Data Protection & Privacy Policy

General Notice

This Policy outlines what happens to your personal data when you visit our website.

Personal data is any information by which you can be personally identified. Detailed information on the sub-ject of data protection is provided in this Policy.

Data Collection on our Website

Who is responsible for data collection on this website?
The data processing on this website is carried out by the website operator, whose contact details are provided in the above Impressum.

How do we collect your data?
On one hand, your data is collected by your provision of it to us. This can be, for example, data that you enter in a contact form.

Other data is collected automatically by our IT systems when you visit our website. This is mainly technical data (e.g. Internet browser, operating system or time of page view). Such data is collected automatically as soon as you enter our website.

What do we use your data for?
Part of the data is collected to ensure error-free provision of the website. Other data may be used to analyze your user behavior.

What rights do you have regarding your data?
At any time, you have the right to receive information free of charge about the origin, recipient, and purpose of your stored personal data. You also have the right to request the cor-rection, blocking, or deletion of this data. For this purpose, as well as for further questions on the subject of data protection, you may contact us at any time at the address given in the Impressum. Furthermore, you have the right to lodge a com-plaint with the responsible supervisory authority.

Third Party Analytics and Tools
When visiting our website, your surfing behavior can be statistically evaluated. This is done primarily with cook-ies and so-called analytic programs. The analysis of your surfing behavior is usually anonymous; the surfing beha-vior cannot be traced back to you. You are entitled to object to or prevent this analysis by blocking certain tools. In this Policy you can find detailed information on blocking.

You are entitled object to this analysis. This Policy informs you about the objection options.

General Instructions and Mandatory Information

Data Protection

The operators of our website take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your per-sonal data confidentially and in accordance with the statutory data protection regulations and this Privacy Policy.

When you use our website, various personal data is collected. Personal data is data with which you can be personally identified. This Privacy Policy explains what data we collect and how we use it. It also explains how and for what purpose this is done.
We would like to point out that data transmission on the Internet (e.g. when communicating by email) can have security gaps. Therefore, it is impossible to com-pletely protect data from access by third parties.

Revoking Your Consent to Data Processing

Many data processing operations are only possible with your express consent. At any time, you may revoke an already given consent. For this purpose, your informal communication to us by email is sufficient. The legal data processing conducted up to the time of the revocation is unaffected by the revocation.
Right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority
In the event of violations of data protection law, the data subject has the right of appeal to the competent supervi-sory authority. The competent supervisory authority for data protection issues is the data protection officer of the country or canton in which our company is based.

Right to Data Portability

You are entitled to obtain the data that we process auto-matically on the basis of your consent or in fulfillment of a contract handed over to you or to a third party in a com-mon, machine-readable format. If you request the direct transfer of the data to another controller, this will only be done insofar as it is technically feasible.

SSL or TLS Encryption

For security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as orders or requests that you send to us as the site operator, this site uses SSL or TLS encryption. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the fact that the address line of the browser changes from "http://" to "https://" and by the lock symbol in your browser line. If SSL or TLS encryption is activated, the data you transmit to us cannot be read by third par-ties.

Information, Blocking, Deletion

Within the scope of the applicable legal provisions, you currently have the right to free information about your stored personal data, its origin, recipient, purpose, and, if applicable, the right to correct, block, or delete this data. For this purpose, as well as for further questions on the subject of personal data, contact us at the address given in the Impressum.

Objection to Promotional Emails

Contact data published within the scope of this Impres-sum and its protection and privacy obligation may not be used for the transmission of unrequested advertising and other unrequested information. The operators of the website expressly reserve the right to take legal action in the event of the unsolicited sending of advertising information, such as spam emails.

Data Collection on our Website

Cookies

Our Internet pages partly use so-called cookies. Cookies do not cause any damage to your computer and do not con-tain viruses. Cookies serve to make our offer more user-friendly, more effective, and safer. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and saved by your browser.

Most of the cookies we use are so-called "session cookies." These are automatically deleted after the end of your visit. Other kinds of cookies are stored on your terminal device until you delete them. These cookies allow us to recognize your browser on your next visit.

You can set your browser to inform you about cookie settings, to allow cookies only in individual cases, to exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases, or to activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing your browser. When cookies are deactivated, the func-tionality of this website may be limited.

Cookies that are required to carry out the electronic communication process or to provide certain functions you have requested (e.g. shopping cart function) are stored on the basis of Art. 6 (1) lit. f DSGVO. The website operator has a legitimate interest in storing cookies for the technically error-free and optimized provision of its services. Insofar as other cookies (e.g. cookies for analyzing your browsing behavior) are stored, these are treat-ed separately in this Privacy Policy.

Server Log-In Data

The website provider automatically collects and stores information in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically transmits to us. This information includes:

• Browser type and browser version
• Operating system in use
• Referrer URL (previously visited web page)
• Host name of the connecting computer
• Date and time of the server request
• IP address
• Name of the page/file retrieved
• Volume of data

The provider uses the log data only for statistical eval-uations for the purposes of operation, security, and opti-mization of the offer. The provider reserves the right to check the log data retrospectively if there is a justified suspicion of unlawful use due to specific circumstances.

This data is not merged with other data sources.

The basis for the data processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b DSGVO, which permits the processing of data for the fulfill-ment of a contract or pre-contractual measures.

Contact Form

If you send us enquiries via the contact form, your data from the inquiry form, including the contact data you provide there, will be stored by us for the purpose of processing your inquiry and in case of follow-up questions. We do not pass on this data without your consent.

The processing of the data entered in the contact form is therefore based exclusively on your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO). You can revoke this consent at any time. For this purpose, an informal communication by email to us is sufficient. The legality of the data processing con-ducted up to the time of the revocation is unaffected by the revocation.

The data you enter in the contact form will remain with us until you request us to delete it or revoke your consent to store it. Mandatory legal provision—in particular, re-tention periods—remain unaffected.

Analytic Tools and Advertising

Google Analytics

This website uses functions of the web analysis service Google Analytics. The provider is Google Inc, 1600 Amphi-theatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

Google Analytics uses so-called "cookies." These are text files that are stored on your computer and enable an ana-lysis of your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. The storage of Google analytics cookies is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO. The website operator has a legitimate interest in analyzing user behavior in order to optimize both its website and its advertising.

Browser Plugin

You may refuse the storage 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 this website. In addition, you may prevent the collection of data gene-rated by the cookies and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) and Google’s processing of this data by down-loading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en

Objection to Data Collection

You may also prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) and Google’s processing of this by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the follow-ing link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en

For more information on how Google Analytics handles user data, please see their privacy policy: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245

Order Processing

We have contracted with Google to process orders and fully implement the strict requirements of the data pro-tection authorities when using Google Analytics.

Google Analytics Remarketing

Our website uses the functions of Google Analytics Re-marketing in conjunction with the cross-device functions of Google Ads and Google DoubleClick. The provider is Google Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. This function makes it possible to link the advertising target groups created with Google Analytics Remarketing with the cross-device functions of Google Ads and Google DoubleClick. In this way, interest-based, perso-nalized advertising messages that have been adapted to you depending on your previous usage and surfing behavior on one end device (e.g., cell phone) can also be displayed on another of your end devices (e.g., tablet or PC).

If you have given your consent, Google will link your web and app browsing history with your Google account for this purpose. In this way, the same personalized advertising messages can be displayed on every device on which you log in to your Google account.

To support this feature, Google Analytics collects Google-authenticated user IDs that are temporarily linked to our Google Analytics data to define and create target groups for cross-device ad targeting.

You can permanently object to cross-device remarketing/ targeting by deactivating personalized advertising in your Google account; follow this link: www.google.com/settings/ads/onweb/

The aggregation of the collected data in your Google account is based exclusively on your consent, which you can give or revoke at Google (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO). For data collection processes that are not merged in your Google Account (e.g. because you do not have a Google Account or have objected to the merging), the collection of data is based on Art. 6 (1) lit. f DSGVO. The legitimate interest arises from the fact that the website operator has an interest in the anonymized analysis of website visitors for advertising purposes.

For more information and the privacy policy, please see Google's privacy policy at: www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads/

Google Ads and Google Conversion Tracking

This website uses Google Ads. Ads is an online advertising program of Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States (“Google”).

Within the scope of Google Ads, we use so-called conver-sion tracking. When you click on an ad placed by Google, a cookie is set for conversion tracking. Cookies are small text files that the Internet browser stores on the user's computer. These cookies lose their validity after 30 days and are not used to personally identify the user. If the user visits certain pages of this website and the cookie has not yet expired, Google and we can re-cognize that the user clicked on the ad and was redirect-ed to this page.

Each Google Ads customer receives a different cookie. The cookies cannot be tracked across Ads customers' websites. The information collected using the conversion cookie is used to create conversion statistics for Ads customers who have opted into conversion tracking. The clients learn the total number of users who clicked on their ad and were re-directed to a page tagged with a conversion tracking tag. However, they do not receive any information that pers-onally identifies users. If you do not wish to participate in the tracking, you can object to this use by easily deacti-vating the Google conversion tracking cookie via your inter-net browser under user settings. You will then not be included in the conversion tracking statistics.

The storage of "conversion cookies" is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO. The website operator has a legitimate interest in analyzing user behavior in order to optimize both its website and its advertising.

You can find more information about Google Ads and Google Conversion Tracking in Google's privacy policy: www.google.com/policies/privacy/

You can set your browser to inform you about cookie settings, to allow cookies only in individual cases, to exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases, or to activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing your browser. When cookies are deactivated, the func-tionality of this website may be limited.

IP Anonymization

We have activated the IP anonymization function on this website. This means that your IP address is shortened by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the Euro-pean Economic Area before being transmitted to the USA. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be trans-mitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this website, 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 data from Google.

Objection to Data Collection

You may also prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) and Google’s processing of this by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the follow-ing link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en

Job Data Processing

We have contracted with Google for data processing and fully implement the strict requirements of the data protect-ion authorities when using Google Analytics.

Demographics in Google Analytics

This website uses the "demographic characteristics" func-tion of Google Analytics. This allows reports to be crea-ted that contain information about the age, gender, and interests of visitors to the site. This data comes from interest-based advertising from Google and from visitor data from third-party providers. This data cannot be as-signed to a specific person. You can deactivate this func-tion at any time via the ad settings in your Google account or generally prohibit the collection of your data by Google Analytics as described in the section “Objection to Data Collection.”

Font Types

Google Web Fonts
This site uses so-called web fonts provided by Google for the uniform display of fonts. When you call up a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into its brow-ser cache in order to display texts and fonts correctly.

For this purpose, the browser you are using must connect to Google's servers. This enables Google to know that our web-site has been accessed via your IP address. Google Web Fonts are used in the interest of a uniform and appealing presentation of our online offers. This represents a legiti-mate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f DSGVO.

If your browser does not support web fonts, a default font is used by your computer.

For more information about Google Web Fonts, see developers.google.com/fonts/faq and Google's privacy policy: www.google.com/policies/privacy/


Policy translated from “Datenschutz” at: https://begegnungszentrum.ch/impressum-datenschutz/ (Transl. August 3, 2023)

Cf. Regional Naturpark Schaffhausen, “Datenschutz:” https://naturpark-schaffhausen.ch/de/rechtliches/datenschutz.html