/ privacy policy

Protected by the article 13 of the Swiss Federal Constitution and the data protection provisions of the Federal Government (Data Protection Act, DSG), every person is entitled to protection of their privacy and protection against misuse of their personal data. The operators of this website take the protection of your personal data very seriously. Your personal data will be treated confidentially and in accordance with the statutory data protection regulations and this privacy policy and will not be sold or passed on to third parties. In close cooperation with my hosting providers I strive to protects the database from unauthorized access, loss, misuse or fraud as much as possible. I point out that the transmission of data on the Internet can generally lack security. A complete protection of data from access by third parties is therefore not possible. However, I made every effort to keep my website safe and up to date.

When accessing the website, the following data is stored in log files: IP address, date, time, browser request and generally transmitted information about the operating system or browser. The website can be visited without registration.

By using this website, you consent to the collection, processing and use of data as described below.

This site uses cookies. These are small text files that make it possible to store specific user-related information on the user’s device during the use of the website. In particular, cookies make it possible to determine the frequency of use and the number of users of the webpages to analyse the behaviour of the webpage usage, but also to make the offer more customer friendly.

Cookies are stored at the end of a browser session and can be retrieved within a recurrent visit of the website. If you don’t want this, you should set your internet browser to refuse to accept cookies.

If you write a comment on the website, it may be a consent to save your name, e-mail address and website in cookies. This is a convenience feature, so you don’t have to re-enter all the data when writing another comment. These cookies are stored for one year.

If you have an account and sign up for this website, a temporary cookie will be sent to determine if your browser is accepted. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when the browser is closed. Within your login, some cookies are set up to store your credentials and display options. Login cookies expire after two days, cookies for display options after one year. If you select “stay logged in“ at registration, your registration will be maintained for two weeks. By logging out of your account the login cookies will be deleted.

This website uses SSL encryption for security purposes and to protect the transmission of sensitive content, such as requests that you send to us as sit operator. An encrypted connection can be recognized by the fact that the address line of the browser changes form “http://” to “https: //” and to the lock icon in the browser line. If SSL encryption is enabled, the data that you submit to us cannot be read by third parties.

The website operator or webpage provider collects data about accesses to the site and stores these as “server log files”. The following data is logged: visited website, time of access, amount of data sent in bytes, source/ reference from which they came to the website, browsers used, operating system used, IP address used (possibly in anonymous form). The data collected are for statistical purposes only and to improve the website. However, the website operator reserves the right to check the server logfiles retrospectively, if specific indications point to illegal use.

When visitors write comments on the website, the data displayed in the comment form is collected, as well as the visitor’s IP address and the user-agent string (which identifies the browser) to protect spam detection. From your e-mail address, an anonymous string (“hash”) can be created and submitted to the Gravatar service to see if you use it. The privacy policy of the Gravatar service can be found at https://austomattic.com/privacy/. After your comment is released, your profile picture will be publicly visible in the context of your comment.

Visitor comments can be examined by an automated spam detection service.

You have the right to information about your stored personal data, your origin and recipient and the purpose of the data processing as well as the rectification or deletion of this data. I you have questions about personal data, you can refer to the address given in the masthead.

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. To disable Google Analytics, Google will provide a browser plug-in at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de. Google Analytics uses cookies that allow an analysis of your website usage. The information collected by the cookie about the website usage (including its IP address) is usually transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Please note that on this website Google analytics has been extended by the «gat._anonymizelp();» in order to ensure the anonymous collection of IP addresses (so-called IP-Masking). If the anonymization is active, Google shortens IP addresses within member states of the European Union or in other contraction states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. As a result, no conclusion about your identity are possible. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transferred to a Google server and shortened. Google complies with the Privacy Policy of the Privacy Shield Agreement and is registered with the US Department of Commerce Privacy Shield Program, and uses the information collected to evaluate use and report on the use of my website and other related services to provide. Learn more at https://www.google.come/intl/de/analystics/privacyouverview.html.

The copyright and all other rights to the contents, 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 all 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 may be required to pay damages.

This website may contain embedded content (e.g. videos, images, posts, etc.). The embedded content of other websites behaves just as if the visitor is visiting the other website. These websites may collect data about you, uses cookies, additionally embed 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 in to this website.

The author reserves the right not to be responsible for the correctness of content, accuracy, reliability and completeness of the information. Liability claims against the author due to material or immaterial damage resulting from the access or use or non-use of the published information, through misuse of the connection or due to technical faults are excluded. All offers are without obligation. The author expressly reserves the right to change, supplement or delete part of the website or the entire offer without prior notice or to cease publication temporarily or permanently.