We take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with the statutory data protection regulations and this data protection declaration. Personal data is only collected and processed on this website to the extent necessary. The following declaration gives you an overview of how we ensure this protection and what type of data is collected for what purpose.
Our services are subject to Swiss data protection law (Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP)) as well as any applicable foreign data protection law, such as that of the European Union (EU) with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
The entity responsible for processing your personal data on this website is Ernst Christian sàrl, Haus zu Wahrheit, Gallusstrasse 32, 900 St. Gallen.
1. Personal data
Personal data is information that relates directly or indirectly to natural persons. In your case, this could be, for example, your name, your email address or your telephone number.
2. Purpose-bound data use
We adhere to the principle of using data for specific purposes and only collect, process and store your personal data for the purposes for which you have provided it to us. Your personal data will not be passed on to third parties without your express consent, unless this is necessary to provide the service or to execute the contract. Data will also only be passed on to government institutions and authorities entitled to receive information within the framework of the statutory obligation to provide information or if we are required to provide information by a court decision.
3. Children
Children (under the age of 18) should not send us any personal data without the consent of their parents or guardians. We recommend that all parents and guardians instruct their children on the safe and responsible use of personal data on the Internet. In any case, we will not knowingly collect personal data from children or use it in any way or disclose it to third parties.
4. Data collection
We collect your personal data in two ways: (1) indirectly (for example, through our website technology) and (2) directly (for example, when you send us an email or we enter into a contract with you).
a) Indirect data collection
For each visit to our website, we collect the following data, provided that it is transmitted from your browser to our server infrastructure, and store this data in log files:
- Date and time including time zone
- Internet Protocol (IP) address
- Access status (HTTP status code)
- Operating system including user interface and version
- Browser including language and version
- Individual page accessed and amount of data transferred
- Last accessed website (referrer)
Such data may constitute personal data. The data is required in order to provide our services permanently, securely and reliably and to ensure data security and thus in particular the protection of personal data.
Cookies
We use cookies on our website. Cookies – including those from third parties whose services we use (third-party cookies) – are text files stored in your browser. Cookies may be stored in your browser when you visit our website. Cookies allow your browser to be recognized on your next visit. They cannot execute programs or transmit malware such as trojans or viruses. Cookies are essential to provide our services, including our website, effectively, user-friendly, and securely, particularly by analyzing usage for error correction and improvements.
You can deactivate or delete the use of cookies in your browser settings at any time. Without cookies, our services may not be available in full. We inform you about the use of cookies or request your consent when you visit our website.
We use the following cookies:
Google Analytics
Google Analytics is a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA). On our behalf, Google collects data about your visit to our website to evaluate your usage and compile reports on website activity.
To analyze the usage of our website, we use “cookies.” Collected information includes operating system, browser, your IP address, the website you previously visited (referrer URL), and the date and time of your visit. This information is transferred to Google’s servers (in the USA) and stored there. IP anonymization is active on our website. Your IP address is truncated within the EU member states and the European Economic Area, including Switzerland, making it impossible to trace back to you.
You can prevent Google Analytics from using your data by downloading the corresponding browser add-on: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.
More information on data protection can be found at Google:
https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en
Google Ads/Google Tag Manager
We use Google Ads to be able to display advertising for our offer in a targeted manner, in particular to people who are interested in our offer, including our website, or who use our offer, including our website, for which we transmit corresponding information – including personal information – to Google (remarketing). We also use the Google Tag Manager to embed and manage Google Ads and other services from Google and third parties in our website. Google processes the information submitted and other data in this context pseudonymously, i.e. from Google’s point of view, pseudonymous profiles and not profiles of individual actually identified people are managed, unless the person in question has expressly allowed Google to carry out the processing without pseudonymization. You can object to interest-based advertising by Google by using the corresponding setting options from Google (https://myadcenter.google.com/?sasb=true). In particular, Google has published the following information on the type, scope and purpose of data processing in connection with Google AdWords: https://policies.google.com/
Google Web Fonts
We use so-called web fonts provided by Google on our website to ensure a uniform display of fonts. When you visit our website, your browser loads the required web fonts into your browser cache in order to display texts and fonts correctly. The browser you use establishes a connection to Google’s servers. This tells Google that our website was accessed via your IP address. If your browser does not support web fonts, a standard font from your computer will be used. Google Web Fonts are used in the interest of a uniform and attractive presentation of our online offerings. For more information about Google Web Fonts, see the Google Web Fonts FAQs: https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq/privacy?hl=de
YouTube
We use YouTube to embed videos into our website. YouTube is a Google service. Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland is responsible for the collection and further processing of personal data on YouTube websites. Ireland is also the recipient country of any data transfer. Google collects and processes certain information about your visit to our YouTube page, even if you do not have a YouTube user account or are not logged in to YouTube. For information on the processing of personal data by YouTube, please refer to Google’s privacy policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy
Google Maps
We use Google Maps from Google Inc. (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA) on our website. For the European region, the company Google Ireland Limites (Gordon House, Barrow Street Dublin 4, Ireland) is responsible for all Google services. With Google Maps, we can better show you the location of our law firm.
You can find more information about data protection directly from Google:
https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de
Direct data collection
Contact
We process personal data that a data subject transmits when contacting us – for example by letter, email, contact form or telephone. We store such information on our server, which is hosted in Switzerland.
Since communication by email does not use a secure data connection, please refrain from transmitting confidential information in this way. The contacts are stored in the inboxes of the respective email addresses. The email provider is Microsoft with Office 365. Microsoft 365 is software from Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way Redmond, WA 98052-6399 USA. Your data (in particular your contact details) are stored in Switzerland/EU via our use of Office 365.
Provision of contractual services
We also process personal data to the extent necessary in order to provide you with our contractual or pre-contractual services, as well as to carry out other services you have requested. The data processed here, the type, scope, purpose and necessity of their processing are determined by the underlying contractual relationship.
The data processed includes master data (e.g. name and address), contact details (e.g. email address and telephone number), contract data (e.g. services used, contract content, contractual communication, names of contact persons) and your financial data (e.g. tax information, wages) that we need to provide our services and payment data (e.g. bank details, payment history).
The data is deleted when the data is no longer required to fulfill contractual or legal obligations, whereby the necessity of storing the data is checked at irregular intervals. Otherwise, the statutory retention periods apply.
5. Website-Hoster
This website is hosted by an external service provider (hoster). Personal data collected on this website is stored on the hoster’s servers. This can include IP addresses, contact requests, meta and communication data, contract data, contact details, names, website accesses and other data generated via a website.
The hoster is used for the purpose of fulfilling the contract with our potential and existing customers and in the interest of a secure, fast and efficient provision of our online offer by a professional provider. Our hoster will only process your data to the extent necessary to fulfill its service obligations and will follow our instructions with regard to this data.
In order to ensure that processing complies with data protection regulations, we have concluded a contract for order processing with our hoster. The website is hosted in Switzerland.
6. Disclosure to third parties
We always treat your personal data confidentially and only pass it on if you have consented to this, if we are legally obliged or entitled to do so, or if this is necessary to enforce our rights, in particular to enforce claims arising from the contractual relationship.
We also pass your personal data on to third parties if this is necessary or appropriate in the context of using the website or to provide the services you have requested (including outside the website).
The legal regulations on the disclosure of personal data to third parties are of course complied with. If we use contract processors to provide our services, we take suitable legal precautions and appropriate technical and organizational measures to ensure the protection of your personal data in accordance with the relevant legal regulations.
If the level of data protection in a country in which the data is processed does not correspond to the applicable data protection regulations, we contractually ensure that the protection of your personal data always corresponds to that in Switzerland or the EU/EEA, for example by including the EU standard contractual clauses.
Our offer contains links to external third-party websites over whose content we have no influence. We cannot therefore accept any liability for this external content. The respective provider or operator of the pages is always responsible for the content of the linked pages.
7. Storage period
We only process and store your personal data for the period necessary to achieve the storage purpose or if this has been provided for in laws or regulations to which we are subject. If the storage purpose no longer applies or if a prescribed retention period expires, your data will be blocked or deleted routinely and in accordance with the legal regulations.
8. Data security
We take appropriate and suitable organizational and technical measures to ensure data protection and data security. Access to our offer is via transport encryption (SSL / TLS). You should always be aware that the transmission of information via the Internet and other electronic means involves certain security risks and that we cannot guarantee the security of information transmitted in this way.
9. Rights of data subjects
Here we explain what rights you have with regard to your personal data. Please note that data protection regulations and data protection practices can change continuously. It is therefore advisable and necessary to keep yourself informed about changes in legal provisions and company practices.
Rights to information and correction
You can obtain information about your data stored by us at any time without giving reasons at info@ernstchristian.ch.
Right to restriction of processing
You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data at info@ernstchristian.ch.
Right to erasure
You can request that we delete the personal data concerning you immediately at info@ernstchristian.ch if one of the following reasons applies:
(1) the personal data concerning you is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or otherwise processed.
(2) you withdraw your consent on which the processing was based and there is no other legal basis for the processing.
(3) you object to the processing.
(4) the personal data concerning you was processed unlawfully.
(5) the deletion of the personal data concerning you is necessary to fulfill a legal obligation that the controller must legally comply with.
Right to information
If you have asserted the right to rectification, erasure or restriction of processing against us, you have the right to be informed via info@ernstchristian.ch about the recipients to whom your personal data was disclosed by us.
Right to data transfer
You have the right to receive your personal data, which we process automatically based on your consent or to fulfill a contract, in a structured, common and machine-readable format via info@ernstchristian.ch, or to request that this data be transmitted to a third party. If you request that the data be transferred directly to another responsible party, this will only be done if this is technically feasible.
Right of objection
You have the option of objecting to the data collection and storage described in the data protection declaration. You can also revoke the consent you have given us to collect and use data at any time for the future, without giving reasons, at info@ernstchristian.ch.
Right to complain
Without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy, you have the right to complain to a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of your residence, place of work or place of the alleged infringement, if you believe that the processing of personal data concerning you violates the applicable data protection laws.
Complaints in Switzerland can be addressed to the Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC) at any time.
Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC)
Feldeggweg 1, CH- 3003 Bern, Switzerland, www.edoeb.admin.ch
10. Contact
Your trust is important to us. We would therefore like to be available to answer any questions you may have regarding the processing of your personal data at any time. If you have any questions that this privacy policy could not answer or if you would like more detailed information on a point, please contact us via email at info@ernstchristian.ch.
11. Final provisions
We may change our privacy policy at any time. We will inform data subjects about such changes in an appropriate form on our website.
Last updated: March 2025