1. introduction
This privacy policy applies to the website www.thedogdistrict.ch. This privacy policy informs our customers, interested parties, website visitors, and third parties with whom we do business or interact (hereinafter referred to as "customers", "users", or "you"), about the collection, processing, disclosure, and sharing of your personal data in connection with the use of our services, apps, websites, offers, interaction with us, or collaboration (hereinafter referred to as "services"). Please do not hesitate to contact us at any time if you have questions about data protection.
2. Applicable Law and Definitions
2.1. Applicable Law
Our offer is aimed at visitors and users in Switzerland. Our headquarters are in Switzerland and we comply with the Swiss Data Protection Act (DSG) in its currently valid version. With this privacy policy, we submit to the regulations of the Data Protection Act that apply from September 1, 2023. You can find the complete text of the law here: https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/eli/fga/2020/1998/de
2.2. Definitions
The definitions of Art. 5 DSG apply, which we reproduce below.
a. Personal data: all information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person;
b. Data subject: the natural person whose personal data is processed;
c. Particularly sensitive personal data are:
(1) Data on religious, philosophical, political or trade union opinions or activities,
(2) Data concerning health, intimacy, or belonging to a race or ethnicity,
(3) Genetic data,
(4) Biometric data that uniquely identify a natural person,
(5) Data on administrative and criminal prosecutions or sanctions,
(6) Data on social assistance measures;
d. Processing: any handling of personal data, regardless of the means and methods used, specifically obtaining, storing, retaining, using, modifying, disclosing, archiving, deleting or destroying data;
e. Disclosing: the transmission or making available of personal data;
f. Profiling: any automated processing of personal data that involves using such data to evaluate certain personal aspects relating to a natural person, in particular to analyze or predict aspects regarding work performance, economic situation, health, personal preferences, interests, reliability, behavior, location, or changes of location of that natural person;
g. High-risk profiling: profiling that poses a high risk to the personality or fundamental rights of the data subject by leading to a connection of data that allows an assessment of essential aspects of the personality of a natural person;
h. Data security breach: a breach of security that leads to the accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, or unauthorized disclosure of or access to personal data;
i. Federal authority: authority or office of the federal government or person entrusted with public tasks of the federal government;
j. Controller: private person or federal authority that alone or jointly with others decides on the purposes and means of processing;
k. Processor: private person or federal authority that processes personal data on behalf of the controller.
3. Appropriate information about the procurement of personal data
As far as we maintain a website, you can find this privacy policy on our website.
4. Contact person
4.1 Information of the responsible party
The data processing is carried out by:
The Dog District GmbH,
acting through Alvaro Delgado
Bolenberg 50
8855 Wangen SZ
Phone: +41 77 446 65 26
E-Mail: info@thedogdistrict.ch
4.2 Contact persons for information and questions regarding data protection
For inquiries or questions about data protection, please contact the person mentioned in section 4.1.
4.3 Data Protection Officer or Data Protection Consultant
We are currently not required to appoint a data protection officer or data protection consultant and have not appointed a data protection consultant.
5. Data Protection Information
5.1 Purpose of processing
We process personal data for the following processing purposes, depending on whether you are in contact with us as a customer, supplier, employee, service provider, applicant, or collaborate with us.
Processing purposes are:
· Use and provision of the website offer
· Creation of an online profile for using the website
· Use of a newsletter to keep you updated
· Linking to social media services
· Use of cookies to ensure the functionality of the website
· Contact and communication
· Advertising and marketing
· Identification and control of identity via dog chip
· Compliance with legal and regulatory obligations we are required to; fulfillment of contractual obligations, enforcement, and defense of claims
· Corporate activities according to the statutes, activities that fall within the framework of fulfilling our corporate purpose
· Processing applications and offering job requests
· Risk management and corporate governance
· Other purposes, e.g., administrative purposes, evaluation of processes, quality assurance
The personal data of users is usually collected directly by us when using the website or when taking advantage of our services and goods. Personal data may also be collected indirectly, for example, when we correspond with third parties (e.g., suppliers, contacts, etc.) or through further procurement of additional information from publicly accessible data sources from third parties (e.g., social media, chip reading, etc.).
5.2 Categories of Recipients
We specify the category of recipients to whom personal data may be disclosed depending on the respective activity.
· Web hosting providers, webmasters, IT service providers (as far as applicable)
· Third parties that provide services and offerings
· Trustees, service providers for the fulfillment of legal or tax obligations
· Social media services
· Service partners such as payment providers, postal and package senders
Veterinarians, veterinary office, and other recipients within the framework of our legal and contractual rights and obligations
5.3 Announcement abroad
We inform about the disclosure of personal data abroad. This is done in order to ensure services such as IT and website services. Some of the services we use are based in the EEA, while some services (e.g. linked social media services, website CMS, payment providers) are based in the USA.
EU abroad: adequate level of data protection
USA: The USA currently does not provide an adequate level of data protection. The EU has made an adequacy decision; the Swiss Federal Council has not yet made such a decision, so there is currently a lack of an adequacy decision in the sense of the DSG (as of 05/2024). To ensure suitable data protection, we generally base the data transfer on guarantees (standard data protection clauses (Art. 16 para. 2 d. DSG)) or exceptions (explicit consent of the affected person (Art. 17 para. 1 a DSG) or the disclosure is directly related to the conclusion or execution of a contract between the data controller and the affected persons (Art. 17 para. 1 b. No. 1 DSG). We reserve the right to carry out the transfer based on an exception under Art. 17 para. 1 b. No. 2 DSG, Art. 17 para. 1 d – f DSG.
6. Cookies
We use cookies on our website to ensure the functionality of the website, to enable shopping through the shop system, and to improve our web and service offerings. Cookies are small text files that are either stored only for the duration of your visit to the website (so-called "session cookies") or are stored longer and deleted after a specified period of time to recognize returning users or to enable shopping and the shopping cart function. Some services also use cookies.
You can usually set in your browser settings which cookies you want to allow. If all cookies are rejected ("functional cookies"), the visit and functionality of our website may be restricted or unavailable. You can find assistance with cookie management for common browsers here:
• Mozilla Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/de/kb/cookies-loeschen-daten-von-websites-entfernen
· Microsoft Edge: https://support.microsoft.com/de-de/microsoft-edge/cookies-in-microsoft-edge-l%C3%B6schen-63947406-40ac-c3b8-57b9-2a946a29ae09
• Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/de-de/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
• Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/61416?hl=de
• Opera: http://www.opera.com/de/help
• Safari: https://support.apple.com/de-lu/guide/safari/ibrw850f6c51/mac
7. Automated decision-making
We do not use automated decision-making. An exclusively automated decision-making process occurs when decisions about you are made by technical means without human intervention.
8. Analysis tools
We do not use analytical tools to analyze user behavior.
9. Integration of external online and social media services
We have integrated «Google Maps», the mapping service from Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA («Google»). Information about your usage, your location, or other data (e.g., IP address) may be transmitted to «Google» and stored there, typically on a server of «Google» in the USA. This happens regardless of whether you are logged into your «Google» account. However, if you are logged in, your data will be associated with your account. If you do not want this association with your profile at «Google», you must log out before accessing the website offer or activating any content. The services store your data as usage profiles and use them for the purpose of providing services, maintaining and improving the services, measuring performance, developing new services, and providing personalized services, including content and advertisements. You have the right to object to the formation of these user profiles; to exercise this right, you must contact «Google» directly.
We have integrated Google Fonts to provide you with a better user experience. With Google Fonts, we can use fonts provided by Google (as before). The fonts are retrieved from a Google server when you access our website. Google collects the use of CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and the font used. Offers from Google are provided by: Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, and Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351, USA. For further information on terms of use and data protection from Google, you can find it at https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html and https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/, and an opt-out of personalized advertising is available at https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated.
10. Newsletter
Our website gives you the opportunity to subscribe to our newsletter. You can see which data will be collected in the input form. By signing up for our newsletter, you agree that we may use the data you provide in accordance with the use informed in this privacy policy. In particular, we may regularly send you our email newsletter. You can unsubscribe from the mailing list at any time using the designated function in the newsletter.
11. Social Media Presence
We are active on various social media platforms and inform about our services. We have provided links to our profiles on social media platforms on our website. If you click on a social media link on the website, you will be redirected to the corresponding page; the data processing is then carried out by the respective provider. The processing of this data also takes place in the USA as part of this service. Without the explicit consent of our clients, we do not publish customer or personal data or information on social media platforms. However, we may process data about you if you are, for example, at an event or occasion hosted by us and we report on it on social media. The providers of these platforms can analyze their usage and process it for their own marketing purposes as responsible parties.
Instagram:https://www.instagram.com
Provider: Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, Ireland
Privacy information: https://privacycenter.instagram.com/policy
12th amendment reservation
This privacy policy is not part of a contract with you. We reserve the right to change this privacy policy at any time with effect for the future. This may occur, for example, if an appropriate level of data protection for a data transfer abroad is established or if we expand or restrict our service.
If you have questions about our privacy policy or the processing of personal data, please feel free to contact us. This privacy policy reflects the legal status of the data protection law applicable from 01.09.2023.