Privacy Policy

Last updated on May 3, 2023

The data controller, as defined by data protection laws, in particular the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), is:

Gridonic AG
Alexander Muischneek
Weststrasse 182
8003 Zurich

hello@gridonic.ch

www.gridonic.ch

General Information

Pursuant to Article 13 of the Swiss Federal Constitution and the federal data protection provisions (Data Protection Act, DSG), every person has the right to privacy and to protection against the misuse of their personal data. The operators of this website take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with statutory data protection regulations as well as this Privacy Policy. Together with our hosting providers (Cyon GmbH, Switzerland, and Netlify Inc., Delaware, USA), we strive to protect our databases as best as possible against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, or falsification.

By using this website, you consent to the collection, processing, and use of data as described below. In general, this website can be visited without registration. In doing so, data such as the pages accessed, the names of the files accessed, and the date and time are stored on the server for statistical purposes, without this data being directly linked to you personally. Personal data, in particular your name, address, or email address, is collected on a voluntary basis whenever possible. Data will not be disclosed to third parties without your consent.
Processing of Personal Data

Personal data refers to any information relating to an identified or identifiable individual. A data subject is a person about whom personal data is processed. Processing encompasses any handling of personal data, regardless of the means or methods used, including, in particular, the retention, disclosure, collection, deletion, storage, modification, destruction, and use of personal data. We process personal data in accordance with Swiss data protection law.
Transfer of Personal Data

As part of our processing of personal data, the data may be transferred to or disclosed to other entities, companies, legally independent organizational units, or individuals. Recipients of this data may include, for example, service providers tasked with IT-related duties or providers of services and content that are integrated into a website. In such cases, we comply with legal requirements and, in particular, enter into appropriate contracts or agreements with the recipients of your data to ensure the protection of your data.
Privacy Policy for Cookies

This website uses cookies. Cookies are text files that contain data from websites or domains visited and are stored by a browser on the user’s computer. A cookie is primarily used to store information about a user during or after their visit to an online service. The stored information may include, for example, language settings on a website, login status, a shopping cart, or the point at which a video was paused. We also include other technologies that perform the same functions as cookies under the term “cookies” (e.g., when user information is stored using pseudonymous online identifiers, also known as “user IDs”).
We distinguish between the following types and functions of cookies:

Temporary cookies (also known as session cookies): Temporary cookies are deleted at the latest after a user leaves a website and closes their browser. Persistent cookies: Persistent cookies remain stored even after the browser is closed. For example, this allows the login status to be saved or preferred content to be displayed immediately when the user visits a website again. Similarly, users’ interests—which are used for audience measurement or marketing purposes—can be stored in such a cookie. First-party cookies: First-party cookies are set by us. Third-Party Cookies (also: third-party cookies): Third-party cookies are primarily used by advertisers (so-called third parties) to process user information. Necessary (also: essential or strictly required) cookies: Cookies may be strictly necessary for the operation of a website (e.g., to store logins or other user inputs, or for security reasons). Statistical, Marketing, and Personalization Cookies: Furthermore, cookies are generally used for audience measurement and when a user’s interests or behavior (e.g., viewing specific content, using certain features, etc.) on individual web pages are stored in a user profile. Such profiles are used, for example, to display content to users that corresponds to their potential interests. This process is also referred to as “tracking,” i.e., tracking users’ potential interests. To the extent that we use cookies or “tracking” technologies, we will inform you separately in our Privacy Policy.

Processing of Cookie Data Based on Consent: We use a cookie consent management process through which users can grant, manage, and revoke their consent to the use of cookies, as well as to the processing activities and providers specified within the cookie consent management process. The declaration of consent is stored so that the consent request does not have to be repeated and so that consent can be verified in accordance with legal requirements. Storage may occur on the server and/or in a cookie (a so-called “opt-in cookie” or using comparable technologies) in order to associate the consent with a user or their device. Subject to specific information provided by the providers of cookie management services, the following applies: The consent may be stored for up to two years.

Types of data processed: Usage data (e.g., websites visited, interests in content, access times), meta/communication data (e.g., device information, IP addresses). Data subjects: Users (e.g., website visitors, users of online services).
Privacy Policy for SSL/TLS Encryption

This website uses SSL/TLS encryption for security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential information, such as the inquiries you send to us as the website operator. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the fact that the browser’s address bar changes from “http://” to “https://” and by the padlock icon in your browser’s address bar.

If SSL or TLS encryption is enabled, the data you send to us cannot be read by third parties.
Privacy Policy for the Contact Form

If you submit inquiries to us via the contact form, we will store the information you provide in the inquiry form—including the contact information you provide there—for the purpose of processing your inquiry and in case we have follow-up questions. We will not share this information without your consent.
Privacy Policy for Newsletter Data

If you would like to subscribe to the newsletter offered on this website, we need your email address as well as information that allows us to verify that you are the owner of the email address provided and that you consent to receiving the newsletter. No other data is collected. We use this data exclusively to send you the requested information and do not share it with third parties.

You may revoke your consent to the storage of your data and email address, as well as their use for sending the newsletter, at any time—for example, by clicking the "Unsubscribe" link in the newsletter.
Privacy Policy for Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Ireland Limited. If the data controller for this website is located outside the European Economic Area or Switzerland, Google Analytics data processing is carried out by Google LLC. Google LLC and Google Ireland Limited are hereinafter referred to as “Google.”

The statistics we collect allow us to improve our offerings and make them more appealing to you as a user. This website also uses Google Analytics to analyze visitor traffic across devices using a user ID. If you have a Google account, you can disable cross-device analysis of your usage in the settings under “My Data” > “Personal Data.”

The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics is not combined with other data held by Google. Please note that on this website, Google Analytics has been extended to include the code “_anonymizeIp();” to ensure that IP addresses are collected anonymously. As a result, IP addresses are processed in a truncated form, thereby preventing any association with specific individuals. If the data collected about you can be linked to a specific individual, such a link is immediately ruled out, and the personal data is promptly deleted.

Only in exceptional cases is the full IP address transmitted to a Google server in the U.S. and truncated there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity, and to provide other services to the website operator related to website and Internet usage.

Google Analytics uses cookies. The information generated by the cookie regarding your use of this website is typically transmitted to a Google server in the United States and stored there. You can prevent the storage of cookies by adjusting your browser settings accordingly; however, please note that in this case, you may not be able to use all features of this website to their full extent. You can also prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) and from processing this data by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link: Disable Google Analytics.

You can also prevent Google Analytics from being used by clicking on this Link Click: Disable Google Analytics. This will save a so-called opt-out cookie on your device, which prevents Google Analytics from processing personal data. Please note that if you delete all cookies on your device, these opt-out cookies will also be deleted; this means that you will need to set the opt-out cookies again if you wish to continue preventing this form of data collection. The opt-out cookies are set per browser and computer/device and must therefore be enabled separately for each browser, computer, or other device.
Microsoft Clarity

We partner with Microsoft Clarity and Microsoft Advertising to track your usage behavior and interactions with our website using behavioral metrics, heat maps, and session recordings. This helps us improve and market our products and services. Website usage data is collected using first- and third-party cookies as well as other tracking technologies to analyze the popularity of products and services and online activities. In addition, we use this information to optimize the website, for security and fraud prevention, and for advertising purposes. For more information on how Microsoft collects and uses your data, please see the [Microsoft Privacy Statement](https://privacy.microsoft.com/).
You can prevent your participation in this tracking process in several ways:

by adjusting your browser settings accordingly; in particular, blocking third-party cookies will prevent you from receiving ads from third-party providers;
by disabling cookies for conversion tracking by configuring your browser to block cookies from the domain “www.googleadservices.com,” https://adssettings.google.com; however, this setting will be deleted when you clear your cookies;
by disabling interest-based ads from providers participating in the “About Ads” self-regulatory campaign via the Link , although this setting will be deleted when you clear your cookies; you can permanently disable it in your Firefox, Internet Explorer, or Google Chrome browsers by following the link. Please note that in this case, you may not be able to fully use all features of this website.
Newsletter - Mailchimp

Newsletters are sent via the mailing service provider “MailChimp,” a newsletter distribution platform operated by the U.S. provider Rocket Science Group, LLC, 675 Ponce De Leon Ave NE #5000, Atlanta, GA 30308, USA. You can view the service provider’s privacy policy here. The Rocket Science Group LLC, d/b/a MailChimp, is certified under the Privacy Shield Framework and thereby guarantees compliance with European data protection standards (Privacy Shield).

The shipping service provider may use the recipients’ data in pseudonymous form—that is, without linking it to a specific user—to optimize or improve its own services, such as for technical optimization of the delivery and presentation of newsletters, or for statistical purposes. However, the mailing service provider does not use the data of our newsletter recipients to contact them directly or to share the data with third parties.
Agency Services

We process our customers' data in accordance with the federal data protection regulations (Data Protection Act, DSG) and the EU GDPR as part of our contractual services.

In this context, we process master data (e.g., customer master data such as names or addresses), contact data (e.g., email addresses, phone numbers), content data (e.g., text entries, etc.), contract data (e.g., subject matter of the contract, term), payment data (e.g., bank account information, payment history), usage and metadata (e.g., in connection with the evaluation and performance measurement of marketing measures). Data subjects include our customers, prospective customers, and their customers, users, website visitors, or employees, as well as third parties. The purpose of processing is to provide contractual services, handle billing, and provide customer service. We process data necessary for the establishment and fulfillment of contractual obligations and indicate that the provision of such data is required. Disclosure to third parties occurs only if necessary within the scope of a service agreement. When processing data provided to us in connection with a contract, we act in accordance with the client’s instructions and the legal requirements for data processing on behalf of a client pursuant to Article 28 of the GDPR, and we process the data for no other purposes than those specified in the contract.

We delete the data once statutory warranty obligations and comparable obligations have expired. The necessity of retaining the data is reviewed at irregular intervals. In the case of statutory archiving obligations, the data is deleted once those obligations have expired. In the case of data disclosed to us by the client as part of an assignment, we delete the data in accordance with the terms of the assignment, generally upon completion of the assignment.
Notice Regarding the Transfer of Data to the United States

Our website incorporates, among other things, tools from companies based in the United States. When these tools are active, your personal data may be transferred to the U.S. servers of the respective companies. Please note that the United States is not a “safe third country” under EU data protection law. U.S. companies are required to disclose personal data to law enforcement agencies, and you, as the data subject, would have no legal recourse against this. It therefore cannot be ruled out that U.S. authorities (e.g., intelligence agencies) may process, analyze, and permanently store your data located on U.S. servers for surveillance purposes. We have no control over these processing activities.
Copyrights

The copyright and all other rights to content, images, photos, or other files on this website belong exclusively to the operator of this website or to the specifically named rights holders. Written consent from the copyright holder must be obtained in advance for the reproduction of any files.

Anyone who commits a copyright infringement without the consent of the respective copyright holder may be subject to criminal penalties and, in some cases, liable for damages.
General Disclaimer

All information on our website has been carefully reviewed. We strive to ensure that the information we provide is up-to-date, accurate, and complete. Nevertheless, the possibility of errors cannot be entirely ruled out, and therefore we cannot guarantee the completeness, accuracy, or timeliness of the information, including journalistic and editorial content. Claims for damages, whether material or non-material, arising from the use of the information provided are excluded, unless there is provable intent or gross negligence on our part.

The publisher may, at its sole discretion and without notice, modify or delete text and is under no obligation to update the content of this website. Use of or access to this website is at the visitor’s own risk. The publisher, its clients, or partners are not responsible for any damages—including direct, indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages—allegedly resulting from a visit to this website and therefore assume no liability for such damages.

The publisher also assumes no responsibility or liability for the content or availability of third-party websites that can be accessed via external links on this website. The operators of the linked sites are solely responsible for their content. The publisher hereby expressly distances itself from all third-party content that may be relevant under criminal or civil law or that violates public decency.
Changes

We may update this Privacy Policy at any time without prior notice. The most recent version published on our website is the one that applies. If this Privacy Policy is part of an agreement with you, we will notify you of any changes via email or by other appropriate means in the event of an update.
Questions for the Data Protection Officer

If you have any questions about data protection, please send us an email or contact the data protection officer listed at the beginning of this Privacy Policy directly.