Privacy policy

Balthasar Legal AG
Rigistrasse 61
8006 Zurich
Switzerland

Office
Kurvenstrasse 17
8006 Zurich

Tel.: 043 233 87 77
Email: Kontakt@balthasar-legal.ch

Visit our website

When you visit our website, our servers automatically store the following data temporarily in a log file, the so-called server log files:

• IP address of the requesting computer
• Entry page (website from which you came to our website)
• Browser settings
• Language and version of the browser software
• Date and time of access/retrieval
• Name and URL of the retrieved data
• Your computer’s operating system and the browser you are using
• Country from which our website is accessed
• Name of your internet access provider
• Time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
• Content of the request (specific page)
• Access status/HTTP status code
• Amount of data transferred in each case
• last visited website
• Activated browser plugins

This data is processed for the purpose of enabling the use of our website (establishing a connection), ensuring system security and stability in the long term, optimizing our offering and for internal statistical purposes. A personal user profile is not created.

Contact form

On our website, you have the option of contacting us via a contact form and/or by e-mail. In this case, the information you provide will be processed for correspondence with you or for the purpose of processing your request and handling it. To use the contact form, it is necessary to enter your e-mail address and your message in order to process your request.

Use of customer data for marketing measures

We also use your personal data for the following purposes:

• to maintain the customer relationship with you;
• to occasionally inform existing business customers (business to business) about certain services; and
• to recommend services that may be of interest to you.

You can object to this data processing at any time. If you object, we will no longer process your personal data for this purpose. Please send your objection to the following e-mail address: kontakt@balthasar-legal.ch.

Use of online training courses via Moodle

We offer our online training courses via the Moodle platform. When using this platform, personal data of learners is processed. N

When using our Moodle platform, the following personal data in particular is processed:

• Surname, first name

• E-mail address

• User name

• Course assignments and attendance history

• Communication content (e.g. forum posts, news, submissions)

• Performance records and test results

Personal data is processed for the following purposes:

• Provision of training content and management of course participation

• Documentation of learning progress and performance records

• Fulfillment of contractual obligations within the scope of the training offers

Provision of contractual services

We also process personal data to the extent necessary to provide you with our contractual or pre-contractual services and to carry out other services requested by you. The data processed in this context, the type, scope, purpose and necessity of its processing are determined by the underlying contractual relationship.

The processed data includes master data (e.g. name and address), contact data (e.g. e-mail address and telephone number) as well as contract data (e.g. services used, contract content, contractual communication, names of contact persons) and payment data (e.g. bank details, payment history).

The data is deleted when it is no longer required for the fulfillment of contractual or legal obligations, whereby the necessity of storing the data is reviewed at irregular intervals. Otherwise, the statutory retention obligations apply.

We treat your personal data confidentially and only pass it on if you have expressly 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.

In addition, we pass on your personal data to third parties insofar as this is necessary or expedient in the context of the use of the website or for the possible provision of the services requested by you (also outside the website).

We disclose your personal data to the following categories of recipients:

• IT service provider
• Third parties to whom we have outsourced support services such as translation work or document reviews
• Third parties that we use to provide other services that we offer to our clients, such as law firms and trustees
• Third parties involved in the implementation or organization of training courses, events, seminars and training sessions
• Authorities and courts

When passing on personal data to third parties, the legal regulations on passing on personal data to third parties are of course complied with. If we use processors to provide our services, we take suitable legal precautions and appropriate technical and organizational measures to ensure that your personal data is protected in accordance with the relevant statutory provisions.

If we also transfer your personal data to third parties abroad (i.e. outside Switzerland or the European Economic Area (EEA)), they are obliged to comply with data protection regulations to the same extent as we are. If the level of data protection in the country concerned is not adequate, we will ensure that your personal data is protected to such a level.

We ensure this in particular by concluding so-called standard data protection clauses of the EU Commission with the companies concerned and/or by the existence of Binding Corporate Rules (BCR) recognized by a European data protection authority at the companies concerned. Where this is not possible, we base the data transfer on your express consent or the necessity of the transfer to fulfill the contract.

We use cookies on our website to optimize our offer. These are small files that a web portal leaves on your computer, tablet computer or smartphone when you visit it. This enables the portal to “remember” certain entries and settings (e.g. login, language, font size and other display preferences) over a certain period of time so that you do not have to re-enter them each time you visit and navigate the portal.

Most of the cookies we use are so-called session cookies. These are automatically deleted when you log out or close the browser. Other cookies remain stored on your computer beyond the respective usage process and enable us or our partner companies (third-party cookies) to recognize your browser on your next visit. Insofar as other cookies (e.g. cookies to analyze your surfing behavior) are stored, these are treated separately in this privacy policy.

Most Internet browsers are regularly set to accept cookies. If you do not want this, you can set your browser so that it informs you about the setting of cookies and you allow the acceptance of cookies for certain cases only in individual cases or generally exclude them. You can also activate the automatic deletion of cookies when you close your browser. In addition, you can delete cookies that have already been set at any time via an Internet browser or other software programs. The procedure for checking and deleting cookies depends on the browser you are using. You can find information on this in the help menu of your browser. You can use the following links to find out about this option for the most commonly used browsers:

• Microsoft Edge
• Firefox
• Google Chrome
• Safari
• Opera

We use the following services of Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA, or if you have your habitual residence in the European Economic Area (EEA) or Switzerland, Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (“Google”):

• Google Analytics 4
• Google Tag Manager
• Google Maps
• ReCaptcha
• Google Fonts

Google uses cookies. The cookies used by Google enable us to analyze the use of our website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of our website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in Switzerland, Ireland or the United States.

Google Analytics 4

Google Tag Manager

We also use Google Tag Manager to integrate and manage Google analysis and marketing services on our website. Google Tag Manager is a solution with which we can manage website tags via an interface. The “Google Tag Manager” tool itself, which implements the tags, is a cookie-free domain and does not collect any personal data. However, the tool triggers other tags, which in turn may collect data. Google Tag Manager itself, however, does not access this data. If deactivation has been carried out at domain or cookie level, this remains in place for all tracking tags that are implemented with Google Tag Manager.

Further information in connection with Google Tag Manager can be found in the usage guidelines

Google Maps

Google Maps is integrated on our location page to illustrate our locations.

When you visit our website, data (such as your IP address) is transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. Google stores this data as usage profiles for the purposes of customizing services, advertising and market research. If you are logged in to Google, this data is assigned directly to your account. If you do not wish this to happen, you must log out beforehand. You can prevent the use of Google Maps by deactivating Javascript in your browser settings. However, this may result in functional restrictions when using the website in individual cases.

Further information on data processing and notes on data protection by Google Maps can be found under privacy policies

reCAPTCHA

Captcha is the abbreviation for “completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart“, which stands for “fully automated public Turing test to distinguish between computers and humans”. This is a test designed to differentiate between humans and machines/robot programs, or “bots” for short.

reCAPTCHA is a captcha service from Google that attempts to distinguish whether a certain action on the Internet is performed by a human or by a computer program. reCAPTCHA is used as part of the newsletter registration process and for online forms.

Further information on data processing and notes on data protection by reCAPTCHA can be found at: Google Terms of Use – Privacy Policy & Terms of Service – Google.

Google Fonts

We use social plugins (“plugins”) from various social networks on our website based on our legitimate interests. You can use these plugins to share content or recommend products, for example.

• LinkedIn Inc, 2029 Stierlin Ct, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA;
• Xing SE, Dammtorstrasse 30, 20354 Hamburg, Germany.

When you visit our website and one of the social plugins listed on the website is activated, a direct connection is established between your browser and the server of the social network in question. The content of the plugin is transmitted by the social network directly to your browser and integrated into the website. This provides the network with the information that you have visited our website. If you are logged in to the social network, it can assign the visit to your account. If you interact with the plugins, the corresponding information is transmitted directly from the browser to the social network and stored there.

Even if you are not logged in to the social networks during your visit to our website, websites with active social plugins can send data to the networks. An active plugin sets a cookie with an identifier each time the website is accessed. Since your browser sends this cookie every time you connect to a server of the respective networks without being asked, the social networks could in principle use it to create a profile of which websites the user belonging to the identifier has visited. If necessary, it would then be possible to assign this identifier to a person later – for example when logging in to the social network at a later date.

You can select the “Block third-party cookies” function in your browser settings, in which case your browser will not send any cookies to the respective social network server. With this setting, however, other cross-site functions from other providers may no longer work in addition to the plugins.

For further information on the purpose and scope of data collection and the further processing and use of your personal data, please refer to the data protection notices of the respective networks. There you will also find further information on your rights in this regard and setting options to protect your privacy as well as your right to object to the creation of user profiles:

• LinkedIn
• Xing

We process and store your personal data only for the period required to achieve the stated purpose or if this is 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 routinely blocked or deleted in accordance with the statutory provisions.
We will also delete your data if you request us to do so at kontakt@balthasar-legal.ch and we have no statutory or other obligation to retain or secure this personal data.

We take technical and organizational security precautions to protect your personal data against manipulation, loss, destruction or access by unauthorized persons and to ensure the protection of your rights and compliance with the applicable data protection regulations.

The measures taken are intended to guarantee the confidentiality and integrity of your data and to ensure the availability and resilience of our systems and services when processing your data in the long term. They are also intended to ensure the rapid restoration of the availabilityof your data and access to it in the event of a physical or technical incident.

Our security measures also include the encryption of your data. When your data is transmitted to us, it is encrypted using Transport Layer Security (TLS) / Https encryption. All information that you enter online is transmitted via an encrypted transmission path. This means that this information cannot be viewed by unauthorized third parties at any time.

Our data processing and security measures are continuously adapted in line with technological developments.

We also take our own internal data protection very seriously. Our employees and the service companies commissioned by us are obliged to maintain confidentiality and to comply with data protection regulations. Furthermore, they are only granted access to personal data to the extent necessary.

You are entitled to request detailed information about what personal data we have about you and how we process it, as well as to request a copy of your personal data. You have the right to information, data rectification, data erasure, restriction of data processing, data portability, withdrawal of your consent and objection. You can also lodge a complaint with a local supervisory authority, in Switzerland with the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner, if you are of the opinion that the processing of your personal data violates data protection law.