Data Protection Declaration

General Information about the Privacy Policy

Your trust means a lot to us. Thats why safeguarding your information is a priority for us. We strictly adhere to the rules outlined in the Federal Act on Data Protection (FADT) the Ordinance related to it (OFADT) the Telecommunications Act (TCA) and other relevant privacy regulations such, as the General Data Protection Regulation of the European Union (GDPR).

Our privacy policy aims to explain how we handle information collected and used through our website Switzerland Highlights.com (referred to as “Website”). TechnoVenture GmbH (referred to as “we” or “us”) is committed to following the data protection laws and ensuring that your rights are respected.

Consent with Cookie Notice & Compliance

Our website uses the consent technology of Cookie Notice & Compliance for GDPR to obtain your consent to the storage of certain cookies on your end device or to the use of certain technologies and to document this in compliance with data protection regulations.

The provider of the tool is Hu-manity Rights Inc, 300 Carnegie Center, Suite 150, Princeton, NJ, New Jersey 08540, USA (hereinafter “Hu-manity Rights Inc.”). When you enter our website, a connection is established to the servers of Hu-manity Rights Inc. in order to obtain your consent and other declarations regarding the use of cookies. Hu-manity Rights Inc. then stores a cookie in your browser in order to be able to assign the consents given or their revocation to you. The data collected in this way is stored until you ask us to delete it, delete the Hu-manity Rights Inc. cookie yourself or the purpose for data storage no longer applies. Mandatory statutory retention obligations remain unaffected.

Cookie Notice & Compliance for GDPR is used to obtain the legally required consents for the use of cookies. The legal basis for this is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c GDPR.

Cookies

We use so-called “cookies” on our travel portal. Cookies are small text files that are transferred from a website server to your hard disk. This automatically provides us with certain data such as IP address, browser used, operating system and your connection to the Internet.

Cookies cannot be used to start programs or transfer viruses to a computer. We can use the information contained in cookies to make navigation easier for you and enable our web pages to be displayed correctly.

Under no circumstances will the data collected by us be passed on to third parties or linked to personal data without your consent.

In principle, you can also view our travel portal without cookies. Internet browsers are regularly set to accept cookies. In general, you can deactivate or delete the use of cookies at any time via your browser settings. Please use the help functions of your Internet browser to find out how to change these settings. Please note that individual functions of our website may not work if you have deactivated the use of cookies.

Further information on cookies can be found at: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cookie

Use of Gravatar

We use the Gravatar service within our online offering and in particular in the blog. Gravatar is a service where users can register and store profile pictures and their email addresses. If users leave posts or comments on other online presences (especially in blogs) with the respective e-mail address, their profile pictures can be displayed next to the posts or comments. For this purpose, the e-mail address provided by the users is transmitted to Gravatar in encrypted form for the purpose of checking whether a profile is stored for it. This is the sole purpose of transmitting the e-mail address. It will not be used for any other purpose and will be deleted afterwards.

Gravatar is used on the basis of our legitimate interests, as we use Gravatar to offer post and comment authors the opportunity to personalize their posts with a profile picture. By displaying the images, Gravatar learns the IP address of the user, as this is necessary for communication between a browser and an online service.

If users do not want a user picture linked to their email address at Gravatar to appear in the comments, they should use an email address that is not stored at Gravatar to comment.

We would also like to point out that it is also possible to use an anonymous e-mail address or no e-mail address at all if users do not wish their own e-mail address to be sent to Gravatar. Users can completely prevent the transfer of data by not using our commenting system; service provider: Aut O’Mattic A8C Ireland Ltd, Grand Canal Dock, 25 Herbert Pl, Dublin, D02 AY86, Ireland; Legal basis: Legitimate interests (Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f) GDPR); Website: https://automattic.com; Privacy policy: https://automattic.com/privacy.

Social Plugins

The social plugins Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, XING and YouTube are used on our travel portal:

Facebook / Meta Platforms Inc., 1601 S California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA
Instagram Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
Twitter Inc., 1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA
Linkedin Unlimited Company, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Irland
XING New Work SE, Am Strandkai 1, 20457 Hamburg, Deutschland
YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA

Our social media presence is as follows:

You can recognize the plugins by the fact that they are marked with the corresponding logo.

Information, which may also include personal data, may be sent to the service provider via these plugins and may be used by the service provider. We prevent the unconscious and unwanted collection and transmission of data to the service provider by means of a 2-click solution. To activate a desired social plugin, it must first be activated by clicking on the corresponding button. Only this activation of the plugin triggers the collection of information and its transmission to the service provider. We do not collect any personal data ourselves by means of the social plugins or through their use.

We have no influence on what data an activated plugin collects and how it is used by the provider. At present, it must be assumed that a direct connection to the provider’s services is established and that at least the IP address and device-related information is collected and used. It is also possible that the service providers attempt to store cookies on the computer used. Please refer to the data protection information of the respective service provider to find out which specific data is collected and how it is used. Note: If you are logged in to Facebook at the same time, Facebook can identify you as a visitor to a specific page.

If you do not want the provider of the social network to assign the data collected via our website to your user account, you must log out of the social network before activating the plugins. Your consent within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a EU GDPR forms the legal basis for the data processing described. You can revoke your consent at any time by declaring your revocation to the provider of the plugin in accordance with the information in their data protection information.

SSL encryption

To protect the security of your data during transmission, we use state-of-the-art encryption methods (e.g. SSL) via HTTPS.

Use of Contact Form

You have the option of using a contact form to get in touch with us. Doing so requires that you enter the following personal data:

Title
First name and surname
Address (street, number, town/city, postcode) (optional)
Telephone number (optional)
E-mail address

We only use this data in order to answer your queries in an optimum manner and in a way that is tailored to you. The processing of your contact request constitutes our legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. You can object to this data processing at any time (for contact details, see further below, Section 11).

Contacting via Email

If you contact us by e-mail regarding questions of any kind, you give us your voluntary consent for the purpose of contacting you. For this purpose, it is necessary to provide a valid e-mail address. This serves the assignment of the request and the subsequent response to the same. The provision of further data is optional. The information you provide will be stored for the purpose of processing the request and for possible follow-up questions.

We only use this data to provide the best possible and personalized response to your contact inquiry.

The processing of your contact request constitutes our legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. You can object to this data processing at any time (for contact details, see further below, Section 11).

Data Collection When Visiting Our Website

When you visit our website, our servers make a temporary record of each access and store it in a log file. The following data is collected and stored, without any action on your part, until it is automatically deleted by us after 12 months at the latest:

IP address of the accessing computer
time and date of access
name and URL of the file called up
website from which access is made
operating system of your computer and the browser used
country from which access is made
language settings of your browser
name of your Internet access provider

The said data is collected and processed for the purpose of allowing you to use our website (establishing a connection), ensuring system security and stability in the long term and allowing our Internet offering to be optimised, as well as for internal statistical purposes. This is our legitimate interest in the processing of data within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The IP address in particular is used in order to determine the country of residence of the visitor to the website and set the language of the website accordingly. The IP address is also analysed in the event of attacks on the network infrastructure of www.myswitzerland.com as well as for statistical purposes.

Data Collection When Booking, Ordering, or Making Reservations with Third Parties

On our travel portal there are a number of ways to make bookings or reservations or request informational material or other services. The corresponding services are provided by third parties in each case. You will be notified accordingly if you are redirected to our partners. Depending on the service to be provided, different data is collected in this respect. This could be the following data, for example:

Title and/or company
First name and surname
Address (street, number, postcode, town/city, country)
Other contact details (e-mail address, telephone number)
Credit card details, where required

The data you provide is generally collected by the relevant provider directly or for certain offers passed on to the relevant provider by us. For further data processing, the data protection provisions of the relevant provider shall apply in these cases. The legal basis for the processing of the aforementioned data lies in the performance of a contract within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR.

Die von Ihnen eingegeben Daten werden dabei in der Regel direkt durch den betreffenden Anbieter erhoben oder bei bestimmten Angeboten durch uns an diese weitergeleitet. Für eine solche weitere Bearbeitung der Daten gelten in diesen Fällen die Datenschutzbestimmungen des jeweiligen Anbieters. Die Rechtsgrundlage für die Verarbeitung der vorangehend erwähnten Daten liegt in der Erfüllung eines Vertrages im Sinne von Art. 6 Abs. 1 lit. b DSGVO.

Data collection when you register for our newsletter

You have the option of subscribing to our newsletter through our website. Registration is required in order to do so. As part of the registration, the following data must be provided:

Title
First name and surname
E-mail address

You also have the option of providing additional information (date of birth and country) on a voluntary basis. We process this data in order to personalise the information and offers sent to you and to better align ourselves to your interests.
By registering, you give your agreement to the data provided being processed for regular dispatch of the newsletter to the address you provided, for the statistical analysis of user behaviour and optimisation of the newsletter. Your consent constitutes our legal basis for the processing of your e-mail address in the sense of art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR.We are entitled to commission third parties with the technical processing of advertising measures and to pass your data on for this purpose.

At the end of each newsletter is a link which you can use to unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time. When unsubscribing you have the option to let us know the reason you are doing so. Once you have unsubscribed, your personal data will be deleted. Further processing shall take place only in anonymised form for the purpose of optimising our newsletter.

Links

Our travel portal may contain hyperlinks to other websites that are not operated or monitored by us. These third-party websites are not subject to this Privacy Policy and we are not responsible for their content or their policies regarding the handling of personal data. We recommend that you read the policy of the respective websites and check how they protect your personal data and whether they are trustworthy.

Embedded YouTube videos

We have embedded YouTube videos on some pages of our portal. The operator of the corresponding plugins is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave, San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. When you visit a page with the YouTube plugin, a connection to YouTube servers is established. YouTube is informed which pages you visit. If you are logged into your YouTube account, YouTube can assign your surfing behavior to you personally. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account beforehand.

When a YouTube video is started, the provider uses cookies that collect information about user behavior.

If you have deactivated the storage of cookies for the Google Ad program, you will not have to expect any such cookies when watching YouTube videos. However, YouTube also stores non-personal usage information in other cookies. If you wish to prevent this, you must block the storage of cookies in your browser.

The use of YouTube is in the interest of an appealing presentation of our online offers. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR.

Further information on data protection at “YouTube” can be found in the provider’s privacy policy at: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/

Youtube with the plugin WP Youtube Lyte

This website integrates videos from the YouTube website. The operator of the pages is Google Ireland Limited (“Google”), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

We use YouTube with the help of the WP Youtube Lyte plugin. This means that YouTube does not store any information about visitors to this website before they watch the video. The preview images of the videos are stored locally on our server.

As soon as you start a YouTube video on this website, a connection to the YouTube servers is established. This tells the YouTube server which of our pages you have visited. If you are logged into your YouTube account, you enable YouTube to assign your surfing behavior directly to your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.

Furthermore, YouTube may store various cookies on your end device after starting a video or use comparable recognition technologies (e.g. device fingerprinting). In this way, YouTube can obtain information about visitors to this website. This information is used, among other things, to record video statistics, improve user-friendliness and prevent fraud attempts.
Gegebenenfalls können nach dem Start eines Youtube-Videos weitere Datenverarbeitungsvorgänge ausgelöst werden, auf die wir keinen Einfluss haben.

The use of YouTube is in the interest of an appealing presentation of our online offers. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. If a corresponding consent has been requested, the processing is carried out exclusively on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR and § 25 para. 1 TTDSG, insofar as the consent includes the storage of cookies or access to information in the user’s terminal device (e.g. device fingerprinting) within the meaning of the TTDSG. Consent can be revoked at any time.

Further information on data protection at “YouTube” can be found in the provider’s privacy policy at https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/

Right of access, rectification, erasure and restriction of processing

You have the right to receive information about the personal data that we store about you free of charge upon request. In addition, you have the right to rectification of incorrect data and the right to erasure of your personal data, provided that this does not conflict with a statutory retention obligation or a permission that allows us to process the data. In accordance with Articles 18 and 21 GDPR, you also have the right to request the restriction of data processing and to object to data processing.

You also have the right to request that we return the data that you have provided to us (right to data portability).

Responsibility for Data Protection

TechnoVenture GmbH, Schönenbodenstrasse 2, 6410 Goldau, Switzerland, a company specializing in innovation and technology management (CHE-479.733.777), represented by Dr. rer. nat. Franz Josef Beeler (Managing Director), operates the travel website https://luxury-tour-switzerland.com/ and is therefore responsible for the collection, processing, and use of your personal data, as well as ensuring the compatibility of data processing with Swiss law.