Privacy Policy

The protection of your personal data and your privacy is important to us. Accordingly, it is a matter of course for us to comply with the legal requirements of the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection (DSG), the Ordinance to the Federal Act on Data Protection (VDSG), the Swiss Telecommunications Act (FMG) and other provisions on data protection which might be applicable, in particular the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

In the Privacy Notice below, we inform you about the claims and rights under data protection laws to which you are entitled and about the most important aspects of data processing performed in our company. This Privacy Notice covers the collection of personal data both in the online and offline area.

If you have any questions on our data protection, please contact: datenschutz@orellfuessli.com

Orell Füssli AG
Dietzingerstrasse 3
8036 Zurich
Schwitzerland
Telephone: +41 (0) 44 466 77 11
Fax: +41 (0) 44 466 79 01
Email: Datenschutz@orellfuessli.com
Website: www.orellfuessli.com  
 

The GDPR defines personal data as “data/information relating to identified or identifiable natural persons”. Online identification characteristics such as IP addresses are considered personal data, unless such were rendered anonymous.

We collect, process and use your personal data for the following purposes:

Whenever you visit our website, our servers will temporarily store the following data in a protocol file, the so-called server logfiles.

•    IP address of the requesting computer;
•    date and time of the access / retrieval;
•    name and URL of the retrieved data and contents of the request (concrete page);
•    website from which the access is made (Referrer URL);
•    browser type used and the operating system of your computer as well as the name of your internet access provider;
•    access status / HTTP status code;
•    respective data quantity transmitted.

You may contact us by using a contact form on our website and/or by sending an email. In such case, any information you provide us will be processed for the purpose of handling your inquiry.

If you wish to contact us, the following information shall (* mandatorily) be required; all other information is voluntary:

•    Title*
•    First name*
•    Name*
•    Email address*
•    Phone*
•    Company name
•    Post code/Place
•    Message*

Mandatory information is required to handle your enquiry. If you provide more data on a voluntary basis, you will facilitate the handling of your inquiry and allow us to give you more detailed information.

Please do not disclose any information that you do not wish us to receive. Therefore, please refrain from sending any sensitive data by email or in the contact form.

We offer you the option to apply with us by using an online form. In this case, the information you provided will be processed to verify your application.

If you apply for a job with us, the following information is (*mandatorily) required; any other information is given voluntarily:

•    Title*
•    First name and name*
•    Date of birth*
•    Phone*
•    Post Code/Place
•    Email address*
•    Former employment*
•    Employment sought*
•    CV*

The mandatory information is required to allocate the application to you and to contact you regarding your application and to verify the prospects of your application.

The personal data you transferred will be stored, assessed, processed or forwarded internally exclusively in the context of your application. In addition, it can be processed for statistical purposes (e.g. reporting) No conclusions can be drawn to individual persons in this case.

We process inventory and contract data of our customers, interested parties and contract partners for the purpose of fulfilling our contractual and pre-contractual obligations. This includes generally the inventory and master data (e.g. name, address, etc.), the contact data (e.g. email address, phone number, etc.). The data processed in this process, the type, scope and purpose and necessity of their processing depend on the underlying contractual relationship.

We keep your personal data generally in confidence and will only disclose them after you have given your explicit consent, if we are obliged by law or for as long as it is necessary to enforce claims under the contractual relationship. Furthermore, we will disclose your personal data to third parties insofar as that is necessary or appropriate for using the website or for rendering any services requested by you or if a processing relationship applies. The legal provisions on the disclosure of personal data to third parties will naturally be complied with.

If we engage processors to render our services, we take appropriate legal precautions and technical or organisational measures to ensure the protection of your personal data pursuant to the applicable legal provisions. If the data protection level in any country in which the data is being processed fails to comply with the applicable data protection provisions, we ensure in contracts that the protection of your personal data is in line with that applicable in Switzerland or the European Economic Area (EEA), at any time.

We process and store your personal data only for as long as that is necessary for fulfilling our contractual and legal obligations or for other purposes pursued by the processing and beyond that pursuant to the statutory retention periods. As soon as your personal data are no longer necessary for the above-mentioned purposes or if a prescribed retention period expires, your personal data will generally be erased or blocked, as far as possible.

Our website uses so-called cookies. Cookies are small text files which the browser will place and store on your end device. If you call up a website, a cookie can be stored on your operating system. This cookie contains a characteristic string allowing for a unique identification of the browser if the website is visited again.

Session / Temporary Cookies
We use session cookies. They store a so-called session ID, by which various requests from your browser can be assigned to the web session. This will allow your computer to be recognised if you return to the website. Session cookies will automatically be erased as soon as you log out or close your browser.

Persistent / Permanent Cookies
In addition, we use persistent cookies which are used on your computer beyond the relevant usage process. These cookies will automatically be erased after a set period of time, which may differ depending on the cookie. We use persistent cookies for analysis purposes (see “Google Analytics”).

Most internet browsers accept cookies automatically. If you do not want this to happen, you can set your browser settings that you are informed about the placing of cookies and only allow them to be used in individual cases or you may exclude them in general. You may also active the automatic erasure of cookies when you close the browser. However, if you deactivate cookies, you might not be able to use all functions of our website.

We use Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Inc. («Google»), 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA, on the basis of our legitimate interest. Google uses cookies which are stored on your computer that allow for the analysis of your use of the website. That enables us to assess the usage behaviour on our websites and to make our offer more interesting on the basis of the statistics obtained.

The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transferred to Google in the USA and stored there.

Google is certified under the EU-US and Swiss-US Privacy-Shield Treaties and thus offers a guarantee for compliance with the European and Swiss data protection laws. For more information on this topic, please visit www.privacyshield.gov/participant.

We only use Google Analytics with activated IP anonymisation. This means that your IP address is shortened by Google within member states of the European Union or other states party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area or Switzerland before it is transmitted to the US. Only in exceptional cases is the full IP address transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there.
 

We use Google Maps for presenting maps of Google Inc. («Google»), 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA, on the basis of our legitimate interest to analyse, optimise and efficiently operate our online offer.

Google is certified under the EU-US and Swiss-US Privacy-Shield Treaties and thus offers a guarantee for compliance with European and Swiss data protection laws. For more information on the topic, please visit www.privacyshield.gov/participant.

This website contains contents of Google Maps. When you visit this website, data (such as e.g. your IP address) will be transferred to Google in the USA and stored there. Google stores such data as usage profiles for the purpose of a usage-based design of the services, advertising, and market research. If you are logged into Google, such data will be directly linked to your account.
 

You have the right to request information from us as to whether and which of your personal data we process.

You have the right to request the rectification of any inaccurate personal data regarding your person and, where applicable, to have incomplete personal data completed without undue delay.

You have the right to request that your personal data be erased, e.g. if the data is no longer required for the purposes pursued thereby. However, if we are obliged or entitled to retain your personal data due to legal or contractual retention duties, we may insofar only restrict or block your personal data as far as necessary in such cases.

You have the right to request that the processing of your personal data be restricted.

You might have the right to receive your personal data which we process automatically based on your consent or for fulfilling a contract in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable form and to request the transmission of such data to a third party. If you request the direct transmission of personal data to another controller, this will be done only where technically feasible.

You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data, at any time, pursuant to the legal provisions.

You have generally the right to withdraw your consent to the processing of your personal data, at any time, with effect for the future.

Insofar as the GDPR is applicable, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a competent supervisory authority if you are of the opinion that the processing of your personal data violates any data protection provisions.

Please use the contact options provided in item 1 of this Privacy Notice, if you have questions in connection with the data protection performed in our company and for information on your rights pursuant to items 8.1 to 8.8 of this section as well as for asserting these rights. If necessary, we reserve the right to request an identification for processing inquiries in a suitable manner.
 

We take technical and organisational measures to protect your personal data against manipulation, loss, destruction or against the access by unauthorised persons. The measures taken permanently protect the confidentiality and integrity of your personal data and the availability and resilience of our systems and services in the processing of your personal data. Furthermore, they ensure a quick recovery of the availability of your personal data and the access to them in case of a physical or technical incident.

Our security measures also include an encoding of your personal data. All information that you enter online will be transferred through an encoded transmission path. Therefore, such information can, at no time, be inspected by any unauthorised third parties.

Our website is intended for an adult audience. Minores, in particular, children under 16 years are prohibited from transmitting personal data to us or to have themselves registered for any services without the consent or approval of their parents or guardians. If we determine that such data was transferred to us, such will be erased. The parents (or legal guardians) of the child may contact us and request the erasure or deregistration. For that purpose, we need a copy of an official document identifying you as parent or legal guardian.

Our website may contain links to websites of other providers which are not covered by this Privacy Notice. After clicking on the link, we have no influence on the processing of any data which might be transferred to third parties (such as, e.g. the IP address or the URL) since we have naturally no control over the conduct of any third parties. We are, therefore, unable to assume any responsibility for the processing of your personal data by third parties. Insofar as the use of the websites of other providers is associated with the collection, processing, or use of your personal data, please observe the data protection notices of such providers.

We explicitly reserve the right to supplement or amend this Privacy Notice at any time. All amendments and supplements are subject to the sole discretion of the company.