Datenschutz

‍1 Who is responsible for processing your data?

This privacy policy applies to data processing by
eti Treuhand GmbH | Goethestrasse 12 | 8001 Zurich | Switzerland

If you have any questions, please contact us at the above address or at info@eti-gmbh.ch

2 What is this privacy policy about?

eti Treuhand GmbH is a fiduciary company based in Zurich. As part of our business activities, we obtain and process personal data, in particular personal data about our clients, associated persons, authorities, correspondence, professional and other associations, visitors to our website, participants in events, recipients of newsletters and other bodies or their respective contact persons and employees (hereinafter also referred to as "you"). We provide information about this data processing in this privacy policy.

If you provide us with data about other persons (e.g. family members, representatives, counterparties or other associated persons), we assume that you are authorized to do so and that this data is correct and that you have ensured that these persons are informed about this disclosure, insofar as a legal obligation to provide information applies (e.g. by bringing this privacy policy to their attention in advance).

3 For what purposes do we process which of your data?

When you make use of our services, use www.etitreuhand.ch (hereinafter "website") or otherwise deal with us, we obtain and process various categories of your personal data. In principle, we may obtain and otherwise process this data for the following purposes in particular:

Communication: We process personal data so that we can communicate with you and with third parties by e-mail, telephone, letter or otherwise. You can refuse such communication at any time or refuse or revoke your consent to such communication. For this purpose, we process in particular the content of the communication, your contact details and the marginal data of the communication, but also image and audio recordings of (video) telephone calls. In the event of an audio or video recording, we will inform you separately and you are free to inform us if you do not wish to be recorded or to end the communication. If we need or want to establish your identity, we will collect additional data (e.g. a copy of an ID card).
Initiation and conclusion of contracts: With regard to the conclusion of a contract, such as in particular a contract to establish a consulting relationship, with you or your client or employer, which also includes the clarification of any conflicts of interest, we may in particular obtain your name, contact details, powers of attorney, declarations of consent, information about third parties (e.g. contact persons, details of family and counterparties, contract contents, date of conclusion, creditworthiness data and all other data which you provide to us or which we otherwise process. contact persons, family details and counterparties), contract contents, date of conclusion, creditworthiness data and all other data that you provide to us or that we collect from public sources or from third parties (e.g. commercial register, credit agencies, sanctions lists, media, legal expenses insurance or from the Internet).
Administration and processing of contracts: We obtain and process personal data so that we can comply with our contractual obligations towards our clients and other contractual partners (e.g. suppliers, service providers, correspondence law firms, project partners) and, in particular, provide and claim contractual services. For this purpose, we process in particular the data that we receive or have collected as part of the initiation, conclusion and execution of the contract as well as data that we create as part of our contractual services or that we obtain from public sources or other sources.
Operation of our website: In order to operate our website securely and stably, we collect technical data, such as IP address, information about the operating system and settings of your end device, the region, the time and type of use. We also use cookies and similar technologies. For further information, see section 8.
Improvement of our electronic offerings: In order to continuously improve our website and other electronic offerings, we collect data about your behavior and preferences, for example by analyzing how you navigate through our website and how you interact with our social media profiles. Registration: In order to use certain offers and services (e.g. newsletters), you can register (directly with us). For this purpose, we process the data provided during the registration process. We may also collect personal data about you while you are using the offer or service; if necessary, we will provide you with further information about the processing of this data.
Security purposes and access controls: We obtain and process personal data in order to ensure and continuously improve the appropriate security of our IT and other infrastructure (e.g. buildings). This includes, for example, monitoring and controlling electronic access to our IT systems and physical access to our premises, analyzing and testing our IT infrastructures, system and error checks and creating backup copies.
Compliance with laws, directives and recommendations from authorities and internal regulations ("compliance"): We obtain and process personal data to comply with applicable laws.
Risk management and corporate governance: We obtain and process personal data as part of risk management and corporate governance. This includes, among other things, our business organization (e.g. resource planning) and corporate development (e.g. acquisition and sale of business units or companies).
Job application: If you apply for a job with us, we obtain and process the relevant data for the purpose of reviewing the application, carrying out the application process and, in the case of successful applications, for the preparation and conclusion of a corresponding contract. In addition to your contact details and the information from the relevant communication, we process in particular the data contained in your application documents and the data that we can additionally obtain about you, e.g. from job-related social networks, the Internet, the media and from references, if you consent to us obtaining references.

4 Where does the data come from?

From you: You (or your end device) provide us with the majority of the data we process yourself (e.g. in connection with our services, the use of our website and apps, or communication with us). You are not obliged to disclose your data, with exceptions in individual cases (e.g. legal obligations). However, if you wish to conclude contracts with us or make use of our services, for example, you must provide us with certain data. The use of our website is also not possible without data processing.
From third parties: We may also obtain data from publicly accessible sources (e.g. debt collection registers, land registers, commercial registers, media or the Internet incl. social media) or receive such data from (i) public authorities, (ii) your employer or client who either has a business relationship with us or is otherwise involved with us, and from (iii) other third parties (e.g. clients, counterparties, legal expenses insurers, credit reference agencies, address dealers, associations, contractual partners, Internet analysis services). This includes in particular the data that we process in the context of the initiation, conclusion and execution of contracts as well as data from correspondence and discussions with third parties, but also all other categories of data.

5 To whom do we disclose your data?

In connection with the purposes listed in section 3, we transfer your personal data in particular to the categories of recipients listed below.

Service providers: We work with service providers in Germany and abroad who (i) process data on our behalf (e.g. IT providers), (ii) on our joint responsibility or (iii) on their own responsibility, which they have received from us or collected for us. These service providers include, for example, IT providers, banks, insurance companies, debt collection agencies, credit reference agencies, address verifiers, other law firms or consulting firms. We generally agree contracts with these third parties on the use and protection of personal data.
Clients and other contractual partners: This initially refers to clients and other contractual partners of ours for whom the transfer of your data arises from the contract (e.g. because you work for a contractual partner or they provide services for you). This category of recipients also includes entities with which we cooperate, such as other law firms in Switzerland and abroad or legal expenses insurers. The recipients generally process the data under their own responsibility.
Authorities and courts: We may disclose personal data to offices and other authorities in Switzerland and abroad if this is necessary for the fulfillment of our contractual obligations and in particular for the management of mandates, or if we are legally obliged or entitled to do so or if this appears necessary to protect our interests. These recipients process the data under their own responsibility.
Counterparties and persons involved: Insofar as this is necessary for the fulfillment of our contractual obligations, in particular for the management of the mandate, we also pass on your personal data to counterparties and other persons involved (e.g. guarantors, financiers, affiliated companies, other law firms, persons providing information or experts, etc.).
Other persons: This refers to other cases where the involvement of third parties arises from the purposes set out in section 3. This applies, for example, to delivery recipients or payment recipients specified by you, third parties in the context of agency relationships or persons involved in official or court proceedings. We may also pass on your personal data to our supervisory authority, in particular if this is necessary in individual cases to release you from our professional confidentiality obligation. If we work with the media and transmit this material (e.g. photos), you may also be affected by this. As part of our corporate development, we may sell or acquire businesses, parts of businesses, assets or companies or enter into partnerships, which may also result in the disclosure of data (including from you, e.g. as a client or supplier or as their representative) to the persons involved in these transactions. In the course of communication with our competitors, industry organizations, associations and other bodies, data relating to you may also be exchanged.

All these categories of recipients may in turn involve third parties, so that your data may also become accessible to them. We may restrict processing by certain third parties (e.g. IT providers), but not by other third parties (e.g. authorities, banks, etc.).

We also allow certain third parties to collect personal data from you on our website and at our events on their own responsibility (e.g. media photographers, providers of tools that we have integrated on our website, etc.). Insofar as we are not decisively involved in this data collection, these third parties are solely responsible for it. If you have any concerns and wish to assert your data protection rights, please contact these third parties directly.

6. will your personal data also be sent abroad?

If a recipient is located in a country without adequate data protection, we contractually oblige the recipient to comply with an adequate level of data protection (we use the revised standard contractual clauses of the European Commission, which are available here: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dec_impl/2021/914/oj?, including the supplements required for Switzerland), unless the recipient is already subject to a legally recognized set of rules to ensure data protection. We may also disclose personal data to a country without adequate data protection without concluding a separate contract if we can rely on an exemption clause for this. An exception may apply in particular in the case of legal proceedings abroad, but also in cases of overriding public interests or if the performance of a contract that is in your interest requires such disclosure (e.g, if we disclose data to our correspondence offices), if you have given your consent, or if it is not possible to obtain your consent within a reasonable period of time and the disclosure is necessary to protect your life or physical integrity or that of a third party, or if it concerns data that you have made generally accessible and whose processing you have not objected to.

We may also rely on the exception for data from a register provided for by law (e.g. HR), which we have legitimately obtained access to. We may also rely on the exception for data from a register provided for by law (e.g. HR), which we have legitimately obtained access to.

7. how are cookies, similar technologies and social media plug-ins used on our website and other digital services?

When you use our website (including newsletters and other digital services), data is generated that is stored in logs (in particular technical data). We may also use cookies and similar technologies (e.g. pixel tags or fingerprints) to recognize website visitors, evaluate their behavior and identify preferences. A cookie is a small file that is transmitted between the server and your system and makes it possible to recognize a specific device or browser.

You can set your browser so that it automatically rejects, accepts or deletes cookies. You can also deactivate or delete cookies in individual cases. You can find out how to manage cookies in your browser in the help menu of your browser.

Neither the technical data collected by us nor cookies generally contain any personal data. However, personal data that we or third-party providers commissioned by us store about you (e.g. if you have a user account with us or these providers) may be linked to the technical data or to the information stored in and obtained from cookies and thus possibly to your person.

We also use social media plug-ins, which are small software modules that establish a connection between your visit to our website and a third-party provider. The social media plug-in informs the third-party provider that you have visited our website and may send the third-party provider cookies that it has previously placed on your web browser. For more information on how these third-party providers use your personal data collected via their social media plug-ins, please refer to their respective privacy policies.

In addition, we use our own tools and third-party services (which may themselves use cookies) on our website, in particular to improve the functionality or content of our website (e.g. integration of videos or maps), to compile statistics and to place advertisements.

We may currently use offers from the following service providers and advertising partners in particular, whereby their contact details and further information on the individual data processing can be found in the respective privacy policy:

Google Analytics

Provider: Google Ireland
Data protection information: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245
Information for Google accounts: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites?hl=de

Some of the third-party providers we use may be located outside Switzerland. Information on the disclosure of data abroad can be found in section 5. In terms of data protection law, some of them are "only" processors on our behalf and some are controllers. Further information on this can be found in the data protection declarations.

8. how do we process personal data on our pages in social networks?

We operate pages and other online presences on social networks and other platforms operated by third parties and process data about you in this context. In doing so, we receive data from you (e.g. when you communicate with us or comment on our content) and from the platforms (e.g. statistics). The providers of the platforms can analyze your use and process this data together with other data that they have about you. They also process this data for their own purposes (e.g. marketing and market research purposes and to manage their platforms), and act as their own data controllers for this purpose. For further information on processing by the platform operators, please refer to the privacy policies of the respective platforms.

We currently use the following platforms, whereby the identity and contact details of the platform operator can be found in the privacy policy in each case:

YouTube

www.youtube.com
Privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de

LinkedIn

www.linkedin.com
Privacy policy: https://de.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy

We are entitled, but not obliged, to check third-party content before or after it is published on our online presences, to delete content without notice and, if necessary, to report it to the provider of the platform in question.

Some of the platform operators may be located outside Switzerland. Information on data disclosure abroad can be found under section 5.$

9. what else should be noted?

Please note that we generally process your data for as long as required by our processing purposes, the statutory retention periods and our legitimate interests, in particular for documentation and evidence purposes, or if storage is technically necessary (e.g. in the case of backups or document management systems). If there are no legal or contractual obligations or technical reasons to the contrary, we generally delete or anonymize your data after the storage or processing period has expired as part of our usual processes and in accordance with our retention policy.

If you do not provide certain personal data, this may mean that it is not possible to provide the associated services or conclude a contract. We always indicate where personal data requested by us is mandatory.

The right to object to the processing of your data applies in particular to data processing for the purpose of direct marketing.

If you do not agree with our handling of your rights or data protection, please let us know. If you are in the EEA, you also have the right to lodge a complaint with the data protection supervisory authority in your country. A list of authorities in the EEA can be found here: https://edpb.europa.eu/about-edpb/board/members_de.

10. can this privacy policy be amended?

This Privacy Policy does not form part of any contract with you. We may amend this Privacy Policy at any time. The version published on this website is the current version.