Data privacy

Data protection

We are very pleased that you are interested in our company. Data protection has a particularly high priority for the management of TELL'S POWER AG. Use of the TELL'S POWER AG website is fundamentally possible without providing any personal data. If a data subject wishes to use our company's special services via our website, processing of personal data may be necessary. If the processing of personal data is necessary and there is no legal basis for such processing, we generally obtain the consent of the data subject.

The processing of personal data, such as the name, address, email address or telephone number of a data subject, is always carried out in accordance with Swiss data protection legislation and the General Data Protection Regulation. With this data protection declaration, our company would like to inform the public about the type, scope and purpose of the personal data we collect, use and process. Data subjects are also informed about their rights by means of this data protection declaration.

As the controller, TELL'S POWER AG has implemented numerous technical and organizational measures to ensure the most complete protection possible for the personal data processed via this website. Nevertheless, internet-based data transmissions can generally have security gaps, so that absolute protection cannot be guaranteed. For this reason, every data subject is free to transmit personal data to us in alternative ways, for example by telephone.

1. Definitions
The data protection declaration of TELL'S POWER AG is based on the terminology used by the Swiss Data Protection Act (DSG) and - for use in the corresponding geographical scope - the European guideline and regulation giver when issuing the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Our data protection declaration should be easy to read and understand for the public as well as for our customers and business partners. To ensure this, we would like to explain the terms used in advance.

We use the following terms in this data protection declaration:

a) Personal data
Personal data is all information that relates to an identified or identifiable natural person (hereinafter "data subject"). An identifiable person is a natural person who, directly or indirectly, in particular by assigning an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or one or more special characteristics, expresses the physical, physiological, genetic, psychological, economic, cultural or social identity of this natural person can be identified.

b) data subject
Affected person is any identified or identifiable natural person whose personal data are processed by the controller.

c) processing
Processing is any operation or series of operations carried out with or without the help of automated processes in connection with personal data such as the collection, collection, organization, organization, storage, adaptation or modification, reading, querying, use, the disclosure by transmission, distribution or any other form of provision, comparison or linking, restriction, deletion or destruction.

d) restriction of processing
Restriction of processing is the marking of stored personal data with the aim of restricting their future processing.

e) Profiling
Profiling is any type of automated processing of personal data, which consists in the fact that this personal data is used to evaluate certain personal aspects that relate to a natural person, in particular to aspects related to work performance, economic situation, health, personal Analyze or predict the preferences, interests, reliability, behavior, location or relocation of this natural person.

g) Controller or controller
The person responsible or responsible for processing is the natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body that alone or together with others decides on the purposes and means of processing personal data. If the purposes and means of this processing are specified by Union law or the law of the Member States, the person responsible or the specific criteria for his naming can be provided according to Union law or the law of the Member States.

h) processor
The processor is a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body that processes personal data on behalf of the person responsible.

i) Recipient
The recipient is a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body to which personal data is disclosed, regardless of whether it is a third party or not. However, authorities that may receive personal data as part of a specific investigation mandate under Union law or the law of the Member States are not considered recipients.

j) third party
A third party is a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body other than the data subject, the controller, the processor and the persons who are authorized to process the personal data under the direct responsibility of the controller or processor.

k) Consent
Consent is any expression of will voluntarily given by the data subject for the specific case in an informed manner and unequivocally in the form of a declaration or other clear confirmatory act, with which the data subject indicates that they consent to the processing of their personal data is.

2. Name and address of the controller
Responsible within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation, other data protection laws applicable in the member states of the European Union and other provisions with data protection character is:

TELL'S POWER AG, in CH-6405 Immensee

3. Cookies
The websites of TELL'S POWER AG use cookies. Cookies are text files that are stored and saved on a computer system via an Internet browser.

Numerous websites and servers use cookies. Many cookies contain a so-called cookie ID. A cookie ID is a unique identifier of the cookie. It consists of a character string through which websites and servers can be assigned to the specific internet browser in which the cookie was stored. This enables the visited websites and servers to distinguish the individual browser of the data subject from other Internet browsers that contain other cookies. A specific internet browser can be recognized and identified using the unique cookie ID.

By using cookies, TELL'S POWER AG can provide users of this website with more user-friendly services that would not be possible without the cookie setting.

A cookie can be used to optimize the information and offers on our website based on recognition in the interests of the user. The purpose of this recognition is to make it easier for users to use our website. The user of a website that uses cookies, for example, does not have to enter his access data every time he visits the website, because this is done by the website and the cookie stored on the user's computer system. Another example is the cookie of a shopping cart in the online shop. The online shop remembers the items that a customer has placed in the virtual shopping cart via a cookie.

The person concerned can prevent the setting of cookies by our website at any time by means of a corresponding setting of the internet browser used and thus permanently object to the setting of cookies. Furthermore, cookies that have already been set can be deleted at any time using an Internet browser or other software programs. This is possible in all common internet browsers. If the person concerned deactivates the setting of cookies in the internet browser used, under certain circumstances not all functions of our website can be used to their full extent.

4. Collection of general data and information
The website of TELL'S POWER AG collects a series of general data and information each time the website is accessed by a data subject or an automated system. This general data and information is stored in the server's log files. The following can be recorded: (1) the browser types and versions used, (2) the operating system used by the accessing system, (3) the website from which an accessing system accesses our website (so-called referrer), (4) the sub-websites that use an accessing system on our website can be controlled, (5) the date and time of access to the website, (6) an internet protocol address (IP address), (7) the internet service provider of the accessing system and (8) other similar data and information that serves to avert risks in the event of attacks on our information technology systems.

When using this general data and information, TELL'S POWER AG does not draw any conclusions about the person concerned. Rather, this information is required to (1) deliver the content of our website correctly, (2) optimize the content of our website and the advertising for it, (3) to ensure the long-term functionality of our information technology systems and the technology of our website and ( 4) to provide law enforcement authorities with the information necessary for law enforcement in the event of a cyber attack. This anonymously collected data and information is therefore evaluated by TELL'S POWER AG on the one hand, statistically and with the aim of increasing data protection and data security in our company, in order to ultimately ensure an optimal level of protection for the personal data we process. The anonymous data of the server log files are stored separately from all personal data provided by a data subject.

5. Contact option via the website
Due to legal regulations, the website of TELL'S POWER AG contains information that enables quick electronic contact with our company and direct communication with us, which also includes a general address for the so-called electronic mail (email address). If a data subject contacts the data controller by email or via a contact form, the personal data transmitted by the data subject will be automatically saved. Such data transmitted voluntarily by a data subject to the data controller are stored for the purposes of processing or contacting the data subject. This personal data is not passed on to third parties.

6. Routine deletion and blocking of personal data
The data controller processes and stores personal data of the data subject only for the period necessary to achieve the storage purpose or if this is done by the European directive and regulation giver or another legislator in laws or regulations, which of the data controller subject, was provided.

If the storage purpose ceases to apply or if a storage period stipulated by the European directive and regulation provider or another responsible legislator expires, the personal data will be routinely blocked or deleted in accordance with the statutory provisions.

7. Rights of the data subject
a) Right to confirmation
Every data subject has the right granted by the Swiss data protection legislator or by the European directives and regulations to request confirmation from the data controller as to whether personal data concerning them are being processed. If a data subject wishes to exercise this right of confirmation, they can contact an employee of the controller at any time.

b) Right to information
Any person affected by the processing of personal data has the right granted by the Swiss data protection legislator or the European directive and regulation giver to receive free of charge information about the personal data stored about him and a copy of this information from the person responsible for the processing at any time. Furthermore, the information rights apply to the following information, provided that it is granted to the data subject by the Swiss data protection legislator or by the European directive and regulation giver:

the processing purposes;
the categories of personal data that are processed;
the recipients or categories of recipients to whom the personal data has been or will be disclosed, in particular recipients in third countries or international organizations;
if possible, the planned duration for which the personal data will be stored or, if this is not possible, the criteria for determining this duration;
the existence of a right to correction or deletion of the personal data relating to them or to restriction of processing by the person responsible or a right to object to this processing;
the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority;
if the personal data is not collected from the data subject: all available information about the origin of the data;
the existence of automated decision-making, including profiling, in accordance with Article 22 Paragraph 1 and 4 GDPR and - at least in these cases - meaningful information about the logic involved and the scope and intended effects of such processing for the data subject.
The data subject also has the right to information as to whether personal data has been transferred to a third country or to an international organization. If this is the case, the data subject also has the right to receive information about the appropriate guarantees in connection with the transfer.

If a data subject wishes to exercise this right to information, they can contact an employee of the controller at any time.

c) Right to rectification
Any person affected by the processing of personal data has the right granted by the Swiss data protection legislature or by the European directive and regulation giver to request the immediate correction of incorrect personal data concerning them. Furthermore, the data subject has the right to request the completion of incomplete personal data, also by means of a supplementary statement, taking into account the purposes of the processing.

If a data subject wishes to exercise this right of correction, they can contact an employee of the controller at any time.

d) Right to erasure (right to be forgotten)
Any person affected by the processing of personal data has the right granted by the Swiss data protection legislator or by the European directive and regulation giver to demand from the responsible person that the personal data concerning them be deleted immediately, provided one of the following reasons applies and insofar as the processing does not is required:

The personal data were collected for such purposes or processed in any other way for which they are no longer necessary.
The data subject withdraws their consent on which the processing was based in accordance with Article 6 (1) (a) GDPR or Article 9 (2) (a) GDPR and there is no other legal basis for the processing.
The data subject objects to the processing in accordance with Article 21 (1) GDPR and there are no overriding legitimate grounds for the processing, or the data subject objects to the processing in accordance with Article 21 (2) GDPR Processing one.
The personal data was processed illegally.
The deletion of personal data is necessary to fulfill a legal obligation under Union law or the law of the member states to which the controller is subject.
The personal data was collected in relation to information society services offered in accordance with Art. 8 Para. 1 GDPR.
If one of the above reasons applies and a data subject wishes to have personal data stored at TELL'S POWER AG deleted, they can contact an employee of the controller at any time. The employee of TELL'S POWER AG will arrange for the request for deletion to be complied with immediately.
If the personal data has been made public by TELL'S POWER AG and our company is responsible as a responsible under Art. 17 Para. 1 GDPR to delete the personal data, TELL'S POWER AG takes appropriate measures taking into account the available technology and the implementation costs , also of a technical nature, in order to inform other data controllers who process the published personal data that the data subject has deleted all links to this personal data or copies or replications thereof from these other data controllers has requested personal data insofar as processing is not necessary. The employee of TELL'S POWER AG will arrange the necessary in individual cases.

e) Right to restriction of processing
Any person affected by the processing of personal data has the right granted by the Swiss data protection legislator or by the European directive and regulation giver to request the controller to restrict processing if one of the following conditions is met:

The data subject disputes the accuracy of the personal data for a period of time that enables the person responsible to check the accuracy of the personal data.
The processing is unlawful, the data subject refuses to delete the personal data and instead requests that the use of the personal data be restricted.
The controller no longer needs the personal data for the purposes of processing, but the data subject needs them to assert, exercise or defend legal claims.
The data subject has objected to processing in accordance with Art. 21 para. 1 GDPR and it is not yet clear whether the legitimate reasons of the person responsible outweigh those of the data subject.
If one of the above requirements is met and a data subject wishes to restrict the personal data stored at TELL'S POWER AG, they can contact an employee of the controller at any time. The employee of TELL'S POWER AG will arrange for the processing to be restricted.

f) Right to data portability
Every person affected by the processing of personal data has the right granted by the Swiss data protection legislator or by the European directive and regulation giver to receive the personal data concerning them, which were provided to a responsible person by the data subject, in a structured, common and machine-readable format. You also have the right to transfer this data to another controller without hindrance from the controller to whom the personal data has been provided, provided that the processing is based on consent in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 Letter a GDPR or Art. 9 Para . 2 letter a GDPR or on a contract pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 letter b GDPR and the processing is carried out using automated procedures, unless the processing is necessary for the performance of a task that is in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority, which has been transferred to the person responsible.

Furthermore, when exercising their right to data portability in accordance with Art. 20 Para. 1 GDPR, the data subject has the right to have the personal data transferred directly from one person responsible to another, insofar as this is technically feasible and if so this does not affect the rights and freedoms of other people.

To assert the right to data portability, the data subject can contact an employee of TELL'S POWER AG at any time.

g) Right to object
Any person affected by the processing of personal data has the right granted by the Swiss data protection legislator or by the European directive and regulation giver, for reasons arising from their particular situation, at any time against the processing of personal data concerning them, which is based on Art. 6 para 1 letter e or f DS-GVO takes place to object. This also applies to profiling based on these provisions.

In the event of an objection, TELL'S POWER AG will no longer process the personal data, unless we can demonstrate compelling reasons for processing worthy of protection that outweigh the interests, rights and freedoms of the data subject, or the processing serves to assert, exercise or Defense of legal claims.

If TELL'S POWER AG processes personal data in order to operate direct mail, the data subject has the right to object at any time to the processing of personal data for the purpose of such advertising. This also applies to profiling insofar as it is connected to such direct advertising. If the data subject objects to TELL'S POWER AG's processing for direct marketing purposes, TELL'S POWER AG will no longer process the personal data for these purposes.

In addition, the person concerned has the right, for reasons arising from their particular situation, against the processing of personal data relating to them, which is carried out at TELL'S POWER AG for scientific or historical research purposes or for statistical purposes in accordance with Art. 89 Para. 1 DS GMOs to raise an objection, unless such processing is necessary to fulfill a task in the public interest.

To exercise the right to object, the data subject can directly contact any TELL'S POWER AG employee or another employee. The data subject is also free to exercise their right to object in connection with the use of information society services, regardless of Directive 2002/58 / EC, using automated procedures that use technical specifications.

h) Automated decisions in individual cases including profiling
Any person affected by the processing of personal data has the right granted by the Swiss data protection law or by the European directives and regulations not to be subjected to a decision based solely on automated processing - including profiling - which has a legal effect on them or in a similar way Significantly impaired unless the decision (1) is necessary for the conclusion or performance of a contract between the data subject and the controller, or (2) is permitted by Union or Member State law to which the controller is subject and these legal provisions contain appropriate measures to safeguard the rights and freedoms as well as the legitimate interests of the data subject or (3) takes place with the express consent of the data subject.

If the decision (1) is necessary for the conclusion or performance of a contract between the data subject and the person responsible or (2) it is made with the express consent of the data subject, TELL'S POWER AG takes appropriate measures to protect the rights and freedoms as well as the to protect the legitimate interests of the data subject, which includes at least the right to obtain the intervention of a person on the part of the person responsible, to state their own position and to contest the decision.

If the data subject wishes to assert rights in relation to automated decisions, they can contact an employee of the controller at any time.

i) Right to withdraw consent under data protection law
Any person affected by the processing of personal data has the right granted by the Swiss data protection legislator or by the European directive and regulation giver to revoke their consent to the processing of personal data at any time.

If the data subject wishes to exercise their right to withdraw consent, they can contact an employee of the controller at any time.

j) Swiss legal provisions
All of the above references to provisions of the GDPR or other Union law apply analogously to the corresponding provisions of Swiss data protection legislation. For reasons of easier readability, we do not make these provisions of Swiss law explicit. The person concerned can contact an employee of TELL'S POWER AG at any time for information on the relevant Swiss legal basis.

8. Data protection regulations for the application and use of Facebook
The controller has integrated components of the Facebook company on this website. Facebook is a social network.

A social network is a social meeting point operated on the Internet, an online community that usually enables users to communicate with each other and to interact in virtual space. A social network can serve as a platform for exchanging opinions and experiences or enables the internet community to provide personal or company-related information. Facebook enables the users of the social network, among other things, to create private profiles, upload photos and network via friend requests.

Facebook is operated by Facebook, Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA. If an affected person lives outside the USA or Canada, the person responsible for processing personal data is Facebook Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbor, Dublin 2, Ireland.

Each time one of the individual pages of this website is accessed, which is operated by the controller and on which a Facebook component (Facebook plug-in) has been integrated, the Internet browser on the information technology system of the person concerned is automatically activated by the respective Facebook Component causes a representation of the corresponding Facebook component to be downloaded from Facebook. A complete overview of all Facebook plug-ins can be found at https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/?locale=de_DE. As part of this technical process, Facebook receives knowledge of which specific subpage of our website is visited by the data subject.

If the data subject is logged in to Facebook at the same time, Facebook recognizes each time our website is accessed by the data subject and for the entire duration of their stay on our website, which specific subpage of our website the data subject visits. This information is collected by the Facebook component and assigned to the respective Facebook account of the person concerned by Facebook. If the person concerned presses one of the Facebook buttons integrated on our website, for example the "Like" button, or if the person concerned makes a comment, Facebook assigns this information to the person's personal Facebook user account and stores this personal data .

Facebook always receives information via the Facebook component that the data subject has visited our website if the data subject is logged in to Facebook at the same time as accessing our website; this takes place regardless of whether the person concerned clicks on the Facebook component or not. If the data subject does not want this information to be transmitted to Facebook, he can prevent the transmission by logging out of his Facebook account before visiting our website.

The data policy published by Facebook, which is available at https://de-de.facebook.com/about/privacy/, provides information about the collection, processing and use of personal data by Facebook. It also explains which setting options Facebook offers to protect the privacy of the data subject. In addition, various applications are available that make it possible to suppress data transmission to Facebook. Such applications can be used by the data subject to suppress data transmission to Facebook.