Data protection

Data Protection Policy

(Enquires about data protection: office@vav-abg.ch)
We take the protection of your personal data very seriously, and we treat them in confidence and in accordance with statutory provisions. As a rule, it is possible to use our website without providing personal data.

Cookies
Our website uses cookies in order to offer you a superior user experience. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer by your browser. They do not contain any malicious code.

Hosting provider and server log files

Our website provider automatically collects and stores information in what are known as server log files, which your browser automatically transmits to us. The information includes: 

  • Your IP address
  • The type and version of your browser
  • The operating system that you are using
  • The referrer URL
  • The host name of the computer being used to access our website
  • The time of day of the server reques

These data cannot be directly attributed to a specific person, nor are they combined with other data sources. We reserve the right to examine these data at a later date if we become aware of specific indications of unlawful use. These data, and all data on this website, are stored by our hosting provider Flow Swiss AG, Zwickystrasse 7, 8304 Wallisellen, Switzerland, whose Privacy Policy can be found here.

SSL encryption
This website uses SSL encryption for reasons of security and in order to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as enquiries that you send to us as the website operator. You can tell that a connection is encrypted if your browser’s address bar changes from “http://” to “https://” and a lock symbol is displayed in your browser’s status bar. If SSL encryption is activated, the data that you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.

Google Analytics
This website uses features of the web analysis service Google Analytics. The provider is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Google Analytics uses cookies. These are text files that are stored on your computer and facilitate an analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is normally transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there.

IP anonymisation
We have activated the IP anonymisation feature on this website. As a result, your IP address is shortened by Google within the Member States of the European Union or in other states that are contracting parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area before transmitting it to the USA. Only in exceptional cases is the full IP address transferred to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. Google will use this information on behalf of the operator of this website in order to analyse your use of the website, to compile reports about website activities, and to provide the website operator with additional services associated with website use and Internet use. The IP address transferred from your browser in connection with Google Analytics is not combined with other Google data.

Browser plug-in
You can prevent the storage of cookies by configuring your browser software accordingly. However, please be aware that in such case you may not be able to use all features of this website to their full extent. In addition, you can prevent the collection and processing by Google of the data generated by the cookie relating to your use of the website (including your IP address) by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following link: Link. More information about the treatment of user data in connection with Google Analytics can be found in the data privacy policy of Google: Link.

Google Analytics Demographics
This website uses the Demographics feature of Google Analytics. This enables reports to be prepared that contain information about the age, gender and interests of website visitors. These data originate from interest-based advertising by Google and from visitor data of third-party providers. These data cannot be allocated to a specific person. You can deactivate this feature at any time by configuring the display settings in your Google Account or blocking all collection of your data by Google Analytics”.

Google Fonts

This website uses Google Fonts. As we understand it, no personal data are stored by Google in this regard. However, for technical reasons, your IP address needs to be transmitted to Google so that the fonts can be transferred to your browser. You can find more information about Google Fonts here.

Right of access to information, erasure and blocking
You have the right, at all times and at no charge, to obtain access to information about your stored personal data, their source and recipients, the purpose of data processing, and the right to the rectification, blocking or erasure of such data. You may contact us at any time at the address listed in the imprint if you have questions about this or about other aspects of the topic of personal data.

office@vav-abg.ch
+41 43 497 34 55
Postfach 820
8010 Zürich