Impressum & Privacy Policy

Impressum
Responsible departments within the meaning of the data protection laws, in particular the EU Data Protection Basic Regulation (DSGVO), are

Rietwies Technologies GmbH
An der Linth 1, 8783 Linthal
Switzerland

asa@rietwies-technologies.com

CHE-331.098.953

General Note
In accordance with Article 13 of the Swiss Federal Constitution and the Swiss Data Protection Act (DSG), individuals are entitled to privacy and protection against the misuse of their personal data. The operators of this website prioritize the protection of your personal information and treat it confidentially, adhering to legal data protection regulations and this privacy policy.

Together with our hosting providers, we take extensive precautions to safeguard databases from unauthorized access, loss, misuse, or tampering. However, we would like to point out that data transmission over the Internet (e.g., email communication) may have security vulnerabilities, and it is impossible to guarantee absolute protection against access by third parties.

By using this website, you consent to the collection, processing, and use of your data as described below. This website can generally be accessed without registration. Data such as pages viewed, accessed files, dates, and times may be stored on the server for statistical purposes without being directly linked to your identity. Personal data such as names, addresses, or email addresses are collected voluntarily whenever possible and will not be shared with third parties without your explicit consent.

Processing of Personal Data
Personal data refers to information that relates to an identifiable individual. A data subject is any individual whose personal data is processed. Processing encompasses all handling of personal data, regardless of the methods or tools used. This includes collection, storage, alteration, transfer, and deletion.

We process personal data in accordance with Swiss data protection laws. If the EU GDPR applies, data is processed based on the following legal principles outlined in Article 6(1) GDPR:

  • (a) With the consent of the data subject.

  • (b) To fulfill contractual obligations or pre-contractual measures.

  • (c) To comply with legal obligations.

  • (d) To protect the vital interests of the data subject or another person.

  • (f) To safeguard legitimate interests, provided they are not overridden by the fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject. Legitimate interests include operating the website, ensuring information security, and enforcing legal claims.

Personal data is processed only for as long as necessary for the relevant purpose. Extended retention periods may apply if required by law.

Privacy Policy for Cookies
This website uses cookies—small text files stored on your device—to enhance user experience. Cookies help analyze usage patterns, optimize the website, and provide a more user-friendly experience. They may remain stored after your browser session ends and be retrieved during subsequent visits. If you wish to disable cookies, adjust your browser settings accordingly.

You can also opt out of cookies used for online marketing through services like www.aboutads.info/choices (US) or www.youronlinechoices.com (EU). Be aware that disabling cookies may limit website functionality.

Our website integrates a consent management tool, Consentmanager (www.consentmanager.net), provided by Consentmanager AB, to manage user consent for cookies and other functions. This tool allows you to accept or reject specific functionalities, such as embedding external elements or personalized advertising. Settings can be adjusted later. Consentmanager processes data such as IP addresses to fulfill legal obligations (e.g., documentation). User preferences are stored for two years unless modified.

To object to data processing via Consentmanager, contact mail@consentmanager.net.

SSL/TLS Encryption
For secure data transmission, this website employs SSL/TLS encryption to protect sensitive information, such as inquiries sent to us. An encrypted connection can be identified by "https://" and a lock icon in your browser. When SSL/TLS encryption is active, transmitted data cannot be accessed by third parties.

Privacy Policy for Server Log Files
The website provider automatically collects and stores information in server log files, including:

  • Browser type and version

  • Operating system

  • Referrer URL

  • Hostname of the accessing computer

  • Time of the server request

These records are not linked to specific individuals. However, the provider reserves the right to review data if there is evidence of illegal use.

Third-Party Services
This website integrates third-party services like Google Maps, Google Invisible reCAPTCHA, and YouTube to enhance functionality. These services may involve data transfers to the USA, where Google operates under the Privacy Shield framework. More details can be found in Google's privacy policy.

  • Google Maps: Displays geographic information. Usage data may be processed by Google. Learn more in Google’s data protection guidelines.

  • Google Analytics: Tracks website usage via cookies. Data is anonymized (IP masking) to ensure privacy. For opt-out options, visit Google Analytics opt-out.

  • YouTube: Embeds videos, which may link your activity to your YouTube account if logged in. Refer to YouTube’s privacy policy.

  • Social Media Plug-Ins: Features from platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram may collect data upon interaction. Please log out of these accounts if you do not wish to share data.

This website uses Google Maps for embedding maps, Google Invisible reCAPTCHA for protection against bots and spam and YouTube for embedding videos.

These services of the American Google LLC use cookies, among other things, and as a result, data is transferred to Google in the USA, whereby we assume that in this context no personal tracking takes place solely through the use of our website.

Google is committed to ensuring an appropriate level of data protection in accordance with the American-European and the American-Swiss Privacy Shield.

Further information can be found in the privacy policy of Google.

Use of Google Maps
This website uses Google Maps API to visually display geographic information. When using Google Maps, Google also collects, processes and uses data on the use of the map functions by visitors. Further information about data processing by Google can be found at den Google-Datenschutzhinweisen. There you can also change your personal data protection settings in the data protection center.

Detailed instructions for managing your own data in connection with Google products you can find here.

Google Adwords
This website uses Google Conversion Tracking. If you have reached our website via an ad placed by Google, Google Adwords will set a cookie on your computer. The conversion tracking cookie is set when a user clicks on an ad served by Google. These cookies expire after 30 days and are not personally identifiable. If the user visits certain pages on our site and the cookie hasn't expired, we and Google can tell that the user clicked the ad and was redirected to that page. Each Google AdWords customer receives a different cookie. As a result, cookies cannot be tracked across the websites of AdWords customers. The information collected through the conversion cookie is used to compile conversion statistics for advertisers who have opted in to conversion tracking. Customers are told the total number of users who clicked on their ad and were redirected to a page with a conversion tracking tag. However, they do not receive any information that can be used to personally identify users.

If you do not wish to participate in tracking, you can refuse the necessary setting of a cookie - for example, by changing your browser settings to generally disable the automatic setting of cookies or to set your browser to block cookies from the domain "googleleadservices.com".

Please note that you are not allowed to delete the opt-out cookies as long as you do not wish to record measurement data. If you have deleted all your cookies in your browser, you will have to set the respective opt-out cookie again.

Use of Google Recaptcha
This website uses the service reCAPTCHA of Google Inc. (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; "Google"). The purpose of the query is to distinguish whether the input is made by a human being or by automated, machine processing. The query includes the sending of the IP address and any other data required by Google for the service reCAPTCHA to Google. For this purpose your input will be transmitted to Google and used there. Your IP address will, however, be shortened by Google within member states of the European Union or in other signatory states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area before it is used. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transferred to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of this service. The IP address transmitted by your browser in the context of reCaptcha is not combined with other data from Google. Your data may also be transferred to the USA. For data transmissions to the USA, an adequacy decision of the European Commission, the "Privacy Shield", is in place. Google participates in the "Privacy Shield" and has submitted to the requirements. By clicking on the query, you consent to the processing of your data. The processing is carried out on the basis of Art. 6 (1) lit. a DSGVO with your consent. You may revoke your consent at any time without affecting the lawfulness of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent until revocation.

For more information about Google reCAPTCHA and its privacy policy, please visit www.google.com/privacy/ads/

Privacy policy for Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. To deactivate Google Analytics, Google provides the following information https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de a browser plug-in is available. Google Analytics uses cookies. These are small text files which make it possible to store specific information relating to the user on the user's terminal device. These enable an analysis of the use of our website by Google. The information collected by the cookie about the use of our website (including your IP address) is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. We would like to point out that on this website Google Analytics has been extended by the code "gat._anonymizeIp();" in order to guarantee an anonymized collection of IP addresses (so-called IP-Masking). If anonymisation is active, Google will shorten IP addresses within member states of the European Union or in other states that are party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, which means that no conclusions can be drawn about your identity. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transferred to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. Google observes the data protection regulations of the "Privacy Shield" agreement and is registered with the "Privacy Shield" program of the US Department of Commerce and uses the collected information to evaluate the use of our websites, to write reports for us in this regard and to provide other relevant services to us. You can learn more at https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=de.

Google Web Fonts
This site uses so-called web fonts, which are provided by Google, for the uniform display of fonts. When you call up a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into its browser cache in order to display texts and fonts correctly. If your browser does not support web fonts, a default font from your computer will be used. For more information about Google Web Fonts, please visit developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in the privacy policy of Google: www.google.com/policies/privacy/

Privacy policy for Facebook
This website uses features of Facebook Inc, 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA . When you access our pages with Facebook plug-ins, a connection is established between your browser and the Facebook servers. Data is already being transferred to Facebook in the process. If you have a Facebook account, this data can be linked to it. If you do not want this data to be linked to your Facebook account, please log out of Facebook before visiting our site. Interactions, in particular the use of a comment function or clicking a "Like" or "Share" button are also passed on to Facebook. You can find out more at https://de-de.facebook.com/about/privacy.

Privacy policy for Twitter
This website uses features of Twitter, Inc, 1355 Market St, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA. When you access our pages with Twitter plug-ins, a connection is established between your browser and the servers of Twitter. Data is already being transferred to Twitter. If you have a Twitter account, this data can be linked to it. If you do not want this data to be linked to your Twitter account, please log out of Twitter before visiting our site. Interactions, especially clicking a "Re-Tweet" button, are also transmitted to Twitter. You can find out more at https://twitter.com/privacy. 

Privacy Policy for Instagram
Functions of the Instagram service are integrated on our pages. These functions are offered by Instagram Inc, 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA integrated. If you are logged in to your Instagram account, you can link the contents of our pages to your Instagram profile by clicking the Instagram button. This allows Instagram to associate your visit to our sites with your account. We would like to point out that we, as the provider of the pages, have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its use by Instagram.

For more information, please refer to the Instagram Privacy Policy: http://instagram.com/about/legal/privacy/ 

Privacy policy for Youtube
This website uses plugins from the YouTube site operated by Google. The website is operated by YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. When you visit one of our sites equipped with a YouTube plugin, a connection to the YouTube servers is established. This tells the YouTube server which of our pages you have visited.

Wenn Sie in Ihrem YouTube-Account eingeloggt sind ermöglichen Sie YouTube, Ihr Surfverhalten direkt Ihrem persönlichen Profil zuzuordnen. Dies können Sie verhindern, indem Sie sich aus Ihrem YouTube-Account ausloggen.

For more information on the handling of user data, please see the YouTube privacy policy at: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy 

Agency services
We process the data of our customers in accordance with the data protection regulations of the Federal Republic of Germany (Data Protection Act, DSG) and the EU-DSGVO within the scope of our contractual services.

We process inventory data (e.g., customer master data, such as names or addresses), contact data (e.g., e-mail, telephone numbers), content data (e.g., text entries, etc.), contract data (e.g., subject matter of the contract, term of the contract), payment data (e.g., bank details, payment history), usage and metadata (e.g., in the context of the evaluation and performance measurement of marketing measures). Those affected include our customers, interested parties and their customers, users, website visitors or employees as well as third parties. The purpose of processing is to provide contractual services, billing and our customer service. The legal basis of the processing is derived from Art. 6 para. 1 letter b DSGVO (contractual services), Art. 6 para. 1 letter f DSGVO (analysis, statistics, optimisation, security measures). We process data which are necessary for the justification and fulfilment of the contractual services and point out the necessity of their disclosure. Disclosure to external parties is only made if it is necessary within the scope of a contract. When processing the data provided to us within the scope of an order, we act in accordance with the instructions of the client and the legal requirements of an order processing in accordance with Art. 28 DSGVO and do not process the data for any other purposes than those specified in the order.

We delete the data after expiry of legal warranty and comparable obligations. The necessity of keeping the data is checked at irregular intervals. In the case of legal archiving obligations, deletion takes place after the expiry of these obligations. In the case of data that has been disclosed to us by the client within the scope of an order, we delete the data in accordance with the requirements of the order, in principle after the end of the order.

Services subject to charges
In order to provide services that are subject to a charge, we ask for additional data, such as payment details, in order to be able to carry out your order. We store this data in our systems until the statutory retention periods have expired.

Data protection declaration for right to information, deletion, blocking
You have the right to receive information free of charge at any time about your stored personal data, its origin and recipients and the purpose of data processing, as well as the right to correct, block or delete this data. For this purpose, as well as for further questions regarding personal data, you can contact us at any time at the address given in the imprint.

Copyright
The copyrights and all other rights to content, images, photos or other files on the website belong exclusively to the operator of this website or the specifically named rights holders. For the reproduction of all files, the written consent of the copyright holder must be obtained in advance.

Anyone who commits a copyright infringement without the consent of the respective rights holder may be liable to prosecution and, at most, to damages.

General exclusion of liability
All information on our website has been carefully checked. We make every effort to ensure that the information we offer is up-to-date, correct and complete. Nevertheless, the occurrence of errors cannot be completely ruled out, which means that we cannot guarantee the completeness, correctness and topicality of information, including journalistic and editorial information. Liability claims arising from material or non-material damage caused by the use of the information provided are excluded, unless there is evidence of wilful intent or gross negligence.

The publisher may change or delete texts at his own discretion and without prior notice and is not obliged to update the contents of this website. The use or access to this website is at the visitor's own risk. The publisher, its clients or partners are not responsible for damages, such as direct, indirect, accidental, pre-determined concrete or consequential damages, which are allegedly caused by visiting this website and therefore do not assume any liability for them.

The publisher also assumes no responsibility or liability for the content and availability of third-party websites that can be accessed via external links on this website. The operators of the linked sites are solely responsible for their content. The publisher thus expressly distances itself from all third-party content which may be relevant under criminal or liability law or which is contrary to public decency.

We may change this privacy policy at any time without notice. The current version published on our website applies. If the data protection declaration is part of an agreement with you, we will inform you of the change by e-mail or other suitable means in the event of an update.

Questions to the Data Protection Officer

If you have any questions regarding data protection, please contact one of the offices responsible for data protection listed at the beginning of this data protection declaration.

Horgen, 20th January 2025