With this Privacy Policy, we inform you about the processing of personal data in connection with our activities and operations, including our website at the domain name
We have written this Privacy Policy in German. If published in another language, the German-language Privacy Policy shall prevail.
For individual or additional activities and operations, we may publish further privacy policies or other privacy-related information.
We are subject to Swiss law and, where applicable, foreign law, in particular that of the European Union (EU) with the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
The European Commission recognized by decision of 26 July 2000 that Swiss data protection law ensures an adequate level of data protection. In its report of 15 January 2024, the European Commission confirmed this adequacy decision.
The party responsible in the sense of data protection law is:
Alteme Licht AG
Gysulastrasse 21
CH-5000 Aarau
Switzerland
In individual cases, third parties may be responsible for the processing of personal data, or joint responsibility with third parties may exist. We are happy to provide affected individuals with information about the respective responsibility upon request.
We have the following data protection representative pursuant to Art. 27 GDPR:
Alteme Licht AG
Otto-Heilmann-Strasse 18A
DE-82031 Grünwald
The data protection representative serves as an additional point of contact for individuals and authorities in the European Union (EU) and the wider European Economic Area (EEA) for inquiries related to the GDPR.
Data subject: A natural person about whom we process personal data.
Personal data: All information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.
Sensitive personal data: Data concerning trade union membership, political, religious, or philosophical views and activities; data concerning health, the private sphere, or membership of an ethnic group or race; genetic data; biometric data that uniquely identifies a natural person; data concerning criminal or administrative sanctions or proceedings; and data concerning social welfare measures.
Processing: Any handling of personal data, regardless of the means and methods applied — for example, querying, matching, adapting, archiving, retaining, reading, disclosing, collecting, recording, gathering, deleting, revealing, ordering, organizing, storing, modifying, disseminating, linking, destroying, and using personal data.
European Economic Area (EEA): Member states of the European Union (EU), as well as the Principality of Liechtenstein, Iceland, and Norway.
We process personal data in accordance with Swiss law, in particular the Federal Act on Data Protection (Data Protection Act, DPA) and the Ordinance on Data Protection (Data Protection Ordinance, DPO).
Where and to the extent that the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is applicable, we process personal data on the basis of at least one of the following legal grounds:
The European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) refers to the processing of personal data as "processing of personal data" and to the processing of sensitive personal data as "processing of special categories of personal data" (Art. 9 GDPR).
We process only the personal data that is necessary to conduct our activities and operations in a sustained, user-friendly, secure, and reliable manner. The personal data processed may fall in particular into the categories of browser and device data, content data, communication data, metadata, usage data, master data including inventory and contact data, location data, transaction data, contract data, and payment data. The personal data may also constitute sensitive personal data.
We also process personal data that we receive from third parties, obtain from publicly available sources, or collect in the course of our activities and operations, to the extent such processing is permitted.
We process personal data with the consent of the data subjects where required. In many cases we may process personal data without consent, for example to fulfill legal obligations or to pursue overriding interests. We may also request consent from data subjects where their consent is not strictly required.
We process personal data for the duration necessary for the respective purpose. We anonymize or delete personal data in particular depending on applicable statutory retention and limitation periods.
We may disclose personal data to third parties, have it processed by third parties, or process it jointly with third parties. Such third parties may include, for example, specialized service providers whose services we use. Such third parties may in turn disclose personal data to other third parties.
In the course of our activities and operations, we may disclose personal data in particular to banks and other financial service providers, authorities, educational and research institutions, consultants and lawyers, accounting and fiduciary service providers, debt collection agencies, interest groups, IT service providers, cooperation partners, credit and commercial information agencies, logistics and shipping companies, marketing and advertising agencies, media outlets, parent, sister, and subsidiary companies, organizations and associations, social institutions, telecommunications companies, insurers, and payment service providers.
We process personal data in order to communicate with individuals as well as with authorities, organizations, and companies. In doing so, we process in particular data that a data subject provides when making contact, for example by post or email. We may store such data in an address book or using comparable tools.
Third parties who transmit data about other individuals to us are legally obligated to ensure the data protection of those affected individuals independently. They must in particular ensure that they are permitted to transmit such data and that the transmitted data is accurate.
We take appropriate technical and organizational measures to ensure a level of data security appropriate to the respective risk. Our measures ensure in particular the confidentiality, availability, traceability, and integrity of the personal data processed, without being able to guarantee absolute data security.
Access to our website and other digital presence is provided using transport encryption (SSL / TLS, in particular using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure, abbreviated HTTPS). Most browsers warn users when visiting a website without transport encryption.
Our digital communications are subject — as is fundamentally any digital communication — to mass surveillance without cause or suspicion by security authorities in Switzerland, the rest of Europe, the United States of America (USA), and other countries. We have no direct influence over the corresponding processing of personal data by intelligence services, police agencies, and other security authorities. We also cannot exclude the possibility that a data subject may be specifically monitored.
We process personal data principally in Switzerland and in the European Economic Area (EEA). However, we may also export or transmit personal data to other countries, in particular to process or have it processed there.
We may export personal data to all countries on Earth and elsewhere in the universe, provided that the law there ensures adequate data protection pursuant to a decision of the Swiss Federal Council and — where and to the extent that the GDPR is applicable — also pursuant to a decision of the European Commission.
We may transmit personal data to countries whose law does not ensure adequate data protection, provided that data protection is ensured for other reasons, in particular on the basis of standard data protection clauses or with other appropriate safeguards. Exceptionally, we may export personal data to countries without adequate or appropriate data protection if the special data protection requirements are met, for example the explicit consent of the data subjects or a direct connection with the conclusion or execution of a contract. We are happy to provide data subjects with information about any guarantees upon request, or to supply a copy of any such guarantees.
We grant data subjects all rights under applicable law. Data subjects have in particular the following rights:
We may defer, restrict, or refuse the exercise of data subjects' rights to the extent permitted by law. We may point out to data subjects any conditions that must be met in order to exercise their data protection rights. We may, for example, refuse disclosure in whole or in part with reference to confidentiality obligations, overriding interests, or the protection of other individuals. We may also, for example, refuse the deletion of personal data in whole or in part, in particular with reference to statutory retention obligations.
We may exceptionally charge a fee for the exercise of rights. We will inform data subjects in advance of any applicable fees.
We are obligated to identify data subjects who request information or assert other rights using appropriate measures. Data subjects are required to cooperate.
Data subjects have the right to enforce their data protection rights through the courts or to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority.
The data protection supervisory authority for private controllers and federal bodies in Switzerland is the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC).
European data protection supervisory authorities are organized as members of the European Data Protection Board (EDPB). In some member states of the European Economic Area (EEA), the data protection supervisory authorities are organized on a federal basis, in particular in Germany.
We may use cookies. Cookies — both our own cookies (first-party cookies) and cookies from third parties whose services we use (third-party cookies) — are data stored in the browser. Such stored data does not have to be limited to traditional cookies in text form.
Cookies may be stored temporarily in the browser as "session cookies" or for a specific period as so-called persistent cookies. Session cookies are automatically deleted when the browser is closed. Persistent cookies have a specific storage duration. Cookies enable in particular a browser to be recognized on the next visit to our website, thereby allowing, for example, the reach of our website to be measured. However, persistent cookies may also be used for online marketing purposes.
Cookies can be disabled, restricted, or deleted in whole or in part at any time via the browser settings. Browser settings also often allow for the automated deletion and other management of cookies. Without cookies, our website may no longer be fully available. We actively request — at least where and to the extent required under applicable law — explicit consent to the use of cookies.
For cookies used for performance and reach measurement or for advertising, a general opt-out is available for numerous services via AdChoices (Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada), the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI), YourAdChoices (Digital Advertising Alliance), or Your Online Choices (European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance, EDAA).
We may log at least the following information for each access to our website and other digital presence, provided that such information is routinely determined or transmitted during such access to our digital infrastructure: date and time including time zone, IP address, access status (HTTP status code), operating system including user interface and version, browser including language and version, individual subpages of our website accessed including amount of data transferred, last webpage accessed in the same browser window (referrer).
We log such information, which may also constitute personal data, in log files. The information is necessary to provide our digital presence in a sustained, user-friendly, and reliable manner. The information is also necessary to ensure data security — including by or with the help of third parties.
We may embed tracking pixels in our digital presence. Tracking pixels are also referred to as web beacons. Tracking pixels — including those from third parties whose services we use — are typically small, invisible images or scripts written in JavaScript that are automatically retrieved when our digital presence is accessed. Tracking pixels can record at minimum the same information as logging in log files.
We are present on social media platforms and other online platforms in order to communicate with interested individuals and to provide information about our activities and operations. In connection with such platforms, personal data may also be processed outside Switzerland and the European Economic Area (EEA).
The general terms and conditions (GTC), terms of use, privacy policies, and other provisions of the individual operators of such platforms also apply. These provisions inform users in particular about the rights of data subjects directly vis-à-vis the respective platform, which include, for example, the right of access.
We use services from specialized third parties in order to conduct our activities and operations in a sustained, user-friendly, secure, and reliable manner. Using such services, we may among other things embed functions and content into our website. When embedding such content, the services used collect at least temporarily, for technically necessary reasons, the IP addresses of users.
For necessary security-related, statistical, and technical purposes, third parties whose services we use may process data in connection with our activities and operations in aggregated, anonymized, or pseudonymized form — for example performance or usage data in order to provide the respective service.
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We use services from specialized third parties in order to make use of the digital infrastructure needed for our activities and operations. This includes, for example, hosting and storage services from selected providers.
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We use third-party services to embed maps into our website.
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We use third-party services to embed selected fonts as well as icons, logos, and symbols into our website.
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We endeavor to measure the success and reach of our activities and operations. In this context, we may also measure the effect of references from third parties or examine how different parts or versions of our digital presence are used ("A/B testing" method). Based on the results of performance and reach measurement, we may in particular fix errors, strengthen popular content, or make improvements.
For performance and reach measurement, the IP addresses of individual users are collected in most cases. IP addresses are in principle truncated ("IP masking") in this context in order to follow the principle of data minimization through the corresponding pseudonymization.
Cookies may be used and user profiles may be created for performance and reach measurement. Any user profiles created include, for example, the individual pages visited or content viewed on our digital presence, information about the size of the screen or browser window, and the — at least approximate — location. User profiles, where created, are in principle created exclusively in pseudonymized form and are not used to identify individual users. Individual services from third parties, where users are logged in, may potentially associate use of our online offering with the user account or user profile at the respective service.
We use in particular:
We created this Privacy Policy using the Privacy Policy Generator by Datenschutzpartner.
We may update this Privacy Policy at any time. We inform users of updates by publishing the current version of the Privacy Policy on our website.
This privacy policy is an unofficial translation from the German original.
Are you interested in our products? Would you like to find out more about specialized versions? Do you have questions about sales or manufacturing? Or would you like to know something about our product development? Contact us directly, we are happy to help you.
Alteme Licht AG
Gysulastrasse 21
CH-5000 Aarau
Switzerland
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Phone: +41 62 832 80 00
info@alteme.ch
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