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Privacy Policy Data protection and data security are important to KIMESSA AG, Gaswarnsysteme, Rautistrasse 12, CH-8047 Zurich ("Kimessa AG"; "we"). We process your personal data responsibly, in accordance with applicable legal provisions and in accordance with this privacy policy.

Contents of this privacy policy

In this privacy policy, we inform you about how we collect and process personal data when you visit our website https://kimessa.com/ ("website") or social media pages, contact us, or use our services.

Responsible for data processing

Kimessa AG is responsible for the data processing described in this privacy policy.

If you have any questions or wish to exercise your data protection rights, please contact us at datenschutz@kimessa.com.

Personal data processed during communication and service provision

We collect the information you provide to us when you contact us, order services, or apply for a job with us.

This includes general personal data, such as your name and contact details, as well as, where applicable, information about your position or role within the organization on whose behalf you are contacting us.

When you order goods or services that are subject to a charge, we also ask for your financial details, such as your preferred payment method and billing address. When you apply for a job with us, we collect your resume and other information about your qualifications that you submit to us as part of your application.

We also process personal data that we receive from third parties. This regularly includes personal data that we receive in correspondence or in meetings with customers, suppliers, or other business partners, e.g., your name and details of your role as an employee of the respective customer, supplier, or business partner.

To the extent necessary to achieve the purposes described in this privacy policy, we also collect general personal data from publicly accessible registers, websites, or platforms (e.g., to verify your signing authority) or by obtaining information from third parties (e.g., for reference purposes in the application process, if you agree to this).

Provision and use of our website

Use for information purposes
You can find out about Kimessa AG and our range of services on the website without telling us who you are.

As with any connection to a web server, the server on which we host the website automatically logs and stores certain technical data and stores it for a short period of time. This includes the IP address and operating system of your device, the date and time of use, and the type of browser you use to access the website.

Web analytics
We use web analytics services (currently Google Analytics) to evaluate the use of the website and online platforms and to obtain information for their optimization. The web analytics services we use collect and store user data using cookies. The requesting IP addresses are truncated before being transmitted to a server outside Switzerland/the EU/the EEA. We therefore do not transmit any personal data to the providers of web analytics services abroad.


advertising technologies We use advertising technologies on our website. This enables us to target users of our website with relevant advertising when they visit other websites or online platforms and to analyze the success of such advertising campaigns (e.g., reach or impression measurements). The advertising material is displayed on the websites you visit based on an analysis of your previous use of our website. To do this, the providers of the advertising technologies set cookies when you visit our website.

When you interact with the cookie preferences tool implemented on the website, you will learn about the other web analytics technologies we use.

Social plug-ins
The social plug-ins used on the website enable you to recommend and share our content on social networks. You can recognize the social plug-ins on the website by the logos of the respective social network. When you interact with the social plug-in, data is sent to the respective social network provider.

Resources from external websites
We integrate resources from external servers into our website. These include visible content and technical resources.

The technical resources are used to improve the performance or security of our website. When you access these resources, the operator of the external servers will receive your IP address and/or certain peripheral data that is necessary for the use of the external operator's servers.

Note on the use of cookies
We use cookies, tags, and similar technologies on the website to provide you with the best possible user experience and to help us improve the website. Cookies are text files that are downloaded to your computer or mobile device when you visit a website or use an app.

Some of the cookies we use are necessary to provide certain functions or content on the website (e.g., the integration of videos or map functions). In addition, we use cookies to enable the analysis of website usage, the optimization of our services, and the use of advertising technologies.

You can instruct your browser not to accept cookies or to ask you before a cookie is set. You can also delete cookies on your device by using the appropriate function in your browser.

Use of our social media pages

On our company social media pages, you will find posts on current developments at Kimessa AG and our range of services.

Social media providers collect and analyze usage data such as the number of visitors and demographic information about visitors to our social media pages. We receive evaluations created by social media providers based on this data. These evaluations contain only aggregated data or data that has been sufficiently anonymized in other ways. Only the respective provider can identify you based on the usage data collected. Therefore, please note the privacy policy of the respective provider.

For what purposes we process your personal data

We primarily process your personal data in order to provide information about our range of services and to perform, document, and bill our services in accordance with our contractual and legal obligations.

We also process your personal data for the following purposes:

  • Responding to your inquiries and communicating with you;
  • Provision of the website;
  • Analysis and optimization of website and online platform usage;
  • Marketing and advertising;
  • Optimization of our posts on our company social media pages;
  • Information about new developments at Kimessa AG and new services;
  • Organization of events, contests, and sweepstakes in which you participate;
  • Processing of applications;
  • Compliance with legal obligations; and
  • Enforcement of legal claims. We have a legitimate interest in processing your personal data for the purposes mentioned above. Some processing is also necessary to enable us to fulfill our contractual obligations to you or our legal obligations (e.g., retention obligations).

How we store and protect your personal data

We only store your personal data to the extent and for as long as is necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this privacy policy or to comply with legal obligations.

We take appropriate technical and organizational measures to ensure the integrity and confidentiality of personal data. In accordance with our risk assessment, we implement access controls, access restrictions, and procedures for regularly reviewing, assessing, and evaluating the effectiveness of these measures.

To whom we disclose your personal data

  • In order to achieve the purposes described in this privacy policy, it may be necessary for us to disclose your personal data to other companies. These are the following categories of recipients:
  • other group companies;
  • external service providers;
  • other customers, suppliers, and other business partners in connection with communication and service provision; and
  • authorities and courts, if applicable.

Place of processing

We primarily store and process your personal data in Switzerland and the EU. However, we may also transfer your personal data to recipients in countries outside Switzerland or the EU (worldwide). We transfer data to countries without adequate data protection based on standard data protection clauses or legal exceptions (e.g., necessity for contract fulfillment).

Your rights regarding your personal data

You have the following rights with regard to personal data concerning you:

  • The right to obtain information about what personal data we store about you and how we process it;
  • the right to obtain or transfer a copy of your personal data in a commonly used format;
  • the right to correct your personal data;
  • the right to have your personal data deleted; and
  • the right to object to the processing of your personal data.

Please note that legal requirements and exceptions apply to these rights. To the extent permitted by law, we may refuse your request to exercise these rights. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC).

How we may change this privacy policy

We may change this privacy policy at any time, in particular if we change our data processing practices or if new legal provisions become applicable. The version provided on the website applies.

Copyright

Copyright, KIMESSA AG. The information contained on the KIMESSA AG website is made available to the public. Downloading or copying content, images, photos, or other files does not transfer any rights to the content. The copyright and all other rights to content, images, photos, or other files on the KIMESSA AG website belong exclusively to KIMESSA AG or the specifically named rights holders or image agencies. The written consent of the copyright holder must be obtained in advance for the reproduction of any elements.