Privacy policy
The responsible body within the meaning of the data protection laws, in particular the EU General Data Protection Regulation (DSGVO), is:
EXPRIS AG
Nicholas Trounce
St. Gallerstrasse 150
9230 Flawil
Phone: +41 71 891 25 00
E-mail: nicholas.trounce@expris.ch
WebSite: https://www.expris.ch/
Principle and scope
This data protection information relates to the processing of personal data in connection with visits to the websites at www.expris.ch. In order to use our websites and related online services or online applications (collectively, Services), we process your personal data (hereinafter also referred to as 'Data'). Please note that this privacy information does not apply to websites of other providers to which our website may link.
Personal data refers to information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. Certain categories of particularly sensitive personal data, such as health data, are specially protected by specific legal provisions. The term processing covers all operations relating to your data, including collection, storage, use, disclosure, archiving or deletion. When processing data, we comply with the Swiss Federal Data Protection Act (DSG), the corresponding Implementing Ordinance (DSGV) and other applicable data protection laws (e.g. the European Data Protection Regulation, DSGVO), where applicable.
In the following, we would like to explain to you what data we collect, for what purpose we use it and what rights you have with regard to your data. If you transmit data to us via third parties, we assume that you are authorized to do so and that the transmitted data is correct. We therefore ask you to inform the third parties concerned about the processing of their data by us and to provide them with a copy of this data protection information or the relevant product information. If we inform you of an updated version of these documents, please also pass on these new versions.
Our employees are regularly trained in data protection issues and are subject to confidentiality obligations. In addition, compliance with data protection regulations is monitored by our data protection department.
Processed data
We attach great importance to the protection of your personal data. When you use our website and services, we primarily process the data that you provide to us that is necessary for use, as well as the information that we collect directly (see below).
In the course of using our website and services, we collect metadata, such as information about your browser (type and version), your device type (e.g. smartphone or tablet) and your IP address. Furthermore, we collect access data, also called log data. This includes the name of the website accessed, date and time of access, amount of data transferred, notification of successful retrieval, information on the operating system and details of the last website visited.
We only store and process further personal data if you provide it to us in the course of using services and tools (e.g. contact form). Further information relevant to data protection for specific tools can be found below in this privacy policy, if applicable.
Purpose
We process your data exclusively for the purposes we informed you of when we collected your data and for other purposes compatible with those purposes. You can find more information about the basis of our data processing further down in this privacy policy.
Data processing
We process your data for various purposes in connection with communication with you. This includes in particular answering inquiries, asserting your rights and contacting you in case of queries. In doing so, we primarily use communication data and master data, as well as registration data relating to offers and services used by you. This data may be stored for documentation purposes, training, quality assurance and follow-up inquiries.
Furthermore, we process data for marketing purposes and to maintain customer relations. We may send general or personalized information about our offerings to our users, for example, in the form of irregular contacts by e-mail, mail or telephone, as well as through other channels for which we have contact information from you. You have the option at any time to decline such contacts or to refuse or withdraw your consent to be contacted for promotional purposes. With your consent, we can tailor our online offer more specifically to the needs of our users.
Furthermore, we may use your data for market research, to improve our online offer, our services and, if necessary, for product development.
Finally, we may also store and process your data for security reasons and to control access to our website.
Log files
We mainly use data to create server log files in order to perform statistical analyses for the operation of the website, to ensure the security of the IT systems and to optimize the website. In doing so, we primarily use log data. The legal basis for this data processing is our legitimate interest in providing you with a secure and smooth user experience at all times. We also reserve the right to subsequently review the log data if there are concrete indications of unlawful use.
Contact form
If you contact us via the contact form, we collect your contact data in order to process your request and answer any follow-up questions. This data is transmitted in encrypted form.
If you have provided us with your e-mail address or contacted us directly by e-mail, we may also send you information by e-mail that is related to processing your concerns and questions.
The legal basis for processing your data is based on our legitimate interest in being able to process your online inquiry efficiently and effectively. If the aim of the e-mail contact is to conclude a contract, the data processing is based on the initiation of this contractual relationship.
reCAPTCHA
To ensure that the form(s) on our website are filled out by a human and not by a bot, we use reCAPTCHA. reCAPTCHA is provided by Google LLC (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA). Google's privacy policy can be accessed at the following URL: policies.google.com/privacy
Marketing
Your data may be used by us to occasionally inform you about news, new products, services or other services of interest to you from us and possibly our partners.
If you do not wish to consent to the use of your data for marketing purposes, you can inform us accordingly or refuse or revoke your consent to receive marketing information.
Cookie preferences
We provide you with the option to adapt the use of cookies on our website to your needs via the Cookie Preference Center or to revoke your consent to cookie use. In addition, most browsers provide the option to be warned/informed when cookies are set or to prohibit cookies completely. If you would like to have a complete and up-to-date overview of all third-party accesses to your browser, specific browser plug-ins provide you with this function.
Our website or other online publications of ours may embed third-party content, such as maps from Google Maps, fonts from Google Fonts or videos from YouTube. As a result, your IP address is communicated to these providers. It is possible that certain external services will only be activated after your explicit confirmation.
These external contents are integrated by us in order to provide you with useful information or functions or to optimize your user experience. We do not process any further data. Our legitimate interest in offering you this content or function is therefore the legal basis for this data processing.
We endeavor to integrate only such external providers where your IP address is used exclusively for the delivery of the content. However, we have no influence on the possible storage and processing of your IP address by the third-party providers. For this reason, we refer to the privacy policy of the relevant service for data processing by the respective third-party provider. Further information on individual setting options around your privacy can be found at this point.
Google Fonts
We can use Google Fonts on our website to display selected fonts as well as icons and symbols on our website. This is a service provided by Google LLC (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA). Further information on Google Fonts can be found at the following link: developers.google.com/fonts/faq/privacy?hl=en
Google Analytics
We may use Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager on our website. This is a web analytics service and supporting tool provided by Google LLC (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA).
Google Analytics uses cookies to analyze your use of our website. The usage data generated by the service is transferred by default to servers in a Google data center and stored there. It is possible that additional personal data will be collected via Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager and that this data will be passed on to third parties by Google if this is required by law or if third parties process the data on behalf of Google. We ourselves do not pass on any personal data to Google without your consent.
The legal basis for processing your data is based on our legitimate interest in analyzing user behavior in order to optimize our offering. Further information on Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager can be found at the following link: support.google.com/tagmanager/?hl=en#topic=3441530
IP anonymization
Your IP address is anonymized by default on our website before being transmitted to Google. This is done by transmitting your address only in shortened form. In exceptional cases, it may happen that your address is transmitted in full and only shortened in Google's data center.
Google Ads Conversion Tracking
We may use Google Ads on our website in conjunction with Google Conversion Tracking. This service is provided by Google Ireland Limited (Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland), a subsidiary of Google LLC (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA). When you access our website via a Google ad, Google Ads places a cookie on your device. If you visit certain pages of our website, Google and we recognize from the cookie that you clicked on the ad and were redirected to the corresponding page. Each Google Ads customer receives a separate cookie, which, however, is not used for personal identification.
The information collected by the conversion cookie is used to create conversion statistics for Google Ads customers and to analyze your browsing behavior for marketing purposes. This allows us to adapt our advertising offers to your interests. However, no personal information is transmitted with which you can be directly identified.
The legal basis for processing your data is based on our legitimate interest in better tailoring our advertising offers to our users. Further information on conversion tracking and general details on Google Ads and the Google Marketing Platform can be found at the following links:
- support.google.com/google-ads/answer/6095821?hl=en
- ads.google.com/home/
- marketingplatform.google.com/about/
Google Maps
We may integrate map material and services from Google Maps on our website. When using our site in Switzerland or the European Economic Area (EEA), the map services are provided by Google Ireland Limited (Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland). When using our site in another country, the services are provided by Google LLC (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA). The integration of Google Maps on our websites enables us, for example, to show you an interactive map directly on our site, which makes it easier for you to geographically locate addresses published by us.
When you use Google Maps, your IP address is communicated to Google. Google may link your data to your Google user account, provided you are logged in at the time. If you do not wish such an association with your Google user account, you have the option of logging out of the use of Google Maps in your Google account.
The legal basis for the processing of your data is based on our legitimate interest in providing you with useful information, facilitating location-based searches and automatically supplementing address data. Further information on Google Maps can be found at the following link: blog.google/products/maps/
Social media plugins
We can integrate services from various social media on our website, which are usually recognizable by the corresponding company or network logos.
When using these services, their providers will communicate your IP address. The providers can, at most, link your data to your social media user account via the IP address, provided you are logged in at that time. In addition, it is possible that your IP address is also stored by the providers when you are logged out or without a corresponding social media account.
The legal basis for the processing of your data is based on our legitimate interest in providing you with attractive tools in connection with social media on our website.
Facebook Pixel
We may use the Facebook Pixel and Facebook Retargeting from Facebook Ireland Limited (4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland), a subsidiary of Facebook Inc. (1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA), on our website.
The Facebook Pixel stores a tracking cookie in the user's browser, which allows us to track your behavior while visiting our website. In addition, interest-based advertisements (Facebook Retargeting) can be displayed and user profiles (profiling) can be created. If you have a Facebook account and do not want the described data to be collected and transmitted to Facebook, you have the option of deactivating this function under the following link: facebook.com/ads/preferences/?entry_product=ad_settings_screen
The legal basis for the processing of your data is based on our legitimate interest in analyzing user behavior to optimize our offer and, if necessary, to better tailor our advertising offers to our users. Further information on the Facebook Pixel can be found at the following link: facebook.com/about/privacy/.
Youtube
We can use on our website services of YouTube, a service of Google Inc. (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA), which is operated by the subsidiary Google Ireland Limited (Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland).
YouTube is a service for free storage, distribution, rating and commenting of video clips. We embed the clips directly into our website. The use of this service on our website results in your IP address being communicated to YouTube. YouTube may at most link your data to your Google user account, provided you are logged in at that time. If you do not wish such an association with your Google user account, please log out of your Google account or adjust the settings in your Google account under "Data and privacy" - "Data from apps and services you use". Furthermore, it is possible that your IP address will be stored and used for profiling purposes by the provider even when you are logged out or without a corresponding Google account.
The legal basis for processing your data is based on our legitimate interest in offering you video material in an optimized version directly in the content of our website.
You can find further information under the following link: https://www.youtube.com/intl/de_be/howyoutubeworks/user-settings/privacy/
LinkedIn
We may use the LinkedIn Pixel of LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company (Wilton Place Dublin 2, Ireland) on our website. Via the LinkedIn pixel, we can track your behavior during your visit to our website. The usage data generated by the service is transferred to servers in a LinkedIn data center by default and stored there, allowing us to optimize our offer and your user experience based on it. The information collected by LinkedIn may be used to measure the effectiveness of ads and to display LinkedIn ads.
LinkedIn may, if necessary, link your data to your LinkedIn user account, provided you are logged in at the time. If you do not wish to have data collected by LinkedIn, you have the option of adjusting the settings in your LinkedIn account at the following link: https://www.linkedin.com/psettings/.
The legal basis for the processing of your data is based on our legitimate interest in analyzing user behavior to optimize our offer. Further information can be found at the following link: linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy
Your rights
You have the following rights in accordance with applicable data protection law as set out in the applicable data protection regulations and subject to certain conditions:
- Right of access: You may request information from us as to whether we process your personal data and, if so, which data.
- Right of rectification: - You may request us to correct incorrect data or complete incomplete data.
- Right of erasure: You may request the erasure of your data. However, please note that certain legal requirements or legitimate interests may limit our obligation to delete.
- Right to data portability: - Subject to certain conditions, you may request that we provide you with the data you have provided in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format.
- Right to withdraw consent: - If data processing is based on your consent, you may withdraw this consent at any time. Please note that the revocation doesnot affectthe lawfulness of the
data processing that took place until the revocation.
- Right to object: - Under certain circumstances, you have the right to object tothe processing of your data, in particular for direct marketing or legitimate interest purposes .
- Right to complain: - If you do not agree with our handling of your data, you have the right to contact our data protection officers or the competent data protection supervisory authorityat edoeb.admin.ch .
Please note that these rights are subject to legal requirements and that exceptions and limitations may apply. To exercise your rights, you may contact us at
in writing or by email at the address below.
EXPRIS AG
Data Protection Office
St. Gallerstrasse 150
9230 Flawil
E-mail: nicholas.trounce@expris.ch
SSL
Due to the technical structure of the Internet as an open network, secure transmission of your data cannot be guaranteed in all cases. If you send your personal data to us, you always do so at your own risk.
To ensure the protection of your transmitted data, we use encryption mechanisms in accordance with current security standards (Transport Layer Security, TLS). TLS is a protocol for secure data transmission on the Internet and is supported by most browsers. It uses the public key method, in which data is encrypted with a publicly accessible key and can only be decrypted again with a specific private key. Most browsers use a key icon or padlock to indicate whether a connection is secure.
We take various technical and organizational security precautions to ensure the protection of your data within our system. Nevertheless, we would like to point out that despite these measures, there is a risk of data loss, unauthorized access to or manipulation of the data by third parties. Please also note that certain network sections and your computer are outside our controllable security area. As a user, you are responsible for informing yourself about necessary security precautions and for taking the necessary measures within your sphere of influence. Any liability on our part for damages incurred by you as a result of data loss or manipulation is fundamentally excluded.
Retention of data
We store your data only as long as it is necessary for the purposes stated by us or as we are legally or contractually obligated. Data that is no longer necessary for the stated purposes in the future will be deleted by us as part of our regular data maintenance or alternatively anonymized.
Update
This data protection information is not part of the contract and can be changed by us at any time. The version published here applies in each case.
Last updated 01 September, 2023