Data Privacy Statement

1. Who are we?

Flow Sphe­re AG
Park­weg 1
CH-5443 Nie­der­rohr­dorf
Schweiz

Com­mer­cial Re­gis­ter: CH-400–3442240‑0
UID: CHE-419.537.095
VAT: CHE-419.537.095 VAT

Te­le­pho­ne: +41 56 496 15 15
E‑Mail: info@flowsphere.ch
Web­site: www.flowsphere.ch

2. Name and address of the data protection officer

The re­spon­si­ble body wi­thin the mea­ning of data pro­tec­tion laws, in par­ti­cu­lar the EU Ge­ne­ral Data Pro­tec­tion Re­gu­la­ti­on (DSGVO), is:

Sacha Czu­dek
Park­weg 1
CH-5443 Niederrohrdorf

Schweiz

Te­le­pho­ne: +41 56 496 15 15
E‑Mail: sacha.czudek@flowsphere.ch
Web­site: www.flowsphere.ch

3. General notice

Ba­sed on Ar­tic­le 13 of the Swiss Fe­de­ral Con­sti­tu­ti­on and the data pro­tec­tion re­gu­la­ti­ons of the Swiss Con­fe­de­ra­ti­on (Data Pro­tec­tion Act, DSG), every per­son has the right to pro­tec­tion of their pri­va­cy as well as pro­tec­tion against mi­su­se of their per­so­nal data.

The ope­ra­tors of this web­site take the pro­tec­tion of your per­so­nal data very se­rious­ly. The­r­e­fo­re, we tre­at your per­so­nal data con­fi­den­ti­al­ly and in ac­cordance with the le­gal data pro­tec­tion re­gu­la­ti­ons as well as this pri­va­cy po­li­cy. Per­so­nal data is trea­ted as strict­ly con­fi­den­ti­al and is neither sold nor pas­sed on to third parties.

In clo­se co­ope­ra­ti­on with our hos­ting pro­vi­ders, we stri­ve to pro­tect the da­ta­ba­ses as well as pos­si­ble against un­aut­ho­ri­zed ac­cess, loss, mi­su­se or falsification.

We would like to point out that data trans­mis­si­on on the In­ter­net can have se­cu­ri­ty gaps. Com­ple­te pro­tec­tion of data against ac­cess by third par­ties is the­r­e­fo­re not pos­si­ble. Ho­we­ver, we make every ef­fort to en­su­re that our web­site is al­ways kept up to date with the la­test se­cu­ri­ty standards.

When you ac­cess our web­site, the fol­lo­wing data is stored in log files: IP ad­dress, date, time, brow­ser re­quest and ge­ne­ral trans­mit­ted in­for­ma­ti­on about the ope­ra­ting sys­tem or brow­ser. The web­site can ge­ne­ral­ly be vi­si­ted wi­t­hout registration.

By using this web­site, you agree to the coll­ec­tion, pro­ces­sing and use of data in ac­cordance with the fol­lo­wing description.

4. Privacy policy for cookies

This web­site uses coo­kies. The­se are small text files that make it pos­si­ble to store spe­ci­fic in­for­ma­ti­on re­la­ted to the user on the user’s ter­mi­nal de­vice while the user is using the website.

Coo­kies make it pos­si­ble, in par­ti­cu­lar, to de­ter­mi­ne the fre­quen­cy of use and num­ber of users of the pa­ges, to ana­ly­ze be­ha­vi­or pat­terns of page use, but also to make our of­fer more customer-friendly.

Coo­kies re­main stored bey­ond the end of a brow­ser ses­si­on and can be re­trie­ved when you vi­sit the site again. If you do not wish this to hap­pen, you should set your In­ter­net brow­ser to re­fu­se to ac­cept cookies.

When you wri­te a com­ment on our web­site, this may be con­sent to store your name, email ad­dress and web­site in coo­kies. This is a con­ve­ni­ence fea­ture so that when you post an­o­ther com­ment, you do not have to re-en­ter all of this data. The­se coo­kies are stored for one year.

If you have an ac­count and you log in to this web­site, we will set a tem­po­ra­ry coo­kie to de­ter­mi­ne if your brow­ser ac­cepts coo­kies. This coo­kie does not con­tain any per­so­nal­ly iden­ti­fia­ble in­for­ma­ti­on and is dis­card­ed when you clo­se your browser.

When you log in, we will set some coo­kies to store your log­in in­for­ma­ti­on and vie­w­ing op­ti­ons. Log­in coo­kies ex­pi­re af­ter two days and dis­play op­ti­ons coo­kies ex­pi­re af­ter one year. If you sel­ect “Stay log­ged in” when you sign up, your log­in will be main­tai­ned for two weeks. When you log out of your ac­count, the sign-in coo­kies are deleted.

5. Privacy policy for SSL encryption

This web­site uses SSL en­cryp­ti­on for se­cu­ri­ty re­asons and to pro­tect the trans­mis­si­on of con­fi­den­ti­al con­tent, such as re­quests that you send to us as the site ope­ra­tor. 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 en­cryp­ti­on is ac­ti­va­ted, the data you trans­mit to us can­not be read by third parties.

6. Privacy policy for server log files

• Vi­si­ted website
• Time at the time of access
• Amount of data sent in bytes
• Source/reference from which you came to the page
• Brow­ser used
• Ope­ra­ting sys­tem used
• IP ad­dress used (if ap­pli­ca­ble: in an­ony­mi­zed form)

The coll­ec­ted data is only used for sta­tis­ti­cal ana­ly­sis and to im­pro­ve the web­site. Ho­we­ver, the web­site ope­ra­tor re­ser­ves the right to check the ser­ver log files re­tro­s­pec­tively if the­re are con­cre­te in­di­ca­ti­ons of il­le­gal use.

7. Privacy policy for contact form

When vi­si­tors post comm­ents on the site, we coll­ect the data dis­play­ed in the com­ment form, as well as the visitor’s IP ad­dress and user agent string (this iden­ti­fies the brow­ser) to help de­tect spam.

An an­ony­mi­zed string may be crea­ted from your email ad­dress (also cal­led a hash) and pas­sed to the Grava­tar ser­vice to check if you are using it. The pri­va­cy po­li­cy of the Grava­tar ser­vice can be found here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. Af­ter your com­ment is ap­pro­ved, your pro­fi­le pic­tu­re is pu­blicly vi­si­ble in the con­text of your comment.

8. Where we send your data

Vi­si­tor comm­ents may be ex­ami­ned by an au­to­ma­ted spam de­tec­tion service.

9. Privacy policy for the right to information, deletion, blocking

You have the right to in­for­ma­ti­on about your stored per­so­nal data, its ori­gin and re­ci­pi­ent and the pur­po­se of data pro­ces­sing, as well as a right to cor­rect or de­le­te this data. For ques­ti­ons about per­so­nal data, plea­se cont­act the ad­dress gi­ven in the imprint.

10. 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 a brow­ser plug-in at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de. Goog­le Ana­ly­tics uses coo­kies. The­se are small text files that make it pos­si­ble to store spe­ci­fic in­for­ma­ti­on re­la­ted to the user on the user’s ter­mi­nal de­vice. The­se enable an ana­ly­sis of the use of our web­site of­fer by Goog­le. The in­for­ma­ti­on coll­ec­ted by the coo­kie about the use of our pa­ges (in­clu­ding your IP ad­dress) is usual­ly trans­mit­ted 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();” to en­su­re an­ony­mi­zed coll­ec­tion of IP ad­dres­ses (so-cal­led IP mas­king). If an­ony­miza­ti­on is ac­ti­ve, Goog­le trun­ca­tes IP ad­dres­ses wi­thin mem­ber sta­tes of the Eu­ro­pean Uni­on or in other con­trac­ting sta­tes to the Agree­ment on the Eu­ro­pean Eco­no­mic Area, which is why no con­clu­si­ons can be drawn about your iden­ti­ty. Only in ex­cep­tio­nal ca­ses will the full IP ad­dress be trans­mit­ted to a Goog­le ser­ver in the USA and shor­ten­ed the­re. Goog­le com­pli­es with the data pro­tec­tion pro­vi­si­ons of the “Pri­va­cy Shield” agree­ment and is re­gis­tered with the “Pri­va­cy Shield” pro­gram of the U.S. De­part­ment of Com­mer­ce and uses the in­for­ma­ti­on coll­ec­ted to eva­lua­te the use of our web­sites, to com­pi­le re­ports for us in this re­gard and to pro­vi­de other re­la­ted ser­vices to us. You can learn more at https://www.google.com/intl/de/analytics/privacyoverview.html.

11. Privacy policy for Google AdSense

This web­site uses Goog­le Ad­Sen­se, an ad­ver­ti­sing in­te­gra­ti­on ser­vice pro­vi­ded by Goog­le Inc, 1600 Am­phi­theat­re Park­way, Moun­tain View, CA 94043, USA. Goo­g­leAd­Sen­se uses “coo­kies”, which are text files pla­ced on your com­pu­ter, to help the web­site ana­ly­ze how users use the site. Goog­le Ad­Sen­se also uses so-cal­led web be­a­cons (in­vi­si­ble gra­phics). Th­rough the­se web be­a­cons, in­for­ma­ti­on such as vi­si­tor traf­fic on the­se pa­ges can be ana­ly­zed. The in­for­ma­ti­on ge­ne­ra­ted by coo­kies and web be­a­cons about the use of this web­site (in­clu­ding your IP ad­dress) and de­li­very of ad­ver­ti­sing for­mats will be trans­mit­ted to and stored by Goog­le on ser­vers in the United Sta­tes. This in­for­ma­ti­on may be pas­sed on by Goog­le to con­trac­tu­al part­ners of Goog­le. Ho­we­ver, Goog­le will not mer­ge your IP ad­dress with other data stored by you. You may re­fu­se the use 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. By using this web­site, you con­sent to the pro­ces­sing of data about you by Goog­le in the man­ner and for the pur­po­ses set out above.

12. Privacy policy for Google +1

This web­site uses so­cial me­dia func­tions from Goog­le Inc, 1600 Am­phi­theat­re Park­way, Moun­tain View, CA 94043, USA. When you call up our pa­ges with Goog­le plug-ins, a con­nec­tion is es­tab­lished bet­ween your brow­ser and Google’s ser­vers. In the pro­cess, data is al­re­a­dy trans­fer­red to Goog­le. If you have a Goog­le ac­count, this data can be lin­ked to it. If you do not wish this data to be as­so­cia­ted with your Goog­le ac­count, plea­se log out of Goog­le be­fo­re vi­si­ting our site. In­ter­ac­tions, in par­ti­cu­lar the use of a com­ment func­tion or the cli­cking of a “+1” or “Share” but­ton are also pas­sed on to Goog­le. You can learn more at https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy.

13. Privacy policy for Facebook

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

14. Privacy policy for Twitter

This web­site uses func­tions of Twit­ter, Inc, 1355 Mar­ket St, Suite 900, San Fran­cis­co, CA 94103, USA. When you call up our pa­ges with Twit­ter plug-ins, a con­nec­tion is es­tab­lished bet­ween your brow­ser and the ser­vers of Twit­ter. In the pro­cess, data is al­re­a­dy 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 as­so­cia­ted with your Twit­ter ac­count, plea­se log out of Twit­ter be­fo­re vi­si­ting our site. In­ter­ac­tions, in par­ti­cu­lar cli­cking on a “re-tweet” but­ton, are also pas­sed on to Twit­ter. You can learn more at https://twitter.com/privacy.

15. Privacy policy for YouTube

This web­site uses plug­ins from the You­Tube site ope­ra­ted by Goog­le. The ope­ra­tor of the pa­ges is You­Tube, LLC, 901 Cher­ry Ave, San Bru­no, CA 94066, USA. When you vi­sit one of our pa­ges 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.

If you are log­ged into your You­Tube ac­count, you enable You­Tube to as­sign your sur­fing be­ha­vi­or di­rect­ly to your per­so­nal pro­fi­le. You can pre­vent this by log­ging out of your You­Tube account.

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

16. Copyrights

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 any 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 co­py­right hol­der may be lia­ble to pro­se­cu­ti­on and pos­si­bly to damages.

17. Embedded content from other websites

Posts on this web­site may con­tain em­bedded con­tent (e.g. vi­de­os, images, ar­tic­les, etc.). Em­bedded con­tent from other web­sites be­ha­ves exact­ly as if the vi­si­tor had vi­si­ted the other website.

The­se web­sites may coll­ect in­for­ma­ti­on about you, use coo­kies, em­bed ad­di­tio­nal third-par­ty track­ing ser­vices, and re­cord your in­ter­ac­tion with this em­bedded con­tent, in­clu­ding your in­ter­ac­tion with the em­bedded con­tent if you have an ac­count and are log­ged into this website.

18. General disclaimer

All in­for­ma­ti­on on our web­site has been careful­ly che­cked. We make every ef­fort to en­su­re that the in­for­ma­ti­on we pro­vi­de 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 up-to-da­ten­ess of in­for­ma­ti­on, in­clu­ding jour­na­li­stic and edi­to­ri­al in­for­ma­ti­on. Lia­bi­li­ty claims re­gar­ding da­ma­ge cau­sed by the use of any in­for­ma­ti­on pro­vi­ded, in­clu­ding any kind of in­for­ma­ti­on which is in­com­ple­te or in­cor­rect, will the­r­e­fo­re be rejected.

The pu­blisher may ch­an­ge or de­le­te texts at his own dis­cre­ti­on and wi­t­hout no­ti­ce and is not ob­li­ged to up­date the con­tents of this web­site. The use of 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, in­ci­den­tal, con­se­quen­ti­al or pu­ni­ti­ve da­ma­ges, al­le­gedly cau­sed by the vi­sit of this web­site and con­se­quent­ly as­su­me no lia­bi­li­ty for such damages.

The pu­blisher also as­su­mes no re­spon­si­bi­li­ty or lia­bi­li­ty for the con­tent and avai­la­bi­li­ty of third-par­ty web­sites that can be ac­ces­sed via ex­ter­nal links from 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 that may be re­le­vant un­der cri­mi­nal or lia­bi­li­ty law or that may of­fend com­mon decency.

19. Changes

We may amend this pri­va­cy po­li­cy at any time wi­t­hout pri­or no­ti­ce. The cur­rent ver­si­on pu­blished on our web­site applies.

20. Questions for the data protection officer

If you have any ques­ti­ons about data pro­tec­tion, plea­se send us an e‑mail or cont­act the per­son in our or­ga­niza­ti­on re­spon­si­ble for data pro­tec­tion lis­ted at the be­gin­ning of this pri­va­cy state­ment directly.

Nie­der­rohr­dorf, 01.05.2018