the Privacy statement on the Sigrist website.

A. Name and contact of responsible party

The party responsible for the newsletter:

Sigrist-Photometer AG
Hofurlistrasse 1
CH-6373 Ennetbürgen
Telephone: +41 41 624 54 45
E-mail: [email protected]

B. Contact information of our data protection officer

You can reach our data protection officer under the following contact information:

Sigrist-Photometer AG
Hofurlistrasse 1
CH-6373 Ennetbürgen
Telephone: +41 41 624 54 45
E-mail: [email protected]

C. Categories and sources of personal data

¹ Cookies are small text files with information, which are saved on the terminal deviec of the user when they visit a website. In case of further accessing the website with the same terminal device, the cookie and the information stored therein can be accessed.

D. Purpose and legal basis of processing personal data

We process the categories of personal data listed in Chapter C on the legal basis of Art. 6 (1) GDPR for the following purposes:

E. Recipients obtaining personal data

For the purposes described in Chapter D, we disclose personal data to the following service providers or categories of service provider:

• Newsletter service provider (simultaneously hosting service provider); for sending our newsletter, we assign a processor. They have committed themselves to us to comply with the valid data protection provisions. A processing contract in accordance with Art. 28 GDPR was concluded. More detailed information concerning the processors can be requested at [email protected].
• Sigrist-Photometer AG (also see Chapter A).

F. The period for which the personal data will be stored

The period for which personal data are stored is shown in the following table:

G. Necessity or obligation to provide personal data and possible consequences of failure to provide such data

Providing the following personal data are required / compulsory by law or contract or necessary for the conclusion of a contract:

H. Rights of the data subject

Data access, correction, erasure, restriction and portability

As regards the processing of personal data, you have the following rights:

• To obtain access to your personal data in accordance with Art. 15 GDPR,
• To obtain corection of your personal data in accordance with Art. 16 GDPR,
• To obtain erasure of your personal data in accordance whit Art. 17 GDPR,
• To obtain restriction of processing of your personal data in accordance with Art. 18 GDPR,
• The right to data portability in accordance with Art. 20 GDPR.

Right to object

You have the right to object in accordance with Art. 21 GDPR, on grounds relating to your particular situation, at any time, to the processing of personal data concerning you which is based on Art. 6 (f) GDPR (see Chapter D).

If personal data are processed for direct marketing purposes (see Chapter D), you shall have the right to object at any time to processing of personal data concerning you her for such marketing.

Right to revoke consent

If the processing is based on Art. 6 (1) (a) or Art. 9 (2) (a) GDPR (see Chapter D), you have the right to revoke your consent at any time without affecting the legality of the processing carried out as a result of the consent until said consent was withdrawn.

Right of complaint at the supervisory authority

You have the right to lodge a complaint at a supervisory authority in accordance with Art. 57 (1) (f) GDPR.

State: 24th May, 2018