Privacy Policy
I. Information on the processing of personal data
1. Below, we would like to explain how we process personal data when you visit our website. Personal data is any data that relates to you or can be related to you, such as your name, address, email address, or usage behavior. This also includes technical information such as IP addresses or device and browser information, provided that this can be assigned to you. With these explanations, we are complying with our legal obligations, in particular those arising from the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This privacy policy applies in accordance with the DSG and GDPR; for the sake of simplicity, we use the terminology of the GDPR.
2. This privacy policy applies to all content under this domain and to the use of our website in general, unless separate information is provided for specific processing situations.
3. The controller pursuant to Art. 4 No. 7 GDPR is Bollinger Consulting, Schwalbenstrasse 19, 8623 Wetzikon, contact@bollingerconsulting.com, which you can also find in our legal notice.
4. If you contact us via a contact form or by email, we will store the information you provide (e.g., email address, name, telephone number) in order to process your request. If your message can be assigned to a contract or its initiation, the storage period is based on the applicable deadlines. In all other cases, we will delete your data as soon as it is no longer required for processing, but at the latest after the regular limitation period of three years has expired. If statutory retention periods prevent this, we will limit processing to the necessary extent.
If certain information is absolutely necessary to process your request, we will point this out in the respective context. Without this information, proper processing may not be possible.
5. We may commission external companies to provide individual functions on our website. We select these service providers carefully, monitor them regularly, and inform you at the appropriate point about the nature and scope of the respective processing operations. In doing so, we also specify the criteria that have been set for the storage period.
6. We reserve the right to amend this privacy policy in the future so that it always complies with current legal requirements or takes into account changes to our services. The current version is available on our website at any time.
II. Your rights as a data subject
1. You have various rights vis-à-vis the controller with regard to the processing of your personal data. These include in particular:
the right to access the personal data we process,
the right to correct inaccurate or incomplete data,
the right to delete your data, provided that there are no legal retention obligations,
the right to restrict the processing of your data,
the right to object to processing,
the right to data portability,
and the right to withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future.
2. You also have the option of complaining to a data protection supervisory authority if you believe that the processing of your personal data violates data protection regulations.
The supervisory authority responsible for you usually depends on your place of residence or the location of the alleged infringement.
III. Processing of personal data when visiting our website
If you simply visit our website without registering or actively providing us with information, we automatically process the personal data that your browser sends to our server. This data is necessary in order to display the content of our website correctly and to ensure its stability and security. Processing is carried out on the basis of Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR, as we have a legitimate interest in providing our website in a technically reliable manner and ensuring its stability and security.
The information collected in this context includes, in particular:
Your IP address,
Date and time of access,
The respective time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT),
The specific content of the page accessed,
The respective access status or HTTP status code,
The amount of data transferred,
The previously accessed page (“referrer”),
information about your browser,
information about your operating system,
and the language and version of your browser software.
This processing is technically necessary; without the provision of this data, the website cannot be displayed or operated correctly.
IV. Additional functions and offers on our website
1. In addition to the purely informational use of our website, we provide various other services that you can use if you are interested. We also use certain standard functions that contribute to the analysis or optimization of our offerings. In order to use these additional functions or services, it may be necessary for you to provide further personal data or for us to process additional data that is necessary for the provision or execution of the respective functions. The principles applicable to these processing operations correspond to those already described above.
2. We may involve external service providers for certain processing steps. We select these companies carefully and review them regularly. They act exclusively in accordance with our specifications and are under our control.
If these service providers process personal data on our behalf, this is done on the basis of a data processing agreement in accordance with Art. 28 GDPR. In this context, they undertake to take appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect personal data.
3. In addition, we may work with partner companies for individual services, such as promotions, competitions, or contract offers. Depending on the type of service, these partners may also process data on their own responsibility. In such cases, we will inform you separately about the scope of the processing and the responsible body.
4. If we use service providers or partners based in a country outside the European Economic Area (EEA) for certain functions or offers, we will inform you of the possible consequences at the appropriate point.
Personal data will only be transferred to a third country if the special requirements of Art. 44 ff. GDPR are met.
V. Rights of objection and revocation with regard to the processing of your data
1. If you have given us your consent to process your personal data, you can revoke this consent at any time with effect for the future. The revocation does not affect the lawfulness of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent until the revocation.
2. Insofar as we base the processing of your personal data on a balancing of interests, you may object to the processing. This applies in particular to cases in which the processing is not necessary for the performance of a contract and we assert overriding legitimate interests. If you wish to exercise your right to object, please send us a short message explaining the reasons for your objection to the processing. We will then review the situation and either stop processing, adjust it, or explain to you our compelling legitimate reasons for continuing the processing.
3. Of course, you can object to the processing of your personal data for direct marketing and data analysis purposes at any time without having to provide reasons. Please address your objection to the use of your data for advertising purposes to the contact options listed above.
VI. Processing of data from your device (“Cookie Policy”)
1. In addition to the data already mentioned, we use various technical tools when you use our website that can be stored on your device or read from it. These may include cookies in particular, but also other technologies such as advertising IDs or local storage mechanisms in your browser environment.
When you visit our website for the first time, and at any time thereafter, you have the option of using our consent manager or your browser settings to decide whether you want to allow or reject the use of certain functions. Below, we first explain the underlying technical principles (section 2) before discussing the categories of mandatory functions (section 3) and voluntarily activatable functions (section 4).
2. Cookies and similar technologies are used to provide information to specific locations within our systems. Cookies are small text files or similar information packages that are stored on your device and assigned to the browser you are using. This information enables us, for example, to save settings, recognize sessions, or analyze the use of our website. Cookies do not contain any programs and cannot execute malware on your device.
The types of cookies we use include, in particular:
• Transient cookies (e.g., session cookies), which are automatically deleted as soon as you close your browser or log out. They contain a so-called session ID, which can be used to assign various requests from your browser to the same session.
• Persistent cookies, which remain on your device for a specified period of time and are only automatically deleted after this period has expired.
• Other comparable technologies that work without classic cookies, such as local storage objects (e.g., HTML5 storage), evaluations of your browser configuration, advertising IDs, or authentication caches.
3. Some of these technologies are technically necessary to display our website correctly and provide basic functions. These include, in particular, transient cookies, which are automatically deleted after you leave our website. These functions cannot be deactivated if you wish to use our website. You can view the cookies used in our consent manager. The legal basis for the use of technically necessary technologies is Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR, as we have a legitimate interest in the functional provision of our website.
4. In addition, we use other technologies that are not strictly necessary and for which we require your consent. Such functions are only activated if you expressly agree to them in the consent manager. These may serve, for example, to analyze and improve our website, for cross-device recognition, for more user-friendly operation, or for the display of advertising (including interest-based advertising or measurement of advertising effectiveness). The legal basis for this is your voluntary consent in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR, which you can revoke at any time with effect for the future without affecting the lawfulness of the processing carried out until the revocation.
You can view, individually select, or deactivate the functions we use that require consent at any time in the consent manager.
VII. Newsletter
1. You have the option of subscribing to our newsletter, through which we inform you about current offers that may be of interest to you. This requires your explicit consent. The specific products and services advertised are specified in the respective declaration of consent.
2. We use a so-called double opt-in procedure for registration for our newsletter. This means that after entering your email address, you will receive a message at this address asking you to confirm that you are the owner of the address provided and that you actually wish to receive the newsletter. If this confirmation is not made within [24 hours], your details will initially be blocked and automatically deleted after one month.
In addition, we store the IP addresses used during registration as well as the times of registration and confirmation. This enables us to prove your consent and investigate any possible misuse of personal data.
3. We only need your email address to send you the newsletter. [Any additional information marked separately is voluntary and only enables us to address you personally.]
After you confirm your registration, we will store your email address for the purpose of sending you the newsletter. The legal basis for this is your consent in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR.
4. You can revoke your consent to receive the newsletter at any time and unsubscribe from the newsletter. A corresponding unsubscribe link is provided for this purpose in every newsletter email. Alternatively, you can declare your revocation [OPTIONAL: also via a form on our website], by email to [Newsletter@example.com] or via the contact options listed in the legal notice.
If you give your additional consent, we can also evaluate your usage behavior when sending our newsletter. In this case, the emails contain so-called web beacons or tracking pixels. These are small image files stored on our website that enable us to evaluate certain interaction data with the newsletter.
For this analysis, we link the above-mentioned data and the tracking pixels to your email address and an individual identifier.
[OPTIONAL: Links within the newsletter may also contain such an ID.]
The evaluation is carried out exclusively using pseudonymized identifiers. No assignment to your person is made; direct identifiability is excluded.
VIII. Services used
1. Framer
We use the Framer service provided by Framer B.V., Rozengracht 207B, 1016 LZ Amsterdam, Netherlands, as a website builder, hosting platform, and to provide individual functions. Insofar as personal data is transferred from Switzerland to the Netherlands in the context of use, this is done on the basis of the European Union's classification as a country with an adequate level of data protection in accordance with Art. 16 para. 1 DSG and the list of countries of the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (EDÖB).
For further information on the use of your data by Framer, please refer to the information below and the provider's privacy policy: https://www.framer.com/legal/privacy/
a) Cookie banner (Consent Management)
We use Framer's integrated cookie banner to fulfill our legal obligations to obtain and manage consent in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (c) GDPR.
The cookie banner is used to display information about cookies and to manage user consent. Framer only processes the information that is technically necessary to provide the consent function; personal data from the cookie banner is not transmitted to Framer.
b) Contact form (Form Submissions)
We process the personal data you submit via the contact form for the purpose of processing your request within the framework of pre-contractual measures in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR using Framer.
The personal data you enter (e.g., name, email address, message) is transmitted to Framer and stored there as so-called “form submissions.” Framer acts as a processor and processes the data exclusively in accordance with our instructions.
c) Hosting and technical infrastructure
We use Framer's hosting and infrastructure services within the scope of our legitimate interest in the technically flawless, secure, and efficient operation of our website in accordance with Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR.
Framer processes technical information such as IP addresses, browser and device data, timestamps, and server log data to the extent necessary for the provision, stability, and security of the website. Framer acts as a processor and processes all data exclusively in accordance with our instructions.
2. Weglot
In accordance with Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR, we use the Weglot tool from the provider Weglot SAS, 138 rue Pierre Joigneaux, 92270 Bois-Colombes, France, as part of our legitimate interest in a technically flawless online offering and its economically efficient design and optimization.
Weglot processes IP addresses, device and browser information, and content accessed in particular in order to provide language translation for our website and ensure its functionality. The processing serves to automatically provide multilingual content and optimize the display according to the user's language.
This may involve the transfer of personal data to France. This is based on the European Union's classification as a country with an adequate level of data protection in accordance with Art. 16 (1) DSG and the list of countries compiled by the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (EDÖB).
For more information on how Weglot uses your data, please refer to Weglot's privacy policy: https://weglot.com/privacy/
3. Calendly
In accordance with Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR, we use the “Calendly” tool from Calendly, LLC, 115 E Main St, Suite A1B, Buford, GA 30518, USA, as part of our legitimate interest in a technically flawless online offering and its economically efficient design and optimization.
The tool is used to enable appointments to be made, during which personal data such as name, email address, telephone number, time zone, calendar availability, and other information relevant to scheduling appointments is processed. In addition, technical data (e.g., IP address, device data) and cookies may be collected automatically. The processing is carried out to enable appointment booking, to manage appointments, to communicate with users, and to technically optimize the service.
The provider is based in the USA. Personal data is transferred outside the European Economic Area. Calendly has submitted to the Swiss-US Data Privacy Framework.
For more information on how the provider uses your data, please refer to the privacy policy of Calendly, LLC: https://calendly.com/legal/privacy-notice
4. Hostpoint
Within the scope of our legitimate interest — within the meaning of Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR — we use the email and hosting service Hostpoint from Hostpoint AG, Neue Jonastrasse 60, 8640 Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland. The legitimate interest consists in the secure provision and maintenance of our email infrastructure for communication with users and interested parties.
Hostpoint enables the setup and management of business email addresses, mailboxes, and hosting services (including web hosting, domain management, etc., where applicable). In doing so, personal data such as surname, first name, email address, and, where applicable, other contact details and email content are processed. The purpose of the processing is to communicate with interested parties and customers, to send and receive emails, and to manage and provide the technical infrastructure.
For more information on how Hostpoint uses your data, please refer to Hostpoint's privacy policy: https://www.hostpoint.com