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Privacy Policy

Per­son­al data (usu­al­ly referred to just as “data” below) will only be processed by us to the extent nec­es­sary and for the pur­pose of pro­vid­ing a func­tion­al and user-friend­ly web­site, includ­ing its con­tents, and the ser­vices offered there.

Per Art. 4 No. 1 of Reg­u­la­tion (EU) 2016⁄679, i.e. the Gen­er­al Data Pro­tec­tion Reg­u­la­tion (here­inafter referred to as the “GDPR”), “pro­cess­ing” refers to any oper­a­tion or set of oper­a­tions such as col­lec­tion, record­ing, orga­ni­za­tion, struc­tur­ing, stor­age, adap­ta­tion, alter­ation, retrieval, con­sul­ta­tion, use, dis­clo­sure by trans­mis­sion, dis­sem­i­na­tion, or oth­er­wise mak­ing avail­able, align­ment, or com­bi­na­tion, restric­tion, era­sure, or destruc­tion per­formed on per­son­al data, whether by auto­mat­ed means or not.

The fol­low­ing pri­va­cy pol­i­cy is intend­ed to inform you in par­tic­u­lar about the type, scope, pur­pose, dura­tion, and legal basis for the pro­cess­ing of such data either under our own con­trol or in con­junc­tion with oth­ers. We also inform you below about the third-par­ty com­po­nents we use to opti­mize our web­site and improve the user expe­ri­ence which may result in said third par­ties also pro­cess­ing data they col­lect and control.

Our pri­va­cy pol­i­cy is struc­tured as follows:

Infor­ma­tion about us as con­trollers of your data II. The rights of users and data sub­jects III. Infor­ma­tion about the data processing

I. Information about us as controllers of your data

The par­ty respon­si­ble for this web­site (the “con­troller”) for pur­pos­es of data pro­tec­tion law is:

Smart­Stamp AG
Rothausstrasse 1
8280 Kreuzlingen
Switzerland

Com­pa­ny Iden­ti­fi­ca­tion Number:
CHE-261.766.983

Reg­is­tered at:
Com­pa­ny Reg­istry Thurgau
CH-440.3.033.830 – 6

Rep­re­sen­ta­tives (each autho­rised to sign as a sin­gle sig­na­to­ry):
Friedrich Kisters, Juli Bailer

Phone: +41 787222458
Email: privacy@​smartstamp.​com

II. The rights of users and data subjects

With regard to the data pro­cess­ing to be described in more detail below, users and data sub­jects have the right

  • to con­fir­ma­tion of whether data con­cern­ing them is being processed, infor­ma­tion about the data being processed, fur­ther infor­ma­tion about the nature of the data pro­cess­ing, and copies of the data (cf. also Art. 15 GDPR);
  • to cor­rect or com­plete incor­rect or incom­plete data (cf. also Art. 16 GDPR);
  • to the imme­di­ate dele­tion of data con­cern­ing them (cf. also Art. 17 GDPR), or, alter­na­tive­ly, if fur­ther pro­cess­ing is nec­es­sary as stip­u­lat­ed in Art. 17 Para. 3 GDPR, to restrict said pro­cess­ing per Art. 18 GDPR;
  • to receive copies of the data con­cern­ing them and/​or pro­vid­ed by them and to have the same trans­mit­ted to oth­er providers/​controllers (cf. also Art. 20 GDPR);
  • to file com­plaints with the super­vi­so­ry author­i­ty if they believe that data con­cern­ing them is being processed by the con­troller in breach of data pro­tec­tion pro­vi­sions (see also Art. 77 GDPR).

In addi­tion, the con­troller is oblig­ed to inform all recip­i­ents to whom it dis­clos­es data of any such cor­rec­tions, dele­tions, or restric­tions placed on pro­cess­ing the same per Art. 16, 17 Para. 1, 18 GDPR. How­ev­er, this oblig­a­tion does not apply if such noti­fi­ca­tion is impos­si­ble or involves a dis­pro­por­tion­ate effort. Nev­er­the­less, users have a right to infor­ma­tion about these recipients.

Like­wise, under Art. 21 GDPR, users and data sub­jects have the right to object to the controller’s future pro­cess­ing of their data pur­suant to Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. In par­tic­u­lar, an objec­tion to data pro­cess­ing for the pur­pose of direct adver­tis­ing is permissible.

III. Information about the data processing

III.1. Serv­er Log Data

When using the web­site with­out reg­is­tra­tion, we only col­lect the data that your brows­er sends to our serv­er. If you wish to view our web­site, this is the fol­low­ing data, which is tech­ni­cal­ly nec­es­sary for us to dis­play our web­site and to ensure its sta­bil­i­ty and secu­ri­ty. The legal basis for the col­lec­tion is Art. 6 Para. 1 Sub­sec­tion 1 lit. f) GDPR:

  • IP address
  • Date and time of the request
  • Time zone dif­fer­ence to Green­wich Mean Time (GMT)
  • Con­tent of the request (con­crete page)
  • Access status/​HTTP sta­tus code
  • Amount of data trans­mit­ted in each case
  • Web­site from which the request comes
  • Brows­er
  • Oper­at­ing sys­tem and its interface
  • Lan­guage and ver­sion of the brows­er software

Your data processed when using our web­site will be delet­ed or blocked as soon as the pur­pose for its stor­age ceas­es to apply, pro­vid­ed the dele­tion of the same is not in breach of any statu­to­ry stor­age oblig­a­tions or unless oth­er­wise stip­u­lat­ed below.

III.2. Use of Services

If you cre­ate an account, buy ser­viced or use con­tact forms, we col­lect and store the giv­en information:

  • Names, address­es,
  • your e‑mail address,
  • Your inquiries and ser­vice requests.
  • The pur­pose of such data col­lec­tion is:
    cor­re­spon­dence with you
  • ful­fil­ment of contracts.

The legal basis for such pro­cess­ing of your per­son­al data is ful­fil­ment of the con­tract, Art. 6 Para. 1 Sub­sec­tion 1 lit. b) GDPR. The per­son­al data col­lect­ed will be delet­ed after expi­ra­tion of the legal oblig­a­tion to pre­serve records.

III.3. Cookies

III.3.1 Ses­sion cookies

We use cook­ies on our web­site. Cook­ies are small text files or oth­er stor­age tech­nolo­gies stored on your com­put­er by your brows­er. These cook­ies process cer­tain spe­cif­ic infor­ma­tion about you, such as your brows­er, loca­tion data, the select­ed lan­guage, your login sta­tus, your cook­ie pref­er­ences and/​or IP address.

This pro­cess­ing makes our web­site more user-friend­ly, effi­cient, and secure, allow­ing us, for exam­ple, to dis­play our web­site in dif­fer­ent lan­guages or to offer a shop­ping cart function.

The legal basis for such pro­cess­ing is Art. 6 Para. 1 Sub­sec­tion 1 lit. b) GDPR, inso­far as these cook­ies are used to col­lect data to ini­ti­ate or process con­trac­tu­al relationships.

If the pro­cess­ing does not serve to ini­ti­ate or process a con­tract, our legit­i­mate inter­est lies in improv­ing the func­tion­al­i­ty of our web­site. The legal basis is then Art. 6 Para. 1 Sub­sec­tion 1 lit. f) GDPR.

When you close your brows­er, these ses­sion cook­ies are deleted.

III.3.2 Third-par­ty cookies

If nec­es­sary, our web­site may also use cook­ies from com­pa­nies with whom we coop­er­ate for the pur­pose of adver­tis­ing, ana­lyz­ing, or improv­ing the fea­tures of our website.

Please refer to the fol­low­ing infor­ma­tion for details, in par­tic­u­lar for the legal basis and pur­pose of such third-par­ty col­lec­tion and pro­cess­ing of data col­lect­ed through cookies.

III.3.3 Dis­abling cookies

You can refuse the use of cook­ies by chang­ing the set­tings on your brows­er. Like­wise, you can use the brows­er to delete cook­ies that have already been stored. How­ev­er, the steps and mea­sures required vary, depend­ing on the brows­er you use. If you have any ques­tions, please use the help func­tion or con­sult the doc­u­men­ta­tion for your brows­er or con­tact its mak­er for sup­port. Brows­er set­tings can­not pre­vent so-called flash cook­ies from being set. Instead, you will need to change the set­ting of your Flash play­er. The steps and mea­sures required for this also depend on the Flash play­er you are using. If you have any ques­tions, please use the help func­tion or con­sult the doc­u­men­ta­tion for your Flash play­er or con­tact its mak­er for support.

If you pre­vent or restrict the instal­la­tion of cook­ies, not all of the func­tions on our site may be ful­ly usable.

III.3.4 Infor­ma­tion on dura­tion of oper­a­tion of Cookies

Ses­sion cook­ies are delet­ed when you close your Inter­net brows­er. These have a max­i­mum dura­tion of 36 months. The third-par­ty cook­ies men­tioned under b) also have a max­i­mum dura­tion of 36 months

III.3.5 Access of third par­ties to Cookies

Cook­ies set by us can­not be viewed by third par­ties unless they have access to your brows­er. Third-par­ty cook­ies are avail­able through these third par­ty providers.

III.4. Third Par­ty Services

III.4.1 Cook­ie-Con­sent Tool

Our web­site uses Borlab’s cook­ie con­tent tech­nol­o­gy to obtain your con­sent to the stor­age of cer­tain cook­ies on your end device and to doc­u­ment this con­sent in accor­dance with data pro­tec­tion reg­u­la­tions. The provider of this tech­nol­o­gy is Ben­jamin A. Born­schein, Rübenkamp 32, 22305 Ham­burg, Ger­many, Ger­many (here­inafter referred to as “Bor­labs”).

The tool blocks the set­ting of all cook­ies requir­ing con­sent until the respec­tive user gives his con­sent by tick­ing the appro­pri­ate check­box. This ensures that such cook­ies are only set on the respec­tive end device of the user if con­sent has been grant­ed. The bor­labs cook­ie stores the con­sent you gave when you entered the web­site. If you would like to revoke this con­sent, sim­ply delete the cook­ie in your brows­er. When you re-enter / reload the web­site, you will be asked again for your cook­ie consent.

This data pro­cess­ing is car­ried out in accor­dance with Art. 6 Para. 1 Sub­sec­tion 1 lit. f) GDPR on the basis of our legit­i­mate inter­est in a legal­ly com­pli­ant, user-spe­cif­ic and user-friend­ly con­sent man­age­ment for cook­ies and thus in a legal­ly com­pli­ant design of our web­site. A fur­ther legal basis for the data pro­cess­ing described above is Art. 6 Para. 1 Sub­sec­tion 1 lit. c) GDPR. As those respon­si­ble, we are sub­ject to the legal oblig­a­tion to make the use of tech­ni­cal­ly unnec­es­sary cook­ies depen­dent on the respec­tive user consent.

III.4.2 Host­ing Services

Metanet AG

III.4.3 Ser­vices by Google

The ser­vices men­tioned in this sec­tion are pro­vid­ed by Google Inc., 1600 Amphithe­atre Park­way, Moun­tain View, CA 94043 (here­inafter: Google).

The ser­vice provider is cer­ti­fied accord­ing to the SWISS‑U.S. and EU‑U.S. Pri­va­cy Shield. https://​www​.pri​va​cyshield​.gov/​p​a​r​t​i​c​i​p​a​n​t​?​i​d​=​a​2​z​t​0​0​0​0​0​0​0​0​1​L​5​A​A​I​&​s​t​a​t​u​s​=​A​c​t​ive

The ser­vice provider offers detailed infor­ma­tion con­cern­ing the gen­er­al han­dling of your user data at https://​ads​set​tings​.google​.com/​a​u​t​h​e​n​t​i​c​a​ted

https://​poli​cies​.google​.com/​p​r​i​v​acy

Google states that it will not con­nect your IP address to oth­er data. In addi­tion, Google pro­vides fur­ther infor­ma­tion with regard to its data pro­tec­tion prac­tices, includ­ing options you can exer­cise to pre­vent such use of your data, at https://​www​.google​.com/​i​n​t​l​/​d​e​/​p​o​l​i​c​i​e​s​/​p​r​i​v​a​c​y​/​p​a​r​t​n​ers

In addi­tion, Google offers an opt-out add-on at https://​tools​.google​.com/​d​l​p​a​g​e​/​g​a​o​p​t​o​u​t​?​h​l​=de This add-on can be installed on the most pop­u­lar browsers and offers you fur­ther con­trol over the data that Google col­lects when you vis­it our web­site. The add-on informs Google Ana­lyt­ics’ JavaScript (ga.js) that no infor­ma­tion about the web­site vis­it should be trans­mit­ted to Google Ana­lyt­ics. How­ev­er, this does not pre­vent infor­ma­tion from being trans­mit­ted to us or to oth­er web ana­lyt­ics ser­vices we may use as detailed herein.

III.4.3.1 Ana­lyt­ics

We use Google Ana­lyt­ics on our web­site. The Google Ana­lyt­ics ser­vice is used to ana­lyze how our web­site is used. The legal basis is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. Our legit­i­mate inter­est lies in the analy­sis, opti­miza­tion, and eco­nom­ic oper­a­tion of our site.

Usage and user-relat­ed infor­ma­tion, such as IP address, place, time, or fre­quen­cy of your vis­its to our web­site will be trans­mit­ted to a Google serv­er in the Unit­ed States and stored there. How­ev­er, we use Google Ana­lyt­ics with the so-called anonymiza­tion func­tion, where­by Google trun­cates the IP address with­in the EU or the EEA before it is trans­mit­ted to the US.

The data col­lect­ed in this way is in turn used by Google to pro­vide us with an eval­u­a­tion of vis­its to our web­site and what vis­i­tors do once there. This data can also be used to pro­vide oth­er ser­vices relat­ed to the use of our web­site and of the inter­net in general.

III.4.3.2 Google reCAPTCHA

Our web­site uses Google reCAPTCHA to check and pre­vent auto­mat­ed servers (“bots”) from access­ing and inter­act­ing with our web­site. This ser­vice allows Google to deter­mine from which web­site your request has been sent and from which IP address the reCAPTCHA input box has been used. In addi­tion to your IP address, Google may col­lect oth­er infor­ma­tion nec­es­sary to pro­vide and guar­an­tee this service.

The legal basis is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. Our legit­i­mate inter­est lies in the secu­ri­ty of our web­site and in the pre­ven­tion of unwant­ed, auto­mat­ed access in the form of spam or similar.

III.4.4 Google Fonts

To enable the dis­play of cer­tain fonts on our web­site, a con­nec­tion to the Google serv­er in the USA is estab­lished when­ev­er our web­site is accessed. The legal basis is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. Our legit­i­mate inter­est lies in the opti­miza­tion and eco­nom­ic oper­a­tion of our site.

When you access our site, a con­nec­tion to Google is estab­lished from which Google can iden­ti­fy the site from which your request has been sent and to which IP address the fonts are being trans­mit­ted for display.

III.4.5 YouTube

We use YouTube on our web­site. This is a video por­tal oper­at­ed by YouTube LLC, 901 Cher­ry Ave, 94066 San Bruno, CA, USA, here­inafter referred to as “YouTube”.

YouTube is a sub­sidiary of Google LLC, Gor­don House, Bar­row Street, Dublin 4, Irland, here­inafter referred to as “Google”.

The ser­vice provider is cer­ti­fied accord­ing to the SWISS‑U.S. and EU‑U.S. Pri­va­cy Shield. https://​www​.pri​va​cyshield​.gov/​p​a​r​t​i​c​i​p​a​n​t​?​i​d​=​a​2​z​t​0​0​0​0​0​0​0​0​1​L​5​A​A​I​&​s​t​a​t​u​s​=​A​c​t​ive

We use YouTube in its advanced pri­va­cy mode to show you videos. The legal basis is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. Our legit­i­mate inter­est lies in improv­ing the qual­i­ty of our web­site. Accord­ing to YouTube, the advanced pri­va­cy mode means that the data spec­i­fied below will only be trans­mit­ted to the YouTube serv­er if you actu­al­ly start a video.

With­out this mode, a con­nec­tion to the YouTube serv­er in the USA will be estab­lished as soon as you access any of our web­pages on which a YouTube video is embedded.

This con­nec­tion is required in order to be able to dis­play the respec­tive video on our web­site with­in your brows­er. YouTube will record and process at a min­i­mum your IP address, the date and time the video was dis­played, as well as the web­site you vis­it­ed. In addi­tion, a con­nec­tion to the Dou­bleClick adver­tis­ing net­work of Google is established.

If you are logged in to YouTube when you access our site, YouTube will assign the con­nec­tion infor­ma­tion to your YouTube account. To pre­vent this, you must either log out of YouTube before vis­it­ing our site or make the appro­pri­ate set­tings in your YouTube account.

For the pur­pose of func­tion­al­i­ty and analy­sis of usage behav­ior, YouTube per­ma­nent­ly stores cook­ies on your device via your brows­er. If you do not agree to this pro­cess­ing, you have the option of pre­vent­ing the instal­la­tion of cook­ies by mak­ing the appro­pri­ate set­tings in your brows­er. Fur­ther details can be found in the sec­tion about cook­ies above.

Fur­ther infor­ma­tion about the col­lec­tion and use of data as well as your rights and pro­tec­tion options in Google’s pri­va­cy pol­i­cy found at https://​poli​cies​.google​.com/​p​r​i​v​acy

III.4.6 Insta­gram

To adver­tise our prod­ucts and ser­vices as well as to com­mu­ni­cate with inter­est­ed par­ties or cus­tomers, we have a pres­ence on the Insta­gram platform.

On this social media plat­form, we are joint­ly respon­si­ble with Face­book Ire­land Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Har­bour, Dublin 2 Ireland.

The data pro­tec­tion offi­cer of Insta­gram can be reached via this con­tact form:

https://​www​.face​book​.com/​h​e​l​p​/​c​o​n​t​a​c​t​/​5​4​0​9​7​7​9​4​6​3​0​2​970

We have defined the joint respon­si­bil­i­ty in an agree­ment regard­ing the respec­tive oblig­a­tions with­in the mean­ing of the GDPR. This agree­ment, which sets out the rec­i­p­ro­cal oblig­a­tions, is avail­able at the fol­low­ing link:

https://​www​.face​book​.com/​l​e​g​a​l​/​t​e​r​m​s​/​p​a​g​e​_​c​o​n​t​r​o​l​l​e​r​_​a​d​d​e​n​dum

The legal basis for the pro­cess­ing of the result­ing and sub­se­quent­ly dis­closed per­son­al data is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. Our legit­i­mate inter­est lies in the analy­sis, com­mu­ni­ca­tion, sales, and pro­mo­tion of our prod­ucts and services.

The legal basis may also be your con­sent per Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR grant­ed to the plat­form oper­a­tor. Per Art. 7 para. 3 GDPR, you may revoke this con­sent with the plat­form oper­a­tor at any time with future effect.

When access­ing our online pres­ence on the Insta­gram plat­form, Face­book Ire­land Ltd. as the oper­a­tor of the plat­form in the EU will process your data (e.g. per­son­al infor­ma­tion, IP address, etc.).

This data of the user is used for sta­tis­ti­cal infor­ma­tion on the use of our com­pa­ny pres­ence on Insta­gram. Face­book Ire­land Ltd. uses this data for mar­ket research and adver­tis­ing pur­pos­es as well as for the cre­ation of user pro­files. Based on these pro­files, Face­book Ire­land Ltd. can pro­vide adver­tis­ing both with­in and out­side of Insta­gram based on your inter­ests. If you are logged into Insta­gram at the time you access our site, Face­book Ire­land Ltd. will also link this data to your user account.

If you con­tact us via Insta­gram, the per­son­al data you pro­vide at that time will be used to process the request. We will delete this data once we have com­plete­ly respond­ed to your query, unless there are legal oblig­a­tions to retain the data, such as for sub­se­quent ful­fil­ment of contracts.

Face­book Ire­land Ltd. might also set cook­ies when pro­cess­ing your data.

If you do not agree to this pro­cess­ing, you have the option of pre­vent­ing the instal­la­tion of cook­ies by mak­ing the appro­pri­ate set­tings in your brows­er. Cook­ies that have already been saved can be delet­ed at any time. The instruc­tions to do this depend on the brows­er and sys­tem being used. For Flash cook­ies, the pro­cess­ing can­not be pre­vent­ed by the set­tings in your brows­er, but instead by mak­ing the appro­pri­ate set­tings in your Flash play­er. If you pre­vent or restrict the instal­la­tion of cook­ies, not all of the func­tions of Insta­gram may be ful­ly usable.

Details on the pro­cess­ing activ­i­ties, their sup­pres­sion, and the dele­tion of the data processed by Insta­gram can be found in its pri­va­cy policy:

https://​help​.insta​gram​.com/​5​1​9​5​2​2​1​2​5​1​0​7​875

It can­not be exclud­ed that the pro­cess­ing by Face­book Ire­land Ltd. will also take place in the Unit­ed States by Face­book Inc., 1601 Wil­low Road, Men­lo Park, Cal­i­for­nia 94025.

III.4.7 MailChimp

We offer you the oppor­tu­ni­ty to reg­is­ter for our free newslet­ter via our website.

We use MailChimp, a ser­vice of The Rock­et Sci­ence Group, LLC, 512 Means Street, Suite 404, Atlanta, GA 30318, USA, here­inafter referred to as “The Rock­et Sci­ence Group”.

The ser­vice provider is cer­ti­fied accord­ing to the SWISS‑U.S. and EU‑U.S. Pri­va­cy Shield. https://​www​.pri​va​cyshield​.gov/​p​a​r​t​i​c​i​p​a​n​t​?​i​d​=​a​2​z​t​0​0​0​0​0​0​0​T​O​6​h​A​A​G​&​s​t​a​t​u​s​=​A​c​t​ive

In addi­tion, the Rock­et Sci­ence Group offers fur­ther infor­ma­tion about its data pro­tec­tion prac­tices at https://​mailchimp​.com/​l​e​g​a​l​/​p​r​i​v​a​cy/

If you reg­is­ter for our free newslet­ter, the data request­ed from you for this pur­pose, i.e. your email address and, option­al­ly, your name and address, will be processed by The Rock­et Sci­ence Group. In addi­tion, your IP address and the date and time of your reg­is­tra­tion will be saved. Dur­ing the reg­is­tra­tion process, your con­sent to receive this newslet­ter will be obtained togeth­er with a con­crete descrip­tion of the type of con­tent it will offer and ref­er­ence made to this pri­va­cy policy.

The newslet­ter then sent out by The Rock­et Sci­ence Group will also con­tain a track­ing pix­el called a web bea­con. This pix­el helps us eval­u­ate whether and when you have read our newslet­ter and whether you have clicked any links con­tained there­in. In addi­tion to fur­ther tech­ni­cal data, such as data about your com­put­er hard­ware and your IP address, the data processed will be stored so that we can opti­mize our newslet­ter and respond to the wish­es of our read­ers. The data will there­fore increase the qual­i­ty and attrac­tive­ness of our newslet­ter. The legal basis for send­ing the newslet­ter and the analy­sis is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a) GDPR.

You may revoke your pri­or con­sent to receive this newslet­ter under Art. 7 Para. 3 GDPR with future effect. All you have to do is inform us that you are revok­ing your con­sent or click on the unsub­scribe link con­tained in each newsletter.