Version effective as of December 30, 2024
With this Data Protection Statement we explain how we collect and otherwise process personal data for NeoDym Blog.
This is not an exhaustive description; other data protection declarations may regulate specific issues.
Personal data refers to all information relating to an identified or identifiable person.
This Privacy Policy is designed to meet the requirements of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), the Swiss Data Protection Act (“DPA”) and the revised Swiss Data Protection Act (“revDSG”).
Whether and to what extent these laws are applicable, however, depends on the individual case.
1. Responsible #
Ivan Rigamonti, Adliswil
The exact address can be requested by e-mail.
E-mail address: info@rigamonti.com
Imprint: neodym.blog
2. Collection and Processing #
We primarily process the personal data that we collect from users when operating the website, such as data in connection with the use of the website (e.g. IP address, MAC address of the smartphone or computer, information about your device and settings, cookies, date and time of the visit, pages and content accessed, functions used, referring website, location data).
3. Purpose #
We use the personal data we collect for
- Communication
- Implementation of our security measures
- Organizational and administrative procedures
- Firewall and other protective measures
- Comments and feedback
- Provision of our offer
- Improving user-friendliness
- Operation of the infrastructure
- Public relations work
- Compliance with our legal obligations at home and abroad
If you have given us your consent to process your personal data for specific purposes (for example, when you register to receive newsletters), we will process your personal data within the scope of and based on this consent and on the aforementioned legal bases.
Consent that has been given can be revoked at any time, but this has no effect on data processing that has already taken place.
4. Cookies #
See also the information on NeoDym.blog as a static page.
We typically use “cookies” and similar technologies on our websites to identify your browser or device. A cookie is a small file that is sent to your computer or automatically stored on your computer or mobile device by the web browser you use when you visit our website. This enables us to recognize you when you return to this website, even if we do not know who you are.
In addition to cookies that are only used during a session and are deleted after your website visit (“session cookies”), cookies can also be used to store user settings and other information for a certain period of time (“permanent cookies”). However, you can set your browser so that it rejects cookies, only stores them for one session or otherwise deletes them prematurely. Most browsers are preset to accept cookies.
We use permanent cookies
- so that your selected user settings (language, light/dark mode, settings for comments) are retained for subsequent visits,
- so that we can better understand how you use our offers and content.
If you block cookies, certain functionalities (such as language and light/dark selection or comment functionality) may no longer work.
In some of our newsletters and other marketing emails, we also include visible and invisible image elements, where permitted, which we can retrieve from our servers to determine whether and when you have opened the email so that we can measure and better understand how you use our offers and tailor them to you.
You can block this in your email program; most are preset to do so.
By using our website and agreeing to receive newsletters and other marketing emails, you consent to the use of these techniques. If you do not want this, you must set your browser or email program accordingly.
We do not use Google Analytics on our website, but we do use comparable services. This is a service provided by third parties who may be located in any country in the world. Permanent cookies are also used for this purpose, which are set by the service provider.
If you have registered yourself with the service provider (e.g. for the comment function), the service provider also knows you. The processing of your personal data by the service provider is then the responsibility of the service provider in accordance with its data protection provisions. The service provider only informs us how our respective website is used (i.e. no information about you personally).
5. Datatransfer #
As part of our processing of personal data, it may be transmitted to other bodies, companies, legally independent organizational units or persons or disclosed to them. The recipients of this data may include, for example, service providers commissioned with IT tasks or providers of services and content that are integrated into a website. In such cases, we observe the legal requirements and, in particular, conclude corresponding contracts or agreements with the recipients of your data that serve to protect your data.
6 Transmission abroad #
If we process data in a third country (i.e. outside the European Union (EU), the European Economic Area (EEA)) or if the processing takes place in the context of the use of third-party services or the disclosure or transfer of data to other persons, bodies or companies, this will only take place in accordance with the legal requirements.
7. Retention Periods #
We process and store your personal data as long as it is necessary for the fulfillment of our contractual and legal obligations or otherwise for the purposes pursued with the processing.
It is possible that personal data will be retained for the period during which claims can be asserted against our company and insofar as we are otherwise legally obliged to do so or legitimate business interests require this (e.g. for evidence and documentation purposes). As soon as your personal data is no longer required for the above-mentioned purposes, it will be deleted or anonymized as far as possible. For operational data (e.g. system protocols, logs), shorter retention periods of twelve months or less generally apply.
If there is more than one indication of the retention period or deletion period for a date, the longest period is always decisive.
8. Data Security #
We take appropriate technical and organizational security precautions to protect your personal data from unauthorized access and misuse, such as IT and network security solutions, access controls and restrictions, encryption of data carriers and transmissions, pseudonymization and controls.
9. Obligation to Provision #
The website cannot be used unless certain information is disclosed to enable data traffic (e.g. IP address).
10. Profiling #
As a matter of principle, we do not use fully automated decision-making (as regulated in Art. 22 GDPR). Should we use such procedures in individual cases, we will inform you of this separately if this is required by law and inform you of the associated rights.
11. Your Rights #
You have the right to information, correction, deletion, the right to restrict data processing and otherwise to object to our data processing, in particular for the purposes of direct marketing, profiling for direct advertising and other legitimate interests in processing, as well as to the disclosure of certain personal data for the purpose of transfer to another body (so-called data portability) within the framework of the data protection law applicable to you and to the extent provided for therein (such as in the case of the Swiss Data Protection Act and the GDPR).
Please note, however, that we reserve the right to assert the restrictions provided for by law, for example if we are obliged to store or process certain data, have an overriding interest in doing so (insofar as we are entitled to invoke this) or require it for the assertion of claims.
If you incur any costs, we will inform you in advance.
Please note that exercising these rights may conflict with contractual agreements and may have consequences such as premature termination of the contract or cost consequences. We will inform you in advance if this is not already contractually regulated.
The exercise of such rights generally requires that you clearly prove your identity (e.g. by means of a copy of your identity card, where your identity is otherwise not clear or cannot be verified). To assert your rights, you can contact us at the address given in section 1.
Every data subject also has the right to enforce their claims in court or to lodge a complaint with the competent data protection authority. The competent data protection authority in Switzerland is the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (https://www.edoeb.admin.ch).
12. Amendments #
We may amend this privacy policy at any time without prior notice. The current version published on our website shall apply. If the privacy policy is part of an agreement with you, we will inform you of the change by e-mail or other suitable means in the event of an update.