Privacy Policy

Statement regarding data protection
This statement indicates how Ringier Digital AG deals with personal data, which information is gathered and evaluated, for what purposes this information is used, and with whom it is exchanged.

Personal data
Personal data comprises all the information relating to a specific or specifiable natural person or legal entity. Personal data includes all items of information such as first and family names, title, postal address, email address, telephone number and similar details.
Personal data does not include information which cannot be directly linked to your real identity.

Collecting personal data
Personal data is collected whenever it is necessary for orders, offers or participation in competitions, etc. or in order to meet a contractual or statutory obligation on the part of Ringier Digital.

Non-personal usage data
When you use this Web site, the Web servers register non-personal usage data. The logfiles provide information about your IP address, the last page you visited, the browser that was used, the date, the time and the file that was requested.
Ringier Digital evaluates this non-personal data in order to identify trends, compile statistics and improve its offerings.

Use of personal data
By providing personal data, you indicate your agreement that Ringier Digital can collect your personal data and evaluate it for marketing purposes.
Your personal data may be forwarded within the Ringier Group and used by Ringier Digital to make subsequent contact (especially via email) in order to provide information about products, services and new features.
An explicit written declaration may be made in order to decline contact of this sort either in general, or in respect of a specific product or a specific service.
Your personal data may be passed on to third parties who will process it on behalf of Ringier Digital as its vicarious agents or in order to provide specific services, and data may also be transferred abroad in such cases. It is ensured that a data transfer of this sort is only made to countries which guarantee data protection equivalent to that ensured by Switzerland.
Your personal data will not otherwise be forwarded, transmitted or sold to third parties unless it is necessary to do so in order to execute a contract which you have concluded with Ringier Digital or unless you have given your explicit approval. The foregoing is without prejudice to disclosure of data as stipulated by law, for example in order to track down and uncover illegal activities.

Cookies
On its Web sites, Ringier Digital uses anonymous cookies (small text files which offer space to store information that is required) in order to optimize performance and to determine how many times pages are called up. These cookies do not contain any personal data whatsoever. Most browsers are set so that they accept cookies automatically. However, you are free to set your browser so that cookies are generally declined. In this case, however, you may not be able to use all the functions on the Web site in full.

Web analysis
To compile our Web statistics and to continuously improve our online offering, we make use of various analytical tools from different tool providers (referred to below as "tool provider"). These tools use cookies. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this Web site is transmitted to one of the relevant tool provider's servers, where it is stored. This server may be located outside of Switzerland.
The tool providers will use this information to evaluate the usage of this Web site, to compile reports about Web site activities for Ringier Digital and to provide other services related to Web site and Internet usage. They may also transfer this information to third parties insofar as this is stipulated by law or insofar as third parties process this data on behalf of the tool providers.
By using this Web site, you state that you agree to the processing of the data that is collected regarding you, in the manner described above and for the purpose stated above.
Ringier Digital shall accept no responsibility or liability for any processing of data by the various tool providers.

Links to other Web sites
This Web site contains links to Web sites of third parties. Once you click on these links, you leave our sphere of influence. Ringier Digital accepts no responsibility in terms of content or under law for third-party Web sites to which there is a link from this Web site.

Data security
Ringier Digital operates secure data networks which conform to the applicable technical standards in each case. All necessary and appropriate technical and organizational precautions are in place in order to protect your data conscientiously against loss, destruction, falsification, manipulation or unauthorized access.
Although Ringier Digital makes every reasonable effort to prevent disclosure of data due to errors in data transmission and/or unauthorized access by third parties, it cannot accept any liability for undesirable incidents of this sort.

Right to obtain information
The Data Protection Law grants you the right to learn, without charge, whether Ringier Digital stores personal data regarding you and if so, which data. You are also entitled to have incorrect information corrected and deleted. The foregoing is without prejudice to statutory safekeeping obligations (cf. in particular articles 957 and 962 of the Swiss Code of Obligations, OR).
Requests for information must be submitted to Ringier Digital in writing. We reserve the right to request appropriate proof of identity in connection with applications for information or deletion.

Legal basis
The Swiss Data Protection Law constitutes the exclusive legal basis for this statement regarding data protection.

Changes to this statement regarding data protection
Ringier Digital shall adapt these data protection provisions to new or changing requirements as appropriate in each case. The relevant new version will be made available to you at this location.