Data Protection
The following is a simple overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit our website. Personal data in this context is any data by which you can be personally identified or made identifiable
1. DATA PROTECTION AT A GLANCE
Who is responsible for the collection of data on this website?
GreenState AG (hereinafter GreenState, we, us, or similar pronouns) is the operator of the website https://greenstate.ch/ GreenState is therefore responsible for the collection, processing and use of your personal data and the compatibility of the data processing with applicable data protection law.
How do we collect your data?
Some data is collected when you provide it to us. This can be, for example, data that you enter in a contact form.
Other data is collected automatically by our IT systems when you visit the website. This is primarily technical data such as the browser you use and the operating system or the time of the page call. This data is collected automatically as soon as you enter our website.
What do we use your data for?
Some of the data is collected to ensure the proper functioning of the website. Other data may be used to analyze how visitors use the site.
What rights do you have in relation to your data?
You have the right at any time to receive free information about your stored data, its origin and recipients, as well as the purpose of the data collection. You also have the right to correct, block and delete this data. If you have further questions on the subject of data protection, you can contact us at any time at the address given in the imprint. Of course, you can also file a complaint with the relevant supervisory authorities. Analytics and third-party tools
When you visit our website, statistical evaluations may be made of your surfing behavior. This is primarily done through the use of cookies and analytics tools. The analysis of your surfing behavior is usually anonymous, i.e. we cannot identify you from this data. You can object to this analysis or prevent it by not using certain tools. You can find detailed information in the following privacy policy. You can object to this analysis. We inform you below about how you can exercise your options in this regard.
2. GENERAL INFORMATION
Protection of your 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 the statutory data protection regulations and this data protection declaration.
When you use this website, various personal data are collected. Personal data is any data by which you can be personally identified or made identifiable. This privacy policy explains what information we collect and what we use it for. It also explains how and for what purpose this is done. We point out that data transmission on the Internet (e.g. when communicating by e-mail) can have security gaps. Complete protection of data against access by third parties is not possible. Note on the person responsible for this website.
The person responsible for data processing on this website is:
GreenState AG
Pflanzschulstrasse 3
8400 Winterthur
E-mail: info@greenstate.ch
Revocation of consent to the processing of your data Certain data processing operations are only possible with your express consent. Where this is the case, you can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future. An informal e-mail with this request is sufficient. Data processed prior to receipt of your request may continue to be lawfully processed within the scope of our legitimate interest or to fulfill legal obligations.
SSL or TLS encryption
This site uses SSL or TLS encryption for security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as requests that you send to us as the site operator. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the fact that the address bar of your browser changes from "http://” to "https://” and the lock symbol is displayed in the address bar of your browser. If SSL or TLS encryption is activated, the data you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.
3. DATA COLLECTION ON OUR WEBSITE
Cookies
Some of our web pages use cookies. Cookies do not cause any damage to your computer and do not contain viruses. Cookies serve to make our offer more user-friendly, effective and secure. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and saved by your browser.
Most of the cookies we use are so-called "session cookies". They are automatically deleted after the end of your visit. Other cookies remain in the memory of your terminal device until you delete them. These cookies make it possible to recognize your browser on your next visit.
You can configure your browser to inform you about the use of cookies, so that you can decide on a case-bycase basis whether to accept or reject a cookie. Alternatively, your browser can be configured to automatically accept or always reject cookies under certain conditions, or to automatically delete cookies when you close the browser. If you disable cookies, the functionality of this website may be limited.
Cookies that are necessary to enable electronic communication or to provide certain functions that you wish to use (e.g. the shopping cart) are processed within the scope of our legitimate interest. The website operator has a legitimate interest in storing cookies to ensure an optimized and technically error-free service. If other cookies (e.g. to analyze your surfing behavior) are also stored, they will be treated separately in this privacy policy.
Server log files
The website provider automatically collects and stores information that your browser automatically transmits to us in so-called "server log files". These are: - browser type and browser version - Operating system used - referrer URL - Host name of the accessing computer - Time of the server request - IP address This data is not merged with data from other sources. The basis for data processing is our legitimate interest in providing a secure and functioning website.
Contact form
If you send us inquiries via contact form, the information you provide in the form, including the contact data you provide there, will be stored by us for the purpose of processing the inquiry and in case of follow-up questions. We do not pass on this data without your consent.
We therefore only process the data you enter in the contact form with your consent. You can revoke your consent at any time. An informal e-mail with this request is sufficient. The data processed until receipt of your request may continue to be processed lawfully.
The data you provide in the contact form will be stored by us until you request us to delete it, revoke your consent to store it or the purpose for storing the data no longer applies (e.g. after the request has been dealt with). Mandatory legal provisions, in particular regarding legal retention periods, remain unaffected by this regulation.
Registration on this website
You have the option of registering on our website in order to be able to use further functions offered here. The data you enter will only be used for the purpose of using the particular page or service for which you have registered. The mandatory information requested during registration must be provided in full. Otherwise we will reject your registration.
We use the e-mail address provided during registration to inform you about important changes, e.g. within the scope of our site or technical changes. We process the data provided during registration only on the basis of your consent. You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future. An informal e-mail with this request is sufficient. The data processed prior to receiving your request may continue to be lawfully processed. We store the data collected during registration for as long as you remain registered on our website. Legal retention periods remain unaffected.
4. SOCIAL MEDIA
Sharing of content via plugins (Facebook, Google+1, Twitter, etc.) The content on our pages can be shared on other social networks such as Facebook, Twitter or Google+. This page uses Shariff. This tool establishes direct contact between the networks and users only when users click on one of these buttons.
This tool does not automatically transfer user data to the operators of these platforms. If users are logged into one or more of the social networks, the Like, +1 and Share buttons for Facebook, Google+1, Twitter, etc. will display an information window in which the user can edit the text before submitting it. Our users can share the content of this page on social networks without their providers creating profiles about the user's browsing behavior.
Facebook plugins (Like & Share buttons)
On our website are plugins of the social network Facebook. Facebook belongs to Meta Platforms Inc. 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA. The Facebook plugins can be recognized by the Facebook logo or the Like button on our site. An overview of the Facebook plugins can be found at https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/.
When you visit our site, a direct connection is established between your browser and the Meta server via the plugin. This provides Meta with the information that you have visited our site with your IP address. If you click the Facebook 'Like' button while logged into your Facebook account, you can link the content of our pages on your Facebook profile.
This allows Meta to associate the visit to our website with your user account. We would like to point out that we, as the operator of the pages, have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its use by Meta.
For more information, please refer to Meta's privacy policy at https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/ update. If you do not want Meta to be able to associate your visit to our pages with your Facebook account, please log out of your Facebook account.
Twitter plugin
Functions of the Twitter service are integrated on our website and app. These functions are offered by Twitter Inc, 1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA. If you use Twitter and the 'Retweet' function, the websites you visit are linked to your Twitter account and made known to other users. In the process, data is also transmitted to Twitter. We would like to point out that we, as the provider of the pages, have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its use by Twitter. For more information on Twitter's privacy policy, please visit https://twitter.com/ privacy. You can change your privacy settings on Twitter in your account settings at https://twitter.com/account/ settings.
Google+ Plugin
Our pages use functions of Google+. It is operated by Google Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Collection and dissemination of information: The use of the Google +1 button allows you to publish information worldwide. Using the Google+ button, you and other users can receive customized content from Google and our partners. Google stores both the fact that you gave a +1 to a piece of content and information about the page you were viewing when you clicked +1. Your +1s may be displayed together with your profile name and photo in Google services, e.g. in search results or in your Google profile, or in other places on websites and ads on the Internet. Google records information about your +1 activities to improve Google services for you and others. To use the Google + button, you need a globally visible, public Google profile, which must contain at least the name chosen for the profile. This name is used by all Google services. In some cases, this name may also replace another name you used to share content through your Google Account. The identity of your Google profile may be displayed to users who know your email address or other information that can identify you. Use of Collected Data: In addition to the uses described above, the information you provide will be used in accordance with Google's applicable privacy policies. Google may publish summary statistics about users' +1 activity or share them with users and partners, such as publishers, advertisers, or partner websites.
Instagram-Plugin
Our website contains functions of the Instagram service. These functions are offered by Instagram Inc, 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA. If you are logged into your Instagram account, you can link the content of our pages to your Instagram profile by clicking on the Instagram button. This allows Instagram to associate the visit to our pages with your user account. We expressly point out that we, as the provider of these pages, have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its use by Instagram. For more information, please see Instagram's privacy policy: https://instagram.com/about/legal/privacy/.
LinkedIn Plugin
Our site uses functions of the LinkedIn network. The service is provided by LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Each time you call up one of our pages that contains LinkedIn functions, your browser establishes a direct connection with LinkedIn's servers. LinkedIn thereby receives the information that you have visited our pages with your IP address. If you use the LinkedIn 'Recommend' button and are logged into your LinkedIn account, it is possible for LinkedIn to associate your visit to our website with your user account. We would like to point out that we, as the provider of the pages, have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its use by LinkedIn. For more information, please refer to LinkedIn's privacy policy at https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy/
XING plugin
Our website uses functions of the XING network. The provider is XING AG, Dammtorstrasse 29-32, 20354 Hamburg, Germany. Each time you call up one of our pages that contains XING functions, your browser establishes a direct connection with the XING servers. To our knowledge, no personal data is stored in the process. In particular, IP addresses are not stored, nor is usage behavior evaluated. For further information on data protection and the XING Share button, please refer to the XING privacy policy at https://www.xing.com/app/share?op=data_protection
5. ANALYTICS AND ADVERTISING
Google Analytics This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service. This is operated by Google Inc. with headquarters at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Google Analytics uses so-called 'cookies'. These are text files that are stored on your computer and enable an analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. The Google Analytics cookies are stored on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) DSGVO. The website operator has a legitimate interest in analyzing user behavior to optimize its website and advertising. IP anonymization We have activated IP anonymization on this website. Your IP address will be shortened by Google within the European Union or in other contracting states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area before being transmitted to the United States. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with any other data held by Google. Browser plugin You can prevent the storage of these cookies by making the appropriate setting in your browser. However, we would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all functions of this website to their full extent. You can also prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) to Google and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en. Objection to the collection of data You can prevent the collection of your data by Google Analytics by clicking on the following link. An opt-out cookie will be set that will prevent the collection of your data during future visits to this website: Click here to opt-out of Google Analytics. For more information about how Google Analytics handles user data, please see Google's privacy policy: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en. Outsourced data processing We have concluded a contract with Google for the outsourcing of data processing and fully implement the strict requirements of the German data protection authorities when using Google Analytics. Demographic data collection by Google Analytics This website uses the demographic functions of Google Analytics. This allows reports to be generated that contain statements about the age, gender and interests of site visitors. This data comes from Google's interest-based advertising and third-party visitor data. This collected data cannot be assigned to a specific person. You can deactivate this function at any time via the ad settings in your Google account or prohibit the collection of your data by Google Analytics, as described in the section 'Objection to data collection'.
6. NEWSLETTER
If you would like to receive the newsletter offered on the website, we require a valid email address from you as well as information that allows us to verify that you are the owner of the email address provided and that you agree to receive the newsletter. Further data is not collected or only on a voluntary basis. We use this data only for sending the requested information and do not pass it on to third parties.
We therefore only process the data you enter in the contact form for the newsletter with your consent. You can revoke your consent to the storage of the data, the email address and their use for sending the newsletter at any time, e.g. via the 'unsubscribe' link in the newsletter. The data processed until receipt of your request may continue to be processed lawfully.
The data provided when registering for the newsletter will be used for sending the newsletter until you unsubscribe from the newsletter, after which this data will be deleted. Data that we have stored for other purposes (e.g. e-mail addresses for the members' area) remain unaffected by this.
MailChimp
This website uses the services of MailChimp to send newsletters. This service is provided by Rocket Science Group LLC, 675 Ponce De Leon Ave NE, Suite 5000, Atlanta, GA 30308, USA. Group LLC, 675 Ponce De Leon Ave NE, Suite 5000, Atlanta, GA 30308, USA. MailChimp is a service that organizes and evaluates the sending of newsletters. When you provide data (e.g. your email address) to subscribe to our newsletter, this data is stored on MailChimp servers in the USA. We use MailChimp to analyze our newsletter campaigns. When you open an email sent by MailChimp, a file contained in the email (a so-called web beacon) connects to MailChimp's servers in the USA. This allows us to determine whether a newsletter message has been opened and which links you click on. In addition, technical information is collected (e.g. time of retrieval, IP address, browser type and operating system). This information cannot be assigned to a specific recipient. It is used exclusively for the statistical analysis of our newsletter campaigns. The results of these analyses can be used to better tailor future newsletters to your interests.
If you do not want your use of the newsletter to be analyzed by MailChimp, you must unsubscribe from the newsletter. For this purpose, we provide a link in every newsletter we send. You can also unsubscribe from the newsletter directly on the website.
The data processing is based on your consent. You can revoke your consent at any time by unsubscribing from the newsletter. The data processed until your revocation may continue to be processed lawfully. The data provided when registering for the newsletter will be used for sending the newsletter until you unsubscribe, after which this data will be deleted from our servers and those of MailChimp. Data that we have stored for other purposes (e.g. email addresses for the member area) remain unaffected. Details can be found in the privacy policy of MailChimp at https:// mailchimp.com/legal/terms/.
7. PLUGINS AND TOOLS
Our website uses plugins from YouTube, which is operated by Google. The operator of the pages is YouTube LLC, 901 Cherry Ave, San Bruno, CA 94066, USA.
When you visit one of our pages provided with a YouTube plugin, 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, YouTube can assign your surfing behavior directly to your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.
The use of YouTube is in the interest of an appealing design of our website. This represents a legitimate interest on our part.
For more information on the handling of user data, please refer to YouTube's privacy policy at https:// www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy.
Google Web Fonts
This site uses the web fonts provided by Google for the uniform display of fonts. When you call up a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into your browser cache in order to display texts and fonts correctly.
To do this, your browser must establish a direct connection to Google's servers. Google thereby receives the information that our website was accessed via your IP address. Google Web Fonts are used in the interest of a uniform and appealing presentation of our website. This represents a legitimate interest on our part. If your browser does not support web fonts, a standard font from your computer will be used.
For more information on the handling of user data, please visit https://developers.google.com/fonts/ faq and Google's privacy policy at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.
8. RIGHTS
Information, blocking, deletion
Within the framework of the legal provisions, you have the right at any time to free information about your stored personal data as well as its origin and recipient and the purpose of data processing. You also have the right to correct, block and delete this data. For this purpose, as well as for further questions on the subject of personal data, you can contact us at any time at the address given in our imprint.
Objection to advertising e-mails The use of contact data published within the framework of the imprint obligation by third parties for the purpose of sending unsolicited advertising and information materials is hereby expressly prohibited. The operators of the pages expressly reserve the right to take legal action in the event of the unsolicited sending of advertising information, such as spam e- mails.
Right to data portability You have the right to automatically transfer data that we process on the basis of your consent or in fulfillment of a contract to yourself or to a third party in a common, machine-readable format. If you request the direct transfer of data to another responsible party, this will only be done insofar as it is technically possible.
Right to complain to supervisory authorities If there is a violation of data protection regulations, the data subject may file a complaint with the competent supervisory authority. The competent supervisory authority in matters of data protection law is the State Data Protection Commissioner of the federal state in which our company is based.
9. WHICH LAW DO WE APPLY? AND WHERE IS THE LAW APPLIED?
This Privacy Policy and the contracts concluded based on or in connection with this Privacy Policy are governed by Swiss law, unless the law of another country is mandatorily applicable. Jurisdiction is at the seat MetaSwiss, unless another jurisdiction is mandatory.
10. CAN THIS DECLARATION BE AMENDED?
If individual parts of this privacy policy are invalid, this does not affect the validity of the rest of the privacy policy. The invalid part of the data protection declaration shall be replaced in such a way that it comes as close as possible to the economically intended purpose of the invalid part. Due to the further development of our website and offers or due to changed legal or official requirements, it may become necessary to change this data protection declaration. The current privacy policy is published on our website.
11. QUESTIONS ABOUT DATA PROTECTION? PLEASE, CONTACT US!
This page was last modified on 01.03.2023. If you have any questions or comments about our legal notices or privacy policy, please contact us at info@greenstate.ch