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​.flow​sphere​.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​.flow​sphere​.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://​au​tomat​tic​.com/​p​r​i​vacy/. 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/​d​l​p​a​g​e​/​g​a​o​p​t​o​u​t​?​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/​i​n​t​l​/​d​e​/​a​n​a​l​y​t​i​c​s​/​p​r​i​v​a​c​y​o​v​e​r​v​i​e​w​.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/​i​n​t​l​/​d​e​/​p​o​l​i​c​i​e​s​/​p​r​ivacy.

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​.face​book​.com/​a​b​o​u​t​/​p​r​ivacy.

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://​twit​ter​.com/​p​r​ivacy.

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/​i​n​t​l​/​d​e​/​p​o​l​i​c​i​e​s​/​p​r​ivacy.

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