Privacy Policy

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Privacy Policy

We take the protection of your private data seriously. Special attention to privacy when processing personal data is an important concern for us. Personal data is used in accordance with the provisions of the Swiss Data Protection Act (DSG) as well as the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Our websites may contain links to third-party websites, to which this privacy policy does not apply.

Responsible Entity

The responsible entity for the collection, processing and use of your personal data within the meaning of the Swiss Data Protection Act (DSG) and the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is the Papiliorama Foundation in Kerzers.

We are always available to answer any questions you may have in this regard, and within the scope of our legal obligations under the revised DSG, we provide you with the necessary information.

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Purpose of Processing

Your data is processed for the following purposes:

• Use of our website offering
• Contact and communication
• Use of cookies to ensure the basic functionality of the website
• Use of cookies to analyse user behaviour
• Provision of a newsletter or other marketing opportunities
• Evaluation of website usage through the use of so-called analysis tools
• Compliance with legal and official requirements or obligations, insofar as we are obliged to do so
• Integration of third-party offers for a better user experience or to ensure a high quality of our offering

Recipients or Categories of Recipients

Processed Personal Data

When visiting our website, the following personal data is collected, either automatically by the browser or provided by you:

• Your actual IP address, insofar as it has not been hidden or changed by the website user,
• Email address, insofar as it is entered by the website user,
• Name, address, and other details, insofar as they are entered by the website user.

Newsletter

If you wish to receive the newsletter offered on the website, we require an email address from you as well as information that allows us to verify that you are the owner of the specified email address and agree to receive the newsletter. No further data is collected. We use this data exclusively for sending the requested information and do not pass it on to third parties. You can revoke the consent given for the storage of data, the email address, and its use for sending the newsletter at any time, for example via the "Unsubscribe" button. The newsletter is sent approximately once a month.

Data for Fulfilling Our Contractual Obligations/Notes

We process personal data that we need to fulfil our contractual obligations, such as name, address, email address, ordered products (annual subscriptions, vouchers), invoice and payment data. The collection of this data is necessary for the conclusion of the contract.

If you purchase goods or services (especially guided tours) on our website and provide your email address, it may subsequently be used by us to send a newsletter or a notice for future bookings. In such a case, the newsletter will only contain direct advertising for our own similar goods or services.

Data Security

We use the widespread SSL procedure (Secure Socket Layer) for website visits in conjunction with the encryption level supported by your browser. You can recognise whether the page of our website is transmitted encrypted by the closed display of the key or padlock symbol in the status bar of your browser.

Protection of Your Personal Data

We have technical and organisational security procedures to maintain the security of your personal data and to protect your session data and personal data against unauthorised or unlawful processing and/or against accidental loss, alteration, disclosure or access. However, you should always be aware that the transmission of information over the internet and other electronic means carries certain security risks and that we cannot guarantee the security of information transmitted in this way.

Rights of the Data Subject

Your rights, including the right to information and correction, are governed by the legal provisions of the revised DSG.

Use of Cookies

Cookies are text files used to ensure the use of the website, improve the website, or track the use of the website (so-called "tracking technology"). Some cookies are only stored for the duration of the visit to the website (so-called "session cookies"). Other cookies are stored longer and only deleted after a set time

to, for example, recognise returning users, analyse user behaviour or visit patterns, or improve website functionality for all users. You can usually set in your browser settings which cookies you want to allow. If all cookies are rejected ("functional cookies"), the visit to our website may be restricted or unavailable.

Help with cookie management for common browsers can be found here:

Use of Analysis Tools

We have integrated analysis tools on our website to analyse user behaviour. This is the widely used programme "Google Analytics".

Integration of Social Media Services

We have integrated so-called social media services on our website. We point out that data is processed outside Switzerland and the European Union. We link on our website to our company profiles in social networks. However, please note that personal data may be transmitted to the social networks on their servers already when our website is accessed or by clicking on the link. For information about the respective processing and respective objection options, we refer to the privacy information of the providers.

We have integrated the following providers, whose privacy information you can find below:

Changes to the Privacy Policy

We have endeavoured to provide the legally required and legally mandated information in the privacy policy. We reserve the right to change and adapt the privacy policy at any time.