General notes
The following notes provide a simple overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit our website. Personal data is any data with which you can be personally identified. For detailed information on the subject of data protection, please refer to our privacy policy listed below this text.
Who is responsible for the data collection on this website?
The data processing on this website is carried out by the website operator. You can find his contact details in the imprint of this website.
How do we collect your data?
On the one hand, your data is collected by you providing it to us. This can be, for example, data that you enter in a contact form. Other data is collected automatically by our IT systems when you visit the website. This is mainly technical data (e.g. Internet browser, operating system or time of page view). The collection of this data takes place automatically as soon as you enter our website.
What do we use your data for?
Some of the data is collected to ensure error-free provision of the website. Other data may be used to analyze your user behavior.
What rights do you have regarding your data?
You have the right to receive information about the origin, recipient and purpose of your stored personal data free of charge at any time. You also have a right to request the correction, blocking or deletion of this data. For this purpose, as well as for further questions on the subject of data protection, you can contact us at any time at the address given in the imprint. Furthermore, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority.
Third-party analytics and tools
When visiting our website, your surfing behavior can be statistically evaluated. This is done primarily with cookies and with so-called analysis programs. The analysis of your surfing behavior is usually anonymous; the surfing behavior cannot be traced back to you. You can object to this analysis or prevent it by not using certain tools. For details, please refer to our privacy policy under the heading “Third-party modules and analysis tools”.
You can object to this analysis. We will inform you about the objection options in this privacy policy.
General notes and mandatory information
Privacy
The operators of these pages take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with the statutory data protection regulations and this privacy policy.
When you use this website, various personal data are collected. Personal data is data with which you can be personally identified. This privacy policy explains what data we collect and what we use it for. It also explains how and for what purpose this is done.
We point out that data transmission over the Internet (eg communication by e-mail) security gaps. A complete protection of the data against access by third parties is not possible.
Note on the responsible entity
The responsible party for data processing on this website is:
ESTHETIC MED GMBH ARZT- UND SPITALBEDARF
Chli Ebnet 3
CH-6403 Küssnacht am Rigi
Mail: info@estheticmed.ch
Tel: +41 44 802 33 88
The controller is the natural or legal person who alone or jointly with others determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data (e.g. names, e-mail addresses, etc.).
Revocation of your consent to data processing
Many data processing operations are only possible with your express consent. You can revoke an already given consent at any time. For this purpose, an informal communication by e-mail to us is sufficient. The legality of the data processing carried out until the revocation remains unaffected by the revocation.
SSL or TLS encryption
For security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as orders or inquiries that you send to us as the site operator, this site uses an SSL or SSL protocol.
TLS encryption. 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 or TLS encryption is activated, the data you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.
Information, blocking, deletion
Within the framework of the applicable legal provisions, you have the right at any time to free information about your stored personal data, its origin and recipient and the purpose of data processing and, if necessary, a right to correction, blocking or deletion of this data. For this purpose, as well as for further questions on the subject of personal data, you can contact us at any time at the address given in the imprint.
Objection to advertising e-mails
The use of contact data published within the framework of the imprint obligation to send advertising and information materials not expressly requested is hereby prohibited. The operators of the pages expressly reserve the right to take legal action in the event of the unsolicited sending of advertising information, such as spam e-mails.
Cookies
The Internet pages partly use so-called cookies. Cookies do not cause any damage to your computer and do not contain viruses. Cookies serve to make our offer more user-friendly, more effective and safer. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and saved by your browser.
Most of the cookies we use are so-called “session cookies”. They are automatically deleted after the end of your visit. Other cookies remain stored on your terminal device until you delete them. These cookies allow us to recognize your browser on your next visit.
You can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and only allow cookies in individual cases, exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general and activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. If you deactivate cookies, the functionality of this website may be limited.
Cookies that are required to carry out the electronic communication process or to provide certain functions you have requested (e.g. shopping cart function) are stored on the basis of Art. 6 (1) lit. f DSGVO. The website operator has a legitimate interest in storing cookies for the technically error-free and optimized provision of its services. As far as other cookies (e.g.
cookies to analyze your surfing behavior) are stored, they are treated separately in this privacy policy.
Server log files
The provider of the pages automatically collects and stores information in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically transmits to us. These are:
browser type and version
Operating system used
referrer URL
Host name of the accessing computer
Time of the server request
IP address
This data is not merged with other data sources.
The basis for data processing is Art. 6 (1) lit. b DSGVO, which permits the processing of data for the fulfillment of a contract or pre-contractual measures.
Contact form
If you send us inquiries via the contact form, your data from the inquiry form including the contact data you provided there will be stored by us for the purpose of processing the inquiry and in case of follow-up questions. We do not pass on this data without your consent.
The processing of the data entered in the contact form is therefore based exclusively on your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO). You can revoke this consent at any time. For this purpose, an informal communication by e-mail to us is sufficient. The legality of the data processing operations carried out until the revocation remains unaffected by the revocation.
The data you enter in the contact form will remain with us until you request us to delete it, revoke your consent to store it, or the purpose for storing the data no longer applies (e.g. after we have completed processing your request). Mandatory legal provisions – in particular retention periods – remain unaffected.
Analysis tools and advertising
Google Analytics
This website uses functions of the web analysis service Google Analytics. The provider is Google Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.
Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies”. These are text files that are stored on your computer and enable an analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there.
The storage of Google Analytics cookies is based on Art. 6 (1) lit. f DSGVO. The website operator has a legitimate interest in analyzing user behavior in order to optimize both its website and its advertising.
IP anonymization
We have activated the IP anonymization function on this website. This means that your IP address is shortened by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area before being transmitted to the USA. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other data from Google.
Browser Plugin
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. You can also prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) to Google and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.
Objection to data collection
You can prevent the collection of your data by Google Analytics by clicking on the following link. An opt-out cookie will be set, which will prevent the collection of your data during future visits to this website: Disable Google Analytics
For more information on how Google Analytics handles user data, please see Google’s privacy policy: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=de.
Order data processing
We have concluded an order data processing contract with Google and fully implement the strict requirements of the German data protection authorities when using Google Analytics.
Demographic characteristics in Google Analytics
This website uses the “demographic characteristics” function of Google Analytics. This allows reports to be generated that contain statements about the age, gender and interests of site visitors. This data comes from interest-based advertising from Google as well as visitor data from third-party providers. This data cannot be assigned to a specific person. You can deactivate this function at any time via the ad settings in your Google account or generally prohibit the collection of your data by Google Analytics as shown in the item “Objection to data collection”.
Google reCAPTCHA
We use “Google reCAPTCHA” (hereinafter “reCAPTCHA”) on our websites. The provider is Google Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”).
The purpose of reCAPTCHA is to check whether data entry on our websites (e.g. in a contact form) is made by a human or by an automated program. For this purpose, reCAPTCHA analyzes the behavior of the website visitor based on various characteristics. This analysis starts automatically as soon as the website visitor enters the website. For the analysis, reCAPTCHA evaluates various information (e.g. IP address, time spent by the website visitor on the website or mouse movements made by the user). The data collected during the analysis is forwarded to Google.
The reCAPTCHA analyses run completely in the background. Website visitors are not notified that an analysis is taking place.
The data processing is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO. The website operator has a legitimate interest in protecting its web offers from abusive automated spying and from SPAM.
For more information about Google reCAPTCHA and Google’s privacy policy, please see the following links: https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/ and https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/android.html.
Google Web Fonts
This page uses so-called web fonts provided by Google for the uniform display of fonts. When you call up a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into its browser cache in order to display texts and fonts correctly.
For this purpose, the browser you use must connect to Google’s servers. This enables Google to know that our website has been accessed via your IP address. The use of Google Web Fonts is in the interest of a uniform and appealing presentation of our online offers. This represents a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO.
If your browser does not support web fonts, a default font is used by your computer.
For more information about Google Web Fonts, please visit https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and see Google’s privacy policy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.
Google Maps
This site uses the map service Google Maps via an API. The provider is Google Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.
To use the functions of Google Maps, it is necessary to store your IP address. This information is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. The provider of this site has no influence on this data transmission.
The use of Google Maps is in the interest of an appealing presentation of our online offers and an easy location of the places indicated by us on the website. This represents a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO.
You can find more information on the handling of user data in Google’s privacy policy: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/.
Newsletter Marketing
As a newsletter subscriber, you provide us with the details of your registration, primarily your e-mail address and your preferred language; in addition – if you wish – your first and last name, your company and position, and your Twitter account. In a confirmation e-mail you will see how this data is recorded. You can adjust your profile data or unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time. We also use our newsletter lists to create Custom or Lookalike Audiences or Similar Audiences (see below) on platforms such as Facebook, Twitter or Google (DoubleClick). You can opt out of this use at any time. If you provide your Twitter account, we can inform ourselves on a case-by-case basis about which topics you tweet publicly.
For the management of newsletter contacts and the dispatch of the newsletter, we use MailChimp, a service that supports, among other things, the design and target group-oriented addressing of email newsletters. In MailChimp, we record the details of your registration for our newsletter (via our website or our lead form on Twitter or Facebook, or manually with your consent if necessary). MailChimp uses session cookies as well as pixel tags/web beacons in our emails to be able to assign opening and clicks to users. The data is processed directly on the servers of the service, which are located abroad. Information about such steps of users (e.g. the duration, sequence and URL of visits and page views, as well as information about the device used, operating system, browser and settings the approximate location) are also transmitted there; By subscribing to the newsletter, you agree to this.
Plugins of the social network Facebook, 1601 South California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA are integrated on the website http://www.estheticmed.ch. You can recognize the Facebook plugins by the Facebook logo or the “Like” button on our page. You can find an overview of the Facebook plugins here: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/. When you visit our pages, a direct connection is established between your browser and the Facebook server via the plugin. Facebook thereby receives the information that you have visited our site with your IP address. If you click the Facebook “Like” button while logged into your Facebook account, you can link the content of our pages on your Facebook profile. This allows Facebook to associate the visit to our pages with your user account. We would like to point out that we, as the provider of the pages, have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its use by Facebook. For more information, please refer to Facebook’s privacy policy at http://de-de.facebook.com/policy.php.
Facebook Custom Audiences
Facebook Custom Audiences dient uns dazu, aus bestehenden Datensätzen (z.B. unsere Newsletter-Abonnenten) nach bestimmten Kriterien Gruppen und Listen von Nutzern zusammenzustellen, um diesen auf den Diensten von Facebook ihren Interessen und Präferenzen gerechte Informationen und Werbung anbieten zu können. Vor der Übermittlung an Facebook werde diese Daten auf unseren Rechnern zu sogenannten Hash-Werten (verschlüsselten Zahlenwerten) unumkehrbar verschlüsselt, die Facebook dazu dienen, diese mit seinen Nutzerbeständen abzugleichen. Sie können diese Form der Werbung durch Einstellungen Ihres Browsers ablehnen, die Sie auf der Auswahl-Seite der Digital Advertising Alliance vornehmen können.
Facebook Lookalike Audiences
Facebook Lookalike Audiences are used by us to compile groups and lists of users from existing data records (e.g. our newsletter subscribers) according to certain criteria in order to be able to offer relevant information to users with similar interests and preferences on Facebook’s services. The data is irreversibly encrypted on our computers into so-called hash values (encrypted numerical values) before being transmitted to Facebook. You can reject this form of advertising through settings in your browser, which you can make on the selection page of the Digital Advertising Alliance.
Facebook Connect
Facebook Connect is a Facebook feature that allows Facebook users to log in to other websites, apps, and services using their Facebook identity. In doing so, this other service gains access to certain preferences and social and links stored in Facebook, on which it can base its own offers. This follows the user’s settings in Facebook. More details can be found in Facebook’s explanations. Facebook may use data about the steps of users on such other services to recognize visitors to our website on its services to offer for the interests and preferences of the user. You can opt out of this form of advertising through settings in your browser, which you can do on the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page.
Social Media Plugins
We offer recommendation buttons of the following social networks on our website: Facebook and Instagram. These allow you to recommend selected website content to other Internet users via the relevant social network and add it to your personal profile. The recommendation buttons are provided by the operators of the social networks.
By integrating these plugins on our website, the operators of the relevant social networks may receive the information that you have accessed our website. If you are logged into one of the aforementioned networks during your visit to our website, the operator can assign this visit to your user account. If such an assignment is not desired, we recommend that you log out of social networks before visiting our website.
When you use the buttons, the corresponding information is transmitted to the relevant social network and stored there. For more information on the purpose and scope of data collection, the further processing and use of the data and settings options for protecting your privacy, please refer to the privacy notices of the operators of the social networks:
Facebook: http://de-de.facebook.com/policy.php
Instagram: https://help.instagram.com/155833707900388
Multilingualism
All the above measures under Privacy Policy are also implemented and applied in the individual foreign languages of this website. The contact details for questions, comments, etc. can be found under Imprint.
Availability of the Internet pages
We do not guarantee that the website we operate will be available at all times and are not liable for error-free data communication. The website may contain links to third-party offers. When selecting these providers, we pay attention to the highest quality. We have no influence on how these providers handle the customer data collected on their own websites. We are therefore not responsible for their content and accept no liability in this regard. We are not responsible for compliance with data protection regulations by the providers integrated on the website.
Changes
We reserve the right to change this privacy policy at any time and to inform the customers/users about the changes in an appropriate manner. The current version is always available on our website under “Privacy Policy”.
