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Privacy policy

This translation is provided for information purposes only. The German version is legally binding.

General notice and mandatory information

The controller responsible for data processing on this website is:

SoftForge AG
Management
Spittel 5
3953 Leuk-Stadt

We process personal data in accordance with the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP). Where the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) applies to you, we also comply with it.

Unless otherwise stated below, the provision of your personal data is neither required by law or contract nor necessary for the conclusion of a contract. You are not obliged to provide the data. Not providing it has no consequences. This applies only insofar as no other information is given for the processing operations described below. “Personal data” means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.

Cookies and consent
This website uses cookies. These are small text files that are stored on your device while you use the website. Depending on their type, cookies remain stored beyond the end of a browser session and can be retrieved when you visit the site again.

When you first visit, we ask for your choice in a cookie banner. We distinguish three categories:

  • Necessary: These cookies are required for the operation of the website and are always active. They include storing your cookie choice (sfConsent, six months) and the selected language (NEXT_LOCALE).
  • Statistics: These cookies help us understand how the website is used (Google Analytics and PostHog, see below). We only set them with your consent.
  • Marketing: These cookies are used to measure the success of our advertising (LinkedIn, see below). We only set them with your consent.

Statistics and marketing are switched off by default. Until you have made a choice, no services from Google, PostHog and LinkedIn are loaded. You can choose “Necessary only” at any time. The legal basis for non-necessary cookies is your consent (Art. 6(6) FADP and Art. 45c of the Telecommunications Act; where the GDPR applies: Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR).

You can change or withdraw your choice at any time: via the cookie icon at the bottom left of the website or via the “Cookie settings” link in the footer. We store your choice for six months and then ask again. If you withdraw your consent, we delete the cookies that we have set on our domain. You can delete third-party cookies in your browser settings.

A general objection to the use of cookies for online marketing purposes can be declared for many of the services, especially in the case of tracking, via the US site http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ or the EU site http://www.youronlinechoices.com/. In addition, the storage of cookies can be prevented by disabling them in the browser settings. Please note that in this case not all functions of this online offering can be used.

Google Tag Manager and Google Consent Mode
We use Google Tag Manager to manage the services in the “Statistics” and “Marketing” categories. Tag Manager is only loaded once you have agreed to at least one of these categories. It does not set any cookies itself. We use Google Consent Mode version 2: before you make a choice, all consent signals are set to “denied” (analytics_storage, ad_storage, ad_user_data, ad_personalization). We then pass your choice on to Google services: “Statistics” controls analytics_storage, and “Marketing” controls ad_storage, ad_user_data and ad_personalization.

Icons and fonts from Microsoft
To display icons and fonts, this website loads files from Microsoft servers (static2.sharepointonline.com and res.cdn.office.net). Your IP address is transmitted to Microsoft in the process. This happens regardless of your cookie choice. We do this out of an interest in a consistent and error-free display of the website (where the GDPR applies: Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).

With SSL/TLS encryption
For security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as enquiries that you send to us as the site operator, this website uses SSL/TLS encryption. You can recognise an encrypted connection by the fact that the address bar of the browser changes from “http://” to “https://” and by the lock symbol in your browser bar.

If SSL or TLS encryption is activated, the data you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.

Contact form
If you send us enquiries via the contact form, the details from the enquiry form, including the contact details you provide there, will be stored by us for the purpose of processing the enquiry and in case of follow-up questions. We do not pass on this data without your consent.

Google Analytics
If you consent to the “Statistics” category, this website uses Google Analytics (version 4), a web analytics service provided by Google Ireland Limited. If the controller responsible for data processing on this website is located outside the European Economic Area or Switzerland, Google Analytics data processing is carried out by Google LLC. Google LLC and Google Ireland Limited are hereinafter referred to as “Google”. The statistics obtained enable us to improve our offering and make it more interesting for you as a user. This website also uses Google Analytics for a cross-device analysis of visitor flows, which is carried out via a user ID. If you have a Google user account, you can deactivate the cross-device analysis of your usage in the settings there under “My data”, “Personal data”. The legal basis for the use of Google Analytics is your consent (Art. 6(6) FADP and Art. 45c of the Telecommunications Act; where the GDPR applies: Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR). You can withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future (see “Cookies and consent”). Google Analytics 4 does not store IP addresses. Google Analytics sets the cookies _ga and _ga_0Q8ZEPVE9C (lifetime up to two years). On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use the information collected to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide the website operator with further services related to website and internet use. For transfers of data to the USA, Google relies on the Swiss-US and EU-US Data Privacy Frameworks or on standard contractual clauses. Google Analytics uses cookies. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is generally transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. You can prevent the storage of cookies by adjusting your browser software accordingly; however, please note that in this case you may not be able to use all functions of this website to their full extent. You can also prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and relating to your use of the website (including your IP address) and from processing this data by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under the following link: Disable Google Analytics. In addition, you can also prevent the use of Google Analytics by clicking on this link: Disable Google Analytics. This stores a so-called opt-out cookie on your data carrier, which prevents the processing of personal data by Google Analytics. Please note that if you delete all cookies on your device, these opt-out cookies will also be deleted, i.e. you will have to set the opt-out cookies again if you wish to continue to prevent this form of data collection. The opt-out cookies are set per browser and computer/device and must therefore be activated separately for each browser, computer or other device.

PostHog If you consent to the “Statistics” category, we use PostHog, a web analytics service provided by PostHog Inc., 2261 Market Street #4008, San Francisco, CA 94114, USA. We use PostHog’s EU cloud; the data is processed on servers in the European Union (Frankfurt, Germany). PostHog records which pages you visit, how long you stay on a page and which buttons on the product pages (e.g. contact, demo, free trial) you click. We also record sessions as a replay in order to improve the usability of the website. Entries in form fields are masked in your browser and are not transmitted. We do not identify you by name and do not link the data to the details you give in forms. PostHog stores a random identifier in a cookie and in your browser’s local storage (ph_…_posthog, lifetime up to one year). The legal basis is your consent (Art. 6(6) FADP and Art. 45c of the Telecommunications Act; where the GDPR applies: Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR). You can withdraw it at any time with effect for the future (see “Cookies and consent”); nothing is recorded after that, and the cookie and local storage are deleted. As PostHog Inc. is based in the USA, access from the USA cannot be ruled out. We rely on appropriate safeguards such as standard contractual clauses.

LinkedIn
Within our online offering we use the marketing services of the social network LinkedIn of LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Plaza, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland (“LinkedIn”). We only use the LinkedIn Insight Tag if you consent to the “Marketing” category. These use cookies, i.e. text files that are stored on your computer. This enables us to analyse your use of the website. For example, we can measure the success of our advertising and show users products in which they have previously shown an interest. For example, information is collected about the operating system, the browser, the previously visited web page (referrer URL), the web pages visited, the offers clicked on and the date and time of your visit to our website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is transmitted in pseudonymised form to a LinkedIn server in the USA and stored there. LinkedIn therefore does not store the name or email address of the respective user. Rather, the aforementioned data is assigned only to the person for whom the cookie was created. This does not apply if the user has allowed LinkedIn to process the data without pseudonymisation or has a LinkedIn account. You can refuse the use of cookies by adjusting your browser settings accordingly; however, please note that you may then not be able to use all functions of this website. You can also object to the use of your data directly with LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/psettings/guest-controls/retargeting-opt-out. We use LinkedIn Analytics to analyse and regularly improve the use of our website. The statistics obtained enable us to improve our offering and make it more interesting for you as a user. All LinkedIn companies have adopted the Standard Contractual Clauses to ensure that the data traffic to the USA and Singapore required for the development, implementation and maintenance of the services takes place lawfully. The legal basis for the use of LinkedIn Analytics is your consent (Art. 6(6) FADP and Art. 45c of the Telecommunications Act; where the GDPR applies: Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR). You can withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future (see “Cookies and consent”). Information about the third-party provider: LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland; User Agreement and Privacy Policy.

Disclaimer
SoftForge AG accepts no liability for the correctness, accuracy, timeliness, reliability or completeness of the information. Liability claims against the author for damage of a material or immaterial nature resulting from access to, use or non-use of the published information, from misuse of the connection or from technical faults are excluded.

Rights of the data subject
Where the statutory requirements are met, you have the following rights under the Data Protection Act: the right of access, to rectification, to erasure, to object to processing, and to the release or transfer of your personal data.
Where the GDPR applies to you, you also have the rights under Art. 15 to 21 GDPR, in particular the right to restriction of processing and the right to object to processing based on Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR and to processing for the purpose of direct marketing.
You can withdraw any consent you have given at any time with effect for the future. This does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before the withdrawal.
You can also contact the competent data protection authority. In Switzerland this is the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC, www.edoeb.admin.ch).

Please contact us if you wish to do so. You will find our contact details in our legal notice.

All offers are subject to change without notice. The author expressly reserves the right to change, supplement or delete parts of the pages or the entire offer, or to suspend publication temporarily or permanently, without prior notice.