Our pri­va­cy pol­i­cy pro­vides infor­ma­tion about the per­son­al data that we col­lect in var­i­ous ways. WMC IT Solu­tions AG (WMC) informs you about the col­lec­tion and pro­cess­ing of per­son­al data, i.e. all infor­ma­tion relat­ing to an iden­ti­fied or iden­ti­fi­able nat­ur­al per­son.

Oth­er data pro­tec­tion dec­la­ra­tions, gen­er­al terms and con­di­tions, con­di­tions of par­tic­i­pa­tion and sim­i­lar doc­u­ments may also reg­u­late spe­cif­ic cir­cum­stances. We take mea­sures to ensure com­pre­hen­sive data pro­tec­tion. These include com­pli­ance with best prac­tices, the main­te­nance of a pro­cess­ing reg­is­ter, reg­u­lar train­ing of our employ­ees on data pro­tec­tion and their oblig­a­tion to com­ply with the pro­vi­sions. We also check our ser­vice providers care­ful­ly and con­clude pro­cess­ing con­tracts with them, bind them to con­fi­den­tial­i­ty oblig­a­tions and obtain the nec­es­sary assurances.

1. respon­si­ble per­son
The com­pa­ny men­tioned at the begin­ning is respon­si­ble for the data pro­cess­ing described here with­in the mean­ing of the Swiss Fed­er­al Act on Data Pro­tec­tion (FADP). If you have any ques­tions or con­cerns regard­ing data pro­tec­tion and the exer­cise of your rights, please con­tact this office.

2. pur­pose of data pro­cess­ing
We obtain and process the per­son­al data that we receive in the course of our busi­ness activ­i­ties, in par­tic­u­lar from vis­i­tors, inter­est­ed par­ties, cus­tomers, appli­cants, busi­ness part­ners and oth­er per­sons involved, or that is col­lect­ed dur­ing the oper­a­tion of our web­sites. If you pro­vide us with infor­ma­tion about oth­er per­sons, please ensure that these per­sons have been informed in advance and that the data pro­vid­ed is cor­rect. The per­son­al data obtained will be used for the pro­vi­sion of our ser­vices and offers. Sub­con­trac­tors may also be used for this pur­pose.
Web­sites and online offers
We use web­sites and oth­er online media to pro­vide our ser­vices and to mar­ket our offers. When you access our web­site, we col­lect usage data. In some cas­es, this also includes con­tact data and data on your inter­ests.
Mar­ket­ing
We process your con­tact data for mar­ket­ing pur­pos­es in rela­tion to our prod­ucts and ser­vices such as mail­ings, com­pe­ti­tions, events, new prod­ucts, per­son­alised adver­tis­ing based on your cus­tomer pro­file and newslet­ters.
Newslet­ter
Als Inter­essent, Kunde oder poten­zieller Kunde auch erfassen wir Ihre Kon­tak­t­dat­en, um Ihnen Infor­ma­tio­nen mit­tels Newslet­ter über unsere Pro­duk­te, Dien­stleis­tun­gen und Ver­anstal­tun­gen zuzusenden. Wenn Sie keine Newslet­ter mehr erhal­ten oder über andere Kanäle informiert wer­den möcht­en, kön­nen Sie sich über den Link in unserem E‑Mail-Newslet­ter abmelden oder uns über fol­gende E‑Mail-Adresse kon­tak­tieren: info@wmc.ch.
Appli­ca­tions
In the case of appli­ca­tions, we process the per­son­al data pro­vid­ed by you as part of and for the pur­pose of the appli­ca­tion process. The data will only be passed on with­in the com­pa­ny to the respon­si­ble par­ties involved.

3. web­site, social media and cook­ies
Usage data is col­lect­ed via the web­site and auto­mat­i­cal­ly stored in so-called serv­er logs, which your brows­er auto­mat­i­cal­ly trans­mits to us. This data can­not be assigned by us to spe­cif­ic per­sons. This data is not merged with oth­er data sources. How­ev­er, we reserve the right to check this data ret­ro­spec­tive­ly if there are con­crete indi­ca­tions of unlaw­ful use of the web­site. For secu­ri­ty rea­sons and to pro­tect the trans­mis­sion of con­fi­den­tial con­tent that you send to us as the web­site oper­a­tor, this web­site uses SSL/TLS encryp­tion. The web­site may con­tain links to oth­er web­sites that are beyond our con­trol. They are there­fore not cov­ered by this pri­va­cy pol­i­cy. If you use these links and access oth­er web­sites, the oper­a­tors of these web­sites may col­lect infor­ma­tion about you.
Cook­ies and oth­er track­ing tech­nolo­gies
As a rule, we do not use cook­ies and sim­i­lar tech­nolo­gies on our web­sites to iden­ti­fy your brows­er or device. A cook­ie is a small file that is auto­mat­i­cal­ly sent to your com­put­er or stored on your com­put­er or mobile device by the web brows­er you use when you vis­it our web­site. If you vis­it this web­site again, we can recog­nise you, even if we do not know who you are. In addi­tion to cook­ies that are only used dur­ing a ses­sion and are delet­ed after vis­it­ing the web­site («ses­sion cook­ies»), cook­ies can also be used to store user set­tings and oth­er infor­ma­tion for a cer­tain peri­od of time («per­ma­nent cook­ies»), such as lan­guage set­tings. How­ev­er, you can set your brows­er to reject cook­ies, save them for one ses­sion only or oth­er­wise delete them pre­ma­ture­ly. Most browsers are set to accept cook­ies. If you block cook­ies, the lan­guage selec­tion, shop­ping bas­ket or order process may no longer func­tion cor­rect­ly. If you do not wish this to hap­pen, you must set your brows­er or e‑mail pro­gramme accord­ing­ly.
Social media includ­ing plu­g­ins and pix­els
We are present on social net­works and oth­er plat­forms. These are oper­at­ed by third par­ties and process data about you in this con­text. You can con­tact us via these plat­forms and we receive data such as sta­tis­tics from these plat­forms. The providers of the plat­forms can analyse your use and use the data about you for their own pur­pos­es such as mar­ket­ing and mar­ket research. The providers of the plat­forms act as inde­pen­dent con­trollers in this regard. We also use plu­g­ins or pix­els from social net­works such as Face­book, YouTube, LinkedIn and Insta­gram on our web­sites. The plu­g­ins are recog­nis­able to you. If they are acti­vat­ed, the oper­a­tors of the respec­tive social net­works can reg­is­ter that you are vis­it­ing our web­site. When pix­el tech­nolo­gies are used, cor­re­spond­ing codes are imple­ment­ed on our web­site that enable your usage data to be trans­mit­ted. These are used to mea­sure the reach of our social media cam­paigns. The pro­cess­ing of your per­son­al data is the respon­si­bil­i­ty of the respec­tive oper­a­tor — many of them abroad — in accor­dance with their data pro­tec­tion reg­u­la­tions.
Con­tact form
If you send us enquiries via the con­tact form, we store this infor­ma­tion, togeth­er with the con­tact details you pro­vide, in order to con­tact you to process your enquiry.
Google Ana­lyt­ics and oth­er sta­tis­tics ser­vices
We use Google Ana­lyt­ics or sim­i­lar ser­vices on our web­sites. These are third-par­ty ser­vices that may be locat­ed in any coun­try in the world. In the case of Google Ana­lyt­ics, this is Google Ire­land (based in Ire­land), which uses Google LLC (based in the USA) as a proces­sor (togeth­er «Google») (http://www.google.com). These ser­vices enable us to mea­sure and analyse the use of the web­site (not on a per­son­al basis). Per­ma­nent cook­ies are also used for this pur­pose, which are set by the ser­vice providers. They use Google Ana­lyt­ics with acti­vat­ed IP anonymi­sa­tion, which short­ens the IP address before it is trans­mit­ted to the USA in order to pre­vent it from being traced. In the case of the infor­ma­tion that we share with Google and that does not con­sti­tute per­son­al data for us, there is a pos­si­bil­i­ty that Google may use this data to draw con­clu­sions about the iden­ti­ty of vis­i­tors, cre­ate such pro­files and link data to the Google accounts of these per­sons.
Fonts
Our web­sites use so-called fonts from Google or oth­er providers to ensure the uni­form dis­play of fonts. When you call up the page, your brows­er loads the required fonts into the brows­er cache in order to dis­play the texts and fonts cor­rect­ly. To pro­tect your pri­va­cy, the fonts are installed on our own web serv­er as far as pos­si­ble so that your IP address is not passed on to oth­er ser­vice providers when the fonts are loaded. When using cer­tain ser­vices, such as Maps or Captcha, fonts from these ser­vice providers may be used. If your brows­er does not sup­port exter­nal fonts, a stan­dard font from your com­put­er will be used auto­mat­i­cal­ly.
Google, Adobe, and oth­er tag man­agers
The Google Tag Man­ag­er, Adobe Audi­ence and Tag Man­ag­er are tools with which we man­age so-called web­site tags via an inter­face, e.g. Google Ana­lyt­ics. The Tag Man­ag­er itself, which gen­er­ates the tags, does not usu­al­ly process any per­son­al user data. How­ev­er, usage data is trans­mit­ted to Google. The respec­tive provider will inform you about the pro­cess­ing of per­son­al data. Google Maps or oth­er map ser­vices This web­site uses the map ser­vice Google Maps or sim­i­lar map ser­vices. In order to use them, it is nec­es­sary for usage data to be trans­mit­ted. This data is gen­er­al­ly trans­mit­ted to a serv­er of the provider and stored there. We have no influ­ence on this data trans­mis­sion and the fur­ther pro­cess­ing of the data by the provider.

4. ori­gin of per­son­al data
The data that we process orig­i­nates from you in con­nec­tion with the pro­vi­sion of our ser­vices, the use of our web­site or com­mu­ni­ca­tion with us. If you con­clude con­tracts with us or use our ser­vices, you will pro­vide us with cer­tain data. The dis­clo­sure of data may also be jus­ti­fied in order to ful­fil legal oblig­a­tions. How­ev­er, you are free to pro­vide us with data about your­self. We may obtain data from pub­licly acces­si­ble sources such as web­sites, asso­ci­a­tions, busi­ness direc­to­ries, tele­phone direc­to­ries and the like.

5. data trans­fer
Out­side the scope of our busi­ness activ­i­ties and in accor­dance with the stat­ed pur­pos­es, we will not share infor­ma­tion with third par­ties or trans­fer it abroad

6 Reten­tion peri­od of per­son­al data
We process and store your per­son­al data for as long as is nec­es­sary for the ful­fil­ment of our con­trac­tu­al and legal oblig­a­tions or oth­er­wise for the pur­pos­es pur­sued with the pro­cess­ing. For exam­ple, for the dura­tion of the entire busi­ness rela­tion­ship — from the ini­tial con­tact to the pro­cess­ing and ter­mi­na­tion of a con­tract — and beyond that in accor­dance with the statu­to­ry reten­tion oblig­a­tions. It is pos­si­ble that per­son­al data may be stored for the peri­od dur­ing which claims can be assert­ed against our com­pa­ny and inso­far as we are oth­er­wise legal­ly oblig­ed to do so. Oth­er busi­ness inter­ests may also require this (e.g. for evi­dence and doc­u­men­ta­tion purposes).

7. data secu­ri­ty
We take appro­pri­ate tech­ni­cal and organ­i­sa­tion­al secu­ri­ty pre­cau­tions to pro­tect all cus­tomer data, in par­tic­u­lar your per­son­al data. In doing so, we take into account the state of the art, the risk of pro­cess­ing, the invest­ment costs and, in addi­tion to the Swiss Data Pro­tec­tion Act, are guid­ed by the Data Pro­tec­tion Ordi­nance. The mea­sures serve to pre­vent pos­si­ble breach­es, such as unau­tho­rised access and mis­use of data. We also instruct any proces­sors to whom we pass on data on a fidu­cia­ry basis to take appro­pri­ate tech­ni­cal and organ­i­sa­tion­al secu­ri­ty pre­cau­tions.
Con­tact by e‑mail
Com­mu­ni­ca­tion via email is gen­er­al­ly not encrypt­ed. There is a pos­si­bil­i­ty that data may be lost or inter­cept­ed and/or manip­u­lat­ed by third par­ties, for exam­ple in order to feign authen­tic­i­ty. We take appro­pri­ate tech­ni­cal and organ­i­sa­tion­al secu­ri­ty mea­sures to pre­vent this from hap­pen­ing. The con­fi­den­tial­i­ty of data can nev­er be guar­an­teed when trans­mit­ting any data by e‑mail. This note applies in par­tic­u­lar to the trans­mis­sion of par­tic­u­lar­ly sen­si­tive per­son­al data; please do not send us this data by e‑mail. Agree with us on the exchange of such data via a secure chan­nel. Exter­nal access devices (PCs, smart­phones, etc. of end users) and parts of the infra­struc­ture involved in the trans­mis­sion between the sender and recip­i­ent are out­side the area under our con­trol, e.g. Microsoft 365. We are not liable for con­se­quences and dam­ages that may result from the elec­tron­ic exchange of infor­ma­tion and in par­tic­u­lar from mis­use of the e‑mail sys­tem. We reserve the right to indem­ni­fy and hold our­selves harm­less for any wil­ful dam­age aris­ing from busi­ness trans­ac­tions with the per­son con­cerned via the elec­tron­ic exchange of infor­ma­tion. We reserve the right not to reply by e‑mail in indi­vid­ual cas­es or to request or use a dif­fer­ent form for orders, instruc­tions or infor­ma­tion received by e‑mail.

8 Rights of data sub­jects
As a data sub­ject, you have the rights pro­vid­ed for by law in con­nec­tion with data pro­cess­ing. This applies in par­tic­u­lar to the right to request infor­ma­tion about the way we process data, to have incor­rect data cor­rect­ed or to object to data pro­cess­ing, in par­tic­u­lar for direct mar­ket­ing pur­pos­es. You may also request the era­sure of data and the dis­clo­sure of cer­tain per­son­al data or its trans­fer to oth­er con­trollers.
How­ev­er, we reserve the right to assert legal restric­tions, for exam­ple if we are oblig­ed to store or process cer­tain data, have a legit­i­mate inter­est in doing so or require the data to assert legal claims. Please note that the exer­cise of these rights may con­flict with con­trac­tu­al agree­ments and may have con­se­quences such as pre­ma­ture can­cel­la­tion of the con­tract or cost con­se­quences. We will always inform you in such a case, unless this is already con­trac­tu­al­ly reg­u­lat­ed.
The exer­cise of these rights gen­er­al­ly requires that you clear­ly prove your iden­ti­ty, if nec­es­sary by sub­mit­ting a copy of an offi­cial doc­u­ment. To assert your rights, you can con­tact our com­pa­ny and every data sub­ject also has the right to assert their claims in court or to con­tact the com­pe­tent data pro­tec­tion author­i­ty (https://www.edoeb.admin.ch).

25 August 2023