Data protection

The arcus.ch website is fundamentally subject to Swiss data protection law, in particular the Federal Data Protection Act (DSG). The European Union (EU) recognizes that Swiss data protection law ensures adequate data protection. We are very pleased that you are interested in our company. Data protection has a particularly high priority for us. The website can generally be used without expressly providing personal data. However, if a person wishes to use special services via the website, processing of personal data could become necessary. If the processing of personal data is necessary and there is no legal basis for such processing, we generally obtain the consent of the person concerned. The processing of personal data, such as the name, address, e-mail address or telephone number of a person concerned, always takes place in accordance with the statutory data protection requirements. By means of this data protection declaration, we would like to inform the public about the type, scope and purpose of the personal data we collect, use and process. Furthermore, data subjects are informed of the rights to which they are entitled by means of this data protection declaration. As the person responsible for processing, we have implemented numerous technical and organizational measures to ensure the most complete protection possible for personal data processed via this website. Nevertheless, internet-based data transmissions can generally have security gaps, so that absolute protection cannot be guaranteed. For this reason, every person concerned is free to transmit personal data to us in alternative ways, for example by letter or telephone.

a) When visiting the website When you visit our website, the browser used on your device automatically sends information to our website server. This information is temporarily stored in a so-called log file. The following information is recorded without your intervention and stored until it is automatically deleted: – P-address of the requesting computer, – date and time of access, – Name and URL of the retrieved file, – Website from which access is made (referrer URL), Browser used and, if applicable, the operating system of your computer and the name of your access provider. – The data mentioned will be processed by us for the following purposes: Ensuring a smooth connection establishment of the website, Ensuring comfortable use of our website, Evaluation of system security and system stability as well as for other administrative purposes. – The legal basis for data processing is the DSG. Under no circumstances do we use the collected data for the purpose of drawing conclusions about your person. In addition, we use cookies and analysis services when you visit our website.

b) When using our contact form If you have any questions, we offer you the opportunity to contact us using a form provided on the website. It is necessary to provide a valid e-mail address so that we know who sent the request and can answer it. Further information can be provided voluntarily. Data processing for the purpose of contacting us takes place in accordance with DSG on the basis of your voluntarily given consent. The personal data collected by us for the use of the contact form will be automatically deleted after the request you have made has been dealt with. c) When using our appointment booking tool We offer you the option of booking an appointment using the booking tool provided on the website. In order to use the functions, it is necessary to save your name, your valid email address, your telephone number or Skype address and other contact information. Data processing for the purpose of booking an appointment with us takes place in accordance with DSG on the basis of your voluntarily given consent.

We use cookies on our site. These are small files that your browser creates automatically and that are stored on your end device (laptop, tablet, smartphone, etc.) when you visit our site. Cookies do not damage your end device and do not contain viruses, Trojans or other malware. Information is stored in the cookie that arises in connection with the specific end device used. However, this does not mean that we are immediately informed of your identity. On the one hand, the use of cookies serves to make the use of our offer more pleasant for you. We use so-called session cookies to recognize that you have already visited individual pages on our website. These are automatically deleted after leaving our site. In addition, we also use temporary cookies to optimize user-friendliness, which are stored on your end device for a specific period of time. If you visit our site again to make use of our services, it will automatically be recognized that you have already been with us and what inputs and settings you have made so that you do not have to enter them again. On the other hand, we use cookies to statistically record the use of our website and to evaluate it for the purpose of optimizing our offer for you. These cookies enable us to automatically recognize when you visit our site again that you have already been with us. These cookies are automatically deleted after a defined period of time. The data processed by cookies are required for the purposes mentioned. Most browsers accept cookies automatically. However, you can configure your browser in such a way that no cookies are stored on your computer or that a message always appears before a new cookie is created. However, the complete deactivation of cookies may mean that you cannot use all the functions of our website.

a) Facebook We use components of the social network Facebook on our site, which is operated by Facebook Inc., 1601 S.California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA (“Facebook”). The plugins are marked with a Facebook logo or the addition “Social Plugin from Facebook” or “Facebook Social Plugin”. An overview of the Facebook plugins and their appearance can be found here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins If you call up a page on our website that contains such a plugin, your browser establishes a direct connection to the Facebook servers. The content of the plugin is transmitted directly from Facebook to your browser and integrated into the page. Through this integration, Facebook receives the information that your browser has accessed the corresponding page of our website, even if you do not have a Facebook profile or are not currently logged in to Facebook. This information (including your IP address) is transmitted directly from your browser to a Facebook server in the USA and stored there. If you are logged into Facebook, Facebook can immediately assign your visit to our website to your Facebook profile. If you interact with the plugins, for example by clicking the “Like” button or making a comment, this information is also transmitted directly to a Facebook server and stored there. The information will also be published on your Facebook profile and displayed to your Facebook friends. The purpose and scope of the data collection and the further processing and use of the data by Facebook as well as your rights in this regard and setting options for protecting your privacy can be found in Facebook’s data protection information: http://www.facebook.com/policy.php If you do not want Facebook to directly assign the data collected via our website to your Facebook profile, you must log out of Facebook before visiting our website. You can also completely prevent the Facebook plugins from loading with add-ons for your browser, e.g. – for Mozilla Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/facebook-blocker/ – for Opera: https://addons.opera.com/de/extensions/details/facebook-blocker/?display=en – for Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/facebookblocker/chlhacbfddknadmnmjmkdobipdpjakmc?hl=de

c) LinkedIn

We use components of the LinkedIn network on our website. LinkedIn is a service of LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Each time you visit our website, which is equipped with such a component, this component causes the browser you are using to download a corresponding representation of the LinkedIn component. This process informs LinkedIn which specific page of our website is currently being visited. If you click on the LinkedIn “Recommend” button while you are logged into your LinkedIn account, you can link the content of our pages to your LinkedIn profile. This enables LinkedIn to associate your visit to our site with your LinkedIn user account. We have no influence on the data that LinkedIn collects in this way, nor on the scope of this data collected by LinkedIn. We also have no knowledge of the content of the data transmitted to LinkedIn. Details on data collection by LinkedIn and on your rights and setting options can be found in LinkedIn’s data protection information. These notices are available to you at the following website: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy