We are pleased that you are visiting our website and are interested in Heinz Vonäsch Fotografie, our products and services. Data protection and data security are very important to us. For your future visits to our website, we would like to inform you about when we store which data and how we use it—in compliance with the applicable data protection legislation, in particular the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Swiss and Liechtenstein data protection laws.

The website operator takes the protection of your data very seriously and treats your personal data confidentially and in accordance with the statutory provisions. As changes may be made to this Privacy Policy due to new technologies and the ongoing development of this website, we recommend that you read through the Privacy Policy again at regular intervals.

The party responsible for processing personal data in connection with the use of the website is Heinz Vonäsch Fotografie, 3098 Köniz.

We may collect users’ personally identifiable information in a variety of ways, including, but not limited to, when users visit our website, register on the website, place an order, fill out a form, respond to a survey, and in connection with other activities, services, features or resources that we make available on our website. Users may be asked for their name, email address, mailing address and telephone number, where appropriate. Users may, however, visit our website anonymously. We will collect users’ personal data only if they voluntarily submit such information to us. Users can always refuse to provide personal data, except that this may prevent them from participating in certain website-related activities.

We may collect non-personally identifiable information about users whenever they interact with our website. Non-personally identifiable information may include the browser name, the type of computer and technical information about users’ means of connection to our websites, such as the operating system and the Internet service providers used, as well as other similar information.

Our website may use “cookies” to enhance the user experience. The user’s web browser places cookies on their hard drive for record-keeping purposes and sometimes to track information about them. The user may set their web browser to refuse cookies or to alert them when cookies are being sent. Please note that in this case, some parts of the website may not function properly.

Our website may collect and use users’ personal data for the following purposes:

● Analysing and optimising our website offering and ensuring its functionality;
● Ensuring flawless service delivery;
● Processing your enquiries when you contact us;
● Marketing and maintaining existing and future customer relationships;
● Other purposes expressly indicated at the time of data collection.

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This allows us to automatically recognise and approve follow-up comments instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users who register on our website (if applicable), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can view, edit or delete their personal data at any time (except that they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also view and edit this information.

We implement appropriate procedures for the collection, storage and processing of data, as well as security measures to prevent unauthorised access to, alteration, disclosure or destruction of your personal data, usernames, passwords, transaction information and data stored on our website.

We do not sell, trade or rent users’ personally identifiable information to third parties. We may share generic aggregated demographic information not linked to any personally identifiable information about visitors and users with our business partners, trusted partners and advertisers for the purposes described above. We may use third-party service providers to help operate our business and the website or manage activities on our behalf, such as sending newsletters or surveys. We may share your data with these third parties for these limited purposes, provided that you have given us permission to do so.

If the user decides to subscribe to our mailing list, they will receive emails containing company news, updates, related product or service information, etc. If the user wishes to unsubscribe from receiving future emails at any time, we include detailed instructions for unsubscribing at the end of each email, or the user can contact us through our website. We may use third-party service providers to help operate our business and the website or manage activities on our behalf, such as sending newsletters or surveys. We may share your data with these third parties for these limited purposes, provided that you have given us permission to do so.

Articles on this website may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in exactly the same way as if the visitor had visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking and monitor your interaction with this embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to this website.

Our website reserves the right to update this Privacy Policy at any time. When we do so, we will post a notification on the main page of our website and revise the updated date at the bottom of this page. We encourage users to check this page regularly for changes in order to stay informed about how we help protect the personal data we collect. You acknowledge and agree that it is your responsibility to review this Privacy Policy periodically and become aware of any changes.

By using this website, you signify your acceptance of this policy. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use our website. Your continued use of the website following the posting of changes to this policy will be deemed your acceptance of those changes.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this website or your dealings with this website, please contact us.

This document was last updated on 31 August 2020